{"id":9544,"date":"2019-08-07T15:17:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T14:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2019-08-07T15:17:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T14:17:49","slug":"fifa-20-pitch-notes-career-mode-deep-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/fifa-20-pitch-notes-career-mode-deep-dive\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA 20: Pitch Notes – Career Mode Deep Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This cycle has been an incredibly busy one for the entire Career Mode team. Alongside putting a lot of time and effort in the pre-production this year, we\u2019ve worked towards building a number of brand new features that are focused on bringing more depth and authenticity to Career Mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We hope you enjoy the news we\u2019re here to share today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Career Mode Feedback From The Community<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
We have heard the feedback coming from our players in the past years and we wanted to ensure that FIFA 20 will mark an important milestone not only for FIFA in general but especially for Career Mode fans. We strive to evolve and create experiences in FIFA that give our users more diversity and choice each year. The information below will shed some light on the new experiences we have been developing for some time now and that we are working hard to further refine right at this moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Press Conferences & Player Conversations<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
As we just mentioned, our main drive is adding highly relevant features that would represent an important step forward for Career Mode and especially Manager Career. This year, the new feature lineup is represented by Press Conferences, Player Conversations and all of the intricate tools and logic sitting behind these features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Our vision was to breathe new life into the Manager Career experience by leveraging the huge amounts of data that playing this mode generates, and build a variation of ever-changing stories that would surface to our players through Pre and Post-Match Press Conferences and Player Conversations. These are not just general story lines that we put together to mimic authenticity. These are stories built based on player progress which each player will be able to interact with and influence the morale of the team and their standing as the team\u2019s manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The new tools developed in-house by the Career Mode team enabled our producers and designers to leverage this large amount of data and create an enormous variations of story-lines that are deeply rooted in the player\u2019s experience and your way of playing. This means that the experience of each match will be treated differently by the \u2018journalists\u2019 and will always feel authentic and dynamic, depending highly on the outcome, goals scored, opponent, time of season or stage of competition, and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The tools we envisioned and built, as well as the amount of logic behind the stories, is brand new territory for Career Mode, and we are excited for all Career Mode fans to be able to enjoy and share their feedback on these newly-added features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Press Conferences will represent \nthe main venue where the manager will take questions and answer them, \nboth before important matches but also immediately after. Both the Pre \nand Post Match Press Conferences will leverage newly-built scenes \nspecifically designed to be part of the Manager Career experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Player\n Conversations will mainly serve as the 1-on-1 interaction between the \nmanager and players within the team through a messaging app-like \ninterface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Within both, you will be able to choose the way in which you tackle a large variety of situations, and, based on your methods, either positively or negatively influence player morale as well as your rating as a manager. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In the same way as with Press Conferences, the newly added conversations enjoy the same level of complexity. The manager will have to deal with a variety of requests from players as well as happy or disgruntled players that are trying to get their thoughts across. The manager will have to find ways, either through direct actions or by communicating his\/her stance in order to mitigate and solve these situations. (Player attribute values shown in this session are just an example and subject to change)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Player Morale System<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
All the features described above would have not been completed without a lot of work under the hood, and the Player Morale System is exactly that. It is the piece that actually makes all the complex stories we have built and that we\u2019ll be surfacing, relevant.
Morale will be influenced by a multitude of different factors, ranging from play time and wage expectations to a player\u2019s performance on the pitch and how well the team is doing. Secondly, answers in Press Conferences and replies to players in 1-on-1 conversations impact players\u2019 morale as well. Having a high morale will be highly desired as a player\u2019s morale will influence their attributes in upcoming matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Manager Customization<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
You may have noticed a manager in the screenshots above that you are not familiar with. This manager was created in game with our manager creation tools. We are finally taking a leap towards in-depth customization of your Manager Avatar.
