Platform: PS4
Game Version: 1.03
I've noticed that a lot of my frustration with controlling players comes from the change direction animation.... often as I've just changed to a player, and even though I'm pressing the direction they're already running (and I want them to go also), they can do a dinky little direction change out of nowhere, which completely takes you the wrong way and loses you ground. In the video, Jack Steele was selected, and even though he was running Up/Left, and even though I was pushing Up/Left, he does this little direction change near the other players that takes him Up/Right. (You can also see him do a weird direction change at the centre bounce).
This seems to happen a lot with players, and becomes very frustrating, like you don't have good control of the players.
The AI seem to do it a lot.... so you sometimes change to an AI player who has just changed direction completely for no reason. It would be good to feel like you have more control over player movement by this not happening.
I feel like this is part of some major underlying problem with the game that no one talks about. It's probably the source of most of my frustrations with the game. It ends up giving the opposition so much time and space to kick an easy goal. The whole movement system in this game just feels off. Players just don't go in the direction you tell them to
Hey @SaintSkeeta disappointing to hear you are having this issue. There is some assisted movement that happens with players which can sometimes lead to it seeming like you as a player don't have control. If you change the direction the player is currently moving in, then it will alter the direction. I'll send this through to the dev team and see if they can come up with a way to give more advanced players less assisted movement to see if it resolves this issue.
@Community Manager Jack Thanks for that. Yeah from memory there’s some kind of setting in FIFA for this.
it might be more that this (like my suggestions for squaring your shoulders to the play ‘jockeying’) could make it feel like we as users have control over the players.
Kinda hard to pinpoint exactly what it is...but I’ve just noticed this particular direction change gives me that feeling.
Cheers