Playmaker and other Special Abilities (with Screenshots)

[Al Svanberg]

A couple of things:

-For players at higher levels, if you set a player that does -- not -- have FK as a special ability to take free-kicks, can the player curve the ball like a FK specialist?

I am asking because of this, Nordeus has in an old release given info that can be interpreted as the number of skill-points it takes to train a SA is given to the player when using the SA. Like a FK specialist is given 50 more skillpoints to like shooting when taking a FK. That would make this player extremely good in that situation. At my level, there is also a tremendous difference between how a FK specialist fires the ball on FKs and how like my star attacker that does not have this ability but have 200% in shooting fires the ball. The FK specialist can almost always curve the ball a lot, while the striker without the SA only shoots straight. What I am trying to figure out is if the reason for this is because the FK specialist just gets a lot better on FKs or if its because the FK SA gives the player a "special" shot on FKs.

-Nash and Gert, wow, those players seemed to get the Play-Maker sign very often. I have played with 2-3 PMs and 1-3 Shadow-Strikers regularly with one of my accounts, and I've only seen each sign once in over 120 games. I really wonder why that is. I have never had a big star (7+ stars) with either ability, could that be a reason? I am at a low level, 3, can that be a reason?

Have anyone any thoughts on this?

-Have anyone been able to figure out if it matters which foot a FK/CK have? I was convinced that it did, because my left footed AMC for a long while seemed to curve the ball towards the same way and didn't curve the ball when it was natural for him to use his weak right foot. But then lol that changed.