FIFA 14
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We have now added the 5 star skill players in FIFA14 Ultimate team in our Ultimate team section – https://fifaaddiction.com/5-star-skills-players-fifa14
Below is what we wanted from FIFA14 written in February
Every year a few months into each FIFA we review and create a list of things we want in the next FIFA. Or often things we want removing! FIFA 13 for us has actually been quite a let down. Although they got rid of the modded Pros by taking them online, removing the snow and modifying the offsides by better runs we still have many of the annoyances from 12 and now even more.
We can’t comment on clubs and career mode as much as Ultimate Team as lets face it the majority want to play UT. Although Head to Head online is a great experience and to be fair much better than UT. We just have a craving for UT. We have heard clubs has improved but still not good enough. Tried career mode, became bored of gameplay being same every game and couldn’t do skills v AI.
- EA You simply have to remove contain in FIFA14. It was a bad idea and you just need to admit it. We all make mistakes. It prevents good players being creative, stops skills and with 2nd man contain too just makes the game boring. If something has to happen in FIFA 14 it has to be this.
- Defensive positioning! WTF is going on. From opponent goal kicks we have a fullback stood on their own near edge of box. The attacking work rates of defenders is so bad we don’t use any with that setting. Due to how they wander off up field and leave big gaps for the lob through ball to pacey player (seriously with contain makes us rage). The defenders with medium are bad enough. Spend half the game dragging players back in desperate attempt to cover space. The AI for defenders is generally poor. It makes for a poor Career mode and with people containing all the time its just like playing the computer. No skills allowed having to do 1-2s and long balls. Game becomes repetitive
- COUNTER ATTACKING THROUGH BALLS. RAGE RAGE. Just make it so that Lobbed through balls aren’t accurate and the first touch of the striker sometimes bringing the ball down out of the sky from a hoof isn’t so perfect. In comparison to a 5 yard pass along the floor to a team mate who decides to shin it 10 yards away from himself! Think about this carefully as FIFA13 is seriously annoying online in Ultimate Team. Not quite as bad in H2H but we all know which mode everyone wants to play! And where you make your money.
- Improve aftertouch and manual controls. PES have done it perfectly you can pass the ball where you want and shoot where you want. The aftertouch makes sense too. Move stick down after releasing pass or shoot and ball curls that way! So simple. Manual shooting is horrific in FIFA always has been. We would love a game where we can curl a ball over top into space using a bit of backspin. We play using manual lob pass by the way and have used manual through ball but that was just too slow and UT is so fast.
- Seriously have to sort out the issues with Ultimate Team trade piles and the amount of times you take it offline is just crazy. Especially when it comes back just as bad. Your servers have the reputation of zero. So you must be able to improve that. Everyone hacks your game so easily too. We know lots in the community who are seriously switched on and have studied the web app code. Its not good to hear.
- FUT Single matches I’m sure you will bring back? I think many people will quit UT if you don’t. Lots of people want to play skillful passing football and the cups and league has too many people desperate to win. Having said that if you remove contain and look at the next few points maybe won’t be as bad
- Players who run around lots need to become more tired. Containing if you dare add it in FIFA 14 should make the players tired too. This also will help you with our next point
- TOTY players are crap, and In Form players. Complete waste of time. Because the game mode is so fast they move around too quick so hard to control even doing slow dribbles. Seems that the best players on the game are fast skillful silver players. Why is this? Some of the settings for speed and ball control must be handicapped by other settings for high rated players? There we said FIFA might be handicapped. @KSIOlajidebt lost 7-0 using full TOTY and then @Bateson87 used it and got beat 6-1 4-2 5-1. Went back to an 80 rated team and started winning easy again. It’s not just that opponents raise their game against better teams. The 90+ rated players were being useless. @KSIOlajidebt V @Bateson87 Videos on this are to the right. One of the best dual FIFA streams ever seen.
- Custom formations are allowed in H2H online (but not in all the big tournaments such as Virgin Gaming etc) So what is the point? And then they aren’t allowed in FIFA13 within UT? Well you can kind of add one but it forgets. Is this on purpose or not? Basically custom formations and custom tactics suck! If we ask players to sit back on zero pressure where are they wandering off to? We want them parked on the edge of the box. Might as well just scrap them both and replace with many options you can choose from which actually affect how your team play, passing, holding ball etc. Scrap all the individual player
- New FIFA 14 tournament mode in Ultimate Team which has league stage. We know you don’t have rights to Champions League but hey you used the mini league mode in FIFA World Cup edition (still our fav FIFA). How would it work? Simple. Each person nominates a team in the world to use. So eg 4 people pick Santos, Arsenal, Barcelona and Ipswich Town. Now their Ultimate team is simply called that name and can have anyone in it same as normal. Simply choosing one of the teams in the world that they represent. Can’t have same team name in same league group of the knockout stages. So if millions of people pick madrid they prob be searching for hours for an empty group. Let them! Its only the name they would soon start picking teams where they live or support or random. Would really work exactly the same as the World Cup online tournament! We could have said the Euro download but we didn’t download it as looked crap
- Let us change tactics when the score is being showed after a goal. Asked for this in FIFA 11 and 12. The games are quite short so waiting seconds for the score to move is annoying. Same on throw ins etc
- Remove all shadows from pitches. Yes it might look accurate but its pointless, why make the game harder to see? Players on the pitch level don’t have those problems so get rid of them. Improve the game dramatically. We can’t use our favourite stadiums because of this.
