FIFA 17 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[FelaKuti]

Actually pleasantly surprised after playing a few games on legendary, AI shows a bit more physicality and it's not so easy to burst past players. AI even seems to use body checks if it knows it's beaten. Not perfect by any means, but decent.

World class and below is way too easy.

This new hold-up play mechanic is really dumb I have to say, everyone feels like a powerful target man.

[Gnemi]

One slight caveat regarding comparisons to FIFA 16: yes, at its heart, this is still very much a FIFA game.

For example, I still feel compelled to switch the player I'm controlling pretty much non-stop when defending because I can only count on my AI teammates to do one thing: be stupid.

Another thing that prevented FIFA 16 from ever being truly brilliant was how badly and predictably the AI attacked. So far, through my first three games, FIFA 17 is no different in this regard.

[Gnemi]

Quote: Originally Posted by FelaKuti

Actually pleasantly surprised after playing a few games on legendary, AI shows a bit more physicality and it's not so easy to burst past players. AI even seems to use body checks if it knows it's beaten. Not perfect by any means, but decent.

I agree with everything here regarding Legendary, but to expand on "decent" I'd say that, while more difficult, it's not more enjoyable IMO.

[Ettnollbajen]

I played a game on "The Journey"
And instead of controlling A Hunter,I controlled the whole team,since I play both player and manager career on 15-16 that's a good base to compare this to 16.
And compared to the exhibition game,the game plays so much better,still very much like 16, but slightly better,CPU not being crisp in passing,made more mistakes tan in kick off mode.
But not a wow effect,and I wasn't able do judge how the CPU played (long short) since you only get 10 FIFA minutes to play that mode.
But huge difference between kickoff and Cm.

[bigeastbumrush]

Played 2 matches on World Class.

Positives:
-The AI plays smart on offense. AI teammates know when to make appropriate runs which makes a lot of give and go moments.
-Passing is improved. Crossing is way better than ever. The lofted through balls are especially effective.
-I really like set pieces although the referee setup takes forever.
-Corners have more control now that you know exactly where you are aiming.
-Really good physicality. I like a physical game. You really notice it when shielding the ball.
-Being able to walk the sideline on throw-ins.

Negatives:
-The demo is way too short.
-The default camera on set pieces is the Broadcast cam. You have to switch cams to get behind the kicker.
-Had a few fouls called but not yellow cards.
-Didn't notice Frostbite at all.

Overall I really enjoyed the demo. Can't wait to play the retail version with a longer clock. It does play a lot like FIFA 16 but there are so many subtle additions that I think people will overlook. I like the little things in games that create immersion. FIFA 17 definitely has those nailed.

This will be my go-to sports game. I can see Madden and NBA 2K collecting a lot of dust. This game is really good.

[fearwhatnow]

It seems that someone from EA read my post about sliders and they finally understood that the whole thing didn't work. You can't have global sliders that have impact on every team without having custom tactics and team individuality and ofc team specific and player sliders. They have to provide a deep sliders system like NBA2k. Otherwise it's a complete waste of time.
I still haven't downloaded the demo but my expectations are low. They had absolutely no reason to move to Frostbite.

[flo182]

Quote: Originally Posted by fearwhatnow

It seems that someone from EA read my post about sliders and they finally understood that the whole thing didn't work. You can't have global sliders that have impact on every team without having custom tactics and team individuality and ofc team specific and player sliders. They have to provide a deep sliders system like NBA2k. Otherwise it's a complete waste of time. I still haven't downloaded the demo but my expectations are low. They had absolutely no reason to move to Frostbite.

Still better to have bad sliders than none at all.

If you dont want sliders then just don't touch them? Online they dont matter.
But why should it be good to remove them from offline gameplay?

Restrictions in terms of playing are never good. Customization wins when it comes to singleplayer games.

And yes, the sliders weren't good and I also didnt touch most of them but for some people they really seemed to enhance the game. So why remove them?

Typical EA move.

And since they didn't even touch the whole AI tactics they could have just left us with the old sliders.

[Chrisx]

Still downloading the demo.
But has anyone tried extending the half length by creating a cl.ini file? It worked last year, but, new engine...

(I'm not hyped for the engine switch, sounds like a negligible graphical improvement, but what functionality will be sacrificed in the process this time?)