I have no words anymore to describe how bad this game is
I left this game for what it was for more than a week or so, and watched quite a lot of real football games in the mean time.
Yesterday evening I returned to the game, only to see it needed an update. When EA sends out updates, it usually doesn't mean any good. For the next 2 hours, I was playing Seasons and literally every game was against Real Madrid. So annoying.
What really struck me after not playing for a week was, how awfully bad and far away from actual football this game is. Easy shots on target from impossible angles turn into goals, players fall over for no reason, ball shielding is impossible, pass after pass after pass are going in the wrong direction, are too short or too long, or to another player than where you're aiming at ...And the whole defense system is just a joke. I can't count the number of times per game that I'm annoyed of defenders that don't even perform the basic task that you expect from a defender. Like running along with an attacker or filling up holes in defense, assist in giving back up to a team mate, be ready for a header, ... Even putting pressure with a second defender is not working. What is the use of calling a second defender to block a shot when they are not even getting in the line of the shot! The number of times defenders actually run away from where the action is instead of engaging, is really outrageous!
Game after game I'm losing because I'm playing against guys who just throw long balls to Mbappe and Vini Jr, who - Forrest Gump wise - run to your goal to score. Whether you pull your team all the way back, play with 5 defenders, open offside traps, put pressure, let your goal keeper come out or just do nothing, it all doesn't matter. Every ball comes back in their feet, every duel is lost from the start, ...
When you try to change something about the formation, it doesn't even let you to the actual squad, let aside save your changes!
Today I played a few more games, but it turned into one big disappointment. The whole time I'm between screaming in anger and laughing my **bleep** off from how ridiculous this game is. Finally had a game which was not against Real, and then the system matched me against Bilbao. Practically the same jersey colors as mine (Man City) in a stadium with both bright lights and shadows. Literally impossible to see who's who!
All the way from the game play, over button response, server quality, in game menu experience... nothing works the way it is supposed to. In every level of the game there is at least one thing wrong. How the hell is this even possible to do such a bad job!