- Same as point above really and you removed the snow so remove or improve the rain. Whats point in getting to final of a cup or playing to win division when suddenly opponent has iffy connection and it rains. Gives you little chance to actually play the game properly. Make big sliding tackles possible but gameplay same?
- Keep saying this too, colours of kits and refs probably because of your stadium graphics. Barcelona kit for example shows really dark. Clashes with ref kit and opposition if a darker kit. Sort it all out. Test on lots of different tvs to make sure everyone has good graphics.
- Change UT database so you can add players into it as well as remove them! Its on the DVD? take it off then, put it on one of your reliable servers?
- Have more 5 star skill players across the game. Lets not be as realistic lets create a more enjoyable fun experience. By copying real life too much you are creating a boring game and kids are growing up playing counter attack long balls to the fast kid, going out into parks and doing that and then in leagues! Be innovative with FIFA14 and help kids learn to pass and skill and have technique.
- EASFC! Just scrap it. We don’t care if friends have just played (they usually tell us or we know). We don’t care who has traded most (someone who has hacked UT usually). We don’t care where the club we represent is in the world FIFA ranking. It is all meaningless. All we care about is our next game of FIFA and will it be a good experience so we feel happy. The EASFC in our opinion is causing really big problems with the game. So many stats to track and such a big database. Save yourselves lots of headache. Remove the so called heart of the game that most people don’t care about.
- Ok one more point. Kris Kamara for commentator !! That would be UNBELIEVABLE EA
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Is there any way i can sped up the player’s drifting and running speed? Also it would be helpful if you give some tricks on corners as mentioned by Rodolpho.
If you hold LT/L2 and RT/R2 then move diagonally you might see a better drifting speed. For running you need to knock ball ahead with right stick. Not sure who rodolpho is do you mean for attacking or defending?
Suggestion for FIFA 15.
In any online format… stop players pausing the game when the ball is “live”.
Players are using pauses to disrupt the flow / concentration of opponents… there also appears to be a high correlation to “Quit Glitchers”.
For simplicity, only allow a player to pause the game and access menus during “dead balls”. You have a throw in… you can pause the game. You have a corner… you can pause the game. You have a goal kick… you can pause the game. etc, anyway… you get the idea.
This is a very good point , I have lost so many games through opponents pausing the game , its cheating basically
XBOX 360, FUT On Line Seasons, “Quit Glitch”
Experiencing a high number of opponents who pause the game ANYTIME before the final whistle… and quit.
Research suggests when the “Quit Glitch” is applied correctly the “Quit Glitcher” is trying to:
a) force a Win to be recorded for them when they are leading… before the 90 mins are up.
b) force a Loss to be IGNORED in their 10 Seasons games… before the 90 mins are up.
This translates to players that exploit the “Quit Glitch” being able to start MORE THAN 10 games in one season and giving them a chance each time to Ignore a Loss/Force a Win… they just rinse and repeat:
Step 1) start an on line Seasons game
Step 2) at any time before the 90th minute use the “Quit Glitch” to force the result they want
Step 3) While Title not won… Go To Step 1
Anyone else suffering from this?
B4RCA, where’s the recommended place to raise this with EA?
Not actually seen this on nextgen (XboxOne/PS4) as when anyone has quit before 90th minute it has remembered the score. Suggesting maybe nextgen aren’t as easily hacked because the hardware isn’t known fully yet. We know xbox360 people could do all sorts to the various games like GTAV and FIFA. PS3 didn’t see it as much but was/is possible.
I have been playing FIFA religiously since roughly 06 and always play career mode.
It is fair to say I may be one of a handful of committed career mode players left, none the less, it’s obvious the money is made in online gaming which if career mode was gone from FIFA I’d have to hang up my virtual boots. But now I will begin with why I am here and why I am posting.
I love FIFA but the years of raging and breaking controllers and yelling is getting ridiculous. Yes these are my flaws but the problems lie in the specific nature of versing the computer in either career mode or kick off.
Rarely do I get the thrill of victory anymore as so many aspects cause the game to suck the life out of the fun of the perfect through ball, a lovely trick move to spellbound a defender or a last minute winner.
Here I will define in detail things I’m sure others too have noticed and maybe a few more.
Firstly I’ll start with corners and crosses.
– After delivering a corner or a cross 80% of the time the result is the computer defender will head the ball out to another defender alone in acres of space in my final third and then begin their own counter attack. While I acknowledge that this may occur sometimes the fact that this can happen in a 6 minute half match at about a nine out of ten time ratio is utterly insane. There needs to be way more scenarios to how this could play out other than what I think is about 3 scenarios. Goal scored, another corner, cleared for computer counter attack.
