PES 2013 MLO - OCTOBER 2012

Hey guys! How are you all doing? Its been about a week since my last post, but I am starting to get back into the swing of things and get some more time to write. I haven't as of yet, been able to get myself into recording videos of my matches to any decent quality yet, but as soon as I do, I will be posting regularly and adding to my You tube channel. 

Talking about You tube, I just want to give a mention to another fellow PES player that frequently posts vids on You tube and has many ups and downs as many of you may have. Mr Markcoos, the creator of the Markcoos Mafia team in PES has played many a game of PES and continues to try and claim glory in his campaigns. The latest of which sees him try and produce a winning team in PES 2013 MLO. I have enjoyed watching and keeping up to date with his many adventures online as have many others. If you have not yet had the chance, please check out his channel which is on the left of this post above my You tube channel link and subscribe to keep up to date..

Another mention goes out to the highly successful Midnite Kid. His team on PES 2013 MLO has also seen many ups and downs, but he highly recommends a number of players in his aim to become high in the rankings. Last year saw him climb to the top 20 of MLO players for PES 2012. He is widely known as one of the favourite You tube up loaders for PES related vids and continues to bring many hints, tips and laughs to the following PES community. Once again, His channel link for You tube can be seen alongside this blog. If you have not yet subscribed, please do so and follow him as I am sure you will enjoy the vids he produces. 

Back to myself now, and time has shown to me that MLO this year has had its ups and downs. Not only for its game play, but also the damn use of the similar rating setting! I initially started on around a 340 point rating which gives you a professional attribute. Since the start as mentioned on previous posts, I  dropped majorly down to a 187 rating! It was all or nothing and I was due to throw in the towel. The team was tired (what little team I had) and the worst part was, I had no funds! 

Since this diabolical state, I managed to sell and buy a few players, build the team to a green flowing fully strengthened squad and, alas, I managed to climb to a better 250+ point rating. This has somewhat been a mad few weeks though. I ended up with a 9 games winning streak which shocked me to say the least. Then dropped loads of points again and could only manage to win 1 in 5 games to get some funds. My luck then changed and Things started to happen.

I fought to my hearts content and pulled myself back up and into a professional player slot once again. My highest was up to 396 points. From 187 points to 396 was a dream come true! 200 points in the space of a few weeks was brilliant! But that was where the dream ended! 

The similar level setting started to play against me and give me opponents on at least 200 points above my rating, plus my team strength rating! I have since managed to keep a balance of around the 350 point mark, but I just cannot seem to get anywhere past it due to the overwhelming amount of high team strength players I face along with their rating! 

I have actually thought about contacting Konami about this issue because it has happened in the past 2 editions of PES, but so far (for their sake) I have not! LOL. 

Well that is where I will leave you for today, but if you have any similar problems or comments relating to the post, please feel free to leave one. 

Thanks for reading, and I will post again soon!

BOB

PES ML ONLINE

The last few months have certainly opened up my eyes to not only PES and PES ML online, but generally online gaming. I only play 2 games online. PES and MW3. I don't feel that I am the best at either, but one thing I can say is that I play my socks off, to the best I can be at the time (tiredness and illness permitting), and also with utmost respect of any honest players out there.

I have been very pre-occupied, hence the lack of posts these last few months. With this in mind, I do hope to write more and more posts in the future. PES 2013 is very much in my mind and having not let up with playing 2012 (which I will be playing till the release of 2013), I feel my dedication to the franchise will be much better next season. 

But.......back to this seasons instalment. I have undoubtedly been through a journey of thrills and heartache. My funds have been tested, but duly noted and prioritised in order to buy better players. My skills have improved (not quite as much as some encountered players), but most of all I have actually had some fun with PES 2012. 

My current status within the ML online leagues is that of a positive one. Even with a team value (including disposable funds) of approx 115 mil, I have managed to reach a Division 1 ranking. This was an important part of my ML online campaign this season, but there is still one that leaves me let down. 

