Hello. The difficulty level in the player's career is extremely unbalanced. For many years I have only played at world class, but this year in Fc26 the world class level is extremely difficult. It made me give up playing. I tried the professional level but this level seems like an amateur level. Is there any solution, any update, any setting to fix this problem?
Community ManagerHappy to pass the feedback on Cucuruz-Ionel but been playing quite a bit lately on World Class and not finding it too difficult compared to previous years.
May be worth taking a look at some of the pros for some tips.
Darko
The career mode update was a terrible change to ai difficulty across the board, it even affected squad battles in UT, broken is the word most used by people now.
I advise you not to watch pros, they have no actual football knowledge and will only teach you broken mechanics and exploits.
If you want realistic football then I'm afraid you're out of luck this year.
Same here. The chemistry/ratings seem off. When playing squad battles, I can compete against a 74/23 Legendary team. However, playing against an 87/12 professional is a toss up. I either win 5-0 or lose 3-1. I don't come across too many teams where I feel comfortable playing on World Class (my preferred difficulty).
What's even worse is that every low rated team I played had a GK in an outfield position who played like a cross between prime Messi and Prime De Bruyne and an outfield player in goal who saves near everything...
maybe you should take a look at what other players are saying here
World class mode is not difficult, it's terribly difficult. It's nothing like the real, and nothing like previous years
And the worst thing is that you will do absolutely nothing to fix this problem. Personally, I have lost my appetite for this game.
Looking at some of the pros? Should that be necessary for a medium difficulty? Why should he have to abandon the fun of the game to beat an ai that’s not even on maximum difficulty?
fix the difficulty settings and stop reflecting.
Even when you can beat them it's a completely unenjoyable experience as they play keep ball in their own half... when 2-0/3-0/losing by whatever margin.
They are now programmed to keep the ball at all costs no matter the scoreline, makes zero sense, is unrealistic and just frustrating, not fun in the slightest.
As you are actually commenting on a post for once EA_Darko please tell us who requested this change to squad battles? People requested career mode to be harder (On authentic settings) so why did this affect squad battles?
Hopefully you'll answer this post as every other about SB's difficulty has been completely ignored.
Exactly as i expected. These guys from EA reply to your post, send you to look at the "professionals players" , then disappear. That's what they did every time. I'm not interested watching the professionals players at all, i'm interested in being able to play a game decently but it's impossible. F...Y.. EA. From a player who has been playing this game since 1999. Ok Darko? F..Y...!!!
Yep, they're absolute robots mate, none of them even have the brass ones to properly discuss this problem, just a copy paste answer an then scurry away like the rats that they are.
While I think World Class is still managable after getting used to the dumpsterfire that is FC 26 I have to agree with OP 100% here! It is notacably more difficult to just pick up the game and play it on WC compared to previous years, which in itself is not even the issue; it's great to have difficult AI for players that are good at the game. However EA is incapable of balancing the difficulty.
To get used to FC every year I gradually raise the difficulty after a few matches starting off with Pro difficulty. I'm not good at the game and I take long breaks in between games to play other games. Pro difficulty seems really easy, too easy...the AI makes tons of mstakes, frequently loses the ball and can't build up an attack to save their life. It feels like Amateur. On WC the AI get's better on so many levels in comparison. Better stats, less mistakes, playing passing lanes to make passes a lot harder and so on...
So to sum it up briefly World Class difficulty is not the issue whatsoever! It is the huge gap between Pro and WC that is causing frustration with I'd assume a lot of people. The game is either far too easy or challenging to a point where it turns frustrating. So players can only "pick their poison"! This is an issue for years of medium level difficulties but in FC 26 more noticable than ever before.
EA_Darko No medium level player should ever be required to watch pros exploit the AI in FC to have a chance of enjoying the game.If they want to become good or great they'll probably do something like that anyway already. The reality is that most people just want to have a good time doing their hobby, playing games. Not everyone has the desire nor time to watch pros do things they probably will not be able to adapt anyway in a reasonable timeframe...The skill level difference is just too great to even entertain doing some of the things they do.
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