Adding head on collisions while jumping or ref free kicks for over aggressive holding or something along these lines may be something for future I’d hope.
Now I’ll mention tackling.
– Most of this May just be down to frustration as I’m not really good at FIFA in my own opinion even after years of playing I’m still on world class.
If you tackle a guy in midfield it should not need you to tackle up to five of the computers players with either slide, standing or teammate tackles. Again this is like corners and crosses. Trying to win the ball back quickly (Barca style) is redundant as your only results are down to again what I think roughly 3 scenarios which are, cpu player gets the ball back, ball goes out for throw in or goal kick, or they get a free kick even with perfect ball tackles.
Seriously, where did they assume this happens this often in football? Maybe they counter the idea that us the players in real life wouldn’t lay this many tackles either so it’s a balanced possession attempt to keep the game challenging, I don’t know, but it’s way off the mark.
Now for the losing 50/50 balls 100% of the time.
– This one has been one of the most frustrating in FIFA for many years.
If it be from a goal kick, a header, a tackle in the middle of the pitch or anything else, if you and a computer player are running for a 50/50 ball I honestly believe about half a percent of the time would you get the ball. Literally if this happens 3000 times over the course of career mode I’d say you will win maybe 10 of them and that may be generous, and even if you do win the ball in a manner that you think is fair somehow another 98% of the time you’ve fouled the computer player, again, how is this realistic to football at all?
Ridiculous loss of headed duels.
– In no way or shape should a 5’7 attacker win more than 30% of headers against 6’5 defenders with heading stats sometimes 20 or more higher than the smaller man.
Now we can all agree that no one wins everything every match or dominate one aspect of the game forever but in reality, even with perfect timing or whatever the situation be, the computer player still seems to win roughly 60 to 70% of all headed duels anywhere on the pitch. If this game is about numbers let’s try get things like this right. Yes guys like Giroud, Mandzukic and so on should win their fair share of headers against the Hummels and Piques of the world but if Aaron Lennon is winning the lions share of headers against Mertesacker than I’m sorry but that is a gaming flaw. Maybe Mertesacker can foul Lennon as he prepares to leap for sure but for him to out jump someone almost a foot taller than him most of the time is far fetched.
CPU GK save ratio to players GK ratio in game.
– Maybe this can be accounted for but also it’s something to think about.
Career mode or kick off against CPU, my GK can be rated 87 and the cpu’s 68 and still, in the majority of games, 50/ 50 possession or not they will only ever need 2 or 3 shots to score every game while us humans are stuck with brilliant save after brilliant save from one on ones, to amazing dives from headers from corners or free kicks, then they go up the other end and any style with a shot on target and very rarely will your keeper make more than 5 saves for more than one match or two in a row without conceding. Are the computer more clinical or are us players not good enough? It can be both but in the interest of reality and keeping the game realistic, over the course of a season in career mode shouldn’t this balance out? Most of the time the CPU GK will save 90% of shots in a season as to the players GK will maybe get 70% again this can be down to decisions to come out of the box or not. But honestly the CPU players are always more clinical even with a player with finishing ratings relatively low the conversion rate is usually still higher than if the players strikers finish rate is 90 odd. A fair game is a good game, but yes rarely a goalkeeper can have 10 saves and his team win 1-0. Ask Tim Krul about the spurs game.. But rarely shouldn’t mean the CPU GK is man of the match 70% of the time.
This is what I deem accidental contact/collisions
– In any of the following examples where clear free kicks should be called they are being utterly neglected and it causes gamers to get very upset.
If I play a 1-2 and the computer player accidentally collides with my off the ball player this foul is called in real life almost all of the time yet in FIFA you will never get this call, EVER. This has to be changed. It shouldn’t matter if the collision system isn’t right, That isn’t
Hard to fix is it? The referees neglect 90% of free kicks a player should receive as it is. I can go through an entire season of career mode and not deliver one slide tackle and still have a bucketload more fouls than the CPU does in 2 or 3 seasons.
I have to say I use legacy defending as tactical is downright vomit. The push/pull never works in your favour anyway and the foul ratio goes out the window again.
I’ve rambled enough. I’ve missed points that I’ll be annoyed with but I’ll leave with these few final points.
The CPU tackles leading to injuries to your players are never called yet if I win an aerial duel or a 50/50 which is rare enough and somehow the CPU player is injured it will most of the time end up as a foul and a card to my player.
Can we please have more 5 star scouts from different countries in career mode more frequently? I agree that there isn’t going to be thousands of world class scouts floating around every day but I wanted to get one let’s say, French, German and Italian scouts while in whatever country in Europe and I can’t remember it happening. Yeah it’s a bit petty but seeing the 8th 5 star scout from Finland, Norway, Sweden or Northern Ireland come up for the third time in two seasons is a bit of a bummer.
Bloody Alan McNally is always reporting in on penalties in other games!! Mate, in career mode if you conceded or receive more than 3 penalties in a season your career mode is a lot more exciting than mine.
That’s all I suppose. Like I said I’ve got a lot more issues but wrote too much here as it is and won’t be surprised if this isn’t posted.
