Frequently asked questions

• Can my Origin account be banned for using Live Editor?

  • Well, I can't guarantee anything, but if you only will use it in career then, imo. for 99% no. If you will use it online then yes, sooner or later your account will be banned (even if you use it by accident, so make sure you always turn off cheat engine and restart fifa before you enter online mode)

• Which Cheat Engine version should I use?

  • Cheat Engine 6.8.1

• Can you make a cheat for FUT/Pro Clubs?

  • No, I can't. Stop asking about that.

• Can you add X/Y/Z?

  • If you have got a request write here and maybe one day you will see it added to the table.

• Where can I report bug?

  • here

• How can I use lua scripts from "users lua scripts" folder?

  • Video showing how to use "real_manager_as_manager.lua" script
  • Activate "FIFA Database Tables" script
  • Load your CM save
  • Open Lua Engine in Cheat Engine (Memory view -> Tools -> Lua Engine)
  • In top left corner of Lua Engine Window click on File -> Open Script
  • Click on 'Execute' button to execute script and wait for 'done' message box.

• How can I make my changes in player career mode permanent?

  • To "save" the changes you need to enter "Edit Pro" after you have edited your player. As shown on this video

• Is there anyway to replace Piemonte Calcio by Juventus?

  • Not with this tool. However, it's possible to create a mod with Frosty Tool Suite which will replace kits, club badge and change team name.

• Can I buy player who “recently joined a club”?

  • Yes, you need to edit "playerjointeamdate". Value "158229" should be fine. You will find it in "FIFA Database->Database Tables->Players table->Player Info".

• Where I can find teamid/playerid/bootid etc.?

  • For teamids and playerids I use sofifa or FIFATracker
  • Head Models/Stadiums/Nationalities/Boots and a few others you can find in FIFA 20 IDs sheet
  • Some of the IDs can be also found in game database

• Can I use icons in career mode?

  • Yes, there are a few squadfiles with icons on soccer gaming forum.
  • If you want to add icons to your existing career save, guide for this is here

• Can I change player head model?

  • Changing Player Head Model

• Can I change player miniface?

  • It depends. Short answer is no, or it's too complicated for casual fifa player.

  • Now if you ask why it's possible for head models?

    • Because EA has added special field in database which alows modders to easily control it, but still we haven't got anything like that for minifaces.

  • First of all in FIFA we can distinguish three player types:

    • Real players - Messi, Ronaldo, Bale etc. etc.
    • Generated players - Players created by the game during career, so all regens, pregens and these which your YA scout brings you are generated players
    • Created players - Players created by you using the player creator which is built-in inside the game.

  • Frosty is currently the main tool for editing the game. It allows you to edit almost any game file, but you can't add new files. Which means:

    • For real players like Messi (ID: 158023) you can update his miniface, but you can't add new miniface for players which doesn't have one like Reinier (ID: 254544) for example. That's because the miniface is linked with playerid. You can find these images in frosty in path: Legacy Files -> data/ui/imgAssets/heads. For Messi you will find there his face -> p158023.dds, but you will not find Reinier -> p254544.dds
    • For generated players miniface is choosen by their skintonecode, headtypecode and haircolorcode. For example if your player skintonecode is 4, headtypecode is 502 and haircolorcode is 1 then his face will look like this (In frosty Legacy Files -> data/ui/imgAssets/youthheads/p4050201.dds). You can change upload to the game other miniface but then there is high chance that many players will have the same miniface. Editing on of the mentioned fields with Live Editor will also work, but from my experience it's hard to find the miniface which will match the headmodel in game.
    • For created players there isn't any tool which will allow you to change miniface.

• How can I edit player age?

  • Editing player age

• How can I transfer players?

  • Transfering players

• How can I change stadium?

  • Here is the tutorial

• How can I make my player captain in player career mode?

  • For your player be a captain in Virtual Pro, he has to have Trait Leadership, and he must be the only player in the team to have this Trait. Thanks to @MC KLEBINHO#0373 for figuring it out.

• Can I play single career save for more than 15 seasons?

  • Under "Manager" there is an script called "seasoncount = 1". Activate this script in your 14th season, one or two weeks before season ends and save your career. Do it only once, a do not use this earlier as it may break your career .seasoncount is one of the fields stored in 'career_users' database table. when seasoncount is >= 15 at the end of the season then your career will be over, you will get an email about your retirement and you will be not able to contiune your game. With this script you should be able to play around 15 seasons more.

• Can I set/change player commentary?

  • Yes. -> Editing player commentary

• Is it possible to change the board expectations?

  • Objectives priority can be changed through editing "teams" table with CT/RDBM. I recommend RDBM for this.

    • Youth Development objective - "youthdevelopment" field
    • Brand Exposure objective - "popularity" field (?)
    • Financial objective - "profitability" field (?)
    • Domestic success objective - "domesticprestige" field
    • Continental success objective - "internationalprestige" field

    Higher value = harder objective

• How do I change player value?

  • Player value is calculated dynamically. Which means it's not stored anywhere. To edit player value you need to edit factors that are used to calculate it. The most important factors are player attributes (which will change overall rating), age and potential.

• Can I edit transfer budget of a team managed by the computer?

  • No. Teams managed by CPU doesn't have transfer budgets in FIFA.

• What does modifier do?

  • As you probably know, game has formulas to calculate player overall basing on player attributes. modifier field that you can find in-game database table called players is responsible for modifying player overall rating without touching his attributes. Value for it can be from -5 to 5. For example, if player ovr calculated by the game is 80 and modifier value is 1 then player ovr in-game will be 81.

• How can I make player to retire/not retire?

  • Change the isretiring field.
    • In Cheat table you can find it under FIFA Database Tables -> Players Table -> Player Info
    • In GUI -> Players Editor, here:

• What does the primary and secondary attributes range do?

  • With this script you can controll base attributes of the players that your youth scout brings you. When the game is generating new player it's using these ranges to define how good player will be at the beginning of his career. Which attributes are primary and which are secondary depends on what type of players your scout is trying to find. For example for "attack minded" type, primary attributes are:

    • DRIBBLING
    • SHOT POWER
    • VISION
    • INTERCEPTIONS
    • MARKING
    • CURVE

  secondary:

  • STAMINA
  • ACCELERATION
  • BALANCE
  • SPRINT SPEED so, when you have set PRIMARY_ATTRIBUTES_RANGE = [10, 20] and now when game is generating new attack minded player with 60 dribbling it will also add a random number from range 10-20 to this 60 dribbling. So he may end up with 70-80 dribbling.

  WARNING! In FIFA 18 I've noticed that this script is reponsible for generating regens with very high ovr. In my career Ronaldo regen had ~88 ovr at 16 yo, same with Buffon and other good players.