Settings, saves & replays

General options

Transfer-offer settings

Transfer offers for human players determines whether footballers attached to human career profiles are included in the clubs’ normal recruitment activity. When disabled, other clubs do not generate transfer proposals for those footballers.

Transfer offers for computer-controlled players governs the wider market activity among the rest of the player population. With it enabled, clubs scout, buy, sell and renew around their needs, allowing squads to evolve beyond youth promotion alone.

The advanced Offers for human players level changes how frequently clubs explore moves for human footballers. It does not guarantee a suitable offer: performance, club fit, affordability, nationality and expected role still determine whether interest becomes a proposal.

Real-world weather updates

Update METAR weather data before every match lets the game refresh current aviation weather observations when an internet connection is available. Those observations are interpreted as stadium weather, allowing wind, rain, cloud and more dramatic conditions to follow a real location.

When the option is off, matches still receive varied football conditions from the game world. The difference is whether the match draws inspiration from a live observation or from the career’s own weather. Wind and surface conditions affect both teams and can change the practical flight and control of the ball.

Live data connects the fixture conditions to an outside observation. With the option disabled, the career supplies the conditions itself.

Advanced match options

Realistic restores the reference balance. The other controls show whether an element has been increased or reduced from that reference.

Match duration

Sets the real time played in each half, from a compact match to a complete 45-minute half. Longer matches naturally create more possessions, chances, fatigue and statistical events.

Player speed in possession

Changes how quickly footballers can carry the ball. Increasing it makes it easier for attacks to cover space and tends to create more chances and goals.

Influence of speed and stamina

Changes how strongly differences in those attributes separate players and teams. A lower influence produces a more even physical contest.

Shot power

Changes the overall force available to strikes. Reducing it produces slower shots and lowers the general scoring pressure.

Goalie boost

Raises goalkeepers’ effective handling and aerial reach, producing more secure interventions and generally fewer goals.

Reflexes boost

Makes players react more quickly to developing events. Goalkeepers benefit too, but outfield anticipation and loose-ball contests also become sharper.

Offers for human players

Raises or lowers how often clubs investigate transfer approaches for human-controlled footballers.

Friendly-match rules

When setting up a friendly, choose whether a draw should continue into Extra time. Golden goal ends that additional period when the next goal is scored. Penalty if level sends the match to a shoot-out if the teams remain tied after the selected playing time.

Turn all three off for a conventional friendly that may finish as a draw. Enable extra time and penalties for a cup-like decision. Golden goal changes the character of the extra period, because one attack can end the entire match.

These choices apply to the friendly you are creating. Career cups use the rules defined by their own competition.

Saving and loading a career

Choose Save game from the main menu while a career is active. Select the saves location, enter a clear filename and choose Create or Save. If the name already exists, the game asks before overwriting it.

Choose Load game, select the save and continue. The file preserves the career world: human profiles, clubs, squads, youth players, attributes, contracts, finances, tables, fixtures, cup states, messages, statistics, history and current date.

Saves can use different filenames, allowing several career states to be kept separately. Compression can be enabled or disabled without changing what the career remembers.

Instant and saved replays

During a live match, press R to replay the recent action. Press S to toggle slow motion. Press R again or Esc to return to the match.

While the replay is active, press Enter or numeric keypad Enter to save it. A message confirms the replay name. The live result is unaffected; the replay is a record of what has already happened.

From the main menu, choose View replays, select the saved item and load it. Replays belong to the match presentation rather than a career, so they can be enjoyed later without loading the original save first.

Capturing a match screenshot

Press F12 during the two-dimensional match view to capture the current scene. Use it for a goal celebration, a dramatic save, a favourite stadium condition or the final score display.

A screenshot preserves one image; a saved replay preserves the movement around the event. For a goal you want to study and share as a sequence, save the replay. For a single visual memory, use the screenshot.

Common player questions