Thanks for reading. I, just like all FIFA non on-liners, want to enjoy football as football and not as the NBA JAM of arcade games.
Cheers
Jake
Will get a cup of tea and biscuit and read this one. Cheers for the effort.
Lol sorry :). I must say though, I did only point out things that the computer do wrong. There are many things that my players do that I think aren’t right either. I’m a sore looser but I try to be fair :p ..I think
Hello,
Did some aspect of game play change recently? I’m playing on XBOX ONE, and this weekend all of a sudden everyone’s a pro somehow. I lost more than 20 games in a row and dropped from Div1 to Div6 in FUT Online Seasons. I’m a level 72 gamer ID.
Usually I hold possession and control the game fairly easily. This weekend I kept getting beat over and over again with long ball, high pressure tactics. Even when i played my super low pressure custom tactic i still got beat repeatedly with through balls when i could see it coming every time. This seems new to me, like something has changed. Thoughts?
Recently lots more players received Xbox One and PS4 so lots more better players and lots more worse. The best players will head to the top. Maybe change your tactic or team we always suggest having a rest if losing lots in a row. More than 10 games definitely don’t play it for a day go into other modes or games.
Since I wrote this I’ve been reading the EA forums and I think I’ve figured out what’s going on. On next-gen consoles, the game engine is different. This difference affects various aspects of the game play, but players have learned to use this difference to their advantage in two very specific ways. I would write the details here but I don’t want to broadcast this out anymore than it already is. There also seems like there might have been a code branch of the source code that has promoted a certain bug that has long-since been resolved. Again, I’m not going into the details here. The result of these two issues is players that, using out-of-the-box settings or some easily configured custom tactics, can set up their team to be almost unstoppable. Now that I’m aware of these issues, I’ve created some custom tactics to combat the exploits and have started winning again with just good old football strategy. Let me know if you want more details.
My copy of fifa 14 is going on eBay. After years of playing the game I’m giving up. The contain 5 players running around ruins the game. Plus the constant fouls with no free kicks is ridiculous. You either hurdle the tackle and lose the ball or get brought down after the pass and can’t make a 1 – 2. I’ve had games with 20+ tackles against me and about 2 fouls given. Then there’s the pulling when clean through. How is this not a foul?
The game is supposed to be getting more realistic.
Hi there! Please do a tutorial with tips to defending on FIFA 14!! Thank you very much and regards!!!
The defending page is the place to be in tutorials section. Just adding defending crosses and corners.
Much improved FIFA 14 but passing is very awful unless you exploit the long ball, which is stupidly effective, and contain is still the absolute worst thing to ever happen to a game.
The auto tackle is almost the same and with the different first touch, just as stupid.
My god do they love causal gamers, good job Pro Evo is going along well, they just need some better licenses…however everyones uses the same players so it really doesn’t matter.
Get an option file for PES and it has all the licences then. Can add them to any console and version of pes. However we like the passing on FIFA14 more than 12 and 13.
I’ve enjoyed the demo so far, but wanted to see if anyone else thought that the lobbed through ball seemed a little too good? I was playing vs Milan and time after time Mario got in behind with a simple lobbed through ball. Noticing this, after a goal I simply sent my player on a run and played a lobbed through ball and he was in on goal…Now, like I said, I think so far the game has been pretty solid and I know its a demo so still time for them to tweak the game play a bit, but did anyone else notice this or am I crazy?
EA have been told and we are hoping the feedback they were given at Gamescom and Guilford they are able to change that and finesse shots for when game released.
An annoying thing is for example you go one on one with the keeper, 2 things, first thing is why would the next player near to you be your own player? This very rarely happens in real life but on fifa you have a choice of players to pass to and perform a horrible robot goal. Second thing, one on one with Henry for example, middle of goal and he uses his left foot?? Why? Pro evo stopped this in like 2005 when on every player they had a weaker foot frequency, so players like Veron who never used his left foot, actually never did. Its detail like this what annoys people especially when PES sorted it out years ago. Fifa still is a great game and i dont want to complain, i just feel they could do more things to appease gamers instead of like mentioned above, bullshit ideas like EASFC
Change players kit numbers in UT, why would a keeper be number 2?. Taking contain out is ridiculous, a real game mode is what people want, i dont want to play against someone who does 5 step overs, flicks the ball over his head and scores a volley as it lands. If you want to do this then get FIFA Street. If you cant break a team down because they defend, then you try a different approach, a different tactic, if you lose, accept defeat.
Well they have changed kit numbers so can assign any you want. Up to you if want keeper as number 1 or 12 etc. People including us don’t like contain because it takes no skill to defend. Hold two buttons and you have 2 players pressing. Fair enough if their stamina went down but they do it for entire match and in real life players would get so tired chasing around a passing team like Barcelona.
Will we be able to migrate Fifa 14 ultimate team from Xbox 360 to PS4? I want to switch over to PS4 but I don’t want to loose the first month of FUT14.
No you can only transfer to the next version of console – Xbox360 to XboxOne and Ps3 to PS4. Shame think a lot will want to do the same.
