Three issues I've started having with FC25 over the past few days.

I have the game on Steam, but over the last few days I've started noticing several issues which I can only assume are probably something to with the latest game update as I never had any issues before that.

Firstly, the game keeps messing up the game files.
It keeps coming up with "Three files failed to validate and will be reacquired."

I validate the game files via Steam and it re-installs the three missing files, but as soon as you launch the game again, quit, and then go and verify the game files again it says "Three files failed to verify and will be reacquired" yet again.
This has only started happening in the last few days, so I can only assume it's something to do with the latest update.

Another issue I've started having over the last few days is - in Manager Career mode, my players now refuse most of the time to head in to tackles. They just dither in front of the opposition despite me trying to get them to move in for a tackle, and by the time they finally potentially move in to try and tackle, the opposition have usually pushed me right down to the box in my own half (often from right up in the oppositions half),  leaving me massively exposed as the AI all run in to gang up on me and giving me next to no chance to defend myself.
It just feels like I'm only controlling the players properly for half of the time I'm playing. The rest of the time it's dithering rather than trying to tackle, making the game incredibly frustrating to play now.
It's almost like I'm 'simming' half the time because I'm not fully in control.

The AI now seems to have super-human reflexes too (Manager Career Mode, using Simulation settings, not the usual Fifa style legacy gameplay) which it didn't have a few days ago. Last time I played the AI made one move (a block, tackle, and then pass if I remember correctly) that was so fast my conscious mind could hardly keep up with what my eyes were relaying to my brain. There's no way a human could react and move that fast to events unfolding around them while sprinting. You'd fall azz over tiz for certain if you tried that for real. Well, more like you just physically wouldn't be able to react and respond that quickly, even at walking pace.

Also, the switching has become terrible over the past few days. I have absolutely no idea why the game decides some of the switching options it makes available are 'good ideas'.
If I try to pass from one defender to another for instance, and I'm actually passing AWAY from the direction of the goal, the switching decides to change to the goalie and not to the defender the ball is clearly heading towards.
I've conceded two goals today because the game won't let me switch to a sensible player, ie a defender if I'm passing forwards diagonally from defender to defender outside of the box, because the game switches to the goalie who then comes charging out to try and get to the ball, rather than the game letting ME switch to the player I'm trying to pass to.
Again, this has only started happening over the past few days - since the last game update. Coincidence?????

Seriously. What the hell has happened to this game recently?!
It's an absolute mess at the moment.
It never used to be this bad. It's getting frustrating to play now.

Can we have an option to roll back to how the game was before the last update, as that update seems to have screwed so many things up and made the game almost unplayable at the moment.


I won't hold my breath, but I'll say "thanks in advance" anyway for a potential speedy fix.... for whatever good it may do.