Daily reminder on how bad this game is
This gameplay has rock-bottom football IQ. Not “needs tuning.” Not “rough around the edges.” Just flat-out unintelligent at a foundational level.
Nothing in this game understands football. Passing logic is brainless—constantly selecting the worst possible option, firing the ball straight into opponents like the engine has no concept of space, angles, or basic decision-making. You’re not misplaying passes—the game is making catastrophically dumb choices on your behalf.
And the bounce-back tackles are the clearest proof this was designed without thought. You read the play, time the tackle perfectly, win the ball cleanly… and the game immediately gifts it back to the attacker. Over and over. Tackling doesn’t end attacks anymore—it politely inconveniences them. That’s not realism, that’s low-IQ system design.
Defensive AI is embarrassingly stupid. Centre-backs randomly abandon the line to follow attackers, deliberately creating space behind them for no reason whatsoever. No awareness. No shape. No understanding of risk. Just defenders actively sabotaging their own team like they’ve never seen a defensive line before.
Corners turning into instant counterattacks again is pure incompetence. This was already a known issue. Already criticized. Already “fixed.” And somehow it’s back—unchanged. That alone screams how little intelligence, memory, or accountability exists in the development process.
Attacking runs are equally clueless. Players either stand completely still or sprint directly into defenders. There’s no timing, no anticipation, no reading of play—just random, low-effort movement that looks like a placeholder AI that never got replaced.
Dribbling being nerfed into uselessness finishes the job. Creativity is punished, skill is irrelevant, and everything devolves into clumsy collisions and coin-flip outcomes. The game doesn’t reward thinking because it clearly isn’t doing any itself.
This isn’t difficulty. It isn’t realism. It definitely is not fun. It’s a football game built on bad logic making bad decisions at all times. The most shocking part isn’t how broken it is—it’s that someone, somewhere, looked at this and decided it was acceptable to ship. That level of football illiteracy being signed off on is honestly staggering.
Breaking passing, defending, tackling, dribbling, and attacking AI simultaneously shouldn’t be possible—yet here we are. If this is the intended experience, then congratulations: you’ve successfully created one of the dumbest-feeling football games ever released.
Edit: Forgot to include the insanly stupid overpowered tackles from behind. Or the just stick out a toe that has superglue on it and your winger loses the ball. They have nerfed any fun out of the game. Anything that requires any skill that isnt a exploit has been destroyed.
