PRO EVO MASTERS LEAGUE - GUEST POST

Sunday's is guest post day! 

Unfortunately there are no guest posts for today as no one has been brave enough to write a post.

Not to worry though, as I am sure there are a few of you that will come through and tell everyone in the PES community how you have been getting on.

The whole concept of the Guest post, is to give other players the chance of their say about PRO EVO. What are your likes and dislikes about the game? Do you have a great story to tell about your progress in your Master league, on or offline? Or do you have a group that enjoys regular meet ups to play tournaments or cups? These are just a few ideas on what you could write about.

Don't be afraid to speak your mind (just watch the language!). Pro Evolution Soccer is one of the best football simulation games on the market, and although Konami do not have all of the licences to the team kits and player names etc, you can still find decent option file updates that others in the community have kindly created and made available for free, so others can enjoy playing PES without switching to the rival game that is fully licensed.

I myself am an avid Pro Evo player, and love to participate in matches against other players. I do have gripes about the game itself, but it doesn't stop me playing! There are of course those out there that decide to cheat somehow when playing online matches. I don't know as of yet how they do it, but generally I don't see why they have the need to cheat. The whole point in playing the game is to have fun and try and win. If you have a good match and lose, but the other player is a decent individual that has not cheated and has won the match just because they have scored more goals, then I feel that is a good game. If you play your socks off and the other player somehow influences the game into letting him, or her win without putting any effort into the game, then in my eyes, that counts as a void game! There should be a way to weed out these individuals, and give the good, honest players a chance of some decent games.

Until next time peeps.......................Keep playing!

BOB

MASTER LEAGUE CAMPAIGN - BLACKBURN ROVERS

Apologies for the lateness in the post. I had decided to give my online master league a go again after a month or so out and became a bit engrossed! I won't mention anything about that area today though, but I may write a little about it in Monday's Randomness post.

Back to today now. As you will have noticed by now, Wednesday's are to become regular posts on my master league campaign with Blackburn Rovers. 

I have set the difficulty to Top Player, selected the original Blackburn Rovers lineup, and after the previously mentioned option file update, I have started the team off in the N Power Championship league.

As with the start of PES 2011's master league mode, after the initial team selection process, you are put through a quick tutorial on how to buy players within the game. My scout suggested on trying to negotiate a deal for Luis Fabiano.

I decided to give it a go and received the go ahead, depending on my financial status.

The price wasn't to bad, and well within my budget, so I approved the deal and signed him.

The Blackburn team was not too bad, but lacked the skills in certain areas, especially attack. With my new signing, I was happy with the squad and decided to save my money till the January transfer window in case I needed to bring anyone in.

Getting underway, I soon found that life in the Championship was going to be tougher than I hoped. 

It wasn't all bad though, as I like a challenge, hence the decision to play on Top player mode.

In my first 6 matches, I scored 6 and let in 4. There were 2 draws 3 wins and a loss to.......Doncaster!

Not a result I believed would ever be there in front of me! 

The FA Cup was going to be a challenge in my seventh game of the season as I faced Man Utd. After losing to Doncaster with players on red arrows, to having a team mostly on blue and purple against the likes of United, I had the feeling I was in for a thrashing.

The game finished 2-1 to Blackburn! I was 1-0 down at half time, but a surprisingly good performance from Jason Roberts brought them level in the 57th minute. N'Zonzi scored a stunner in the 74th to put Rovers ahead and win the game! My next opponent was to be Crystal Palace, currently top in the Championship.

I was down in 8th place, but could feel that something good was to happen for my team.

Is this the start of something special? I will let you know in Friday's post.

Until next time, Happy gaming PES fans!

PRO EVO MASTERS LEAGUE IS BACK FOR GOOD!

Hello once again to all of you dedicated readers, and of course a hello to any new ones who have happened to stumble across the site!

If you are a previous visitor to the Pro Evo Masters League, you will be aware that I have recently had a few problems with updating the content of my posts and the site in general due to technical difficulties. I had written a post previous to this one that explained my problems and my work in trying to rectify the problem. I did have a ray of hope when the life of my PC seemed to pick up and work better than it had ever done before.

Unfortunately, the new life in the system seemed very short lived and it decided enough was enough, before letting go for good and leaving me needing a new PC.

