I don't understand the sheer disconnect this company has with its fanbase. The critiques in this thread are a goldmine of information on how you can improve your game and yet... It's May and the gameplay is still a mess, will continue to be a mess until the next shiny FC 26 where ppl start all over again. I'm going to assume after this game you've just lost a substantial amount of players who won't be coming back. And good, you've earnt it.
The attacking players in this game all feel the same, all function the same because the defensive A.I. & just the general mechanics of this game create a boring, linear, anti-football experience which requires 4 things for you to be competitive:
- Learn how to move your keeper.
- Copy and paste Meta tactic from a Pro.
- Don't defend, allow A.I. to do most of the defending or just spam tackles till you get lucky.
- Spam through through balls over and over and over and over.
That's it.
Game after game, it's the same tactical approach if you even want to call this way of playing "tactical". What's been needed from day 1 to fix this game is:
- Nerf high pressure in inappropriate situations.
- Stamina drain for non defensive players that is actually impactful.
- Shorter recovery times for missing tackles, you know so you can actually carry the ball forwards without just losing it back instantly. To also prevent tackling spamming.
- Nerf the slow, weird, glitchy fast touch system so you know you can actually carry the ball forwards without just losing it back instantly.
- Buff the tackling for actual defenders with high stats & nerf the **bleep** strength, tackling of weak wingers on defense. All day today I'm putting in tackles, "winning " the ball along to have some winger regain the ball instantly.
- Nerf 50 yard long driven through balls.
- For gods sake improve the support play on a break everytime I hit on the break within 1 seconds "blitzing" attackers end up out numbered 2 to 1.
- Fix short passing. Remove whatever mechanic you have in the game that "decides" to send a pass straight to the opposition despite you have weighted the pass & aiming in a different direction when it comes to short passing.
- Fix over the top through balls, they just fly to defenders or keepers most of the time. Your attackers slow down anticipating the ball to drop while the defenders don't so they just get out infront of them 90% of the time.
- Fix crossing so crosses actually have a chance of hitting an attacker.
- Fix corners so balls actually have a chance of hitting an attacker.
- Fix set pieces from penalties outside the box, so you can balls in & they actually have a chance of hitting an attacker.
- Fix the **bleep** rebounds, I don't know if it's just me but it's got to be in 90 percentile where the ball magically flies back to my opponent.
- Fix attackers freezing infront of you like an immovable statue which causes them to regain the ball.
- Fix these pitiful goal keepers. These are high scoring games because the keepers are completely laughable now.
- Remove auto-tackling defenders. I had a guy drop the controller, and his A.I. chased me down to the edge of the box, tackled me then stood there (because my opponent wasn't controlling him) Why is this in the game?
- Nerf The marking slightly. All day I had to deal with A.I. defenders shadowing my attackers like 1 ft away. You literally can't move, can't think tactically., can't set up plays it's just about hitting passes as fast as possible to beat the press.
- Make attackers actually play like their roles & excel at their roles. Poachers don't poach they don't try to get on the end of a spillage they move out of position, Aerial players feel worthless because they can't win in the air (lol), dribblers are too slow at picking up the ball & moving.
- There's a serious problem with defenders in particular completely smoking attacking players with 99 pace even when they give up 10/15 pace.. it makes every card feel the same & makes it hard for other reasons like again using movement to find lateral space because the defenders accelerate so fast off the line. I can't be the only one who notices that the defense completely out passes the attacker players in numerous situations, even ones where you are running towards a ball and a defender is facing the other way he will manage to infront of you players. Even when you are at full sprint and you the see the defender stopping, crouching down for a second then just speed boasting up and catching. It's the most bizzare game I've ever played.
- And lastly for the love of god, implement some sort of attacking A.I. because compared to the defensive A.I., there an actual joke. They run away from space, dart offside, purposely run behind markers, drift out of position, stand still like statues, run into defenders & stand there running on the spot into the defenders, fall over because reasons, don't actively like for space so there easy pickens for the insane defensive markers. It's completely in balanced.
Also go back to the drawing board and completely gut custom tactics, make them an "Aid" to play the way you way to play not a cheat code on how to play 1 completely over powered meta style.
If you don't get pro-active and start really working to address these game play issues, this just covers the gameplay and is ignoring the menu stuff, evo's, number of promo's etc. then you're about to crash and burn hard. If you make something fans want you can print money, if you keep throwing your middle up in your own fanbases face, you'll get burnt & your game will go the way of NBA Live.
