FC 27 Team Tactics and Player Roles
Greetings team! FC 27 beta tester here. I have been an active member of the fifa / FC community for well over a decade now, with my main gameplay modes being career mode and FUT.
After playing a few games on the beta and exploring the menus, I am very disappointed to find that there have been no changes or tweaks made to the current tactics system. My biggest issue with the current tactics / roles system is still how restrictive it is. I know the team made some changes that allow for the AI to move into open space when it is available, but its still a long ways away from how advanced the tactics should be for a game as polished and as popular as EAFC is.
Since the new roles system was introduced in FC25, it has been nothing but restrictive. For example, There is still no role that allows for anyone of my wide players to come inside and act as an extra midfielder (wide playmaker and wide midfielder roles do a terrible job in properly executing this), the roles system still only allows you to adjust what your players do when you have the ball, while completely ignoring roles that could be set for "off the ball", there's still no role that has any of the fullbacks form a back three with CBs when the team is "in possession," even though that is something we see constantly in football today, there is still no role that allows for my striker to drop as deep as harry Kane does for Bayern, in the inverted wingback role, the wingbacks are still too slow when it comes to getting into the inverted wingback position. It is also still impossible to have my midfielders in a midfield 3 rotate accurately between their positions. There is no role or setting that allows for it, because the roaming setting does not do a good enough job at accounting for it.
Formations should be the template on paper, while roles should be what allows them to move freely around that template. For example, its still impossible to start in a 4-3-3 formation, have the team buildup in a 3-2-5, and defend in a 4-4-2. That's unacceptable for a game that is $70. With how tough it is to change engines constantly and always revamp gameplay, one would think that the other things around the game would be close to perfect, but it still is not. Even with something that seems as simple as updating player models, the team still struggles with. I find it hard to believe that Dominic Szoboszlai still has the same face scan he had when he was back at Leipzig.
I understand this has turned into a little bit of a rant in the end and that is far from ideal, but I am strongly against releasing FC27 in its current state. There is still a lot of work to be done! not only in the aspect of roles and formations, but in other aspects as well like player models and some other things I am sure my fellow game testers will talk about in this forum.
