What was missing in FIFA 21 career mode? Which features should be added to FIFA 22 career mode?
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Firstly career mode can be so much better but usually it is so plain. I have a idea or 2.
1. Be able to use players from the past/legends
2. All star teams e.g Arsenal best ever 11/subs
3. Become the owner of the club and be able to hire managers e.g Sir Alex Ferguson
4. Be able to edit/control career mode as you please
5. Just make it more interesting and better man .. get some inspiration from nba2k or some s***
Needs to be able to show more emotion and be more interactive :
- I am currently playing for Manchester city at the age 21 and keep getting sub’d off in the 60th min. Not to talk about them playing me as a CDM when i’m a CAM. I think EA/Fifa need to come up with a way where you can call you manager for a meeting and discuss your experience at the club, playing time and contract.
I’m at Manchester city, playing an important role, on 80k a week. Fifa need to find a way where we can live actually spend this money. Whether that been on boosting attributes, lifestyle (i.e cars, houses etc).
In conclusion I feel Fifa need to take aspects from The journey, and a small game I like to play on my phone called New Start Soccer, where you feel more in-control of the game.
- Stadium - I want to see at least the option to change your stadium mid career with it leading to a design your own stadium where you have to design it and then have the waiting time of maybe half a season to a full season before it is ready, making it like real life.
- Salary - I want salary negotiations for managers and contract negotiations. You already get targets to hit but no real incentive to hit them. This could also transfer over to player career mode.
- Real world decisions - based on the salary stuff above, I would like the managers to be able to make decisions like investments, agents etc. This would also make younger players aware of needing to do this if their lives.
New CM - I would also like to see a new type of career mode called "Club" or "My Team". You have to create a club, start in lower leagues, get investments, build stadiums and work your way up the tables. Through all of this, you will be dealing with agents for get players and managers, choose what type of owner you are (ie close to players or distant and leave that to the manager), make investments in youth or ways to make more money for the club, sponsorship deals etc.
It would also be amazing to be able to invest in lower league clubs or start a 'B' team in a lower league when you get to the top tier that the youth players coming through can play in and you have connections with to send players out on loan. Obviously using the same rules as real football where the two teams can't enter the same league.
Market - I think bring the market back but in a new format where you aren't using fifa points for it, but the cash built up in your career mode. Through it you can seek new investment but may not get anyone applying, you can get new sponsors when current contracts run out etc.
Online CM - I think a career mode where you can invite friends into the same leagues would be interesting if it were possible. You could then negotiate transfers between real people and even do something like request loans from other teams but can add interest.
Money - Loans would be a good idea for lower leagues. Request from owners/other teams/banks and have to pay it back within so many seasons with interest which can be negotiated or searched for best option. Also needs to be a bigger penalty for going into a negative bank balance.
Improvements to career mode as of late have been more frequent than we've seen over the years. Much to joy of the fifa community finally our complaints haven't fallen on deaf ears. But sometimes one can't help but notice how over time the game becomes stale, repetitive and a little tedious. Here are a few suggestions I feel would make it more dynamic, exciting and add depth
1) Opponents Report
detailed statistics of how the upcoming opponent approaches the game. This would give you an opportunity to plan your games before hand to alter your team's approach.
- A possible lineup
- recent form
- Defensive mindset ( Do they play a high line / rather sit deep)
- Attacking Mindset ( Do they play counter attacking football / Patient build up)
- Star player(s) / Player in recent form
- Basically like the "Detailed Stats " in the Kickoff mode only a bit more detailed
2) Option to choose your own technical advisors
- This would be helpful in the "Opponents report" mentioned above, the higher the skill level of your assistant the more detailed the report
- A new tab in the pause menu whereby your assistant manager analyses the game for you, giving you new ideas on how to breakdown the stubborn defense/ Stop the imminent threat of a goal that has been "knocking on the door".
- The report updates regularly and more detailed the longer the game goes on.
3) More Managerial and Player accolades Cutscenes
- Being able to see your avatar/ or any other manager win the Manager of the month award followed by a short press conference.
- The PFA, Uefa POTY, Uefa POTW, Ballond'or, The Golden boot etc. Cutscenes would be refreshing to see.
4) Build-up to big games/ derbies should be longer
5) News and rumours about Managers getting sacked or hired
6) A new system that shows you the confidence that fans have in you
- increases and decreases immensely after winning/ losing big game and trophies
- Your responses in Press conference ( there should be no such thing as a "safe answer") . You should find a balance between looking after your players morale or the confidence the fans have in you.
