if attackers were turning in and facing on goal unguarded every scoreline would be 10-7 and 9-9 draws etc in 15 min halves.
... you know i rarely agree with your defensive line settings and this year is no different. haha. i'm really enjoying this year's game, maybe mostly because i'm prepared to marry a bit of real world football into the video gaming world.
the video game version differs slightly to the real life version of football in it needs the defensive line to be back onto the 6-yard box to be effective in blocking shots, manning attackers for incoming crosses and forcing the cpu into bad shooting positions. If it's too high, you can turn your defender as you said and there's too much space behind them for a covering defender to make up; or through ball over or behind the line and be in on goal for a 1-on-1 with the GK. I don't want that, so i have them sitting back at the default line settings and it just works.
my line settings are default and with marking set to 55/55 (for the way i must play?) it's playing sublimely. I played a 15 min half cup tie just before which went to extra time and penalties, and in all that time there were 6 shots on goal from 15 attempts from me, and 11 shots on target from 17 attempts from the CPU in a 0-0 game where passing %'s were low 80's.
*** in saying that, the stats engine this is broken. At halftime it said i had no shots with (obviously) none on target, yet in the replays it showed me take two 30+ yard screamers with George Boyd that went achingly over the bar.
Passing is all kinds of out. I counted the first half passes for the CPU, and the stat engine was telling me the were 89% when I calculated them to be just over 78%. I think you can safely knock 10% off whatever the stat passing %'s are telling us).
in that game, corner count was 6 to me, and 11 to them. I was happy to clear the ball out of bounds and soak it all up. A nil-all slugfest after 40 odd minutes of gameplay time is pretty sweet, imo. it's all i've ever wanted from a football game, tbh ... to have to strategise to score and defend and have it mean something.
well, as you know better than most; for every slider you change, it offsets something else. i started to make all the changes as you and orion were releasing them, and it was at times taking me further and further away from where i wanted the game.
now, i'm back around (or close)to the defaults for most the settings and it's playing so impressively. i've gone off and done all the defensive training drills and the CPU's robotic passing is not a problem because i'm not seeing much of it.
i'm constantly grabbing possession by breaking up passing with my 69 rated CDM and my 75 rated CM in the midfield.
basically, i'm not seeing robotic AI passing because you can take away giving the cpu the space and freedom to execute it. after the defensive training drills, i'm defending and approaching defending like fifa 15 & fifa 16 are two different games, like not even related ... and that's the key to this year's game, imo.
defending.