Difficulty this year

[TexasRyan]

I'm clearly not good enough for legendary again this year. But like others world class can be too easy at times. But I'm curious if anybody has tried world class with player based difficulty turned on. I just played a kickoff game and got beat 2-1 by Barca with Real Madrid. Felt competitive and like I had my chances but they were dangerous as well, but it's a small sample size. I'm assuming it works where we can use it in career mode on world class as well.

Just wondering about others experiences with it. Hopefully it works out bc I'm getting smoked on legendary in kick off and I already deleted my Newcastle save bc I wasn't losing on regular world class. (Also noticed ultimate isn't even showing up on kickoff or main menu, thought that was weird.)

Also, can anybody explain to me what happened to the old function of holding down the A button? Now it does something else or nothing at all. Wonder why they removed it and if there's a way to bring it back where they automatically pressed. The only other thing I'm curious about is what is up with some of the CPU players have grey arrows above their heads not sure what that means.

Posted this on reddit as well and I usually ask every year. Wanted to say two years (nvm FIFA 20 I was referring to) ago I was up to legendary but it got more difficult last year.

[hecbel]

Re: Difficulty this year

I'm clearly not good enough for legendary again this year. But like others world class can be too easy at times. But I'm curious if anybody has tried world class with player based difficulty turned on. I just played a kickoff game and got beat 2-1 by Barca with Real Madrid. Felt competitive and like I had my chances but they were dangerous as well, but it's a small sample size. I'm assuming it works where we can use it in career mode on world class as well.

Just wondering about others experiences with it. Hopefully it works out bc I'm getting smoked on legendary in kick off and I already deleted my Newcastle save bc I wasn't losing on regular world class. (Also noticed ultimate isn't even showing up on kickoff or main menu, thought that was weird.)

Also, can anybody explain to me what happened to the old function of holding down the A button? Now it does something else or nothing at all. Wonder why they removed it and if there's a way to bring it back where they automatically pressed. The only other thing I'm curious about is what is up with some of the CPU players have grey arrows above their heads not sure what that means.

Posted this on reddit as well and I usually ask every year. Wanted to say two years (nvm FIFA 20 I was referring to) ago I was up to legendary but it got more difficult last year.

Hi, this is your lucky day because I've answer to all your questions.

1) Player-based difficulty is a feature that only applies to a few players. You might ask, "Which players?" Well, the players with the gray arrow above them are the ones who get to boost. "Player-based difficulty" is an option to boost those few players, usually only two out of the eleven. It doesn't change the whole team's performance, only those gray-arrow players. You can disable the option on the settings menu, as you can see here at the 00:43 mark.

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2) This year's game has added a new defensive option where you make a shoulder charge if you press A. If you want to go back to FIFA 23 defense, you should go from "Advanced defending" to "Tactical defending". You can see it at the 00:11 mark in the video above.

3) And last, my advice for you is: play World Class for example, with Real Madrid, until you can win La Liga and the UEFA Champions League on World Class difficulty. Then, play another career with a 4-star-rated team and try to win it all. If you can't win all the matches, then World Class is your perfect difficulty level. Some games might seem easy for you, but after all, you are not a top team. If you can win the Premier League with Newcastle, for example, you might want to play legendary difficulty.

4) Also, ultimate difficulty isn't showing on kickoff mode because it's only available on career mode. Legendary was the top difficulty of the game for ages, but then people complained about how easy it was on career mode, so EA decided to go to a completely unrealistic difficulty, which is Ultimate.

[DanPanthers]

Re: Difficulty this year

If you adjust some sliders it could become alright and a good middle ground for you. Have a look I to sliders on YouTube people add them all the time. I play on ultimate on career mode with sliders and it’s great fun


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[DanPanthers]

Re: Difficulty this year

Also I feel the defending I’d a lot harder this year so if you get dragged out of position it’s hard to recover from that it’s all about finding the defending balance. YouTube tutorials on defending helped me


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[Gee_Simpson]

Re: Difficulty this year

If you adjust some sliders it could become alright and a good middle ground for you. Have a look I to sliders on YouTube people add them all the time. I play on ultimate on career mode with sliders and it’s great fun


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How does Ultimate play vs Legendary?

[DanPanthers]

Re: Difficulty this year

How does Ultimate play vs Legendary?

It’s a bit harder but the sliders make it better and the AI and cpu play better and seem to be more clinical


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[PunkMonk]

Re: Difficulty this year

This years default WC is the most challenging I’ve ever played. Usually I easily win but it’s tough for me this year. If it’s too easy for you still I would change sliders. CPU +1 accel, HUM +5 or +10 to the error values. Look at Matt10s set in the slider forum. It’s plays REALLY well.

[Grazz1]

Re: Difficulty this year

This years default WC is the most challenging I’ve ever played. Usually I easily win but it’s tough for me this year. If it’s too easy for you still I would change sliders. CPU +1 accel, HUM +5 or +10 to the error values. Look at Matt10s set in the slider forum. It’s plays REALLY well.

