Squad Battles AI
The update to career mode ai has completely broken and ruined squad battles. Might work on authentic but clearly doesn't on competitive, this must not have been tested and if it was then please fire...
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Also GREAT timing EA, could've done this at the weekly reset but no, lets do it half way through the week when some will benefit from increased points but **bleep** over those that have already done their matches early.
To be fairricm0nkey im pretty sure the points went up from Sunday, but only just informed yesterday.
I was shocked at getting nearly 3k for a legendary 5-0 win on Monday.I doubt it. I haven't noticed a change in the way points are granted until yesterday. Very sure that the prospective points in the menu have changed since yesterday (they are lower).
No sense crying about it though. If you wait until friday to tackle SB you'll be facing ToTY-squads already, so I'll take my chances on the very low chance this change would've happened.
Very puzzled where this crazy feedback comes from that "it's too hard". It's just as hard as it was last year and the year before. The only problem was the ultra-defensive gameplan of the AI which they fixed for sure. I like how it's less sweaty by lowering goal requirements. Keep in mind that they lied to you: scoring 5 goals will still impact your points, just not as much as before. But upping point gains from higher difficulties will not mitigate the problem: people will just play on higher difficulties now and will probably still complain.
I've currently played 8 games of squad battles this week, and the change to the way the AI plays is noticeable. Not nearly as much time wasting, I'm noticing that the lower rated teams on legendary, still play well above their stats but they are a lot more open to counters and defensive errors. It feels like it has been a successful change, and they definitely don't sit on your players like they used to, you just have to be wary of the fact that because they attack more they are likely to create more chances.
I have noticed that the game seems to always find ways to make opportunities for the AI, such as tackles rolling right to the opposing player and my players heading the ball right to the feet of the opponent when they try a lob ball and I'm literally trying to make a 5 yard headed pass to my player. There are other weird things that happen, but I haven't played enough currently to know if they are consistent.
As for the point change, it's literally about an extra 100 - 200 points on each difficulty level if the AI doesn't score, it's nothing major but could still affect some people. I'm on track to get around 33k points this week if things go as planned, and can say that it has been a net positive change for me personally.
It's definitely done a lot to change the feel of squad battles, I just faced a 90 rated team with 91 Henry and 95 Maradona amongst other Icons and expensive players, and although the AI was insane going forward the way the team was set up made it easy to break through and create chances, especially since the AI wasn't constantly hanging on to players.
It was still hard, but overall I find it was more of a reasonable challenge than what I was seeing before. The AI still passes, shoots, and attacks like it's cracked out, but at least it is actually coming forward and not wasting my time with 200 pointless passes that are literally just to waste time.
Exactly what I thought.
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