i returned into a strong fifa 14 playing habit in the last few weeks. since then, i discovered a lot of things i could tweak that turned this into the most awesome football game ever for me.
this is the content of a slider building thread i made in the operationsports forums three years ago, with all my recent sliders, game settings and ini tweaks added to it now. i decided to post it here, since this seems to be the place with strongest activity of fifa 14 players on the internet at the moment.
i hope you enjoy!
this is my thread of awesomeness for fifa 14!
- realistic gameplay sliders for manual controls, built with the aid of the all-powerful o.s. community.
- career mode tweaks for a more balanced and realistic manager mode.
- spare customization for extra awesomeness!
Update 23 Feb 2017
- injury frequency changed from 79/87 to 80/85
Update 11 Nov 2016
- auto switching move assistance changed from high to low
- user injury frequency slider increased from 78 to 79
- injury severity slider increased from 56 to 57
Update 9 Nov 2016
- revamped audio settings after mixing them more carefully
GAMEPLAY SETTINGS
THESE SLIDERS ARE FOR FIFA 14 ONLY: PS3, XBOX360 AND PC VERSIONS
Game Settings
Half Length: 10 or 15 minutes
(see "custom half lenght and fatigue correction" in the "career mode tweaks" section below for my recommended middle ground on half lenght)
Difficulty Level: Legendary
Game Speed: Slow
Controller Settings
Auto Switching: Air Balls
Auto Switching Move Assistance: Low
Passing Power Assistance: Off
Pass Assistance: Manual
Through Pass Assistance: Manual
Shot Assistance: Manual
Cross Assistance: Manual
Lob Pass Assistance: Manual
Save Assistance: Semi
Analog Sprint: On
Defending: Tactical Defending
Gameplay Customization (User/CPU)
Sprint Speed - 45/45
Acceleration - 48/48
Shot Error - 54/54
Pass Error - 51/65 neutral, 49/67 home, 53/63 away
Shot Speed - 50/50
Pass Speed - 53/53
Injury Frequency - 80/85
Injury Severity - 57/57
Goalkeeper Ability - 47/47
Positioning: Marking - 50/50
Positioning: Run Frequency - 50/50
Positioning: Line Height - 50/50
Positioning: Line Length - 54/54
Positioning: Line Width - 53/53
Positioning: Fullback Positioning - 54/54
Power Bar - 42
First Touch Control Error - 50/50
Home field advantage specific tweak:
this can be used regardless of customizing the other sliders or not and work with assisted controls as well. increase 2 points in pass error for the away team and decrease 2 points in pass error for the home team. example for default sliders: 48/52 pass error home, 52/48 pass error away. this tweak has already been tested through a decent sample of games, with very realistic effects on home/away records.
this slider set is the result of an obsessive work of hundreds of hours of testing and more than one hundred pages of discussion at the operationsports forums (thank you, community!). the goal was getting as close to realism as we could without making the game stagnant. i love football and i just tried to emulate what i see on the pitch. even side by side comparisons with real games on a second monitor were made (helps a lot with positioning sliders). of course, there's no way to make a football video game not stagnant without letting player movement be at least a bit faster than real life, but i think we reached a good middle ground here.
then after that, i tried to achieve balance in stats and performance between myself and the cpu (as far as the game would allow me to). milimetric difficulty dialing, so the game would never get old. this is what i always wanted in sports games and i'm very happy that the inclusion of sliders in fifa made this a very possible task.
so be aware that these settings are tuned to my own skill level and they might be too easy or too hard depending on how good (or not good) you are in the game.
the most effective slider for changing difficulty level is pass error (one of the reasons why i used it to adjust home advantage). if difficulty isn't good, you may wish to tweak it one way or the other, until you find a better balance. if you personalize your difficulty using pass error but still want to have home advantage in your games, just keep the offset of -2 user pass error and +2 cpu pass error when you play home and +2 user pass error and -2 cpu pass error when you play away.
OPTIONAL SETTINGS
Handballs: On
Camera: Tele Broadcast (Default) or modified Broadcast (settings on the career mode tweaks section below)
AUDIO SETTINGS:
Broadcast Version: (recommended)
emulates a tv broadcast.
