What has changed in the last 6 years? What did he miss?
And honestly I can say that many old soccer games with outdated graphics and old game design and with using old limited game engines - are playing even now much more cool, with much more alive emotions inside, with much more cool "attempt to catch football details on the pitch" ...
I played Yesterday two games of FIFA 17.
Authentic gameplay is one thing, but (especially the new) sliders give you many ways to address pace, passing/buildup speed and precision.
I think he (Rivera) is saying that the animations play out more in Authentic, vs Competitive (where they're more manipulated for responsiveness).
I don't think it'd be fair to answer definitively, especially as EA said they were looking to patch it (after they factually did just randomly hack you down at the start of the beta despite hinting that wouldn't be the case).
Its not really personal preference tho, Chris, is it?
I've never like the conversation around 'fouls'. For me, it's not really about the fouls themselves - it's about creating more physical engagement between the players and creating a proper fight for the ball. Importantly, it needs to be one that can present a range of outcomes. The foul should just be a byproduct of a deep physical system. It comes back to creating the right mechanics and this goes way beyond fouls.
100% with you on that. Lack of fouls is not the root cause to the problem. Its a symptom. An outcome of no physicality, no randomness, stand off-ish and dumb AI and ball being glued to players feet preventing any tackling error.
Completely agree! It should be down to the developer to reverse the feedback to a place of meaningful development and depth. What strikes me the most about the talk of authentic mode is the lack of discussion around foundations. I don't doubt EA do actually care and are actually trying, but I feel like if they really understand the audience, they'd know that we actually want to hear the 'boring' details, because they are what matter most - they've what we've been missing for all these years. When we're talking about players slipping over in the wet about 50 seconds into the authentic mode talk, it just doesn't fill me with confidence haha.
It's because the game is designed for the purpose of fun and convience so as a result, players have a generous amount of time and space on the ball and can release effective passes with ease before another player can press which is why we have this "just get it to the opposition box" end to end style, the only hope of a turn over is more hoping the attackers make an error or less so than being dispossed by defenders because of how inconsequential attacking is as opposed to defending.
1 Yes they said they will maid some changes for the release.
The FKs were fine tbh, it was the lack of advantage rule. If it had that, would have been the best ever.
There are fouls but they don't make any sense. The CPU will foul you but there's no rhyme or reason for it such as the game has been physical or it's trying to stop you from building up an attack. So yes, I'd go with there's fouls to bump up the numbers because none of the fouls I've encountered make any tactical/response type of sense.
I have 5 penalties in my last 7 matchs on the beta. And the fouls were real : a strong shoulder mouv in the surface from the defender, a pulling shirt, a sliding tackle too short, a great dribble and the Cpu hurt my leg, and a tackle from behind by the last defender.
The goalkeepers animations are better and they cover more angles. He will boxe the ball more often than in previous FC.