So with explaining all of these events to you all, I am sure you can understand why my posts have been very few and far between. 

I apologise for this leave of absence, but do hope you can take a short time out of your schedule to come and visit me once again. 

The technical difficulties have been sorted for good this time as I have now purchased a new system which is more than twice as fast as my old one. This means I will be able to load up my browser quicker and write my posts regularly as I had hoped.

So with the explanations over, I can now get on with telling you what you can expect to see in tomorrows post.

I had decided to change my whole schedule of the blog and write something new and different each day. I had also told you of my need to restart my master league (offline) and my Become a legend mode (offline) again.

My master league has been restarted to reflect the option files I installed. They allowed me to have the complete teams and kits for the N Power Championship Division, but also the correct names and kits for the Barclay's Premiership too. The bundesliga teams and kits have also been introduced which you should hear more about in another PES related post to come.

Tomorrows post will feature my progress within Become a legend mode with my Creation that is Galarath.

I did decide to restart the BAL mode, but on reflection of how he has progressed and how much work I had put into his career, I decided to keep playing and try to reach the end of his career.

You will find out how he has progressed and whether or not he has moved from AZ or stayed there.

A SNEAKY PEEK...................

On Wednesday, you will read about my new start to the master league offline mode and how Blackburn Rovers have been progressing in The championship.

Another look into what is to come will be shown within the site within the next few days.

So..........through all the bugs and glitches and problems that PES throws our way...........Happy playing!

Until next time.............Catch ya laters!

ML AND BAL RESTART PLUS NEW BLOG SCHEDULE!

Hello and welcome to the Pro Evo Masters League.

If you are a regular visitor, you will be aware of the fact that I have been using Blackburn Rovers in my offline Master League campaign. I started straight in the premiership and have currently been playing into the 2nd half of the second season.

Recently however, I have been tempted to use an option file that you can freely get hold of that contains the Championship teams, and full kits! With this in mind, my idea was to restart my Master League campaign from scratch. I would start in division 2, but start as my beloved Blackburn Rovers as before.

I am thinking of installing the kits, etc, on Saturday (22nd of January 2011). As soon as all of the correct kits, teams and the other bits and bobs within the file are installed, I will be starting the new campaign.

In addition to starting my ML from scratch, I will also be restarting my Become A Legend mode using a recently unlocked feature of the game. PES 2011 allows you (once unlocked) to play a career as a real life player. I have not checked the whole feature out yet, but I am assuming that the feature allows you to pick a current real life player within Pro Evo and play a whole footballing career as that chosen player. If this is right, I am not sure which player to start as, but all will be revealed when the first post of my new BAL is published.

MORE EXCITING NEWS! 

In other news, the blog of The Pro Evo Masters League will have many more features. 

As well as featuring posts of my BAL and ML progress, there will also be a guest post featured once a week in which a fellow PES player will get the chance to tell the PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER community of their own progress and experiences. There will also be other content on all the other days of the week which will mean visitors to the site can see new content EVERY DAY!

More news on how you, as a Pro Evo Player can be involved and what other new content I will be posting, will be explained thoroughly in another post published in the very near future.

I hope you have all been practicing and enjoying your own PES features.

Until next time....................

Peace!

THE RECENT PATCH UPDATE

I am glad that konami are trying to reflect on the mistakes they have made during this version of PES. The patches are a welcome note to anyone who plays Pro Evolution Soccer. I have yet to update my option file for this version, but I am waiting a little while until I have moved forward a bit more in my game play and the patches slow down. 

I hope for Konami's sake that they don't need too many patches for the players who moan about it to stop and we can get on with playing an enjoyable football/soccer simulator. Saying that though, the game itself definitely does need a lot changing to make it the game it should be. I for one do not like the way the camera view changes when first kicking off. It takes a few seconds before you are playing at the right angle to be able to see what is actually going on. I mean I had a game where the game kicked off and immediately I had no idea whether my players were in the right path of the ball as it was going towards them. This in turn led my players straight past the ball and unfavourably allowing the opponent to pick up the ball again and go on to score. This is definitely one which should be addressed and I know I am not the only one who believes this!

My next post will hopefully contain some info on how my PES 2011 campaign is shaping up.

Hopefully I can give you some positive news! 

For now, Adios mi Amigo's!