- Ability to have a contract (Wage, role, length, bonuses etc.) so you can let it expire and in the January window 6 months before it expires to be able to receive pre-contract-expiry offers from other clubs, also you can apply for a new contract where you can apply for a certain wage, role, length, bonus. This is because it is frustrating how you cannot move clubs unless you are sold.
- Ability to have sponsorships (Merchandise, Boots, etc.)
This would mean you can get offers from companies (Only companies included in the game so FIFA don't have to license any more and pay more..) and be able to accept or reject them, you can have maximum 1 clothes sponsor and boots sponsor (e.g. you could be sponsored by red bull - who sponsor and own Leipzig and Salzburg - and for example wear a red bull cap to every match, and you could be able to pick whether you could be boot-sponsored (so say you are boot sponsored by adidas and they give you a list of say 5 different pairs of boots to wear) or instead just go to the boot shop and get which ever pairs you want.
- Ability to do something with your earnings and have a lifestyle
This would mean you can buy a house, a car, expensive jewellery, clothes, items, and more. Isn't it a little pointless being told in 'my career' section how much you are earning, yet there being absolutely nothing to do with it? Also you can go to like a night club and meet a girl, have a girlfriend, marry them, have children, and more.
- Ability to negotiate when you receive a transfer offer
This would mean that when your club e-mails you to tell you that they have accepted a transfer offer for you from another club, you could have an option to negotiate with the club (just like you can do in manager mode when you are agreeing a transfer fee and contract wit a player) and discuss wage, role, length and bonuses. If you say no than the club are temporarily blocked from signing you.
- Ability to hire an agent.
This would mean that during negotiations you select what terms you want and your agent will propose them to the club. Also, the agent can find you sponsorships and jobs outside of football. Their main strength should be the ability to find you a new club. You can also sack your agent and partner with a new agency, all for free. This would be 100x better than you just getting a random person e-mailing you, calling themselves your agent and telling you how your national team manager rates you fairly highly.
- Ability to have behind the scenes footage, cut scenes, decisions, dilemmas and friendships.
Last but not least, be able to do stuff like training, press conferences, make decisions, and more. Be able to approach a player on your team and either start a friendship with them, or start a conflict. Be able to attend the dressing room before a match, after a match and at Half time.
Also, be able to click on any player's bio and be able to send a text message and ask them to be friends, or talk to them. This would impact your player's career a lot!
I know this seems impossible to complete, but it would be an absolute dream to play in it!
Thx for reading
BRAGGING RIGHTS: just like the most expensive transfer catalogue, put in one for most expensive salaries just for that clout.
A.I Contract renewals. We wanna see news about players going back and forth about their contracts and the length varying too
For PLAYER CAREER: Give our avatars the ability to negotiate contracts FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!
And also a section for seeing which players went where just like the MANGER CAREER
Transfer drama: for instance, if my avatar had an amazing season stats wise but had no silverware and wishes to move on elsewhere. (Assuming he's in Man United) I wanna see Real coming in with say £300,000 a week for him. But Man U come in with a better contract, like £380,000 and wanna keep you. You know you're worth more than that so you ask Man to up the ante and they take it to £420,000 but unfortunately lose to Real caz they break bank with a mouth watering £500,000 and THAT'S how you make career mode interesting.
Also not just one club at a time seeking your services. Make it like 5 clubs at a go to make the choices intriguing. And the ability to delegate your salary to each of them.
STATS STATS STATS!!! Okay, I get it, I'm a United player I play in the Prem, but still, we should atleast know who was top scorer in La Liga, Serie A, with my avatar bagging 31 goals in EPL, did Messi go on a scoring frenzy and reach 40? I wanna know who won the Copa del Rey, Copa Italia and such.
MORE individual trophies: a UCL player of the tournament perhaps. Or UCL TOTY. Notice I didn't say LEAGUE TOTY. And a top 5 or atleast a top 3 list on how the Balon D'or voting played out. Atleast we get to know who improved or who's close to topping the ranks. IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS.
NEWS: Whenever a big player like MESSI or RONALDO is retiring, I don't wanna hear it on a UCL semifinals with Lee Dixon talking about how he's gonna be missed. I want it published on the news section caz it's actually NEWS people wanna hear about. Not about how tommy from Yorkshire scored a hatrick in Palmeiras (you get the point). And if you fancy some show boating. Atleast lay out his accolades as he closes the curtains down. Maybe throw in how many Balon D'ors/UCLs they won during their illustrious careers.
