FIFA 15 Demo Available Now on Xbox One, 360, PC, PS3, PS4

[Krebstar]

Quote: Originally Posted by Paradingwolves

LOL at those pictures, part of me is really hoping this was done in the demo to showcase the new keeper animations, the defenders are set to be extremely passive so we get to see all these great new save animations....... doubtful but one can hope. Either way this may be fixed already in the full game, I can't imagine this got by all the testers if everyone on here noticed it was that bad after a day.

It all depends on what you're testing for. It's fairly clear that in the history of FIFA, it's made to appeal to the masses, which includes the casual fan who wants a wide open back and forth match. That also includes having your defense be just as open as the AI.

Now, luckily in the last three years these things have been able to be addressed via sliders, but I've learned that with FIFA, they're aware that it's playing a certain way, because it's the way they want it to play.

That doesn't go for every single issue, but in terms of defenders being idiots, I think the developers are more than fine with it at this point.

[Hutton]

You can't argue that the teammate AI defending is terrible. Terrible doesn't even describe it. Terrible would be a major improvement.

I sincerely hope EA got their ducks in a proper row and used some of the coding from their rather impressive FIFA World Cup game. I've never wanted to rage quit so bad in my life after some of the tomfoolery going on in the FIFA15 demo. Even the last 10 minute super boosts the CPU got in FIFA13 (I think it was 13 that had the absurd end of game logic) didn't anger me as much as some of the shenanigans I've seen in this demo.

The real shame is so much stuff is done fantastically well. I'm going to be real disappointed if the early release exhibits even a smidgen of this crapfest defending. Even Tottenham Hotspur circa November 2013 could defend better than this, and that's saying quite a lot.

[OneDrop]

BL8001 what difficulty are you playing on?

Earlier today I was playing as Liverpool vs Chelsea. Oscar had the ball and was rushing towards my back 4. Instead of waiting and keeping my back 4 organized I made the mistake of jogging towards Oscar with my RCB who was Kolo Touré. The next thing that happened caught my eye, my RB (Glen Johnson of all people) decided to cover for Touré and at the same time my LB took a step towards my LCB, totally shutting down any space between my defenders, it was a thing of beauty as smart defending in FIFA doesn't occur often. I'd like to see more of this in the full game. This was on legendary by the way.

[Ermolli]

After playing some more games there were some other things I've noticed:

- CPU teammates (besides not winning 50-50 balls) barely attempt to go for the ball, they are too passive and I've to fight for the ball by myself although when I change payer it's already late.
- Keepers lack instinct to go for the second save on loose balls, I have been scored a few times that way even if the ball was centimetres away from them.
- I've lost possession several times because I made a pass to a player that was going to the opposite direction of the pass respecting momentum, found that quite nice even though I gave the ball away.
- I don't know if I was imagining this but during a game the opposite team subbed a player who scored the only goal in the game and was cheered by the fans louder than other players, is this a thing or it was just me?
- Seeing off-ball fouls is refreshing, got called a couple times when an attacker made cut and my player made him stop.
- Sideback are useless while defending, I've already mentioned it in a previous post but it's eyesore to me (I'm playing in World Class by the way).

Besides those things I found that a way to avoid the opposite team to go through midfield without much resistance is to set every midfielder in team assistance to get back on defense (can't remember on top of my head how it's named), now the other team takes more time to go to my goal and pass more between them since there are fewer gaps to go through. Hope it helps someone who complained about the lack of midfield action, I'll try play more games if it works as I think.

[BL8001]

Quote: Originally Posted by OneDrop

BL8001 what difficulty are you playing on? Earlier today I was playing as Liverpool vs Chelsea. Oscar had the ball and was rushing towards my back 4. Instead of waiting and keeping my back 4 organized I made the mistake of jogging towards Oscar with my RCB who was Kolo Touré. The next thing that happened caught my eye, my RB (Glen Johnson of all people) decided to cover for Touré and at the same time my LB took a step towards my LCB, totally shutting down any space between my defenders, it was a thing of beauty as smart defending in FIFA doesn't occur often. I'd like to see more of this in the full game. This was on legendary by the way.

Pro the majority of the time with just a few WC games sprinkled in.

This is coming from previous fifa's...I have never been a fan of how EA scales the difficulty. To me pro is the last difficulty level before EA start crippling your team.

Removing sliders from the equation the skill levels work like this. The more you raise the level the dumber your team gets and the more cheaty the CPU gets.

It's that dumbing down of my squads players that drives me crazy. I don't see any other sports games change the difficulty this way. What I mean is if you play on semi pro all of your players run around like wunderkind making daring runs and tracking back, keeping shape and just playing all around nice futbol.

On 14 and prior titles once you transition to world class my players become sluggish and don't make the same runs get disorganized on the pitch, ignore threats, etc. while the CPU gets every single 50/50 bounce go their way.

Also, and this is just a feeling I guess, but I swear on 13 and 14 the game even controlled better, tighter, more responsive on am semi pro and pro.

Which fifa was it where people swore pro and WC were flipped? Was it fifa 12?

[Zac]

This is your daily reminder that there are only 12 days to go.

[BL8001]

Has anyone curled a pass?

There were rumors, I think EA even claimed you could, of curled passes in the WC game.

I played it and you couldn't curl passes.

If it was ever to happen in a fifa I would assume it would just be hold the left stick the way you want to pass, hit pass button and then swivel the L stick the way you want it to curve. Much like how you curl a free kick.

It should be RB + pass but that does some of the silly and fairly useless trick passes. A nice curled pass using that button combo would be really useful and it would look ace.

I am going to jump in and try it in an hour or so.

[Zac]

Quote: Originally Posted by BL8001

If it was ever to happen in a fifa I would assume it would just be hold the left stick the way you want to pass, hit pass button and then swivel the L stick the way you want it to curve. Much like how you curl a free kick.

What? I didn't know this. I've been fouled in a spot so few times to even have a chance at making a free kick I never bothered to learn the ins and outs of them. I had no idea this could even be done.