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[Dylan]

Below, Sports Interactive have detailed some of the key new features in FM 2023

The headline features for Football Manager 2023 have been revealed including changes to Recruitment and the Match Engine, new Supporter Confidence and Dynamic Manager Timeline features, and the arrival of the UEFA Club Competitions licence.

RECRUITMENT REVAMP

To better understand the evolution of the recruitment process, we have had extensive conversations with leading Directors of Football, Data Analysts, Scouts and Managers over the last few years. All of those discussions have helped guide our changes to recruitment for FM 2023, and they fall into four categories: Squad Planner and Experience Matrix, Scouting, Agents and Recruitment Meetings.

MATCH AI AND ANIMATION

One of the main focuses of our Match team was to overhaul the logic powering our AI managers, making them more intelligent than ever before. There have also been a significant number of updates to our Player Decision and Match Engine AI across the pitch, while improvements to our animation engine and changes to Team Instructions ensure FM23 is as close to real life as possible.

OFFICIAL UEFA CLUB COMPETITIONS

This is more than just a standard licence. For the first time in Football Manager history, we are able to include fully licensed UEFA Club Competitions, making those Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights feel even more special. When approaching all of the upgrades, enhancements and functionality related to UEFA's licensed assets, our team aimed to recreate the UEFA look and feel, and the excitement generated by those big competitions.

SUPPORTER CONFIDENCE

We wanted to amplify the importance of fans in the game. By introducing Supporter Profiles, we are able to provide a snapshot of your club's fanbase. Elsewhere, the newly-included Supporter Confidence will sit alongside your Board Confidence, and will reflect the current mood among the fans. This will help to keep tabs on the supporters' opinion of you, and whether you're the right person for the job.

DYNAMIC MANAGER TIMELINE

Whether you've taken a team from the lower leagues to cup glory over many seasons, or you've just fought off relegation in your first campaign, we know just how important your Football Manager save is. For FM23, we've continued that theme by introducing the Dynamic Manager Timeline – a new way of showcasing and tracking the achievements and milestones of your career.

 

[Son Of Jack]

The Match Engine animation improvements look pretty nice. Like what I've seen.

Does anyone know when the beta is available?

 

[Tom]

The Match Engine animation improvements look pretty nice. Like what I've seen.

Does anyone know when the beta is available?

Usually two weeks before the game is released.

I'd love to see the beta available this weekend but more realistically it will be sometime next week.

 

[Franco Pinion]

The Match Engine animation improvements look pretty nice. Like what I've seen.

Does anyone know when the beta is available?

Just had an email from SI Games. Beta is available now.

 

[Dylan]

Will give the beta some game time this weekend.

Looking forward to seeing the changes this year.

 

[Crabtree]

Looks like there's a pretty big bug where the player's technicals don't develop at the same rate as their mentals and physicals.

No technical player development

Players DO NOT develop technically!! Huge game breaking bug here. I attach some screenshots of the development of Endrick, one of the biggest wonderkids in the game, from 2022 to 2032 to prove my point. Look at his stats. Technicals increased by max 1-2 points while mentals such as Composure, Dec...

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Also, does anyone else always get pretty good youth intake in their first save while in the beta? Can anyone confirm if that's something coded in to "treat" their player base because they pre-ordered the game? Just had my youth intake and I have 1 player with 188PA and two players with 163PA and a couple others with above 150PA. Even in FM22 I had something similar where I had 2 players above 170PA and a bunch of others above 150PA.

 

[Boot Cleaner]

Does the match engine feel at all better this year?

 

[Legion]

I see SI have released a major update.

Has the game been fixed yet?

 

[Boot Cleaner]

Game seems ridiculously easy. More so than usual.

Heading for promotion from the Championship with Sunderland, most of the players are League One class.

Maybe it's because the squad is very young and they have developed nicely, but still, shouldn't have happened.

 

[Cappuccino Kid]

If nothing else I'm learning how the new Champions League format will work.