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FIFA 15 News & Discussion Thread

Rodelero said:
Unfortunately, we can't ignore the reality of what the game is like on default settings. Where the defensive situation may be half way okay on manual, it most certainly isn't against the quite hilariously arcade passing that FIFA 15 seems to support.
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I used to play with sliders too in Fifa 13, but this year I won´t mess much with them. First of all, its a never ending cycle. I can see already most of the famous slider enthusiasts spending the whole year trying to get to the sweet spot. Second of all, I think this is the best Fifa ever out of the box. Sliders might help with certain things, but to me, they also screw up something else. Its actually a half full half empty discussion so I´m going to stay with almost everything default.

Just decreased Sprint speed and first touch for both CPU and user and thats it.

About the rest, I already convinced myself that this game is hard as hell to defend, but I love it that way because I´m starting to make success with a patient, veeeerryy patient approach instead of pressing and run all the time. Just decreased sprint overall because game was playing to fast on my PC, faster then what I see in most console videos of gameplay.
 
PU6HY said:
You will always get absolute prats playing the game. They are avoidable by playing manual games. Well you will probably get the odd idiot but most of those games are very good. I played one assisted game the other day and it was 5-4. Absolute joke of a game and I hate it with a passion. Thankfully I avoid games like that the majority of the time.
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Haven't been much of a fan of manual these recent years but I might try to get back into it for online purposes. I imagine it'd eliminate most if not all of the exploits I see.

How long do you have to wait for matches?

Also, how does online controller settings work for match making purposes? What happens if you go manual for one setting, but semi or assisted for others?
 
That's a good point I haven't tried searching for an all manual Seasons game online. But as per previous post, how long is the wait? I'd imagine it could take hours to find someone wanting to play a competitive game online all manual!
 
xicpanad said:
People used to complain about previous editions... for some, game wash to hard but for the majority game was to easy after a while. Now the´ve done the right stuff, there´s a dificulty for anyone but people still complain.

Pro is a good level to start until it gets too easy, then World Class is the way to go. Legendary is just a cheat mode and only masoquists should play it. Its still a choice though, and although I think Legendary is a big challenge, I see the CPU making the impossible to win matches. World Class is sutpid enough already, but generaly it makes a balanced challenge and if we play good, we have a chance to win the match.
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I agree about legendary you have to expect the computer so called cheating but for this game especially it seems so much worse than before.If I could just get some variation in the play CPU play with different teams I will be more than happy but at the minute playing millwall and they pass they ball short around at 100mph doing 20 passes before scoring feels like the games winding you up
 
Just played a Manual seasons match online!

Liverpool 1-0 ARSENAL

Very good game! He was a decent player I could tell. Feels nice to be beaten by the better player on the day, not by who exploited the most cheats in the game. Was quite an even game, think I had 7 shot to his 5, and I ended up with slightly more possession. I did have a lot of the ball but couldn't create much.

Defending was much better too. To be fair that's come from me playing more matches offline too and getting to know the game more and getting used to playing FIFA again. I was patient, stayed on my feet and timed my tackles.

Online all manual is definitely the way to go!

:DD
 
mfmaxpower said:
Haven't been much of a fan of manual these recent years but I might try to get back into it for online purposes. I imagine it'd eliminate most if not all of the exploits I see.



How long do you have to wait for matches?



Also, how does online controller settings work for match making purposes? What happens if you go manual for one setting, but semi or assisted for others?
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Twice I haven't found a game. Sometimes I've had to search 2 or 3 times. That takes about a minute or so. It's worth the extra few seconds wait.
It's full manual though. You just change the search criteria. There's a semi-assisted option too but I haven't tried that so cant answer how long that takes.
 
Tim7 said:
Just played a Manual seasons match online!

Liverpool 1-0 ARSENAL

Very good game! He was a decent player I could tell. Feels nice to be beaten by the better player on the day, not by who exploited the most cheats in the game. Was quite an even game, think I had 7 shot to his 5, and I ended up with slightly more possession. I did have a lot of the ball but couldn't create much.

