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Sqaud Battles this year has been the worst gaming experience I have ever had. It feels like the AI needs to cheat like a shark needs to swim to stay alive. There is so much gameplay manipulation, it feels like Iike you're only in control of your own players 20% of the time, and your teammates are actively hiding behind defenders instead of making movements to get open or make attacking runs. The AI can just run or slide tackle straight through the back of your players with impunity, yet when you dare breathe on them you get sent off. Goalies are hyper aggressive and can also just phase through you to get the ball. All physics and in-game mechanisms just go out the window to ensure whatever you're trying to do doesn't happen. They will bend time and space to stop you from making a one yard pass just to **bleep** you off for no reason. You thought Rivals was toxic?? Ho, ho, no, Squad Battles AI is the most toxic thing on the planet. Fc26 AI will make sure your 15 tackles can't touch their player, not even come close, and then they'll get into position and fire it into row Z just to show you that they can gift the ball back to you, but you can't get it off of them . It's a control fantasy from the AI, and it's so toxic. All of this is to say, EA don't know how to code difficulty leveling properly so they just code the AI to cheat at varying degrees throughout the game to make it seem easier or more difficult. They are so lazy.