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Tauntmatt
Rising Veteran
8 months ago

Re: EAFC25 is genuinely the worst FIFA game ever on release

This game is just difficult to play. I don't mean in skill level, it's difficult to actually want to play it, it's that awful. 

After giving champs a miss last week, I decided to qualify for this one. And god. This game. Nothing works. 

Manual tackling is a complete coin toss. The player your tackling will literally freeze and glide towards the ball, regaining it straight away. 

The attacking "A.I." is completely awful. You can only A. Run the down wings or B. Spam through balls until you get a lucky bounce.

Call me a quack if you want, disagree with me all you want but rebounds are programed to trigger counter attacking actions. The ball will almost always at least 90% of the time find a way to deviate towards an open defender especially when you're attacking the area. 

Today I could see/feel the game pulling my attackers away from the ball while also when defending guiding me directly to the ball. 

None of the attacking players for special. You may think I'm being hyperbolic but I'm serious. The defense is that insane, that fast, covers everything that unless you're jamming through they feel mostly useless. 

I don't get how anything works in this game.

So, I'm playing Ancelotti's formation & tactics. I have a pretty good front-line. Whenever I play a nice pass NONE of my attacking support are either providing support nor pouring into the box to get on the end of a potential loose ball. Example: I got into space with Vinnie, there's a player running directly to the far post, I decided to shoot with Vinnie instead of passing, It hits the post before I can switch to Swanson, she starts back peddling in this weird half circle like she's trying to avoid the rebound. The ball was heading straight for her. 

When it comes to switching between attacking players, it's completely slow for reason. They'll just freeze. 

Passing is awful. This game will change the weight & direction of a pass completely because we need an interception to spice things up or something.

EA think having a game not do what you tell it to do is somehow thrilling. But's it not. It actually just feels pointless playing it. The cats out of the bag with this game. It's not skill based. At any moment this game can/will manufacture a random moment that most of the time isn't your fault to "even the odds". It was overt last year but this years game doesn't even bother to be clever with it. I don't feel like any win, loss or draw is legit anymore. 

And I won all my qualifiers, so this isn't bitterness talking.

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  • xX8Pietro8Xx's avatar
    xX8Pietro8Xx
    Seasoned Veteran
    8 months ago

    @Tauntmattfc IQ introduce the dumbest AI i have seen in a football video game. And i played fifa,winning eleven,pro evolution soccer and this is football games.
    This is the worst, no brain is better than fc IQ.

    imagine a game that come out more than 20 years ago (this is football) when you can start a career mode starting from school team up to professional team, and this developer in 2024 cant handle a basic and bland simple league.

  • Tauntmatt's avatar
    Tauntmatt
    Rising Veteran
    8 months ago
    @xX8Pietro8Xx They have no sense of positioning. They just run offside, ignore their roles, sometimes you run past forwards with your midfielder, they run behind the marker etc. The attack sabotages you this year. Simple common sense movements go out the window.

    On defense players run way way faster their card would suggest, they outrun passes, can spam multiple tackles, run without moving their legs, swarm you from everywhere, can sprint full speed miss and recover straight away.

    In the last game my opponent put a pass in, I intercepted the ball, couldn't move forward his striker did an off balance wrap your leg around the front of me tackle, won it and went straight through on goal.

    And this is before you even mention the weird invisible forces, the game controlling your player, the inconsistent gameplay etc.

    It's the most unhinged game I've ever played. It's hilarious to me that this is marketed as some high brow pro e-sport game.
  • Tauntmatt's avatar
    Tauntmatt
    Rising Veteran
    8 months ago

    Shame on Microsoft & Sony for allowing this game on their market place. They should pull it and refuse to sell it because it's faulty and doesn't work as advertised. 

  • GSM350's avatar
    GSM350
    Rising Ace
    8 months ago

    More excellent programming analytics from the brilliant EA FC 25 team, the defender completely takes me out after missing the ball (goes just above his foot), so should have been a red card foul and a spot kick too me but because the ball literally smacks the defender in the arm the "programming" counts it as a legal tackle.

    https://youtu.be/JZIk4RqrJi8

  • Tauntmatt's avatar
    Tauntmatt
    Rising Veteran
    8 months ago

    There's no point in even getting mad at this game. If you feel like you need to play it, don't take it seriously & just laugh it at. It's a scam, a con job. A.I. & things out of your control determine whether you are going to win, lose or draw. The ceiling in this game isn't the players you have, how good you are at timing tackles or passing, it's the A.I & how you set up your A.I. That's how linear this game is. Put a code, get an OP A.I. and you can punch above your weight and scam wins off people better than you. There's no skill, don't @ me with pro's either. These are just people who dedicate their life to learning whatever exploits exist in the game & they become efficient at it. If this game were truly different, the same people wouldn't be getting 15/0 wins from the very first Champs weekend of the new game. What does that tell you? There's nothing new to learn from this game. You don't have to change your style. There's nothing different from 24 to 25, whatso ever. 

    Stop buying points, stop watching these pro tournaments. 

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