I dont know how
@Travis7401 can play with junk players this year.
Last year sure, you could scrape together a bargain bucket team and as long as you were a decent player youd win games. Now though you genuinely need the best possible players or they just straight up suck.
I had probably an average passing ability of below 70 in my first team and every pass seemed under-powered, figured it was just me adjusting but no unless you have an 80 plus passer all your passes dribble along unless you use r1 and if you use r1 with a low ability player then that ball is going all over the shop. These guys are professional footballers, doesnt matter how bad they may look compared to a perfect passer like Pirlo, Kolo Toure can still hit an inch perfect pass because hes a god damn professional.
The same with dribbling. Theyve gotten rid of what was a huge part of FIFA, the ability to dribble. This was a skill, something you could pick up easily enough but hone over hours and hours. You would have to make tonnes of split second decisions on whether to fake shot, knock and run, skill move, when to switch from sprint to the hold up button of use both bumpers to drag back...now the game is so unresponsive that if you try it you get bumbled over. I tried to do it with Messi and Neymar in a draft game, equally useless.
5 star skillers are irrelevant. The trick to skill moves use to be that you exited the skill move in the direction where you wanted to change to. Ie. step over feint left then burst right hoping the player bought the feint left. Now it doesnt matter, the skill moves seem to just not work at all. You no longer hold the bumper so the game seems to only ever do a simple roll over left or right but its so slow you get bumpled over straight away.
Tactics are a fucking crap shoot. Everyone is going on about custom tactics but as you go lower in the divisions you just find AI used defense with the bus parked. Players with long finesse shots seem to be the only ones worth having. Yeh maybe last year and other years it was all about speed, but have a look at the top level players theyve all got pace so why make a game where pace is so irrelevant?
And then there is the AI for refereeing - its so inconsistent im almost convinced its on purpose. Plus I think they hire someone to program the AIs offside rule whose actually never seen or played a game of football. Its not offside just because hes in an offside position, he has to actually be interfering with play.
Also anyone notice how shit free kicks are when youre in your own half, or how fucking annoying it is when your player does his animated complaint to the ref when your opposition does a quick free kick? At least let me snap him out of it for fucks sake, you end up with like 5-6 quick free kicks a game.