FIFA 13 scouting guide – update


After a bit of testing I realised there was actually a way to reload your scouting reports. Now, I’m not necessarily recommending you do this – there’s not really any need, seeing as the scouting system is so much better this year. However, I’m putting this information up in case anyone wanted to try it.

Basically what I found is that it seems that the scouting reports are fixed during the last game before your scout reports back to you. So for me my scout reports on the 10th of the month. Let’s say I have a game on the 8th. If my save point is the 6th of the month I can advance up to the 8th, sim the game and then advance to the 10th. If I reload back to the 6th and advance through to the 10th the report will (probably; see below) be different. However, if I save on the 9th (i.e. after the game) and then advance, the report will always be the same.

However, there’s another twist. When you reload you don’t get totally random players each time. There seem to be around 5 or 6 ‘sets’ of players each month, and every time you reload one of these sets will come up. So you could reload, get Set 1, then after a few more reloads get Set 1 again. They don’t rotate in order, the set that’s picked is random every reload, so you could get the same set twice in a row, then a different one. Once you’ve worked out which is the best set you can just reload until it comes up (if you so desire). Then in the next month the sets will be full of fresh batches of players.

So basically you can reload if you want to, but it’s not as simple as it was in FIFA 12.

The scouting guide has now been amended.