Back when 2012 was released, as with every player, I ran up a loss to win ratio of about 80 matches. Over time, I have managed to break this down to the 40-45 match gap, but still, the positive numbers elude me. 

After being stuck with a team of 70-75 mil, I had to re-think my funding strategy and tried to work with players for longer, rotating players health, but most importantly..........not renewing contracts when the form was due to drop. This meant I managed to sell players for more than I paid and also managing me to save more each match. 

I could actually manage to save for more well known players!

This is something I was not able to do in 2011. 

Players I managed to buy:

Eto'o

Villa

Pato

Aguero

......They were not all at the same time, but were in that order. Some helped my form improve, some did not do much. But I think it depends on each human player as some in-game players work better than others. Out of the list for me were Pato, Villa then Aguero. Pato was phenomenal, Villa did score a few but let me down in other areas, And Aguero was very strong and good at getting the ball but did not play as well as I had hoped. 

I still have time to play more games and unlike many other people, I am giving the 2013 demo a miss. Until the release, I will continue to play and improve my team, but this could lead to my downfall in the ranks. 

I will be writing a post on my final standings and results, and possibly a few more posts in between, but until then........

Happy gaming and good luck!

BOB

PES 2012 MASTER LEAGUE ONLINE

Oh the joys of playing this game...............but also the damn, awkward moments!

I have played PES 2012 ML online a fair bit over the last few months, but the last week has trailed off a bit. The reason for this is as follows.....

1) I did well

2) I got promoted from div 5 straight to div 1!

3) Once in div 1, I won a few games!

4) It then went downhill!

I had managed to get up to 560+ points! This was just after I had been promoted! Then I had a problem.

I had always had my option setting to 'similar level opponent'. My team was not the most expensive team, but I had used them well to get where I was. The problems I now faced, were the teams I came up against.

With being in the top flight in master league online, pretty much all the players I now faced, were full strength teams. They had a full squad, on full energy levels and on top form. In addition to this, they also had a wide selection of subs to choose from who were also ALL on top energy and form!

So the scenario was......not easy! 

I had the option of being on a 'similar level' setting with all of these full strength teams, or the other option of 'any level' player, which could also end up giving me an even higher rated opponent as my luck would undoubtedly give.

And there we have it! This is exactly how the scenario in my downfall began! I stayed on the similar level strategy, only to end up losing every game (not by much I may add), then switching to the any opponent strategy and facing higher opponents who mightily trounced me!

I now lie back in div 4, on around the 420 point mark, but I do hope to regain my composure and rise up again. I think the only option is to keep trying to gain funds, no matter what the result and try to buy some higher top class players at 20m+. All the players that caused my downfall seemed full of these (not one lower priced player in sight!), and I believe the way the games engine works, would favour me better in these situations when the team is right. Over all, the achievement gained from being such a low priced team was brilliant in its own right as I have managed to defeat quite a few 300m+ teams with my lowly 50-70m team, but to stay up there is the real issue.

Will this happen before the next instalment of the franchise? Or will I be destined to stay in the lower divisions? 

This of course is another story for another time.

Thanks for reading fellow pro-evo-ians!

Bob!

BOBS MASTER LEAGUE ONLINE

Hi all, it's Bob here again!

I have been so caught up with life, fun and PES that I have lost track with posting here in THE PRO EVO MASTERS LEAGUE blog! My apologies go out to all of you that visit, and also to those that visit regularly.

So first of all, I thought I would fill you in on some of the new things that have happened with the blog and also what will be happening from here on in.

Some of the regular visitors may have noticed that the look of the blog has changed. I have changed the layout, design and also added a new header at the top. Within the header, you will probably notice that there is also a new addition to the team as well. I have not yet formally introduced the new member of the team, so here goes.....

Please welcome "THE MIDNITE KID" ! A fellow PES enthusiast, who loves nothing better than getting stuck into a good game of PRO EVO, especially online. He plays PES on the XBOX 360 and lives in Ireland. You will be seeing more from him, so if you have any questions regarding PES on the 360, feel free to ask any questions by posting comments on his posts. I play on the PS3, so in the same regards, please direct any PS3 related PES questions to me in my posts. In general though, any questions will be answered by either of us.

