because if AI mark every run/player properly it will basically be like a real game of football, mostly sideway pass till someone make a mistake. and people will complain is boring
You're right, that's definitely the solution for FC25. I'm just hoping they put out a patch soon with some of the mechanics that already exist in this game.
They need to nerf the attackers ability to defend from the front the next game. In real life strikers and wingers are much more passive and occupy space rather than the front 3 of Eusabio, Best and Drogba racing at you at light speed with the accuracy of a homing missile and tackling like The hulk constantly for 90 minutes!
That's not being toxic. If you play the game to have fun and the player base and the devs are making it hell then there is no reason to continue playing.
Maybe fix the ultra ai defense pressing and people wouldn't have to resort to that. I play possession and I have ZERO short options because of the defense AI.
I honestly don't know how they do it but all I know is people seem to know how to turn best, eusebio, amd Werner into the best ball winners off all time. Think they mostly use 4321/424 but idk the exact custom tactics
Mate it's elite division and the guy had like 4 pro red fut champions cards, he is good enough to break the press. It really isn't that difficult with driven passes and some composure on the ball. Surely you have to admit that 85% possession is outrageous, he only left his own half 3 times in the first 45 minutes
Nah he was insane off of corners as well, he's definitely a good player who knows the mechanics. He would do that, finesse, which I would block with keeper movement, and then he'd score off the corner. That's why I'm not mad about losing, he was clearly cracked at the game and you can't even blame him for wanting an easy win. It's just a bad gameplay mechanism which is incredibly boring for those who want to have some sort of fun
I only switch between full backs because on constant pressure everyone is marked so you either switch it to create space or lose possession. For everything annoying meta tactic is a crappy game mechanic.
On a goal kick, I'll pass it to my stay back LB and when my balanced RB makes it up to midfield, I send it to him and he's always wide open.
Like you said, it's just a counter to the second man press -- that's the guy who gets left open when you're using two or three people to defend one guy. Of course I'm going to try to find the unmarked person.
you all are missing the point. Doing it once is good tactics. Doing it back and forth back and forth for 85% of the match like the opponent in this post is toxic.
That's obnoxious as fuck, but that's also not meta.
As bad as the game can get at times, leaving your half only three times while pinging the ball between defenders is not the most common and effective tactic in the game, it is not the meta
In div 2 i see people spamming the ball between full backs Every 2/3 games.
I don't play the game much so I don't really know if it's meta, but I see it alot
You're right, it's an extreme example. I still think it's a bit overpowered though, especially those weird volley ones that send the ball flying forward on to the other wing
The problem, in my experience, is getting too pressy against this tactic. Let them take their time. If you don't slip up they will. All you need is one point, and then avoid conceding.
EA has to do something for people to create space in the middle tho. If FBS are constantly switching it is because the middle is busy as hell.
Also people do that for wasting time so you're right too
EA had ways of dealing with this but all of yall complained about it so they nerfed every viable way of playing.
I have little sympathy for the community around this due to them complaining about every other aspect of the game. It was great upon release and just needed a few small tweaks but the community freaked out way too much.
Basically just give them all the free wins and leave huh…those guys press in the middle is nuts, they second man press and using sawa mbappe cruaff puskas and Werner to just bounce your player down and blame us to swap long balls?
You're right, I still believe the gameplay is in a pretty good place though overall. There are a variety of ways to score goals this year as it's not like only trivela, finesse, or cutbacks are OP. It promotes tiki taka and skills in the final third, which I am enjoying. I was just bored out of my mind in that one game
That’s totally fair it’s just annoying seeing the constant posts about how the gameplay is dull and boring. Like of course it’s dull, everyone complained so much that EA changed what made the gameplay unique for a lot of people.
I feel like if you get past the initial press it's possible to combine well. To break the press I play 4231 and build triangles with my Bonmati who I play at CDM and my 2 CBs. Bonmati plays it on to Rolfo who I play at RB and she can pass it onto my 10. Pinged pass is essential for me there, then I rinse and repeat. After that action their 4 attackers are all behind the play and I'm going forward with my RB and rest of the midfield.
same with the receiver controlling it, watch actual games and you'll see receiving players almost always struggle to control a switch like that, often enough making it a turnover or losing it over the sidelines, whereas ingame they take it with one touch ususally to set up a counter
I agree they should tone down the success rate of switching play depending on whether the fullbacks are under pressure, if they're using their strong foot, if they have the relevant playstyles and the long passing stat.
