FIFA 16 News & Discussion Thread

Matt10 said:
Swansea are known to still play with Laudrup tactics, i.e. that fast tiki-taka passing. Some teams still do it, but that's what you get with the pass error in the 50's. You can increase the pass error if you want. I personally wanted to get more crosses and more pass variety in, and the 50's does that. It's all about personal preference at this point in the game. In this year's FIFA, you have to take more of the bad with the good, like perfect passing even though it's a 10% differential for the CPU passing % that is skewed (90% is actually 80%, and so on).

I play World Class, full manual.



Broadcast Camera, Height 0, Zoom 20 :)
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Ok, yeah i know swansea likes to play with quick passing, i'll try other games and we'll see how the other team do play.
 
hitmanuk said:
^ I think the opposite it's so rewarding scoring in fifa, and I'm still seeing goal types that are new..for me it is the best football game period and I grew up a life long iss/pes fan and hated fifa up to 20
008..the career mode is so engaging and tough and I find the AI extremely smart bit not in an OP way. I'm having a blast with sampdoria
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also from a long time PES fan who switched sides.
 
I agree, there are variations, different goal types.
The problem in scoring is there is not enough weighty feeling, while shooting especially.
Interestingly I find passing great, feels great.
I hope shooting will feel more weighty next year, like old pes games :)
 
The few odd FIFA-ish shooting animations are that weird for me only. And the for no reason kicking in the grass shot in a clear position is kinda odd. Also players are still like ragdolls sometimes, especially in rain!

But for sure i keep Smalling on the pitch to destroy the attackers in the final third, I keep Kante on the midfield because he is all over the place, i keep Welbeck up front instead of Martial or other strikers because he is the most complete striker in my squad, too bad he is very injury prone, and ofcourse i keep Rooney on the pitch still when he is 34 because he can shoot, pass, tackle, head the ball also scoring important goals.

There is a lot of player individuality as there are more stats in this game.
 
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P34SEMM said:
Love this camera but does anyone think they make the game play quicker? I play on slow but the game seems much faster on these camera settings.
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It doesn't alter the speed, mate, it's because you're closer.

Think of a dot bouncing from left to right on your TV in one second. Play that video on a TV that's 1,000ft wide, and it will still go from left to right in one second, but it will travel 1,000ft per second, as opposed to the width of your TV...

In other words, the more zoomed in you are, the faster it will look, because the players will appear faster on the smaller "screen" (and the "camera" will move faster). Whereas zoomed out, everything is static in comparison.

This is why the gameplay speed debate frustrates me a little bit - I always set the camera to a TV-style zoom/angle before deciding if it's too fast or not (and my default camera is co-op, so everything is slow to me)...
 
I love love love the broadcast camera but it's difficult to play creatively or with any kind of urgency the same way you would if you were using default.

I use it recreationally when I'm playing exhibition but it's not worth the limitations when playing any kind of competitive game or online.

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Dynamic camera for me , always has been. I think it's since playing Emlyn Hughes soccer back in the day lol..on another note sitting 12th in Italian league..loving it
 
P34SEMM said:
Love this camera but does anyone think they make the game play quicker? I play on slow but the game seems much faster on these camera settings.
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Pretty much what Chris said, and I'll add on the fact that there is one central point on Broadcast camera, versus the default one.

My imagination the Frames per second would be decreased a bit more as well for the default cameras, or the cameras that "slide" with the gameplay from end to end. The Broadcast camera may appear to be faster because the FPS may be higher due to the players leaving the point of reference, and is not being followed on a tracking/slide motion the other cameras do.
 
This game has taken me levels now which I thought I'd ever see again,
Iv controlled many teams but the one team that has a variety of individuality and stands out a lot for me is stoke city, here's a description of most of the players of what Iv experienced what the players do and haven't seen this level of depth since the iss ps2 days.

Imbula - beast runs all over the park and wins the ball a lot in tackles, also has a powerful shot, but not accurate, I love that.
Afellay - quick and does a lot of the fancy tricks with ease and has a decent cross
Charlie Adams - very slow but has vision for nice thru ball or pass nicely into space
Shaquiri - my favourite players does everything and he feels really good when you control him.
Arnautovic- tall,strong, great ball control, wicked shot on goal and on target, and has really good agility considering his height, similar to ibrahimovich.
Krkic- very agile turns on the dime and has really good finesse shot.
Whelan - very slow but strong stands back doesn't attack.

