Fifa Manager 06 German Patch description
FIFA Manager 06 offers a new, accessible interface and a range of features that steers the genre towards a new level of gameplay
FIFA Manager 06 offers a new, accessible interface and a range of features that steers the genre towards a new level of gameplay.
New features include the Match Analysis Tool that lets you dissect any team’s performance and use that specific information tu make your tactics more precise.
Read the latest news, match reports and rumours in footballworld, an in-game website that provides a one-stop portal for all the latest statistics and management news for your club and others.
FIFA Manager 06 is the only management simulation to boast fully-licensed teams and players from every major league around the world. When coupled with the involving and immersive gameplay FIFA Manager 06 becomes the must-have purchase for football fans everywhere.
Here are some key features of "Fifa Manager Demo":
· FULL 3D MATCH ENGINE
· FIFA Manager 06 boasts the most realistic full 3D match engine to watch all your matches in. Observe your team and analyse the players as if you were watching a real-life match. The new free cam feature lets you keep an eye on the position of all players at any time.
· MATCH ANALYSIS TOOL
· Access and analyse any game from the entire season using the 2D match engine. Measure player performance, track runs, passes and scrutinise positional play.
· NEW NAVIGATION SYSTEM
· FIFA Manager 06 is intuitive and easy to use. All-new accessible presentation means that finding the information you require is few simple mouse-clicks away and never hard to locate.
· IN-GAME WEBSITE
· The unique in-game website, footballworld, provides a portal to all of the information in FIFA Manager 06. Find out the latest news from other teams including transfers, rumours and team information.
· PLAYER STYLES
· Find the best players for your tactics by researching their playing characteristics. Choose from various styles of players including Libero, Holding Midfielder, Target Man and Dribbler. Players are now divided into 18 distinct playing styles. Learning how to best exploit your player’s behaviour adds yet more depth to the gameplay.
· EXHAUSTIVE DATABASE
· FIFA Manager 06 is the only management simulation to feature officially-licensed teams, logos and players from every major league around the world. More than 2,000 clubs and over 20,000 players are included to provide the most authentic football experience on PC. Almost 7,000 player photos are included for leagues in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain
What's New in This Release:
· A crash that could occur when exchanging players.
· Pause button will now be disabled in 'Proceed one day' mode
· Changed the data format of transfer fees on several screens
· You cannot loan out star players from other teams so easily anymore
· Transfers at the start of the first season have been drastically reduced, so that teams will look the same for the frist season as in reality (you can re-enable transfers by adding NO_REDUCED_TRANSFERS_1ST_SEASON=1 to the user.ini)
· Fixed a crash when you opened player details form the team of the day (website) and then selected Player comparism. This only happened if the player was from your own team.
· The browse screen only showed up to 100 clubs. If you played a 'Creat a club'-game, there could have been much more teams, so that it wasn't possible to select you own club besides many other.
· A club won't allow to take their star players on trial anymore.
· If a transfer fee is offered and the bid was rejected the transfer fee was set to 0 in the transfer history. It will now remember the last fee offered.
· Player names for players with pseudonym will now be shown in the general section of the player details screen.
· Fixed a text issue in the player talks where a placeholder (_MANAGER_NAME) was shown.
· Fixed an issue where a player announced not to extend his contract even though he was on loan.
· Added a drop down that allows setting the training goals for youth players.
· Even though a match was postponed it was still being shown as next match on the progression screen.
· Rarely you could receive a message that said a player was happy and another message that the same player was unhappy about a transfer.
· The english version had the german form format on the training instructions screen.
· The interested clubs section on the player contract negotiation screen sometimes had a fourth interested team that was shown as a blank space.
· Youth players from international youth camps can now be dismissed.
· Scouts will now create reports for reserve teams (they used to show only reports of the 1st team)
· Wrong transfer fee shown in some messages
· User-created training weeks could not be deleted correctly
· Bans for national team matches were not shown correctly
· Career Curve Development: Training goal will now have a bigger influence on the player development
· Fixed a crash in the storygenerator of the website, when manager was close to be sacked
· Training Buildup-Play used to train Flair twice. Now Flair and Agility will be trained equally.
