Okay I'm confused but all I ever seem to get in every game I play nowadays is bizarre goings on with the AI/game. It never used to happen, I enjoyed the game loads, but recently the game seems to be just flipping out on me.
I posted videos a few pages back showing my keeper just letting the ball roll past him into the net from a 60 yard clearance (an incident that happened for the third time in the last few weeks), of the ref giving bizarre free kicks against me, and of the game seemingly 'letting' through balls past my defenders. But now the game seems to be freaking out big time. Is no-one else finding this at all?
I gave the game a rest for a few days because even though most of the strangeness doesn't break the game itself, it totally ruins the experience when you sit there and go "what?!" at the bizarre AI. The last game I played before I took a short break from the game, it did this with Pirlo;
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Strange. Then, after a couple of days away from the game, my very first match seems fine, it's 0-0 until the last 10 minutes, when Ramos, the no.15 in the Spain shirt in the video, gets the ball on the edge of the box and is penalised for a foul. Can you even see any kind of bodily contact from anyone whatsoever? This ruined what was a great chance to score with me outnumbering their defenders.
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Fine, I think to myself, I can deal with that strangeness yet again. Then, minutes later, I have a shot with Torres that I really should have put away, but then the AI has the option of doing whatever it wants with the ball, but instead it scores the most bizarre own goal for me;
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Okay, so the game flipped out in the last 10 minutes. Then, the first 10 minutes of the next game, I concede this goal below. You can't see the cursor above any player, but rest assured, I was in complete control of this loose ball until it randomly starts switching player control all over the place, until I have control of none of the Bayern defenders and the AI runs in and scores. This is utterly pathetic, and has happened too often to not be classed as a massive bug. Firstly, I am in control of the defender as the ball rolls across the box. Then, control disappears and the AI makes that defender leave the ball. Then, the AI puts me in control of the defender at the top of the screen for barely a split second, before putting me in control of someone barely even in the picture. You can actually see the AI making both defenders back away from the ball. In fact, the defender at the top of the picture is actively running AWAY from the ball;
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I recover, grind out a win, but the final goal is equally bizarre. It's a sweet volley into the bottom corner from the edge of the box, but, thing is, I actually pressed the pass button with the intention of doing something entirely different, but the game just made him volley it into the net. Normally I'd be well excited with scoring that goal, except I didn't do it, the game did it for me;
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So does anyone else find these strange things happening on a regular basis? Because even though I benefitted from some of them, during the middle of the match it looks and feels like the game AI is just totally freaking out and losing all sense of what it's supposed to be doing. If this carries on then it's going straight on ebay. I'm not spending my time trying to wrestle with a totally bug ridden, broken mess. Or is this just me who's finding this stuff?
By posting videos I hope I'm being at least a little more constructive than people just dissing the game in general. I have specific gripes that I'm showing people, really to see if other people are having the same negative experiences with the game. Many people on here say they find no problems at all with the game, so either people are overlooking this sort of stuff or my game genuinely is freaking out!