Re: FEEDBACK | Offline Gameplay vs. CPU - Fouls

Sorry EA Staff,

I have to confirm BUG in advance defence commands: if I push X or SQUARE is begin impossible to make a foul against CPU.

please fix it.

Fouls problem is the biggest problem of authentuc gameplay, You have to fix it to have a realistic gameplay.

yesterday I have done 3 match against cpu, 3 fouls (not tackle) for me and 2 fouls (not tackle) for cpu ... but in 3 match .... this is totally unrealistic ...

thanks

Dear EA Staff,

First of all, I want to congratulate you on the idea of ​​separating authentic gameplay from competitive gameplay. Well done!

I'm an offline player who plays against the CPU with real teams. I'm a Konami fan, but this year I chose EA because of the authentic gameplay, which I think is well done.

I play at Champion/Legend level with realistic EA sliders and tactical cursors, 8/10 minutes each time.

There's a huge problem with gameplay: fouls.

There are very few fouls, in some matches even zero: this is not possible in a gameplay that aims for realism.

Here are the problems:

- The CPU issues very few fouls, mostly tackles.

- With 1.2.0, you've increased CPU aggressiveness, which is obvious, but not enough for the CPU to issue a foul.

- When there are contacts and collisions between players, the referee almost never blows the whistle. I believe there's also a major problem attributable to buggy refereeing.

Finally, with 1.2.0, a huge bug appeared because it became impossible for the user to issue a foul other than a tackle: if I press X or SQUARE, I can never issue a foul!!!

So, the result is that cpu does not fouls, user does not fouls because X and SQUARE does not work anymore, referee does not use never the whistle: this is not football.

Please fix these issues because this year the gameplay is valid, but without fouls, the gameplay can't be called realistic.

Thank you.

We need fouls!

EA_Claus​ EA_Vendcera​ 

@EA just please bring the same legendary and ultimate difficulty you had in FC25 into FC26. The AI doesn't work as well and it's too easy to score and as mentioned by others the AI barely tackles or makes things difficult. We shouldn't have to adjust sliders all the way to the max to make the game better even by 5%. Like how can you go backwards on a game where the career mode difficulties were working fine last year. 

Game developers should finally increase the aggressiveness of the AI defensive players. Fouls are an integral part of football games. 

Regarding defense in general in FC 26, EA presents to us unauthentic gameplay, some kind of wannabe football that doesn't exist in reality. It seems like the developers have never watched a football match on TV, European football is not American basketball. Either they don't know how to make a game properly or they're making fools of all of us. Hey, guys, the game costs almost 80 euros! Will you finally make a game that's worth it?

Regarding fouls in the game, sometimes the problem is that there are in-game fouls, but the referees are blind. Sometimes the problem is that you cannot foul CPU AI players because they dribble and are fast like Pele and Garincha. The most common problem is that CPU teams with an overall skill below 69 do not commit fouls at all, because their aggressive features are insignificantly. There were more fouls in Fifa 98. It's incredible that since Fifa 23 the defensive skills are underrated because the developers think that the important thing is just to attack with high pressing and score goals. That kind of football only exists in their heads and fantasies. 

It’s really odd playing a football match with zero fouls. I usually do several CM saves with multiple clubs and I’ve yet to take a free kick or penalty with any of them. I’ve gotten booked a couple times for pulling back players on counters but that is literally all. 

I got my first penalty half way through my second season in Manager Career Mode lol. Before that I had only been fouled once. I commit fouls though and slide a lot because there’s no real consequence lol.