VSA Champion +15 Full of Random Glitches
Hey, what’s with my players suddenly growing “two left feet” every time I reach +15 at Champions level VSA? Up until this point I felt like it was down to my players and my skill whether I won or lo...
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Your idea is right.
Though my rank isn’t as high as yours (about +5), I’ve experienced many of the same problems you mentioned, and even more. Let’s put aside the issues that could be blamed on “player skill,” because EA will just say it’s about our controls. But honestly, I feel the same as you: sometimes players behave in really strange ways, almost like they’re match-fixing. And since it only happens sometimes, it’s hard to believe it’s just poor game design.
About players giving the ball away right at the start of an attack, I’ve had that too, and sometimes even worse. For example, at the start of an attack, I can’t always control the player closest to the ball. Let’s say the ball is on the right wing and my RW should be chasing it, but instead, I can only control someone in the middle. All I can do is watch the RW run after the ball on his own, with no time to switch. And even if I do have time, pressing the switch button often makes the RW auto-pass the ball randomly the moment he receives it. One time, the ball didn’t even start at anyone’s feet, it just spawned at a random spot, and the opponent’s defender was the closest one to it.
I also run into a lot of time-wasting. The clearest example is the transition animations: sometimes it just goes black for 1–3 seconds, which can cost me an entire attack. Another situation is when the ball goes high into the air, the game won’t move on to the next possession until it lands. Either the opponent clears it, or just when I’m about to get the ball, the play suddenly cuts to the next attack.
And my AI teammates behave in very unhelpful ways. If it’s not a great chance, my teammates will often run straight into crowded areas, leaving me with no passing options, or forcing me into high-risk passes that almost never work.
In short, the whole game needs serious improvement. I just hope EA stops focusing only on releasing new events, and instead actually works on fixing the gameplay—so FC Mobile can feel like a real and fair football game.
I hear ya, and I’ve experienced many of those same frustrations.
You hit the nail on the head with that last—EA needs to stop investing so much time in mostly gimmicky new content and put some time and energy into improving the basic mechanics and playability of the app. I’ve ranted elsewhere about how H2H matchmaking produces consistently atrocious lag and a generally lame gaming experience. I’ve also commiserated with fellow users about how MM is mostly a pointless waste of time (since the “manager” controls don’t appear to have any discernible effect on the match). So, you’ve got the three main game modes all with pretty major flaws and lots of people complaining and EA just keeps churning out cheesy events and even cheesier “skill” games. Doesn’t anyone at EA have enough shame to put an end to “bunny pinball” once and for all? It’s an absolute joke that the developers are wasting their time on crap like that instead of making long-overdue improvements that would actually make REAL matchplay FUN.
At the end of the day it’s a basic question: Does EA respect the game of football and the hundreds of millions of fans who love it? Or has it strayed so far from its “if it’s in the game, it’s in the game” roots that it’s willing to keep doubling down on a second-rate card-trading app. It sure seems like the latter, but I’d love nothing better than to be proven wrong.
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