- Turn animations ruin this game, they are so so bad, completely ignoring human body physics and inertia. A shame all was done in the name of "responsiveness".
That's why i've got really hard with Fifa. And it's the same since FIFA 15 (yes, FIFA 16 got the same issue. Aswell as PES 2013. To me it's more important than having some basic AI as it's the CORE of more than sports but what an human can/can't do IRL)
-Also, i'm like
@TheWolf : on EVERY games, my strong point is defending. Well, i couldn't defend without tackling like a fool on FIFA 20 (i switched the 21) but for the others, that wasn't a issue even with Tactical Defending : i approched my player with the X button also with a teamate pressing and then i released the button to go manually.
Friends playing with me online told me "it's pretty hard to keep the ball, you press very well", well, it's my strong point with fast attack (not counter especially), doesn't mean i got a super finition. I don't have very weak point, but one strong let's say : not enough to be an Esport players lol.
But since FIFA 20, perhaps even the 19 i don't remember : the X button to keep from distance the player was less and less effective, like slowed down completely. I don't get it, it wasn't overpowered at all. But well... Again an Esport complaining and idea, just for them having more fun (i'm 100% sure it wasn't something who were overpowered : it's just a fake pressing to make your defender closer to the the guy(s) who possess the ball, and follow them. With 2 meters distance, and reactivity who became fast like a turtle : i re-tryed Fifa 14 and it's like a totally different feature in fact : it's usefull, you can stay close or keep the distance etc.)
The issue is from every video i saw, it's like Pressing, which is a classic, basic, and unavoidable Football feature that completely who given a completely different gameplay as the first (i remember) introduced it was ISS pro, not even Evolution version.
Was a game changer. But i can't see pressing from people playing in that game, but i can see it from the CPU.
Also
@Chuny : i tried also legacy defending by curiosity, on 2 older FIFA. And since a very long time it's totally ineffective and they pushed us to play T.Def.
I really don't know, even on FIFA 16, how could you play with that system. It's not a matter of taste : but it's like i don't how much percent less effective than even defending manually. Even with Juve, the time for the player to start moving to press was way too long for the attacking and passing speed.
You will have to switch mate... I don't even know why they still keep it when i saw how obsolete that defending mode is.
But whatever, i will try to challenge that "hard" defence. I defended more or less manually on every Fifa, just used the "dont remember the name" X button to get closer to the player and when it was as much close, sometimes just during the process of behind close (so the system wasn't even done that i already get to the defender to tackle him)
Now, like on FIFA 20, i will get to do everything manually and defending in a hardore, agressive way. I didn't liked that game for some others reason, but that was one of the let's say 15 reasons i didn't liked it.
Whatever, i just want to see a beautiful sport game on my 4k so i won't resist to buy it. I'll be trapped even and i will force myself to "like" it. One think i didn't done since a very, very long time with Fifa or PES. BUT i'll be honest and said what i'm forcing to like and got hard to, and what i didn't liked before but with the habits to play in a certain way, it doesn't bores no more as before. Even if i got fun with some arcade stuff.... Only physics like said
@NikoLiberty4 can push me out of the game in fact. But that's his own feeling, not mine (even if that was my first impression/annoyement watching vids i won't lie

) and no sliders can fix that feeling.
a little O.T. but not a comparision about 18 and the 20 for example : didn't liked them. No GK, no fouls, basiccs phyiscs BUT also the first with a bigger pitch; many things were corrected PES 2019 : the issue for everyone here as i readed a lot what you founded wrong CPU AI gotted very obvious in terms of giving advantage/scripting if you want, i liked it. For the first paragraph reason : physics and animations, who were a level above evey PS4 PES, and thats my Mojo. I'll be honest : i'm not reasearching CPU variation at all cost, well it's a + of course, but challenge first. And i switch a lot my way to play so the AI switch too. Only issues i gotted, was on certain version for any games are no fouls at all, like in some version, otherwhise no problem for the rest. As i love to change my way of play in every sense possible, CPU wasn't really a big issue as they gotted to adapt to my "variety", i got fun with CPU by trying all the way to score.
Well, it's not the same when i play on Divisions online... If you open a gate, i will try to enter in to win/score, i think it's the same for every guys playing online on Divisions. With a friend, it's a different approach, i try to score goal that we will both remember.