Patch This Game ASAP!
I'm about to go on a tirade about a couple of things. I won't swear, I won't personally attack anyone despite that this was probably still get deleted. Last year's game was lit up, not only in thes...
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Attacking ai isn’t so bad now. We still need ea to force manual offense. Passing and shooting is still to easy. Everyone is going 5 atb to try to stop the offense. I don’t know how you can have a competitive game and offense isn’t manual it doesn’t make sense. I suppose high scoring games and easy offense is more exciting to watch.
Dude, I go off who I'm playing, the type of opponents I play & the goals there scoring plus the way I have to play in order to score.
There rubbish goals triggered by defensive actions, not through any skill, just flukey garbage just about every match.
I'm not saying I want 10-0 wins but you know what, If I'm dominating a match with 59%, have a GE of 6.4, complete double the passes, putting in a fairly decent tackling/winning tackle ratio I don't want to lose to someone who puts it in 2 tackles all game, has his A.I. sliding around pulling off impossible interceptions/tackles, zig zags his keeper in goal while playing an ultra defensive low block & win because they get some rubbish bobbly rebound and ran through my Japp Stamm with Sterling.
There's got to be a balance and there's ZERO balance in this game.
I'm telling you 9/10 goals come about because A. The A.I. intercepts the ball high & he hits quick through ball B. Some attacker with 20 strength jockeys my defender to the ground C. Some 40 yard wonder through ball from the edge of there box. That's it.
You would lose so many players If attack was full manual. That is my guess. And I think EA know that.
There is still skill required on defence and attack regardless of what anyone says. There is a reason why some can score 5 and only conceed 1.
Even with certain assists no one is guaranteed a goal.
I know a few options in competitive mode are mandatory. And within reason we are all pretty much using the same settings. So who is at a disadvantage exactly?
Some players are just better. People also have to accept that.
EA will know all of this through telemetry data. - And the full manual players base is tiny in comparison to those using some form of assists.
- @blue166 What your saying is true but if you really want a skill gap that’s what needs to be done. It’s just to easy to hold possession pass and shoot. I realize the community likes this but at least remove it for the competitive modes. Friendlies can still be easy mode.
- @RadioShaqs I understand where you are coming from. But EA had the chance to do this when they threw Tactical Defending into the game. They could have added tactical attacking the same year or at least year after and forced us all into it for online modes.
But they never.
So what we have now is a competitive game setting for online play, where we can all tweak it within reason. I will be honest when I tell you that EAs implementation of "manual" isn't great and people will not have the patience to learn and use it. I mean miss placing passes 5 yards away frequently isn't realistic either. And tbf people are used to watching free flowing top flight football where possession can be kept and play is slick. - Manual will not be that.
I used to play full manual on PES 3,4,5,6 and 2008 before Konami ruined the game (2008 was the end).
I have played with manual on FIFA and it was never as good as Konami which still allowed a decent style of football.
I will say again that there is a skill gap regardless. There is a reason why people can't get out of DIV 10,9 8 for example in Seasons. Because of a skill gap. I have played people in DIV 10 in Cup Mode and won by 7 or 8 (even more) goals at times or until they quit. So they are of a lower skill - skill gap.
Now, that skill gap lessons as you head towards DIV 5,4,3,2 and eventually 1. Games can be a little tighter at times. But it's still common to win/lose by a few goals or even thrash someone. So again, a skill gap even within those divisions.
Again we are all using competitive mode with pretty much the same attacking presets and defending. So with that in mind it is down to the players to utilise their skill with the team they choose.
