EA SPORTS FC 25

Matt10 said:
Are you using weather effects on my chance? We have seen some strange ball physics with it enabled, but primarily in adverse weather of course. The wind feature is a good addition.
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I used medium weather effects, but it is more about the pass speed consisty, especially when it comes to first touches. I am not sure if it is for the sake of variety, but you never know what sort of pass you get (playing full manual). Short tapping results in heavy driven passes sometimes, which are magically glued to ground and break the immersion.
 
This game is really nice to play. Seeing Chris and Emroth in the same topic to speak about a game they didn't like for years is a little miracle.

EA made some good work in this game. The progress of Hypermotion, the simulation mode, the comeback of the présentation. We all appreciate that.

Simulation mode is really a mistery because we all are thinking than hidden options are enable when it runs. Impossible to the same feeling with custom sliders.

But sliders work fine this year.
I tried some new sliders combinaison with PSG, Big team with only ground passes in the old FIFA/EA FC24. When I managed to have clever crosses, I was really nice.

Like many FIFA, CPU needs to have a speed sliders enough high to be créative. In simulation mode, it's at 32/32 but when you played with this value with custom sliders, it's not ok.

I hope in the next patch, they will reduced pass speed for simulation and added more faults, the big issue this year.
 
Emroth said:
What do you mean you can't have short goal kicks inside the box?
You press R1 to call for support and your players are entering the box for short goal kick.

See this is the problem - there is a lack of knowledge here. A lot of people automatically assume that the game doesn't work properly before they even try to understand it's mechanics.
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Yes I know you can do this. But the hole positioning is just not right. They aren’t standing at the same high as the goalkeeper. Also the defending team isn’t reacting really to it.
So there isn’t a real pressing and build up scenario like in real football.
I mean if you watch a game of efootball or pes or a real live game you should know what I mean.
if a team will press you it would be just stupid to position yourself like in eafc25 with the back to the field. Because you don’t see where the pressing is coming from and you have to turn before passing.
In fc it maybe would work becaus you could pass accurately out of a turn but it’s not football at all.
 
kamy100 said:
Interesting tweet RE Sim Mode from one the lead EA gameplay devs:

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I answered him. Seems like a positive fella after all, reading and responding to a lot of remarks. If you guys want to like my comments, maybe there is a better chance of him seeing it : https://x.com/TucoBenedictoP_/status/1840307756827398287 (or just add yours too if you feel like it, the more we are the better it is, just keep it constructive and civil if I may add a suggestion).

after all we said in the last few years (that there was absolutely nothing for single player users in the future, that it was gonna get 100% online and so on and so forth), for how incomplete it still might be a sim mode for us pop in their mind all the same, it likely may do small or even no difference to give them feedback, but at this point why not trying all the same and hope it could become something really satisfying in the next future?
 
nono_loko said:
When the game goes at the speed it needs to go it's a great game, but when it starts to speed up without explanation I turn off the game. We need to find a solution to that, it's unbearable.
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If we are talking about the same thing - It's a bug. SIM mode sliders are deactivating from time to time, or don't work in some scenarios (cup games). It's a known issue and will be addressed.
 
Minor bug but score updates in career mode showing the players’ first name cracks me up. How does this stuff happen it’s bizarre.

The new commentary is awful too.
 
Wow, the new face sculpting system (I think it's called Cranium, right?) is something else.

Someone made this as their Clubs player - "Young Messi":

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It's a bit hit and miss for the generic players (like my beloved Tranmere), but still a huge improvement. Two Tranmere players I recognised immediately from how accurate they are.
 
Ezequiel Vanzin said:
A magical solution for all of us would be for EA to unlock the simulated slides so that we could edit. Could it be that, for example, on PC, someone can't do this through some mod or cheat?
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From what I've heard (treat it as a rumour), they're locked because they're not "actual" sliders and it's more of a visual representation of what's going on in the code - so they don't directly correlate to the "actual" sliders. Some changes will be similar to slider changes, but others achieved in different ways - so if sliders were enabled, you would see some bizarre things happening.

That said, modders like @Anth James and @Paul-v (whose genius allows us to have mods at all) have access to a lot more stuff than slider values, so they'll be able to work wonders.
 
