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Played a couple of offline matches with the latest version and... It's not bad.

I definitely saw some variety in plays and I scored a couple of goals that I don't think I had ever seen before. It's on the right track, gameplay wise... Presentation wise, I found it still a bit dull. Kits and player models are very good, lighting doesn't convince me fully though, and shadows are strange (especially the shadow of the ball, in my opinion). Still, a good game for sopme quick offline fun with friends or against the AI (considering that it's free).

It's a shame that they wouldn't add ML, not even barebone. Given the current state of the game, I'd definitely consider buying a ML DLC if it got released (and if it featured at least the chance to edit the unlicensed teams in order to at least have real names/crests/kits).
 
I think that with the change of producer, at least now the last two updates are going in the right direction, but there is still a lot of work to be done to fix or improve it to a capable level. When Junichi Taya took over, people had praise for him and he probably did the best job in a very short time.
 
dinono10 said:
I'm an old ISS/PES player and have been planned FIFA 24 for the last year but I've started playing e football again. I don't know what it is I just find it more enjoyable to play even with its limitations then FIFA.

One thing I do find a bit difficult is the lack of management and tactical changes you can make on the game stop. Does anyone have any good tips or formations they can share with me as I feel it is quite limited with what you can do on the tactic screen.

Also, is there a way to do scissor kicks as I've not seen any sense I've been playing it again?
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I always set my centre backs to join in set pieces/corner kick before starting a match
 
Man.. Thats how bad ive become. Lost with Brazil v Cambodia!! On top player. Guess i will have to lose my pride and lower the difficulty. 😂😂 See i need help 😜
 
dinono10 said:
Man.. Thats how bad ive become. Lost with Brazil v Cambodia!! On top player. Guess i will have to lose my pride and lower the difficulty. 😂😂 See i need help 😜
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Don't sweat it, it happens to the best of us. I used to beat superstar on PES 17 by 2/3 goals with championship teams every time. I downloaded the game yesterday and got my ass handed to me by Aston Villa playing as Manchester City :DD
 
subtra3t said:
Don't sweat it, it happens to the best of us. I used to beat superstar on PES 17 by 2/3 goals with championship teams every time. I downloaded the game yesterday and got my ass handed to me by Aston Villa playing as Manchester City :DD
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Not quite as bad as Cambodia...i mean seriously 😂😂finding dribbling hard on here compared to the old games.
 
dinono10 said:
Not quite as bad as Cambodia...i mean seriously 😂😂finding dribbling hard on here compared to the old games.
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I find it to be the opposite, dribbling in eFootball 26 is far smoother and better than in PES 19/20/21. Though maybe you just have to get used to it. I can guarantee you though that once you get used to the dribbling you'll have a blast, it's very satisfying in this game.
 
What people don't talk about is how this game isn't inviting for new players when it first launched you could feasibly build a competitive team with gp by just buying normal players and upgrading them but that every team is filled with 98 overall players the GP market players are basically useless. It doesn't help that there's no online marketplace to sell and buy players that you don't need anymore. With EAFC teams reset every year so it's easy for new players to start and be competitive meanwhile because of the live service model new players in Efootball with have a 78 rated Ben White going against 102 rated Pele and immediately rage quit. This sort of garbage used to be restricted to freemium mobile games but now every game requires you to pull out your credit card for stupid virtual currency. And of course the currency packs are weirdly priced they never tell you how many coins one player is worth and it's locked behind casino slot machine mechanics with hidden odds so you never end up with the player you want just pull out your credit card buy some fake coins and spin and you might end up with end level 105 rated Messi or 75 rated Harry Maguire. How I wish the EU would adopt what Belgium did and ban this gambling loot box trash.
 
