EA SPORTS FC 26

[pootball_furist]

Amazingly better than we saw previously.

This actually looked the best from the Authentic Gameplay videos shared here.

Lighting of pitch might have biased us into liking this more. Animations still unrealistic but way better than the other gameplays!

CPU AI was horrible though!

Need to see if EA listens to feedback and pushes patches for open BETA.

They might not be able to salvage this completely but at least make it barely playable for footy sim heads. (At launch)

 

[dontellmama]

3:34 1st touch

 

[DerleiPT]

 

[barcamanmessi]

I do wonder why these last two authentic gameplay vvids look better. Is it possibly that these are on a higher difficulty so the tracking back is better?

 

[saturator]

I do wonder why these last two authentic gameplay vvids look better. Is it possibly that these are on a higher difficulty so the tracking back is better?

It's on world class.
I don't know why i have a new update for FC 25 today on PS5!

 

[thelinnen]

That Porto one just popped up on my feed. 10/10 game for adding mascots.

Seriously though, it looks playable. I'm not expecting miracles just something that can hold my attention for more than a couple of matches.

 

[DerleiPT]

I do wonder why these last two authentic gameplay vvids look better. Is it possibly that these are on a higher difficulty so the tracking back is better?

It is still far from being good game, take a look how fast players can change running direction

 

[DerleiPT]

 

[FC Bayern]

First issue that makes it unrealistic. The tifo is spelled correctly 😛

In seriousness though, this will give a better idea of the game. The SPFL teams are a lesser quality than Bundesliga, Ligue 1, La Liga etc. So should show perhaps a slightly more realistic idea of the game's speed.

Don't know about players standing around the stadium pre-match though. The only really do that for cup finals, do they not?

 

[Isslander]

Amazingly better than we saw previously

KILL IT WITH FIRE!😱

 

[FC Bayern]

I've just noted that despite using the same EA FC scoreboard, the SPFL team line-up was different to the Liga Portugal one. A nice little touch

 

[pootball_furist]

Again, much better than the rest of the Authentic Gameplay but EA needs to fix two things for sure! (One of them they have not fixed in years)

FIRST to fix:
When the user changes direction, players use those ugly overrided animations that look so awful. I think the "RESPONSIVE" feature they added this year has made it worse!
So, I hope EA has internal sliders or dev settings that allows to recalibrate it. I mean, in all honestly, I want it to be removed but lets see.
BTW, there is a chance that this uglyness is imbued in the engine itself and is unfixable by dev separate authentic settings.


SECOND:
When the players are through on goal, why do the opposition AI defenders jog towards players? Like this is not even Competitive or Authentic discussion.
This is just a very poor AI design and something that FIFA games have been plagued with for years.
Its insane how these things are passed through QA. Like who is even testing legendary, world class AI opposition.
W.r.t offline gameplay, the production value in AI is so low (given how much they charge us for these games. AAA titles)
This thing will not be fixed because opposition AI bugs have been in the game for years( For example, R1 dribble, through ball jog, stupid passes when clear change etc)

 

[Eb.bela1125]

I find the FC experience is pretty reasonable up to 4.5* teams. As soon as you use the best players with high agility / dribbling / pace it’s a janky horrible mess. I also honestly wouldn’t even be surprised if there’s some now legacy built-in code that makes the game more “competitive” when the best teams are chosen - it’s where the fundamentals break down. The Real Madrid match posted here for example looks terrible. I’ve also only ever experienced the speed up bug a lot of people here talk about with those kinds of teams.

EA’s stats curve is also too flat and further blurred by playstyles. As soon as a player has 85+ on something it breaks the physics. The god-mode animations either need to go or be limited to 95+

 

[darkoj2007]

how could this be acceptable level of animations? no physics, no inertia, nothing... even prevoius versions of the same engine were better in this regard. Nothing interesting here.

 

[oldbox]

how could this be acceptable level of animations? no physics, no inertia, nothing... even prevoius versions of the same engine were better in this regard. Nothing interesting here.

In FIFA19 footballers starting skating…
…After years, we can seeing progress of figure skating in FC26 - footballers can flying:


I think that EA wants to make a figure skating game to finally sink to the bottom in our eyes


I have FIFA 21 on PC, and I play it sometimes, the "skating" is present, but it's not as pronounced, and the animation speed looks better than in FC26. I don't see any improvements in FC26, just words about it.

 

[Andrewbillyjoe]

Gameplay at 1 hour

If gameplay will be at release like this it will be great!!!

 

[Bravez]

In FIFA19 footballers starting skating…
…After years, we can seeing progress of figure skating in FC26 - footballers can flying:
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I think that EA wants to make a figure skating game to finally sink to the bottom in our eyes
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I have FIFA 21 on PC, and I play it sometimes, the "skating" is present, but it's not as pronounced, and the animation speed looks better than in FC26. I don't see any improvements in FC26, just words about it.

This guy doing a mid air flip flap whilst turning. Everything that’s wrong with the game. Physics totally ignored in the name of “control”