Made it to Champion level in Vs Attack and it’s now quite clear that the way EA simulates facing tougher competition is to “dumb down” your players. One would hope and expect that the competition would merely get quicker/smarter/more skilled, but instead they’ve clearly chosen to make your players slower/clumsier/more error prone. It’s really pretty miserable to try and battle through because you can’t take for granted that a player will cleanly receive and turn with a ball that they were fielding cleanly only yesterday. And it doesn’t seem to matter whether a defender is close either. That’s the part that is so dramatically unrealistic and stupid.
So, all this just reinforces our belief that other game modes (like H2H) are in some sense “rigged” to make your players perform worse (independent of, and despite, anything the user does). It’s a pretty lazy way to to design a video game, but there you—that’s EA for you.😒