#I thought this patch would save the game but..

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humble beacon
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to anyone disagreeing with me I honestly welcome every opinion but please encourage a respectful discussion

I really don't want to complain and be negative, so I'm unfortunately writing this but changes have to be made to the game
I love rematch a lot, both movement and passing plays were great, there's nothing I love better than a good passing team play in which I can use my individual skills as well
yet patch 3 was horrible, I do appreciate your work sloclap and I'm saying this with no ill intent but I have yet to see a worse patch in any game I played, and sadly this patch isn't much better in my opinion
and why do I think that? it's because everything is inconsistent
thats the whole problem of this patch, inconsistency. patch 3 at least had some form of consistency, but here everything just feels bad
a few examples are, first up is ice skates, introduced in patch 3, you press defensive stance while you run and boom, you're taking 5 steps in that direction, putting you completely out of position, the funny thing is if you just stop and dont press defensive stance it won't do that at all, and it will stop in place, so I really don't get the idea of changing the mechanic of something that was really about skill and game sense into something so inconsistent and random such as ice skates pushing you out of position both as a defender and as a keeper, making things much harder and as a results nerfing defence and goalkeeping and not in a healthy way but in a way that just makes everything more clunky, uncomfortable and random

another example is interaction with the diamond being inconsistent as well, ever since the new patch dropped this has been happening every single game, I'm an elite player and peaked around 2500 points and I'm very confident in my ball clearing ability in defence, but in this patch many times the diamond just won't 'click', by that I mean that I get the diamond, I press the button to clear it (pass away for example) and nothing happens

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this makes the other team score many goals on us and my team miss many goals due to this, it's also been happening to my friends

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I won't make this too long so in short the movement in general (both on and off the ball) feels very random and bad, like many times my character moves as if someone else is controlling him and not by my own inputs, many times (and ive seen this since patch 3) people try changing directions and instead of just changing them there are often times their character will rotate all 180 degrees to get there, and it feels really really bad

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so yeah, what made the first two patches so good even with the inflated movement, is the amount of precise control you had over your character, which allowed for two things, the first is a higher skill ceiling and the second is that every error you made is solely your own fault

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the game is very uncomfortable and unsatisfying to play at the moment, even if balancing the mechanics of the game properly is difficult and takes time, taking control of your character from players (whether it was intentional or not) is the way to ruin precise skill and a professional level of game when it comes to it at some point

pure egret
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Yeah man. I was having so much fun in the game before (even with bugs and desync), but since patch 3, while those things have gotten better, they have made such drastic changes to the core gameplay that the feel of the game is complete different now and is very much unfun lol. They are making changes like it’s in beta, not a full release, and in my opinion it should have never left beta. This thing still needs time to bake but now it’s probably too late

humble beacon
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so you either ice skate out of position or just become too slow to be able to react to anything