1. Fix LAG, or stutter delay play on all online modes!
2. Remove “Any” Player Option within Pro Clubs VP Drop In Matches!
3. Revise Pro Clubs computer player ai team adding a bit more defensive tactical awareness and/or GK rating level increase!
4. Make an easier option to mute players within Pro Clubs VP Drop In Matches
5. Revise ability to change player name that shows up within match line ups.. or provide way for VP’s to advertise they are looking for a Pro Club.. and a way to invite player-during gameplay vs. in early match line-ups
6. Revise EA Pro Club apps website to be more interactive and add more features and functions for managers and club owners
7. Add quick end button for super long cut vids for player substitutions
8. Provide a function to search for your VP player’s world ranking, and Pro Club Ranking, not just top 100
9. Provide an easier way to reset your VP to default and start over
10. Fix the delay or altogether nonresponsive shot when pressing L2 and shoot button in the box while skillfully dribbling. Often times the shoot order does not materialize and the opportunity is lost. The player has an open shot as well.
11.
Fix 4-2-3-1: the left and right players at the front are labelled as CAM instead of LM/RM. So there’s this absurd situation where players have been part of the team of the week like Reus, Robben, Cassano etc and played in the 4231 in real life during that week but been labelled LM/RM. These obviously need to correspond or they need to introduce a LAM/RAM position card.
Fix Position Cards: So you can adapt a CDM into a striker but can’t adapt them into a CB! We need a CB-CDM card. Loads of players in Europe (like De Rossi can play CB or CDM). Similarly, we need a LWB-LM card and RWB-RM card. So at the moment I can change my Team of the Season Lichtsteiner RM player into an RF but can’t change him to where he actually plays – RWB (same for the IF LB Lulic who I can’t move forward to LM)
Fix Formations: Why can’t there been the same choice of formations in FUT as there are in the normal game e.g. 4-2-4, and 3-4-3 (diamond) etc etc. There are some really interesting formations in-game like Benfica’s. Best option is to do away with formation cards altogether and just allow plays to customise their formation.
Fix Upgrade Cards: There should be a ‘fair game mode’ or we should be able to see whether the opponent has applied these cards to their players when the visual display comes up before the match and we should have a choice then as to whether to continue or not. What’s the point of saving up for In Form players which only have a very slight upgrade when you face the likes of Remy with his shooting increased and Ben Arfa with his pace increased.
Fix Pace Abuse: Fifa’s supposed to be about football – not the 100 metre dash. Most players just think it’s about running – a lob-through ball to Walcott and then he just runs. Very boring. really interesting but slow players like Hernanes and Pirlo just get ‘crowded out’ of the game.
Evolve the Tactics: Surely they could evolve it so that you can give a specific player instructions for that game e.g. If you had De Rossi and Vidal as your CDM’s – tell one of them to sit further back than the other….
Fix Price Fixing: Why don’t they place a limit of 3 versions of the same player that an individual account can have on the market simultaneously?
Fix the Server: need I say more…?
Good game i play it allot but there are lots of bad things such as the first touches and ultimate team alll you need is a fast team eg muriel is better than falcao realy ? And tax is stupid the game is already overpriced why whould we pay tax on the players we sell its a disgrace unless the game is actually good this year the price should be dropped its not worth it !
Some good points; card weight management must be improved for the game to succeed.
It is a coin buyers market.
Contain must go and if not I’ll be skipping every generation of FIFA from now on; it seems pointless having slower players when you are constantly chased by 2 85+ players who surround you at every turn…sure you can move the ball away but then what? Get caught by the next 90 pace full back.
The game has gone backwards and offers very little in the way of user enjoyment or, more importantly football in real life….they pay a fortune for names, it’s time they represented the game properly.
Worst FIFA I have played in quite some time, single play mode is drab and easy, Ultimate team is about building a really fast team with a Bronze bench and not about using the countless IF’s they release.
I mean what is the point; they could at least have realised every IF needed to major pace upgrades to be usable.
Shame really as the mode had potential, FIFA 14 will be just a awful and they confirmed that by releasing info about Special FIFA 14 packs instead of telling us what they changed and why they had to change it.
They don’t own up to mistakes and they don’t talk to the community, they could have changed the error rates for through balls or short passes at any point with an update but they chose not to….despite the majority asking for it.
Look at the lack of contact about April fools, every saying is it going on and EA staying quiet. At least say no, sorry not this year; thousands upon thousands of people were really annoyed.
Then TOTW, fill the slots, the community wants it, IF don’t work anyway and they are too expensive. Do it for the community and stop being ignorant.
Lets hope Pro Evo can actually get it’s act together sometime in the next decade because EA won’t change for anyone…but they will sack their top guys year on year for not retaining a customer base..
Some good points! We can only hope EA listen and remove contain to save the game.
Ok, in rough order of irritation:
1. The refereeing – Really EA?! The ref’s decisions at best make us roll our eyes in disbelief, at worst can just make you want to stop playing. If we can see with our own eyes whether a challenge is legitimate, why can’t the computer code?
