Very first impressions of the Patch 1.12
- Player movement is widely improved. You can now make small feints with only the left stick. And choose which feet you will use. Pretty cool.
- Player responsiveness look improved as well, but not too much.
- Shooting is miles better. Both power and placement are far superior compared to pre-patch.
- It's easier to defend because the defensive responsiveness is much better, although the CPU presents a much bigger challenge.
- Goalkeepers seemed improved. Better position, they move their feet after a shoot to go for tough balls. More variety of animations are used, and the right one are normally chosen. Didn't test yet: the "Near post bug"; or bad position when they come out of goal when you press

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- CPU IA is much better.
- Defensively: they cover much more ground and seemed to understand what you are try to do. Much better positioning.
- Offensively: they keep possession, don't only play that direct attack style we seen before (for the first time, lost the possession battle playing with Barcelona). They use more skills to avoid you and pass the ball among teammates. Just lovely too Ibrahimovic avoid 4 of my defenders and pass the ball to the other side of the pitch.
- Shooting: they use better decision making, and if given the opportunity will shoot, instead of just running against your keeper, or shooting for the near post.
- Corner kicks are widely improved. Players move around much more after the kick. Don’t just stand there waiting for the ball.
- Collisions are improved. More variety on animations. Player falling to the ground more often. Aerial battles are more realistic, players fall to the ground and losing their balance after clashes.
- Refs are still pretty much horrible, although was a slight improvement. They simple don't recognize challenges unless the CPU uses double tap

or sliding tackle.
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Trough ball looks horrible after patch. The ball always goes to the player instead of the space when you choose to do so. Even on 1-bar passing like I use. This is pretty annoying. And because the CPU defence is much better, you tend to really on feints and such. Need to give another go to see if I need to use a different technique or more power on trough ball.
- Teammates IA on offense are still the same. They barely move in search of space. Makes the game sometimes a bit frustrating.