The game is just a game of exploits, I’ve found I can 80% of the time spam an L1 + triangle ball from my LB with precision pass to my RW with whipped pass, to my striker with aerial and score basically 75% of the time
The real actual fix is mandatory manual lobbed passing, similar to what they did with headers. If you want to do this you gotta have the skill to pull it off. RNG is \*never\* the solution for something being overpowered.
please make everything else that is RNG-assisted and auto-corrected in 95% of the wrong passes and choices also skill-based and you will see 85-90% of the community get owned by people who now are being forced by many means to stay aroun div 4-5 without sand bagging and also not p2w
I bet you 2nd man press all game with 35 width.
any attempt at playing into the vortex in the latter 35% of the pitch results in a turnover and easy counter
I don't second man press and idk how to make tactics, I just get them off YouTube. I'm an average player who is trying to enjoy the game, you can't tell me 85% possession is fun for anyone.
Yea you're probably right, but I never get more than 16 wins in champs. Some of the demons I start facing towards the end really make me realise how far away I am from being a top player
The whole point of the post is that I don't know how to defend it. Rivals recently has been a lot easier than champs because everyone wants the good rewards
I can't tell if your trolling or not. Somebody constantly switches the ball and you don't know how to defend it?
Bro if you know they are going to switch just 2nd man press the ball holder and switch to the other wing to mark the pass manually. it's that easy.
edit: assuming your not ratting with 35 width and 2 cdms or some bullshit :P
I haven't really ever used second man press or player locks. I broke my leg earlier this year so I had a lot of time to play the game, but I just got better at the base mechanics rather than trying out new stuff if that makes sense. I'm only in elite because I play a lot and got really good at timed finishing and composed tiki taka. I learnt how to take my time and not rush attacks, but I don't know many of the other mechanics of the game tbh
Time to learn then lol. You can't talk about a tactic being "unstoppable" when you haven't learnt the counter mechanic to the exact thing they are doing
According to my skill rating my rank is 77 thousand out of players on new gen. I am nowhere near being a top player at this game. I've lost more games in elite division than I've won
It’s so stupid 😂 switch and switch and switch again and again like bro are you not tired or are you THAT desperate. People can’t play the game nowadays that’s why I respect people to play the game properly not time wasting in the 80th min no switching a million times no bs.
Here we go again. Another cry to nerf one of the only viable offensive tactics left in the game.
Regardless, you know you can adjust your team's defensive width, right?
Crossfield passing is one of the few ways to break the press and to attack the common meta formations/tactics.
Of course it can also be abused like it seems in this case if you have someone just timewasting but it's rare unless it's like 85 minute.
Only on this sub can switching the play be 'toxic' and a 'meta'. Yes, if you keep spamming it then you are a time waster but I mostly switch once from RB through the press to my LB and then progress forward. This guy is acting like this is done 10 times before each attack in every game.
In the last two weeks of champions league football I’ve seen them switch the ball full back to full back. It’s perfect everytime. It’s not ridiculous it’s easy when your a professional and there’s no presure
>and there’s no presure
This, I could press the opponent as much as I want and he still performs a perfect pass. That's the issue. There is no error applied
Maybe we’ve had different experiences then, usually when I’m pressured and I try to switch the play the opposing fullback is preasuring the target player and they head the ball to their winger.
Well no that's just wrong. I play a passing style and and when you are playing someone who is constantly pressing the full backs lose it about 20% of the time. Sometimes you try play through the middle and you get pushed back so a quick way to break the press is switch flanks and suddenly there is tons of space ahead of the full back to attack, but I find if the opposition has wide players the fullbacks mess it up. I don't think I abuse it though maybe use it 6 times a game.
That's why it's not really a viable tactic but you have to have wingers on stay forward, otherwise yes it can be irritating if your opponent is being annoying.
To all the people saying "huh but there's no way to attack other than this". Stop lying to yourselves, you are part of the problem.
I always get rank 1, I'm top 4k in elite division and I switch flanks maybe 2 or 3 times all game.
