If you're finding it easy, maybe give
these sliders a go on Legendary. I play on these with assisted passing and I get beat by the big teams regularly, whilst beating the worse teams (most of the time, but sometimes they go on all-out defence and it'll finish 0-0).
The reason I don't use semi-passing (which I always did pre-Frostbite) is this -
@PRO_TOO absolutely
nails it here, and I've always found it difficult to convey:
[ON MANUAL PASSING] in FIFA19 i feel input is different nearly every time i hit the buttons. like the game is rewarding some passes with a higher percentage and adding some speed or taking it off! its crazy sometimes. and no, it has nothing to do with how i position my player or if he was off balance. its in the gameplay input mechanics i think!
For me, semi-passing and manual-passing in the Frostbite FIFAs is random as fuck. They can explain this by saying "well every contact is different so every pass is a little different, sometimes underhit sometimes overhit".
I want to say "that's great and realistic" - but the variation is
so wide that you are left with no consistency in your passing, and moves break down without it being your fault. I don't think it's realistic (too many basic passes go wrong, they're professional footballers) and it certainly isn't fun, so it's not simulation, it's not arcade, it's just broken.
But with assisted passing (with "pass error" up a little bit), it's much better.
As
@PRO_TOO proved by uploading a video that immediately gathered comments like "that looks nothing like football" - it
doesn't look like football, it looks like a beta (and occasionally feels like one) because of how janky Frostbite is.
But in terms of end result, well... It feels pretty great to have to play all-out defence against Man City (exactly like you have to in real life - see the game v Schalke last night, that's what happens to me when I play them as Newcastle and play on "neutral", and I don't think that happens in
any other football game - not such a thumping defeat, and not every time).
It's wobbly and weird and doesn't feel great sometimes, but the game flow (and how important individuals are in the modern game) is pretty close to reality I think. Just
not to watch...