RIVALRIES: whenever it's a derby, make it feel like a derby. Like the next 90 mins is do or die. Every bad tackle, yellow/red card worthy, (tho' EA can't get as physical as PES,) but throw in a little scuffle or push and shove cutscene before the game resumes. And after a win in a derby make the ending scene a bit dramatic like the winning team holding hands and running up to the fans with the fancy ol tummy slide. Atleast some different unique match cutscenes unlike the usuals where the only different one of the season is a cup final.
2. More statistics like Football Manager in Career Mode (total goals, previous teams, previous seasons, trophy room…).
3. Edit mode (stadiums, not real faces, teams without license, managers…).
4. More animated scenes (chat manager-player, talk before the game, players interactions, celebrating a trophy…).
5. Real transfer (Athletic Club Bilbao, MLS, non-community players limit, Financial Fair Play…).
6. Coaches hiring and layoffs and that affects the team’s playing style (can take advantage of icon license to introduce more coaches).
7. Multi-player Career Mode (optional).
• More sImulated Leagues: In Fifa21 only your own league and cups you are playing in with your team are properly simulated, the other leagune standings and player statistics are randomly chosen. As a Manager you should have access to correct simulated league tables around the world and leading goalscorers/assists. (i.e. you want to take on a new job offer and look how a team is performaning or you want to look at player performances that you want to sign) Thats why there are also no statistics for your loaned players in foreign leagues :(
• loan player feature: add contract negotiation clause that a player has to play a certain amount of games, like 60%/70% for the team you are loaning him out to.
• u23 where you can develop your greatest youth talents and youth league where they are competing against others (i.e. you can watch some of their games and their live performances on the pitch )
• individual team control: like NBA2k where you can anytime chose which team you are in control and you can also manage 2 teams or more.
• Past game scores: you can not go back in your schedule like in NBA2k and look at game results on a specific gameday, goalscorers and so on
These Feature may result in bigger savegames, but they are so important for the career mode as a manager and ePES is also handling these points quite well in Master League. So Please EA import these vital features for a manager career. Thanks
Some Key Features for Fifa2022 CM:
• More simulated Leagues:
It’s so important as a manager in Career Mode to have access to other league tables and goalscorers/assists lists. In Fifa2020 some of these are not available and when they are also not simulated properly but are randomly chosen. There are only random standings except your league or cup you’re in(maybe some algorithm that includes OVR strength of teams and list them up randomly) and random statistics of foreign league player performances (goals/assists/games played randomly chosen for foreign league players) when you want to take on a new job offer abroad or you want to sign a player from a different league it’s important to have access to these tables and that they are simulated properly (are correct) and not randomly chosen. ( i.e. when you get a foreign job offer, the table position is listed in contract negotiation as 5. and when you look at the foreign league tables or finally take on the job, it’s a complete different table because it’s automatic and randomly generated again when you finally take over)
• loan player feature:
Contract negotiation where you can set a certain amount of playing time with the new club, like 60% the loaned out player has to start or he should play 70% of the total games
• add u23 team and youth league:
where you can develop your young talents and where they can compete ( that these games are also simulated and you can watch when you want)
• Team Schedule:
let us scroll back in the schedule and see the results/scores from that matchday. It’s not possible to see the goalscorers when you have simulated through calender neither you can see the results of the other teams on that gameday (NBA2k)
• Individual Team Control:
Let us manage more than one team at the same time: like NBA2k where you can set the teams you want to manage and where you can edit everything by yourself in myseason.
• previous Seasons Statistics
Old league standings and goalscorer/assist lists should be available ( i.e. you are in season 2023 and want to look at the best goalscorers in the league or your best striker/assist king and your old league standings)
These are so important features for Career Mode. They may result in bigger savefiles or longer times at simulation, but they are so important and look at ePES2021, that game can also handle more simulated data at once and so on. Please EA import it in the next version of Fifa2022.
Thx
Player career mode-
I want to be able to choose the rating I start my career mode with. 67 I feel is high not every footballer starts their career being a wonder kid. I feel that my player grows quickly which is good not going to lie ,but once you reach your peak at 25 and have no more room to improve you feel like there is nothing else to do ,so having the ability to decrease your starting rating at the start of the career mode I feel would be good. I know you can already do that in the main menu create a player section ,but you surrender the things that you get when you create a player in career mode such as traits, player edits and no player image in the squad hub or any other place in the game save.
I also want to have the choice of being a team captain everyone dreams of being the captain of their national team or their favorite club, so knowing that you can never be captain even though you started and ended your career mode at the same club and never being captain once is a huge disappointment.
Manager mode-
I would like to choose a co-captain when I'm in a game if I sub out my captain having a random player be my captain is weird. More leagues and competitions should be added.