Kwiz said:
What people don't talk about is how this game isn't inviting for new players when it first launched you could feasibly build a competitive team with gp by just buying normal players and upgrading them but that every team is filled with 98 overall players the GP market players are basically useless. It doesn't help that there's no online marketplace to sell and buy players that you don't need anymore. With EAFC teams reset every year so it's easy for new players to start and be competitive meanwhile because of the live service model new players in Efootball with have a 78 rated Ben White going against 102 rated Pele and immediately rage quit. This sort of garbage used to be restricted to freemium mobile games but now every game requires you to pull out your credit card for stupid virtual currency. And of course the currency packs are weirdly priced they never tell you how many coins one player is worth and it's locked behind casino slot machine mechanics with hidden odds so you never end up with the player you want just pull out your credit card buy some fake coins and spin and you might end up with end level 105 rated Messi or 75 rated Harry Maguire. How I wish the EU would adopt what Belgium did and ban this gambling loot box trash.
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I disagree with you in that GP players are still very much viable. GP Mbappe can still carry you to division 3 easily. Even in eFootball 26 with a full GP squad you can definitely get to at least division 3/4.

I agree with you in that this kind of scummy gambling model should be banned. Both eFootball and FUT, they are exposing gambling mechanics to little kids. It's genuinely disgusting what Konami and EA have fallen to. I mean EA was always bad but Konami at least had a somewhat okayish reputation in my eyes.
 
subtra3t said:
I disagree with you in that GP players are still very much viable. GP Mbappe can still carry you to division 3 easily. Even in eFootball 26 with a full GP squad you can definitely get to at least division 3/4.

I agree with you in that this kind of scummy gambling model should be banned. Both eFootball and FUT, they are exposing gambling mechanics to little kids. It's genuinely disgusting what Konami and EA have fallen to. I mean EA was always bad but Konami at least had a somewhat okayish reputation in my eyes.
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What I meant was the special skills like blitz curler that GP players don't have but even with Mbappe as an example a base GP Mbappe without any upgrades is 85 rated I guess there's the POTW cards but none of them have the special abilities.
 
Kwiz said:
What I meant was the special skills like blitz curler that GP players don't have but even with Mbappe as an example a base GP Mbappe without any upgrades is 85 rated I guess there's the POTW cards but none of them have the special abilities.
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Mbappe with upgrades can go up to a 99 with Pep's manager bonus. Yes, the POTW cards don't have the special abilities (visionary pass, phenomenal finishing, etc) but those aren't really required, the POTW cards have good enough stats that the special skills aren't needed. The game is definitely P2W, one of the most P2W games I've ever played but it is definitely possible to hold your own against opponents with far better teams if you are able to play smartly.
 
subtra3t said:
Mbappe with upgrades can go up to a 99 with Pep's manager bonus. Yes, the POTW cards don't have the special abilities (visionary pass, phenomenal finishing, etc) but those aren't really required, the POTW cards have good enough stats that the special skills aren't needed. The game is definitely P2W, one of the most P2W games I've ever played but it is definitely possible to hold your own against opponents with far better teams if you are able to play smartly.
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I forgot about the smart assist nonsense as well. I really enjoyed 1.0 back in 2022 had a fun little team with pedri zakaria nakata forlan and inzaghi back then Barios was a beast at DM and everyone had a fun unique squad before all the special cards began to be released now every team from d3 to D1 looks the same.
 
Kwiz said:
I forgot about the smart assist nonsense as well. I really enjoyed 1.0 back in 2022 had a fun little team with pedri zakaria nakata forlan and inzaghi back then Barios was a beast at DM and everyone had a fun unique squad before all the special cards began to be released now every team from d3 to D1 looks the same.
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Oh yeah smart assist is genuinely the dumbest thing they've added to eFootball. The sole reason we play eFootball instead of FC is for the gameplay, and then they just dumb the game down by spoon feeding bad players the perfect plays. And they even allow it in Division matches too.

It's hilarious because Konami really has no idea how to balance the game whatsoever. Every now and then it gives out decent free cards but that's so rare that most F2P players have to use that same free cards to stay competitive. Hence why almost all F2P players will always use Batistuta.

And the same applies to P2W players. Every now and then Konami will release an absolutely broken card, and then they'll space it out with normal cards that nobody wants. So all that happens is people using the broken cards. Which is why most P2W players will have Bully Messi, Bale, or Pele in their squads.
 
subtra3t said:
Oh yeah smart assist is genuinely the dumbest thing they've added to eFootball. The sole reason we play eFootball instead of FC is for the gameplay, and then they just dumb the game down by spoon feeding bad players the perfect plays. And they even allow it in Division matches too.

