Unplayable game after the update
I barely won few games since the update. The opponent AI players have insane speed and pressure, marking all my players. I don't have enough time to react, pass and to drible. The opponent selected p...
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I have noticed there has been increased pressing and incredibly tight marking, not impossible to play against, but boring.
You cannot pass your way through, even high balls are intercepted unless you get lucky, because the pressure is immense and the opponents players just ALWAYS seem to get to the ball first.
I look at the map and everyone is tightly marked so I try to trigger runs and then pass, but thats if I don’t get tackled by the opponents player charging at me like a raging bull.
THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO HANDLE THIS:
Play boring, yes, sadly it is the ONLY way to counter this style of play. Just keep possession and pass the ball around, pass it back to your goalkeeper if you have to but just be patient and boring, soon enough the opponent will get frustrated and will have to start playing himself and will no longer be able to rely on the AI saving him. He will have to commit players to get the ball back which will create gaps.
When those gaps open you can break through the press and make sure you make it count.
I know its boring, but thats the only way.
In my opinion they're intentionally making the gameplay poor and switching the "Meta" to try and drive people towards the store. The most recent example is how they spent a good month releasing paid evos and promo cards that had trivela and trivela+ because it was an overpowered game mechanic (For me it was WAY better being overpowered than completely useless like it is now) so it drove people towards the store to try and get those cards with those playstyles....
Then they nerfed it into the ground making most of those cards unusable and they shift the gameplay towards auto pressing and bouncebacks with more and more players having 2 playstyle+ through more paid evos and promos, which in turn makes those players more overpowered in the new "Meta". So it's just a constant cycle of pushing players towards a certain type of play, releasing loads of promo cards and paid evos that suit that style of play, then changing the gameplay again to do it all over again.
Honestly, i wish people (And that includes content creators) would stop buying store packs and stop doing paid evos. They're making record profits so in their eyes (Understandably, money is the main aim of any business) they've made a good product. In reality, they've made a product so poor that people feel like they have to pay for add-ons in order to advance.
