Very first impressions of the Patch 1.12
- Player movement is widely improved. You can now make small feints with only the left stick. And choose which feet you will use. Pretty cool.
- Player responsiveness look improved as well, but not too much.
- Shooting is miles better. Both power and placement are far superior compared to pre-patch.
- It's easier to defend because the defensive responsiveness is much better, although the CPU presents a much bigger challenge.
- Goalkeepers seemed improved. Better position, they move their feet after a shoot to go for tough balls. More variety of animations are used, and the right one are normally chosen. Didn't test yet: the "Near post bug"; or bad position when they come out of goal when you press.
- CPU IA is much better.
- Defensively: they cover much more ground and seemed to understand what you are try to do. Much better positioning.
- Offensively: they keep possession, don't only play that direct attack style we seen before (for the first time, lost the possession battle playing with Barcelona). They use more skills to avoid you and pass the ball among teammates. Just lovely too Ibrahimovic avoid 4 of my defenders and pass the ball to the other side of the pitch.
- Shooting: they use better decision making, and if given the opportunity will shoot, instead of just running against your keeper, or shooting for the near post.
- Corner kicks are widely improved. Players move around much more after the kick. Don’t just stand there waiting for the ball.
- Collisions are improved. More variety on animations. Player falling to the ground more often. Aerial battles are more realistic, players fall to the ground and losing their balance after clashes.
- Refs are still pretty much horrible, although was a slight improvement. They simple don't recognize challenges unless the CPU uses double tapor sliding tackle.
- Trough ball looks horrible after patch. The ball always goes to the player instead of the space when you choose to do so. Even on 1-bar passing like I use. This is pretty annoying. And because the CPU defence is much better, you tend to really on feints and such. Need to give another go to see if I need to use a different technique or more power on trough ball.
- Teammates IA on offense are still the same. They barely move in search of space. Makes the game sometimes a bit frustrating.
, 14 shots on goal, and 7 corners. Final result: 0:2 for Russia, with 2 shots on goal. Had some pretty good moments in the match though, but overall, its still feeling kinda boring.
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.Very first impressions of the Patch 1.12
- Player movement is widely improved. You can now make small feints with only the left stick. And choose which feet you will use. Pretty cool.
- Player responsiveness look improved as well, but not too much.
- Shooting is miles better. Both power and placement are far superior compared to pre-patch.
- It's easier to defend because the defensive responsiveness is much better, although the CPU presents a much bigger challenge.
- Goalkeepers seemed improved. Better position, they move their feet after a shoot to go for tough balls. More variety of animations are used, and the right one are normally chosen. Didn't test yet: the "Near post bug"; or bad position when they come out of goal when you press
- CPU IA is much better.
- Defensively: they cover much more ground and seemed to understand what you are try to do. Much better positioning.
- Offensively: they keep possession, don't only play that direct attack style we seen before (for the first time, lost the possession battle playing with Barcelona). They use more skills to avoid you and pass the ball among teammates. Just lovely too Ibrahimovic avoid 4 of my defenders and pass the ball to the other side of the pitch.
- Shooting: they use better decision making, and if given the opportunity will shoot, instead of just running against your keeper, or shooting for the near post.
- Corner kicks are widely improved. Players move around much more after the kick. Don’t just stand there waiting for the ball.
- Collisions are improved. More variety on animations. Player falling to the ground more often. Aerial battles are more realistic, players fall to the ground and losing their balance after clashes.
- Refs are still pretty much horrible, although was a slight improvement. They simple don't recognize challenges unless the CPU uses double tap
- Trough ball looks horrible after patch. The ball always goes to the player instead of the space when you choose to do so. Even on 1-bar passing like I use. This is pretty annoying. And because the CPU defence is much better, you tend to really on feints and such. Need to give another go to see if I need to use a different technique or more power on trough ball.
- Teammates IA on offense are still the same. They barely move in search of space. Makes the game sometimes a bit frustrating.
just played some games and adding to the things you said :
* lovely jump and falling into the ground for headers... think i never saw that "event" before
* huge, but really huge stamina improvement : got some players with no stamina at all at the end of the game. previouslly , they were still at mid bar.
* substitutions, seem to be missing on 1.07 on exhibition ...are now back.
* situations look more livelly as corners and fights for the ball ( proper use of right stick vital to this )
* for the first time, cpu had more possession than me at half time.
also, this is tooo early to tell, but i dont think i noticed the classic little cheats of cpu scoring.
myself, i think its a tad too fast and too easy to turn now. makes position and movement mistakes easylly fixable.
What i disagree with the quote:
* through ball is no issue on manual: I actually just scored a goal with a through ball. ( didnt test on assisted so maybe not disagree )
* teammates search for space lot of times... very good, i play with chelsea, and i have hazard, willian, oscar, torres always trying to escape !
if you like and know how to play pes2014 before, its a patch to really love and make this feel like its a good game!
Fuck yeah
Stamina and subs are much better there now.
- Turning seems too easy, but as soon as you hit the sprint button you feel the restrictiveness. And without sprinting the defend will be "glued" to you, and it makes going forward very hard, especially since the CPU closes most of your passing lanes. So IMO it's a nice balance, at least for now.
- Teammates searching for space depend on the tactics. Chelsea plays counter-attack so they go very fast forward and change position quite a bite. But if you play with a possession team, e.g. Barcelona, they take so much time to move from their original spot that it's so frustrating and make you pass the ball back or go into individual action. It's better than pre-patch. But still I think there's space for improvement there.
- Through balls on manual are fine. On 2-bar they are also normal. But for some reason on 1-bar it's just dreadful. Maybe it's just me, but it's really really bad.
- Also, people on consoles were complaining of an extra difficulty against the CPU. I don't feel that. They are far more challenging, but with patience, the right use of tactics and understanding of the opposition strengths and weaknesses you can win most games. Although, I'm struggling to win by more than 2 goals, even against the weakest sides.
- PS: I play superstar so my experience maybe different than players that play on lower difficulties.
There no patches supporting the latest version yet, it only came out today.
