FIFA 13

Mikeyt086

TheGunns wrote: »

Brilliant, nothing worse than when some eejit does a back flip with John Terry

Or Paul Scholes breakdancing. Like... Jesus.

J. Marston

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

This was cool for a few weeks as a gimmick in FIFA 09, but they need to acknowledge that it adds nothing to the game and actually is detrimental to the enjoyment of the game at this stage.

No need for it at all.

Take them out of online play. Leave them on in kick off matches and career mode. They're fine for a bit of messing if you're playing a friend as long you don't completely take the piss.

And in career mode, I want to ''shhh'' the crowd when I'm playing away to my rivals .

Reganio 2

SaulGoode9 wrote: »

Ultimate Team is a crock of sh*t this year too

I was thinking of starting one now. Would you advise against it?

RossieMan

Reganio 2 wrote: »

I was thinking of starting one now. Would you advise against it?

at this stage, yes.

everyone has incredible teams, its boring to play with my ****ty teams, still division 1 but its just not the same.

Career mode is the only highlight fifa has this year, everything else is s**t.

TheGunns

RossieMan wrote: »

at this stage, yes.

everyone has incredible teams, its boring to play with my ****ty teams, still division 1 but its just not the same.

Career mode is the only highlight fifa has this year, everything else is s**t.

Not really a fan of career mode and UT was good to start with, although Im taking a break and just trading. Unless I manage to start making money or get good packs in UT, I think I'll leave Fifa for Sleeping Dogs completely.

Beefy78

RossieMan wrote: »

Career mode is the only highlight fifa has this year, everything else is s**t.

Clubs is good this year.

Yakult

RossieMan wrote: »

Career mode is the only highlight fifa has this year, everything else is s**t.

Clubs is the only mode I like play, everything else is **** including the boring career mode.

DyldeBrill

If anyone fancies joining a pro club then get at me, slots available

DyldeBrill

btw is there not a ps3 league with boards or is it just Xbox?

RossieMan

Beefy78 wrote: »

Clubs is good this year.

what? its pure ****.
its just ****ty goalies who let everything in.

its better than last year, but has an awful long way to go.

Career mode was good, until it broke.

miralize

All these complaints are the results of a yearly dev cycle. They should skip Fifa 14 & focus on getting Fifa 15 to a standard that should be acceptable for release. Although I doubt that would happen with the danger of Pro Evo getting the players for 2013-2014

Beefy78

RossieMan wrote: »

what? its pure ****.
its just ****ty goalies who let everything in.

its better than last year, but has an awful long way to go.

Career mode was good, until it broke.

It isn't "pure ****". Such hyperbole doesn't do your point any favours. Clubs is good this year. It still has problems and like all modes it likely will always have problems but the mode itself is fine.

Beefy78

miralize wrote: »

All these complaints are the results of a yearly dev cycle. They should skip Fifa 14 & focus on getting Fifa 15 to a standard that should be acceptable for release. Although I doubt that would happen with the danger of Pro Evo getting the players for 2013-2014

They'll keep releasing these games yearly for as long as people choose to buy them yearly.

OrgasmicBaz

I think clubs is good this year, its better than last years anyway by a mile. Last year there was no divisions people just ranked by points. So its good that they put the UT/H2H element to it

I, like everyone on here, gets pissed off with UT but you have to say its mad addictive

alaskas_friend

I love Fifa 13. Because of the skill games, I actually learned how to dribble properly, (never really got the 'feel' for it before, wasn't bothered to mess around with it in important multiplayer games) and now it makes the online games a lot easier for me, plus more enjoyable because I'm winning a good few, and making some people look like idiots. Great idea to improve the standard of gameplay.

As for the L1+Triangle/Y thing, it's effective, but I've discovered it's not really too difficult to protect yourself against. If you put yourself in the mind of the attacker when defending, you can always tell when they're going to fire the ball through, and have time to get your defenders to push back to give them less space to work with. It helps to have a defender with decent pace (if you play FUT), alongside a bulky centre back with good defence stats.

This good feedback comes from someone with a very neutral ratio in the game, 46W-15D-46L on my Ultimate Team. I'm playing in the 1st Division so I'm quite happy to be able to hold my own in the top level.

RossieMan

alaskas_friend wrote: »

This good feedback comes from someone with a very neutral ratio in the game, 46W-15D-46L on my Ultimate Team. I'm playing in the 1st Division so I'm quite happy to be able to hold my own in the top level.

not great stats to be honest, division 1 standard isn't exactly very high:rolleyes:

ConorCBS

RossieMan wrote: »

not great stats to be honest, division 1 standard isn't exactly very high:rolleyes:

Did he say his stats were great?

alaskas_friend

RossieMan wrote: »

not great stats to be honest, division 1 standard isn't exactly very high:rolleyes:

I'm pretty sure you missed the point, I said my stats were very neutral (same # of wins/loses) to support my opinion that even if you win close to 50% (excluding draws) of your games, it's still a great game to play. The reason I pointed this out is because of course you're going to love a game if you're really good at it, whereas when you are at statistically almost a perfect average, it represents the majority of players who will buy this game.

So it comes to mind that maybe, because of the skill games - because of the increase in player competence, we find the good players of Fifa 12 struggling more against average players that have bettered themselves (skill games etc), maybe blaming the game a bit for the shock that there is now better competition online in general (but I do understand why people don't like this and that).

