PES 2014 Option Final Plans & Schedule

Hi guys, today I will outline my plans for my PES 2014 OF. The game is released next week in Europe, is normally released in Australia the same week, this would mean the 19th. Both major game retailers have until recently had the Australian release date as the 26th and in the last few days have changed it to 3rd October. I never believe them when it comes to PES though as this kind of thing happens every year here, a few years ago they had the release date as early November when in fact it was released in early October. If however it is released later here, I will try to get it from the Playstation Store instead so I don't have too much catching up to do.

Now a little bit of bad news, I going away from 28th September until 5/6th October (poor planning I know) so won't get any editing done during that time, the good news is that I have the week before that off as well so providing I get the game next week I will be able to dedicate all my time in that week to editing.

My plan is to get at least the unlicensed stuff like League names/emblems, Team names/kits/emblems and the NT player names fixed within 2 to 3 days of getting the game so I can release v1.0, I will then start on creating the extra teams so everyone can start on ML/BAL. I will leave appearances until after that as Konami will be adding lots of new ones with DLC.

This year there will be no schedule for updates, I will just release them as and when I feel there is enough new content to justify it or after any DLC that messes the OF up. I will aim for at least one update a month though, and obviously they will be more regular at the start as I'm adding all the new things in.

The four editable leagues will be used for the following...

• Europe - Bundesliga
• South America - Liga MX
• Asia - Indonesian Super League
• Div 2 - Sky BET Championship

These were all pretty easy to pick except for Asia, personally I would prefer to add the J-League or even the A-League, but there are so many fans of my OF in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam that I knew I would have to add one of them. Indonesia was chosen as outside of the UK that is where the majority of people who visit my blog or download my OF are.

Now just as a small thing I want to point out after comments about the extra NT's I added for 2013, the Indonesian League is a weak league so the players will have pretty poor stats, also the appearances will probably all just be the correct skin color and hairstyle. If any Indonesians are not happy with that then I will make the J-League or A-League instead.

Now as none of the three leagues are 20 teams there will be a few teams left over that should go into the other teams sections for each region. There will be 5 from Europe (as 3 Bundesliga teams are already in the game) which will be used to create the four missing CL teams Austria Wien, Basel, Steaua Bucuresti and Viktoria Plzen. The fifth team will be Dinamo Zagreb.

There will be a least 2 from South America, possibly more if the in game teams from the Libertadores mode can be moved into the league, I haven't decided what teams to use these for yet, but they will be South American teams not already in the game.

There will be 4 from Asia, they will be used to make 2 A-League teams, 1 Malaysian team and 1 Vietnamese team that are not already in the game.

I will again update player appearances, but as I said earlier I probably won't do any until I have got all these extra teams created, but rest assured plenty will get done throughout the year.

This has turned into a much longer post than I thought it would, but finally at this stage it is unknown if there will be a converter that enables the use of PC editing tools although I expect there will be, it just may not happen for a few months. This means that I can't say what hidden extra things that may be in the game I will be able to edit and it also means that there may be no way to convert my OF to BLUS or Xbox. As soon as I have any news on this I will let you all know.

Have a great weekend, Paul