Konamis definition of Player Support slider is here: Choose the awareness level of players positioned around the man in possession. High: Offensive. Low: Defensive. By this definition, you might set for teams like Chelsea, Barca, Man Utd and Madrid a max value of 20, while the men behind ball teams might get low single digits. At a value of 20 for player support for, say, Barca youll find the game totally unrealistic.
Thats because the description from Konami for this slider is completely incorrect. I dont know if thats translation mistake or whatever the description is wrong. This slider is all about the pace of the build up of attacks. The player support support slider has a massive role in determining how the game moves. This slider determines the pace of the game. Set at 20, you have teams running all the time at impossible speeds for all 90 minutes. Every time your team wins the possession, players will start running ahead of the ball carrier.
This means two things: (a) the game playing at an unrealistic speed and tempo all the time (b) the teams losing shape and becoming more vulnerable. The teams with low values for player support are the ones that build up their attack slowly and make the best use of the skilled players in the team. Teams with lower values for player support would be more solid and play more considered football. If your team does not have the skilful players you can have high player support values but that would mean youre vulnerable and that youre players could be very low on stamina by the 70th minute or so.
For a slow build-up team Id set a value between 0-6, and for a fast build-up team, Id set it between 7 and 10. I would not use the values beyond 10 for any teams.
In a way, this player support slider very identical to the pressure slider. The player support slider does to your players on the ball what the pressure slider does to your players off the ball. For both these sliders, ideally the scale should have stopped at 10 or 12 as the maximum. If you play with both teams pressure and player support set at 20, what youll see is a comic and fake representation one that keeps reminding you that youre playing just a videogame. It is at the lower values for pressure and player support, you get a feeling that youre playing football.
As Ive mentioned before, I play only 15 or 20 minute matches and I always play at -2 gamespeed. I strongly suggest you to play 20 minute matches at -2 gamespeed, with pressure and player support values brought down to realistic levels. Its a pity that Konami has not explained their beautiful game well enough but worry not, as always, the PES community will make up for that gap. Please do experiment these suggestions and post back your views and opinions. Cheers!
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