gabe.paul.logan
Retired Footballer
never use clearance(shot) button to clear!!!! not even with headers!!! use long pass, and passing header to clear, that way you can control the direction of the clearance
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Well the guide Gabe kindly posted really helped, using L2 all the time helps a vast amount, but I still can't win a game. Eight games tonight, no wins. Virtually all were draws or losses by the odd goal. I can defend perfectly for 89 minutes yet the COM will always find a way of scoring. And the amount of times I hit the post is bizarre, that's beyond coincidence. Something odd is going on with that.
I just can't win. I pummelled Hull with Arsenal earlier, they didn't have a single shot on goal, using L2 was great both in winning the ball while jockeying and for virtually everything else too, I was winning challenges, closing the ball down, I hit the post twice, had several ludicrous moments where the ball stayed out of the goal, then on 90 minutes the game flipped a switch of some kind and Hull turned into hulk-like maurauding lunatics, winning every tackle, closing me down to the point where I couldn't clear the ball because they were charging me down before the power bar could charge at all, and surprise surprise they manufacture an absolutely shitty goal with the last kick of the game.
No matter what I do I can't stop the COM scoring, and can't take chances myself. When I shoot, the ball always finds a way to stay out, then the COM goes up the other end and hits a perfect shot straight in every time.
Dunno how to stop that to be honest, I've tried sliders but nothing feels right, and can't explain why I can barely ever finish chances and can defend perfectly for the whole game minus 20 seconds or so where the COM always manages to find a goal I just couldn't do anything about,
Are you using sliders or are you back to playing at default?
I ask because imo defending is kinda broken when you play on default settings - like you've mentioned, it's near impossible to keep a clean sheet against the CPU on the higher difficulties without sliders adjustments. Because of issues with the defensive AI, player switching, and the defensive mechanics, it's just about impossible to go a whole game without the CPU getting an easy chance (or two or three) on goal.
For me, I'm still playing at default (because I'm a masochist I guess), and on Legendary, and winning more than I'm losing, but it's just because I don't have a problem scoring. But no matter which team I play, no matter whether I have the best defenders in the world, I find that the CPU will always get some easy chances as a result of the flaws with the game.
It'd be one thing if it were "quality" goals the CPU scores but they aren't. Instead it's a disproportionate number of shitty, sloppy, easy chances. It's frustrating.
So even though I'm playing at default right now, I do think you can even things out a little with sliders (though you're not fixing the issues, just limiting the CPU in other areas to compensate).
The best adjustments I've found for me so far, that do just enough to even things out a little without hamstringing the CPU too much, is by increasing CPU pass error to 55, CPU first touch to 53, and User gk to 60.
Another thing you can do, which I've done with one CM season, is just play with User keepers at 60, or even higher. Some people think keepers are godly in FIFA but even when playing with keepers at 60, my keeper save rate hovered right around 70%, which is just average by top league standards. Increasing User keeping ability helps I find with evening out things since the CPU gets too many easy and sloppy goals imo.
I really hope tightening up the defensive side of the game is a top priority for FIFA 15. If someone out there is able to win regularly through solid defense (i.e. averaging 1 or fewer goals conceded per match) on default settings and Legendary difficulty, I'd love to hear from them because personally I don't see how it's possible.
told you so , jst a matter of timeWell the guide Gabe kindly posted really helped, using L2 all the time helps a vast amount, but I still can't win a game. Eight games tonight, no wins. Virtually all were draws or losses by the odd goal. I can defend perfectly for 89 minutes yet the COM will always find a way of scoring. And the amount of times I hit the post is bizarre, that's beyond coincidence. Something odd is going on with that.
I just can't win. I pummelled Hull with Arsenal earlier, they didn't have a single shot on goal, using L2 was great both in winning the ball while jockeying and for virtually everything else too, I was winning challenges, closing the ball down, I hit the post twice, had several ludicrous moments where the ball stayed out of the goal, then on 90 minutes the game flipped a switch of some kind and Hull turned into hulk-like maurauding lunatics, winning every tackle, closing me down to the point where I couldn't clear the ball because they were charging me down before the power bar could charge at all, and surprise surprise they manufacture an absolutely shitty goal with the last kick of the game.
No matter what I do I can't stop the COM scoring, and can't take chances myself. When I shoot, the ball always finds a way to stay out, then the COM goes up the other end and hits a perfect shot straight in every time.
Dunno how to stop that to be honest, I've tried sliders but nothing feels right, and can't explain why I can barely ever finish chances and can defend perfectly for the whole game minus 20 seconds or so where the COM always manages to find a goal I just couldn't do anything about,
I think your problem is that you are not defending corectly. How often are you using the running button? I ask because to defend is 90% about positioning and only 10% about running and pressuring the ball. So to defend DO NOT PRESS THE RUNNING BUTTON, unless the CPU begins running first or if you wish to change position to cover better.
