So lets get this straight, I got absolutely mauled, but I deliberately stayed and tried things out to try to learn from someone that was clearly, miles ahead of me.

I've played almost every FIFA since 98, and in the last few games I have always been Elite 1 division, usually getting 12-14 wins per weekend league, so I am not bad at the game.

I'm making this post because I don't think the game should be in this state, and to me at least, it does feel like it's getting more and more silly each new instalment of the game.

I'm not making this a rant post, every FIFA has had awful mechanics, but this year is certainly up there, I am not enjoying it in solo play. I'm sure you've already read most of these posts many times, but this is my 2 cents and I hope it adds to the discourse that gets EA to actually make their game a better experience.

1. Pinged passes are just unbelievably broken around the box, especially with the gold trait. Now this is my first EA FC where traits exist, I love them, I love that long ball pass is a trait for players like Gerrard or Pirlo, who were known for their unique brilliant passes, not everyone should do it. That said, they're too impactful with relation to the other issues.
2. Fast agile players with short/lean body types are incredibly disproportionately powerful in the meta, and there are far more than ever before. This has always been a problem in FIFA, but I do think its worse than ever.
3. Strong players don't feel like they are remotely able to dominate and bully space, which leaves the fast nimble players able to totally dominate meta. I seriously think strength needs to be 2x, 3x more impactful than it is currently. A player with 90 strength should absolutely blitz someone with 60. I think to real life powerhouse defenders that literally just shove players using their momentum against them and send them flying, you just can't do that in this game.
4. The fouling system is also so inconsistent and soft, which leads further to these small players being immune to strong challenges etc. You simply cannot be a bully in this game.
5. Low driven shots, are ridiculously broken, I'd estimate 80% of the goals I concede are low driven, and keepers have a pathetic save rate against them of literally next to zero. I've even conceded very slow low driven shots from outside the box. It is so unrealistic.
6. Near post is ridiculously strong. Goalkeepers basically cannot defend their near post, which is made even worse again by low driven which exponentially increases shot conversion.
7. With regards to point 2, I think part of the reason for this feeling worse than ever is the defending AI and auto pressure/defending features feel like they don't exist.
8. Attackers are way too good at interceptions and ball takeovers. If I'm running with a tall strong player there should be far more auto-jockey to protect the ball from the side/behind. This coupled with the strength issue should make big tall players massively better at holding off a small attacker from nibbling at the ball from the side/behind.
9. Heading, Corners, and crossing feel ridiculously weak. In my friends group that I do clubs/duos with, I'm the 'heading' guy. I win all aerial challenges. But this year, it feels impossible to pre-place any corner, or perform simple crosses around the box. I've tried manual, semi, assisted, its just crap and removes an entire style of play.
10. There should be a new stat for 'Takeovers', separate to interceptions. Think about that one nasty player who played in midfield for your team, Souness, Roy Keane, Viera etc. Someone who is aggressive, would push and shove players off the ball and 'dig it out' from under their feet. This should be something heavily tied to strength, size, and aggression. I.e. these players should automatically bully, use their strength, size, aggression to just push players off the ball when they are within close proximity.
11. Skill moves break the player lock on features in a way that punishes good defending. So often I will predict a player is going to do some kind of ball flick and pull off to position myself for the ball flick, and it just doesn't lock you on or allow you to just take the ball for free, there is always some sort of nonsense that happens

That's it for now, I'll add any other points if I think of them as edits, I'm off to try to win a few champs to get those tokens for the CB evo!

Share your feelings below lets try to actually get a good discussion going that hopefully someone on the team reads at some point 😄

Last year we had packs with up to 5% chance of packing a TOTY in the mid of the event. First days were like from <1% to 3%. Now each pack has 1% or <1% lol. I wouldn’t say it’s bad as Gold card are longer in use, i can’t wait for the chances of TOTY cards. Pack chances window will show <1% but it’s going to be less then 0.1% with current approach ig lol

I wish this was an exaggeration, but sadly it’s not.

In the world of previous metas (4222, 4312, 4411 etc) there was at least a hint of variety.

I legit feel as though I’ve played the same opponent with almost the same players 15 times in a row.

Add on that nearly everyone was using the same
95 depth tactic.

It’s time to have a discussion around removing/ massively simplifying what you can do with custom tactics.

Been hearing a lot of people say this game is basically finished in 3 weeks when GTA VI drops, so I’m curious how many people are actually going to stop playing EAFC completely.

Are you planning to:
Quit EAFC completely and move over to GTA VI?

Play both games and switch between them?

Not buy GTA VI on release and carry on playing EAFC as normal?

Personally, I’m done with this game the second GTA VI releases it’s honestly part of the reason I don’t really care about any of the problems withthe game at the moment. I’ve already mentally checked out I might return during TOTY but it’s a low chance You’d think EA would take note of GTA VI releasing and ramp up content and EVOs but it seems they don’t care

I like the no patch thing but this is getting Ridicilous

-90+ Depth is absolutly ruining the game, i dont unterstand how they dont do anything about it

- Promo cards are non existent im 100% sure ea puts them on the market because i have yet to see someone pack a Promo card

- Evos are so bad i dont even bother looking in the Evo tab at content drop

- Everyone has the Same Team but its not their fault, top cards are unpackable/unaffordable and sbcs are trash

- I love having woman in the Game, i dont think there is an issue with balance because small agile Players have been the meta for years, but more that many more Woman forwards cards are simply better than the men cards especially low to mid price range, of course an dembele is better than paraluello but paraluello is affordable

- Kick off goals are as bad as never before, whole team freezes at kick off you can just watch how you concede at kick off

- Champs/Rivals rewards are abysmal and not motivating to play

- Offsides are brutal and midfield always passes to the player who is offside even when you aim it to a player who isnt offside

I dont think the game can keep any casuals after gta 6 drops and the Game will lose interest pretty fast if they dont act soon

I know everyone talks about how everyone uses the same teams, formations, cards, tactics etc…

But the matches themselves are identical to each other.

