My question to all of you on here is when do you know when you have the right slider settings? I feel like I spend more time changing the sliders than actually playing the game at this point. If I play one game where marking feels impossible and I have a third of the oppositions marks then I change the sliders for the marking but then it gets too easy. Finding that middleground seems impossible and time consuming I feel like when I lose games it's because of the sliders and poor game development and not because I'm "bad". Do I need to stop changing sliders as a reaction after every game I play? Do I have an unhealthy obsession with "normal" stats whatever that means?
I've kinda thought that the right slider settings are when the win/loss ratio is 50/50 but I don't even know. When can you feel confident that the sliders at the right settings? When can I feel confident that when I lose or win by 50+ points that it isn't because of the sliders?
I think the best way to determine the sliders is by keeping them the same for a while, perhaps 5-10 games, and seeing the results from all of them. Obviously if all of them are massive wins or losses, then that may be cause to change the sliders around. Once you get to a point where you’re getting a good mix of games, where both yourself and the opposing team is competitive, that’s when I think you’re in a good spot. I’ve tweaked around a bit, and at the minute at least I’ve found a pretty perfect slider combination, where there’s plenty or close games, along with some comfortable wins both my way and the opposing way.
I reckon this is the best way to sort out the sliders, and get a really fun game.
I'll keep playing around with them like you say it's just that it's quite time-consuming playing those games to determine what are the best sliders. It's important to have the right mix of wins, losses and have varying margins so each game feels different.
I’ve posted these on the bigfooty forum, a fair few people are using them and enjoying them. Obviously tweak to suit yourself, but I find they’re a good foundation to work off. (Make sure you are using Legendary difficulty, as I haven’t tested with any other difficulties)
User
Kick Charge Speed 67
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Close 38
Mid 35
Long 30
On The Run 67
(Still mucking around with these - turns out they only control on the run shots)
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Boost 50
Fumbles 48
Spoiling 50
Speccy 50
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Rucking 45
Run Speed 26
Handball Dist 40
Smothering 50
Endurance 58
Fatigue Rate 64
Fending 63
Tackle Eff 53
Kick Power (I have individually altered Dees players kick power) 52
Tagging 0
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Wind Impact (I have wind indicator turned off) 42
Tackle Dist 35
Hip n Shoulder 50
Injury Freq 50
Injury Severity 50
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No Prior Time 60
Throwing 46
High Tackle 40
Push in Back 40
Charging 42
Off the Ball 40
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Ball Tapping 0
Stay on Man 0
CPU
Close 50
Mid 48
Long 44
Set Shot 41
On The Run 35
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Boost 50
Fumbles 60
Spoiling 57
Speccy 50
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Rucking 50
Run Speed 26
Handball Dist 40
Smothering 35 (means you can do more quick play on kicks from a mark without dodgy smothers)
Endurance 50 (AI manages endurance too smartly, so this keeps it “fair” I find)
Fatigue Rate 87 (same as above - these are the first ones to try slowly changing if you are winning or losing the ball too easily)
Fending 35 (no more shadow dancing untouchable oppo)
Tackle Eff 26 (more loose balls from a tackle)
Kick Power 50
Tagging 0
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Tackle Dist 18 (no more go go gadget AI tackle arms)
Hip n Shoulder 31 (makes marking contests more enjoyable)
Injury Freq 50
Injury Severity 50
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No Prior Time 50
Throwing 47
Holding the Ball 50
High Tackle 47
Push in Back 49
Charging 49
Off the Ball 63 (I believe this stops them doing early bumps in a marking contest = WINNINGS)
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Play On 55
Tackle Reaction 59 (ie how fast AI “tap” Triangle/Y to tackle you)
Pressure Awareness 69 (if you are saying “god the ai is dumb at disposals under pressure”, increase this. Increase too far and you end up playing super soldiers. This is one of the first things to increase as you get better/start winning too easily)
Tackler Avoidance 59 (remember this is how much they will ATTEMPT to run away - ie how ballsy they are.)
Ball Tapping 0
Stay on Man 0
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Difficulty: Legend
Interchange: Full Auto
Auto Bounce: Button Only (love this setting- means I can try and sprint the full 15m, and occasionally I do push it too far)
Kick Aim Assist: Off
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My preferred Camera:
End to end
Far
56
47
13
30
Look at Ball
*I’ve also gone and individually tweaked all known talls/good marks with 10-20% points increase, and also reduced smaller players marking ability by the same amount.
*Ruckmen and other big players have had their speed reduced by 20-30% (less for the freaks like franklin)
*as I only play as the Dees, I have lowered general kicking ability of all my teams pledgers, and increased spoiling abilities of key defenders/Jake Lever etc.
I really like this and will have to try it out at some point. Thank you! I think another thing that would be nice is if we could save presets for the sliders in case I want to revert back to my current settings
I would also be interested to know what length quarters you play on and what your average scoreline might look like? I like to have some kind of realistic scorelines
I play 7.5min quarters, scores are usually between 60 and 100 for each team (Maybe around 80 on average
I’m playing around with settings again. I’m surprised by the score lines you say you get when playing 7.5 minute quarters. All 5 games I’ve played with these sliders both teams have managed to kick 100 points each. Either I play aggressively or you play passively.
Wicked Witch if you are reading this I beg that you give us 6 minute quarters. 7.5 is too long and 5 minute quarters more often than not give me lower scoring games. Adding this harms no one and is surely very easy to implement.
4/5 games I’ve played I’ve won by 50+ so I obviously need to make things harder.
Im definitely gonna try turn off the wind indicator because set shots are very easy in this game. It’s just muscle memory which shouldn’t be the case since the green area on the set shot bar doesn’t change size depending on distance or angle from goal