Insane decisions like giving a free kick or penalty because a player that was slide-tackled legitimately stands up and then falls over the legs of the player that made the tackle for example.
Or having fouls constantly awarded against you for soft standing tackles when the other team can drag your players back forever with impunity.
There’s no consistency to the decisions, even over the course of a single game. Maybe if the game was called ‘FIFA Serie A’ I could understand it, but the referee coding is a joke to 99% of players.
2. Handicapping – It definitely does happen. It seems there is an upper limit to player ability, which means that when a decent (83-85 OVR) team plays a legendary side, the lower classed team make constant mistakes that they wouldn’t make if playing a lower classed team.
The biggest flaw of all though is the issue of defending against lobbed through balls. The computer momentarily stops the defending player from tracking the player/ball, so that even when you have full control over the defender and are holding the sprint trigger to get back when a lobbed through ball is played, the defender will stop in his tracks and sometimes even run away from his own goal, creating a ridiculouslyt unfair advantage for the attacker.
This happens even when auto-switch assistance is completely turned off. What a load of boll@cks. Probably THE most annoying feature of the game.
3. As mentioned in the original article, why the f@ck do we have to wait half an hour for the scoreline to disappear, when we can’t make custom tactical changes during that time, same for throw-ins and corners. Those are the times when you most often want to change up a custom tactic quickly, and the game won’t let you do it because the devs think it’s more important to be able to see the scoreline onscreen for what always feels like forever. Yeah DUH!! I’m playing the f@cking game, I know what the score is, Jesus!
4. Linked to the above, why are the cutscenes so damn long? Do they think we actually enjoy sitting through minutes of cutscenes per game? They’re not that good! And even if they were, the novelty would wear off after a few games.
And why is the instant replay feature so short?? I understand that the latter is due to server constraints, but then allow us to upload direct to YouTube or similar rather than forcing us to use the woefully inadequate EA servers.
Thank God the new consoles both come with built-in gameplay recorders (IF the game supports the feature).
I really hope EA don’t do something stupid like neglect to implement this feature in FIFA 14/15. We’re living in an HD world and we want HD quality replay saves, not some skanky 320×160 clip. Get with the program.
Well put, what about online pro seasons?
– I wouldn’t have them remove contain, but I would kill autotackling with fire. Contain is not broken as is; autotackling is what makes containing easy mode. Remove autotackling and you not only make containing viable but not OP, but you make people actually learn to defend which is the desirable outcome.
– Bigger stat increases for IF and MOTM players. The biggest complaints with most IFs is that they don’t outperform their respective NIF cards, which should not happen. My preferred increases would be a minimum of +2 overall for a first IF, and subsequent increases afterwards. Also, give more silver players gold IF cards and bronzes silver IF cards.
– Yes, more five star skillers. Too many people lost five star skills that should have kept them (Lavezzi, etc.) and so many players who never had them deserve them.
Can’t agree fully as we tried using 1 hand only to just contain against people online and they couldn’t get past our players.
referee mode, chairman mode,diving allowed,
1. CROWD REACTIONS (WHEN CHANCES ARE NARROWLY MISSED AND WHEN PLAYERS ARE FOULED THEY SHOULD BOO AND WHISTLE LIKE IN REAL LIFE, WHEN A PLAYER PASSES ANOTHER WITH SKILL THE CROWD SHOULD CHEER)
2. COMMENTATOR’S REACTIONS WHEN A PLAYER SCORES, THEY SHOULD BE MORE ENTHUSIASTIC AND THEY SHOULD THROW IN SOME INFO AND STATS ABOUT THE GOALSCORER.
3. I WOULD GLADLY PAY MORE MONEY FOR FIFA 14 IF THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND EUROPA LEAGUE IS INCLUDED IN CAREER MODE INSTEAD OF CHAMPIONS CUP AND EURO LEAGUE ( THE THEME SONGS SHOULD ALSO BE INCLUDED)
4. DURING A THROW-ON, PLAYERS THAT ARE NOT BEING CONTROLLED AT THE TIME SHOULD MARK UP TIGHTLY ON THE OPPOSITION.
5. TEAMS SHOULD PLAY LIKE THEY DO IN REAL LIFE. E.G: BARCELONA SHOULD PLAY POSSESSIVE FOOTBALL. IT SHOULD BE A BIG PART OF THE GAMEPLAY.
6.THE OVERALLS OF THE OLDER PLAYERS SHOULD NOT DIP SO FAST STRAIGHT AWAY BECAUSE PLAYERS LIKE GIGGS AND ZANETTI ARE PLAYING UNBELIEVABLY FOR THEIR AGE.
7. THE OVERALLS OF CREATED PLAYERS USED IN CAREER MODE SHOOT UP TOO HIGH TOO QUICKLY.
1.UT NEEDS CUSTOM FORMATIONS!