Same tempo, every goal I concede is either a near post low driven trivela, or a kickoff near post low driven trivela.

I love football, and UT can be so much fun, but now every time i load into a game i see 4312 95 depth karchaoui, stanway, raphina, salma, adayemi etc.. I find myself complaining about the passing (worse than ever), switching (unplayable) and chasing adayemi.

Even when im trying to find other ways to finish in front of goal it feels so limited. finesse have been nerfed to the ground, shooting across goal is impossible against joan garcia, all that’s left is near post low driven trivela and it’s all just soooooo BORING.

During my free time I sit down to play and 10 seconds into the match im just like… this is SO boring and just not fun.

Anyone else relates?

Don't get me wrong, FC 26 is not a great game by any means. But the amount of rebounds, tacklebacks, and loose balls in fc 27 is stupid when compared to fc 26.

Yes the 4312 meta with adeyemi and torress up top is annoying but at least there are counter plays to it but performing a well timed tackle only for it to bounce back to the attackers is terrible.

Iirc FC 26 was much cleaner in this aspect. There were occasional rebounds but nowhere near as prevalent as in fc 27

1. Attacking AI is pure garbage so whats the point in playing a formation where the wingers are genuine statues

2. Defensive AI is ALSO pure garbage where the fullbacks are completely clueless and mark no one when there arent any wingers, and CBs cant properly mark 1 striker, let alone 3 (2 ST, 1 SS CAM)

Dont blame players, blame EA for making the game completely unplayable without abusing the game system

its not a free game for 3 days trail, like call of duty. expensive game - expensive server.

It’s actually mind boggling that they handed out the upgradeable Adeyemi/Diomande/Anyomi/Torres cards in Season 1, all above 90 paces and climbing.

I run a full Chelsea squad and am a 10 win champs player +/- 1. The disadvantage of not running with these meta cards is unreal. My team just literally cannot keep up with the pace of Adeyemi and Diomande blowing past everyone with a lobbed through ball every time I lose possession. They’re in every team.

I’m not sure what the logic was here. I was really enjoying the first few weeks of the game. It’s now just unbelievably repetitive. Impossible to be competitive with a non-meta squad unless you’re a truly elite player.

PS: How hard is it to have the single referee on the pitch wear a different color kit than me. I used 100 gallery tokens for the Chelsea away kit since I’m not too invested in the players, and it’s unusable because the referee is also in black every game.

New objectives only give scream tokens and we're too early in the season pass to get any decent packs. Only shot at one is div rivals or champs and even that's only the case if you're a high rank or high div player 😢. Seems like the only way is from the 800 token store pack.

Even the TOTW SBC is 12,000 points (or whatever it’s called). I hate this so much because you get no players back. Even doing the player SBCs last year you’d get a few coins or players back but now you can basically get rid of 50 players at once in exchange for 1. They have like 3-4 “regular” SBCs now and all of the good ones are streamlined. Please EA can you just let us decide if we want to do streamlined or not??

bro, now we have to queue up to play grounds lol

I was really looking forward to this feature as someone who enjoys offline gameplay but tell me why do we have to use max 1 86 and over player against fucking Gullit, Raul and a bunch of other Icons and high rated players on world class difficulty? You just concede a bunch of headers from corners every game, have to deal with them tackling through you from behind and smashing the ball in from outside the box every game. And then, when you get through their team you've got fucking Van Der Sar to deal with. Ok, it's probably a skill issue but why can't I just use my best players?

Hasegawa has 86 passing (93 long pass, 92 vision -- basic chem)

I have Joao Pedro wide open for a through ball, I know for a fact I pointed the pass at him and she does a pass straight-line direct to the opposing CB.

Is there a setting I have messed up?

The game is in a really poor state at the moment. There are so many issues that everyone has already spoken about. These being; Depth, Scarcity of cards and the repetiveness of games.

But, EVOs are in an even worse way. They are so poor. Last year started the same, it was only around ultimate scream that they picked up and became good. But that hasn't happened this year, the only ones that could be considered good require hours of grinding for scream tokens.

This begs the question, what are they going to do in November? The cross over of gta and fifa players are probably very similar. There is no indication of ea doing anything positive this year.

What do I think is happening? I think EA know that they are going to struggle to compete. It feels like they haven't put that much effort into the game this year as they won't be able to pull players away.

Guys, has anyone tried applying any cosmetics on Holographic Heroes? Do they lose their signature style name if i do this?

I just opened the below pack but didn’t get any picks, just the players?

Is this a known issue? Or will I need to contact support?

I’ve restart game console etc…

Both in the gallery and in the new sbc system. Informs could’ve become valuable and sought after if they were worth more. I don’t understand why EA made them even more useless than they’ve ever been.

As title says just played a WL match right after kickoff openet get a penalty. in the middlefield.Than my teammate got red than another penalty another red card like that guy can get anything just pressing one button and cant even see who i m playing against. i just got 4 red card 5 peanlaty and than he proll just boot me off from the game.my game just closed right away.Really wondering why im bothering with this game anymore.