FC 26 has become the most automated hand-holding football game EA has ever made
What an absolutely pathetic direction this franchise has taken. FC 26 has stripped away so much of the skill gap that it barely feels like you're playing anymore. It's becoming less about who makes the better decisions and more about who gets the AI to bail them out. Every year EA talks about "realism," but realism shouldn't come at the expense of player control. A football game should reward manual defending, manual passing, manual dribbling, and smart decision-making. Instead, everything feels increasingly automated. You don't outplay your opponent—you spend half the match fighting the AI. And the attacking AI is the perfect example. Unless you play exactly the way EA wants you to, your teammates become completely brainless. Make an early through ball? Your striker suddenly stops his run. Try to create space? Your attackers stand behind defenders like statues. Look for a quick one-two? The return run never comes. Instead of intelligent movement, you're forced into a handful of attacking patterns the game actually recognizes. The moment you try something creative, your own AI starts working against you. It doesn't reward football IQ—it rewards learning what the AI wants. You're not just playing against your opponent; you're constantly negotiating with the game's mechanics. The defensive AI tracks runs for you. Passing is heavily assisted. Interceptions happen automatically. Goalkeepers pull off miracle saves regardless of user input. Defenders recover from mistakes they should never recover from. Why even hold the controller at this point? The whole point of a competitive game is that the better player wins because they're better—not because the game constantly corrects mistakes and narrows the skill gap. Every mechanic that once separated good players from average players has been toned down in favour of accessibility. Instead of rewarding mastery, the game rewards letting the AI do the work. It's the epitome of modern game design: simplify everything, automate everything, remove the skill ceiling, and call it "balanced." If I wanted to sit back and watch AI-controlled football, I'd watch a real match. I bought a football game because I wanted to play football—not negotiate with an algorithm over who gets to control my own players. Bring back manual defending. Bring back manual passing. Bring back intelligent attacking AI that supports creativity instead of punishing it. Bring back player expression. Bring back the feeling that my decisions actually matter. FC 26 feels less like a football game and more like an interactive cutscene where the AI is the main character and I'm just along for the ride.This game panders terrible players
Typically I will finish around 11 wins, knowing I'm an average player, but in the middle of a game my players all of a sudden feel so so heavy on top of the opponent making a comeback on a game that makes no sense. This horrible gameplay continues causing me to finish horribly and know that the game is entirely at fault. I know when I lose games to players who are better, but my players genuinely felt as if they were walking in concrete. On top of that, I was gifted a loss due to the game kicking me off the servers before a match even kicked off. EA needs to remove scripting as it debilitates the game for good players like myself and many others in the community. The constant pandering to the casual player in competitive gamemodes is attrocious and needs to be investigated.
Where to begin.
Last month was fine everything working perfectly. Then 2 weeks ago couldnt even play with a oppenent "left opponent bug next you ea app start next took week evening do live chat with representatives of ea giving me all these methods nothing worked. Couple days ago found my self fix solution. Ulitmate team and pro club still has left opponent bug. Don't waste all our time with this methods with a rubbish game too ive spent thousands dollars . Ea app rubbish get rid of it because cant play fc without it when ive paid $150 aud for it BTW your anti cheat was problem that giving errors genius. Fix your servers and bugs Definitely fix your game because too horrible the game doesn't feel relastic at all feel like I'm playing arcade or simulator which genre should be fc ? Hard to defend or attack . And BTW im elite division in ulimate team in all you fifas and fcs. Hopefully you woke up to yourself to fixing fc27 developing it balancing defending and attack not like arcade or simulator games my specs PC.Explain to me how your game works.
How is it possible that a player with less speed and less physicality can take the ball from me without any difficulty? can you explain it to me? Can you also explain how in an immersive "realistic" football game you can only play with 3 specific tactics? Also, in a "realistic" football game, does performing feints make a player completely invulnerable to any attempt to take the ball? Aside from other problems like SBC , where the same players always end up in the same spots in every pick? Now my question is: Are you going to leave me and the entire community seen in this post without answers, as always? Or are you going to get some shame and answer, even if it's just to look good?
