Default is yours
A member of PESfan called Ziggy Bashmore (great name) has created a superb guide to starting out on Master League with the Default squad in PES2008. The site referees have already made the thread a sticky in the Hints and Tips section (membership required to view), and rightly so.
View the guide (hosted at Imageshack)
What I love about the guide is that it is expressly aimed at experienced PES players who might be struggling this year with Master League. There’s no babywalking the reader through ‘what button to press to shoot’ and the like. It’s straight down to business.
The mini players’ biographies are intriguing, if only to see what another Master League player makes of the Default stiffs. It turns out that Ziggy has much the same low opinion of Ximelez as I do.
Of particular interest to me is the section on form arrows and the exact effects that they have on your players. Very interesting indeed… Ziggy also recommends taking advantage of the Regulate Condition feature, something I haven’t used for two PESes now. I might reconsider.
As with any guide to any game, there are areas where you will disagree. And you might not even want to look at any guide at all. Making your own mistakes in a game and gradually discovering its secrets for yourself can be most of the fun. Having said that, if this guide had been available two weeks ago, I’d have read it. Twice. An hour.
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Have yet to read the guide but I’m not too proud to say that I’ll definatly be doing so at some point, because frankly I need it lol.
Thanks much + for bringing it to my attention (barely use pesfan anymore due to the ’server busy’ garbage’)