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pkis4t7c0d9i
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1 month ago

Icons incorrectly wear Modern Sock boots. Please revert to old icon boots

Hello,

Icons and Heroes are currently appearing in modern sock-style boots and single block-colour boots in-game, which are not historically accurate for the vast majority of these players.

It appears that boot styles for Icons and Heroes are selected from a general rotation that includes these modern designs. While this works well for contemporary players, most Icons and Heroes played in eras where classic black leather boots, or subtle colour variations, were the standard. As a result, these modern boots feel out of place and reduce historical immersion.

If possible, it would be great to adjust this rotation so that modern sock boots and block-colour boots are excluded for Icons and Heroes, allowing them to default to more era-appropriate footwear. This seems like a relatively small presentation change, but one that would have a noticeable impact on authenticity.

To clearly show the issue, I’ve added three images:

  • The first shows an example of an ideal classic boot model on Maradona, which feels appropriate for his era.
  • The second shows modern sock boots appearing on Pelé, which do not align with the period he played in.
  • The third shows block-colour boots appearing on Völler, which similarly feel out of place for a historical player.
  • OLD SYSTEM - I have included a photo of George best with the icon boots that all icons used to have - Even reverting back to this would be an improvement 

 

There are a small number of exceptions where modern or distinctive boots make sense (for example, all-white boots for Ronaldinho), but these cases are rare. For the vast majority of Icons and Heroes, classic boots would better reflect their real-life careers.

As a related visual reference, Bobby Charlton’s Icon consistently wears completely black classic boots in game, which appears to be an intentional choice to reflect the boots he wore during his playing career (Same is true for Puskas, wears brown boots every game, which I think means that you guys are trying for accurate boots on icons.)

Ideally every the option to actually customize their boots would be ideal but failing that, every icon having the classic style black or black + white laces/colour laces would be the next best thing.

regardless, High cut sock boots were first introduced in 2014, so nobody that retired before then should be in them.

The overall likeness and presentation quality for Icons and Heroes is excellent, which is why this detail stands out. Thank you for taking the time to review this feedback.

7 Comments

  • Please please fix this. It really takes away from the detail put into the player models

  • agreed - post on Reddit about this and multiple people agree. Just a shame that majority don’t come on here so won’t upvote or comment

  • EA_Darko​ any update on this? I have updated the post with a Reddit post that got a big response - Over 80 people agreed with it, if you could just confirm that you’ve seen have seen this that would be great.

    Thanks!

  • EA_Darko's avatar
    EA_Darko
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    1 month ago

    If there is any update then I'll share it here pkis4t7c0d9i​ 

    Our team make a lot of tweaks and changes to the game post launch and it is not always possible to do everything people would like to see.

    Darko

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