I loved this post. As someone who has played every fifa since forever, loves the game, watches, reads, obsesses, this Fifa is killing my appetite for gaming.
What you said about the static AI on attack is so true. I've got 3 creative CAMs on my team and a DLP behind them with license to roam. If one passes to the other, they then just stand there. If I give an L1 pass, they start running towards goal at the speed of light and don't stop till they're in the stands. If I ask a third man to run, they will do the same. And unless I pass to the runner, I'm tucked because then I'm a man short. Anyone who wants to play the passing game and work their way through the opponent with combinations can forget about it. There are no combinations anymore to work your way up. Just direct balls to forwards and then a run and a through ball. That's the sum total of your attack.
Or you could do what everyone else does, which is pick a Vinicius or Mbappe or cheap man's meta equivalent, use a few skills to "speed boost" (super realistic EA), do some more skills to make defenders head to the corner flag even when you don't instruct them to and then score that finesse shot with the guys who've got 99 curve. Oh, and every so often, slow down father time and get that shot from distance to go in with the dribble and L1R1 tap. (Super realistic again EA.)
I get it. It's a game. And it's mainly for kids. So I get that they want to basically get the ball to the highest rated trickster as soon as possible and then spam buttons they've memorised to fire it in.
But did you have to nerf it for the rest of us who want to play a realistic game? With normal scores and the requirement of a little bit of thinking and tactics?
Also, maybe I'm just missing something but why can't I pick my own secondary in game tactics and refine them? If I edit the set ones, they become my main tactics. And in game, in 30 seconds, there's only so much you can do. Not that trying to adjust to an opponent yields much when they can score literally if they spam a few skills and the player becomes super human and the ball finds them whether you win it or not.
I think this one is for sure my last Fifa. I'm done.
