The Game

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The Game Tactical Soccer The New Season is a turn-based soccer simulation. Control all 11 players at the same time - instead of shouting at your left back to ‘get forward’ you control them and can build up an attack exactly how you want. You are the coach and have real control of the team. The gameplay is simple. When it's your turn, select a player and decide where they should move; or perhaps prepare them to head the ball. If they have the ball, you can pass, shoot or dribble. Once you've instructed your players, press ‘end turn’ and watch them carry out your orders. The computer controlled team then plays. Play continues like this until the match ends! Players have different abilities - speed, dribbling, tackling, passing, shooting, stamina etc. Use your tactical skills to maximise the strengths of your players to defeat the opposition. When defending, you have to be positionally aware and block the opposition's runs with your players. Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 1 Set-up Screens On the title screen there are four buttons... Play Just press Play, select a profile where your career as a Manager will be saved. Credits Game credits. Settings Here you can adjust how the game plays... Graphics Quality Sound Game The better the quality (Fantastic is the best) the more powerful the computer needed to run it. Screen Resolution Select the screen resolution. Fullscreen Tick the box and press Apply to run the game in fullscreen Music Volume Set the volume of the music. FX Volume Set the volume of the background ambient fx. Show Crowd Turn this off if the frame rate is very low on your computer. The crowd will not be displayed. Animate Crowd Turn this off if the frame rate is low on your computer. The crowd will no longer move. Display Tool Tips Tells you what the buttons/icons are. Show Only Low Resolution Models Switch this on if you want to improve your frame rate. Exit Select this button to exit the game and return to Windows. Manager Details Having selected a profile you will be taken to this screen. Type in your name and press START. Select Match Type The player decides on whether to play a: - single exhibition match - knockout cup tournament (16 teams) - league (16 teams) Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 2 Selecting exhibition match will allow the player to play head to head against another human player on the same machine or against a computer opponent. If it's your first ever Tactical Soccer game we suggest playing an exhibition match. Exhibition Match Options Set the type of match you want to play: - the number of human managers/players. 1 for a single player game against the AI. - edit the name of your team - edit the name of the opposition - adjust the difficulty (this affects the players abilities) - how long (in game time) each half should last - allow ability reduction - set whether you want to be able to customise your player's abilities by reducing some of their attributes and boosting others. - set whether to play a men's or women's match Press START MATCH. Team Set-up On this screen you can: - - - Spend points to improve your players abilities (Tactical Soccer has lots of stats which describe each soccer player. At the start the coach has a certain number of points to train players to meet their needs). Just click on the rating you wish to alter. LMB (left mouse button) increases the rating, RMB (right mouse button) decreases – note some ratings have a minimum level. Change the team’s formation. Alter the player’s position. Just click on the player in the list and then on the player you want them to swap positions with. Promote substitutes. Just click on the player in the list and then on one of the substitutes (12 to 18). Note: Goalies (they have a G where the shirt number usually is) can only play in Goal. Change the team’s strip. Change the player's appearance. Player Positions G - Goalie D - Defence DM - Defensive Midfielder M - Midfield AM - Attacking Midfielder A - Attacker Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 3 In addition an R indicates they are playing on the right side of the pitch, L on the left. When neither R or L appears the player is playing in the middle. Player Stats Very little happens by chance in Tactical Soccer, for instance whether the ball is controlled by the player or not is set by their rating for that skill. Here are the skills: Skill St- Stamina Sp- Speed Dr- Dribble Tk- Tackling Hd- Heading Sk- Skill PS- Pass short PM- Pass medium PL- Pass long SS- Shoot short SM- Shoot medium SL- Shoot long Used How long they can run before getting tired How fast they move without the ball How fast they can run with the ball How good at tackling they are How good at heading When a ball is passed to them this decides whether they control it Chance of doing a successful close-range pass Medium range pass Long pass Chance of scoring from short range Medium range shots Long range shots This really puts you the coach in control. You decide who plays in what position and these skill ratings will set how they play. This allows managers to create their own teams. The rating % gives an indicator as to the strength of your team. So decide on your formation, select the players, spend those points on the player's abilities and when you are ready press START MATCH. The Match - Overview Tactical Soccer follows the standard rules of soccer. The game itself is turn based and flows as follows… Coach 1: Selects players with the LMB (left mouse button) and clicks to the spot where they should run to on the pitch. RMB cancels the move. They can