These are things and info I gathered when going for the Spirit of 65′ achievement which might be useful for other people doing this achievement, which is very hard and exhausting to obtain due to the unfair AI, length of the cup, RNG, etc.
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Spirit of 65′ Achievement Guide
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Notes
Note it is absolutely possible to do this without ‘cheating’ but it can be super annoying and boring. You can get bad RNG and the AI can become literally football god and you’ll go down 5 positions or the luck can be on your side and you’ll go up 7 positions.
- Avg time for completion: 15h.
- Avg time for completion (cheated): 5h.
Before Starting the Story
Before starting the story the game presents you with three option sliders. Put all of them into minimum so it goes as fast as possible. Then choose your customizations and confirm.
Leveling Up
The first matches were normally pretty easy for me so I’d recommend getting a lot of money here for upgrading your team. After the first win you can learn Passing or Tackle Possession and it helps a lot to chain moves for the big money.
Leveling up is very expensive so every penny matters. A loss is fine if you get, like, $1,000 but it’s good to always go for the win.
Don’t worry too much about which skill to choose since you learn them all after 5 wins.
Skills to Level Up
I tried balanced at the start but you need to be swimming in money to do it and most likely will get you stuck, so after looking at another guide I started focusing mainly on aggressive skills:
- Ball Skills – for more strength, accuracy and aftershoot when doing Big Shots.
- Staminae – for being the first to get the ball when a round starts.
- Teamplay – so my team doesn’t jumble up with the enemy.
You might have different tastes so don’t take this as granted.
Staminae is expensive but gives a huge boost. Only upgrade Staminae if you’re struggling to reach the ball at the start or during the game.
Ball Skills is mainly so I can do a better big shot at the start and thus get 3 free goals more often. With high ball skills you can get pretty consistent aces and have a big difference (like 10 – 2 at 40:00) over the other team. This way you can have some passing/tackling fun to try getting some money.
Balance between buying Ball Skills and Teamplay.
Tips
First, you can view the formation of every team before a match. I never used this so I can’t say anything about it, but it could be useful.
The mechanics are pretty much just like a normal soccer game. In general:
- Do not let the enemy get the ball under any circumstance.
- If the enemy is ready to do a goal and you’re near another enemy player, you can do a strategic penalty (tackle a no-baller) to avoid getting 1 or 2 or 3 goals. They’re still gonna have the ball but at least you’ll have another chance at it.
- Go for 2 or 3 goals at once. Do a big shot from behind the middle line if you want to risk it or go a little further for 2 safe goals. Also go for the 3 goals at the start of rounds if you can.
- Big Shot is better than Passing most of the time. Passing is a guarantee that the enemy will get the ball and we don’t want that. Only pass if it’s absolutely safe, otherwise do a small big shot in that direction, and your teammate will catch the ball.
Being good, coupled with good set of skills, will get you pretty good win rates. But always be aware the RNG can send you 7 positions down.
Manipulating Time to Always Win (Cheating)
If you can’t take it anymore there’s an easy way of doing this achievement which will guarantee 100% win rate throughout the entire cup. Making the achievement pretty easy and making your experience much better as well.
After entering a match, If you pause and leave the game it won’t get saved, so you can just join again and restart the same match without any drawbacks and hopefully with a better RNG. You can repeat this forever until the RNG works in your favor and you get many goals for a win.
Though if the RNG works in your favor through the cup you might not need this, or if you have a lot of patience. I only needed to use it 2 times since i was already at League Two or Three and just wanted to end it.
It’s still good to try leveling up your skills. But with this strat you can probably just brute force it since it’s impossible to lose.
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