Re: How do I manually send players on runs?
Originally posted by yuvi2
A lot of times I find myself on offence against 2 or so defenders, but the AI controlled players next to me just don't move fast enough. Is there any way to trigger player runs?
Yes there is more than one way to do that
A) Individual
The team method
A) The way it is in FIFA, where you press the symbol of the player you want to make a run is more or less automated in PES.
You first need to set this in the Formation menu before you start the game (You also can change it during the match).
Go the this menu: Formation->individual->Attack
In this attack menu you can choose any player (his dot in the screen above will blink), now press X and you see 8 arrow-directions, from which you can choose upto 2 directions this selected player will run.
As you can imagine, you can make all players run where you want when in possesion.
But you are not ready now, because you want them to run back when you loose possesion, right? If you finish setting this attacking arrows, go back one menu and choose the defense menu:
Again you can select the players, but this time you instruct them how to defend: Choice between low, medium or high defensive attitude. This way you tell which players need to defend most or only a bit.
Now you have combined players attacking and defending attitude.
For instance when you select your sidemidfielder (LM or RM) to attack with an arrow forward (along the wing) and only a small defensive arrow (blue small arrow) then this player is most likely to make runs for you, also depending his attribute on ATTACK (see his attributes in the middle of the screen).
If his ATTACK-attribute is high (in the mid 80's or higher), he will make more and better runs than when he's only in the 60's.
Same of course for defending; the higher the DEFENSE-attribute, the better he is able to run back in right positions when lost possesion.
That was the individual part of running, now team-running...
Leave the Formation menu and go to strategy.
You now select semi-auto and here you see a list of strategies.
If you want to make runs with wingers, you select right or left side attack and if you want to let your centre back go forward, you choose CB-overlap.
There are more things to set of course but this is already a large post
I use the auto-settings most for off side and counter attack and no-strategy. The manual strategy button ( L2 ) is for zone press.
That was team setting.
If you want to make all players run forward and backward on command, just forget everything I told you and just press L2+R1 for everybody attack one level higher or L2+R2 for everybody defend one level down. There are five attack/defend levels.
Hope it helps a bit...