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BarcaTheGreats1's avatar
BarcaTheGreats1
Seasoned Rookie
6 months ago

Player Career Mode - Incapable AI Teammates

I like to play player career mode only controlling my player.  My teammates in player career mode cannot not construct an attack or truly defend as consistently at all. Meanwhile the CPU can string together 10 passes in a row but we cannot link up 3. This has been an issue for quite some time now, since likely FIFA 20. FIFA 17 and 18 had much better teammates.

There are instances where my teammates constantly make backwards progress by always passing the ball backwards, or dribbling to the sideline and not passing the ball. Or when I am open, they make the decision to shoot an unreasonable shot or not pass to me, but in cases where I am not open, they force the pass to me even if its a 180 degree pass behind them and they don’t backheel pass in that case.

My players don’t close down attackers in dangerous areas unless I call for help by pressing R1.

Why is this the case? Why isn’t the AI of both teams using the same logic? It’s painful to see the opposing team playing such great football and my team are playing at the level of toddlers. I’ve tried adjusting the difficultly setting and playing with sliders. Nothing helps.

6 Comments

  • jfernan8's avatar
    jfernan8
    Seasoned Newcomer
    5 months ago

    Still waiting for EA  to comment I'm a huge player career guy who likes to control only their player. The mode is unplayable , it's terrible

  • I'm having the same issue. My team are incompetent to the level they keep passing the ball to the opposition.

  • This is really frustrating, do they actually take this feedback? I feel defensive player in FC26 is better than FC25 but my teammates can barely make 3 correct passes or position properly when attacking. Is usually me running towards goal and my teammates are running backwards letting me do all the attacking. But this is not the case of my AI opponent.

  • I just bought this game specifically to play player career and oh my god it is SUPER annoying and frustrating. If I play on professional difficulty I can literally walk through the opposition and score 9 or 10 goals a game, which is super boring. So I upped it to World Class and all it has done is made my team mates thick as pig**bleep**. They go side to side and back again. As an attacking player I have to run all the way back, demand the ball, try force a 1-2 or something and even then, after lots of messing about and creating a space my AI teammate will just pass it backwards to someone it a terrible position instead of into the space I've made. If you dont do this 1-2 method you have zero chance of breaking down the defence as they remain in shape 100% of the time and your AI teammates just tap side to side until they inevitably lose the ball, even if they pass to you the CPU will immediately suction onto you like a limpet and take the ball off you (no matter of they're in front, to the side or even behind you).

    So basically my options are play on professional and have a boring and unrealistic 10-0 win every single game (Bradford city against Liverpool no less 😂, i mean, I know Liverpool are having a hard time at the moment but, c'mon) or a frustrating war of attrition that maybe ends 1-0 if I manage to coax a decent 1-2 out of a teammate or 0-0 because the CPU can't actually structure an attack and score.

    Switched it off and I'll play something else. Waste of money.

  • arco_legend11's avatar
    arco_legend11
    Seasoned Newcomer
    1 month ago

    im playing my player career as cmf. and everytime the opposition runa a fastbreak, my fullback only jog not chasing the winger. please fix

  • This is so true, my Ai teamates just stepovers and do random skills into the defenders and lose the ball so much. However the opponents ai play tiki taka vs me and score so easily 

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