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#125671 The Xbox One thread
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There were some ridiculously unattainable cars in the previous Forza games too. Some of the vintage Ferraris costing over 200 million credits for instance.

And then there's the unicorn cars.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing whether the complaints are just the usual fluff about DLCs or if there's genuine substance to them. If only I would get my bloody Xbone already....
#125611 The Xbox One thread
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Would be interested to here your thoughts on the micro transactions in Forza, just listened to a podcast where they talked about them and they sound pretty gross tbh.

Haven't gotten my console yet (And I have no idea when I will) so I can't comment on Forza 5 specifically.

Based on Forza 4 and Horizon, with "car tokens", monthly DLC packs etc, it's slightly shit, but you're not really missing out on anything if you don't buy any of it.

Barring the Porsche expansion (and that situation is all on EA) there were only about 3 cars released as DLC for Forza 4 that I would have really wanted. (And other than the LaFerrari, there's nothing really exciting in the first Forza 5 DLC either)
#125577 Fitness Thread
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Well this turned into an old people's home pretty quickly, didn't it?
#125457 The Italian Football Thread
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Yeah, that's pretty damned pathetic.
#125388 The Xbox One thread
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Haha, Game had actually sent me the game without charging me for it.
#125362 A Comprehensive Guide to Third-Party Ownership in FM14
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can i do this too? im managing a german club!

can i part-own a player?

Yes.

More or less every major nation in the game except England, Italy and France supports agent ownership of players.
#125336 Low morale...
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What starting reputation did you choose when you created your manager?

Top class footballers at a club like Chelsea won't take some random man from the street very seriously, even after a run of good results.

Expect it to take at least 6 months or up to a year of good results before your players start listening to you if you started as Automatic or Sunday League.
#125329 What's the last thing you bought thread
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Bought Age of Empires II: HD Edition and Command & Conquer 3 on Steam sale \o/
#125015 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Final Destination
#124867 What Was The Last Film You Saw?
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Is that a Bruce Springsteen song?

Dancing in the Dark is the name of the song by Bruce.
#124603 Ideal database settings
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Again, this is entirely depending on what your computer is like (a fast, modern computer with a lot of RAM and a powerful processor can run many more leagues effectively than a 10 year old laptop), what leagues you'd consider absolutely essential and what your own definition of the game running "smooth" is.

Personally I run with about 20 nations and 30 or so leagues loaded and about 85.000 players.
#124490 The Italian Football Thread
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Good news Milan fans! Uncle Fester is stepping down!

By the sounds of it Stapleface will hand over the control of the club to Barbara by the summer as well. It's going to be interesting to see how that changes things.

At it's heart the big issue of Milan is the fact that they don't have as much money to spend as the clubs they want to compete with, that clearly isn't going to change by having a different Berlusconi in charge.
#124425 Should I buy FM14?
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Other than the match engine (which is always sketchy until the final patch) FM14 is a much improved game in pretty much every regard.
#124424 Ideal database settings
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There is no correct answer to this as we don't know which leagues you are running or what your computer set-up is like.
#124369 The Xbox One thread
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Doesn't seem like I'll be getting my console until next week now.

Not that it matters very much as my Forza order at Game is starting to turn into a right circus.

Ordered the game on Tuesday last week, get an order confirmation but never any shipping confirmation, while the payment was listed as pending by PayPal. I send Game an email over the weekend asking whether they had shipped my order or not, I get told that they did so on Thursday and that I should get it within 4-6 working days. I've yet to receive the game and two days ago PayPal cancelled the transaction.

Basically, they either didn't send me the game or they sent me the game without charging me for it. I'd say the former is more likely than the latter.
#124365 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Totally unrelated but recommendations - PS4 or Xbox one?

Was leaning towards the first mainly because of paying for live but now hear you have to pay for PS4 online service too. And the Live servers were pretty good tbf

Go check out a list of exclusive titles for each console and pick the one with the games that interest you the most.
#123094 Signing players that have only just signed to another club?
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Yeah, it does happen in real life from time to time. If the buying club has a much higher rep than the one the player just moved to it's realistic.
#122784 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Hey My My, Rock n' roll will never die.
#122780 The Italian Football Thread
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The rumour is that Milan are waiting for Prandelli. Or at least that was the rumour a month or two ago.
#122411 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Hero? For kicking a ball? Really?

The irony of saying that on a forum dedicated to a football game.
#122298 What Was The Last Film You Saw?
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Von Trier is fucked up.
#122108 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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That's like 5 years old.
#122072 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Jönköping

Working at Dreamhack.

I remember when I was 14 and thought going to Dreamhack was cool...
#122071 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Jönköping

Working at Dreamhack.

I remember when I was 14 and thought going to Dreamhack was cool...
#122011 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Next Monday I'm getting a ferry to Holland and then driving to Sweden. Gonna be funnnn.

EDIT: This money talk has reminded me, I need to let my bank know I'm going to be using my card over there right?

Where in Sweden are you going?

And why, if I may ask?
#121952 Topscorers
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They seemed to have nurfed the scoring from FM12, where it was easy to get a striker scoring 50+ goals a season. Now it tends to be much more realistic. The only issue is, as you've touched upon, is now under the AI Messi & Ronaldo don't score nearly as much as they do in real life.

Though they didn't do that under the AI on FM13 either. The AI tend to use both as rather traditional wingers/inside forwards whereas in real life both clubs adjust their tactics so that their goalscoring will be as high as possible.
#121874 Topscorers
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Messi and Ronaldo in real life are doing an extremely abnormal thing which is very rare to see on FM.

Aye. The AI managers are not playing them the same way as they are played in real life either, a good human manager should be able to get both Ronaldo and Messi to score ~35-40 goals per season.

Excluding those two the top scorers in real life usually get between 20 and 25 goals, 30 goal seasons are very rare in the top leagues.
#121637 The General Games Discussion Thread.
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I've been broke so I haven't bought any films for ages, but I've bought tonnes of dvd/blu-rays over the years that I initially pirated.
#121559 30+ shots a game, not one from my Striker???
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The match engine will get an update sometime this week, I believe the ridiculous amounts of poor shots is one of the things that has gotten a tweak, hopefully for the better.
#121267 NYCFC
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No, I wouldn't think so. Licensing issues prevent that kind of thing from happening.