Not that you guys ever fix anything, but...
I am one of those folks that likes playing career mode and the swings in game play between games are making the game unplayable. I play on legendary and with "authentic." The game play is anything, but authentic.
I just finished playing Liverpool in the Champions League Semis, and honestly it was largely enjoyable. The PC is currently horrid at moving the ball forward and breaking lines and that can lead to long stretches of truly pointless possession where you absolutely feel like you are playing a dumb machine, but the attacking was challenging and when the PC did attempt break throughs you could get in and make some tackles, and the PC did score and make it a game.
Now I am playing Torino in a truly meaningless Serie A game and these have a habit of being the worst matches in your half baked game. My defensive line is suddenly WAY too deep (you can't fix this with sliders that are supposed to fix it; great job!) and I absolutely can't get near anyone to make a tackle. If I let the PC, let's be honest and not call it AI, control my player and take on the attacker then they will inevitably do something dumb like dribble right into them, but if it's my player then they turn into Ronaldinho and no matter where they are rated at dribbling they are suddenly moving like a waterbug. Sometimes they seem to wait until my player is just close enough to make the pass; not weird or gimmicky at all. The defensive line is massively deep so you have a hugely unrealistic amount ground to cover.
My question is why do this? Torino isn't good. Why have the gameplay fluctuate like this, ESPECIALLY WHEN I HAVE IT SET, IN THEORY, NOT TO FLUCTUATE? It sucks! It makes your half baked game even less fun because this is just a game you want to be over with. It's not suddenly interesting or CHALLENGING. It feels gimmicky and like the outcomes are predetermined; which is not fun at all. I am marking and getting on the ball just as well as I was versus Liverpool or Man City. I am not thinking "Wow it's so cool how suddenly it's impossible to get tackles and I have to watch this endless pointless passing versus a mid-block." You guys need to clean this up. It really sucks.
I actually think you guys need to put more of the game into sliders and into settings. You guys constantly screw things up to add on errors to the errors you have had for years and have never fixed. At least give players the ability to tamp down or turn off the EA dumb (I am sure somebody thought this was a good idea at some point). And while you are adding in sliders put one in for shielding. It is absurdly overpowered. I shouldn't have to watch a sub 5'9" 150 lb winger acting like Frank the Tank out there throwing huge shoulders around. It's not cool or "challenging" it is just gimmicky and dumb.
