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BobbyBriggs
Seasoned Veteran
1 month ago

This really is unplayable. U cant even make passing work

I genuinely don’t understand how we’ve reached a point where in , the most basic mechanic in football — passing — feels this unreliable.

 

Like, forget advanced tactics, forget skill moves, forget all the flashy marketing features. This is a football game. Passing is literally the foundation of everything. And yet somehow a simple 5-yard pass turns into a lottery half the time.

 

You aim left — it goes straight.

You tap lightly — it gets blasted across the pitch.

You power it up — your player gently rolls it to the opponent like he’s setting up a highlight reel for them.

 

And don’t even get me started on player switching combined with passing. You try to play a quick one-two, and the game decides your striker actually wanted to pass it to a marked midfielder 20 meters away. Why? No clue. Input just gets ignored or “interpreted” however the game feels in that moment.

 

It’s not even about difficulty or “skill gap” — I’m fine with making mistakes if they’re MY mistakes. But right now it feels like I’m fighting the game’s decision-making more than my opponent. There’s a difference between a bad pass because I messed up, and a bad pass because the game overrode what I clearly input.

 

And the inconsistency is the worst part. One match, passing feels crisp and responsive. Next match, same players, same inputs, and suddenly everything is delayed, underhit, or magnetized toward defenders. That’s not realism — that’s unpredictability in the worst way.

 

I’m not asking for perfection. Just consistency and control. If I aim somewhere and use a certain amount of power, I should at least feel like the outcome matches that input most of the time.

 

Right now, it honestly feels like the game decides when a pass works instead of the player.

Make a 150 passes in a game, well 30 of them go directly like magnets to opponent. Im really starting to believe you never watched football.

Fix the fundamentals. Everything else can wait cause right now... If the gameplay was trash it would be a upgrade.

This game is an embarrassment to football... 

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2 Replies

  • vldsdfz155's avatar
    vldsdfz155
    Rising Vanguard
    6 hours ago

    The only consistency in this game is, that it's consistently inconsistent (now chew on that, EA)

    This is the only game where you can literally do everything right and still get beaten. Not because the opponent is better, but because the game doesn't let you win. It's not a matter of skills or right choises, but of mechanics that are not working and controls that don't do what you are trying to make em do.  The number of passes that end up with a different player than where you are aiming at is embarrasingly high, each button on your game pad does at least once per game nothing or delayed while pushing it. 

    Passing, good defense, offsides, intelligent runs, tactics, ... they are all fundamentals of modern football, but EA sacrificed ithem all on the altar of the Mbappe/Dembélé counterattack worshipping

  • Jonathanfcb83's avatar
    Jonathanfcb83
    Seasoned Newcomer
    15 hours ago

    Bro this is exactly the problem. I can accept bad passes if THEY’RE MY FAULT, But when I literally aim left and the game sends it right straight to a defender, what am I even supposed to do?

    Half the time it feels like the game is choosing the pass for me instead of rewarding the input I actually made.

    Passing shouldn’t feel RNG in a football game. That’s the most basic fundamental of the sport. The inconsistency is what kills it too — one match it feels smooth, next match every simple pass becomes a turnover simulator. At this point I’m fighting the gameplay more than the opponent.

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