Manager Career Mode - Must be Fixed
Career mode in FC 27 is probably the worst in quite some time. It almost seems like it wasn't fully tested prior to release. I've been playing CM for years and this year I've stopped until we get some kind of update to help. I tried adjusting sliders but there are some bugs that you can't cut out.
Firstly, navigating the menus in career mode now feels like a puzzle in itself. You have to memorize the players on you transfer list, because from the negotiations screen, you can't see who is on loan/transfer list. You have to leave negotiations, go to your transfer or loan list, then go back to negotiations. Same thing with incoming transfers, just let us negotiate directly from the shortlist. You can create a shortlist, but have no way to view it on the actual negotiations screen. You have to enquire on the shortlist, so that it moves to the active negotiations.
Onto players requesting transfers, I don't know how it gets worse every year. With the default stamina settings, it is impossible to run a club without a star player transferring. Started a United career since our owners won't put money into the club, Bryan Mbeumo played 11/14 games and requested a transfer for playing time. The only times he sat were when his stamina was below roughly 75%. And he came on for one of those he didn't start.
This leads into the injury bug. My first save was with Charlton Athletic, and no joke I had an injury every single user played game for the first 8ish weeks of the season. On authentic, the CPU dives into obnoxious tackles and it is almost 100% hit rate for a minimum 2-week injury. That's not with stamina issues, that's fully rotating the squad. The default injury slider is at 75% on authentic which is ridiculous, you have to turn it down pre-save or the mode is unplayable. (Also, how absurd is it that you cannot adjust injury frequency once you start a save. I play EA CFB as well and you can adjust pretty much any slider in a game that came back 3 years ago.)
The last complaint that I feel like typing is the User first touch errors. THE DEFAULT USER FIRST TOUCH ERROR ON AUTHENTIC IS 85%. I genuinely don't know how this wasn't caught prior to release, I'm making 10-15ft ground passes from keep to my CB's and the ball almost jumps away at first touch. I enjoy playing possession on the higher difficulties, but you cannot make more than 2-3 passes without the first touch of Ugarte. I've conceded goals from goal kicks when it was a simple ground pass to my CB that bounced 15ft. away to the nearest opposing attacker. I understand not every touch is perfect, but the frequency is absurd.
Now, my final plea to EA for FC 28. Can you please do anything new for player career mode? It has the potential to be the best mode in any sports game and it is carbon copied every year. The contract stipulations are always weird and they just stay the same every season. You can be on 75 G/A but you didn't hit 20 top bins so not even MLS teams want you. Some kind of combination of the Journey, but creating your own player. Don't lock us into certain career moves, but would a cutscene or pre-match practice in the stadium be that hard? There is nothing dynamic about your career, give us a storyline based on performance other than the exact same prompt to post on social media after every game. Imagine starting in an academy where you're playing on almost public fields, getting called up to Sr. Team because of an injury, getting loaned out randomly. Really just anything other than the same exact mode every single year.
I doubt this will get any attention but if it does, EA please give us some effort here.