Gamebreaking Bug – Input Completely Desyncs

I want to report an issue that I believe is far more serious than it looks and may be affecting gameplay integrity in FC 26.

For context:

I’ve been playing this franchise since 2007, and my Ultimate Team club was created in 2011. In all these years, across multiple FIFA/FC titles, I have never experienced anything like this.

Here is what happening for the past 2/3 weeks:

• Usually, First half is smooth (responsive input, clean ball rolls, normal jockey).
• At halftime, the game shows a black screen right before the second half loads (not a full crash — the match continues).
• When the second half starts, gameplay becomes completely desynced:
• Ball rolls in the wrong direction
• Passes ignores my left-stick direction
• Jockey feels heavy and delayed
• Players react as if input vectors were being misread

This is not lag, not controller drift, and not internet-related:

• Stable wired connection
• Issue reproducible offline
• Closing and reopening the game restores normal gameplay momentarily 

This strongly points to a broken gameplay, where the engine fails to properly reset input buffers, animations, or gameplay state after a visual glitch.

What concerns me most:

• This does not cause a full crash, so many players may assume they are “playing badly” instead of realizing the match is technically broken.
• Once this happens, the rest of the match feels fundamentally unfair, especially in competitive modes.

I’m posting this to ask:

• Is EA aware of this gameplay degradation?
• Is it being investigated as a gameplay integrity issue?
• Are other long-time players experiencing input desync specifically after halftime glitches?

This isn’t about tuning or skill — it’s about the engine entering an invalid state mid-match.

After nearly two decades playing this series, this is the first time I’ve seen a single visual glitch completely break input behavior inside a match. So frustrating (and infuriating).