talk is cheap, when will you get the game and join our team?
Might play it once itās free on Game Pass. Otherwise, they can fuck off. Itās a terrible game for career players, AI defending from your own players is just ridiculously shit. If you donāt change to a specific player they will just let the opposition walk right past them whereas the opposition defense will slide from 10 metres away to cut out a pass.
Also drives me nuts when my player could run towards the ball but decides to wrestle with some opposition player instead.
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Havenāt played it yet but it doesnāt sound like Iām missing much. Every year thereās even more complaints and people are tuning out even earlier.
UFL is officially coming out in a couple weeks, which is great timing to be fair.
It will be free-to-play and is specifically designed to avoid pay-to-win mechanisms.
I believe any microtransactions involved will be cosmetic.
Will definitely give it a go myself. I remember enjoying the beta quite a bit. Gameplay is nowhere near as refined as FIFA but it was good enough to make sense as a football simulator and have you engaged.
Iāve grown to despise online gaming in recent years but this one got me seriously hooked for a couple days.
At the very least I hope it gets some attention and puts some sort of pressure on EA to rethink their approach.
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Saw the game is available at 50% discount already
Iāve seen so many people complaining the past week or so.
Even big content creators seem demotivated and just fed up.
I saw that on the Xbox store earlier. Wasnāt even slightly tempted.
Been playing it a bit and I am starting to wonder how EA made the game worse lol
Fullbacks just donāt even overlap even when set to do so unless you play a 1-2, same with your wide players, they just stand there.
The AI is even more OP than ever. All they have to do on attack is to swerve a little bit and your defender is unable to catch them, you do the same to their defender who is sprinting across and he will just change angle perfectly.
Same deal with the speed thing. Their attackers break through and you struggle to catch them, yours does the same and a 58 pace defenders runs down your 90 pace attacked easily.
Plenty of other nonsense like this that just makes the game awful to play.
Iāll give you my sliders later on mate. I think Iāve cracked the code lol. Really enjoying my Port Vale career currently in the Championship from League Two atm. Online is a toxic mess though.
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Considering getting FIFA only for Career Mode. Worth it? Game must be at a discount already right?
Itās worth getting for career mode IMO. I think itās the best fifa since Fifa 20. Did not like the previous four editions one bit.
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Whatās the career mode like these days? Is it actually worth slogging through? I used to love it about 12 or so years ago.
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I like it. Itās been revamped; the youth system is better, you can now play with academy players in āyouth tournamentsā to give you a feel of what they are like before you promote them.
Youāve got more settings to chose from such as no loss of stamina after matches (i.e your players are fully recovered for the next match - doesnāt include injuries).
You can choose to be unsackable - massive bug in previous games where youād get sacked after winning the treble because the board are furious you didnāt sign an U18 from the amazon rainforest.
I like the mechanics of this Fifa and the career mode is better - so for me itās something to chill on during some down time in the evening. After some trial and error Iāve managed to perfect some CPU slider settings which make the game challenging but not impossible like the AI can sometimes be. Iāll share these later tonight.
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This was a great change for sure. It was fucking diabolical how you couldnāt play players two games in a row without them being at 50% stamina, especially if you simmed games.
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After I started my second season, Kai got a 6-month injury
In December, Musiala got a 3-month injury
The sliders Iāve fine tuned for the best experience. Note this can be down to personal preference but so far Iāve found this enjoyable and balanced:
DIFFICULTY: Ultimate (change if too hard)
6 mins half
SIMULATION SETTINGS
-Apply to both USER and CPU-
-anything not stated remains on 50-
Sprint Speed - 40
Injury frequency - 70
Injury Severity - 25
Marking - 60
Run frequency 60 CPU ONLY - USER 50
Line height - 55
Line length - 45
Fullback positioning - 72
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CPU SLIDERS - important (new implementation on EAFC25)
AI behaviour: CUSTOM
Tackle aggression - 1
Buildup - 70
Rest 50
Would love to hear some feedback on these. Please give it a good 5/6 games because natrually AI teams play well or bad depending on their form.
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What the fuck is this title update?
I gave in to a sale a little while ago despite my better judgement. But I wasnāt hating it until I logged on this evening and found myself playing ice hockey rather than football.
They had NHL 25 developers to update EA Sports FC donāt you know??