· There used to be a problem that the value entered into the buy option was not taken over correctly
· Free transfers did count against the transfer budget with their full market value
· Sometimes players scouted were reported to be available on the transferlist although they only extended their contract
· Although you created your own club the board told you that you didn't have enough money for a transfer
· If you tried to buy a player with expiring contract the board sometimes said that you could not afford this player
· You cannot make a completely new offer for a player via the player details screen once an initial offer has been made
· Fixed an issue with the general age distribution and the average player level for reserve teams
· Market value will now be shown as default first offered transfer fee when starting a new negotiation
· Fixed a problem with inappropriate team ratings and wages when the newly created club joined an existing league
· Added a switch to the game options to select between metric and imperial units for height and weight (english version only)
· Crossing frequency and crossing position should now match the selected tactics more closely
· Moved the default positions for fullbacks when going forward
a little more central
· Reduced the chance of a goalkeeper 'tipping' the ball into his own net from a cross
· Players clean through on goal should head straight for goal if possible
· Goalkeepers will now pick up the ball if it gets headed back to them
· Tweaked when fouls are given for slide tackles
· Reduced the number of bad referee decisions
· Goalkeepers will now come out of the area to intercept passes played in behind the defence
· Tweaked the positions of players when lining up for a penalty
· Keep central strikers more central by default
· Reduced the frequency of players running off the pitch with the ball
· Goalkeepers should now come out to catch the ball when it gets headed straight up in the air in the box
· Offsides should now not be given when a player shoots and a team mate is not interferring with play
· Reduced the chance of players running out of options on the wing and running back down the touchline towards their own half
· Forward runs are now minimized when Forward Runs are set to Never
· Provided cover for defenders that are sent up for Set Pieces
· Removed the players from Corners that are there for the short pass
· Tweaked the number of long shots (decreased)
· Reduced the change of goalkeepers tipping crosses into their own goals
· Reserve Rule same as England in Scotland and France
· Single Player stats during 3d match derived from MAT-Stats
· Round numbers in Staff market
· Single Player Match Stats during 3D-match
· Website Stats The players on the Best Players table are not remotely the best players. Best players are now evaluated by number of matches played and average season rating
· Changed logic to determine player of the year
· Fixed empty "From" column in listbox
· Next oponent EC screen The header of the screen has a wrong name
· Play a match in mode text Missing word in Spanish now fixed.
· Match/Text mode Missing dots at the end of sentences changed for French errors.
· European scouting screen no scout leads to %s
· Website news Teams have 17 defeats in a row on the 9th matchday - fixed and working correctly.
· Website news After the second matchday the website reports over a good season start of the first matchday
· Changed localized String IDs for Keyboard Shortcuts in IMD
· Cup Final Story is now being generated
· Calling PlayerInfo from Lineup Screen (Small pitch) wasn't initialized in the correct way
· Team Reserves Correct player numbers are now displayed in the formation diagram.
· Contradiction in match report when you play too few players
· Club Tournaments Only first letter of player displayed in European Championship 'Dream Team' screen
· Newscenter Youth player joined the squad, although you did not agree to sign him
· Ball Colour in IMD Pitch View
· Kit color clashes need to be resolved in the line-up screen
· Team Lineup Sorting by Form now sorts in the correct order.
· Matchday Overlays The Pause button changes from "Mettre en Pause" to "Pause" after pausing and resuming a match.
· Incorrect Team of the year
· Club Progression Screen User can not progress past National Team group selection in 2009.
· Line-up Selection Criteria, screen shows a black border
· Win Bonus was influencing Team Ratings although it was disabled in the screen
· AI was able to do more substitutions than allowed.
· Lowered scores in Friendlies
· Level displayed in Germany was match rating
· Matchday AI Turning off the half-time report and playing a 3D match leads to odd ratings at half-time
· Crash after loading a saved formation for the reserve team in the "Formation" screen.
· Human tactics are no longer changed unless user does so during 3D matches if the assistant is disabled
· Text Mode: Fan sounds can't be switched off
· National Team Selection Closes When Checking Player Infos
· Instant Calculation Wrong Stadium Name Display
· In highlight mode, it was possible to hear the sounds from the highlight before the scene started (that was disturbing especially with goals and fouls since the user knew what was going to happen before he saw the scene). This is fixed now the sounds are being recorded and they are triggered in the right moment in the highlight scenes. It is not only the crowd that can be heard correctly now also the sounds of passes, referee whistle, fouls or ball bounces are triggered correctly in the highlights. When no scene is running there is only an ambient crowd loop playing.
· When the top-down camera was enabled in the highlight mode (by pressing the ENTER key) it was not dynamically following the action in the highlight screens this is fixed now.
· The kit colour clashing algorithm was improved. There were sometimes corrupted kits due to that bug. (E.g. Brentford vs. Huddersfield) Since there are tons of different teams and different kits this should be again intensively tested by the QA. (Issue 10029)
· In the highlight mode, the final whistle sound was missing at the end of the match
· If the match ends with forfeit the result is set to 0-3 now. (Previously the result wasn't changed.)
· If there is a substitution after a goal the scoreboard showing the goal was overlapping the substitution popup in that case the user couldn't see the information about opponent's substitutions. This is fixed now
· If the match ends with forfeit in the 1st half the game opened the halftime screen which is incorrect. This is fixed now.
· After a red/yellow card the scoreboard was showing team badges of both teams now it is showing only the one that is related to the booked player.
· After a goal the scoreboard was showing team badges of both teams now it is showing only the team badge of the scorer.
· Watching 2 or more 3d matches in a row was sometimes generating wrong data for MAT. This is fixed now.
· If a top player of my team is banned and didn't play the press is not asking why he wasn't playing (the reason is obvious).
· After a match if top players of both teams were not playing there is a press comment mentioning the names. Sometimes the names were displayed incorrectly. This is fixed now.
· When the user created a customized team badge - that was saved in an unknown format - the 3D match crashed. This is fixed now.