Most of you probably remember the limited customization options within Career – which are now a thing of the past. The new Manager Career experience will provide the freedom to create an avatar that reflects your own style and see it reflected in game. Moreover, you will now be able to change your manager\u2019s outfit at any moment during the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Another very important item to mention here is the ability to create both male and female avatars, this being another \u2018first\u2019 for Career Mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In terms of customization and accessories, we’ll have a wide variety of clothing items and accessories at launch, that will ensure a deep customization experience. These will range from the usual formal clothing pieces and shoes to more casual and smart-casual options. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Live News Screenshots<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Another area where we aimed to deliver more diversity year over year and leverage the player\u2019s in-game experience was the \u2018News\u2019. In FIFA 20, we will use gameplay screenshots showing key moments of any given match and creating relevant pieces of news from this content. In this way, we now have the means to highlight memorable moments during your Career Mode experience and allow you to build and surface your own stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
League UI Themes<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Going even further into the realm of authenticity and creating experiences that are relevant for our users, we wanted to come up with a visual take that is unique for some of the most played leagues within Career Mode. The result is 5 unique Central Menu UI treatments that heavily reflect the authentic branding of: the Premier League, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, LaLiga Santander and MLS. Besides these, our players will still enjoy the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League branded UI accompanying these competitions\u2019 fixtures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Dynamic Player Potential<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
One of the heavily-requested improvements to the way players develop through each season was to have their potential change based on their performance.
Potential for players within your own squad will evolve over time based on the players\u2019 performance in the previous season. Scored a lot of goals with a young prospect in his breakthrough season? His potential will be even higher in the upcoming season. Kept a run of good performances going with an older player close to retirement? His potential will be higher in the upcoming season which means that the decrease of his attributes will stall for a longer period of time. Potential will decrease if a player hasn\u2019t been performing well in the previous season or he hasn\u2019t received enough playtime so you must ensure high promising starlets put in the work to achieve their potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
General Improvements\/Additions<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
New Negotiation Environments<\/strong>
Another addition aimed at diversifying our interactive negotiation scenes is the introduction of two new environments, Rooftop Lounge and Restaurant that are now part of our line-up of scenes used for player negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Spot Fixes and Balancing Changes<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Added an \noption in the Player Actions pop-up to add a player to the shortlist and\n immediately go to the Transfer Hub with the respective player.<\/li>
Redesigned Team Management layout to allow for easier player attribute comparison. (Player attribute values shown below are just an example and subject to change)<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Added an option to disable International Management job offers at the start of a new career.<\/li>
Increased\n the initial Composure attribute values for generated youth players and \nredistributed weights for player growth between physical, mental and \nskill attributes to allow for more physical growth.<\/li>
Improved distribution of ethnicity within a country when generating youth players.<\/li>
Significantly increased the initial amounts for wage budget allocation.<\/li>
Increased the player value of defensive players based on the latest transfer market activity.<\/li>
Fixed\n multiple issues with leagues that split into play-offs after the end of\n the regular season. League objectives are now correctly tracking the \nplay-off instead of the regular season standings. Champions celebrations\n are triggered at the end of the play-offs.<\/li>
Improved the \nalgorithm used by AI teams to determine their starting XI. Moving \nforward you should see far fewer instances in which the opponent isn\u2019t \nusing their prime starting XI in important matches.<\/li>
Re-adjusted \nthe number of saves to 8, inside Career Mode, to address the feedback \nreceived from our players during the \u201919 cycle.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Competition Changes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fixed\n multiple fixture congestion issues. The winter break roll out this \nseason as well as the removal of the FA Cup 5th Round Replay have \nimproved fixture congestion issues in English leagues. We\u2019ve slightly \naltered the authentic schedule of the English Championship by pushing \nits completion to a later date. This ensures that schedule conflict \nsituations between Championship rounds and European football nights \naren\u2019t possible. A lot of the congestion issues reported by the \ncommunity were happening with mid-week league rounds happening at the \nsame time as European football, which, although unlikely in the real \nworld, is a common occurrence in Career Mode.<\/li>
Added the new format and schedule of the Spanish Supercup.<\/li>
Added\n support to round down the points in leagues that split into play-offs \nand halve the points such as the Austrian Bundesliga.<\/li>
Updated usage of the 4th substitute in extra time to all competitions that support this new law of the game.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
To wrap this up, we want to thank all Career Mode players out there for the millions of seasons played and for the invaluable feedback they provided. It is amazing to see so much passion towards football, FIFA and Career Mode year after year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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