Commentary - 6
Public Announcer - 6
Player Calls - 10
Sound Effects - 6
Crowd - 5
Music - 4
User Music Volume - 10
Manager Version:
feel the perspective of being in the sideline commanding your team.
Commentary - 0
Public Announcer - 6
Player Calls - 10
Sound Effects - 6
Crowd - 4
Music - 3
User Music Volume - 8
Crowd Version:
be part of the crowd. for total immersion, use the modified broadcast camera.
Commentary - 0
Public Announcer - 10
Player Calls - 6
Sound Effects - 5
Crowd - 7
Music - 5
User Music Volume - 10
increase your system volume to compensate.
GONIRA'S CAREER MODE TWEAKS FOR FIFA 14 PC VERSION:
the tweaks below require that the files playerretirement.ini and simsettings.ini are extracted into your fifa folder. their path is fifa14\game\dlc\dlc_footballcompeng\dlc\footballcompeng\data. if the files aren't there, you'll need to extract them from data1.big with jenkey's file explorer tool.
after you extract them and make the edits, you need to regenerate data1 so the game reads the edited files, or you can use fifa file loader instead. google file explorer and file loader if you're not into editing fifa.
Improving simulated results and league tables
for my heavily edited cpu simulated games logic, read this thread at soccergaming:
http://www.soccergaming.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194934
home advantage, scoring and points distribution tweaked for more realistic league results.
Custom half lenght and fatigue correction (not needed if you don't use these sliders)
- open the file cl.ini, located at the fifa14\game folder. if the file doesn't exist, create it with notepad.
- copy these values to it:
HALF_LENGTH=13
AI_SETTING_HALFLENGTH=13
this forces the half lenght to 13 minutes, the ideal half lenght for this slider set. any change to the half lenght in the settings screen will be overriden.
- now go to the game settings and change the half lenght to 10 minutes. this is a very clever trick to make fatigue work right. a reduced acceleration slider makes players get less tired. if you follow these instructions, the game will think you're playing 10 minute halves, but you'll actually be playing 13 minute halves and as a result, players will start to get tired again, close to default values.
(if you don't use my modded simsettings posted in the previous tweak, make it 12 minutes in cl.ini and 9 minutes in the game settings, to keep goal scoring balanced with the simulated games)
Player retirement age fix
fifa has some stupid retirement logic. players with good ratings and ages as low as 29 are often announcing retirement. to fix this, save these values to the "player_retirement" and "player_regen" sections of playerretirement.ini:
[PLAYER_RETIREMENT]
MIN_RETIREMENT_AGE = 32
MAX_RETIREMENT_AGE = 45
RETIREMENT_AGE_RANGE = 20
MIN_PLAYER_AGE = 15
BACK_FILL_TEAM_SIZE = 35
RETIREMENT_BATCH_SIZE = 300
MAKE_REPORTS = 0
//SKIP_TOO_GOOD = 0 // check in as 0
TARGET_YOUNG_POPULATION = 4250
MIN_GK_RETIREMENT_AGE = 36
TOP_UP_POTENTIAL_FUDGE = -8 // added to potentail of random teammate when creating a new player during the top up population step
[PLAYER_REGEN]
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_16 = 88
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_17 = 330
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_18 = 698
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_19 = 946
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_20 = 1045
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_21 = 1130
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_29 = 1100
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_30 = 900
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_31 = 700
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_32 = 600
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_33 = 430
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_34 = 285
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_35 = 140
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_36 = 70
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_37 = 30
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_38 = 20
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_39 = 15
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_40 = 10
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_41 = 5
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_42 = 0
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_43 = 0
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_44 = 0
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_45 = 0
Modded broadcast camera
this is for those that, like me, like the idea of using a fixed camera, but can't deal with the angle of the default broadcast camera. it gives kind of a zoomed in vision of a person sitting on the upper stands.
screenshots:
http://i.imgur.com/5DD6v6Q.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ISi0TdN.jpg
save these lines into cl.ini, at the "fifa14\game" folder:
CAMERA_ZOOM_MODIFIER_BROADCAST=0.020
CAMERA_HEIGHT_MODIFIER_BROADCAST=200
then go to the game settings and select broadcast camera, height 11, zoom 9.
Update: as in January 2017, I'm not using this camera anymore, because i find the tilt to make the game too hard to deal with manual controls, but I'm keeping it on the thread for those who like it.
