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telw1995
Seasoned Novice
20 days ago

Manual defending is like a comedy sketch.

We bit about my background , I play manual I don’t use ai defending and I always get high elite every year and 12-15 champ wins depending the meta. I’m over 1000 games played this year and my experience of manual defending is comical . Players slow down by ai interference before reaching the ball , players run into each other , balls bounce about everywhere , tackles rarely land no matter how well timed (unless from behind) , the ball can be on ur toe but they get it 1st if u manual swap to the player about to win ball , there is no block animation when u manually control , intercepting no animation u need to be 100% accurate and then it bounces off u half the time , ball goes through u so much like u think u have the ball but u don’t it’s 2mm away from ur foot and u don’t lock on . It’s a proper disaster. I can get 15 wins in a good weak abusing the ai 13 in a good week not but how much ur punished for trying to play the game urself is a crime and the sole reason this fake is dying . Us older players have no interested in letting the ai defend , we want to have control of our players or at least have the option to with equal effectiveness 

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    dancannings
    Seasoned Novice
    15 days ago

    100% in agreement. I've been playing since the start of the franchise (yes, I'm old) and haven't played online for a few years tbf, but this is shocking. I can't adapt as it's ingrained in me to defend manually. This means I lose most of my games and if I do manage to tackle an opponent it goes back to them in a better position, so they can score easily. I'm also beyond fed up with watching people going back and forth and round and round, not progressing or shooting because the game mechanics let them. It's not even football at this point. I've watched all my life and I've never seen the greats spin around in a circle 15 times waiting for the defender to move out of their way to score a goal. Absolute jokes!

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