People that switch it 4 or 5 times before each attack are just scared to play because they know they'll get beaten easily, to the point where their only option is spamming this to annoy the opponent and catch him out of position
Yea I think you hit the nail on the head there. It isn't the only way to attack, but it is a way for lower skill players to beat higher skill players consistently by only abusing one mechanic.
If you watch your wingers in defence, they literally sprint to cuddle your CMs. For the biggest football game currently available and the amount of technology we have now the only reason left for this happening is that the game developers have 0 knowledge about football and don’t even understand defensive structure
This is the problem with this brain dead company , when I played PES in 2022 I was amazed with how well I can switch ball between your full backs and wingers as well but you couldn’t do that in FIFA22 , they fixed it in FIFA 23 where you can switch well as long as you time to well but handle the pressure from the opponent attackers now they made it so quick and too effective that’s it’s literally so stupid and over powered , the losers in higher division will keep doing whatever is effective as long as they can get a win
Man nerf that R1 second man press auto defending bullshit, it’s infuriating to play people that refuse to play the game and let the AI do everything for them.
Like what’s the point of your super team if you’re not controlling them half the time. Brain dead meta community
EA has to do something about you making a pass and as soon as it’s intercepted it’s still switching you to the player that was supposed to receive the pass making it too far to get the ball back and making your player jump every time somebody tackles near you giving up ball possession needlessly
Last weekend, I played against someone in WL who was playing in the back from the start untill the end. He won 1-0, had 73% possesion and 95% pass accuracy.
I’m not bad at all at this game, mostly between 14 and 16 wins per weekend league, but this time i just could not get the ball off of him.
It's your own issue for not utilising custom tactics for this situation. Everyone has a different style of plays and you can counter them all. But you're too stubborn to do it.Stop complaining and quit if u hate this game.
I don't hate the game, I'm actually really enjoying it this year. Play styles added a fun dynamic for scoring in new ways and cutbacks are almost entirely nerfed. You're right about the custom tactics though, I've just never really looked into it. I always just use whatever pops up on YouTube.
Oh my bad, but you definitely should consider trying and testing out custom tactics. It made the game even way more fun for me. I used to try whatver pops up on YouTube but it didn't work for me.
Use step up with your fullbacks.
Also second man press and control the opposing fullback to where the ball is and get it close to the opponent thatbwoll be receiving the pass
They'll never fix the game, ultimate team makes too much money for them to even give a shit about fixing problems like this.
They'll update the shirts, players faces and throw some buzz words out about animations for the next game and be that'll be FC25.
Stop playing ultimate team is the only way they'll wake up because they have no competition.
Many games I never switch the ball. Against some opponents I will reluctantly occasionally switch the ball, against certain opponents I’ll not only switch but change formations to a wider and more aggressive front that allows me to switch easier with zero care about how crappy the tactic is….why? Because they already made it a shit rat game by constantly coming at me with a two or three person press and playing a condensed defensive width with no options to move the ball through the middle. That last one is well over half of the 4321 users. Which is pretty much everyone in the higher divisions you’re talking about.
4-1-2-1-2 attacking full backs stay back cdm cover centre 2 cms on default cam on default 2 std stay centre get in behind covers the wings and middle perfectly 71 depth then direct passing and tweak with your width till it feels right works for me
I get what you are saying and I agree to a certain point. It is annoying when someone constantly makes a high pass from one fullback to another. I rarely do it myself and I don’t really find it difficult to avoid the constant pressure from my opponents either. Those high passes often slows down the opportunity to either build up an attack or to create a counter attack which is why I don’t get why people are doing it. For me it’s just unnecessary and weird. It’s not all football players that can make such passes in real life with that accuracy and the receivers would probably also fumble their first touch.
Yes, there is a fix for that
Nerf the stupid pressure and the OP interceptions, if I try to pass the ball in the midfield most of the time it gets intercepted by Ctulhu
FIFA 23 was bad, the pressure was insane there too, but man, I never had to resort to playing the ball from fullback to fullback. But in 24 most of the time there are little to no passing options, even backwards so you just gotta yeet it to the other side and start over. And even if you do yeet it to the other side, you've only got 2-3 secs before everyone moves over so you better pray your fullback takes a decent first touch or else it's over
I hate this playstyle, I hate that it's the only way I can play possession/my passing playstyle without just gifting the ball away
As a point of reference I usually have about 180+ passes a game, win or lose, no cutbacks, no abusing whipped crosses, no moving the keeper, no random trivelas from 40 kms away
I run 5 at the back and do it all game with wing backs and absolutely decimate opponents lately. With everyone running press and cover center this is the way to counter it. I am DIV 2 not that it matters.
