Ultimate Team on PC is Unplayable Right Now – Serious Issues Need Fixing

I honestly don’t even know where to start at this point, but the state of PC on EA Sports FC 26 is completely unacceptable right now.

First, there is the controller bug in Ultimate Team that keeps happening over and over again. I enter matches using my controller, navigate everything with it, the game literally tells me to press X/A on my controller to proceed, and then I load into the match and I’m stuck on keyboard with the orange indicator. No warning, no reason, and no way to fix it mid-game because there is no “select sides” in Ultimate Team. This alone is already costing games for no reason.

But that’s not even the worst part.

I’ve also been facing hackers multiple times in Weekend League where, as soon as the match starts, I can only control ONE player while the rest of my team just stands still with indicators above their heads. I’m basically locked out of playing the game. I got FIVE opponents like this in just my last Weekend League run. Five. How is that even possible? Are these reports being checked at all from your side? Because this is way too frequent to be ignored.

Then there’s the post-match bug where the game gets stuck in the cutscene and nothing happens. No menus, no progression, nothing. The only option is to close the game. And of course, when you do that, it counts as a disconnect and gives you a DNF. So I play the full match, finish it, and still get punished with a loss because the game freezes. How does that make any sense?

And now the latest issue: random disconnections mid-match. My connection is completely stable, I don’t get kicked out of Ultimate Team, and I can literally queue into another match immediately after. So clearly nothing is wrong with my internet. Yet the game disconnects me mid-game and gives me a loss. This happened THREE matches in a row, and now I’m getting a message saying entering matches has been temporarily disabled. So I’m getting punished even further for something that is clearly not on my end.

At this point it just feels like PC players are dealing with a completely broken version of the game. Between input bugs, hackers, freezes, and fake disconnects, it’s impossible to have a consistent experience in Ultimate Team.

And the worst part is that none of these are rare, one-off issues. There are tons of problems like this that PC players keep experiencing.

This seriously needs to be addressed. At the very least:

• Fix the input system so controllers don’t randomly get overridden
• Investigate the hacker issue and actually review reports
• Fix the post-match freeze so players don’t get DNFs for your game breaking
• Fix whatever is causing these fake disconnects and stop penalizing players for them

Right now, playing Ultimate Team on PC feels more like fighting the game than actually playing football.