FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

[xicpanad]

I´m quite enjoying it, it makes me defend with midfielders and stay sharp to use defenders for the second ball, but midfielders will avoid deadly attacks if I use them right, wich at my view is quite realistic and fun. I´m always on the nerves when defending and at the end of the match it feels great.

[cadalyst17]

Quote: Originally Posted by kerosene31

I'm kind of weird though, I'd like the game to play semi-smart D out of the box. Sorry, but defending is worse this year. Use teammate pressure and your guy misses the player with the ball and gets horribly out of position (watch how after they run past the guy with the ball they simply keep going into empty space). Don't use it and your guy stands there and watches the ball go in the back of the net. The only way to play D in this game is to rapidly switch players and do the job of 10 guys yourself.

I love defending! This game certainly does teach patience. If you are impatient you will deservedly so get burned

[kerosene31]

Quote: Originally Posted by cadalyst17

I love defending! This game certainly does teach patience. If you are impatient you will deservedly so get burned

I wish I knew the secret this year. If the other team has a high rated striker, I'm toast.

[half-fast]

Quote: Originally Posted by BL8001

This is what fifa does to me. 14 and 15 do this more than I care for. 13 and prior I don't recall this happening as much. What it is, is this. And look I like this game and I liked 14. Anyway what it is, is a user c0ck tease. Many times in 14 and 15 I think of something clever to do on the pitch and I can execute to like 95% completion and what wrecks it? Not the cpu, well sort of, but my cpu controlled players. Here is a prime example. I am schalke and sub on the pacey RM in the 60'. I get trapped on my left sideline by the CPU and decide to get clever. I play the most beautifully weighted field swap ball, daring, perfectly executed except whappen? Out of nowhere my RB sprints up under cpu control and does this? Why? This is what happens, beautiful soccer destroyed by my own cpu controlled teammates idiocy. I have no idea why coding like this exists in the game other than to tease the user. It's cruel.

Yup, I feel your pain. Had that happen to me tonight. Also had the infamous, make a perfect play and play a beautiful through ball, then the wrong guy runs but he has no chance of getting there, while the intended player stands still. What a disaster.

[~LiverpoolRed~]

PS4 question. The computer does this to me all the time and I don't know how to do it. Whenever I chase down a long ball the defender will turn his back to me and block me off from getting it first. How do you do that?

[half-fast]

Quote: Originally Posted by ~LiverpoolRed~

PS4 question. The computer does this to me all the time and I don't know how to do it. Whenever I chase down a long ball the defender will turn his back to me and block me off from getting it first. How do you do that?

Circle is pull/push, so you may need to do that to gain position first, but if youre already in position, it's protect, which is L2.

[FluffyTonka]

I have Ryan Taylor as my RB, and just now I crossed it across the wings to my RM and Taylor made a run forward, as the ball came down, he ducked his head and let the ball go through to my RM and was in position for the through ball and onto goal.

it was incredible gameplay and the complete opposite of that vid ... but there are a few head-scratching moments and howlers ... but so is real life football.

[BL8001]

Yes that happens too which is great.

But there are still these legacy coding issues that pop up, it's not howlers to be like real football. It's howlers to stop the human from being demonstrably better than the CPU.

That post above about a through ball and the wrong attacker being selected is dead on.

The esp dribbling by the CPU still exists too. Amazing how they can still perfectly time stepping on top of the ball, dragging it back slightly and going 180 degrees the opposite direction in one silky animation while your defender is stuck in a momentum animation.

The rub here is that the CPU can see everyone on the field at all times so they should have a distinct advantage.

And when you give it back to them the CPU decides to flub it up, and more often than not, flub it by striking your cpu controlled players with an idiot bolt of lightning.