The AI defending is out of hand… and now we have to wait until TOTY

[round umbra]

…how much more feedback is needed. You can find clips on Twitter about it. A pro even called yall out about it. Everyone is holding rb on ever occasion, everyone is tracking back and the AI is making auto tackles from behind. It’s ridiculous. It’s bad enough people are rb’ing and running to the back line with a midfielder, but now I gotta worry about a STRIKER running from behind and auto tackling me? Or one midfielders just getting swarmed by 3-4 people. This is stupid. Why do yall make it so hard to attack and reward people for just sitting back and countering. I barely feel rewarded for making a goal because my opponent gets the easiest setups. RB and AI defending need to get hit with a nerf… hard. It’s ridiculous that attacking is requiring so much more thinking and defending manually is non existent. I shouldn’t be playing against the AI and a human in rivals. It should be human v human and I hardly feel like the user is trying. Just sitting in the back with cdms and letting AI put pressure on me. It’s dumb and honestly feels like we wasted money on just a lie. Idk how much more feedback is needed. There’s clips, I even have clips. This needs to be fixed, trying to enjoy playing. Not feel like I have to do rocket science on how to get past the Great Wall of china or AI in rivals/champs

[desert wedge]

They are clueless, they only nerf things that widen the skill gap, they just want everyone to feel they have a chance of winning so they can keep as much people as they possibly can since their gameplay team is just a bunch of Legos.

[quick scaffold]

Just so boring to play with 90% playing low block formation and tactics. Need to go back to OG defending

[desert wedge]

People have already made it clear regarding AI defending for 2 months and they are just stalling as much as they can, they know if that gets nerfed, bad people might quit or stop funding this crap with packs-money and stuff.

[golden inlet]

it's unbelievable, I don't have more words for it, you said it, how much more feedback they need... they are doing this on purpose, it's pointless to give feedback anymore, they do whatever they want anyways...

[quick scaffold]

Don't claim to be great at the game but want something that's fun to play. Take note EA: It's not all about winning

[desert wedge]

Funny thing is they literally said "make a change if needed, in early January."

There's literally an "IF" , they still might not do it.

They already nerfed AI defending on January last year but ended up shadow-patching it because BOTs complained everywhere.

[desert wedge]

They don't want a real competitive title, they just want something to grab money out of, that's what their product is all about.

[barren bluff]

Such a good point. I literally don’t care about winning or losing. But when there’s nothing but AI slop and input delay, where my player agency feels completely taken away, like I’m not responsible for the win or the loss, and instead of fighting to win against my opponent, I’m fighting to win against the game, I get not only upset but genuinely mad.

[quick scaffold]

My best bet on input delay is that it's from loading animations. I'd say either fix them or remove them.

[barren bluff]

It’s definitely from their Frostbite/Hypermotion engine. Zero doubt about it. It’s an engine created by DICE strictly for FPS shooters and was then used for all the sports games because it was costing them too much money to upgrade and use their previous engine that was used for all the sports games. Ever since they made the switch, the game has been plagued with input delay and “bad gameplay.” The game cannot function update properly with like you said the animations, but there’s also so many other things you don’t think about. The engine wasn’t made for the crowds, the grass, the details in players faces, the over a thousand animations that it has to on the spot choose which is best for the situation. All these things cause a processing load that is not physically possible to update timely to the server. So yeah I could go on more but essentially the acorn is the game will never get better until they stop using this engine that isn’t for it and invest in building an actual engine for their sports games but they have are cheap tools who cut the costs in the first place knowing quality would take a step back and it would be extremely unlikely for that mentality to change now or any time in the future with this company.

[round umbra]

I just saw the updates and they said if??? IF???? People are running back with there LM, RM, AND EVEN THEIR STRIKERS and not touch their defenders… they be spamming that b/circle button just to quickly recover and do it again. Man it’s bad.