It's hilarious because Konami really has no idea how to balance the game whatsoever. Every now and then it gives out decent free cards but that's so rare that most F2P players have to use that same free cards to stay competitive. Hence why almost all F2P players will always use Batistuta.

And the same applies to P2W players. Every now and then Konami will release an absolutely broken card, and then they'll space it out with normal cards that nobody wants. So all that happens is people using the broken cards. Which is why most P2W players will have Bully Messi, Bale, or Pele in their squads.
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I still find it genuinely ironic that the best version of this game was 1.0. I hate this game because it had fixed my biggest problem with PES 21 gameplay which was that the defenders didn't have any inertia and would recover to quickly the left stick dribbling in this game is much better than in pes 21. If they ever made an online division that uses authentic squads only I'd play that because the way this game is going they'll start adding superpowers to some of the special cards.
 
Kwiz said:
I still find it genuinely ironic that the best version of this game was 1.0. I hate this game because it had fixed my biggest problem with PES 21 gameplay which was that the defenders didn't have any inertia and would recover to quickly the left stick dribbling in this game is much better than in pes 21. If they ever made an online division that uses authentic squads only I'd play that because the way this game is going they'll start adding superpowers to some of the special cards.
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Sadly they'll never add that, nobody would ever spend money if they only used authentic teams. But you're right, authentic games are the best way to play the game by far.
 
Just started a my club with Manchester united.. I got to say that although I played 300 hours of fc25 i think I had more fun in my first league game on this then any of the games fc25. Just the overall randomness created a lot of fun whereas fc doesn't have as much randomness.

Sure it's not as good as any of the old games but it does play a pretty decent game of football the last FIFA was the first FIFA in 25 years I had actually brought so it kind of feels good to be playing a pes style of game again.

I want to ask when playing the computer do different teams play differently like they did do in the old games?
 
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Pens/FKs any times to get some?
I know in previous games it was extremely hard to get a penalty or free kick awarded I just wanted to know are there any tips to try and get some possibly a faint or a shot fake what's been working for you guys as I've just started playing the game again.
 
dinono10 said:
Pens/FKs any times to get some?
I know in previous games it was extremely hard to get a penalty or free kick awarded I just wanted to know are there any tips to try and get some possibly a faint or a shot fake what's been working for you guys as I've just started playing the game again.
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They're much easier to get in this game than in PES 20/21. If you're playing against a real human, it's easy to just bait them into a dumb tackle with some left stick dribbling or if you're running down the wing to cross do a shot feint to come to a stop and maybe they'll slide tackle you.
 
My opponent randomly went afk and I kid you not, his defending and pressing got 10x better until he picked the controller back up, and he was somehow winning tackles without pressing a button, I thought the AI defending had been nerfed for 5.0 lol. I’m not saying I want the players to just stand there and do nothing like in FC25 but there got to be some middle ground here right
 
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Besides the funny part of it, this picture also offers its share of irony that sums up exactly what's going wrong with those lazy football games in the last decade or so with issues being amplified: You play some match, picking up let's say one of the top clubs like FC Barcelona vs the lowest from some danish league as Vejle or whatever. Teams are acting the same, players are same 11 runing bots from the GK through the CF, and the overall experience vs AI is equal in both ways if you swap to control lesser teams. All players can do the same animations, GKs or CBs can run as fast as a LW/RW, goals are copy/pasta as low or top corner, different stats are there on screen but on the field those doesn't matter a bit, stamina is infinite on all the bots even if the bar goes low that doesn't actual depletes, and the list goes on and on... Football games aren't about rich offline with small details anymore, it's just about teams with fancy cards and neons everywhere that makes eyes bleed and gives headache. Those shouldn't even be called football games, they should use terms as competitive royale gambling with football as a theme...
 
Just had a few games of efootball 2026 ver 5.0 on pc, full manual, top-player/superstar, and I have to say, the gameplay has improved again. Dribbling has had a noticeable improvement in regards to control and response time, but so has defending. So there is a good balance.

... then the new update just hit 5.0.1 or whatever its called... downloading right now.. hope it doesnt fk things up.
 
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