Thanks Chris for the explanation, I suspected that these simulation sliders were just something visual as they don't work like the custom sliders, even so the simulation pattern is already very good, I'm already eyeing the Anths mods, they really will make the game better, I'll certainly use them
 
To give you my modest and quick opinion, the simulation mode works and even very well for a start. We no longer have 40 goal opportunities during a match, the AI no longer pierces defenses, misses a lot of passes and shots in world class, the pace of play is more calm and slow, what the AI does makes sense even if it is far from perfect. This is perhaps the first time that we really feel the level of the teams we are facing.

I play in manual shooting and semi for the rest and I manage to have fun on the game, fun that I have not had for a very long time.

So yes it is not perfect but I note a lot of work this year, I would even say that the final version is more mastered than early access. This is the first year in 5 years that I launch Fifa on PC and that I have no problem making it work, they finally took this version seriously for me.
 
Keeping playing trial: i somehow like the game. It's the best fifa/FC since fifa20.
I would rate It as a 6.5/10, so to me it's a decent game,on sim sliders.
I would like buy it, but a voice in my head tell me " why should you buy a game,to play offline single player,when fifa16 is still miles ahead than this?"
I am sure i will not appreciate the game on default sliders to play it online seasons,so offline would be my choice, but offline fifa16 and old Pes still make me smile,while this.... i don't know..
 
It's great that Ea chose the community and made a game come out this year, I hope they continue to improve the Sim mode and don't abandon it, then we can maybe go back to the heyday of FIFA, if it continues like this we can expect a lot of good things for EA 26 and 27 with this more polished mode and maybe even a new engine!
 
Emroth said:
One of the things I always loved about FIFA was that every new game had some hilarious bugs at the start.
They never happen to me, which is a shame, coz I would love to see some of them.

Behold, coz I have something epic for you.

Some guys player won Player of the Season award and there was a cutscene of the ceremony.
And all his teammates showed up in their underpants:
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That's brilliant 🤣 Did you happen to get a video of this?

Here's a couple of random visual things I've come across in Clubs:

Silver referee sometimes appears. Went in for a close-up only to see this bake:

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My pro showing up as a 13 year old?!

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edit: forgot about black faces on white bodies

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I’m on PC, trail version. It started originally but now it won’t launch the game, just the small FC25 in black and green square before going back to the EA app. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app and repairing the game from inside the EA app but no luck, the same thing is happening.

Anyone have any advice?
 
I'm really struggling with how up-and-down the game speed is, and how this directly causes massive holes in midfield (and makes the game a constant running-box-to-box basketball-style affair like FC24 was).

Whenever game speed goes up, the ratio seems to be that defenders get 10% quicker and attackers get 30% quicker, which just ruins the game completely.

Some games with sim mode enabled play beautifully at lower levels - and I feel myself about to get my wallet out and pay for the full game (my 10hr trial is about to expire)...

...then I have a game against Bolton (League One vs League Two), and BOTH teams get a speed boost, which makes the game feel so simplistic that it's simply turning a speed dial to make better teams harder to beat. Suddenly, 24's skating and twitching is back.

Tried turning SIM mode off and on, changing speed sliders (which just exacerbates the space in midfield even more)... and at that point, I just feel like I'm fighting a losing battle, trying to wrestle the game back to realism.

To top it off, I scored this lovely, precision-shooting, unique-feeling goal*...
(*But look how completely passive the midfield is, zero engagement - just traffic cones.)



...and then, scored pretty much the same goal again.



That felt pretty cheap, pretty unrewarding and it made me stop trying to like the game, for tonight. But I'll try again tomorrow. There's something good in there, but I'm really having to work hard to bring it out.
 
Simulation sliders are definitely a game on par this year, reach 25 hours of play and there are n different variables that are better in simulation mode than in custom ones, player weight, pass weight, the AI's defensive reconstruction is more intelligent, in short unfortunately sliders customized to AI and frantic seem to have a kink! The bad side is that we were unable to reduce the speed of the game in simulation mode and not increase the number of fouls, whoever makes a mod on top of simulation mode will have an almost perfect FIFA in my opinion!
 
Some of the avatars for the younger male players look like women. You find this mostly with youth players.

Also, controller issues for pc is getting worse. For now, I think it's best to wait for an update because it's starting to kill my enjoyment. Navigating menus and other settings on a controller is so bad that I have to use a mouse.

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Is there a way to get your defensive players to stop ball watching and actually defend? Is there a slider option that help bolster your defense? And why can't I change game speed?
 
Is there a way like previous games to give player instructions to get in the box or stay on edge of box for the cross? Or is this down now to the player roles?
 
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