Defending was much better too. To be fair that's come from me playing more matches offline too and getting to know the game more and getting used to playing FIFA again. I was patient, stayed on my feet and timed my tackles.

Online all manual is definitely the way to go!

:DD
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It's quality isn't it? Didn't take you long to search then. Most games I've played have been manual and I haven't really had a problem finding games at all.
 
That game was found first time! Now playing another, searched once but didn't find anyone. Searched again and got on straight away:

SOUTHAMPTON v Everton

Lost 2-1 but another good game, very tight.
 
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It was the same in the last couple of fifas, I have had some of the best games of football ever with online season fully Manual.

Unfortunately at work we have a PS4 and Fifa 14 (soon to get Fifa 15) but they all play fully assisted, so I have been playing assisted for the last year (otherwise It is too frustrating losing everytime)

If I ever get a PS4 of my own I will definitely retrain myself on Manual.
 
SteelHorse75 said:
Well well well

Played this today (my sons version) and tweaked the sliders to one of the ones in the sliders thread.

Very enjoyable. I wrote this off too early. Really good game.

Just wish the AI would shoot more. Still try and get to byline too often
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Yea, I did the same in the beginning. Then took Jamezinho's and stuck with it. I only play offline against the CPU and it's the best FIFA yet for me. I actually like the defending, which seems odd as there seems to be a lot of complaints about it. There's an addictive quality about this years FIFA that I haven't experienced before with the series. Can't put my finger on what it is though.:THINK:
 
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Ipswich69 said:
There's an addictive quality about this years FIFA that I haven't experienced before with the series. Can't put my finger on what it is though.:THINK:
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Very much an addictive quality as far as I'm concerned. I look forward to getting a few games in whenever I can. There's a variety in the gameplay that I haven't seen from a FIFA before now. Lots of different types of goals and build up play from both me and the CPU. The ball physics and the way the players interact with the ball gives an 'anything is possible' feel to the gameplay. Keeps every match fresh and interesting. I even quite like the defending (then again I'm a legacy noob). It punishes sloppiness.

At this stage post-release I usually feel as though FIFA has shown me its hand already whereas this year I'm continuing to see new things. It kind of feels like the game has some of the hallmarks of a classic PES....the 'one more game' factor.
 
@BobbyBox, yes full manual online is definitely the way to go! Played 4 matches last night:

0-1
1-2
1-1
2-1

I'm getting better slowly but surely! In the last game I scored this screamer:

YouTube - RVP top corner
 
Ipswich69 said:
Yea, I did the same in the beginning. Then took Jamezinho's and stuck with it. I only play offline against the CPU and it's the best FIFA yet for me. I actually like the defending, which seems odd as there seems to be a lot of complaints about it. There's an addictive quality about this years FIFA that I haven't experienced before with the series. Can't put my finger on what it is though.:THINK:
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Im a PES fan and will always try it even though I know that based on the last 6 versions its gonna be rubbish. Im really impressed with PES this year but EA have made a gem with FIFA15 - I take back everything I said about it.
Ive never really understood what ball physics mean really but in FIFA15 I know exactly what it means. You shank a shot and the way the ball spins and bounces out of play is great. Using the sliders Ive really slowed this game down which is the way I like it. That way the slow players are running through custard and the fast players are still fast they aint silly fast.
My biggest problem is that I do what I probably shouldnt and try and play both games the same. They play much differently.
The only gripe I have re FIFA is that id like to see the AI shoot from distance a bit more.
Ill still get PES and hopefully we have two good games but games that need to be played differently.
 
bsmaff said:
I am not sure if Placebo cares about sliders that much this year - he has been converted to the PC mods, you can mess with sliders all you want but it will never be as good as a decent gameplay mod.
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LOL well tbh it's more to do with bad timing, Fifa came out as we were in the midst of buying the new summerhouse and then the PC problems arose which resulted in two fresh windows installs + all the usual app re-installations that take a long time :)