· When the user created a customized team badge - that was saved in Paint Shop Pro - the graphics was corrupted in the game (Pain Shop Pro is exporting vertically mirrored images). This is fixed now.
· When the user created a customized team badge - that was saved in a compressed TGA file - the graphics was corrupted in the game. This is fixed now.
· When the user created a customized team badge - that was saved in a 16bpp TGA format - the graphics was corrupted in the game. This is fixed now.
· The full-screen mode can now be activated in the 3d match
· Improved kit clashing recognition
· Referees are wearing the proper kits now
· When fusion is activated (human player) the goalkicks were corrupted - this is fixed now.
· Commentary in the 3d match is available for all selectable leagues (previously the commentary was enabled only for the top leagues)
· When fusion is activated the onscreen-indicators of the human player were not rendered properly - this is fixed now
· When any player was suspended the press was sometimes asking the manager why he wasn't playing - this is fixed now
· Using the proper uninstill process does not uninstall the game.
· Game no longer crashes when reaching 1/1/2010
· AMD 64 & nVidia 7800 Crash during progression has been fixed
· The Italian patch does not work.
· Presentation Text in First Team appears in a different language in multiple locations
· No longer able to have players on infinite suspension
· Manager of the Month trophy now appears in Manager trophy room
· Keyboard buttons assigned incorrectly in Italian and Spanish build.
· National team nomination screen injured players are not colored red
· website poll about the relegation of national teams has been fixed
· Euro Super Cup does not display in any trophy rooms if a user wins it.
· The game icon is reverted to a generic EA Sports icon when the user installs the patch.
· website reports over a player who plans to return to his home county, but he plays already there
· One Website rumour displays as if the player in question is a member of the team who want to sign him.
· Website News about young player is related to an old player
· Manager Job Titles don't match preset responsibilities.
· Pressing CTRL + Backspace in most typing boxes will produce an odd image.
· 'Staff' option not selectable during World Cup
· The headers "Injuries" and "Suspended" should be spelt in the same tenses.
· Website Close news by leftclick
· Self portrait is not aligned at the Contract Negotiations screen in Play a Career.
· Self portrait is not centered in many screens.
· Load bar appears full when there is notihin being loaded in load/save options.
· In Welcome Screen, Header text is too large and causes clipping with long team names.
· In My Career section, currency amount in "Donate money to club" tool tip is incorrect
· In Spanish Footballworld, incorrect symbols are displayed
· Very rarely in the Newscenter, the user will get a message that a player is having problems adapting to a country even though that is their nationality.
· Under responsibilities, tactics is spelt Tactique in the English version
· The [Main UI] drop down menu doesn't close when mouse is clicked in non-selection area.
· The number of sucessful passes and received passes are not equal sometimes
· In the club calendar, the user can create a 'Training Camp' that overlaps a match.
· printed tables are too close to the left added left margin
· printed tables did not have league names in captions added competition and/or country name were applicable
· long string may go beyond cell fixed the column width calculation procedure
· added support for alignment of headers
· Website Stats Injuries screen fixed a bug with overlapping text "The data will appear when season is underway"
· Under Website stats, 'Injuries' table for team without injuries overlapped by text "Stats data will appear once season is underway", despite season underway.
· Crash after clicking on X button of website screen has been fixed.
· User cannot select any 'training sessions' under 'This Week Training' when starting a new club.
· Shots on target that are goals should be indicated more clearly in MAT stats.
· In some cases it happened that certain teams lacked matches, compared to their opponents of the league.
· Substitutes occasionally appear in a different kit compared to the rest of the team
· In Club Overview, highest away victory and defeat are missing
· In season objectives window, game displays that a season objective for International Cup was met when it wasn't.
· Direct free kicks have been tuned reducing the scoring ratio.
· Clicking twice on the home button in the website would cause the content of the website to disappear. This has now been fixed.
· White box appears in Day Preview after creating Training Camp on the day before a friendly. Now the user can no longer schedule a training camp to start on the day immediately before a friendly.
· Friendly cannot be cancelled if you schedule a training camp on the day immediately before you can no longer schedule a training camp on the day immediately before a friendly.
· In the Calendar, the second day of a knockout tournament has a white box on that date now the second date has a question mark icon to indicate the team has not been determined yet.
· All match reports for the user's league are available to be looked at from the website stats league results screen
· All available league match reports for previous matches can be accessed by left clicking on the badge of the team played in the left side info panel.
· Pictures for best players of the match on the post match team comparison screen were looking only at empics, and ignoring user supplied pictures, now user supplied pictures will work
· UK reserve players now have their stats updated after matches
· click on the badge of previously played matches (in the left side info panel) to get to the match reports for that match
· In cup results, there was an extra column in the table, so when the scroll bar comes up, the text would disappear in that column
· the warning about too few players for a reserve team was broken for UK teams because reserve players were counted as regular players this is fixed now
· An email has been added when team goes to a training camp and when they return home
· Besiktas JK (Turkey) kit colors as well as badge have been fixed.