We are currently working together to bring you a better blog relating to PES and hope that if you have any ideas, you can let us know. This will help improve the blog for us, but most importantly for all you Die-hard players out there.

Posting days are going to be shown once we have decided when the schedule should be, but we need your support to make this one of the best PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER  sites on the net.

Now on with the post...........

I have been currently playing around with 3 modes in PES 2012. ML online, ML offline and BAL. Obviously, I cannot play all of these at the same time, and can only make so much progress with each one, but I wanted to make sure I had a decent start before 2011 was out.

In Master league Online, I have grown my team from the lowly 15mil default, to a fairly decent 38mil force. I have not yet had much real luck with my strikers, but from the funds I could use, there have been a few that have filled the slots when on form. I have strengthened my defence as much as my funds would allow and bought better players  by selling current 'out of contract' players and using some accrued income.

Income from games has grown from 600k (loss), 800k (draw), and 1.2m (win), to 900k (loss), 1.2m (draw), and 1.8m (win). So to round up, the more expensive your team, the more money you will receive, regardless of how the game ends. I think it has been programmed like this, to allow you to TRY and keep some of your more expensive players, even on a losing streak.

Sometimes it is hard to build your team further, especially on a run of defeats and when your players are all seeking new contracts at the same time, but you can allow for this by buying new and extra players when contracts run out in these positions. Other players may have different suggestions, but this seems to have worked for me.

I have not played anywhere near the same amount of games as most players have, due to concentrating on the other modes from time to time. This has left me undeterred though and I am quite happy sitting in division 4 with my current team. I have good and bad days when my run of games leaves me happy or not, but I always manage to bounce back from a run of defeats. I try and set my matches to play against a similar level, but instead of doing this, the game seems to give me a much higher division opponent with a team worth at least 10 times the amount of my own. I believe it all comes down to the rating which can change dramatically with a win/loss streak. This is wrong and should be addressed by Konami, and I am sure going to contact them about it. The similar level should be linked with the statistical value of the team and monetary value, not with the ratings. Seeing players with a team of top class players in a division 4 cup or even div 5 is wrong, because those players may have purposely lost games so they can easily win cups and gain money.

Is any of this fair? I will let you be the judge of that, as you know I have my own thoughts.

But without sounding too defeated, I will keep trying, and keep playing. I play honestly and will try my best. I am not the best player in the world, but I always like a challenge, especially a fair one. What is the point in cheating?

Well that is all from me for today my PES friends. Keep checking back for more updates on a future posting schedule, and I look forward to your questions and comments.

BOB

MLO - THE PERFECT STARTING TEAM

What's up lads, I am hooked on MLO! I think it is an outstanding game mode, possibly one of the greatest modes in any game I have ever played. It is addictive and very rewarding when playing well and dangerously frustrating when things go against you! While there are some faults with the game, I am not going to go into in this post. That will be another day. Today’s post is about the most discussed topic on all pes forums. I see people constantly ask, how can I build a highly competitive team for the cheap? Here's my answer in detail.  

The hardest part of MLO is buying players and unearthing gems. One player can make a massive difference and can be the kick start your team needs to turn draws into wins. I am going to give my advice on building a team for newcomers and hopefully help those who are struggling to even draw games no matter how good they play. Oh ya, and the best part is the Starting 11 costs 15 Million in total!  

