Enough is enough.
Although we all know that no action will be taken or no betterment will be done after everything I am going to text right now, I can at least try to point out how rubbish the gameplay is. You wait for months for a crossing bug to be fixed but once it’s fixed, you get two new bugs. That’s EA for you right there.
While you are reading this, they will be too busy to design new star passes or new packs so they can get your money instead of reading/playing their own game to improve it. Let’s begin.
Skill moves are mostly unstoppable
Effectiveness of the skill moves has skyrocketed and almost became impossible to stop them. Especially Heel to Heel Flick is almost unstoppable. Once your opponent use it, their speed will be at least 2x increased out of nowhere and you have no chance to catch them. And yes, like they did it with the crossing, 9/10 times your opponent will spam it. No strategy, no tactics, nothing. They will just deliver the ball to their fastest player and keep doing it. Only way to stop this is just NOT PRESSING AND WAITING or wait for them to misuse it. Of course you try to adapt and try not to press so you don’t fall for it, however, if it’s a counter-attack, you are done. They will be spamming it 15-20 times in every game so at least 1 of them will be succeeded. If they don’t miss it when it succeeds(they don’t in the higher levels as no matter what, GKs can’t stop finesse shoots on 1 on 1 positions), you will have to score at least 2 goals to win every game.
Open Up Fake Shot is basically its twin but 25% less effective. However, when you combine these both, your gameplay will be screwed. Because as I mentioned, you are not playing against anything but just these skill moves most of the times. You or they don’t need to develop a strategy. You just try to defend these skill moves whenever they have the ball. What a great game to play!
If there’s anyone who is going to argue these skill moves are good or it’s the player’s problem if they can’t stop it, they are the ones that are taking advantage of it.
Attacking side has magnets in their feet
Now this might be the biggest problem and this one affects both sides. Whoever is attacking, it feels like they have magnets in their feet. Most of the players in the FB groups realized this as well. For example, if the opponent is attacking, even though your defender tackles or touches the ball, the ball will go left or right or bounce(literally move to anywhere) but will end up at your opponent’s feet again. Although you try it with 2 defenders, ball will hit both of your defenders and will go back to the opponent. If not to the same player who was dribbling it, it will go to his teammate. That ball will end up in your opponent 90% of the time although you touch it. Like you are not supposed to win the ball.
Not only for your opponent but for you too. If you are in your opponent’s half, it will start to feel like you have the magnet now. Pressing is already completely useless, we got it. However, because of this genius addition, you need to wait until your opponent finishes their attack or misuse the ball. Good luck with that.
It doesn’t end here. Again, if your opponent shoots, let say from the center, and it hits your player, guess where is the ball going? Of course back to your opponent. If not to the one who took the shot, to his teammate again. Even worse, to his other teammate who’s waiting on the right, unmarked, waiting freely.. Yes, a power shot which hit your defender will curve the ball and will make it go all the way to opponent’s teammate like the teammate has a magnet in his feet.
Like I said, its not only for your opponent but for both. On VSA, you realize that most of the shots that you are taking wouldn’t end up as goals on H2H because wherever you are rotate the shot, it will go to the goal like a magnet is pulling it on VSA (not literally but the feeling). It is exactly the situation right now with the attacking side’s feet. The ball is literally sticking to them.
I am truly amazed how they can ruin the gameplay in every single update, it’s crazy. They will deny it like they deny DDA too, let them deny everything. I bet they are not even playing their own game.
Through passes are useless
Nothing more to explain this. Through passes are (again, mostly) useless as normal passes now are like through passes. I am trying to normally pass to my players to where they currently are, let’s say close to opponent’s box, but it still passes behind the defender for the player to run. If I wanted to pass it behind the defender for my player to run, I would use the “through” button, right? Then why is the same happening when I use normal “pass”? God knows. You can’t play like how you want to. You want to pass normally? No, you it will be through pass because that’s how they want.
Funnily, when you try to use through passes on VSA, the ball won’t even reach to your teammate. Not because the opponent’s defender intercepts or anything. It’s just passing a meter away does not matter how powerful it is.
Defenders are still leaving their position
This is already part of DDA that they are denying and it was supposed to be fixed in the last update. Is it fixed? OF COURSE NOT🤡 What did you even expect?
Your defenders will still leave their positions, start running somewhere else and when you select them to run, they will refuse to run to where you want. They are still intentionally creating spaces for your opponent to score. Here is what happens every time when your opponent is on counter attack(let’s say 2 on 3); dribbler will be dribbling towards your defenders from the center with his teammate following on the right. You control your defender who’s in the middle and try to wait/follow or whatever. Your other defender on right will not move and follow like you do but your defender on the left will start to run towards the ball or towards you or runs back. Why? Because he was the one who was supposed to defend the guy on right. Now he left a huge flank there and with one pass, it will be 1 on 1. You try to choose that defender to run back? Lol, of course he won’t. He will just stand there and not move anywhere else.
Not only on counter attacks but this still happens casually during the game. So you have to focus covering the spaces that your defenders randomly create while trying to defend your opponent spamming skill moves at the same time.
Long ball from the kick off
Like I said in the beginning, they “fixed” crossing issue(by completely ruining crossing) but of course there should be some kind of bug that will make you concede a goal. Probably everyone is familiar with this one. Match starts, opponent passes back, passes one more time then plays a long ball directly to the center. Funny thing is your defender jumps to defend it but he jumps early and falls and boom! It is 1 on 1 again. Most of the players keep doing it in every kick off. You scored a goal? Well, get ready to defend 1 on 1.
Bad timing on long balls
This is mentioned above, however, not only limited by that. Timing of the players are still rubbish and create problems. Opponent plays a long ball to your right, their winger is running so has nothing to do with timing. Your player starts running there but misses the ball or jumps early and fall. Another dangerous position for the opponent caused by the geniuses who coded the player’s timing.
Your own players block your shots
You managed to pass all your opponents and finally want to take the shot and score? Well, not happening. Why? Because your own players will stand in front of you and block your own shots. Like they can’t move anywhere or bend. They will just wait there just so they can block your shots.
Button switching timing
Another timing, another issue, classical. Opponent passed the ball but it was a bad pass so it’s coming towards you and you are deciding whom to pass before you literally control the ball? Not happening. You can’t command your player to pass before they literally control the ball. If you try to pass before controlling it, it will just switch to another player because the buttons are still not switched yet. Ends there? Of course not. Sometimes when you pass the ball to your own player in the box and you want to decide where to shoot before you control it but of course it will not happen. What’s going to happen? Your player in the box will slide tackle because this time buttons changed again like opponent got the ball. You miss a clear goal because of it.
Funny referee decisions
It’s just beyond funny. Nothing to explain. It’s everyone’s common problem.
All in all…
Simply when you add all those things, you can’t play single game normally. Not even once. At least 2-3 of them have to happen. You want to play a normal game without these issues and win or lose depending on how you played? Not possible. First you have to play against EA’s tons of bugs and mistakes that they couldn’t fix for years with millions of dollars of budget. Then you have to be lucky to not to play against a cheater because they take no action against them. You can start a thread here, complaining about the cheaters and a bot will reply “WeLl yOu CaN tRy To RePoRT iN GaME”. Thanks genius, we didn’t know we could. But does it matter? Of course not because you are only a customer to them.
I apologize to all players if anyone from EA happens to reads this and tries to fix these issues. Because if they “fix” them, they will create several other new problems for you.. Good luck