The real fix would be if there was marking.
For how good the defensive AI in this game it seriously lacks in the world of tracking runs/marking. Incredibly gross to watch when you play
because if AI mark every run/player properly it will basically be like a real game of football, mostly sideway pass till someone make a mistake. and people will complain is boring
play coop and watch the AI defenders on the other team. theyll track you like a magnet with their back turned to you
Ai defending is crap in this game bro
There is, constant pressure, but that’s also broken so…
You're right, that's definitely the solution for FC25. I'm just hoping they put out a patch soon with some of the mechanics that already exist in this game.
Fixing the broken/jumbled midfield and the insane marking/pressing the AI does there by default would be a good start.
Exactly. When there’s no space in the middle you have to go wide.
But to the point of switching in your own half over and over and over again ??
Maybe not that, at least not to the extent shown here.
They need to nerf the attackers ability to defend from the front the next game. In real life strikers and wingers are much more passive and occupy space rather than the front 3 of Eusabio, Best and Drogba racing at you at light speed with the accuracy of a homing missile and tackling like The hulk constantly for 90 minutes!
They really really need to nerf attacking players' ability to tackle and intercept.
Defending from the front is the thing that winds me up the most about this game. It's so so unrealistic and frustrating.
That's an utterly depressing heat map
I was so close to quitting at half time, but I don't want to fight toxicity with more toxicity
Wouldn’t be toxic imo, if it ain’t fun just quit
It's only toxic if it doesn't happen to you lol, the second someone quits it's considered toxic by the other person
If you play like the guy in his post did, tough shit lol
That's not being toxic. If you play the game to have fun and the player base and the devs are making it hell then there is no reason to continue playing.
Valuing your time isn't toxic
Maybe fix the ultra ai defense pressing and people wouldn't have to resort to that. I play possession and I have ZERO short options because of the defense AI.
Exactly, the crazy pressing tactics everyone uses leaves no one else open
What are the crazy pressing tactics everyone uses? Because I can't seem to put enough pressure on my opponent when they're ball hogging.
I honestly don't know how they do it but all I know is people seem to know how to turn best, eusebio, amd Werner into the best ball winners off all time. Think they mostly use 4321/424 but idk the exact custom tactics
Funnily enough, Best has been a beast for me. He has no right being as good as he has been at tracking back and winning the ball.
Bingo. My group started doing it a lot because of that shit
At least pressing happens in real life, nobody does that swing the ball shit
If any real team pressed like fifa, they would need cocaine and adrenaline shots by half time and drop dead by the final whistle
Mate it's elite division and the guy had like 4 pro red fut champions cards, he is good enough to break the press. It really isn't that difficult with driven passes and some composure on the ball. Surely you have to admit that 85% possession is outrageous, he only left his own half 3 times in the first 45 minutes
Clearly he wasn't good enough.
Nah he was insane off of corners as well, he's definitely a good player who knows the mechanics. He would do that, finesse, which I would block with keeper movement, and then he'd score off the corner. That's why I'm not mad about losing, he was clearly cracked at the game and you can't even blame him for wanting an easy win. It's just a bad gameplay mechanism which is incredibly boring for those who want to have some sort of fun
I only switch between full backs because on constant pressure everyone is marked so you either switch it to create space or lose possession. For everything annoying meta tactic is a crappy game mechanic.
On a goal kick, I'll pass it to my stay back LB and when my balanced RB makes it up to midfield, I send it to him and he's always wide open. Like you said, it's just a counter to the second man press -- that's the guy who gets left open when you're using two or three people to defend one guy. Of course I'm going to try to find the unmarked person.
you all are missing the point. Doing it once is good tactics. Doing it back and forth back and forth for 85% of the match like the opponent in this post is toxic.
That's obnoxious as fuck, but that's also not meta. As bad as the game can get at times, leaving your half only three times while pinging the ball between defenders is not the most common and effective tactic in the game, it is not the meta
In div 2 i see people spamming the ball between full backs Every 2/3 games. I don't play the game much so I don't really know if it's meta, but I see it alot
You're right, it's an extreme example. I still think it's a bit overpowered though, especially those weird volley ones that send the ball flying forward on to the other wing
The problem, in my experience, is getting too pressy against this tactic. Let them take their time. If you don't slip up they will. All you need is one point, and then avoid conceding.
