Nic: "I always get off my seat when I see a player dink the goalkeeper. So a lot of that's always about the margins of what the player wants to happen and I love seeing that replicated in the game." It's always about the match and the balance. And in football, there's always a winner or loser too. But of course, in my role, it's about finding the balance because you can't have that happen every time. You have something you hope will work and then after months and months, you finally see it come off. We wanted to find out what their favourite elements of a matchday are in Football Manager 2022.ĬJ: "Seeing your tactics play out in the game. Whilst they may be employees at Sports Interactive, it's very clear that Nic and CJ are also massive fans of the Football Manager franchise. Overall, we try and find a balance that will make the community happy and address the issues that are genuinely quite annoying for people." The Matchday Experience Being able to find fixes and work on fixes that don't break the balance of the game is a difficult thing to do. One big thing with my job is everything you fix will break something else, that's a big part of game development. We don't really look to put things in the game that will just look good, or that will just be a good feature, we really want to implement things that will improve the gameplay. The introduction of the Data Hub and other in-depth features can be overwhelming to casual fans, so how do the team at SI strike a perfect balance?ĬJ: "I've played Football Manager since I was a kid. We all know Football Manager is a game that grows year on year, and Football Manager 2022 is no different. We're still quite a small team so we're slowly growing and we're slowly trying to improve the realism." Striking a Balance We're really invested in it and hopefully, the fans can see that. This is us trying to make even more of a dent in that 3D sphere because we've had 3D since Football Manager 2009 and this is now our next level. Nic was quick to point out that animation had been on the back-burner for a while, and he also stressed just how important this new addition will be moving forward: Things like defensive shape, little details, but that's football and that's our game, it's full of the little details that make the big picture." We've expanded and added more fluidity in there so the animations really can guide the AI and make it better. Our old system wasn't up to scratch, it wasn't scalable and was very restrictive. Nic: "We've been wanting to improve the animation engine for so long. "Things like pass accuracy were something that could have easily broken the immersion and put us in a position where it's really difficult to come back from." Player Animation Engineįootball Manager 2022's brand new player animation engine is easily one of the most impressive additions in this year's game, with matchdays feeling authentic and exciting. Pressing was something that could very easily break the balance of the game and ruin the immersion. It was definitely challenging but very rewarding."ĬJ: "I feel there were things that could have gone wrong really easily. We reversed pressing, we changed our accuracy, and then actually overhauled that system, adding a new role, and all the intricacies that come with the wide centre back. Whilst Football Manager 2022 has been an overwhelming success so far, that doesn't mean there weren't some obstacles to face along the way. The reviews have been immensely positive so far, and we sat down with Sports Interactive's Nic Madden and CJ Ramson to discuss some of the brand new additions to this year's game, focussing on how the match engine has received some long-overdue TLC.
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