Squad battles ruined

I couldn't agree more.

This feeling is all over social media/forums at the moment - The recent changes to AI Difficulty needs to be fully reverted back to day one of FC 26.

It's pretty obvious that EA has figured out that Squad Battles players don't spend as much on points to get ahead, so they need to create a sense of urgency to build your team in this mode, too.  All of their algorithms are focused on what makes people spend, and they've apparently decided that this will do it. First they limited the games you could play for points,  now they make it tougher.

It's been completely ruined, I'd say it is just broken right now.

Funny thing is I used to put money on from time to time but with this gameplay I have no desire to spend real world cash on bad gameplay.

Yep, a change no one asked for.

EA seem to have this weird perversion this year to make everything ultra hard, ultra sweaty and not fun in any way.

Very weird behaviour and making people quit the game.

The player base not spending on microtransactions is the only feedback they care about...

the Ai started to play like Humans :/ that is the problem ^^ so they chain 50 passes around the box to find their shot window thinking that this is football LOL as this is the way top players play ^^ This is a basketball game on grass with goals but the gameplay is using the fundementals of basketball tactics

I had also felt they were increasingly sweaty but yesterday felt they had reverted back to how they were to begin with. I didn't have any issues with the games yesterday like I had 2-3 days ago. Hopefully, that remains to be the case!

from the best squads to the worst theres no fun to be had anymore , the worst teams getting 150-200 passes per game and 70% possesion whereas the best teams are just pinging a pass to the only unmarked attacker in your box after youve just tried to tackle the same 50 odd balance guy 4-5 times only for the ball to magically get back to him.

And unless they change the rewrds system to wins over points whats the flipping point of upping the difficulty and frustration for players? Im still gonna finsh in elite 1 but have less fun and the cheaters gonna still finish top 200 and not give a crap.

Guess you got lucky somehow, they haven't reverted it, myself and others can attest to that.