Adaptive Difficulty

[KTBFFH]

I've been playing FIFA on PC for several years now, and I was perusing through the initfs_Win32 file for the game. I came upon the adaptive difficulty if anyone wants to see exactly why the game plays differently under certain conditions. Cheers.


[ADAPTIVE_DIFFICULTY]
ENABLED = 1

[ADAPTIVE_DIFFICULTY_INCREASE_DIFFICULTY]
// Description: "User scores in first 5 minutes"
// WHEN IF DO
RULE1_PARAM1 = 5 // Minutes
RULE1_OUTPUT = 0.25

// Description: "User scores in first 20 minutes"
// WHEN IF DO
RULE2_PARAM1 = 20 // Minutes
RULE2_OUTPUT = 0.25

// Description: "Score >= 2 goal lead"
// WHEN IF DO
RULE3_PARAM1 = 2 // Goal lead
RULE3_OUTPUT = 0.25

// Description: ">70% possession after at least 20 minutes"
// WHEN IF DO
RULE4_PARAM1 = 70 // Possession percentage
RULE4_PARAM2 = 20 // Minutes
RULE4_OUTPUT = 0.25

// Description: "More than 5 shots in first 30 minutes"
// WHEN IF DO
RULE5_PARAM1 = 5 // Shots
RULE5_PARAM2 = 30 // Minutes
RULE5_OUTPUT = 0.15

// Description: "More than 10 shots on target at any point"
// WHEN IF DO
RULE6_PARAM1 = 10 // Shots on target
RULE6_PARAM2 = 10 // Increments on PARAM1
RULE6_OUTPUT = 0.1

[ADAPTIVE_DIFFICULTY_DECREASE_DIFFICULTY]
// Description: "Losing at any point"
// WHEN DO
RULE1_PARAM1 = 0 // Minutes
RULE1_OUTPUT = -0.1

// Description: "No shot on target within 30 minutes of play"
// WHEN IF DO
RULE2_PARAM1 = 30 // Minutes
RULE2_OUTPUT = -0.2

// Description: "<30% possession any time after 30 minutes"
// WHEN IF DO
RULE3_PARAM1 = 30 // Possession
RULE3_PARAM2 = 30 // Minutes
RULE3_OUTPUT = -0.2

// Description: "<2 shots by 60th minute"
// WHEN IF DO
RULE4_PARAM1 = 2 // Shots
RULE4_PARAM2 = 60 // Minutes
RULE4_OUTPUT = -0.2

// Description: "<4 shots on target 80th minute"
// WHEN IF DO
RULE5_PARAM1 = 4 // Shots
RULE5_PARAM2 = 80 // Minutes
RULE5_OUTPUT = -0.3

// Description: "Losing by 2 goals"
// WHEN IF DO
RULE6_PARAM1 = -2 // Goals
RULE6_OUTPUT = -0.15

[RonMexico1992]

Quote: Originally Posted by KTBFFH

I've been playing FIFA on PC for several years now, and I was perusing through the initfs_Win32 file for the game. I came upon the adaptive difficulty if anyone wants to see exactly why the game plays differently under certain conditions. Cheers. [ADAPTIVE_DIFFICULTY] ENABLED = 1 [ADAPTIVE_DIFFICULTY_INCREASE_DIFFICULTY] // Description: "User scores in first 5 minutes" // WHEN IF DO RULE1_PARAM1 = 5 // Minutes RULE1_OUTPUT = 0.25 // Description: "User scores in first 20 minutes" // WHEN IF DO RULE2_PARAM1 = 20 // Minutes RULE2_OUTPUT = 0.25 // Description: "Score >= 2 goal lead" // WHEN IF DO RULE3_PARAM1 = 2 // Goal lead RULE3_OUTPUT = 0.25 // Description: ">70% possession after at least 20 minutes" // WHEN IF DO RULE4_PARAM1 = 70 // Possession percentage RULE4_PARAM2 = 20 // Minutes RULE4_OUTPUT = 0.25 // Description: "More than 5 shots in first 30 minutes" // WHEN IF DO RULE5_PARAM1 = 5 // Shots RULE5_PARAM2 = 30 // Minutes RULE5_OUTPUT = 0.15 // Description: "More than 10 shots on target at any point" // WHEN IF DO RULE6_PARAM1 = 10 // Shots on target RULE6_PARAM2 = 10 // Increments on PARAM1 RULE6_OUTPUT = 0.1 [ADAPTIVE_DIFFICULTY_DECREASE_DIFFICULTY] // Description: "Losing at any point" // WHEN DO RULE1_PARAM1 = 0 // Minutes RULE1_OUTPUT = -0.1 // Description: "No shot on target within 30 minutes of play" // WHEN IF DO RULE2_PARAM1 = 30 // Minutes RULE2_OUTPUT = -0.2 // Description: "<30% possession any time after 30 minutes" // WHEN IF DO RULE3_PARAM1 = 30 // Possession RULE3_PARAM2 = 30 // Minutes RULE3_OUTPUT = -0.2 // Description: "<2 shots by 60th minute" // WHEN IF DO RULE4_PARAM1 = 2 // Shots RULE4_PARAM2 = 60 // Minutes RULE4_OUTPUT = -0.2 // Description: "<4 shots on target 80th minute" // WHEN IF DO RULE5_PARAM1 = 4 // Shots RULE5_PARAM2 = 80 // Minutes RULE5_OUTPUT = -0.3 // Description: "Losing by 2 goals" // WHEN IF DO RULE6_PARAM1 = -2 // Goals RULE6_OUTPUT = -0.15

I play on PC as well. Great find

[Gonira]

wtf, this is rubberband ai! ea thinks fifa is need for speed now. why on earth would they take their time to make something as gross as this?

lucky you, pc owners. find a way to change this 1 in front of "enabled" to a zero, right now!

[KTBFFH]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gonira

wtf, this is rubberband ai! ea thinks fifa is need for speed now. why on earth would they take their time to make something as gross as this? lucky you, pc owners. find a way to change this 1 in front of "enabled" to a zero, right now!

Should be as simple as opening the file in notepad, changing it, and saving. With all due respect to the opinions of others, I actually kind of like that it's in the game. Though, I am glad that I know what the conditions for it are and why it's happening.

[Gonira]

it may be nice for casual gamers that are tied to preset difficulty levels and just want to pick the game up and play. but for people like us that like to go a bit hardcore and fine tune difficulty with sliders, this is just an extremely unrealistic way to force games to end in draws or close scores more often than they should. momentum in sports actually kinda work in the opposite way of what these codes do.

besides all that, it's an immersion killer. i'd hate to be playing and thinking "oh, i scored two goals, now it's time for the cpu to automatically start playing better".

[RonMexico1992]

I think I'm going to turn the adaptive AI off. Think I should?

where exactly is the file

[Gonira]

Quote: Originally Posted by RonMexico1992

I think I'm going to turn the adaptive AI off. Think I should?

definitely

[BSDShoes]

This is similar to the "ice tilt" in NHL series, yet "it doesn't exist" they say.

Yeah just for the hell of it I'm going to turn it off to see if it makes any difference in career mode.