EA SPORTS FC 26

peroberilo said:
So they are changing rules of the game to enable ping-pong passes.

And online crowd is happy.

Unbeliveble
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To be fair, I think they're trying to punish players who want to exploit the game by scoring a goal and then just passing it between defender and goalkeeper for the rest of the game. (You should be allowed to pass the ball around and hold possession if you want to; but with pass speed/accuracy being 100%, it becomes an exploit.)

And to be even fairer - as much as I want them to fix the core issue (how easy "ping-pong passes" are) instead of coming up with a "workaround" like this - they're fixing it as much as they can given that everybody will be working on FC27 right now. (However, will they ever work on it? I highly doubt it.)

It won't impact offline players, so I shouldn't care... but again, 1) I hate that I am (and we are) categorised as "offline players"; I want to play online, but don't want to play an arcade football game that feels closer to Sensible Soccer than FIFA/PES, and 2) even if there is a "competitive" mode, this is still a football game and it should still feel like football...
 
shumway said:
Of course I did negotiate with the players and haven't forgotten anything. I'm old but not that old. :NO:
And I skipped to the next day, the only cutscene was a player coming back from a loan. It's just one of those many bugs in Career Mode that EA just doesn't care about.
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Honestly, I doubt that. I searched for your problem in various communities and didn't find any other reports of transfers not working correctly. The only thing I found was people trying to sign players with expiring contracts during the winter transfer window, but accidentally negotiating a free transfer in the next summer transfer window instead.
 
The entire game, for a shockingly large number of people boils down to "How can I break the AI", and every update makes this easier for them to do. It isn't about having fun, it's a checklist. This has spread to every game mode unfortunately, and there is zero reason for EA to change it while printing money.

With the open world junk coming next year I am more than likely not purchasing it. My club still plays but the more sim-leaning people in the club do not play anymore, at all.
 
Eb.bela1125 said:
One thing I realised is this game doesn’t even have the mini cut scenes for substitutions anymore. That’s so soulless.
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I've not played this game enough to remember, I thought they were there in FUT but maybe I'm wrong.

Jay-Jay 10 said:
Did a substitution this morning in my Argentinian League save and it showed the cutscenes
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OK so I was remembering correctly.

This being said... What EA could do is extend the current "opt-in" system they use for the pre-match scenes and make it a feature for a full "broadcasting experience" (pre-match intro scenes, cutscenes during the match, post-match scenes like interviews or a "TV studio-like" analysis). I'd be 100% using it (especially in important matches) it they did it!
But hey, if it were just you and me I see why they wouldn't bother.
 
Fifa World cup were some of the best games, even in PES era.

Today because of greed, there is no World cup game ... but on other hand, there is no World cup also with ticket prices and everything else.
 
BTW the game is free on the PSN this month (like always, 3 games).

I tried it in "realistic" mode and it's way better than every Fifa i tried since the 20. But still too goal to goal, passing is too easy, and even in Tactical Defending i found it confusing.
But it's far from the ugly monster described everywhere, in comparison to his predecessor in fact. But still not a single match with less than 2 or 3 goal, set on the difficulty before "Legend", The keeper makes sometimes 4 saves a row when his defense is close to him but on one on one i scored everytime. The best was to test against somoene...

And yes, i wanted to play online too but i forget that you can only do it on Competitive. I hope it will be corrected next year, and also that realistic will be harder for ball kicking in every form, passes, shoots, long ball etc. even if there's some inteceptions when i choose the wrong player to pass the ball : long play is still to easy to reproduce without having to build-up. Another thing i scored tons of goal by attacking from sides and make the final pass to the central player on 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 : the lateral defender from the CPU try to get the ball too soon so there's giant space to make a through ball : that's why.
 
NeoRetro said:
BTW the game is free on the PSN this month (like always, 3 games).
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It's not Free, because you are paying for subscription good money in every region for possibility just have temporary access to this "set of free games".
 
Sany023 said:
It's not Free, because you are paying for subscription good money in every region for possibility just have temporary access to this "set of free games".
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I pay for PS+ to play online, I wouldn't have bought EA26, so I'm happy its included and not costing me any more money than I'm happy to pay for PS+ 👍

The actual game itself? I started on authentic, literally only played 1 game and it was a scrappy 1-0 win, not something id usually have on FIFA, Will fully play it tonight with a few beers.
 