Melody-Mae said:
Two things that have never happened for me before:

1..Ron Vlaar decided he wanted to leave the club. I was going to try and persuade him not to with a new contract but decided that If I did have to sell him I wanted at least £10 million for him. Well before I could do anything, the board sold him for a measly £4.7 million with zero input from me. Has this been in past Fifa's? I was fuming lol.
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It's been in the last 2 Fifas at least, the worst part is the typical shitty EA programming/game testing that you could be in negotiations to sell the player for a decent amount and then get the message anyway saying he's been sold for a pittance, the key is definitely to start upping your amount of saves as soon as the board say someone needs to be sold so you can go back if EA's abysmal programming kicks in.
 
Jamezinho said:
Very much an addictive quality as far as I'm concerned. I look forward to getting a few games in whenever I can. There's a variety in the gameplay that I haven't seen from a FIFA before now. Lots of different types of goals and build up play from both me and the CPU. The ball physics and the way the players interact with the ball gives an 'anything is possible' feel to the gameplay. Keeps every match fresh and interesting. I even quite like the defending (then again I'm a legacy noob). It punishes sloppiness.

At this stage post-release I usually feel as though FIFA has shown me its hand already whereas this year I'm continuing to see new things. It kind of feels like the game has some of the hallmarks of a classic PES....the 'one more game' factor.
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I´m a legacy noob myself but once a while I get back to tactical to see if I can manage... Thing is tactical defending is great, because using just the contain button your player follows the opponent, covering instead of rushing in, wich in this Fifa is a great way to defend, but when I want to actually tackle, I strugle to press the right buttons and still be aware of the other CPU runs, its a bit hard.
 
Do the individual instructions (i.e telling DM's to stay back when the team attacks) work in UT and CM modes, as they don't seem to work during exhibition games
 
Kije said:
Tim, which sliders do you use ?
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That video is from online match, full manual controls, which is pretty much all I'll play now. But if I play offline I'll use Matt10's sliders.

Disqo said:
Do the individual instructions (i.e telling DM's to stay back when the team attacks) work in UT and CM modes, as they don't seem to work during exhibition games
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I've found individual instructions to be very good. Often the difference between defeat and win. That's in offline career games and online seasons games. Even just telling one or both fullbacks to overlap works really well. Especially when I play as Man Utd as I have Di Maria cutting in one flank and Mata cutting in from the other so leaves plenty of space for the fullbacks to exploit and push the opponents back.
 
Often I'll tell my CDMs to stay back but they'll still bomb up the pitch very often... I tend to just put my team on "ultra defensive" from the first minute regardless of the opposition as you can still make stuff happen going forward but it makes your team much less susceptible to counters.

The normal setting is suicidal online - if your opponent clears away a corner then often they have a 2v2 situation at the heart of your defence.
 
I've noticed in the settings that you can tell your defenders or midfielders to drop back but when you check a different settings it tells them to get in the box on crosses or join attack so its worth checking all the settings.
 
Ok so after talking about legacy vs tactical I gave it a go again today. Just played two games, one with lower teams and another with top Portugal teams, SL Benfica vs FC Porto.

While defending I just pressed X all the time and used the stick to position my defender between ball carrier and possible passing lanes, then when I had someone else close enough, I also used LT (maybe diferent for you guys, depending on controller settings) to try and tackle.

Now that result was absolutely amazing guys! No joking or placebo. Let me tell you that against FC Porto, I never ever had a situation of tiki taka in my box through the entire match! When I played balanced, I literaly had FC Porto in his own half, they couldn´t even get near my box most of the time. They also made mistakes I´ve never seen before in the game, like falling when trying to pull a trick or leaving the ball run out of the pitch etc. I´m not great at attack so I couldn´t get enough chances to score but I had the match totally dominated. Second half I tried to push a litle more and used a attack mentality. After 75 mins FC porto caught me on counter, with a beatifull high through ball to Quaresma, who was forgotten completely alone. I couldn´t catch him, 0-1.

