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FIFA 19
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GuyIncognito
pressure cooker full of skittles
I mean it's no "5 star recruit joins the Army because 'Murrica and gets drafted to the NFL after beating Dan Marino on an Iraqi army base," but...
DanishDonut0
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I don't know shit about the story mode, but if I'm reading what he said right I'm sure it happens at the youth level all the time. Prob not in relation to this story when you're already supposed to be a top well known player.
chibob
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"Well, actually..."
This stuff did tend to happen a lot in the past. In the pre internet days. Google George Weahs cousin.
I think today it would be very hard, especially with a Real Madrid, but Danish is right, stuff like this happens a lot in places like Africa.
I have also heard of scams where players literally pay agents to come to the UK for "trials" which don't exist.
A few years back there was a lad who thought he was signing for Fulham and he had just been abandoned at a train station.
chibob
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"Well, actually..."
This stuff did tend to happen a lot in the past. In the pre internet days. Google George Weahs cousin.
I think today it would be very hard, especially with a Real Madrid, but Danish is right, stuff like this happens a lot in places like Africa.
I have also heard of scams where players literally pay agents to come to the UK for "trials" which don't exist.
A few years back there was a lad who thought he was signing for Fulham and he had just been abandoned at a train station.
chibob
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Yeh the story last year was ridiculous.
Iv never heard of a player going from the exit trials to a Prem team let alone two players.
chibob
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Yeh the story last year was ridiculous.
Iv never heard of a player going from the exit trials to a Prem team let alone two players.
worst2first
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How do you make duplicate posts 9 hours apart?
Copy pasta!
chibob
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I posted the first one and put my phone down, then when I re-opened it when I woke up it reposted.
NML
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Played 10 games, here are some thoughts:
- At the risk of sounding like rhombic here, I think the change they made to the tackle engine is the greatest improvement I've seen since I started playing FIFA. It was in the demo but I didn't notice it as much until I played an online game. NO MORE DRY HUMPING UP AND DOWN THE FIELD. Instead of it being a static button, it's more like passing, for example. You have to "power" it up and when you let go, that's when the tackle is made. It takes a lot of getting use to from a defensive perspective, but it completely changes attacking online.
- to follow up on that, get used to taking away passing lanes. That's the best way to play defense this year. On ball, ur positioning is everything.
- the AI seems significantly better to play against, but the bar was so low there that I'm not willing to call that a success yet
- I mentioned this in the fut thread, but the gap in goalkeeper quality is massive. Whatever mode you play, get a good keeper. Bad ones let in everything.
- if you play online, when both players press continue or resume from the pause menu, there is a 3 second countdown before play starts. Much needed
- on the radar, each team is now either black or white, versus in the past where I believe you were ur jersey color? Which sometimes meant you had the same icon colors. A lot of people are bitching about it, but I prefer it. It takes two seconds to figure out which color you are, and then there's no confusion about it.
Enjoyed playing it this morning. It's EA though so I'm sure they'll patch in the humping tomorrow.
- At the risk of sounding like rhombic here, I think the change they made to the tackle engine is the greatest improvement I've seen since I started playing FIFA. It was in the demo but I didn't notice it as much until I played an online game. NO MORE DRY HUMPING UP AND DOWN THE FIELD. Instead of it being a static button, it's more like passing, for example. You have to "power" it up and when you let go, that's when the tackle is made. It takes a lot of getting use to from a defensive perspective, but it completely changes attacking online.
- to follow up on that, get used to taking away passing lanes. That's the best way to play defense this year. On ball, ur positioning is everything.
- the AI seems significantly better to play against, but the bar was so low there that I'm not willing to call that a success yet
- I mentioned this in the fut thread, but the gap in goalkeeper quality is massive. Whatever mode you play, get a good keeper. Bad ones let in everything.
- if you play online, when both players press continue or resume from the pause menu, there is a 3 second countdown before play starts. Much needed
- on the radar, each team is now either black or white, versus in the past where I believe you were ur jersey color? Which sometimes meant you had the same icon colors. A lot of people are bitching about it, but I prefer it. It takes two seconds to figure out which color you are, and then there's no confusion about it.
Enjoyed playing it this morning. It's EA though so I'm sure they'll patch in the humping tomorrow.
Are you talking good GK like a De Gea or Courtois level or would the Bravo, Hart, Begovic type ratings level?
NML
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My point is that GK rating is super important. You'll notice a difference between De Gea and Hart, and you'll notice a difference between Hart and Tim Howard.
I think these are the pubers who have been spamming tackle all game long for the past five years. Defending is harder than before, for sure, but I think the fact that the game is less ping pong-y should offset that.
I really like the black/white radar change. I'm not colorblind, but I still struggled with the radar when there wasn't a lot of contrast between the marker colors. The black markers still kind of blend in with the field more than I'd like, so I'd prefer if you could select whatever colors you wanted... but this is still better than green vs dark green on a green field, lol.
NML
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More. I believe most online modes are played at professional - and the AI is too poor to let the AI handle it. If you remember in pro clubs, our defenders were basically not sprinting at times when they needed to.
In FUT and seasons, players were combatting that by sprinting to where the defender needed to be, switching to the second man, and letting the AI defend on ball. I don't think that'll be nearly as effective this year.
Last year I typically cut passing lanes in the first 2/3's of the pitch and was the second man in the final third - now I have to defend the ball in the final third or give up way more goals.
NML
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I could easily see EA scraping the whole thing and falling to the puber (and money spending) cries - but I am cautiously optimistic because these changes were made because the eSports world felt the game had too much randomness (which is obvious), and FIFA is EA's first real foray into that competitive gaming scene.
I think they see the value in that so hopefully they follow that path.
I think they see the value in that so hopefully they follow that path.
Favoring skill? Well I'm fucked.
NML
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Well I think the game favors skill, but not necessarily stick skill. In the past, possession, slow build up style wasn't as viable as it should be because if defenders were within a yard of you, the tackle spamming was coming and ur looking at getting stripped.
Skill moves will be useful because more players will be user defending. I've never been a skill moves player but I have had success with R1, which is no touch dribble. It's an easy way to give a body feint by pushing one button.
Skill moves will be useful because more players will be user defending. I've never been a skill moves player but I have had success with R1, which is no touch dribble. It's an easy way to give a body feint by pushing one button.
Driven passes to striker and then using either a dummy/pull back/ or Rstick flick has always been my favorite method against the frantic puber user controller. They humpin you so hard they leave you free on goal pretty regularly. Also, just dribbling straight forward slowly.
chibob
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Gorilla - I think hes literally World Champion now
Soonerfan09
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Have they made any significant changes to Manager Mode? I know about the changes to player negotiations/transfers, but is there anything else?
chibob
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I havent touched it but I heard theyve had a massive over haul of it
worst2first
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I think I'm going to buy this on Friday so I can sperg out for a few weeks on a single player career. I'm too shitty to play online.
DanishDonut0
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Even though I haven't played competively in 2-3 years I appreciate this since I'm colorblind. There have always been games in the past I couldn't use radar.
Damn this thread makes me want this game bad.
First game, keeper is calling for pass and then giving it right back to the other team to try and farm saves. He went 0 for 2 trying this before I quit after calling him some choice words in English and Spanish.