Some Broken AI-Formations (Career Mode)
I recognized that some Teams and/or Formations are completely broken. Meaning the AI won't really attack or really do something other than sitting in the back and playing passes with their defenders.
Formations I noticed it the most:
1. 3-4-1-2
2. 5-2-3
3. 4-2-1-3 (sometimes/some Teams)
At first I simply changed their formations to something as close as possible but....
The thing about this is as follows:
If I go to "Select Sides" and go to Team Management to switch these formations, I find that "tactic missmatch" Symbol (broken link or whatever it should look like) besides every tactical setting in this screen. If I switch tactical preference from for example high pressing to standard or any other and back again and rebuild Build Up Play and Line Height as they were before my changes, the tactics finally work and I don't have to switch their formations at all. If I don't switch anything, i'll get an easy win because the AI leaves way to much space in between their lines and isn't dangerous in attacking at all.
After fixing their tactics, the AI makes better runs, defends better, finds better passing options, work their way up the pitch passing instead of passing around in defense.. To make sure, it isn't just a placebo, I played some of these matches multiple times with and without fixing the symbol, so it clearly isn't just cosmetic or placebo.
Debugging Informations:
System: PC and PS5, same for both
Game Version: Bug happend for at leat Game Versions 1.4 onwards to 1.5.4 so far
Settings: It happens with and without custom sliders for gameplay and/or AI-Behaviour - haven't tested competitive so far, but authentic and custom. For AI-Behaviour I tested Tactical and Custom
Examples from Career Mode:
- Monaco 3-4-2-1 (6:0... 5:0 in Champions League legs, after fixing I lost one time and had another hard game which I won very close); Napoli, same formation as Monaco: 4:0, 4:0, after fixing 2:1 and 2:2.
- Royal Union SG 5-2-3: just smashed them every time, after fixing I got some really close games.
Mainz 05, same formation, similiar Results.
- Genk in a 4-2-1-3... Similiar to the others I mentioned.
All had in common that the tactics were marked as missmatch and were much more difficult after I fixed just that instead of swapping their formation to something else.