This is what Iv been wanting for a very long time, if PES 17 and Fifa 17 turn out to be nothing special, i can see myself still playing fifa 16 for another year easy.
 
I agree on Shaquiri, also bought him when i was managing ManCity. Strong, agile and can shoot from distance. Top Class.
Also Arna and Krkic but they arent just on that level for me :)


I agree...i remember back in the ISS-Ps2 Pro Evo days i had time to watch a looot of real football games on tv and basicly i scouted players there for my ML.I was thinking like...oh that guy is really great, lets find him in ML! And guess what? In the game the player was just like in reality. The same rule applied when i find a hidden younger gem in ML, in a few years those players played in the first team or for other big teams :')

Well...except for Owusu Abeyie and maybe Claudiu Keseru :')



But im positive that after FIFA, Van Dijk will play for higher levels in a few years, also Halilovic wont dissappear from the football map either.
But i gotta say Martial didnt do it for me at all :/
 
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I remember on PES Kompany and Vanden Borre were always the two defenders to sign, both very young with huge potential and already very good in defence and on the ball, crazy how different their careers turned out.
 
Jimi_Zuko said:
This game has taken me levels now which I thought I'd ever see again,
Iv controlled many teams but the one team that has a variety of individuality and stands out a lot for me is stoke city, here's a description of most of the players of what Iv experienced what the players do and haven't seen this level of depth since the iss ps2 days.

Imbula - beast runs all over the park and wins the ball a lot in tackles, also has a powerful shot, but not accurate, I love that.
Afellay - quick and does a lot of the fancy tricks with ease and has a decent cross
Charlie Adams - very slow but has vision for nice thru ball or pass nicely into space
Shaquiri - my favourite players does everything and he feels really good when you control him.
Arnautovic- tall,strong, great ball control, wicked shot on goal and on target, and has really good agility considering his height, similar to ibrahimovich.
Krkic- very agile turns on the dime and has really good finesse shot.
Whelan - very slow but strong stands back doesn't attack.

This is what Iv been wanting for a very long time, if PES 17 and Fifa 17 turn out to be nothing special, i can see myself still playing fifa 16 for another year easy.
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This is the one thing that I don't feel. These guys felt different just as you described in FIFA 14. I just don't get that in 16. Don't know why. They all just feel random for me.

17 improves a lot on that front hopefully.
 
Is there a way to fix the "second career season" bug? United gave me the foot and I chose to manage Milan, and I can barely move around in the menus. Happens everytime I enter a second season.
 
MUFan23 said:
This is the one thing that I don't feel. These guys felt different just as you described in FIFA 14. I just don't get that in 16. Don't know why. They all just feel random for me.

17 improves a lot on that front hopefully.
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Individuality is definitely there, cassano stands out in my team as a slower but technical forward, I played against Milan and balotelli certainly stood out, I also have to think about my line up depending on what team I'm facing
 
Matt10 said:
Broadcast Camera, Height 0, Zoom 20 :)
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Thanks, I tried it but find it difficult to play so I've gone back to co-op panned right out with no radar displayed ;)

Jimi_Zuko said:
This game has taken me levels now which I thought I'd ever see again,
Iv controlled many teams but the one team that has a variety of individuality and stands out a lot for me is stoke city, here's a description of most of the players of what Iv experienced what the players do and haven't seen this level of depth since the iss ps2 days.

Imbula - beast runs all over the park and wins the ball a lot in tackles, also has a powerful shot, but not accurate, I love that.
Afellay - quick and does a lot of the fancy tricks with ease and has a decent cross
Charlie Adams - very slow but has vision for nice thru ball or pass nicely into space
Shaquiri - my favourite players does everything and he feels really good when you control him.
Arnautovic- tall,strong, great ball control, wicked shot on goal and on target, and has really good agility considering his height, similar to ibrahimovich.
Krkic- very agile turns on the dime and has really good finesse shot.
Whelan - very slow but strong stands back doesn't attack.

