Pet peeves for FM 25
Now that the overhauled FM 25 is on the horizon, there are many talks about what will be revamped and what should be. Of course everybody knows the player interactions and match engine and scouting and whatnot all needs improvements, but I want to know what small details you would like to see. These arent complainmants per se, more like minor tweaks I always think about when playing the game. Here are mine:
- when a player is sent off (or injured) the game shouldn't stop and allow for a substition. If something like that happened the replace player must get ready and takes at least a couple minutes, this means the team must shift to balance the opening left behind and the players must have tactical and positional awareness to do so. It is often enough teams are exploited this way.
*please let something happen to gks and I dont mean begining of the year, prepatch injury nonsense. Why arent the goalkeepers getting send off? It is quite common gks to be sent off in real life, especially sweeper keepers, but never in many years of my vigorious FM saves I've seen one to happen. You might just as well never pick a sub GK.
On the same note, there should way more red cards for last man fouls. Irl, most direct red cards are for such occasions, not horror tackles as the game imagines to be.
Returning to the first point, one of the hardest part of manager's life is player warm ups during the game. You can let somebody sit on the bench for 5 games straigth but if you send him to warmup for 30 minutes and dont bring him in for 2-3 consecutive games, believe me he will be furious. I know at the current state of the game this will be the most irritating feature and just another execuse for players to become unhappy but still if they were to find a way to implement it, I can see it adding a very interesting and strategic realism to the game.
These are the first to come to my mind, I'm sure I have more and will add if I think of. What do you think?