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Seasoned Newcomer

2 months ago

FC 26 defensive AI is rubbish

Dear EA Team, As a long-time fan of football video games, I am extremely disappointed with the release of FC26. This is by far the worst edition I have ever played, and honestly, the experience is t...

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Flesaur

Seasoned Traveler

2 months ago

The gameplay, without doubt, lacks any modicum of realism. Its simply a mockery of football.

You'll often be involved in a game that is 3-3 after about 30 minutes. The goals don't come from human error or genuine skill. Instead (and my goals are included in this), a player will often dribble through a defender, or they'll fail to make a tackle for some undefinable reason.

EAFC 26 is so far tilted in favour of attacking play, the game is quite simply boring, unrealistic and generates no desire to play for any length of time. Utterly disappointed with this years effort.

BoW-x-Rayven
Rising Rookie
13 days ago
After playing FC 26 about 2 months late after release I was utterly shocked to see how this game plays. While 25 was nowhere near perfect it felt like football. CPU defenders did a far better job to actually pressure the player, tried to go after the ball and that opened up more organic chances with passes and most importantly they were imperfect misstiming tackles, conceding penalties, getting yellow cards, causing injuries and so on.
In FC 26 CPU defenders just 3 meters room, playing passing lanes and either getting stops by perfectly timed tackles or just completely missing them giving up easy dribbling towards their goal.
On offense the CPU build up feels robotic, very pass heavy and prone to mistakes. I cannot count how often they made questionable passes that lost them the ball nor can I can how often the AI was passing laterally and backwards to just hold the ball an ddo absolutely nothing dangerous with it. Other times they put you on skates and you feel like the goal they scored was inevitable.
Going back to FC 25. This game had it's own issues but on the pitch felt so much more rewarding to play and fun! I heared 26 was great when it released and got patched into the state of misery it's in, never experienced it myself BUT the way 26 plays it's hard for me to see any kind of tweak to make this year's game fun vs AI. It seems to poorly balanced and frankly pretty broken.