Few things i need to get off of my chest that has been doing my head in overtime. And it has a lot to do with the difficulty in the game.
1. I play on the difficulty before legend (hall of fame i think it's called) and i can be completely dominating the whole game and then in the 4th quarter the game will decide that i can no longer do that and starts awarding the opposing team free kicks like push in the back, blocking, charging, rough conduct when at previous points in the game that had never happened. it seems like the way the game is setup is that if you want the game to be more difficult that means that you'll just randomly cop the stupidest free kicks ever.
2. another thing, manning up in this game is non existent causing some stupid end to end goals in 10 seconds. The AI just walks off their man all the time giving the opposing team an easy target. Unless i missed it in the settings, there is no way to make you're team man up at all times. I've tried changing the play style to defensive and that does nothing. This one really grinds my gears and i hope wicked witch will listen to this and make the changes.
3. If the ball is kicked from the opposing team for a shot on their goal and it hits the post and goes out on the fool, the camera angle for the kick in just zooms into the crowd so you can't see where you are kicking whatsoever, so i have no idea where i am aiming and often leads to me kicking it out on the full and giving the opposing team a shot on goal.
It seems to me like wicked witch do not care at all about this game in certain aspects, it really feels like this was quickly tested and thrown out into the wild. The gameplay needs to be more fair and realistic cause at the moment it's an unfair mess on the higher difficulties but it seems like wicked witch has settled on that and they're okay with that. You need to make the game actually difficult, not just flicking a switch at any point and giving away free kicks and constantly getting pushed out of marking contests and constantly not being able to spoil even though i'm standing dead middle of the marking contest. there's way more bugs and issues but these are the main ones.
@Heath Dobrich thanks for the long post and feedback. Sorry to hear you are having problems with the game, but we are here to listen and take action where we can.
The amount of free kicks given away isn't predetermined and it doesn't actually change depending on difficulty. You might be more likely to encounter more contested situations on the higher difficulties, therefore giving away more free kicks. To reduce this you can try tackling without sprinting or decrease the free kick sliders in the gameplay options if you are still finding it happens too much. I understand that's not ideal, but it's one thing you have control over and can alter if you feel like you are giving away too many free kicks.
We understand this is a problem. There are too many times players can feel like spectators with some scoring chains on higher difficulties and we are looking into it. Again in the meantime while we work on a more permanent fix, you can adjust the "Stay on man" slider so your players are less likely to run off. By increasing this number, your player is more likely to stay on their man, and may create less loose players.
This issue of the camera going into the crowd is a known issue for us that we believe we have fixed in the next update coming.
We value all feedback, whether it be negative or positive and hope to take all criticisms on board to improve the quality of our game so players can enjoy it for as long as they can. Thanks for giving us a couple of points to look at, and hopefully we can resolve these more broadly in future.