Hello EA, in the latest version, the strength of the AI teams has been increased to a degree that is hard to imagine. They possess extremely powerful reaction speeds, making it very difficult for players to get through them, and all fancy moves are rendered meaningless in front of them. This has resulted in ordinary players like myself struggling to obtain rewards in missions. I hope EA can weaken the strength of the AI teams or enhance the AI assistance for the player's team (at least don't make them look like idiots).

Product: EA SPORTS FC MobilePlatform:iOSWhat's your device's make and model? iPad 9th genWhat's your device's firmware? iPadOS 17.6.1What is your game version? latestIn what game mode did the bug occur? Live EventHow often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)What happens when the bug occurs? Gameplay difficulty is off, rewards are sometimes given even when game is lostWhat time did you see the bug? (HH:MM AM/PM) 17:30This has been occuring ever since the last update. Gameplay in Icon Chronicles has gotten ridiculously hard. When playing with my 104OVR team against a 85 or 90 team, their attackers are much faster than my fast 103 defender, and are unstoppable. My 103 ST gets stopped easily by much weaker defenders. And so on, and so on, It's next to impossible to win the games!But the weird thing is, in a number of the games I lost, I still got a "YOU WON" screen at the end, and I got the reward. Something's not going as it should!

Same here… I can’t even win the Weekend Challenge anymore. My team is 106 OVR and I stand zero chance - even the Chronicle Matches are difficult now. Opponent team has 85 OVR but the team plays like it had 120 OVR. Just stupid• My players can’t outrun the opponent• My players run around like blind lice in a maze• My players can’t utilize their skill moves• My players get swarmed by 3-4 opponentsit feels like the opponent has 35 players on their team; haha… The opponent team is just WAY to overpowered now. I remember this happened once before, and EA turned it down again. Let’s hope enough people complain about this

I think it just shows how little EA cares about it's player base. I'd like to see their reasoning and testing process that decided whacking the difficulty level up was a brilliant idea. Was any peer testing done? Was it with people with "normal" squads (so 104 OVR or lower)?Or was it just a finger in the air and a "F*ck 'em that'll do" approach?They gave it all the big 'un that Anniversary event was going to be spectacular and instead bumped up the AI difficulty 100% instead of 10%, didn't increase the rewards to match the sweatiness involved to beat it. Forced players into more H2H mode matches (I actively avoid H2H) made it more difficult to score in VSA mode. Messed up the search function in the market. Reduced opportunities to get Mascherano while inflating market prices of tradeable players.Also, in the UK it's nearly impossible to get the rewards from watching the video adverts too. Yet another shining example of the vast incompetence of the FC Mobile team. If I wanted a weekend sweat fest for irrelevant rewards I'd go play FC25 on console.It's a perfect example of how to alienate your player base and hope the whales keep plowing money into it to verify your decision to ruin the game for the casual users.

Just tried again, it's totally ridiculous. @EA_Illium please tell the team, because they need to fix this ASAP. Maybe it was a bit too easy before, but they overcompensated and now it doesn't make any sense.

Since the update to anniversary the gameplay AI has become more difficult which is expected. What I can't fathom is why the struggle between an 85 OVR team (AI) vs 104+ Team (user) is a competition with that large of a range difference.Recently played Frank lampard Main Icons match which is professional and it was challenging as 104+ (mainly 30 Trained players) team performed terribly unable to outrun, out maneuver the 85 OVR team (player status 6 Trained)Worse of all 104 players unable to defend or catch break away attempts, goal keepers out of position and unable to make simple saves.The disparity between OVR and training should not allow a team to be this challenging.I won but wow something is off!

AI Too Difficult (not a happy anniversary)

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4xyixpndqsd2
Rising Traveler
11 months ago
I think it also has affected the way your opponents defenders in VSA works too. Skill moves and sprinting are basically worthless now
Lincoln6161
New Adventurer
11 months ago
Hey, EA. Any comment about the problem ?
ninjavibe76
Seasoned Adventurer
11 months ago
Agree to all of this.
My team is 106 and all my defenders are 105+ but they are outrun everytime by a 95 player.
No skill move works on their defense and no way you can outrun them…
After two retries I manged to tie the game and get to penalty shootouts in the final. My keeper threw himself in the right direction on three of their penalties but they still scored. Of course their keeper saved two of my pk’s…
I actually think it is great that the games are more difficult but this is ridiculous…
Konterman
Seasoned Veteran
11 months ago
@EA_Illium
After all these years of bad experiences, I was almost sure.
I had thought it, but I didn't want to give up the 1 per cent hope that the epic EA Mobile might get better with this update.
But it didn't happen again. I thought, you can't make the game worse after all these years of downgrading.
I was wrong, EA has managed to get even worse🫣
Not only the 1 anniversary event is terrible and completely focussed on EA Points consumption. The game mechanics and the AI have also become completely worse!
What's more, the rewards are worse than before the update.

In addition, EA has lost or not renewed more licences than ever before. In all these years you have always saved money in the wrong place and put us customers off with empty promises.
However, the fact that you have now even ruined the league tournaments by no longer counting the goals scored correctly is the highlight of this update!
It could of course be that EA introduced the VAR system and 4 goals were disallowed here.
Irony off for today😔

I know I won't get an honest and serious answer because such big update errors are inexplicable.
My league members have reduced from 32 to 22 in one week after your update!😤
Many prefer to play with the competitors, who have made a much better season start update.🖤💙
I myself am still sitting on over 10k EA points, which I will probably never spend again in this game because the shop offers suck and I hate to spend them.🤑
Sorry,🙏🏼I can't say it any other way, EA you've * it up again.🤮
pelicanos
Seasoned Hotshot
11 months ago
@EA_Illium plz publish the percentage of gamers successfully completing the anniversary weekend challenge since the update.
gzkqoe0hihlg
Rising Veteran
11 months ago
@pelicanos Exactly! Pull out the metrics from logs and give us the percentage.
iamjoshuatree
Rising Rookie
11 months ago
I've noticed that too. The AI seems to be way overpowered for most content. Why have a 140+ attribute for speed when a 98 attribute for speed catches them easily. Makes it unenjoyable. Sure, I like challenging but it's not fun.
EzzyLupe
11 months ago
@JackGasolineThis happening everywhere even in Challenges, they made the AI too hard and even gave players boost to lv30 so like even more hard if it's a good team like doesn't make any sense and i wasted my gems retrying @EA_Illium please compensate those who did that and thank you
txgovke5ao1e
11 months ago
I also facing the issue with bot teams becoming way too hard to defeat, the skill moves and sprinting does not help at all. The defender are not fazed at all. It's so difficult that it's unplayable. I haven't won a single bot match since the anniversary update too. And the weekly challenge is way too hard, it's terrible. Please fix this or I will have to leave this game for good.
Bee59Tee
11 months ago
Same here, 106 ovr and my players run around like blind mice, with zero chance of winning, may just navigate back to Efootball again, at least it’s 1000% fairer