Topic: Pro Evolution Soccer Series

[JerseyKloppite]

Best price for this on PS4? I enjoyed last years game but most people I know play FIFA so I struggle for online matches against mates, so I'm reluctant to pay £40+ like it is on Amazon.

Seen £34.85 on eBay, anyone seen cheaper?

Similar price on SimplyGames? In fact the same price.

[Strummer77]

Also Keegan, Barnes and Mcmanaman

Is there anything actually different/extra in this LFC edition of the game? Do you get the legends offline or anything or is it literally James Milner and Gini on the cover?

[ArthurDooley82]

Is there anything actually different/extra in this LFC edition of the game? Do you get the legends offline or anything or is it literally James Milner and Gini on the cover?

You get the chance to sort out the defence.

[lionel_messias]

You get the chance to sort out the defence.

I did that in PES 2017 by buying Virgil van Dijk.

He's brilliant, which is why PES is such a good game.

[thelinnen]

Defending on Super star is atrocious. The CPU's attackers are always in acres of space.

[Macphisto80]

Defending on Super star is atrocious. The CPU's attackers are always in acres of space.

Switching it via a curved through ball out wide that bypasses the midfield? Noticed that a lot on the PC demo.

[ArthurDooley82]

Scored this beauty with divock in my club yesterday - https://twitter.com/cptnbeefheart82/status/910638853773561856

[Upinsmoke]

Just picked this up on ps4.

Any decent option files knocking about?

[GiorgosCarraGoonies]

Just picked this up on ps4.

Any decent option files knocking about?

Not used then myself (I'm Xbox One) but PES Universe looks ace

[Upinsmoke]

Not used then myself (I'm Xbox One) but PES Universe looks ace

I got a good one last year, includes the bundesliga too but can't remember where I got it from now...

[AndyMuller]

Think I'm going to get this instead of FIFA now, I've read too many glowing reviews not to buy it.

FIFA sounds like it's FIFA 17.5.

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[thelinnen]

It's the Liverpool of football games, attacking is fun but getting a clean sheet on Super star is like trying to get blood from a stone. CPU players are also unerringly accurate at long passing and lose their markers with ease.

The CPU teams all play the same as well, it's a step back from last year in my opinion.

[thelinnen]

The input lag is absolutely criminal as well. The amount of times I've told a player to boot a ball clear only to do nothing and be easily dispossessed and concede is unbelievable. 

[lionel_messias]

The input lag is absolutely criminal as well. The amount of times I've told a player to boot a ball clear only to do nothing and be easily dispossessed and concede is unbelievable. 

ER you are playing as Liverpool I take it?



  #realism

[jackh]

I've downloaded the PESWorld file.  Updates have been applied but the team's are all in mixed up orders (I've tried fixing in competition structure).

Anybody else had this issue?

[WillG.LFC]

I've downloaded the PESWorld file.  Updates have been applied but the team's are all in mixed up orders (I've tried fixing in competition structure).

Anybody else had this issue?

unfortunately thats the problem with the option files if you don't have the correct option file against database it gets a bit wonky.

[Broad Spectrum]

Still debating on whether to get this, really enjoyed 17 but didn't like the demo for 18 at all, felt too much of a sprint fest could just glide past players. Also sounds as if the AI attackers can do the same as well on the main game. How does the AI feel because I'd only be buying it for Master League to be honest?

[CrasherKid79]

Still debating on whether to get this, really enjoyed 17 but didn't like the demo for 18 at all, felt too much of a sprint fest could just glide past players. Also sounds as if the AI attackers can do the same as well on the main game. How does the AI feel because I'd only be buying it for Master League to be honest?

Have you tried the FIFA 18 demo?

[Upinsmoke]

Superstar is pretty difficult this year. However it seems like the way they fashion chances is similar across all teams. They tend to play a ball over the top from deep very often the minute your defence pushes up.

[Jesse Pinkman]

Superstar is pretty difficult this year. However it seems like the way they fashion chances is similar across all teams. They tend to play a ball over the top from deep very often the minute your defence pushes up.

Still debating on whether to get this, really enjoyed 17 but didn't like the demo for 18 at all, felt too much of a sprint fest could just glide past players. Also sounds as if the AI attackers can do the same as well on the main game. How does the AI feel because I'd only be buying it for Master League to be honest?