I see what you say, but if the attacker starts sprinting at me then I often need to sprint just to prevent them from flying past me - but the COM seems able to dribble round me even when jockeying. I take up a decent position but get beaten anyways. Like I say, half the time the attacker just has to change direction and my player seems to go the wrong way!
Suuuuupertalk should upload a full match, we might be able to see where he's going wrong...
Agree, but with mic on please, i want to hear him cursing the CPU
No, if you're in front of an attacker, you shouldn't need to use sprint; you use jockey, and they won't sprint by you. If they do get by you, and there's not immediate cover, then yeah, it makes sense to sprint. This game is all about sprinting as little as possible, in defense and attack.
If players are beating you on the dribble so often it might be that you're jockeying when you shouldn't be. If the attacker has any momentum, jockeying is a sure way to get burned imo. On the higher difficulty settings and playing with default sliders, I think you've gotta be super conservative, only jockey when you have the advantage, and rely more on contain to slow down the attackers.
If you rely on jockey, then you're putting your reflexes against the CPU's, and if the CPU has any type of momentum, you're going to lose 9/10 times.
I've also found recent success in using ultra-defensive mentality more often, and I now go to it for every big match. Because FIFA is so attack oriented, your players still get forward enough that I still score about the same, but I'm slightly less vulnerable on the counter-attack.
The problem for me is that I defend solidly overall but all it takes is one lapse, or one failure of the AI or collision system, etc, and the CPU can get an easy goal.
For example, as Schalke yesterday I had an away Champions Cup match at Real Madrid in the knockout phase, and I played ultra-defensive with the counter-attack tactic, keeping it 0-0 until the 90th minute when I conceded a very lame penalty that was more a fault of the collision/fouling system than anything I did. So frustrating.
I know that it's on Placebo's slides that the game is meant to be played.
I don't think I'll persevere with this for too much longer, the scripting is worse than in PES. Absolutely atrocious.
Game after game after game I dominate, the opposition keeper seems without fail to play the game of his life and at the other end the COM will ALWAYS find a way to score. Man Utd v Palace, I had 65% of the ball, 8 shots on target, palace had 2, I lost 2-1. The COM scores almost every single shot they take, it's blatant cheating. In fact, the Palace game, the shot was going wide before hitting my defender on the back before deflecting into the net. I go up the other end, somehow an easy chance hits the post, I hit the rebound into what is an empty net and the keeper does a gravity defying flying save to keep the ball out.
The game has one rule for you, another for itself. Why these two companies can't present a challenging game without resorting to blatantly fucking the gamer over is beyond me.
I don't think I'll persevere with this for too much longer, the scripting is worse than in PES. Absolutely atrocious.
Game after game after game I dominate, the opposition keeper seems without fail to play the game of his life and at the other end the COM will ALWAYS find a way to score. Man Utd v Palace, I had 65% of the ball, 8 shots on target, palace had 2, I lost 2-1. The COM scores almost every single shot they take, it's blatant cheating. In fact, the Palace game, the shot was going wide before hitting my defender on the back before deflecting into the net. I go up the other end, somehow an easy chance hits the post, I hit the rebound into what is an empty net and the keeper does a gravity defying flying save to keep the ball out.
The game has one rule for you, another for itself. Why these two companies can't present a challenging game without resorting to blatantly fucking the gamer over is beyond me.
the scripting is worse than in PES. Absolutely atrocious.
So much these days gets blamed on scripting that I've lost track of what scripting is even suppose to mean.
No offense but if you're struggling that much playing with Man Utd on World Class, it's not the game. There are defensive issues, to be sure, but you really shouldn't be struggling to score.
If scripting is present in the way you describe, and "blatant cheating," then how am I leading the Bundesliga with Schalke on Legendary difficulty with default sliders?
Yes I concede more than I'd like to but I see those problems as issues with the defensive AI, collision mechanics, player switching, etc. I don't think I've ever seen anything that's made me cry out scripting.
If the CPU is scoring every shot it takes, then something is up with your defending. Just for comparison's sake, I average about the same shots per match as the CPU (~9), I average about one more shot on target per game (6.5 vs 5.5), and average about half a goal more per game.
Kinda weird that the game is, as you say, fucking you over but not me, don't you think?
This game has its fair share of issues, and it can be infuriating at times, but I don't see scripting - whatever it means - as an issue. If you're struggling with the difficulty level, then you need to adjust the game to better suit your ability level.