2.UT NEEDS TO BE MORE REALISTIC (PLAYERS THAT SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SHOOT FROM 35 YARDS AND SCORE DO)
3.UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4.MORE COMMENTATORS
5.PLAYER CAREER MODE SHOULD INCLUDE YOUTH TEAM FOOTBALL AND CREATED PLAYERS WILL GO FROM 80 TO 89 IN ONE SEASON WHICH IS UNREALISTIC.
6. PLAYER INDIVIDUALITY (IBRAHIMOVIC SHOULD BE ABLE TO BRING DOWN THE BALL USING HIS KARATE SKILLS LIKE IN REAL LIFE)
7. REFEREE GIVES AWAY A PENALTY WHEN I CLEARLY GET THE BALL
First sorry for my bad english im french. Hope you will understand.
-When the goalkeeper release the ball , systematically the ball goes to an opponent player (= a goal in most case). Please add more random to that !
-Better Referrees : so much faults and..nothing happens. And so many penalty for nothing.
-Remove the possibility to leave in the 5 first minutes (in season mode)
-when the opponent goalkeeper kick the ball far away its really difficult to win the ball. please fix that (again i think you need to add more “random” to the ball position)
-Add the possibility to customise the players positionning in FUT. So we can create custom formation (4-2-4 by example)
No offence EA but Geoff shreeves should have a little bit less to do like possible after match commentary with Alan and Clive and how is he meant to know what injury it is by just looking from the sidelines for a second :/
also, either let us change player positions that actually make sense (a ST can be pushed back to a CDM, but a LM/RM can’t play in the middle?) or let us change the positions in the actual formation. the 4231 with two CAM’s out wide, WTF is that??
also, just add more formations in general.
EA needs to finally do something to truly fix pace. they claimed to have fixed it in 13, but they just made pacey players run slower in the attacking third and defenders run faster. it makes painfully average defenders into FUT gods just because they have 75+ pace so they can close down quickly. like, sagna will not ever chase down walcott in open space.
instead they can improve (or create) defensive AI, make them hold their shape, cover more efficiently, off ball defenders need to cover people (especially in the box) without me having to use 2nd player contain.
fix first touch, its rarely useful in 13. and IRL if a player is running onto a ball they’re going to control it, not kick 5 yards in whatever direction.
the biggest though is they need to have positive and negatives of certain play styles.
right now it seems there is no incentive to a slow possession style of play. players will rarely dart into space and passes are still errant.
There should be more 5 Star skill players within the game and ultimate team. There should also be more skill moves added into the game to make the game much, much, much more interesting! And EA need to make the touches more realistic as the flick-ups are always the same animation. EA need to make a lot more animations during the game as i know like every small little animation a player does and i know practically every skill move.
I couldn’t agree more
ea sould make ultimate team with something where you can sell or give or recieve players from friends and also it would be good if you can play for coins…
They can’t do that people would abuse it even more than they do having seperate accounts. Would ruin the game.
THE POSITIONING
The defence dont keep their line , they just follow the opponents player
CREATING STADIUMS
There should be a stadium creator and
CREATION CENTER
You should be able to change the kit of your team while career mode also being able to use creation center in your xbox or ps3
Remove the f’ing rain and snow in head to head. its just stupid to play. everyone has 50% less control and is just not fun at all. also put in Barcelona’s nou camp, its missing lol. Fck the rain
Pick King Fahed Stadium. I use it now and it never rain or snow. Imagine it snowing in Saudi Arabia 😉
Actually does rain now and again in King Fahed. Have to use Veltins has a glass roof.
I want EA to make david luiz little bit slower he catches upto strickes with 90 pace with ease, its like he is making fun of them , 😛
These are mostly observations from H2H. I play on PC using a keyboard, and i dont enjoy spending half of my time doing whatever star level skills, i’d rather have better combination passing on the ground. I want to play FIFA not FIFA street.
1. Off the ball fouls go unpunished, people just drop people and walk over them..its a bully world out there..
2. Theres no love for International teams…i used to play with Brazil and had to leave because you probably have Brazil ‘A’ team sitting there. Julio Cesar wasnt there for months, no Kaka, no Ronaldinho, no Dante, no Robinho…wtf
3. In H2H if i ever pick Barca or Real i will probably end up playing a Clasico….yes there are ridiculously high number of Clasicos in the real world too, but arent there other teams at that star rating? I dont use Real/Barca teams though, Clasico is a killjoy.
4. Stop making Supermen goalies. FIFA 12 had Neuer, 13 has Sirigu. In some games it is pointless, playing H2H you have something like 15 shots at goal, 20 total, but no goal, and the opponent has 1 shot 1 goal.
5. When a ball goes into no mans land, sometimes my players start moving away from it, even when i am pressing the direction key towards the ball. Happens upto the point where the opponent moves in and gets the ball even though he was originally at twice the distance from the ball.
6. Referees…got to be the laziest donkeys around. Its time real world refs should take an exception to how they are portrayed “getting involved, though obviously not intentionally” in FIFA13.
7. Precalculated, and premeditated decisions by the engine. E.g. opponent does a desperate clearance, i have 2 guys on the lone forward, hell i cant even see where its going…and while the ball is rising (not even falling)….the commentary says “hes in the clear”….WTF….and guess what, it happens as predicted by the commentator…my defenders will just scratch around and let him go clear on goal….Believe me, that doesnt look like a commentary problem, it looks like a scripting issue with the engine.
