EA SPORTS FC 25

[Antoine]

Players are like little scuttling crabs dancing on a field.

 

[simogto90]

At Christmas day I had a 2vs2 on couch with cousins,using sim sliders. We had fun,even if It was not fun as old PS2 Pes days,the game is not bad at all and it is way better than later Pes on Fox engine like 2021.
We tryed even on default sliders and the game was shit. My advice is to give up with custom sliders and stay with sim. It's not perfect,but it's decent and a.i positioning is better

 

[SmichiW]

is there some crossing tutorial?
Crossing is really bad when you dont have a player with the "Style"
Power Crosses are always too low also early crosses are they able to do?
I remember playing PES where i can hold another button to do an early cross but FC25 has always crosses that are not "strong" enough they are sometimes too high...

 

[SP83]

Played some clubs with my eldest on Saturday night.

Lasted 4 games.

It really is a shambles. The AI don't do anything.

At one point, the other team had the ball on the wing. The whole of our midfield got to about half way between our penalty area and the halfway line and stopped. They literally stood there.

The defenders don't do much either, seems to be you can try and make one engage but the others just hold position and stop moving. No covering, no stepping out to try and press, literally just stand in position and do nothing.

Usually on clubs we have a few laughs but I was bored as hell. You could just predict what would happen for every goal.

Tried Rush after which was alright for about 5 mins until you just get paired with 2 other players who don't pass the ball ever.

I've been playing FIFA 14, 16 & 19 & PES 17 recently and the difference in a representation of football between them and this is remarkable.

The 1v1 thing, they for some unfathomable reason have implemented, has destroyed the whole core of the game. I just don't see how when it's so obvious this is happening in gameplay anyone can harbour enjoyment in playing this. It's like each part of the pitch has invisible zones and if a player goes near the edge of theirs, they just stop.

I'll stick to my 'retro' stuff.

 

[Byronic]

I've been playing FIFA 14, 16 & 19 & PES 17 recently and the difference in a representation of football between them and this is remarkable.

I agree with this mentioned. I replayed FIFA 17 and especially FIFA 18 a lot the last weeks. The base of those older Games are just a huge difference to the newer FC Games. It´s always when replaying these Games like "Hmm, how could they get so far away from AI logical or more enjoyable behaviour?" Of course especially in FIFA 18 there are starting with those ugly ice skating animations from the Players on the Pitch, but I can handle that with myself, because the things I see without a gameplay mod are remarkable. The AI crosses in close to every situation they are on the wings instead of dribbling which leads to closed space before a cross.

So I saw header goals from the AI which is close to impossible in default FC 25. The 1v1 is so much more enjoyable to see in FIFA 18, hard to realize the Games are only 7 years apart from another, but same engine. With the Modding tools from the present I am sure Games like FIFA 17, 18, 19 could made even more enjoyable related to their issues and fails like the ice skating Animations.
It´s always very nice to come back to those elders.

 

[Andy_1984]

20 years coming up and all football games have done is get worse. Unbelievable really.

 

[Bing Bing Wahoo]

I agree that the amount of things in Career Mode are a bit too much. I mean, I guess it can be fun due to all the details, and it might just be a question of getting used to it, but coming from earlier FIFAs and PES, it does seem like a bit too much micromanaging..

Football Manager is a completely different case, as the entire game is based on these types of micromanagement decisions (that's the whole point of FM).. But for a FIFA/FC game, where you play the games, I wish there was an option to streamline the training a bit more.

You can adjust that stuff before starting a career mode save, especially the training settings.

is there some crossing tutorial?
Crossing is really bad when you dont have a player with the "Style"
Power Crosses are always too low also early crosses are they able to do?
I remember playing PES where i can hold another button to do an early cross but FC25 has always crosses that are not "strong" enough they are sometimes too high...

Crossing is awful in general this year. They need to fix it in an update.

 

[Jigen123]

Probably a stupid question but i'm not super familiar with modding the Fifa/EAFC series as i was mostly a PES guy until that series pretty much died.
Can i leave the game online while using mods as long as i don't touch stuff like FUT? I only play single player modes (mostly manager career) but i like being online because of the live updates. The only mod i'm using is "Danielz FC 25 Realism Serie A License Mod", which doesn't touch gameplay and only adds the few missing licenses to Serie A.

 

[Marlon Anthony]

Probably a stupid question but i'm not super familiar with modding the Fifa/EAFC series as i was mostly a PES guy until that series pretty much died.
Can i leave the game online while using mods as long as i don't touch stuff like FUT? I only play single player modes (mostly manager career) but i like being online because of the live updates. The only mod i'm using is "Danielz FC 25 Realism Serie A License Mod", which doesn't touch gameplay and only adds the few missing licenses to Serie A.

It depends on the mods you're using. If you're using FIFER Mod, there's an add-on that allows you to play online with the EA database but still keeps the kits, faces & boots. Gameplay mods won't work online and will force your game to crash or could even risk you getting banned online.

If you're playing offline modes, the online live updates for the roster will screw up your mod's database so it's recommended to play in offline mode in the EA app.