IncognitoMan

My stats are about the same in seasons. Thinks its 108 wins and 103 loses. 30 odd draws

alaskas_friend

alaskas_friend wrote: »

I'm pretty sure you missed the point, I said my stats were very neutral (same # of wins/loses) to support my opinion that even if you win close to 50% (excluding draws) of your games, it's still a great game to play. The reason I pointed this out is because of course you're going to love a game if you're really good at it, whereas when you are at statistically almost a perfect average, it represents the majority of players who will buy this game.

Jez I don't know about that.

My win ratio was in or around 4:1 and I gave up on it due to the pure cheapness of UT this year.
Far too profitable to be a 3-5-2 L1+ triangle bandit.

You say you can just forsee it.
The only way this might even be plausable would be if I was to just completely give up hope of winning the ball in attack/midfield, switch to a CB and just break my defensive line and run him back towards my goal so he could attack the ball.

My win rate in Seaons is around 50-18-20ish and I was/am enjoying that far more as all the elements to make a bandit team aren't possible.

alaskas_friend

Surprised you have such a good win ratio but can't stop those balls, assuming you had good two CB's. If you have such a good win ratio though, it can't be happening too often? Surely with a 4:1 ratio you'd be beating most of the guys doing this anyway.

alaskas_friend

alaskas_friend wrote: »

Surprised you have such a good win ratio but can't stop those balls, assuming you had good two CB's. If you have such a good win ratio though, it can't be happening too often? Surely with a 4:1 ratio you'd be beating most of the guys doing this anyway.

You can't stop them cause they're too accurate, the skill aspect of defending takes a back seat and it turns into a sprint.
As I said, maybe I could if I gave up trying to win the ball anywhere but defence and run my CB back behind the line but there's just too many factors benefiting the attacking team(defenders make more mistakes from these balls too)

I'm only talking about UT here though.
Sorry I didn't realise this was the 13 thread.
In normal FIFA yes, I don't have as many problems.
But there's not much you can do in UT bar ''if ya can't beat them, join them'' and I really couldn't be bothered lowering myself to playing 3-5-2 and giving up my high possession game to play kick and chase.

jamescd

I played more than 1,000 games on UT last year, this year I've played only around 100 but I'm already bored of it. Kept coming up against pace abuse brazilian teams last time I played.

Have something like 80 wins and 14 losses in normal Seasons, can't remember my UT record but it should be about the same. I still beat them most of the time, but it becomes boring playing against the same crap every game. If it wasn't for me being in the FIFA 13 League here, I'd have traded this game in for Blops 2 :pac:

J. Marston

miralize wrote: »

All these complaints are the results of a yearly dev cycle. They should skip Fifa 14 & focus on getting Fifa 15 to a standard that should be acceptable for release. Although I doubt that would happen with the danger of Pro Evo getting the players for 2013-2014

That would be great, but it'll never happen. Can you imagine how much money they'd lose out on if they skipped a year of FIFA? Millions upon millions.

They're not going to leave that go just to make a better game.

jamescd

jamescd wrote: »

I played more than 1,000 games on UT last year, this year I've played only around 100 but I'm already bored of it. Kept coming up against pace abuse brazilian teams last time I played.

Have something like 80 wins and 14 losses in normal Seasons, can't remember my UT record but it should be about the same. I still beat them most of the time, but it becomes boring playing against the same crap every game. If it wasn't for me being in the FIFA 13 League here, I'd have traded this game in for Blops 2 :pac:

Same as that, I had nearly 1000 games and I only played it from March :eek:
One big change from last year is the full backs.
In 2012 to help my possession game I'd play defensive(people complain, but I never played Ultra plus I'd dominate possession in their half so it negates the fact. It was used to keep the full backs in line with the CB's) but they just seem to push up either way now based on their work rates.

Couple that with the first touch and its just far too hard to play it around a packed box filled with 3 CB's, crosses have been downgraded so you're left with few options to score.

Just after finishing a few games of the vanilla mode against a friend, he's a fairly good player and a serial lofted through ball bandit(picks Madrid mostly and will do it from tip off) but with the slower mechanics he just can't beat me, beat him in 3 and one draw.
Mind you, I never won by more than a goal but if it was UT he'd have won a few and scored 3+ regularly with his style of play

Washington Irving

I'm the same as Gilberto, have a 21-2-2 record on UT but I gave up on it in the first two weeks. Every second player was constantly using lobbed through balls to pacy strikers and every game felt the same. It's no fun when you can tell what's going to happen after every kick off.

SaulGoode9

SaulGoode9 wrote: »

I'm the same as Gilberto, have a 21-2-2 record on UT but I gave up on it in the first two weeks. Every second player was constantly using lobbed through balls to pacy strikers and every game felt the same. It's no fun when you can tell what's going to happen after every kick off.

Will hopefully make some money for my troubles though.
I've 130,000 and three solid teams, with a bit of trading I'll try get to near a million and sell to some sucker around xmas

Washington Irving

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Will hopefully make some money for my troubles though.
I've 130,000 and three solid teams, with a bit of trading I'll try get to near a million and sell to some sucker around xmas

I was thinking the same thing, I still do some trading on the web app and am steadily building towards a million. We'll get our money back for the game anyway

Professional Griefer

How do you change teams/players for skill games?

I can only seem to use Barca players?

edit: I'm blind as ****.

youreadthat

Does anyone else draw loads more on this than on fifa 12?