Oh dear the insults are back again
Remember it's just a game eh?
Full game impression from another forum (LONG POST ALERT)
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I bought the game yesterday and played 20 matches offline and here is my impression.
Pros:
1. Better day/night lighting compared to last year "still not perfect but much improved".
2. Animation has been upgraded compared last year except for few annoying ones "GK slow-motion diving"
3. Goalkeepers are hugely improved overall and can be reliable most of the time "read cons section" with some nice animation and great reflex and reaction time
4. ball physics is improved compared to last year
5. Crossing is not OP anymore and has been fixed
6. offside rule has been finally corrected. It is not relevant to the centre of the body of the last defender anymore.
7. Sliding is not as effective as last year but still needs more tweaking.
8. Super star AI does not feel to cheat as much as last year, most of their goals feel more genuine "human like"
9. Challenge mode has been added to master league where the owner of the club will be giving you objective that you have to fulfill
10. New "legend" CPU difficulty has been added which unfortunately I have not had the chance to test out yet.
11. Faces have more details now "better textures" and much better skin tone "color". Also, fake faces have more details to them and look less cartoonish compared to last year, I wish fake players' hair was given more attention
Cons:
1. The game is DEFINITELY FASTER than the beta, I understand that i am comparing online to offline BUT passing speed is almost the same as 2017, this was not the case in the beta. Latency problem affects OVERALL speed and flow of the game but not the speed of the pass. If you play the game on -1 speed, then that would be near the beta speed "passing wise"
2. Shooting is like a rocket most of the time. Adam once tweeted than there will be CONTEXTUAL shooting which i honestly have not noticed at all in the build of the game.
3. goalkeepers are POOR/BAD blocking thunder-bullet shots from the likes of ronaldo. I played against superstar barcelona, I had five shots with ronaldo, all went in.
4. The game will be goal festival, thanks to super accurate threaded through balls, through balls to the flanks are really accurate and will definitely be abused online this year along with lobbed through balls.
5. It is hard to defend the flanks. adam claimed that this issue existed in the demo because we couldn't change tactics, so far i have tried everything i could do, and through balls would still go to wingers 9 out 10 times.
6. Super star AI is not consistent, one minute they are easy to break and score against, next minute they are impossible to break.
7. Pass assist 1 is DEFINITELY more assisted now compared to the beta. It is as assisted as 2017. I played all my offline games against super star CPU and on an average i had 90% passing accuracy, the lowest passing accuracy percentage i had was 82%, but for most of the time 88% and above. one match i won 5-0 with 96% passing accuracy.
8. Auto shielding is a nice addition BUT the problem is you dont know when will your player execute it. It rarely happens, out of all the 20 games i played, i probably saw my players do it only 10 times or so. It should have been manual shielding like in fifa.
9. chip shots = instant goal 9 out of 10 times.
10. Ping Pong is back at its best. It wasn't easy to ping pong in the beta, but offline you definitely can be ping pong the ball the whole match.
11. Fouls are none existence. I only had 8 fouls in the whole 20 games.
12. Fake shot is very effective against superstar CPU defenders. Run on the flank, fake shot the defender, boom you are facing the goalie already.
13. Konami said they have new transfer system? lol it is similar to last year with few minor additions. The main problem is that you still weak teams sending you offers to buy you super star teams for stupid prices. I tried selling messi and all the offers i received were around 30 million dollars!. Teams were offering me to buy neymar for 32 million dollars. What is funny is that I had leganes offering me 40 million dollars for stegen! where did they get the money from? I really couldn't see the "new" transfer system.
14. Commentary is still stale like last year, yes they have added few lines and there but still they sound fake and jim still talk over peter.
15. Adam once said on his twitter that player real faces "in game plan" would be for all teams and players, that is not true unfortunately. It looks very lazy on konami's side that some teams have a mix of both real-life faces images mixed with game faces.
I do have a lot of respect for Adam Bhatti and I appreciate the effort he puts and passion he has, he claimed that he fought a lot to ask the producers to keep the game speed as slow as the beta and that he succeeded. I believe that the game speed has been modified to a point where the game feels exactly like 2017 with new animations and little more fluid game.
