PS3 Online Head To Head Season Thread

Thanks mate! You were my inspiration haha

 

Always good to see top blokes doing well with Celtic

I'm still confused with this rankings!

 

Great news lads, I looked at our new signings on Fifa 12. Lustig is an average/solid right back. Definitely won't be ousting Cha.

But with a certain player Rabiu Ibrahim (the only other one I could find) he is fecking rapid. Not in the speed demon category, but he could at LEAST as a super sub sort of thing. 68 overall... But we know that overall's aren't the be all and end all.

That combined with the boosts alot of our players DESERVE and are likely to get.

Ibrahim's best stats:

Acceleration 91
Agility 90
Balance 93
Sprint speed 83
Dribbling 73
4 star skill moves (YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!)
Acrobat badge.

Not too shabby, eh?

 

I was playing in a 'script season' last night, worst run of from in a while, absolutely 100% on my life scripted, I've now missed 3 Pen's in a row, no kidding.

The usual *, dominating games but opponent scoring only chance of game, hitting post, crossbar, off line, off defenders *, easy Finesse finishers going miles wide, silly pen decisions going against me etc.

After 16 Titles in a row it looks like FIFA has had enough and want's to relegate me, 5 points from 3 games, rule out promotion, I think surviving in these conditions is almost impossible, one game was that obvious even my opponent sent me a message at HT saying this...

"Hey Man, I think this game is scripted".

Glad to know other people are noticing this instead of the usual easy to fool players who put it down to "Bad Luck" and nothing else.

I went from ranked 78th in World to 112th with 1 defeat!!!!

Now back up to 93 luckily.

 

Script is getting to the point know where I'm seriously considering just giving FIFA away, lost 4 games in a row now and each one I dominated, missed another pen so I've now missed 4 games in a row, so from having a 18 game winning run only 74 hours ago I now have 1 win in 8, some of the things happening are making me chuckle.

I told everyone a few posts ago last week I was due a script season, FIFA has delivered.

Boring me now.

 

Bad runs happen mate. It might not be flat out scripting.

Or you might need a change of team to freshen things up.

 

It's not a bad run, I'm not playing bad, I'm playing well, I'm playing the exact same team and formation and personnel that have won me 35 league titles and took me to the 70th best player in the World in the L1 leaderboards, conceding a goal from a Goal Kick, losing to players I would normally beat 7/8-0, I know when it's scripting, I've become an expert, It is 100% scripting, I've even had 2 opponents comment on it in the last day.

It's always after I have an amazing run, how can you go from winning 18 games off the belt to 1 win in 10 games I'm basically being punished for being a good player which is a farce.

I make a bet with someone now to prove my point, please quote me on this at the same time next week, I'll get promoted first time of asking and then win 5/6 league titles off belt before this happens again.

Just one occasion there to back my point up, I had 16 shots on on goal and didn't score, my opponent had 3 and beat me 2-0, it's just silly, their lad was clean through, I came in with Mulgrew and I didn't just win a bit of the ball, I won the ENTIRE ball so it changed direction and good old FIFA gave a pena.

It's daft and predictable, I understand why they do it for, to keep people interested and so the lesser players don't always lose to the better players but it's not fair and it's not right.

 

Decided to go on another run for the title when I got in tonight, lost my first game 3-1 ending my 13 game unbeaten run but managed to go on another run straight after it winning 7 games in a row, it looks sexy when at the top right of the H2H menu it looks like W/W/W/W/W/W.

Anyway won my third league title, and I'm gonna try and win 1 per night if time allows me.

My overall record looks like: 81-22-40. That needs sorting, i'm going to try and get it to 100 wins before I reach 45 losses, seems pretty doable imo it's about 5 wins to every 1 loss and I'm not to bothered about the draws.

Sorry if I came across cocky on this post but it's * fun.

 

Not too shabby at all mate, it's what the FIFA celtic and the real celtic have been missing for a while. His stats look great especially that acceleration, sometimes that's more handy than having great sprint speed.

Just Compared Ibraham's stats with Forrest's there since their the most like for like players in the team it look's like this:

Ibrahim

Forrest​

Acceleration 91

Acceleration 77​

Agility 90

Agility 90​

Balance 93

Balance 83​

Sprint speed 83

Sprint speed 83​

Dribbling 73

Dribble 70​

4 star skill moves

3 star skill moves​

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Acrobat badge

Acrobat badge ​

So Ibrahim edge's it by some disteance, and might make it into my team on Fifa in front of forrest. But obviously both these players stats could go up and down with the update so me colouring everything in all pretty like was probably a waste of time

 

We can only work with what we know though!