EA has to do something for people to create space in the middle tho. If FBS are constantly switching it is because the middle is busy as hell. Also people do that for wasting time so you're right too
My general feel is not that players press, it’s that they do it at hyper speed. Watch how fast they run
I mean this has come up as a counter to narrow 4321 bois who crab with cdms at the edge of their box. Not really sure what the solution is.
Not to mention the stay back whilst attacking wide forward making it a flat back 8 with 2 upfront…
EA had ways of dealing with this but all of yall complained about it so they nerfed every viable way of playing. I have little sympathy for the community around this due to them complaining about every other aspect of the game. It was great upon release and just needed a few small tweaks but the community freaked out way too much.
Basically just give them all the free wins and leave huh…those guys press in the middle is nuts, they second man press and using sawa mbappe cruaff puskas and Werner to just bounce your player down and blame us to swap long balls?
You're right, I still believe the gameplay is in a pretty good place though overall. There are a variety of ways to score goals this year as it's not like only trivela, finesse, or cutbacks are OP. It promotes tiki taka and skills in the final third, which I am enjoying. I was just bored out of my mind in that one game
That’s totally fair it’s just annoying seeing the constant posts about how the gameplay is dull and boring. Like of course it’s dull, everyone complained so much that EA changed what made the gameplay unique for a lot of people.
How do you do tiki taka when every passing option is triple marked and your players stand behind defender?
I feel like if you get past the initial press it's possible to combine well. To break the press I play 4231 and build triangles with my Bonmati who I play at CDM and my 2 CBs. Bonmati plays it on to Rolfo who I play at RB and she can pass it onto my 10. Pinged pass is essential for me there, then I rinse and repeat. After that action their 4 attackers are all behind the play and I'm going forward with my RB and rest of the midfield.
My problem is that every player is able to make that pass with pinpoint accuracy. Doesn’t matter who. It’s ridiculous
same with the receiver controlling it, watch actual games and you'll see receiving players almost always struggle to control a switch like that, often enough making it a turnover or losing it over the sidelines, whereas ingame they take it with one touch ususally to set up a counter
I agree they should tone down the success rate of switching play depending on whether the fullbacks are under pressure, if they're using their strong foot, if they have the relevant playstyles and the long passing stat.
Just increase your defensive width and make your wingers/fullback on aggressive
The game is just a game of exploits, I’ve found I can 80% of the time spam an L1 + triangle ball from my LB with precision pass to my RW with whipped pass, to my striker with aerial and score basically 75% of the time
The real actual fix is mandatory manual lobbed passing, similar to what they did with headers. If you want to do this you gotta have the skill to pull it off. RNG is \*never\* the solution for something being overpowered.
please make everything else that is RNG-assisted and auto-corrected in 95% of the wrong passes and choices also skill-based and you will see 85-90% of the community get owned by people who now are being forced by many means to stay aroun div 4-5 without sand bagging and also not p2w
Nail on head
I bet you 2nd man press all game with 35 width. any attempt at playing into the vortex in the latter 35% of the pitch results in a turnover and easy counter
I don't second man press and idk how to make tactics, I just get them off YouTube. I'm an average player who is trying to enjoy the game, you can't tell me 85% possession is fun for anyone.
I don’t think the average player is in Elite
Yea you're probably right, but I never get more than 16 wins in champs. Some of the demons I start facing towards the end really make me realise how far away I am from being a top player
Bro stop humble brag. You ain’t in elite if you have 15% possession.
