u/liammangan_live

How much longer does low skill and low effort get rewarded with rubbish like this?

This was a Division 1 player, ranked 308. I kept him quiet for most of the game and still out xG'd him. In my eyes, I should at least be able to hang with the big boys.

I play full manual. My players take the worst fucking touches known to man for absolutely no reason, and half the time I'm fighting my own team. I reposition properly, hold my ground so he should just body into me, but instead the game does this.

I'd say 90% of my games are like this. I can have 18 shots, 10 on target, most of the possession, and still lose 3-0 while the other guy has one shot on target. I'm busting my ass trying to get around not one but two physical twats while my own players seem determined to work against me.

Then you've got people deliberately getting red cards or putting players out of position before kick-off because they believe it triggers some hidden boost. Whether that's true or not, the fact people even feel the need to try things like that says a lot about the trust players have in the game.

For the first time, I just quit. 64 minutes in, that goal went in and I gave him the win.

Before anyone says, "It's not that serious," I know. It's a game. That's not what annoys me. I'm just tired of feeling manipulated every time I play a sports game.

In over 250 hours, I think I've genuinely come across maybe one player where I finished thinking, "Fair enough, he absolutely tore me a new one." Most of the time it doesn't feel like I got beaten by a better player. It feels like I got beaten by the game.

I'll keep saying it: this game needs to go full manual if it's ever going to feel fair. At least then everyone is dealing with the same inputs. I'm not getting freebies because the AI decides to slow my player down or thread the perfect assisted pass just out of my reach. If I lose on full manual, I'll hold my hands up. At least I'll know it was the other player that beat me.

I want to love my sport but god damn these companies sure be putting there grubby fingers in every situation.

I just wanna see the most outrageous montage of saves ngl.

I can't understand what's happening here.

When this situation is reversed and I'm defending against Mbappé, I'm completely out of the play. I have to find a way to cut him off or slow him down. But in this match, it felt like this happened on every attack.

I read somewhere that there isn't much of a penalty for playing players out of position. I use Mbappé as a wide CM in a makeshift mid-block setup, and then when we win the ball back, he's gone. But in this game it felt like every player had been boosted.

I'd beat defenders initially and hold them off, even though they were clearly physical monsters. What I don't understand is how Huijsen is beating me in a foot race when he's literally behind me and running vertically toward my path. His card, even with boosted stats, only has 88 pace and 78 acceleration.

I'm just looking for some clarity. If anyone understands the pattern or what's causing this, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

Your opponent scores a goal that should clearly count, but the game bugs out and disallows it. If you could manually overturn the decision. Are you giving them the goal? If not why?

Started playing last week. F2P squad.

Full manual
Level 4 passing
Manual shooting
Manual cursor switching
Broadcast Camera

It’s possible.

The issue is too many people want the game to play for them. This is the closest football has come to feeling solid in years, but people still push for more assistance instead of control.

Smart Assist was the first step. Now it should go all the way. Turn it all off.

Add more dynamic animations for some unique variations and all the proper advanced decision-making prompts, and you’ve got something that can dethrone everything else.

Otherwise Konami becomes the default for people who want to be coddled.