My WL finishes are roughly as follows in Fifa 17 Now this would give me an advantage over someone who isn’t great at defending manually because we can all score goals in this game, keeping them out is the issue for most.
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Probably like OP, I’m extremely competent at manual defending, this is from years of playing PES before I switched back to Fifa in 2015, I started playing FUT in 2016. But unfortunately it’s all to do with £££$$$.
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Had to sell him 3 days after the patch because the 2nd man press and AI defending was back with a bang!! Utterly disgusting what EA have done with this game. He played like a dream, goals, assists link up, gliding around the pitch, finding space, dribbling around the (AI) did. Packed Ozil during early access, played about 50-60 games with him during early access and the first weeks release.
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That said, if I'm in the minority about how they want a football simulator to play then forget all of this. I'm not generally one to whinge, I really just want EA to understand how their audience feel. I'm a football fan first and foremost so it's unlikely I'll stop playing but it's close. I really hope for better but find myself continually disappointed.
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That skill gap that we had at the beginning is well and truly gone and it's terribly disappointing.
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Pace and power is king and you can legitimately set your defensive line deep and let the AI defend for you by itself. Defenders can't read a pass, counter attack is key, passing stats don't matter, technical ability doesn't matter. Okay, passing was nerfed and slowed down and that was improving but it was still a slight on the game we got in the beginning. Other style became possible but not prominent and I still found myself playing the same match over and over again because of the mechanics of the game play. Patch 2 - Improvement, that's really all I can say. WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO MY DEFENDER'S ABILITY TO READ A PASS?! This felt like a regression more than anything. All other forms were out and instead it's back to sit deep, let AI defend, play a through ball and you're one on one. It became counter productive (ironically) to not play counter attacking football. Musa was once again one of the best players in FIFA all due to his pace and worst of all, the "meta" was back. That place that your David Silva, Iniesta, Ozil etc had, it was gone. It was sped up again, AI defending became prominent again and it was back to the speed and power of 17.
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Patch 1 - I felt as though the game we were advertised, the game we all bought was essentially gone. The game play might have needed slight tweaking but it was almost there. You manually had to move your defensive line and this created a huge skill gap, which is brilliant. It was no longer a viable option to be a midfielder and let the AI defend for you. For the most part the game mimicked the demo but with an increase in the power of long shots and decrease in the ability of goal keepers whilst naturally having that "quicker pace" that FUT will likely always have (please get rid of chemistry) but the biggest aspect was the noticeable difference in defending from FIFA 17. Players like David Silva, Iniesta, James Rodriguez, they all felt as they should, like elite technical footballers that use their brain along with their ball control and dribbling ability to keep close control and run the game.įIFA 18 Release - Gameplay was still fantastic, despite some minor flaws. Technical footballers (that aren't the quickest/strongest) FINALLY had a place in the game. It seemed there was a real unique aspect to it in which people could create their own original style of football and the game was based on skill and tactic. Demo - Gameplay was fantastic, passing was smooth and crisp, game was slowed down to a realistic speed, different styles of play were all viable.