It's a bit strange this year. I find myself enjoying online more than offline, which is a first for PES! Master League on Super Star seems utterly broken. Putting aside the ridiculous transfers (I saw Liverpool sell Mane to United and promote Klavan to captain! Another beaut was Mbappe with a 16 million release clause), the AI cheats a lot.

Like Upinsmoke said, they play quick one touch passes, followed by a laser-guided ball over the top. Doesn't matter if you're playing West Brom and one of Pulis' ogres are on the ball - they will split your defense before you can say Dejan. Been told you can mitigate some of this by playing a deep defensive line and man marking. I've found this to be a bandaid solution. Heard a patch is underway to fix this - won't be starting Master League till then.

Online co-op is a blast as are divisions. Cross-and-header spammers have been neutralized. I've beaten Barca and Real with Watford! Lag is minimal to non-existent for me.

[Upinsmoke]

Agree about the online. It really is fun and connections seem stable (touch wood!)

[thelinnen]

Thing is if I was going to pick a game to play online it would be Fifa all day of the week, I'm pretty disappointed. There's just so many niggling issues that build up over a few days of playing like player switching, defending, AI on Super star, input lag, the staleness of Master League.

The AI just play the same tactics no matter who you're up against on Super star, knocking it about like Pep's Barcelona then the perfectly weighted lofted ball over the top, it's so dull. I don't think I can bring myself to play it again, at least offline.

[Upinsmoke]

Is there a super strength button? I seem to be missing it on my pad. Basically you constantly get out run and outmuscled by the opposition. It's a shame pes has gone the route of fifa and basically inflated the AI attributes in order to achieve the difficulty spike. Fifa has been doing it for years, they can't programme the AI to form attacks properly so they inflate strength, stamina and pace, oldest trick in the book and now PES have gone the same route. It's a shame they obviously didn't want to build on last year's success. Strangely enough I think it's why I like online more because your playing against someone else who's team has realistic attributes as opposed to 200 strength and pace.

[Upinsmoke]

I've just had a brilliant example of a game cheating and not being able to do a thing about it. Ukraine 40 yards or more away from my goal, I go to close the man down and before I can he just lifts one over the top to the forward who has one t9uch and finishes past my keeper. A few things wrong here and totally out of my control. One I can't control my centre half until it's too late so the defensive line is out of my hands, secondly I can't get back to the striker in time, I don't have the same super strength and pace add on and thirdly I literally couldn't see it coming because the camera doesn't pan that wide of an angle. So I can't control my man and see where the opposition striker is both at the same time.

So fixed it's untrue. Think I might sign up to the forums just to have a moan.

Also I'm sick of reviewers not doing there jobs properly. Two games I've bought lately (this and f1) where the reviewers haven't mentioned or picked up on the blatant issues. All because they suck so bad at playing games they play on easy or just simply don't have a fucking clue .

On two separate occasions I've took the lead and they've literally gone up the other end and equalised twice. So scripted it's untrue.

Wankers

[ToneLa]

The scripting shite is why I haven't taken the plunge on this year's edition as it's still there. Reading PES forums, you get a good feel for what's really different this year. Stuff like the cursor being laggy and difficult to select who you want; late centreback reactions, and a lot of the existing old problems haven't gone away.

The problem with PES is all that adding up to you feeling not like you are playing against the opponent, but you are playing against the game itself.

[puroresu_kid]

Reading thoughts on PES and Fifa and still it seems to me neither can nail the experience that I am looking for.

[ToneLa]

I'm really killing time til Sociable Soccer comes out! 

[thelinnen]

Reading thoughts on PES and Fifa and still it seems to me neither can nail the experience that I am looking for.

If you’re playing it with friends then get Pes. If you want to play online or even career mode then go with FIFA, their AI actually offers more variety than Pes this year. On Fifa against Crystal Palace the owl parked the bus for a 0-0, on Pes they were playing tika taka and playing lofted though balls to Benteke.

Pes might control better but that’s only half the game, the AI and CPU are rubbish.

[Broad Spectrum]

Have you tried the FIFA 18 demo?

I’ve not actually, I might give it a go.

