Dreadful gameplay
What the actual **bleep** is going on with my gameplay? This game is useless.
My gameplay right now is outright pathetic. It's painful to play. This horrid, embarrassing gameplay causes so much anger that I want to break whatever is in my vicinity. I'm constantly wondering how this game could degrade more and more each day?
The entire game began to fall apart from the release. The series of worthless patches did nothing but break the game. The one update that was supposed to fix some issues just vanished like a ghost a week after its grand introduction.
Everyone knows this game is awful. The gameplay is nonexistent. Online modes are overflowing with cheaters. The contents and rewards are shallow. What's worse is that I can't expect anything better from EA. I simply have no expectations whatsoever that this horrendous company would actually do their work.
I get it. People already paid for the game. People are still buying packs. Once you get your money, you don't care about anything else. But, jeez, there's a limit to irresponsibility.
I don't know how everyone else's average gameplay is like. Many people have and are expressing their frustration over the inconsistent gameplay. But not for me.
Ever since that glorified gameplay fix update, my gameplay has been consistently dreadful. It's literally torturing me.
My gameplay is SLOW. I'm not talking about a second or so of input delay. The game itself is **bleep**ing slow. There's no speed or weight at all. I don't even know how precisely I can describe what I'm experiencing because it doesn't make any sense.
When my players sprint, they move as if someone's holding them from behind. There's no thrust from the acceleration. There's no build-up of pace or rapidness of long sprint from the players with high pace.
They all jog for 2 seconds, then jog a little faster than that, and that's their best sprinting. It almost feels like this **bleep** game has put a cap on all of my players as if all of my players max acceleration barely scratch 50 and sprint speed at 70 altogether. It's atrocious.
Meanwhile, my opponents (both AI and human) instantly reach their max stats in a millisecond regardless of anything. My defenders, even with better pace, huff and puff chasing after dribbling opponents. No matter how close or fast my players are, they almost always go behind the opponents and run after their tails.
My players react and move excruciatingly heavy. As if they weigh twice, or only my players are punished by 200% of Earth's gravity. They turn so slow and sluggishly, almost feels like the minimum angle of their change of direction is 90 degrees. Meanwhile, my opponents make fine, super-rapid, instant movements with the precision of 1 degree.
Whenever my attackers get close to the opponent's box, their defenders suddenly boost to instantly get behind to my players, or even worse, casually jog past me and gracefully put themselves between the ball and my players. I'm talking about the actual physical boost here, like this game is programmed to have the opponent to be always three steps behind me. But when I'm dribbling towards the box, my players sometimes slow down, so that they can be caught up. What is this nonsense?
I guess I don't have to talk about delay of passing, shooting, or anything else. Extra second to execute my command. Extra -- unnecessary and heavy -- touches when receiving the ball. My players skid 50 yards when stopping or changing directions. With a simple flick, my players just zoom here and there, all the while my opponents make an instant stop and directional change every time.
Then, when it comes to the physical stats, my players suddenly transform into hollow mannequins. Their proud heaviness disappears and my players are being tossed all over the pitch in lightspeed. This is bull**bleep**.
Guess what happens when I'm trying to tackle.
I'm tackling from behind -- my player makes a full stop and extends his leg either left or right, long past the opponents are gone.
I'm tackling from the side -- my player makes a full stop and extends his leg for a full second to stomp an empty spot where my opponents were.
I'm facing my opponents and tackling from the front -- my player collides with the opponent, either falls down to the ground by the enormous force from the collision (but not my opponent), or my opponent just bulldozes forward with unwavering dedication while my player is floundering on the pitch.
The defense makes absolutely no sense. This game is just an incessant infestation of bodychecking and tackle spamming. Even with AIs!
My opponents make stand tackles from every angle and every distance but with perfect execution. They just bump into my players and my players are pushed all the way across the Pacific Ocean. What's worse is that even if I somehow manage through those endless tackle spamming, my players suddenly lost all their balance, strength, agility, etc, and stagger as if they are in Elden Ring. And surprise, more tackles and bodychecks follow whilst that. My opponents 'launch' at my players like torpedoes, but when my players attempt to tackle, it's them who lose the momentum. Like... how? Late response at defense, physical stats gone, no loss of balance, inertia only for the opponents, perfect tackles, bodychecks not called fouls, attackers suddenly become flawless defenders, and there are more.
Players with higher dribbling, higher physical, higher strength, or higher whatever become completely useless. What's the point of using a good player if they can't do absolute **bleep**. There's no point in using good defenders when a random silver card player with far below stats can just ravage my entire team without a single drop of sweat?
What's even more useless is my goalkeeper. There's absolutely no point of their existence. I might as well put a field player there. While my opponents' goalkeepers transformed into Superman, the best mine can do is raise their hands to their chest, not even stretched out, and just fall down. And of course, there's a full second of delay to their animations. They dive after the ball passes them. Far corners are guaranteed goals. Below knees? They just pretend to dive, but nothing. They can even save the shots coming straight at them. What a joke.
I'm crossing the ball across the pitch, maxed out the power bar, but my players gently flick the ball up in the air. My opponents just abuse one-touch, 180 degrees crosses and passes all the time.
My entire team does nothing and literally stands still unless I'm controlling them myself. Meanwhile, my opponents constantly move and press like maniacs and make auto tackles and auto interceptions.
I can't even switch to the right players. For some reason, I'm always switched to the defender 10 yards away for air balls when there is another player closer to my opponent.
These are the condensed summaries of my average gameplay. Every single match. Now, if anyone comes to me and says anything about 'your internet connection', I'll politely tell you to shut up.
This is the gameplay I get from all modes. Ultimate Team is disgraceful. Career Modes are the same. Kick-off is the same. Online or offline, it's dreadful equally.
I know this game is overall miserable, but I rarely heard or read anything like mine. So, this isn't a universal problem. Yes, for the most part, it's the server. I can clearly see that from the input overlays. My connection's fine, but there's definitely a delay because of the servers. But that doesn't explain the same **bleep**ty gameplay for Career Modes, Kick-off, and playing offline.
The only explanation I can conjure is that my game is broken. Either those meaningless updates EA's been releasing have done something to my game and I'm being punished by it. Or something happened after I played against one of those cheaters and whatever they did made permanent damage to my game. If not, nothing makes sense.
I've had... 'faster' and 'smoother' gameplay than this mediocre before. Back then, it was inconsistent. Sometimes, I had okay ones, sometimes, it was disastrous. But ever since that bloated, short-lived 'fix' update, everything started to spiral down.
I wonder if anyone else is having the same problem as me. I don't see any ways to make things better on my end, I've tried. If someone has a suggestion, I'd like to hear.
I've already deleted every file, uninstalled and reinstalled the game multiple times. I've reset my Xbox even. But nothing worked. I guess all I can do is wait until EA starts yapping about how FC 26 is so different and special, plastered with the same old vain, sugar-coated, exaggerated advertisement.