Sany023 said:
It's not Free, because you are paying for subscription good money in every region for possibility just have temporary access to this "set of free games".
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Technically then nothing is free. Buy one get one free, but you need to buy one first. Plus the cost of transport there. If they put something in your house for free, it's not free because you pay mortgage or rent.

I guess it's free in the sense most people would have PS+ anyway, for online games
 
Sany023 said:
It's not Free, because you are paying for subscription good money in every region for possibility just have temporary access to this "set of free games".
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Well everyone "free", you know what it mean, everyone knows it i through that explanations wasn't necessery. But you're right for PC gamers not familar with Console suscribtions by months or years needed a quick explanation. I think you don't get the good informations about how does it works :

"Basic" cost 79 euros for the years to got 3 games every 12 months (so, 36 games a year), and at least one or 2 AAA by month. Now what you're explaining as a"Try for X weeks/months" is on what "Extra" version purpose. Beta to play games before everyone or full games 1 or 2 weeks before they're out.
I said it for everyone, i think, who got any sort of suscription (well, practically 99% of PS4-PS5 owners). Now let's be honest and doing the math : to get 3 more or less recents games every months so 36 games a year for 80 euros and a lot of price reduced regarding basic status, far from expensive. No need to yell at them that you have to paid, it's not an obligation except some games asking suscription for playing online like Street Fighter 6 if i remember, or every games now need it to play online? Whatever it's the same : no needs to launch them tomatoes for it.

Xbox + Nintendo are not doing the same. But i only despite Nintendo policy since the "after Wii" : they are really toying with people nostalgia and theirs famous "seal" like if they are now a luxe brand. Suscriptions is cheap, 30 euros but it doesn't offers a lot, but as the price of their cartdrige are super expensive, the try to reduce the damage. Plus, They should bring more creativity instead of over-using their characters since 25 years. Like Sony did with Astro-bot for example, Then many new licences from Sony.

I'm far from being rich and i own tons of games thanks to that reductions, in digital of course but for the price... We recently got Alan Wake2 and Lies of P the past month : those game were still 60 euros everywhere. For my personnal usage the suscribtion is looking really cheap and i'm not interested at all about the 2 others offers (Steam neither for others reason).
 
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FC Bayern said:
Technically then nothing is free. Buy one get one free, but you need to buy one first. Plus the cost of transport there. If they put something in your house for free, it's not free because you pay mortgage or rent.

I guess it's free in the sense most people would have PS+ anyway, for online games
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To me i'm using more for reductions and games by months. I rarely plays online, often i don't got the level.
But i'll make an exception for Sonic Racing Crossworlds as i found the game and his concept fantastic and it offers more new things and sensations than the new Mario Kart. I've read many people abandonning Mario Kart for the "always the same" reason, well to me it's more than i found Sonic RC as perhaps the best fun racing game on the market, and i'm also a Mario Kart fan from any type, but Sonic got "more" in every part of the game. it's way more faster so more feeling, there's much Worlds variety, tons of possibilities/controls and finally graphisms are really superb. One word to describe that game : Fresh.

Sorry for the O.T. Back to Fifa

It's true that i'm in Fifa retro PS3 mode as to me Impact Engine >>> Ignite (IMPACT was build for football/for Fifa, but they used the others and converted them to fit to football even if they weren't an "all in" engine like Unreal. Ignite i don't remember but Frostbite was done for Call Of or Battefield, and used for a sport game, same as Frosbite but that one was more created for any type of game. But their gameplays choices f***ed up the Engine but it's a good one, but as "people" (youtubers and Esports players) wanted that game to be a... Game, so not realistic or following laws of physics EVEN if the game reproduce the reality...
Now i think i understand them : they didn't got Arcade football games like us, funny football games, so they grown with almost realistic versions from only EA and Konami, while we grown with Arcade games fun as Tecmo World Cup, Super Sidekicks, even the crazy Fever Pitch Soccer or Adidas power socccer etc. etc. and you could've put your brain off while playing those game on VS (well they were hard to handle as it was an era where all games were harder than now, less for adventure or created for the story)

So, they want something they didn't grown with, i understand them a bit as those type of game missing me : especially the Arcade lookalike but deep gameplay as ISS Deluxe. And before, the one i founded most realistic was the firsts Fifa versions on Megadrive (even if all players where lookalike, that one thing which makes me hard to come back to that serie debut.