Also I'm sick of reviewers not doing there jobs properly. Two games I've bought lately (this and f1) where the reviewers haven't mentioned or picked up on the blatant issues. All because they suck so bad at playing games they play on easy or just simply don't have a fucking clue .

On two separate occasions I've took the lead and they've literally gone up the other end and equalised twice. So scripted it's untrue.

Wankers

To be honest that’s I waited to hear the feedback on here, see what real gamers think of it. I might wait a couple of weeks, I’m hopeful they fix it. Just fucks me off so much why studios feel the need to change an already winning formula so soon.

[Sh0rty]

Computer on superstar 

Score amazing goals against me all the time and all i score are scrappy tap ins 

Enjoying it though just think its too fiddly to change attack and defence on the fly

[wadey-LFC]

Loving co-op mode at the moment, best part of the game for me.

[GiorgosCarraGoonies]

Been using the advanced shooting recently. It's not full manual but gives you more control over where you want the ball to go, although it is a bit harder than assisted and takes some getting used to.

[wadey-LFC]

Cant believe they havent fixed player switching on this game yet, completely broken.

[JerseyKloppite]

Is anyone playing on 'Legend' difficulty level?

It's fucking ridiculous Played 10-12 games yet and haven't won one. Teams of the quality of Saudi Arabia or Morocco will play as if they have the defence of the 90s Milan side coupled with the attacking flair of Barce under Guardiola.

Playing against an utterly mediocre side they ran about 50 passes together, I couldn't get near the ball, then flicked home a header at the near post. Whenever I work a yard of space for a striker in the box, three defenders hurl themselves in front of the ball, and if by some miracle I get a shot on target the keeper is flying towards it like the lovechild of Zoff and Yashin. Honestly, I had a header with Mandzukic from about 6 yards out, flicked neatly into the corner, and the keeper produced a save Banks would be proud of. Most of the rest of my shots seem to shank off wide.

It's a pisser because for the last few iterations I've found the game gets a bit stale after a while because due to the difficulty. Once you "conquer" a level, you can go on and win the ML pretty easily and it all gets a bit repetitive. In one of my first games on Superstar I beat Barce 5-2 with Liverpool and got a really comfy 2-0 win over Arsenal so was worried it might be more of the ame. I was pleased to see a new difficult level introduced for this reason. But it's utterly ridiculous - I can't see many "exciting" games because I can barely score one goal, let alone a couple. So torn between a game that's a little too easy and one that I find all but impossible. Balls.

[Mr. LFC]

Can anyone tell me whether the Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 game for PlayStation 3 has included the new main stand in the game?

[D🐶G]

The PS4 version does, so would assume the PS3 version does too.

[Lfsea]

Can anyone tell me whether the Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 game for PlayStation 3 has included the new main stand in the game?

Is it a deal breaker?

[ArthurDooley82]

Anyone fancy a game ? Solidarity82lfc

[Upinsmoke]

Gonna have to throw in the towel with pes2018. Like everything about it but the ai is too good on superstar, they just stick to you like glue and constantly get the blocks in. Then if your good enough to evade all that the keepers are insane. Plus the players switching, whatever they've done it makes it almost impossible to react fast enough because the player switching is all fucked. You need the computer to select the right player otherwise on that level one mistake and your fucked.

[thelinnen]

Gonna have to throw in the towel with pes2018. Like everything about it but the ai is too good on superstar, they just stick to you like glue and constantly get the blocks in. Then if your good enough to evade all that the keepers are insane. Plus the players switching, whatever they've done it makes it almost impossible to react fast enough because the player switching is all fucked. You need the computer to select the right player otherwise on that level one mistake and your fucked.

Same, I uninstalled it again after starting a career mode with Liverpool and having 6 points from 7 games. Could barely score a goal and the lower difficulties were too easy. Crossing is pointless, if you manage to find space for a shot your player will either slice it wide or the goalkeeper will make a ridiculous save. The AI defenders stick to your players like glue but yours often forget where they are. The input lag is hideous as well, the amount of times I've been pressing shoot only for nothing to happen or been robbed of the ball 5 yards out when I'm hammering the clearance button.

I have no idea what has gone wrong from last year, the AI was great in that game. This year it's utter trash and ruins the whole experience.