Clubs AI

This was one of the best most realistic games they had produced where the game was about passing and moving what football is all about. It was difficult to just abuse speed and dribbling because the AI was strong defensively. I don't know what they have done now but it's ruined, there seems to be some strange imbalance where your AI can't defend yet the opposition are excellent - perhaps they have maxed their club level and EA have nerfed the lower AI levels because this feels like being back at 80 AI or worse. 

We aren't kids so we have jobs girlfriends/wives and kids so can't hammer the game to get to top club level - our AI is 84 and a friends club just got 86 and still feels crap. It also means we can't always all get on at the same time meaning more AI players on the pitch. We come on to enjoy what was an excellent game only to feel like we are being cheated and not only that, not playing the game we bought.

It honestly feels like people at EA don't watch football at times. It's a team game and is all about passing and positioning. If it was about speed I'd be world class lol. And while we are on realism, someone needs to look at the skill system because there's very few players in the world that can do this stuff effectively. The current state of the game is FC Arcade when it felt like we had a football SIM on release - if a little buggy.