also get players to turn around and also to be prepared to jump to head the ball. If the player has the ball they can select where they want to pass the ball to. In addition they can set the height of the pass and the bend. The coach then hits end turn (five seconds of match time is used), and the ball gets passed and their players move. Note: the opposing goalie will Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 4 automatically react to shots on goal and players will automatically try and head the ball if it arrives to them in the air. Coach 2: Now takes over and gives the orders to their players. Coach 2 then hits end turn, and the ball gets passed and this coaches players move. Note: once again the opposing goalie will automatically react to shots on goal and players will automatically try and head the ball if it arrives to them in the air. The game continues between the two coaches until time is up. The teams will switch at half time. The game is really as simple as that to play. However you get a great deal of variety due to the skill mix of teams and their formations. Screen Layout Top Left Current match time System Menu - allows save and exit Group Selection. Select players of the same position. All players that play in the position of the currently selected player e.g. Defenders, will be selected. This allows for group movement. End Group selection. Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 5 Get players in the selected group to get in line. Useful for getting defenders back in line. Display Formation and Information/Statistics Panels. Middle - Scoreboard Arrow pointing to the right. Arrow pointing to the left. Current score plus whose turn it is. Display camera controls (top right). Hide camera controls (top right). This is useful if the screen resolution is not that high and the controls are getting in your way when issuing orders to your players. Top Right - Camera View Ball. Moves the camera to the ball - an arrow also appears to point to where the ball is. Very useful if you lose where the ball has gone! Player View. The camera moves to behind the selected player - giving you a player eye view of the match. You can use the rotate player button to improve the camera view. I use this when taking a shot at goal. I first rotate the player then switch to this view to see what's blocking the shot. Normal View. Camera returns to the default position/angle/view. View Player with the ball. The camera moves to the player with the ball. Follow Player. During the order phase the camera will move to keep the selected player in view. Watch Player. During the order phase the camera will tilt and pan (but not move) to keep the selected player in view. Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 6 Watch Ball. During the order phase the camera will tilt and pan to show the ball. Track Player. During the move phase the camera will tilt and pan to show the selected player. Track Ball. During the move phase the camera will move with the ball. Note: this is the mode I use the most. Store View. Updates the standard camera view to use the current camera view. The default view views the pitch from the right hand side of the pitch. If you want to use the other side of the pitch or a different angle just move the camera to the position you want and click this button. Bottom Left - Player Gauge. When the boot shows it is used to get the selected player to run in a curve to the target. Very useful if there's an opponent in your way. When a ball shows it is used to set the amount of swerve the passer or shooter will apply to the ball. Header. Press to set the direction the selected player will head the ball in. Press once and then LMB around the selected player to point the arrow in the direction you want. Press the Header button again to lock in that direction. Rotate player. This rotates the player. The left side of the button rotates the player in one direction - the right side the other. I use this to point the player in the direction I want to look in before pressing the Player View button. Pass. Enter pass mode. Once you've set the pass up press this button again to lock the pass in. Shoot. Enter shoot mode. Once you've set the shot up press this button again to lock the shot in. Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 7 End Turn. Once you've given orders to all the players you want to press end turn (or the space bar) and they will carry out their orders. The other coach will now have their turn. Bottom Middle Text commentary will appear. Game Controls - Mouse If you want to find out about a player... Move the mouse over the player and a panel will appear (bottom left) listing their name and skills. Press TAB to toggle whether this panel is always displayed or hides when the mouse is not over a player. If you want to select a player... To Select: Move the mouse over the player and a small yellow highlight circle will appear around their feet. Press LMB to select the player (circle now appears around them). Orders you can give a selected Player without the Ball To Move: LMB on pitch sets the move-to point (red X marker and tracer triangles appear. Yellow tracer triangles indicate the player should reach these points this turn, orange triangles indicate they will not get there this turn). To Head: Press the Header button on the right of the screen. Click the LMB around the selected player and the heading arrow will point to where the header will go. Press the Header button to confirm the heading. To Set Facing: The player will automatically face the correct direction to move - however if you want to point them in a certain direction - which helps