--- all these settings can be applied to ongoing careers with immediate effects ---
this is the content of a slider building thread i made in the operationsports forums three years ago, with all my recent sliders, game settings and ini tweaks added to it now. i decided to post it here, since this seems to be the place with strongest activity of fifa 14 players on the internet at the moment.
i hope you enjoy!
this is my thread of awesomeness for fifa 14!
- realistic gameplay sliders for manual controls, built with the aid of the all-powerful o.s. community.
- career mode tweaks for a more balanced and realistic manager mode.
- spare customization for extra awesomeness!
Update 23 Feb 2017
- injury frequency changed from 79/87 to 80/85
Update 11 Nov 2016
- auto switching move assistance changed from high to low
- user injury frequency slider increased from 78 to 79
- injury severity slider increased from 56 to 57
Update 9 Nov 2016
- revamped audio settings after mixing them more carefully
GAMEPLAY SETTINGS
THESE SLIDERS ARE FOR FIFA 14 ONLY: PS3, XBOX360 AND PC VERSIONS
Game Settings
Half Length: 10 or 15 minutes
(see "custom half lenght and fatigue correction" in the "career mode tweaks" section below for my recommended middle ground on half lenght)
Difficulty Level: Legendary
Game Speed: Slow
Controller Settings
Auto Switching: Air Balls
Auto Switching Move Assistance: Low
Passing Power Assistance: Off
Pass Assistance: Manual
Through Pass Assistance: Manual
Shot Assistance: Manual
Cross Assistance: Manual
Lob Pass Assistance: Manual
Save Assistance: Semi
Analog Sprint: On
Defending: Tactical Defending
Gameplay Customization (User/CPU)
Sprint Speed - 45/45
Acceleration - 48/48
Shot Error - 54/54
Pass Error - 51/65 neutral, 49/67 home, 53/63 away
Shot Speed - 50/50
Pass Speed - 53/53
Injury Frequency - 80/85
Injury Severity - 57/57
Goalkeeper Ability - 47/47
Positioning: Marking - 50/50
Positioning: Run Frequency - 50/50
Positioning: Line Height - 50/50
Positioning: Line Length - 54/54
Positioning: Line Width - 53/53
Positioning: Fullback Positioning - 54/54
Power Bar - 42
First Touch Control Error - 50/50
Home field advantage specific tweak:
this can be used regardless of customizing the other sliders or not and work with assisted controls as well. increase 2 points in pass error for the away team and decrease 2 points in pass error for the home team. example for default sliders: 48/52 pass error home, 52/48 pass error away. this tweak has already been tested through a decent sample of games, with very realistic effects on home/away records.
this slider set is the result of an obsessive work of hundreds of hours of testing and more than one hundred pages of discussion at the operationsports forums (thank you, community!). the goal was getting as close to realism as we could without making the game stagnant. i love football and i just tried to emulate what i see on the pitch. even side by side comparisons with real games on a second monitor were made (helps a lot with positioning sliders). of course, there's no way to make a football video game not stagnant without letting player movement be at least a bit faster than real life, but i think we reached a good middle ground here.
then after that, i tried to achieve balance in stats and performance between myself and the cpu (as far as the game would allow me to). milimetric difficulty dialing, so the game would never get old. this is what i always wanted in sports games and i'm very happy that the inclusion of sliders in fifa made this a very possible task.
so be aware that these settings are tuned to my own skill level and they might be too easy or too hard depending on how good (or not good) you are in the game.
the most effective slider for changing difficulty level is pass error (one of the reasons why i used it to adjust home advantage). if difficulty isn't good, you may wish to tweak it one way or the other, until you find a better balance. if you personalize your difficulty using pass error but still want to have home advantage in your games, just keep the offset of -2 user pass error and +2 cpu pass error when you play home and +2 user pass error and -2 cpu pass error when you play away.
OPTIONAL SETTINGS
Handballs: On
Camera: Tele Broadcast (Default) or modified Broadcast (settings on the career mode tweaks section below)
AUDIO SETTINGS:
Broadcast Version: (recommended)
emulates a tv broadcast.
Commentary - 6
Public Announcer - 6
Player Calls - 10
Sound Effects - 6
Crowd - 5
Music - 4
User Music Volume - 10
Manager Version:
feel the perspective of being in the sideline commanding your team.
