Game engine change?

[Tactician]

It changed towards the end of last season. It's probably intended to prevent mutants from being OP (ex. Friendly trick and upselling).

I wouldn't call the results 100% unfair. The engine is still favoring correct tactics, but the skills matter less.

Problematic here is two things:

1. Most managers don't understand how to setup correctly from a tactical perspective.

2. A manager that is random tactically will cause major problems for a skilled tactican when skills dont matter. A manager that looks for patterns and understands counter-formations and counter-orders will be looking for a pattern that does not exist.

Same applies to a change in the pattern. For example I beat Team A in semi-final of CL and quarter-final of cup in last two seasons. This season we play in cup final and he changes the system and it catches me off-guard. The less the skills matter, less protection for token buyers/farmers when these scenarios arise.

I think the most important questions should be: are opposing teams winning by skills of the manager and the team or just randomly (or even by using or switching to **** tactics and formations or even by doing nothing during the match); do the opponents really meant or set up things for how they occurred or those occurred because something else in the game decided so?

As a returning manager of many seasons ago, so far I can say that this game has gone even worst be it in terms of tactics, formations, football sense or even the basics of a football manager game such a proper user interface and so on. I won't say all those are my final conclusions for the recent versions of the game but surely some things went worst in this game.