We were more interested by realistic sports games but we gotted fun crazy ones where you can punch your opponent to get the ball etc. it was amusing. Youths didn't grown with it. Now Fifa lost their pants and their ambition to make the most realistic game on the market since 7-8 years. If they wanted to create a fun football Shaolin games or a new Fifa Street, they could've but no : they prefers put everything in one Blue-Ray. Like the 5 vs 5 football game would have been better if it was more like a Fifa street and giving a total other feeling. But their gameplay choice seemed practically made for that mode, it feels more natural and realistic , to play that one than the OG Fifa :( Rules and POV from players are quite different and more individual so they can do more special stuffs.
 
Zlatan so cool in EA Sports FC 26, as he is cool in his interviews and many famous football matches.
Little bit weird trick by him in game, but funny. Also "shows his character to fight till the end in game moment" ...


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Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Interview to Piers Morgan
 
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Massive caveat - anybody leaking info like this will be playing on the arcade mode, so it's not very useful to us.

However, it's not what I wanted to hear - though I'll wait to hear it from more sources before panicking...





Looks like news is starting to drop:

 
Chris Davies said:
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Problem with reading impressions from these ePlayers is that not only is there vision for what a makes and enjoyable football game wildly different to what us sim players expect, even the ePlayers all have wildly subjective tastes.

This guy says in his tweet "The defender you control intercepts passes better if you read the pass, but it is not at the level I want. It is improved, but not enough IMO."

Not at the level HE wants, which could mean anything. Does he want it to be even more autmated and beneficial to him and not based on a variety of realistic and fair factors?

That's just an example that reading these views are pointless, eventually it will never be fast or assisted enough until EA keep patching the fucker every 5 days until it doesn't resemeble the product you agreed to buy at launch.

Imagine buying an music album online because it aligns with your tastes perfectly to the point you drop money on it and then every week, the artist keeps replacing the song with a faster and faster version in a different genre? "Well fuck you, it's our store, you're leasing our product and we can change it how we like when we like!"
 
Marlon Anthony said:
Problem with reading impressions from these ePlayers is that not only is there vision for what a makes and enjoyable football game wildly different to what us sim players expect, even the ePlayers all have wildly subjective tastes.

This guy says in his tweet "The defender you control intercepts passes better if you read the pass, but it is not at the level I want. It is improved, but not enough IMO."

Not at the level HE wants, which could mean anything. Does he want it to be even more autmated and beneficial to him and not based on a variety of realistic and fair factors?

That's just an example that reading these views are pointless, eventually it will never be fast or assisted enough until EA keep patching the fucker every 5 days until it doesn't resemeble the product you agreed to buy at launch.

Imagine buying an music album online because it aligns with your tastes perfectly to the point you drop money on it and then every week, the artist keeps replacing the song with a faster and faster version in a different genre? "Well fuck you, it's our store, you're leasing our product and we can change it how we like when we like!"
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This is why it's always good to try and find someone your opinions broadly align with for reviews etc. Even back in the day, the gaming magazines and websites always had their own view of things and differed a fair bit in how they reviewed games. Finding the one which aligned with you was always important.

I essentially just wait for Chris' opinion on here and then go from there 🤣
 
Marlon Anthony said:
Problem with reading impressions from these ePlayers is that not only is there vision for what a makes and enjoyable football game wildly different to what us sim players expect, even the ePlayers all have wildly subjective tastes.

This guy says in his tweet "The defender you control intercepts passes better if you read the pass, but it is not at the level I want. It is improved, but not enough IMO."

Not at the level HE wants, which could mean anything. Does he want it to be even more autmated and beneficial to him and not based on a variety of realistic and fair factors?

That's just an example that reading these views are pointless, eventually it will never be fast or assisted enough until EA keep patching the fucker every 5 days until it doesn't resemeble the product you agreed to buy at launch.

Imagine buying an music album online because it aligns with your tastes perfectly to the point you drop money on it and then every week, the artist keeps replacing the song with a faster and faster version in a different genre? "Well fuck you, it's our store, you're leasing our product and we can change it how we like when we like!"
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Yes it's a very early version and these people don't want a simulation but an arcade game.