Commentary - 0
Public Announcer - 6
Player Calls - 10
Sound Effects - 6
Crowd - 4
Music - 3
User Music Volume - 8
Crowd Version:
be part of the crowd. for total immersion, use the modified broadcast camera.
Commentary - 0
Public Announcer - 10
Player Calls - 6
Sound Effects - 5
Crowd - 7
Music - 5
User Music Volume - 10
increase your system volume to compensate.
GONIRA'S CAREER MODE TWEAKS FOR FIFA 14 PC VERSION:
the tweaks below require that the files playerretirement.ini and simsettings.ini are extracted into your fifa folder. their path is fifa14\game\dlc\dlc_footballcompeng\dlc\footballcompeng\data. if the files aren't there, you'll need to extract them from data1.big with jenkey's file explorer tool.
after you extract them and make the edits, you need to regenerate data1 so the game reads the edited files, or you can use fifa file loader instead. google file explorer and file loader if you're not into editing fifa.
Improving simulated results and league tables
for my heavily edited cpu simulated games logic, read this thread at soccergaming:
http://www.soccergaming.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194934
home advantage, scoring and points distribution tweaked for more realistic league results.
Custom half lenght and fatigue correction (not needed if you don't use these sliders)
- open the file cl.ini, located at the fifa14\game folder. if the file doesn't exist, create it with notepad.
- copy these values to it:
HALF_LENGTH=13
AI_SETTING_HALFLENGTH=13
this forces the half lenght to 13 minutes, the ideal half lenght for this slider set. any change to the half lenght in the settings screen will be overriden.
- now go to the game settings and change the half lenght to 10 minutes. this is a very clever trick to make fatigue work right. a reduced acceleration slider makes players get less tired. if you follow these instructions, the game will think you're playing 10 minute halves, but you'll actually be playing 13 minute halves and as a result, players will start to get tired again, close to default values.
(if you don't use my modded simsettings posted in the previous tweak, make it 12 minutes in cl.ini and 9 minutes in the game settings, to keep goal scoring balanced with the simulated games)
Player retirement age fix
fifa has some stupid retirement logic. players with good ratings and ages as low as 29 are often announcing retirement. to fix this, save these values to the "player_retirement" and "player_regen" sections of playerretirement.ini:
[PLAYER_RETIREMENT]
MIN_RETIREMENT_AGE = 32
MAX_RETIREMENT_AGE = 45
RETIREMENT_AGE_RANGE = 20
MIN_PLAYER_AGE = 15
BACK_FILL_TEAM_SIZE = 35
RETIREMENT_BATCH_SIZE = 300
MAKE_REPORTS = 0
//SKIP_TOO_GOOD = 0 // check in as 0
TARGET_YOUNG_POPULATION = 4250
MIN_GK_RETIREMENT_AGE = 36
TOP_UP_POTENTIAL_FUDGE = -8 // added to potentail of random teammate when creating a new player during the top up population step
[PLAYER_REGEN]
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_16 = 88
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_17 = 330
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_18 = 698
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_19 = 946
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_20 = 1045
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_21 = 1130
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_29 = 1100
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_30 = 900
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_31 = 700
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_32 = 600
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_33 = 430
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_34 = 285
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_35 = 140
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_36 = 70
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_37 = 30
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_38 = 20
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_39 = 15
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_40 = 10
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_41 = 5
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_42 = 0
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_43 = 0
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_44 = 0
TARGET_AGE_COUNT_45 = 0
Modded broadcast camera
this is for those that, like me, like the idea of using a fixed camera, but can't deal with the angle of the default broadcast camera. it gives kind of a zoomed in vision of a person sitting on the upper stands.
screenshots:
http://i.imgur.com/5DD6v6Q.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ISi0TdN.jpg
save these lines into cl.ini, at the "fifa14\game" folder:
CAMERA_ZOOM_MODIFIER_BROADCAST=0.020
CAMERA_HEIGHT_MODIFIER_BROADCAST=200
then go to the game settings and select broadcast camera, height 11, zoom 9.
Update: as in January 2017, I'm not using this camera anymore, because i find the tilt to make the game too hard to deal with manual controls, but I'm keeping it on the thread for those who like it.
--- all these settings can be applied to ongoing careers with immediate effects ---
