Why can none of my defenders track any runs or make any simple tackles but my midfield can. games ending in score lines such as 10-8 it’s super unrealistic and makes attacking way too easy, making high quality players score every time if they are quick and agile
Totally agree, think EA is in for a major amount of complaints when everyone who bought the standard edition get on this Friday.
You'll doubtless get the "get good" comments on this thread but just ignore them, they don't realise that some play this for fun and that there are different skill levels for people.
My opponents seem to be defending fine
I concede 8 and 9 goals and they keep clean sheets, lol
I hate this game
Welcome! The new era of skilled defending has arrived. You need to manually defend your opponent and anticipate and read the game defensively.
Gone are the days of spamming tackle or holding the R1 or right bumper. Good luck
I've never spam tackled or even used R1 second man press but used to defend just fine, I've no problem with that being gone but the ai needs some form of defensive intelligence and right now my cat could defend better than this sorry excuse.
Defending poll hidden on discord | EA Forums - 12651850
Just so more people know about this
I saw the poll. it was perfectly available on discord even when people were posting here on the forums saying it was hidden
^ not everyone is in the discord, if they want accurate feedback the poll should be done in game.
yeah i agree defending is horrible, im not good at the game but enjoy playing rivals, right now though its frustrating im not even in a high division and still getting slammed cause of the defending even using tactical they make mistakes when its suppose to read what challenge to make
Really.
I have multiple friends who bought the game and not one of them knew about the poll.
They don't follow EA Sports on X and a lot don't even use Discord.
Most going to that poll only know because they watch certain cringey content creators.
^^What a clown.
The defending system is demonstrably incomplete/broke and not fit for purpose. Go play online. Go and look at the amount of FC 26 YouTuber goals that consist of half a dozen pirouettes in and around the penalty box until the easy cut back or curled short range shot presents itself.
Whilst the game has lots of good points, on the whole FC 26 has to go down as one of the biggest train wreck football games ever, because what is a sport's sim without balance?
Player numbers and thus FUT pay to win revenue must be down a lot, as EA have never reduced a FIFA game so much during Winter Sales.
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