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I'm sorry but that's still to vague when you say “I manually entered the player IDs” that could mean any number of things it's impossible for me to say “this is what you've done wrong” unless I understand what you've done.

• Where did you enter the player ID's?
• Is your config.xml definitely correct?
• Can you share your config.xml?
• Have you tried downloading the complete facepack + the custom config.xml I made for you?

I am trying to help fix your problem but you have to understand that i'm not sitting next to you seeing what you've done so you have to describe it or provide screenshots or videos or something.

Otherwise i'm afraid i'm just going to have to give up trying to help you and hope you figure it out yourself.

I'm sorry i really don't understand you're going to have be much more detailed in your explanations.

Please try and write multiple sentences or bullet points explaining exactly what steps you've taken and what's not working.

Saying “I don't actually use the pack” doesn't make sense when you're reporting an issue with the pack???

@Eirikhorneland i'm sorry I can't tell if you're saying it's working or broken?

Okay now it's actually fixed.

People getting the “live” update should see the fix already, other users will see it in tonights update.

To be clear what i'm referring to only affects people trying to open with the PGE.

I'm not sure if the issues you're referring to are with people using the PGE or with the general game.

I'm sorry I can't see this and your typos make me think that maybe that's where the misunderstanding is happening.

Can you please provide screenshot proof of the duplication so I can try and understand where the confusion is?

Here is what i'm seeing with the latest file.

@Eirikhorneland just to help you out I did a quick update via chat gpt.

Just replace the config.xml in the new player facepack folder with the attached one.

If it isn't working try redownloading the FM26 facepack and then adding this config.xml

This is the prompt I used:

Please take this config.xml and update it so that everywhere it says "person/r-XXX/portrait" the number is two less than it currently is.

e.g. <record from="2002043635" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002043635/portrait"/>

Should become

<record from="2002043635" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002043633/portrait"/>

Sorry I meant what date did you start the game in real life, as in XX November 2025.

But either way it doesn't really matter, it is clear that your names are all 2 numbers out, so the only fix is to modify the facepack config to change all the to="" section to point to a number two less.

If that makes no sense to you that's understandable.

Unfortunately we're battling against SI's constant updates and there's not alot we can do to try and make everything work for everyone across all versions they're releasing. Your only other option would be to start a new save and make sure you grab the facepack and the data update at the same time you start your save.

FYI @mons i've just discovered that the Pre Game Editor now ships with its own copy of the database, in all previous versions it didn't and would just use the main games database.

That means if people want to use the pre game editor they also need to install this in the 2600 folder of the pre game editor.

If you don't you get weird situations where some files work and some don't. I haven't been able to figure out the specifics, but essentially copying the 2600 folder from the main game into the 2600 folder of the PGE fixes it.

I will update the description soon once i've confirmed the exact location for all variations.

@wonbrz 

I'm pretty sure I fixed Saptaev yesterday so should be fixed in todays update.

The bolivian players also seem like they're sorted now, it may be that @Joe5p or someone else has done them having read your message.

What date did you start the game and are you on the BETA track on Steam?

The problem we have is that SI keep making sporadic updates to the database along with their bug fixes (this is stupid, you shouldn't combine the two…)

It's physically impossible for us to set the exact ID of the players, this is a limitation of the game itself, the ID is incremental based on the highest ID in the existing database.

If SI add two new players that means all the ID's increase by 2 and get out of sync which seems to be the case.

This means it's impossible for people to keep updating the facepack without getting out of sync.

e.g.

Monday: You download the update with Vidert 2002043633
Tuesday: SI add two new players to the base game
Wednesday: We update our facepack so all the ID's are 2 higher
Thursday: You download the facepack again and it is now linked with the Wednesday data not the Monday data you started a game with so all the ID's are two players out.

This becomes even worse when some users are on the Steam BETA track and some aren't meaning we don't even know which database different users are using to direct them to different downloads (most users won't know for sure either).

