Feedback, suggestions and my experience of mostly Player Career mode. Switch 2
This is what I've noted so far whilst playing Player career mode for a week. Maybe someone else also have feedback on my points or other issues/functions?
Not possible to save your toon (looks/settings) as far as I've seen to be able to pick it up when creating a new career. Also unclear guidance when starting your career risking a bad start forcing you to create a completely new one, sitting again trying to perfect the looks of your pro for several hours..
Hard to inspect other teams and players (like in Fifa 23 legacy for example).
While it is possible to enter different teams to see their players, it's not possible to check the players themselves. No stats, info and so on.
Hard to follow your national teams competitions and too few national updates.
As I see it, as a player, your goal is a good club AND your national team. More focus should be on you being able to follow the different national teams, competitions, squads/selections and such. Perhaps even possibility to watch the games and/or highlights.
It's also hard to keep track on players coming and leaving your club. In squad hub, you can see teammates stats and such, but not their contract length? Would be nice to be able to plan your own future in the club better.
Difficult to get a good overview of different news. News are just flashing past disappearing among the rest. Transfer romours and news should be separate from the rest.
Contracts is boring. The meaningless path objectives to get a contract? Requirements for goals outside of area and such? Pointless.
And what's even the point with pre match training? No good explanation what it's good for and how to optimize it. Does it even help your pro other than taking a spot in the first team way too easily? Two trainings then you're a regular starter in the national team regardless of your match performance as an example?
Troublesome to track your position changes during match (controlling only my player). No fast way to see the current lineup/positions to check what position, position on the field and role you're currenly assigned to. It is present when pausing and entering performance but that shouldn't be necessary. Why not highlight your assigned position on the radar or something?
Replay is bugged and get stuck on centerfield now and then. No replays if subs are made directly after goal. Too few replays during game and replays should also highlight the setup play leading to the chance/goal. Also no replays automatically in half time or after the game. Too few camera options in instant replay mode. Why not first person?
Much too hard on standard settings in world class compared to the much too easy professional when controlling your pro only. Changing sliders will make it possible to play even on legendary when controlling your pro.
Much much harder on all difficulties (using realistic sliders) when controlling whole team instead of only my pro. It's almost impossible to gain possession of the ball on harder difficulties.
It feels almost necessary to have legacy defending when controlling your pro only in order to tell your teammates to push at the right time to avoid being forced to run all over the pitch yourselft to clean up the opposition attacks.
What's even up with the investments? Utterly useless timewaster..
I think that the archetypes/personality restricts your freedom to be the player you want. Not possible to change when created if I want to evolve into another player type/style. And why do I need to be an egotistical **bleep** to get Maverick points? It feels really weird to be that person and still be generally liked by your teammates and manager..
Also not possible to select or learn multiple positions (eg AM/FW, RWB/RAM) and such. Not possible to request new position to manager either.
No possibility to recommend signings to the club/manager to be able to try signing players you'd like to play with.
Difficult to find different options in the menus. Feels like many options are "hidden" or different depending on where you view them.
No power bar above player when controlling my pro making it really hard to quickly see the shot/pass power without having to look down to the right (especially on big screens).
No achievements? Career/season/club?
Do you even have any season goals/objectives as a player? Never found them.
What's with the unrealistic match objectives? Score 2 goals outside of penalty area and so on? Missing match objectives is really bad for you even if you get a rating of 10?
AI is really stupid at times. Especially the centerbacks who push in exactly the most inappropriate situations leaving the centre wide open.
Weird function on legacy defending when pressing B. Not much assistance at all making you miss a lot of interceptions/tackles.
When pressing A to make other player push with legacy defending they often run to the wrong side of the player leaving the way forward open.
Way too many handballs.
The radar fades out at times and can be covered by banners or other boxes/texts making it really hard to take a good position when you are out of screen with your pro. Radar should also have different sizes and opacity options.
No good lineup overview of opponent team directly before match start. Would be nice to see the players and subs you're going to play against before starting the match.
The target lines from practice mode (the ones showing expected target zone for passes) should be available during player career in trainer menu.
Player name AND number should be an option above the players.
Players with the same nationality should be seen talking to eachother after games when they have met eachother in a fixture for more realism and familiarity between nationals.
A lot of missing tutorials and control options (or maybe only hard to locate?). Ie when pressing - on the control and the game starts following the player instead of the ball when controlling your pro. There's no easy way to find that out on your own.
No clear info on how to best earn AP to improve your player.