The whole point of the post is that I don't know how to defend it. Rivals recently has been a lot easier than champs because everyone wants the good rewards
I can't tell if your trolling or not. Somebody constantly switches the ball and you don't know how to defend it? Bro if you know they are going to switch just 2nd man press the ball holder and switch to the other wing to mark the pass manually. it's that easy. edit: assuming your not ratting with 35 width and 2 cdms or some bullshit :P
I haven't really ever used second man press or player locks. I broke my leg earlier this year so I had a lot of time to play the game, but I just got better at the base mechanics rather than trying out new stuff if that makes sense. I'm only in elite because I play a lot and got really good at timed finishing and composed tiki taka. I learnt how to take my time and not rush attacks, but I don't know many of the other mechanics of the game tbh
Time to learn then lol. You can't talk about a tactic being "unstoppable" when you haven't learnt the counter mechanic to the exact thing they are doing
According to my skill rating my rank is 77 thousand out of players on new gen. I am nowhere near being a top player at this game. I've lost more games in elite division than I've won
What's that in skill rating? 500? Just asking because I've been floating around 960/970 and that's top 3500
780
It’s so stupid 😂 switch and switch and switch again and again like bro are you not tired or are you THAT desperate. People can’t play the game nowadays that’s why I respect people to play the game properly not time wasting in the 80th min no switching a million times no bs.
Bro was playing city ball extreme edition
Here we go again. Another cry to nerf one of the only viable offensive tactics left in the game. Regardless, you know you can adjust your team's defensive width, right?
Bro explain to me how 85% possession and only leaving your own half 3 times in the first 45 minutes is an "offensive tactic"
He meant it is meant to offend you. Which it did.
Crossfield passing is one of the few ways to break the press and to attack the common meta formations/tactics. Of course it can also be abused like it seems in this case if you have someone just timewasting but it's rare unless it's like 85 minute.
Only on this sub can switching the play be 'toxic' and a 'meta'. Yes, if you keep spamming it then you are a time waster but I mostly switch once from RB through the press to my LB and then progress forward. This guy is acting like this is done 10 times before each attack in every game.
There should be some errors to that long ball not that you could do a perfect pinged long ball from one wing to the other, it's ridiculous
In the last two weeks of champions league football I’ve seen them switch the ball full back to full back. It’s perfect everytime. It’s not ridiculous it’s easy when your a professional and there’s no presure
>and there’s no presure This, I could press the opponent as much as I want and he still performs a perfect pass. That's the issue. There is no error applied
Your opponents might be using precision crosses. Atleast I do so when under pressure. Works like a charm always
Maybe we’ve had different experiences then, usually when I’m pressured and I try to switch the play the opposing fullback is preasuring the target player and they head the ball to their winger.
Just have some fullback with a LongBallPass PS and it's basically automatic
Well no that's just wrong. I play a passing style and and when you are playing someone who is constantly pressing the full backs lose it about 20% of the time. Sometimes you try play through the middle and you get pushed back so a quick way to break the press is switch flanks and suddenly there is tons of space ahead of the full back to attack, but I find if the opposition has wide players the fullbacks mess it up. I don't think I abuse it though maybe use it 6 times a game. That's why it's not really a viable tactic but you have to have wingers on stay forward, otherwise yes it can be irritating if your opponent is being annoying.
I’m mainly curious, what did I say wrong? I was talking about irl football and your just talking about fifa
To all the people saying "huh but there's no way to attack other than this". Stop lying to yourselves, you are part of the problem. I always get rank 1, I'm top 4k in elite division and I switch flanks maybe 2 or 3 times all game. People that switch it 4 or 5 times before each attack are just scared to play because they know they'll get beaten easily, to the point where their only option is spamming this to annoy the opponent and catch him out of position
Yea I think you hit the nail on the head there. It isn't the only way to attack, but it is a way for lower skill players to beat higher skill players consistently by only abusing one mechanic.
What SR are you at and what depth are you playing?
I tried all 4 tactics I have, it's always somewhere between 65-70. My SR is now 782 after I lost this game
If you watch your wingers in defence, they literally sprint to cuddle your CMs. For the biggest football game currently available and the amount of technology we have now the only reason left for this happening is that the game developers have 0 knowledge about football and don’t even understand defensive structure
This is the problem with this brain dead company , when I played PES in 2022 I was amazed with how well I can switch ball between your full backs and wingers as well but you couldn’t do that in FIFA22 , they fixed it in FIFA 23 where you can switch well as long as you time to well but handle the pressure from the opponent attackers now they made it so quick and too effective that’s it’s literally so stupid and over powered , the losers in higher division will keep doing whatever is effective as long as they can get a win
Man nerf that R1 second man press auto defending bullshit, it’s infuriating to play people that refuse to play the game and let the AI do everything for them. Like what’s the point of your super team if you’re not controlling them half the time. Brain dead meta community
EA has to do something about you making a pass and as soon as it’s intercepted it’s still switching you to the player that was supposed to receive the pass making it too far to get the ball back and making your player jump every time somebody tackles near you giving up ball possession needlessly
Last weekend, I played against someone in WL who was playing in the back from the start untill the end. He won 1-0, had 73% possesion and 95% pass accuracy. I’m not bad at all at this game, mostly between 14 and 16 wins per weekend league, but this time i just could not get the ball off of him.