FC 26 PS5 – Manual Transfers Duplicate Players ⭐
Hello, I would like to report a bug in EA SPORTS FC 26 on PlayStation 5. This issue is not related to Ultimate Team, Career Mode, Online Seasons, or any online game mode. It happens in the main menu of the game, using the Edit Teams feature to make manual transfers. Here are the exact steps: I start the game and go to the main menu. I open Customize > Edit Teams > Transfers. I manually transfer a player from one club to another. The transfer appears to complete successfully. However, the player is not removed from the original club. Instead, the player is copied to the new club, so the same player exists in both teams at the same time. Example: I transferred Casemiro from Manchester United to Inter Miami. After the transfer, Casemiro is still in Manchester United and also appears in Inter Miami. If I play a friendly match between Manchester United and Inter Miami, Casemiro is available on both teams. I also performed another test: I transferred Bruno Guimarães from Newcastle United to Free Agents. Then I transferred him back to Newcastle United. Instead of having one Bruno Guimarães, the game created a duplicate, and now Newcastle has two Bruno Guimarães players. This issue only happens with certain players, while manual transfers work normally with others. It appears that the manual transfer system is duplicating players instead of moving them correctly. Could you please investigate this bug? Thank you.
Why FIFA 2026 Goal Celebrations Don’t Reflect Real Professional Football
I want to express my deep frustration with how the FIFA programmers continue to show a total lack of understanding of the real dynamics behind goal celebrations, and this seriously affects the immersion and authenticity of the game. First of all, football is NOT American football. The celebrations in FIFA look like they were taken from an NFL game, with the entire team dancing hand-in-hand in sync as if they were in a show. Just watch any top-level match—whether it’s in La Liga, Serie A, the Premier League, the Brazilian league, or our very own Argentine league, current world champions—and you’ll notice that the way goals are celebrated in real life is much more varied, spontaneous, and above all, logical. Critical point: the dynamic of the team that’s losing. If a team is down 2-0 in an elimination match and scores a goal with five minutes left, the last thing they do in reality is all happily dancing together. What actually happens—and this should be basic to replicate—is that the player who scored quickly grabs the ball and places it at the center to restart play because they know the fight isn’t over; you keep pushing until the end, not celebrating like the game is already won. The same goes when a team is humiliatingly losing, for example 8-1, and scores a goal to make it 8-2. There are no exuberant celebrations or happy group dances. There is resignation and focus, not that crude caricature FIFA shows us. It’s 2025, the era of advanced AI and simulation. That FIFA still shows this lack of basic football and emotional understanding is shameful. It feels like their programmers are stuck in 1998 and have never updated. FIFA 2026 needs to fix this fundamental flaw because not only does it make the game lose realism, but it also exposes poor selection and supervision of the programmers responsible for these animations. If FIFA wants to be the ultimate football simulation, these emotional and behavioral dynamics must be represented accurately and respectfully to reality. I hope moderators and those responsible read this, and pressure is applied so the community is heard and these details—seemingly minor but crucial to the gaming experience—are corrected.Please add create a sponsor to FC27
Create a team is the most fun you can have with a career mode but the kits are left vanilla and plain and unrealistic. I understand licensing prevents having Jeep, CHASE, or Blackrock(lol) on your kits but allow us to type in a fake sponsor banking co or tech giant to our unis so it feels real. Anything that eliminates your immersion and realism hurts the game and your customers. THIS IS FOR CONSOLE AS IT ALREADY EXISTS ON PC. Many of the custom kits are actively beautiful they just need Gecko investment group on them lol Like a main tier and a small text line underneath that can be customized using the colors of your numbers and name on the back. You could add a little animal symbol or small design near it but that's not even necessary. Just the text please! This would go a long way to making create a club career mode legit!Pack rewards 😞... Objectives rewards 😞... What is the objective?
So you spend hours playing for weeks to receive useless pack rewards, repurpose some of them cards gained into sbc's...mostly duplicate golds just to receive more useless cards...like what is the objective in creating these campaigns if the rewards are weak as 💩...and to make matters worse, the gaming experience has been horrific...just feels clunky and lethargic. This company takes your money and gives a big "F* U"...again pack rewards are pathetic, gameplay is atrocious, menus are laggy...Its a complete dogs breakfast! And soon we will have FC27...the polished **bleep**!