And that's fair Chris, everyone will have their own idea of what makes a good football game. There isn't a "right" and "wrong option" when buying a football game.
Good idea but won't work for me as I will want to take it online.
Well the answer is to have an online set of files with all the updates, and an offline set of files that's never been updated. Switch back and forth.
Is this consistent across different stadiums though? I find its nice and slow at Old Trafford (FIFA 16 and previous) and at San Siro, The Emirates and others the game Zooms around at 200 MPH!
Good idea! Thanks.
You say stadiums affect game speed? I have edited the PC files for years, and I know many high profile TEAMS and star PLAYERS have different DB values that give them special boosts and so forth, depending on the league, opposition, match importance, etc. I'm going to suggest that's what causes the variance in speed/game pace, and it's exactly why I only ever play the lower teams/leagues in FIFA.
Yes I noticed in the demo when I played Sounders at their home pitch, they morphed into crazy men on cocaine. EA may have upped the home advantage code this year, IDK. But I have now played a dozen Aussie league games, home and away, and not one game has felt differently in pace, they're all PERFECT for me, and have all played fair and balanced. But I see that doesn't disprove your theory about specific stadiums, so who really knows.
I'll take ghosting and normal kick follow-through animations, to players' stumbling like toddlers every few seconds every time they slightly bump each other... the way it happens in another football game. And in all honesty, I have not noticed this issue at all in maybe 10 hours of demo and trial game playing. This is the first I'm hearing about it. But then I don't ever watch replays.
CPU pass error slider to 85, CPU first touch error to 65 = more loose balls, more bad passes, more you with the ball.
I have CPU pass error at 85 (so as to kill the boost code when it kicks in, and to end up with lower CPU pass completion - last game was 78%). CPU crosses are a mix of on target, realistically off target, and unrealistically way off target. Overall I'd say there are less way off target crosses than last year, an effect of raising that slider. But one thing I have noticed: some long kicks are ballooning, as if the ball physics are off somehow. Not every long kick, but enough to notice. I just write them off as mis-kicks, the sort of kicks I would take lol. And I am playing with 3rd tier teams, so we're talking scrubs here.
That sounds promising. That's the biggest issue I have with the game at the moment. AI pass accuracy is pretty much always at 93%, no matter which team I'm playing. It's almost impossible to get the ball away from them cause their passes are almost always perfect. I could see this being try for Barca but not for championship teams. I hope this slider does indeed work. I also hope it doesn't just drop every team down to 75% and top tier teams still have it above 85% or so.
Hi. If you mean the demo, the full game is playing differently. I gave up on the demo because every team was superhuman, 95% pass completion, ping-ponging the ball at will, etc. This I think is because they're all top tier or name teams, and are boost-coded to perform like top teams. I've been playing the trial game, and in a dozen Aussie league games I have had nothing but perfect, fantastic, fun, fair and even games. CPU 78-82% completion, every game. No sense of the boost code kicking in, no superhuman CPU antics.
Just want to add that other sliders come into play too with pass %. In my testing over the past few years, CPU pass accuracy is also keyed to pass speed, player speed, and first touch error. If you lower pass speed (or raise it) it throws off the coded preset timing of CPU passes. Likewise if you lower player speed, players can't run and get to passes quick enough. And if the first touch error slider is raised, it creates bobbles which lead to loose balls and interceptions, which register as missed passes.
Thanks for the info. I am doing the Origin trial right now, but I have been playing against mostly PL teams, so maybe not enough data points to tell how lower league teams will behave. In demo, like you've said, it was always mid 90% for all teams.
After. Now, I also lowered both User and CPU speed to 39 and Accel to 44. I also lower line height and length sliders way down for both teams to create a defensive positioning setup, then use d-pad tactics to adjust my team's attack intensity. All this contributes to how successful the CPU is with pass attempts.
?Terminate with extreme prejudice the AI boost code. Instead, code in real and actual CPU tactical and formation changes. If the CPU needs a goal, it pushes players forward (without boosting their stats), and switches to an attack formation. You see what would happen then? You could counter that tactical switch by staying back and defending while waiting for an opening to use the long ball.
yeah, can't wait till 2018 to see what they do?
