FC IQ (Or lack there of)
Not talking about the obvious flaws with the system, like players stopping runs because their massively low IQ programming says they are out of position/role and must immediately get back to where their heat map says they should be....
This post is more about how the roles system has made it massively more restrictive in the types of players used.
I've seen multiple posts on other sites about how poacher + or ++ is meta and amazing, yet for me and the way I build up play it just means that player is offside at least 8/10 times so I actively avoid those player roles.
For my play style and build up advanced forward works much better.
I used to be able to assign instructions to a player and they'd behave as such, yet now players that don't have the role I want to use them in behave like a 10 year old with little to no football basic knowledge and run around, clueless like a proper crayon munching Tik Tok enthusiast.
A part of me thinks this is because EA have no idea what the hell they're doing but a much larger part of me thinks this is intentional so that EA can further control the meta and what players are considered valuable.
I already miss being able to assign my players basic instructions and them being able to carry those out, you know, like they were professional footballers...
EA, adding shiz to the game that wasn't needed and moving further away from football with each release.