when taking a free kick - use the rotate button on the right of the screen. The button has two sides - the left side rotates the player in one direction, the right the other. Cancel: RMB on pitch cancels the move or jump. Orders you can give to a Selected Player with the Ball Dribble: LMB on pitch sets the move to point (red X marker and tracer triangles appear. Yellow tracer triangles indicate the player should reach these points this turn, orange triangles indicate they will not get there this turn). Pass: Select the pass icon. Click on the pitch where you want the ball to travel to. A light blue X will mark where the ball will stop. Tracer triangles will appear showing the path of the ball. They will be pink if this is considered a long pass, yellow for medium and green for short. To pass the ball in the air hold the LMB down and move it up and down. The tracer triangles move to show you the flight of the ball. Release the LMB to set how high the ball will go during this pass. To swerve the ball either use the gauge on the right or the scroll wheel of Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 8 the mouse. When you have the pass lined up press the Pass icon again to lock it in. Shoot: Select the shoot icon instead of the pass icon. Shots have more power and when you click you actually set the mid-point of the ball's journey. Apart from that shooting works in the same manner as passes. Cancel: RMB on pitch cancels move or pass/shot. Note: the player has the choice of either passing or moving each turn – they cannot do both. Keyboard Controls First let us concentrate on the camera. Key A or Left arrow D or Right arrow W or Up arrow S or Down arrow F or Page Up or Home R or Page Down or End X Z Q E Camera Motion Scrolls Left Scrolls Right Scrolls Up Scrolls Down Zoom In Zoom Out Raises Look at Point Lowers Look at Point Rotate Anticlockwise around Camera Rotate Clockwise around Camera Also moving the mouse scroll wheel zooms the camera in and out if the player selected does not have the ball and is not moving. If the player selected is not moving or in the middle of having a pass, shot or header set up you can hold down the right mouse button and move the mouse to pan the camera around. Camera controls are found on the keypad (with Num lock on): Key Camera Motion 4 Scrolls Left 6 Scrolls Right 8 Scrolls Up 2 Scrolls Down + Lowers Camera Raises Camera 0 Zoom In Stop Zoom Out 3 Raises Look at Point 1 Lowers Look at Point 9 Rotate Anticlockwise around Camera 7 Rotate Clockwise around Camera Divide Rotate Anticlockwise around Selected Player Multiply Rotate Clockwise around Selected Player Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 9 In addition the following keys are useful to move around and select players: Key Enter Backspace Equals 1 to 9 0 P Y K J L N and M U Result Select next player (cycles through 1 to 11) or middle mouse button Select previous player (cycles through 1 to 11) Select the player with the ball Select player numbered 1 to 9 Select player 10 Select player 11 View Ball. Moves the camera to the ball - an arrow also appears to point to where the ball is. Player View. The camera moves to behind the selected player - giving you a player eye view of the match. You can use the rotate player button to improve the camera view. I use this when taking a shot at goal. I first rotate the player then switch to this view to see what's blocking the shot. Normal View. Camera returns to the default position. View Player with the ball. The camera moves to the player with the ball. Rotate player. Toggle crowd display. Turn off to improve frame rate. Game Controls Key SPACE B TAB G H I Result End Turn. Display Formation/Stats screens. Toggles whether the Player Information panel only shows when the mouse is over a player. Group Select. Deselect group. Group line. Save Games When you leave the main game by clicking on the system icon and then pressing main game or exit game the profile you are playing with is updated with your current progress. When you restart playing the game you continue where you left off. You also have another option - to store your current progress away. On the settings icon you now have the option Save Progress. You can then save a file (up to 30) containing the game's progress as at that point. To use this saved file when you start a game each profile now has a Load button. Select that to load in your saved game. Loading in a saved game will overwrite the Profile you selected. Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 10 General Match Rules Here are some general rules: Managers can move all of their team each turn. Managers do not have to move all their players. To tackle someone just move your player into the player with the ball. Players that are tackled/or fail in a tackle are ‘stunned’ for several turns and cannot move. Stars appear over their heads and on the player information panel (bottom left). Kick-off takes place automatically, with the ball being passed to the nearest attacker. The key rules of football have been implemented – for example only the penalty taker (and opposing goalie) can enter the penalty box, you cannot get too close to an opposing team's free-kick. To save you time several in-play formations e.g. kick-off and goal-kick are stored and when the situation arises your players will automatically move to these positions. You can change them in the Formation panel. Players generally follow the rules of the game to the letter. So for example if during a penalty you tell a player to encroach (enter the penalty box when they shouldn't) they will not move into the box. AI Goalies When it's not your turn