The last straw

Something has happened in the last 3 days for sure, since the new season started and the PL TOTS promo. Like you, my defending has gone to pieces, I feel like 70% of the people I’m playing are all sweats and have mastered a mechanic or a patch I’m not aware of. My normal steady passing game is now too slow and exposed to aggressive press, my defenders have lost brain cells, bashing to each other, more rebound goals than ever before, more bounce back, players deliberately letting me tackle them because they know they can do ridiculous tackle backs instantly and open up scoring opps. I just can’t work it out. 

I was just in Div 1 rivals come the end of the last season, and my natural place is low Div 2, however since the season reset, I’m struggling to get out of Div 3. I know the reset will bring the top players down and it will take a week or two to level out again so I thought it might be just playing the uber sweats who I wouldn’t normally play.

However, I e done two round of Gauntlet, in both rounds I only managed 2/4 wins. I’ve never ever got less than 3 wins in a round before when I’m locked in but this time even the ones I’m winning they are unbearably frustrating. 

Something has changed. The only way for me to have a chance of winning is reduce myself to brain dead tactics and counter and basically not touch my defence at all, which is bad because I have been manual defending most of the game cycle.

I love fifa, but getting punished for manually covering passing lanes, getting punished for not spamming press, getting punished for not just relying on the AI, getting punished for making good tackles on the edge of my box. It’s BS.

I feel for you, I know exactly how you feel.

A word on the community - most people get pleasure out of trying to wind up their opponents. Fine, I do it too, you find an edge when you can, if you feel like you need it. But, when you come up against a player in round 4 of gauntlet, and when they play hard against you, score and then quit, just to make sure you don’t pick up a win, well **bleep**, there are lots of people out there who get pleasure from being utterly miserable to other players, hiding behind consoles and being sub-human, it really is a sad sad place full of sad sad people.

Unfortunately I love FIFA so it’s hard to know what else to do - no matter how good or bad the game is, the community has a talent to make the experience even worse.