This is what Iv been wanting for a very long time, if PES 17 and Fifa 17 turn out to be nothing special, i can see myself still playing fifa 16 for another year easy.
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Yeh I agree individuality is definitely there even with smaller teams like QPR. One of my players (can't remember his name) was moaning because he wasn't getting a game. So I played him but his finishing was pretty poor. I wish I could say "that's why you're not playing" :P Other than that his build up play was pretty good so I will use him a bit more.

I'm finding a lot of scenarios happening on the pitch and in my squad, all my imagination but, it's good to see Mackie and Phillips fighting it out between them for a first team place. Now Cherry has had a poor run of form after a fantastic start so I've had to drop him. Then you've got Polter who has bad games but then will come up with a belter at just the right moment. It's also great when you run down the wing and the CPU defender comes along and hacks you down sometimes the ref will book him, send him off, or just give him a talking to.

Placebo said:
I remember on PES Kompany and Vanden Borre were always the two defenders to sign, both very young with huge potential and already very good in defence and on the ball, crazy how different their careers turned out.
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Can't remember what PES it was, maybe 5, my brother bought Nasri for his ML team and he was excellent. Then we heard that Arsenal bought him. He was fantastic then. It's a shame these big players go to 'bigger' teams and then don't stand out as much but that's a different story :))

Back to FIFA, I love the training. My best one is 'Chance Creation', I've been using that for about the last 3 'game' months with the same 6 players. Depending on how well they do I rotate them in the squad. It just adds an extra dimension to the game.

Anyone like to share their favourite training exercise?
 
I love the individuality in this game, can't see how people don't see it. I'm playing a career mode with inter, and Icardi is just a finisher. Amazing in the box and while not a great dribbler, uses his strength often to budge defenders, and can get shots off from uncomfortable positions. Love him.

Then there is Brozovic, who is just a quick turner and a good passer, but his long balls aren't good enough. So I bought Moutinho in my second season, and boy he is my best player now. He comes down and starts the plays from the base, and then later on in the play he pops up around the box, and you can trust his through ball and you can feel how sharp his through balls are. Too bad about his speed, but can't have everything.
 
Yeah I have no problem with player individuality either.

You see a big difference between a tricky agile winger with good speed/dribbling skills and a slower central midfielder that relies on passing and long-range shots etc.

The attributes really do come into play. I know because I pay great attention to them and every player on my team (and not just this team) has a different 'feel' to it because they all have their own unique strengths and weaknesses.
 
only thing that annoys me is that how strong a team becomes when u face them in the semi finals of the champions cup, i can barely get a single goal and i need 2-0 to win vs manchester united and now they are unbeatable as it is, rooney suddenly becomes more powerful than messi and ronaldo. btw, how to mod the champions cup to make it champions league banners???
 
ramgamer said:
only thing that annoys me is that how strong a team becomes when u face them in the semi finals of the champions cup, i can barely get a single goal and i need 2-0 to win vs manchester united and now they are unbeatable as it is, rooney suddenly becomes more powerful than messi and ronaldo. btw, how to mod the champions cup to make it champions league banners???
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Download the moddingway mod on moddingway.com

It's a huge mod with everything you can think of.
 
patzor said:
Download the moddingway mod on moddingway.com

It's a huge mod with everything you can think of.
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Yeah thx got the mod installed but it says i cant play my career anymore or it will mess the files up, im afraid of heading to career again to continue, i can only play tournaments with this mod.
 
I definitely also see individuality in this Fifa and it's much higher than in any Fifa to this date. Every single player feels different and feel like they should, play just like their real life selves
 
After reading some of the posts in here over the last few days (and after a bit of a break from football games), I went back to it last night.

I see a little individuality, but what frustrates me is that you never seem to be able to disrupt the defensive line. If you play decent, passing football - or if you counter-attack - it's always 1 or 2 versus 4 (defenders). The AI defense literally never seems to make a positional or organisational mistake, and there's no slider for "intelligence" - you can force wing-backs up the pitch etc. but that's not fixing the issue.

I'm playing on Legendary, though, in the Premier League - what difficulty/platform/league are you guys playing with?
 
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Well people asked for better defence last year so probably theyve done what they could in one year :D

How about trying to adjust the defensive lines shape and height on the pitch and make the cpu run more frequently with sliders? That will move them away from their position.


Lacklusters: ragdollish players, strange shooting animations here and there, lack of use of the stronger foot especially when shooting, cpu never makes the wall jump during freekicks, rainy games are terrible
 
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