the AI will move the Goalies. This allows them to save shots from the other player. Stamina/Energy This allows us to simulate player tiredness. Players will have to be (subject to their stamina rating) used sparingly and will not be able to run around all the time for the full 90 minutes. When their energy drops below their stamina their speed slows. Shirt Numbers During the creation of the game we found it better to keep the shirt numbers as 1 to 11 for your side and 12 to 22 for your opposition rather than allow you to have whatever number you want. For example - it was easier to remember that to quickly select player 5 you just pressed the 5 key. Formation Panel This panel can be used to also display the Stats information – just press the STATS button. Here you can change some general formations. Kick Off – how your players line-up at kick-off. Receive Kick Off – how the players line up when facing a kick-off . Receive Goal Kick – how the players line-up when facing a goal-kick. Defend Corner from the Right – how your players defend a corner. Defend Corner from the Left - how your players defend a corner. Take Corner from the Right - how your players take a corner. Take Corner from the Left - how your players take a corner. Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 11 Plus set who takes your penalties and who takes your corners. Select the player's shirt and then press the button. Note: if you are taking a free-kick an extra button SWAP TAKER will appear. You can use this to change whose taking the free-kick. You can save your custom formations and build up a library of positions. Stats Panel Lots of stats to keep you informed as to how the game is going. Scorers Panel Complete list of scorers and the time they scored. Offside Is implemented – so don’t goal hang. Note: the referee's decision is final – our ref rarely makes a mistake! Substitutions On the Formation Panel is the Subs button. Press this and you will see the subs panel. Notes: – – – – substitutions can only take place when the ball is out of play (including after a goal). each side is allowed only 3 substitutions per game. in Tactical Soccer only Goalies can replace Goalies. An S where their number normally is means that played has already been substituted and cannot return to the match. Tackles When a tackle takes place the outcome is based on.. – – – tackling rating of the person doing the tackle. the skill rating of the player with the ball. whether the tackle is “from behind” - less chance of success more chance of a foul being given. There is a chance the player with the ball might get fouled resulting in a free-kick or penalty being given. A wall will automatically form. The player being tackled might get injured resulting in their energy dropping. Match Length Matches last 90 minutes – however injury time can be added by the referee (which also covers substitutions). Knock-out Cup The rules are.. Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 12 – – – – – head to head against one of the other teams in your league you lose and you are out the cup drawn game's must be replayed you will find that each round gets harder as you face tougher opponents 4 rounds to play The League This is the real challenge - play as many 30 game seasons as you want trying to develop your team to win the league! Plus you have to deal with a Knock-out Cup competition as well. League Rules – – – – – 16 team league 30 games a season 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw Goal difference decides the position in the league for teams tied Must enter the Knock-out Cup. Player Development/Training At the end of each season player's will get older and their abilities can change. Older players can get slower and lose their touch – younger players develop. On the Team Set-up screen you can select the Training button to display the Training screen. You have five trainers that you can put to work improving an individual player's specific skill. Training notes: – A player can only work on one skill at a time. – You will find older player's have hardly any chance of improving their skills. Player Contracts On the Team Set-up screen you can select the Contracts button to display the Contracts screen. Contract notes: – Players can be signed for up to 5 seasons. – All contracts are set to end after the last game of the season, they never end mid-season. – If you let their contract run out the player will leave and be replaced with a Youth team player. – You can edit a player's name on this screen by right clicking on their name in the list of players. Player Career Stats On the Team Set-up or Contracts screen press the Stats button to see how your players have performed throughout their career. Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 13 Player Transfers The transfer window runs from the start of the new season until the first game. During this window you can replace up to two of your current squad with player's from other teams that have been listed for transfer. Note: Goalies can only be replaced by a Goalie. To access the transfer screen on the Team Set-up screen you can select the Contracts button to display the Contracts screen. Select a player that you might want to get rid of and click the Transfer button. The transfer screen will be displayed showing the players available. Select the player you want to replace your current team member. Email To help you run your team you will be sent emails. On the Team Set-up screen at the top you will be told if you have any new emails. Click the button to view them. Tactical Soccer - The New Season ©2015 Edward Grabowski Communications Limited Page 14