 

Serious point here lads, check the Fifa 12 thread, apparently alot of our players ratings are going DOWN with the update. How official or final these stats are I do not know.

http://www.talkceltic.net/forum/showthread.php?p=2715570&posted=1#post2715570

If they are true I know who my new team is going to be QPR. QPR are already a great side and I will highlight those players I believe who are already at the club and are desirable Fifa players. They boast good players like:

Shaun Wright Philips the speed demon
Joey Barton to control the midfield
Anton ferdinand is a solid CB
Taarabt who can unlock any defence and is exceptionally skillful
Traore who is a very fast full back (similar to Cha in many ways)

Now we get to the good part, the new signings are going to make them a BEAST of a team. The QPR defence has always been slow on Fifa except Traore, it's how I've always exploited them. But with two new signings their defence becomes very good indeed.

Onouha - 74 (I think) A very strong CB with the strength badge. He also has 78 pace if I remember rightly which is very good for a CB. He will dominate strikers at that level.

Taiwo - 78 (I think). I LOVED this guy when using AC Milan. He has BLISTERING pace and strength in the 90's. My favourite full back in the game, he also has a wicked shot and free kick. He is going to be a big favourite in the update.

Up front you now have even more pace in conjunction with options of different strikers such as Bothroyd and DJ Campbell.

Zamora - 80, great target man and the perfect foil for the other new signing...

Djibril Cisse - 82 Is probably my favourite forward in the game after the World Cup tournament we had. 82 overall, blistering pace. He is strong, decent in the air and a great finisher.

If Celtic become poor in the update and even if they don't... I can really see myself using QPR regularly. If they don't go above 4 stars and the players don't get nerfed in the update then they will be an amazing side to use!

Thoughts?

 

said this to you on transfer deadline day m8 cant see all those players been added without them going up to 4.5 stars . i added donavon and jelavic to everton plus removed saha and billyadinatov spelling and they went up to 4.5 so could only add donavan, qpr are heve added a better player in every pos and not lost much

 

I'll be making a thread on the 'Scripting' in FIFA to educate more people about it, if you google it in FIFA it's not just me losing my marbles, when a player wins more than 5 League titles in a row he will get it happen to him, it's impossible to tell people, unless you really go through a script season you won't understand how obvious it is, just a few more examples of what's happended...

1) Opposition scoring directly from a GK

2) Missing 5 Pen's in a row

3) Putting Hooper and Stokes so far apart it's impossible to get them to link

4) Not scoring despite hitting target 17 times in one match

5) Scoring 4 Own Goal's in one match

I could easily do another 20! I love FIFA, I'll not stop playing it, but they must sort this out for FIFA 13.

 

There's every chance you are right Mani. But then again QPR are only 3.5 stars just now. So there is a slim chance, hopefully some crap players in the squad will have their ratings put down so they can be the best 4 star team in the game! ha!

 

Apparently there's no scripting online just offline. According to EA.

 

Someone else on another forum has noticed it....

"Agggghhhhhhhhh Fifa 12 is starting to do my head in just like Fifa 11 did after a few months!

The 'scripting' is so frustrating in matches, especially online Head to Head Seasons games - it is actually possible to pinpoint the exact moment the game 'lets' you score, or turns and 'lets' the opposition score - and it is unbelievably frustrating.

The inclusion of 'balancing' rubberband script in EA Sports titles has been one of the industry's worst kept secrets for years now, but I think Fifa 12 is the worst it has ever been. You score a goal and immediately, your entire defence lose around 50% pace and 'go to sleep', allowing the opposition a clear goalscoring opportunity in the 10 game minutes immediately after the goal. A recent example was a H2H match I just played, I was dominating the game and the opposition was really poor, repeated chipped through balls trying to score a cheap one where the defender miscontrols the ball and gifts him a one-on-one (regular players will know what I mean). At half-time I was 2-0 up and had 68% possession and 9 shots on target (16 in all) to his 1 off-target. The second half starts and it is almost completely unplayable, my players can't run, a simple five yard pass is underhit/overhit/intercepted and my players are basically worse than Bognor Regis reserves. Suddenly, the guy I am playing against has turned into a gaming legend and is running through my defence at will. The funny thing is, I know the game mechanics so well that at 2-0 on 50th minutes I said to my girlfriend after 'feeling' the game rubberband "It'll make me lose this". I did with, guess what, a 90th minute winner. Oh yeah, that's another thing, an extraordinary number of goals are scored for/against on the 45th and 90th minutes - again, scripted to make it 'exciting'.

