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Chris5626
New Adventurer
31 days ago

Player Career - Teammates

Really disappointed to see that yet again in player career mode, your own teammates play worse than your opposition. 

People play career mode as they want an authentic experience playing as a footballer, yet on any difficulty that's a challenge, your teammates are useless meaning you have to literally cover the entire pitch yourself.

If you're a defender, you need to be scoring goals or your team will never get past the halfway line.
If you're a striker, you need to be pulling off last ditch tackles in your own box.

Your teammates don't press, they don't tackle, they can't make or receive passes, you have to do everything.

It's been like this for years and it is so frustrating. Your team should be able to still play football without you needing to be involved in every single play.

4 Replies

  • TyLyfe's avatar
    TyLyfe
    Seasoned Newcomer
    26 days ago

    Same experience for me. I thought raising the difficulty would help, but no. The opposing players noticeably improve, and my midfielders keep dribbling the ball to the side and then making a dumb pass directly to the other team. 

  • Jayi1503's avatar
    Jayi1503
    Seasoned Scout
    25 days ago

    If its the same as last year everytime an ai receives the ball double press R1/RB and the ai will make a pass take someone on.or even have a pop. The reason they play poor is they are anticipating a call from the human player double tapping R1/RB cancels this mindset and they play the correct ball. Annoying that you have to do this everytime every ai receives the ball but hey ho it's EA I don't expect anything else. Enjoy.

  • Chris5626's avatar
    Chris5626
    New Adventurer
    25 days ago

    I know that player career mode isn't as much of a priority for EA and that they are going to focus on game modes where they see more return on investment (i.e those with microtransactions), but I genuinely don't understand why they don't change how your own team behaves? Surely it wouldn't take much effort because the opposing team already plays better so can't they just duplicate that?

  • Yes this is very frustrating. FIFA 17-19 had much better teammates. Likely because the Journey was around. It blows my mind why both AI players don’t use the same logic when attacking and defending. 

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