Team: Div 5 FC       Worth: 15 Million 

Formation: 4-3-3      Starting 11 

Name	Position	Ovr	Height	Skills	Price
Romo	GK	70	197cm	82 GK Skills	1.7 Mill
Bassangue	LB	72	186cm	70’s in dribbling & passing, 80 dribble speed, 83 Body Bal	1.5 Mill
Dzodic	LCB	73	188cm	81 Defence, 83 Header, 76 response	2 Mill
Johrfaem	RCB	66	187cm	81 Defence, 81 explosive power, 75 response	1.1 Mill
Medjani	RB	69	183cm	70’s in most needed stats, offensive fullback skill card	1.3 Mill
Meyler	DMF	70	190cm	High 70’s pass, 80 stamina, 80 body balance	1 Mill
Fahey	CMF	69	178cm	Mid to High 70’s in all needed stats. Passing, dribbling, etc.	900K
Cabalaard	AMF	69	172cm	80’s in most stats,, 80 Teamwork. 6+ skill cards.	1.3 Mill
Strurridge	LWF	69	188cm	High 80’s Speed, tall and strong. 1 touch play.	1.2 Mill
Lanzafame	RWF	69	180cm	Mid 80’s in speed + dribbling, 75 body balance. Super Sub.	800K
Barretto	CF	69	171cm	High 80’s speed + dribbling.	2 Mill

Substitutions: 

Name	Position	Price
Cristiano	CB/RB	1.8 Mill
Martinez	AMF	1.8 Mill
P.Mc Court	Anywhere	1.7 Mill
Doyle	CF	800k
Long	CF	700k
Mirralles	CF	1.2 Mill
Mouche	SS	1.7 Mill
Silva	CB	1.8 Mill

For newcomers, I advise using up the default players contracts as whatever you make (even losing) is pure profit. When the contracts are up, begin building, buy each replacement per position selling. Form plays a massive part in players. Check the players before buying or else replace with the subs I provided.  

This team can mix it with any team in Div. 5 and at a stretch, Div.4. It will work for you. Model the team on Barcelona, with DMF and CMF and AMF. Wide players pace must be exploited also. You have a safe goalkeeper, bombarding fullbacks and solid spine in the team. All the players are tall and strong or small and rocket fast. You have a good enforcer in Meyler and passer and all rounder in Fahey and the sublimely talented Cabalaard. Cabalaard is unbelieveable, just look at his stats, it’s a steal. Barretto is amazing too.  

This team can be used if you starting out your first few games or if you are struggling in Div 5/4. It is amazing who you can unearth in this game for practically nothing.

Let me know how ye get on and what ye think! 

Barry

MASTER LEAGUE ONLINE FORM ARROWS

It has been a while since I have had time to reflect on my progress with my master league online campaign, but I thought I would make sure I got at least one post in at the beginning of the week.

My team has grown from a lowly 15 milllion in value, to a 29 million force within the space of a week. This is the result of saving my match funds and rotating my players to enable to buy more players, but most importantly, better players in the positions that I need them in. I know that to a lot of players, 29 million is not much compared to their 100-200 million teams, but unlike you, I do not get as much time to play and have not notched up hundreds and hundres of matches. I do however feel pretty good about my efforts!

I have managed to fend off some div 1 teams that host a variety of top named and very expensive players, by using the "super defensive" feature. This manages to hold up some top teams but not all, and I have had to tweak a few positions and players during half time  to achieve the best results. 

I think the key to growing your team is to rotate players, save your funds, and buy new players. The players you buy in, need to be better statistically but most importantly have a red or orange arrow when you first buy them. You will be using them for a minimum of 10 matches, so the best bet is to rotate until their contract is up. If they have played well and their form arrows are still good, then renew their contracts when you need to, if not, then sell them and use funds saved to buy better players once more. This will enable your tesm value to rise and your team to get better.

Sometimes, I rotate the team so I have a few under-performing players starting the match, then sub them at half time for higher performing players. This adds to a better team game in the second half and could result in a come-back to win, or just to add to the tally of goals you have already achieved. It also helps the fatrigue levels of your players and makes sure you have longer to save funds befor the need to renew contracts.

Hopefully my results will carry on and gain me promotion to div 3 soon. I am currently in div 4 after being promoted due to a run of wins and draws. My points have gone up nearly 100 in the past week or so and have set me just under the 500 mark. 

The news may be short lived, but I hope I can tell you that I have gained promotion some time next week.

Untill the next time folks..........keep on scoring!

Bob