Thursday, April 12, 2012

Newcastle United XI - Large Images, Dial Up Beware

Intro


http://www.ea.com/uk/football/fifa/creation-centre?team_id=3796213


Got my code yesterday and spent all night making a team. I found it very sluggish and limited, but it works at least... Definitely needs some more faces or to actually let you adjust the faces, also needs more hairstyles, including some more old fashioned styles like the combover; hard to make legends when you can't get it to look like them at all. Also the kit designing is very limited, I'd like direct control over the third colour, shorts and socks, rather than having these decided by the template used.
Anyway I managed to make my team and publicly published it 'Newcastle United XI', I've tried to be as accurate as I could be where possible with ratings, and players look vaguely like their real life counterparts. You can find it by searching at clickinghttp://www.ea.com/uk/football/fifa/creation-centre?team_id=37962136. I've adjusted the age of each player to be in their prime / while they played for Newcastle, since FIFA doesn't allow for 125 year olds, sorry Jimmy Lawrence.

Newcastle United XI


Starting Eleven


Ratings are messed up as at present I can't change the formation to suit the players; Beardsley, Keegan and Waddle will have better ratings once I get them into their correct positions.

Substitutes


Reserves


Kits


Alternate Line-up Suggestions


90s

Srnicek
Venison - Howie - Kilcline - Albert
Lee - Batty - Speed
Beardsley
Shearer - Cole


Old School

Lawrence
McCracken - Brennan - Moncur - Crowe
Harvey
Keegan - Beardsley
MacDonald - Milburn - Gallacher


Most Devoted (Appearances)

Lawrence
McCracken - Harvey - Brennan - Moncur
Lee - Speed
Solano ----------- Beardsley
Shearer - Milburn

|||May I ask how you managed to get your code?|||


May I ask how you managed to get your code?

Pre-ordered from GAME.co.uk last week, they send out their codes for pre-orders for previous week each Wednesday at 5:30PM|||Great job, and I'm glad to see that you went with authenticity in rating the players. I finished Ivory Coast a couple of days ago, though I haven't published it yet as I'm going to update the player ratings to match those in FIFA 11.|||Please Add Laurent Robert, and I you want add also Santiago Munez|||Nice. Bookmarked :)
BTW, I think Alan Shearer is a bit too good at goalkeeping :)|||


Nice. Bookmarked :)
BTW, I think Alan Shearer is a bit too good at goalkeeping :)

He was trialed as GK so I decided he could have a bit of skill there :)|||Updated the opening post.|||Nice one mate, and I agree with what you say about the pathetic selection of faces and hairstyles etc, if we are to be forced into selecting from a generic set of everthing then there should atleast be a wide range to shooce from|||


Nice one mate, and I agree with what you say about the pathetic selection of faces and hairstyles etc, if we are to be forced into selecting from a generic set of everthing then there should atleast be a wide range to shooce from

Thanks, and yeah gamerface and clubs integration were the two things I expected to be in, and the two most glaringly missing features. Even if we could just modify the faces ourselves with sliders it would be great, we're already rendering them with Unity anyway... And hairstyles have always been bad in FIFA, but the selection is even worse here.
Added a preliminary set of reserves, should give the team plenty of depth in terms of other formations and eras. Especially looking forward to having Robert / Solano on the wings again. One example of an alternative team would be a best of the 90s toon:

Srnicek
Watson - Howie - Kilcline - Albert
Lee - Speed
Gascoigne - Beardsley
Shearer - Cole

|||No one got any suggestions or corrections?|||Asprilla?!|||


Asprilla?!

If he had shown the form he had against Barca every game and scored a lot more goals he'd be in there, but 9 goals in 48 games from a very inconsistent player doesn't beat say 55 goals in 70 (Andy Cole).|||Only suggestion for me would be replacing Cole with Ferdinand. Cole was only realy prominant in our promotion season and his partnership with Beardsley. The Ferdinand - Shearer partnership would be a better choice in my opinion.|||


Only suggestion for me would be replacing Cole with Ferdinand. Cole was only realy prominant in our promotion season and his partnership with Beardsley. The Ferdinand - Shearer partnership would be a better choice in my opinion.

I hadn't thought about the division one thing, but yeah I'm having a tough time between Ferdinand and Cole, Cole still has a better strike rate for us in the premiership; 43 in 58 to 41 in 68. Main reason I have Cole there at the moment is that we didn't get to see that partnership, in addition to him having the second best goals to game ratio for Newcastle and being second highest premiership goalscorer. It's a shame we're limited to 25 players, could really do with another CM and Ferdinand in there

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