FIFA 18 Title Update #3 Available For PS4, Xbox One, PC - Patch Notes Here

[Steve_OS]

FIFA 18 title update #3 is now available for PC and scheduled to arrive for Xbox...

Written By: Steve Noah

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[Ghostrider1078]

Well that ought to screw with the everyone's slider set good and proper...

[info0]

Yeah, so lemme guess EA, still no patches regarding the absolutely woeful defending in this game?
I tried Tactical defending, Legacy defending and NONE works. My players will just skip pass the player, or get dragged and if they are made to change direction, they go slowmo, leading to easy 1 on 1 situation.

This happens a LOT vs AI. It is awful online too where matches end in hockey like results (5:4, 7:5, 11:6, etc.)

EA you fecked up defending royally this year. The game is unplayable like that. The defense is broken and AI does nothing to help you, in fact, when they try to help, it gets much worse.
The only way to counter this somewhat is switching to Park the Bus strategy as soon as you lose the ball and pray for AI to defend a bit for you.

It is even more apparent when you KNOW AI will score the goal becaue game doesn't allow you to switch to player you want and I use right stick switching and not LB to switch lol. You can just watch how AI scores and you cannot do anything about it .
Sadly sliders are no go in FUT modes.

[DBMcGee3]

This sounds great to me, although I hadn't really experienced any of the bugs mentioned.* The adjustments to the passing speed and accuracy sound awesome though.* I only wish PES would actually patch the game and publish specific notes like this, Konami is terrible about their post release support though, other than adding all those amazeballs face scans.

info0 I don't know man, I'm really not having anywhere near the defensive issues that you seem to be having, and I rarely have any problems switching players.* I generally just play against the CPU on World Class, but I'm able to get a clean sheet here and there and they rarely blow me up for more than 2 goals.* I'm not saying there isn't room for improvement with the AI, but it's not even close to a game breaker for me personally.

[info0]

Do you play Career Mode or do you play FUT? Trust me those 2 are separate.

I have no problems with Career Mode whatsoever, but FUT is quite a different league and always was.

Rarely do I break stuff, but here, I almost broke 2 controllers. FIFA 17 defensively was solid, FIFA 18 is nightmare and no, it doesn't reward skill. Forget it. If guys like Tass, Gorilla, Hektic have issues with defending, there might be an issue... (that doesn't stop Gorilla from topping the charts every week though xD).

[info0]

Also I would love FIFA to implement PES defending (since they rip off all good PES parts anyway).

[DBMcGee3]

I usually just play quick games on World Class but I definitely don't think it's fair to say that there's no skill involved in defending.* I generally work pretty hard blocking passing lanes and bodying up on players to dispossess them, and defending in the box is very delicate, which it should be. * I've found it most effective to just not really use the standing tackle button, it leaves you too vulnerable.* I just anticipate which way the guy is going and put myself in his path, it frequently knocks the ball loose.* I'm not saying my defenders never let me down, but I find that if I'm quick about switching to the guy furthest back on the line in pressure situations, I can keep players in front of me for the most part.
I don't find the defending in PES to be all that great either, to be honest, although the teammate pressure command always works much better than FIFA.* There's still waaaaaaaaay to much space on PES and really no midfield battles as a result.* Still a great game, don't get me wrong, but it's heavily weighted towards the offense in my opinion.

[Ghostrider1078]

Quote: Originally Posted by info0

Do you play Career Mode or do you play FUT? Trust me those 2 are separate. I have no problems with Career Mode whatsoever, but FUT is quite a different league and always was. Rarely do I break stuff, but here, I almost broke 2 controllers. FIFA 17 defensively was solid, FIFA 18 is nightmare and no, it doesn't reward skill. Forget it. If guys like Tass, Gorilla, Hektic have issues with defending, there might be an issue... (that doesn't stop Gorilla from topping the charts every week though xD).

The defending in FUT drives me insane! in CM with the community sliders its manageable, but then when I switch to squad battles in FUT (because I'm terrible against actual humans) I want to break things!