8. More precalculated decision engine shite…if u have already decided i will not be allowed to win, just tell me so and end the misery…dont make me hit the woodwork 4 times in a match and have the opposition Superman-in-goal make 10 saves for a match rating of 9.9/10.0.
9. Blocks…whats with teams like Chelsea blocking every damn thing under the sun. You hit it from left, or right or middle or long or short and nothing will reach the keeper.
10. Why is it that the team in possession seems to be tiring more than the team which is doing all the chasing?
11. Why are financially doped teams in real world (PSG, City, Chelsea) so overly doped in FIFA. Are they paying you extra for image enhancement?
12. By now, ive seen so many incidents of precalculated scripting by the engine that i can mostly tell while playing the match which ones i am gonna concede in the 89th or 90th minute.
Some notes for UT on PC :-
1. UT offline is way more smooth than online, understandably so though.
2. Big problem – UT offline tournaments are way more rewarding that playing online season. Same score gets around 100+ more coins in tournaments. And nobody plays UT online tournaments.
3. If i normally play Ultimate cup offline, i am 100% sure to get 5000+ coins over 4 winning matches. There is no way i am gonna get that kind of dough with that certainty in Online. Plus i might burn my blood a little coz the system will always want to artificially level things up in online or u have to put up with certain morons. Conclusion – i wanna make coins, i only play ultimate cup over and over again.
The best comment i’ve read…
Real football is about a combination of intelligent pressing and passing (Dortmund, Bayern). In order to reach that you need really good positioning of AI and you should be able to affect your playing style far more effective. Whether you play passive pressing and stay back or attack all passing options and so on…
They could ask a tactician for help, nearly every coach with a UEFA license should be able to help with that, football isn’t that static like the AI interprets the game.
Skills shouldn’t be that easy, close control is way more helpful and realistic.
Every FIFA-version has it own shooting technique for sure goals…
There are a lot of more points to mention, but a change is far away.
Referees getting in the way
fast strikers getting tackled by 29 pace defenders
free kicks are IMPOSSIBLE to score
make the stats accurate so 76 pace strikers arent unbelievably fast
make the positioning better
make the passes 95% accurate instead of 0%
i always get the ball and just tap A and then the player kicks it straight to the opposition
the keeper kick outs should ALWAYS go to your team its unfair to give it away except from kicking it past the halfway line your own team should have an advantage in their own half
give the skilling a chance its nearly impossible to do the skills if i do a rainbow flick and it goes over the opposition why does my player get stuck behind him? that is obstruction
give more reasonable cards for defending, why do players do frontflips but no cards are given, it is too unpredictable
People such as welliton the Brazilian st is to over powered and what is up with these over powered silver players yeah they are good and all that but they are silver not gold. You know what I mean
Agree there is something about silver players which is a little too good!
KSIOlajidebt’s match was scripted stupid, if you watch closely you can tell it’s all acted. He lost on purpose so his viewers can get a few laughs. Dont believe me then watch other videos of his, he flips out when he starts losing, here he was calm. TOTY aren’t a waste of time, they are actually very overpowered.
Make your mind up was it scripted or did he lose on purpose? 4 major youtubers have failed with TOTY teams but everyone has an opinion.
i think it was definitely scripted. almost everytime i come up against someone with a large number of IF’s or multiple TOTY i always beat them, and i consider myself an above average, not great player.
any anytime i use silver teams v. gold teams they play brilliantly.
referee getting in the f’ing way constantly
has anyone thought of this? The shooting is too accurate and unrealistic
and pace is so unrealistic -_- the passing is sooo unrealistic lob passing is terrible
Make goal of the match and make it so if you delete ur club you get free packs again because some of us get hacked also lots of players are overrated sort it out
hey we need the option to dribble into any part of the field quickly
Dynamic weather. Wheather can change throughout the game (e.g. starts raining around 1/2 time and stops 15 mins in) weather also affects gameplay. Bounce of the ball or players grip on the floor.. Also kits should get dirty if its raining/muddy and your sliding around a lot. Also should have stadium maker for career mode and include all stadiums in bpl.
Referees are mentally disabled. Constantly stand in the way, they make no effort to move out the way. I don’t mind the ball hitting the ref on occasion but atleast make sure he TRIES to not interfere with gameplay. Also if a foul is committed in the box without the ball being there it is an INDIRECT freekick not a penalty.
The offside is flawed too. If a defender falls over in the box the offside line will be where his feet are in the game. So the attacking player can be standing at the defenders torso and will be called offside.
1. Ability to skip the scenes when you make a change, it’s desperate to wait for unnecessary time.
2. Updates, updates and more updates. I would like to see Sergio Ramos with short hair, Lavezzi with more beard, etc.
3. Remake of UT, no more unreal pace of players.
more reliable servers to stop disconnections. and if the other person turns their console off and they are winning. they still get the win. they should get the lose for causing the disconnect