Hey guys, I know you were looking forward to another FM 13 post today and I’m happy to present it to you. Today’s video blog is about the new features regarding media interaction in Football Manager 2013.
As usual, let’s see a quick recap of the new features before leaving you to watch Miles in action:
tone system is now implemented in press conferences and not only in team talks
improved media interaction in international management (example: journalists will question your squad selection)
Here’s Miles Jacobson with the details and an awesome T-shirt:
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If you missed the previous posts, here are the new FM 13 features that were announced so far:
Head of youth development – the man who will make sure that you recruit the best youngsters in your region but also manage your youth team
Chief scout – the man who will filter the various scout reports, presenting you only the most viable options for transfers. This staff member can also handle assigning your scouts to specific tasks.
separate leaderboards for each game mode (full career, FM Classic, challenges).
separate leaderboards for nations/divisions.
sophisticated scoring system that takes into account trophies, goals scored, but also the initial reputation of the club that you achieved those results with.
fully integrated with Steam, you will be able to compare your score to those of your Steam friends.
manager wages count towards the points you earn, so now there’s a point in negotiating a higher salary with your club.
much easier to set up, network games will run through the powerful Steam servers.
you have the possibility to export your team from single player mode into a network game. This way you can play against one of your friends regardless of which season your team is playing in the single player mode. For instance, I could play with Viitorul Constanta against Darren’s Scarborough or Kevin’s Toronto FC!
agree on match view settings before the actual game, which avoids having the two players having different settings.
Hopefully the press conferences will be slightly less tedious with this new system.
The major this I’m hoping, is that a few of the bizarre irritations have been fixed. Such as commenting on other matches, can upset my players, who sometimes say «I’m putting too much pressure on them» by saying another team will win. I refuse to comment on other matches now. :D Also when you have a player who has come to you wanting first team football, and you’ve played them in the last couple of matches, I’m tired of being asked if you’re going to give in to their demands. Last time, I just stormed out of the press conference.
Well, I think there were several problems with press conferences in FM 2012 and that’s why I chose to send my assistant to all of them, and that didn’t really have an impact on the results. If the press conferences in FM 2013 don’t work as they should I’ll probably do the same thing again.
You’re lucky. I sent my assistant to one, when I was too annoyed to be bothered and almost all of the players got upset at one of his comments. Can’t remember what it was, but I wasn’t impressed at all. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, me thinks.
I guess it depends on the assistant then. I had one with good attributes for motivating and man management, I figured those would help with press conferences.
I think this might solve problems I`ve created on press conferences: sometimes I think an answer will have a certain effect and it ends up completely different from what I intended… Hopefully it won`t happen again!
By the way, I bought the game with the e-mail offer, even though I know I´ll win a free copy on the giveaway. It was just too good to pass up!
Glad SI have spent more time developing the media aspect of FM, its one area I tend not to touch due to poor experiences…ie wanting a press conference to have a certain effect and it doing the complete opposite to what I’d envisaged. I’ll give it another chance in FM13 I think.
TheZiggy
26 сентября, 2012 at 16:48
Hopefully the press conferences will be slightly less tedious with this new system.
The major this I’m hoping, is that a few of the bizarre irritations have been fixed. Such as commenting on other matches, can upset my players, who sometimes say «I’m putting too much pressure on them» by saying another team will win. I refuse to comment on other matches now. :D Also when you have a player who has come to you wanting first team football, and you’ve played them in the last couple of matches, I’m tired of being asked if you’re going to give in to their demands. Last time, I just stormed out of the press conference.
Johnny Karp
26 сентября, 2012 at 19:29
Well, I think there were several problems with press conferences in FM 2012 and that’s why I chose to send my assistant to all of them, and that didn’t really have an impact on the results. If the press conferences in FM 2013 don’t work as they should I’ll probably do the same thing again.
TheZiggy
26 сентября, 2012 at 22:29
You’re lucky. I sent my assistant to one, when I was too annoyed to be bothered and almost all of the players got upset at one of his comments. Can’t remember what it was, but I wasn’t impressed at all. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, me thinks.
Johnny Karp
27 сентября, 2012 at 07:23
I guess it depends on the assistant then. I had one with good attributes for motivating and man management, I figured those would help with press conferences.
Thales De Mattos Oliveira
26 сентября, 2012 at 17:12
I think this might solve problems I`ve created on press conferences: sometimes I think an answer will have a certain effect and it ends up completely different from what I intended… Hopefully it won`t happen again!
By the way, I bought the game with the e-mail offer, even though I know I´ll win a free copy on the giveaway. It was just too good to pass up!
Johnny Karp
26 сентября, 2012 at 19:25
Haha, then you’ll have a spare copy to give away to a friend maybe :)
Darren Smith
26 сентября, 2012 at 20:37
Glad SI have spent more time developing the media aspect of FM, its one area I tend not to touch due to poor experiences…ie wanting a press conference to have a certain effect and it doing the complete opposite to what I’d envisaged. I’ll give it another chance in FM13 I think.
Paine
26 сентября, 2012 at 21:39
I’ll do what Johnny does, simply send my Ass.Man., I’m genuinely not interested about this part of the game., usually poorly implemented.
Bill Okpalor
26 сентября, 2012 at 22:13
Am Still Waiting FM 13 is going to be one of the best Football Manager Series Ever made
Jaimin Desai
28 сентября, 2012 at 07:32
Just subscribed to the newsletter, will you be sending out another mail with the £19.50 offer?
Johnny Karp
28 сентября, 2012 at 07:35
I will have to check if the offer is still available. If it is I will probably send another of those emails during the weekend.
Jaimin Desai
28 сентября, 2012 at 10:54
Cheers.