Defending didn't 'suck', it finally required skill. In 25 people relied on the ai to defend for them way too much, and now all of a sudden, when people actually have to defend for themselves, the whole community is throwing their toys out the cot. It's actually sad.
Pre-patch, you had to work for your goals. Saying they were gifted is a pretty good indication that you just couldn't defend pre-patch, because with how dribbling was, you actually had to be incredibly intentional with your inputs. Some players would just spin around in circles, sure, but after like 3-4 games, it became pretty easy to defend against those players because they had no idea what they were doing.
It's pretty sad to see a small part of this community being so quick to torpedo a game that was by far the best on release compared to almost everything we've had in the past. And now it's just FC25 all over again; draw simulator, park the bus and counter, first time through balls, I mean, I could go on and on. I'd way rather have to deal with a few fidget spinners every now and again as opposed to what I've been coming up against post-patch.
the skill required was to return the AI players running away from the ball to their right position and to guess right when you had to iso defend which nobody does in nowadays football as it is impossible to defend like this ^^ if you watch any football game nowadays you would notice that there are usually 2 defenders arround the ballplaying player and before the patch this was impossible as the help defender would be scared of the ball :( now you actually need to use football skills to defend by guiding oppenent players into traffick or the baseline to get the ball which is actually the way you defend in real life ^^
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