Yeah, I am not talking about the script that "balances" matches and such, to make sure you don't always win easily even if you have a good team etc. I generally refer to that match balancing as scripting aswell.
WHat I am referring to is the core gameplay where passpowers are predetermined, and where there is no way to user-control powers and aim completely (ie they are controlled by parameters and systems in the game, or "scripts" (might be a poor choice of words, but I can't think of a better one).
So if you press the d-pad to the right and then press the pass-button, the pass "scripts" or "systems" will determine which player you _might_ have wanted to pass to, and what speed you might have wanted on the pass.
Problem is that the AI will never be as good as I am at judging what aim or power a pass needs to be optimal for MY intentions (I might want to strike a loose pass since I immediately after intend to then make a direct-pass to another player. But since the game "pass system" doesn't know that, it might instead opt for a harder pass, which means that my player has troubles receiving the ball, causing the player to not be able to strike a good clean direct-touch to a teammate.
Or inversely, I might want to strike a really hard pass to a teammate because I see an opponent already moving in to intercept the pass-path. But the game opts for a normal-speed pass which then causes the pass to be intercepted. I might also have wanted to be on the safe side and aim slightly to the side of my player, to put even more distance between the ball and the opponent so as to avoid an interception. But because the aim is determined completely by the game, chances are it will completely disregard this aspect aswell.
So the scripting you refer to would sometimes affect the scripts I am referring to (causing the scripts (or systems) for pass aim etc to become poorer so as to make it harder for you to win and play well).
But even if you remove the "Cheating" script (so that there is no bias whatsoever at any point), there still remains the fact that the AI controlls for example pass speeds and aims instead of you, which again is like playing a FPS (a game that requires lots of skill and precision from the player to learn to aim properly to always hit the head for a clean kill for example) with forced auto-aim that completely removes almost any skills from the game (meaning that an 8-year old can strike passes as well as I can, as long as they can learn to push the pass button and basically operate the d-pad). If we could use the analog stick with pass power bar, the 8-year old would need alot of practice to learn when to use certain powers for the passes, how to aim properly with the analog stick to give the ball a good starting direction (player pass accuracies will more or less, depending on stats, corrupt your original intention).
I think that explains it better, I realize the "scripting" word might be most associated with "CPU cheating".