Referee Mode/Career
You can choose the match officials (all of them) appointed to your matches.
- Have an option to watch cup draws to see who your team get
- Have other teams managers sacked, hired or retire as the seasons go on.
- Be able to design your own kits for the new season
- managers sign a contract rather than a review at the end of each season
Manager;
•managers have contracts and be able to negotiate new ones
•get offers from clubs not just international
•when a team tries to buy a player and you don’t want to sell be able to offer a loan deal instead
•be able to change international numbers without it changing club numbers
•be able to say a player is not for sale
•team and individual training
•be to message players first not just reply
Player;
•be able to have more than one position like pre made players do
•be able to message manager, fire agent and have social media aspect
•get transfer offers from other clubs without putting in transfer requests
•be able to be club captain
•more tactical awareness for cpu managers eg striker got injured with other strikers from squad already in staring 11 so defenders played as a striker until player was fit again instead of manager being able to change players around positionally. Be able to change formation not just stick to default one
•be able to edit player more during career eg weight, build, tattoos etc
•more positional freedom during game play
•ability to retire from international football separately
•give background so player has more than one country to choose from
•allow player to turn down international call ups if they wish
•be able to start a game of a substitute
•ask for new contract
•be able to change players position throughout career to adjust to players condition eg if winger allow to more inside as they get older
•post match interviews
General;
•more leagues in certain countries and have more countries with leagues
•more focus on the women’s game eg league not just international
•referee mode
•be able to add own playlist
•be able to create team and players
•don’t cut off celebrations
1 sponsors
2 put at least the anthem of the home team in the entring and goals and we can upload songs of our team
3 put youth teams and when we are good enough we get promoted to the principal team
4 VAR checκ
5 create our own kit each season
6 stadium uprgades
7 social media of the player
8 relationships with other players manager family or even a girlfriend
9 create our own team career like be the owner
10 the home team has a boost of moral because of the fans
11 better fans in derbys
12 chose your own rivals each year
13 french commentary it s one of the most speaking languages in the world
14 put the greek league PLEASE every year we are in the top 3
15 put that you get paid secretly in imprtant games like winning the league or the cup and losing or don t even play and accept or decline and report them at the league (hope you undersund)
PUT ARIS THESSALONIKIS ON FIFA PLS
1. Allow for Managers to structure Transfer Fee payment over a period of time so that payment is not one-off.
2. When a Loan with a purchase option is rejected, the Managers should be able to continue with the Loan negotiation
3. We should be able to search for players using their ratings.
5. Players should be able to ask to leave the club or have their contracts terminated
6. Other clubs should be able to poach Managers with better offers.
7. Managers should be able to negotiate their contracts, ask for more control or have the Board impose on them
8. Referees should be able to send off Manager during games
In career mode, I sometimes wish I could 'roll back' the years. For example start a season 10 years earlier than the present day. This would essentially change the squads for all teams to what they originally were back in that specific year, as well as the teams in each league.
Perhaps you could even do a Legendary match play mode - where you can play real life matches that were thrilling to watch from the past.
A few suggestions:
AC Milan vs Liverpool in the UCL final 2005
Chelsea vs Liverpool UCL quarter-final 2009
Real Madrid vs Barcelona La Liga 2014
and so on..
There's so many matches from around the world that could be under a 'legendary match' title.
Tatoos in player career
-Better trophy celebration with the whole team not just the eleven
-Women leagues
-More aggression in derbies
-Stadium upgrades
It would be great to see something like Premier League 2.
2. Make Players Ratings affected mostly by their season performance and not so much by their age
3. Add Custom Lobby Music (based on the league)
4. Add more custom backgrounds for more leagues
5. Stop The AI teams from making nonsense and unnecessary transfers (neither completely unrealistic ones)
6.Sponsors
7.Add the ability to upgrade the stadium based on how it looks and the capacity
8. Kit Customizations for each year
9. Better atmosphere and aggression in derbies
10. More Cutsceens (especially in big games)
11. Better and more enthusiastic celebrations (in important games like Finals , Winning a trophy or winning your way to the finals
12. Make Improvements in the crowd (more faces , new celebrations )
13. Half time Coach Speech to boost players (in big matches)
14. Make the Champions League Qualifications more Realistic
15. Since next year the next league is coming , add the new competition with special Backgrounds and extra
16. Make Players Career Mode Something Like the Journey
Something Like Your Own Player Story Mode
Good Luck Making The Game Good
1) Add training matches and let the coach choose the sides of those matches
2) Should add more variety of trainings, each player needs to have focus points where they want to improve
3) Please add training for players to change their positions. And for created players please add all positions. Like we dont have LW, CM, LWB those positions when creating someone. I like to create players and play career mode. I would definitely want that to happen
4) Add more strategy into play. Please let the manager observe the oppositions previous matches and players they selected frequently. Show the opponent stats and form also, since these are available to real life managers.