What I want to know is why football games can't just be about SKILL, rather than abusing the game mechanics and hoping for the best. EA insiders describe it as their 'momentum system' but this doesn't make any sense. If I am two-nil up and cruising, why would my entire team suddenly collapse and lose all their physical attributes as well as mental ones? I remember as a avid player of SWOS in the 1990's having tournaments with friends and it was a real laugh, you could fluke a win - sure, but it wasn't because the game 'decided' to let you win, it was more like real football than Fifa is - anything could happen NATURALLY.

But, I think the most annoying thing is the EA forums and the idiots who dwell therein. They simply deny momentum exists (even though EA have admitted there is such a system) and if you lose it is because "your censored" (sic). I will be trading Fifa in and I just can't stands it no more!

There is a real gap in the market for a PROPER football game with no horribly glitchy mechanics or 'balancing' mechanisms - PES is the same as Fifa - someone needs to make an honest to * football game for the current generation! "

 

winning 2 0 ther at ht nead 1 win from last 2 games to go back up to div 2 and gave away 3 pens in second half and lost 3 2 whats the deal with the pens its like a 2 second delay were u just no hes gonae blow so fake

 

Every single game has scripting on some level.

But I haven't really noticed it to much online. Sometimes opponents goalkeepers have fantastic games and sometimes they don't.

I think that's to do with the consistency ratings more than anything mate.

Since I reached division 1 again I have played about 60 matches and won about 45 drew 10 lost 5.

And every game I have lost I can honestly hold my hands up and say I deserved to lose because the player was better than me.

 

Don't get me wrong by the way. I do sometimes feel cheated usually by Goalkeeper having exceptional games and by the referee. Some penalty decisions have left me truly baffled. On top of that sometimes my air randomly tackles people in the box.

The other week I was playing head to head and Izzy just decided he would hack a opponents player for no reason. He didn't even have the ball but the Ai decided for whatever reason to bring him down.

Its frustrating but its a bit like real football. The best teak doesn't always win.

 

You probably need to play a bit more to notice it, I didn't notice it till I won my 5th Title off the bounce, some of the things that are happening are just crazy mate, impossible to tell someone, it's a bit like telling someone a ghost story, if they haven't experienced it themselves, your just wasting your breath, I'm a football fanatic, I do understand sometimes you just have 'one of them' games, blimey I've been to enough football matches to know that, but it's more than that, I can accept missing pen's as probably me just panicking too much when I get one, I sort of understand hitting the post on average 5 times per game, however, I do not accept that a player of my calibre can go through this same old pattern every 1 in 7 seasons, how on earth can you win 16 titles, not 4 or 5 we're talking about here, 16 titles in a row winning game, after game, after game to a run of form where your getting 1 win in 5 without the game seriously influencing game play?


It's putting Stokes and Hooper opposite ends of the pitch almost playing as wingers so when I have the ball in the final 3rd I have amost no options, I'm missing simple Finesse goals I would normally score in my sleep, my defenders have gaping holes.

This is the pattern on my last 20 seasons....

TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
RELEGATED
PROMOTION TO DIV1
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
RELEGATED
PROMOTION TO DIV1
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
RELEGATED
PROMOTION TO DIV 1
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
TITLE WIN
RELEGATED TO DIV 2

Surely that say's it all?

Game after game I'm losing to players I'm dominating, I can happily put my hand on my heart and swear to * it's scripting games so I get relegated.

I think Gaz has posted an actual quote from EA confirming they introuduced this system called "Momentum" to keep games interesting and to keep things fun by letting lesser players beat top players.

Don't get me wrong, it's works both ways, loads of games I've been battered and the opposition have gone through what I go through, inability to get past Fraser, I get the ball and with my first real chance I've won it, but because of my title's it's going against me much, much more.

It's not even debatable IMO, FIFA 12 Online is 100% scripted.