Beta in August with Authentic mode season 2 feedbacks will better. I hope many of us could have access to the beta because at 95% it will be FC 27 at launch.
 
bsmaff said:
FIFA World Cup coming to FC26..
Or shall I say The World's Game Cup.
48 fully licensed teams with update coming tomorrow and licensed kits coming on 4th June.
Like FM26 - There is no Japan - Wales have replaced Japan.

https://www.ign.com/articles/exclusive-first-look-at-ea-sports-fc-26-the-worlds-game-update
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There is Japan. Just with unlicensed kits but with the real players. It says in the article: EA Sports said the World’s Game features two non-licensed teams with authentic players (Egypt, Japan)
 
I was reading a bit about the "Open World" thing and.. I doubt it'll be my cup of tea.
Walking around, going to shops, acquiring cars and real estate, dressing up an avatar.....
Looks like much-ado-about nothing.
Seems to me like a lot of superficial, materialistic "polish" dressed up as "soul".
I wouldnt be surprised if you can walk into a Nike store and purchase shoes for Alex Hunter. 🤷‍♂️
Hope it's not a pain to navigate, instead of a simple, straightforward menu.
Tailored to different tastes, I suppose.
The emphasis should be on gameplay and Career Mode, this just feels like soulless, flash in the pan, IMO.
 
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Chris Davies said:


Considering the game has been out for eight months ... this proves they care and they're trying, IMO.

The gameplay isn't for me yet but I can't help hoping it will get better.
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Yep I'm the same as you, I've just got it off PS+, I want to like it, they are doing so much right, but the actual gameplay isnt there, it's definitely going in the right direction, and they are definitely trying to cater for old school single player fans, but after 3 games in the SPFL in career mode I need to switch off, it is filling a gap, just. I have just accepted that football games wont be what they used to be anymore, but then again, im 46 now and a grandad, so maybe just an hour here or there, playing a handful of single player games will keep me ticking over.
 
millossobek said:
I was reading a bit about the "Open World" thing and.. I doubt it'll be my cup of tea.
Walking around, going to shops, acquiring cars and real estate, dressing up an avatar.....
Looks like much-ado-about nothing.
Seems to me like a lot of superficial, materialistic "polish" dressed up as "soul".
I wouldnt be surprised if you can walk into a Nike store and purchase shoes for Alex Hunter. 🤷‍♂️
Hope it's not a pain to navigate, instead of a simple, straightforward menu.
Tailored to different tastes, I suppose.
The emphasis should be on gameplay and Career Mode, this just feels like soulless, flash in the pan, IMO.
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In year when GTA 6 is coming out ... some big brain at EA decided for FIFA to be open world and compete.

This is stupidest timeline of all possible, truly
 
Saw this clip with 4,000+ likes on Twitter, and thought "WOW, that free kick looked absolutely perfect - the speed of the ball wasn't crazy, and the goalkeeper reacts in such a realistic way".

Then realised it's FIFA 16. :LOL: Of course it is. (Posting it here just as a sort of "target" - when FC looks like this again, you won't have to play it to know it's good - it will be obvious.)

 
millossobek said:
I was reading a bit about the "Open World" thing and.. I doubt it'll be my cup of tea.
Walking around, going to shops, acquiring cars and real estate, dressing up an avatar.....
Looks like much-ado-about nothing.
Seems to me like a lot of superficial, materialistic "polish" dressed up as "soul".
I wouldnt be surprised if you can walk into a Nike store and purchase shoes for Alex Hunter. 🤷‍♂️
Hope it's not a pain to navigate, instead of a simple, straightforward menu.
Tailored to different tastes, I suppose.
The emphasis should be on gameplay and Career Mode, this just feels like soulless, flash in the pan, IMO.
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How it was said earlier by many other mates at evoweb - we are no more target audience for those, who is doing modern games in game market right now.
That's why some old sport games (FIFA 16 as a good example) even with outdated mechanics and graphics, but true way of solving tasks in showing how this kind of sport is looking and catching truly inside elements of playing - are more real and more pleasurable for "diving into this sport" via playing on PC's and different consoles.
Because this games was truly designed to give as almost real emotions during playing.
 
Maybe it is for the best ... let them go open world, insert cars and dating and going to parties ....

Maybe someone else with a little bit of brain will understand there is no football game on the market, and make its own.

For open world and online gambling, EA does not need league or clubs licences ... I dont understand why are they even paying for them anymore if offline is not what they idiot-customers want. You dont need Arsenal licence if everybody is playing on self-built stadion with pink court-lines and half-men, half-women team where Messi is playing alongside Pele.
 
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