Squad Battles too hard
I've been dealing with this problem for the past few months. I am used to scoring easily against world class difficulty but now I can't score at all and I can't defend. No matter what tactics. The C...
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Play the old gen versions of the game. Helps tremendously. EA really destroyed the “fun” of squad battles this year in the new gen versions. Outside of the boost in the CPU opponent AI, they dramatically nerfed the player controlled team AI. Also, all of the outright DDA and scripting they put in to make the players you are controlling do things you don’t want them too. Like running towards the sideline to get a loss ball, while you’re trying to hold them back from running they still continue to run and touch it before it goes out giving possession to the CPU team… and the absurd amount of offsides due to delays in passing animations allowing the the defense to move up or making the intended receiver to break the line when the pass was initiated well before they even got to the defense.
Not to mention when an attack breaks down (normally by the AI looking at your player and the ball to win it) your strikers will take an age to get back onside, meaning if you do win the ball back, you can't pass forwards quickly because they all slowly walk back onside.
Or when you try to breakaway from an AI corner, only to find your striker is doing his best to stay behind the last defender, despite being 10 yards in your own half because EA don't understand offside, or don't know how to program it so your players don't automatically assume they have to be behind defenders at all time (or simply don't care)
Of course. I battle through all that, win a game pretty well and it crashes at full time.
Disgrace of a game.