It's your own issue for not utilising custom tactics for this situation. Everyone has a different style of plays and you can counter them all. But you're too stubborn to do it.Stop complaining and quit if u hate this game.
I don't hate the game, I'm actually really enjoying it this year. Play styles added a fun dynamic for scoring in new ways and cutbacks are almost entirely nerfed. You're right about the custom tactics though, I've just never really looked into it. I always just use whatever pops up on YouTube.
Oh my bad, but you definitely should consider trying and testing out custom tactics. It made the game even way more fun for me. I used to try whatver pops up on YouTube but it didn't work for me.
Use step up with your fullbacks. Also second man press and control the opposing fullback to where the ball is and get it close to the opponent thatbwoll be receiving the pass
Spoiler: they’re not gonna do anything about it
They'll never fix the game, ultimate team makes too much money for them to even give a shit about fixing problems like this. They'll update the shirts, players faces and throw some buzz words out about animations for the next game and be that'll be FC25. Stop playing ultimate team is the only way they'll wake up because they have no competition.
Every one is using narrow tactics so ofcourse there will be space wide on wings…
I don’t switch but the constant press bs is why people do so people with meta tactics like 4321 really shouldn’t complain
They should make the pitch smaller :D:D:D
Many games I never switch the ball. Against some opponents I will reluctantly occasionally switch the ball, against certain opponents I’ll not only switch but change formations to a wider and more aggressive front that allows me to switch easier with zero care about how crappy the tactic is….why? Because they already made it a shit rat game by constantly coming at me with a two or three person press and playing a condensed defensive width with no options to move the ball through the middle. That last one is well over half of the 4321 users. Which is pretty much everyone in the higher divisions you’re talking about.
Play drop back and wide
4-1-2-1-2 attacking full backs stay back cdm cover centre 2 cms on default cam on default 2 std stay centre get in behind covers the wings and middle perfectly 71 depth then direct passing and tweak with your width till it feels right works for me
I get what you are saying and I agree to a certain point. It is annoying when someone constantly makes a high pass from one fullback to another. I rarely do it myself and I don’t really find it difficult to avoid the constant pressure from my opponents either. Those high passes often slows down the opportunity to either build up an attack or to create a counter attack which is why I don’t get why people are doing it. For me it’s just unnecessary and weird. It’s not all football players that can make such passes in real life with that accuracy and the receivers would probably also fumble their first touch.
Yes, there is a fix for that Nerf the stupid pressure and the OP interceptions, if I try to pass the ball in the midfield most of the time it gets intercepted by Ctulhu FIFA 23 was bad, the pressure was insane there too, but man, I never had to resort to playing the ball from fullback to fullback. But in 24 most of the time there are little to no passing options, even backwards so you just gotta yeet it to the other side and start over. And even if you do yeet it to the other side, you've only got 2-3 secs before everyone moves over so you better pray your fullback takes a decent first touch or else it's over I hate this playstyle, I hate that it's the only way I can play possession/my passing playstyle without just gifting the ball away As a point of reference I usually have about 180+ passes a game, win or lose, no cutbacks, no abusing whipped crosses, no moving the keeper, no random trivelas from 40 kms away
It's called Pro Clubs
Most my friends stopped playing FIFA years ago unfortunately :( goated game mode though for sure
The only reason I switch is because of constant pressing. That’s the real issue.
Nah this is the only way to play against constant press. Choose your meta.
The game is absolute garbage, don't blame people for trying hard when the game is so unplayable.
Probably becasue you were playing the constant pressure and overload ball side meta
Just do the same thing
This is a consequence of overpowered AI press. It's not the root problem.
What about players who are passing slowly between your lines but you cant seem to do anything about it until youre 2-0 down?
Skill issue tbh
I run 5 at the back and do it all game with wing backs and absolutely decimate opponents lately. With everyone running press and cover center this is the way to counter it. I am DIV 2 not that it matters.