Recent severe degradation in gameplay
Has anyone else noticed this? Yesterday it was obvious in VSA/tournament mode that my players were suddenly slower, clumsier, and made many more poor passes and shots. It was as if they had been mas...
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Still happening today. Again. Just had a fully maxed 126 OVR Hazard trap the ball in an VSA match only to then come to a sudden stop (instead of shooting as I had directed him). A moment later time expired. This glitch of my player failing to execute my input cost me the win.
These instances of inexplicably poor player performance are happening in EVERY VSA match (including league tournaments). Others in my league are reporting the same. Can someone from EA please clarify/confirm whether changes were made (e.g., a massive player nerf?) that may have resulted in this sudden change in performance?
Ok - so the thing is - VSA is not really a direct PvP mode, it is played entirely on your device against their AI controlled defence, with only the scores are transmitted through to each other.
This is different to H2H, where you are directly playing the player controlled team, with every input from each of you bouncing back and forth from the servers - in h2h distance and congestion lag is a killer - it’s why I can’t play it at all (being thousands of kilometres from the nearest server and relying on Australia’s decidedly mid data network).
So, if you are having these issues of sluggishness and poor button response on VSA, that points to something going on with the processing capacity or touch responsiveness of your device … the best thing for that is to force close the app, clear the games cache if you are on android, restart the device, fire up the game and have another crack.
if Android you will need to do that regularly (at least once a week, if you are playing a couple of sessions a day, I would say once each day) to ensure you don’t get bogged down by the device cache.
with regard to anything being changed - nope, nothing has changed recently
I had already cleared my cache to no avail. I even offloaded some data from my iPad. None of which worked. And then, suddenly, today I log on and it appears to be back to normal. Players move smoothly again in VSA. Poor touches and bad passes/shots are back to where they were (at acceptable levels). It’s shocking really how night and day it is, and I have no earthly idea what could have possibly changed overnight. 🤷♂️
Just to paint the picture of how stark the change is/was… Today I’ve won 5 straight VSA matches, whereas I’d failed to win 9 of my previous 10. The gameplay experience could not be more different.