Match ended with a loss, with stas like:

passing: SLB 76% FCP (cpu) 77%
possession: SLB 51% FCP 49%

Playing with lower teams the result was pretty much the same, but just enjoyed this one more because until now, FC Porto or any other better team would always, always end up the match with almost 90% pass acuracy, not to mention the times they play tiki taka in my box.

This with sliders all on default.
 
Disqo said:
Do the individual instructions (i.e telling DM's to stay back when the team attacks) work in UT and CM modes, as they don't seem to work during exhibition games
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I find the individual instructions for attack (e.g. cut inside, get behind defense) work a treat but the defensive one I try to use frequently (stay back in attack) does not.

I use the 'stay back' instruction regularly with my primary defensive CDM but still find him bombing into the attacking third, leaving wide open space in the middle for a counter-attack. This specific problem has been in FIFA for 2-3 years now, at least, another example of the defensive AI being poor/broken. Really thought they would've fixed this by now.

Has anyone tried the defensive instructions for man marking or cut out passing lanes? I haven't tried these but I"m curious if/what they do.
 
xicpanad said:
Ok so after talking about legacy vs tactical I gave it a go again today. Just played two games, one with lower teams and another with top Portugal teams, SL Benfica vs FC Porto.

While defending I just pressed X all the time and used the stick to position my defender between ball carrier and possible passing lanes, then when I had someone else close enough, I also used LT (maybe diferent for you guys, depending on controller settings) to try and tackle.

Now that result was absolutely amazing guys! No joking or placebo. Let me tell you that against FC Porto, I never ever had a situation of tiki taka in my box through the entire match! When I played balanced, I literaly had FC Porto in his own half, they couldn´t even get near my box most of the time. They also made mistakes I´ve never seen before in the game, like falling when trying to pull a trick or leaving the ball run out of the pitch etc. I´m not great at attack so I couldn´t get enough chances to score but I had the match totally dominated. Second half I tried to push a litle more and used a attack mentality. After 75 mins FC porto caught me on counter, with a beatifull high through ball to Quaresma, who was forgotten completely alone. I couldn´t catch him, 0-1.

Match ended with a loss, with stas like:

passing: SLB 76% FCP (cpu) 77%
possession: SLB 51% FCP 49%

Playing with lower teams the result was pretty much the same, but just enjoyed this one more because until now, FC Porto or any other better team would always, always end up the match with almost 90% pass acuracy, not to mention the times they play tiki taka in my box.

This with sliders all on default.
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Yes, legacy is the only way to stop the cheating superhuman CPU reflexes, dribles and passes.
 
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Jamezinho said:
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Originally Posted by Ipswich69 View Post
There's an addictive quality about this years FIFA that I haven't experienced before with the series. Can't put my finger on what it is though.Very much an addictive quality as far as I'm concerned. I look forward to getting a few games in whenever I can. There's a variety in the gameplay that I haven't seen from a FIFA before now. Lots of different types of goals and build up play from both me and the CPU. The ball physics and the way the players interact with the ball gives an 'anything is possible' feel to the gameplay. Keeps every match fresh and interesting. I even quite like the defending (then again I'm a legacy noob). It punishes sloppiness.

At this stage post-release I usually feel as though FIFA has shown me its hand already whereas this year I'm continuing to see new things. It kind of feels like the game has some of the hallmarks of a classic PES....the 'one more game' factor.
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This is interesting. It's exactly what I thought about this year's Fifa.
 
Honome said:
Yes, legacy is the only way to stop the cheating superhuman CPU reflexes, dribles and passes.
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Yeah, I'm liking it a lot more.

What's truly weird is the number of organic interceptions your teammates make on Legacy, even when you're not touching a pressure button.

EA really f*cked up that aspect of tactical defending imo - why shouldn't your teammate reach out and intercept a pass that's a foot from him, even if you're not in control? What is 'legacy' about that?!
 
Just realised last night that you have the option for a mutual quit during online games. Has that always been in?
 
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