14 DAY TRIAL // Konami has just confirmed that its recent PES 2012 soccer simulator will be on the receiving end of a brand new update later this week, across all of its platforms, including the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
While the breakaway football simulator of the year was no doubt EA’s FIFA 12, managing to break sports game sales records, Konami’s PES 2012 also managed to impress quite a lot of its fans with its new features and systems.
Now, in order to address some of the complaints forwarded by fans, Konami, its developer and publisher, has confirmed that a new patch is coming to fix many of the issues reported by players.
These include several situations where the game just froze, but also improves the performance of goalkeepers when faced with balls from long distance shots.
"We've also added the option to search for opponents based on their pass support settings, which will replace Friendly Match or Player Match (depending on version) in Quick Match mode," European PES team leader Jon Murphy said. "The Speed Star skill card will also be adjusted to improve realism."
The patch will also address some other issues, which were highlighted below by Konami:
- Some situations where the game was hanging out or freezing have been solved. Included those on the Online, Become a Legend and Edition modes, and while selecting some Game Plan combinations. Issues with one or more players given a red card in a match, but 11 players available after loading formation - In the myPES application, we have corrected the situation where a draw result is given after win/lose on the penalties - Occasionally meaningless numbers were appearing when accessing the Community menu from the Community Card list - Formation data in the Formation settings on the Game Plan screen can only be saved from the P1 controller - Game data can be saved/loaded for both sides if you exit the Data Management menu while your opponent is saving/loading the game data and then enter the Data Management menu again on the Game Plan screen No word yet on when this patch for PES 2012 hits, but players can expect it to arrive on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this week.