Definitely. I've just got back into the game, first time since Fifa 17. I decided to play 1 season on pro to familiarise, myself. I won the league with Arsenal (over 100 points), won the community shield 2-0. League Cup 1-0, fa cup 3-2 and Champions League 1-0.

The first game after I won the league I rested my first 11 and beat Wolves 7-0 with a combination of the second string and kids.

I feel if I played a second season on pro I could win 100% of the games, if I really focused on that goal.

Whereas world class is more difficult than it should be and too much of a jump. It'll put a lot of casuals off.

For the second season I increased difficulty to world class. First game was down 2-0 to Liverpool in the community shield, and somehow won 3-2. New signing Son scoring the winner, lol. Then I lost the super cup to Ajax 4-0 in a totally unrealistic game. Ajax had 10 shots on goal in the first half. I could barely get out of my half.

I then tried the FC 24 OS World Class sliders and have had 4 consecutive 0-0 draws (Wolves, Everton, Leeds and the like).

[JayD]

Re: Difficulty this year

World class is closets to simulation football. Legendary, you start seeing the cheese make it's way into the game. Especially on those CPU attacks where it seem like they are going to score and there is nothing you can do about it. Use Matt10's slider set. They are as good as you're going to get.

[Grazz1]

Re: Difficulty this year

World class is closets to simulation football. Legendary, you start seeing the cheese make it's way into the game. Especially on those CPU attacks where it seem like they are going to score and there is nothing you can do about it. Use Matt10's slider set. They are as good as you're going to get.

Good suggestion. I'm testing out Matt10's sliders and one idea is to use a different difficulty when home vs away. I'm scoring less on pro with Matt10's sliders, and to get a feel of the difference in both sliders and difficulty levels I'm testing a season on pro at home and world class away, what with objectives to win the league, FA Cup and Champions League.

[Piepmatsch616]

Re: Difficulty this year

Definitely. I've just got back into the game, first time since Fifa 17. I decided to play 1 season on pro to familiarise, myself. I won the league with Arsenal (over 100 points), won the community shield 2-0. League Cup 1-0, fa cup 3-2 and Champions League 1-0.

The first game after I won the league I rested my first 11 and beat Wolves 7-0 with a combination of the second string and kids.

I feel if I played a second season on pro I could win 100% of the games, if I really focused on that goal.

Whereas world class is more difficult than it should be and too much of a jump. It'll put a lot of casuals off.

For the second season I increased difficulty to world class. First game was down 2-0 to Liverpool in the community shield, and somehow won 3-2. New signing Son scoring the winner, lol. Then I lost the super cup to Ajax 4-0 in a totally unrealistic game. Ajax had 10 shots on goal in the first half. I could barely get out of my half.

I then tried the FC 24 OS World Class sliders and have had 4 consecutive 0-0 draws (Wolves, Everton, Leeds and the like).

I'm almost the same.
pro difficulty is too easy and I can easily win the league even with mostly youth players on.
on world class I'm struggling very much and lost a match 3-5 after I was in the lead 3-1. It was a really crazy game with much fun and much frustration.
I'm now looking at the OS sliders and I'm afraid that it will be too slow / difficult for me. I must admit that I like a 4-0 win every now and then better than many 0-0 or 1-0 matches. I love scoring goals obviously. And since I usually start with very low rated teams in the career mode I need to find the right balance that allows for challenging gameplay and yet gives me a good chance of scoring and using youth players. So I'll probably go ahead and try the community sliders and adjust them a little in my favor and see how that works for me.

[Grazz1]

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I'm almost the same.
pro difficulty is too easy and I can easily win the league even with mostly youth players on.
on world class I'm struggling very much and lost a match 3-5 after I was in the lead 3-1. It was a really crazy game with much fun and much frustration.
I'm now looking at the OS sliders and I'm afraid that it will be too slow / difficult for me. I must admit that I like a 4-0 win every now and then better than many 0-0 or 1-0 matches. I love scoring goals obviously. And since I usually start with very low rated teams in the career mode I need to find the right balance that allows for challenging gameplay and yet gives me a good chance of scoring and using youth players. So I'll probably go ahead and try the community sliders and adjust them a little in my favor and see how that works for me.

I'm now playing using world class in every game, with the OS sliders, but adjusted slightly. I have the user speed at 26 and user shot error at 50. For the cpu their speed is 28 and shot error 68. A couple of other sliders are slightly different too.

I've found it great to start with a speed / acceleration/ shot / gk ability advantage and as I learn how to win, and get better with the sliders, I keep adjusting them closer and closer to Matt10's version.

My last 4 games:

3-0 win vs Norwich
5-0 FA Cup win vs Rotherham
2-1 win vs Aston Villa (92nd minute winner)
1-0 win vs Brentford

I've adjusted the sliders after each game, stopping before Villa. I'll stick at the current level for a few games and see how tricky Chelsea and Manchester City are.

In the Villa game possession was even, and they had 10 shots to my 7. It was about even vs Brentford too.