Increasing Realism

The pack you need to start using

Increasing Realism

If you’re looking for a way to spice up your Football Manager game, you need to check out Daveincid’s Increase Realism Megapack.

Though the author does a good job of explaining precisely what it does in his writeup, I wanted to mention a few practical impacts that you might not know about.

Having used this megapack in almost all of my saves across the last 3 versions of Football Manager, here are things I’ve discovered:

• There seems to be a slight increase in young wonderkids. This is important, of course, because you want to make sure that there continue to be quality players in your Football Manager world when you’re 20 or 30 seasons in.

• Weather is more realistic. This pack incorporates ideas from earlier weather packs along with expanded research. When you play winter games in northeast China, it’s going to be around -30.

• Players are much more likely to fail at learning the local language. From what I can tell, this is the only discernible impact that the language system in Football Manager has on the game itself.

• There are a lot more injuries (though, of course, you don’t have to enable this if you don’t want to).

• You can no longer fleece the computer manager for wonderkids. It’s going to be a lot harder to get an incredible deal on a player with world beating potential.

• More young players will play in national teams. The modified award system really helps with this, as it gives young players a way to develop the reputation they need for the computer manager to take them seriously. This is one of the biggest flaws in the base Football Manager 2024 game.

If you haven’t tried it yet, you really need to.