5) Add communication between managers and players. Managers most important role is to motivate a team to win, which fifa lacks
6) Add more managers achievements rather than his teams.
Player mode
1) Please add training for players to change their positions. And for created players please add all positions. Like we dont have LW, CM, LWB those positions when creating someone. I like to create players and play career mode. I would definitely want that to happen
2) increase in height. if a player is 17 years old he can grow till 20-22
3) control of gym workouts
4) media exposure and speculations
5) personal life + family pressure
6) money and what things he can afford with them
7) brand exposure, getting spotlight. attending award events, and conferences
8) more things outside the playing life so that the gamer can feel like his game affects his outside life-family-girlfriend, kids etc
9) Interaction with managers need to be more
10) player career mode can start from as early as 14 years old.
Implement Kit creator!!!! Or at least be able to add clubs and Kits!!!
Stadium builder would be nice too!
LA Liga is very popular around the world and would love to see Segunda B... but it might me too many clubs for you guys to handle that is why PES is able to offer imports so I don't know why EA can't do that too.
FFS GK kits needs to be implemented so many damn times does it clash with the other clubs kits.
What I don't understand with you guys at EA is it so hard for you guys to see how many people play career mode and wants what we have been asking for the past few years?
Every time I come here EVERYBODY WANTS WHAT I WANT... KITS CREATOR, STADIUM BUILDER, SPONSORS, IMPORTS OF CLUBS OR KITS
SO F@#$% tired of playing the same kits year in year out!!!!
Glad I got PES so when I get tired of Fifa21 then I can go to PES and create kits and import the clubs I want on there to play with....
So once again as many players have begged for I hope you guys at EA will finally implement what all career mode players want!!
- Have a league for youth teams with different teams from around the world, to observe the performance of our players.
- Observe completed matches of the other teams, to study and make a strategy against those teams.
- More Asian countries to send scouts from the youth categories.
- Choose a real manager with gameface.
- Extend the limit year of the game. (2050 maybe)
- Customize the uniforms for each season.
- Managers retire over the years and retired players take their place.
- The coach changes between clubs.
- Edit the potential, the stars of the skills, the dedication to attack and defense and the international reputation of the players we create.
- Special tribute or cutscene for a player who is retiring.
- Statistics of the previous seasons of the players.
- CPU can also change the position of the players.
- Just like the FM, having a hall of idols, favorites and legends of the club.
- With some serious injury, the player is force to retire.
Sorry for my bad english :(
or Franz Beckenbauer take charge of teams that are struggling or Big Teams not preforming well, and also i would enjoy enhanced Title Lift cutscenes, and for teams that havent won a trophy for many years i wish they could show like a small documentary or small cutscene, i know this would take a long time but maybe they could let us do it ourselves
- Stadium upgrades
-The ability to import kits and stadiums
- Sponsorship deals
- Choice to remove unwilling to relocate
- In development plans still grow unselected attributes, albiet at a slower pace
- Loaned out player can't play against parent club!
- New leagues and new teams to Rest Of The World group.
- More realistic player faces
- Female Football Leagues (Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Netherlands, England, Sweden, Norway, USA) with all features as men's career mode.
- Kit editor
- Small teams play very defensively against big teams
- no AI transfers of club-loyal players (e.g. Inaki Williams)
- Sponsors
- Seeying player stats for players that are out on loan in other leagues
- More statistics of players (like in FIFA 10): passes played, tackles etc.
- All time statistics of my players (goals & assists of every year)
- More manager customization
- Buy-back-clause or loans with buy-option function in transfers
- More names awailable for creating players
- No more unrealistic youth player names and faces. Names often don't match the faces or country of origin.
- Ability to train every stat including skill moves, weak foot and work rates as well as every other stat
- Position training
- Player Morale and performance should be affected (not too much) by things done and said by manager as well as fan and board opinions
- Youth Tournament with team selection deadline and player pool including U21, U20 or U19 eligible first-team players
- Trophy room
- CPU Managers Fired Due To Poor Performances
- Sanctions like Financial Fair Play!
- At trophy celebrations the whole team should be present and not just the 11 players + benchplayers
- More aggression in derbys
- VAR stuff
- Press conferences
Now wouldn't that be great!! :D