What is new is the complex series of events it can trigger. Annoying a player by leaving them out of the team is nothing new in Football Manager. “You have to decide whether you’re going to stick to your principles or if you’re going to play him or appease him in some way in order to keep things calm”. Subsequently, a number of players in the team became annoyed and Jacobson had a mini revolt on his hands. And now, thanks to AI, you can finally realise your dream of having the man-management skills of Mauricio Pochettino. In the real-world, managers are just as reputed for their ability to tap into the minds of their players as they are to exploit their physical talents. If you annoy someone in a particular social group then that’s likely going to have knock-on effects in that group.” Some players are easier to make up with, while keeping key individuals on your side will ensure the rest of the squad toes the line.Ī heavier reliance on more advanced AI means Football Manager is no longer a game of training, picking and transferring players – it’s also about working out what kind of a person they are and then using that to motivate them to play better. If you annoy a team leader then we explain quite clearly that doing so is likely to have knock-on effects. “We explain the knock-on effects of that happiness, too. “You have a happiness screen that is split into different sections, so you’ll always be able to see why a player is happy or unhappy,” Jacobson says. A happy player is likely going to be more receptive to your tactical ideas and play better and with more enthusiasm than an unhappy one. The new Dynamics gives you more access to what players are thinking – take player happiness, for example. Now, you can readily observe and intelligently engage with a huge cast of characters. Some of these attributes were in previous Football Manager releases, but they’ve tended to lurk in the background. This is a game that contains enough depth and complexity to strike fear into the hearts of newcomers and near-unparalleled loyalty into the minds long-term fans. “We’ve been doing this for 25 years and we’re always, always looking at what we can do with the AI.” For players old and new, Football Manager’s plunge into AI adds another layer of depth, complexity and realism.
“We’re constantly looking at artificial intelligence in the game,” says Miles Jacobson, studio director at Sports Interactive Games, the London-based developer behind the series. For Football Manager, a game obsessed with simulating an oft-unexplainable world, Hart’s capitulation is rooted in a complex question: how do you simulate a footballer’s brain? Its latest iteration, out on November 10, wrangles with the psychology of the beautiful game like never before. England lost for many reasons, but one of them was abundantly clear: they lost their heads. On June 27, 2016, as Kolbeinn Sigþórsson’s stroked the ball towards him, Hart floundered, his body collapsing as England whimpered out of Euro 2016 to a jubilant Iceland. The delirious agony of football can be summed-up by Joe Hart’s failing hands.
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