This hasn't happened in previous years, usually the database is finalised in November and then their are two updates in March.

We just have to hope that everything calms down with the bugs and patches over the next few weeks.

Done 🙂

600 players have been added to the data update

Mylan Toty and Tidiane Vidert faces do appear to be there. Can you confirm their ID in the game? You may need to enable show unique ID's on player profile in the preferences.

In the facepack

Mylan Toty = 2002044919

Tidiane Vidert = 2002043635

We don't control what squad he goes into the AI manager does.

He also definitely has a picture in our facepack which I see you downloaded 3 hours ago.

Can you please confirm the ID number he has in your game. You should be able to see it next to his name on his profile, if not you have to change your preferences to show unique ID's in players profile. Unfortunately I can't give specific instructions as i'm unable to open FM26 at this moment in time, but it should be easy to find.

@tcoleman1 can you please provide some examples?

Can you also make clear if you're talking about FM24 or FM26?

I've been working really hard to remove all duplicates and thought I had got all of them but it seems not, but I can't do anything to fix it without examples.

Thanks alot

@LBOW6 if you see that there are mass problems like this please let me know and then wait for me to take a look without trying to fix them via submissions yourself.

Hugo Viana already has Director of Football in the Pre Game Editor.

When you make a submission you're not updating the sites data, the FM26 profiles on the site will still be wrong (as you can see with Viana here), you're creating a file for the data update saying that we need to create xml/fmf to change that data in the pre game editor which is wrong, because the data is right in the pre game editor, it's just wrong on our website.

The only way to get it fixed is to ask me to fix the import scripts and do another import. If the scripts aren't updated it'll just keep being wrong again in the future.

I realise it's confusing and apologies for that, definitely not trying to criticise and I appreciate your attempts at trying to fix it 🙏

@Bielsa is a legend can you be careful answering questions incorrectly? As far as I can tell SI haven't made a mistake here, the sites data is wrong. If i've misunderstood can you please try and explain in more detail so I understand.

@forgiven21 Max Dowman is definitely in our update.

If you are reporting a problem with our data update can you please do so in the the appropriate forum rather than some other random topic and provide alot more detail on the steps you've taken. That way people can help you.

@pickledash sorry for the confusion these are two separate products as shown here, I hoped it would be clear by the fact that they're displayed differently in two different sections of the website but a few people have reported being confused so i'm working to try and make it clearer

@Eirikhorneland sorry can you describe the steps you're taking in more detail?

It's not clear if you're talking about FM24 or FM26, or if you're using our created players facepack or doing something manually?

The player himself has supplied this image, he won't stop messaging on every platform begging for his photo to be updated

Just a reminder to everyone that Max Dowman and other youth players are already included in our Data Update and includes faces as well

@jrdra sorry i'm not sure I understand.

I think you are saying that he doesn't appear in your game unless you edit him in the pre game editor and the edits you have to make to get him to appear are to change his type from player to non player and set a new club?

Is that correct or am I misunderstanding?

If I am misunderstanding can you try again to explain in more detail.

@dejong no the system has had considerable updates since then and everything is managed on the website now rather than spreadsheets.

Hello it may have taken a second to activate it looks like you've since been able to download the Standard Logos directly.

@jrdra  What edits do you make to make it appear in the game?

@gazcarter1 are you able to check their CA's in the pre game editor, in game editor or genie/fmrte?

Are you talking about FM24 or FM26?

@dejong are you 100% Oskar Bohn and Oskar Engel were every actually added to FM24?

The only submissions I can find for these people have an error that no team was set so I can't see that they were ever actually added to in FM24 in our updates?

https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-data-update/attributes/submission/24417 

https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-data-update/attributes/submission/25473 

And these date back to February.

There were alot of bugs when this was first implemented at the start of the year so that loss of data may well be a bug.

I've fixed these players now

Is he in the game when all Czech players are loaded?

For some reason he wasn't loaded when we loaded all players in the game.

Should be working now @LBOW6