FIFA 16 Available Today, Post Your Impressions

[JHedges2]

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67 mins left on my flight home. Travelling 900 KMH (560+ MPH for yanks) and surfing the internet from the air. Cool stuff.

Soon. FIFA will be mine.

You won't be disappointed. This game....Ohhhh this game.

A++++++

[bad_philanthropy]

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Can't wait to see what Matt and the slider guys come up with. Best out of the box FIFA I can remember. Let's not forget how absurd last year's game was before the surprising big gameplay patch. Thankfully there is a strong base here. I'll definitely be upping first touch error.

[ExtremeGamer]

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Can you do a World Cup mode? I saw all the country teams are in there.

[RoyceDa59]

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Okay so playing back to back Leicester vs Arsenal (w/ Matt's Sliders) I definitely like what I am seeing. First game lost to Leicester 0-1 after having Monreal give up the ball on the left side and they hit me on the counter and after that they just played defensively the whole match.

Second match drew 1-1 after them conceding a penalty just before halftime then right after break Monreal fouls a Leicester player in scoring range and they get a goal from it and again sit back and soak up pressure and try to just counter me for the rest of the game; really good games and Leicester were not becoming formulaic with there attacks something I felt that in FIFA 15 teams just became way to predictable as they would always look to play on the wing.

I am very excited to play more after dinner, as I plan to jump into team tactics and alternate some teams to see how it affects the gameplay. I will also say this, curious to see where EA Canada go from here with the series.

[JayD]

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Well just simmed though all the transfer window in BPl and it really has not changed at all from FIFA 15. You see teams doing literally nothing, loan or transfer, though all the windows. This really does baffle me being that EA worked on team budgets, player values and even had a bullet point stating that there will be more transfers to mask real life. I started a thread about the lack of transfers and I really hope people with a Twitter will contact individuals in the links.

[BL8001]

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Unless they changed it for 16, you can't. If you change it to Legacy, go into an online game, pause it and check the settings, it goes back to Tactical. That's how it worked in 15 and I've yet to see otherwise in 16.

As for impressions, I'll keep it very simple: the best and most well rounded sports game since...I couldn't even begin to say. Definitely the biggest leap forward in the gameplay department from one year to the next I've ever seen. It's not perfect, if I want to nitpick I certainly can find things wrong. But nothing but a standing ovay for the devs working on this game from me.

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This is true except for the minor exception that it stays on legacy, but still plays as tactical.

So it appears to save as legacy and stays when you go back and look at settings but it is not legacy controls.

[ZoneBlitz]

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I love this game! It is truly amazing. More later...I am too busy playing. Lol!

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[PPerfect_CJ]

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The winter gear bug is still in. Just edited Eden Hazard, started a new MM, turned on the snow and he had no sleeves on. All I did was bump his attacking up 3 points. I honestly don't know what to say anymore. I give up. They obviously have no idea of how to fix the issue completely.

[bad_philanthropy]

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The winter gear bug is still in. Just edited Eden Hazard, started a new MM, turned on the snow and he had no sleeves on. All I did was bump his attacking up 3 points. I honestly don't know what to say anymore. I give up. They obviously have no idea of how to fix the issue completely.

Try editing him in MM and see if you can give him sleeves.

[PPerfect_CJ]

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Try editing him in MM and see if you can give him sleeves.

I guess that's still locked for me. I started a new MM using the same roster after putting sleeves on him and he had them in MM. So, apparently, if they already have sleeves (ex. Rooney) you can edit and they keep their sleeves, but if they only break out the sleeves for the winter, you can't edit their attributes or they lose that. Man, I'm just frustrated. If the stamina wasn't so low on certain players, I wouldn't even worry about it, but if you don't edit that, they rarely start for the CPU during MM.

[~LiverpoolRed~]

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I got called for handball 3 minutes into my first match. Glad to see it back.

[KG]

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Okay so playing back to back Leicester vs Arsenal (w/ Matt's Sliders) I definitely like what I am seeing. First game lost to Leicester 0-1 after having Monreal give up the ball on the left side and they hit me on the counter and after that they just played defensively the whole match.

Second match drew 1-1 after them conceding a penalty just before halftime then right after break Monreal fouls a Leicester player in scoring range and they get a goal from it and again sit back and soak up pressure and try to just counter me for the rest of the game; really good games and Leicester were not becoming formulaic with there attacks something I felt that in FIFA 15 teams just became way to predictable as they would always look to play on the wing.

I am very excited to play more after dinner, as I plan to jump into team tactics and alternate some teams to see how it affects the gameplay. I will also say this, curious to see where EA Canada go from here with the series.

It's going to be really interesting Royce to see what/how EA patches this game.

[PAPERNUT]

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Just scored the most realistic counter to seal a game at the end. AI was going all in at the end and I was able to get a break out and finished a 2 on 1 with a sliding kick for goal. My guy got killed by the goalie, but started to celebrate on the ground and while getting up. It just looked and felt so real. Tactics are finally working again and it is making the games more intense when the AI adjusts.

[nikolapfc89]

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I played 3 games online. Whole 3 kids try to played on feints (from defender to striker) and trying i dont know what, dribling, spining around etc. It looks very funny and reminds of fifa street. Other guy try only dropshot from long distance shots. He had about 20 shots, but no lucky. They coudnt do anything in those matches.
Thats why this game is awesome! Game speed is perfect (even it could be little more slowly, but its ok), it need some patience, and creating actions, and finally there is midfield and defense. So when you see that kids are moaning, screaming, complain about game, you know its good FIFA. EA PLEASE DONT RUIN IT, KEEP IT REAL!

[fearwhatnow]

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I played 3 games online. Whole 3 kids try to played on feints (from defender to striker) and trying i dont know what, dribling, spining around etc. It looks very funny and reminds of fifa street. Other guy try only dropshot from long distance shots. He had about 20 shots, but no lucky. They coudnt do anything in those matches.
Thats why this game is awesome! Game speed is perfect (even it could be little more slowly, but its ok), it need some patience, and creating actions, and finally there is midfield and defense. So when you see that kids are moaning, screaming, complain about game, you know its good FIFA. EA PLEASE DONT RUIN IT, KEEP IT REAL!

This sounds good for all of you that prefer online modes. I'm nearly at my 40's and I really don't want to waste my precious time playing online with randoms.
I already made a backup of the whole game folder in case EA ruins the game with a patch.
The more I play the more impressed I am. AI is so unpredictable it's just a joy to watch. Every goal I score gives me the feeling and satisfaction of old PES games. Some more observations:
- CPU adapts brilliantly so far to my tactics and they make quite smart substitutions. I keep testing as Leicester. I was down 0-3 in halftime against Hertha in opening tournament Manager Mode. The second half was brilliant in terms of gameplay and tactical freedom. Hertha replaced almost the whole first team and I had the opportunity to attack more. Final score 1-3 with many chances missed to end the game 2-3 or even 3-3.
- Gave instructions to my CBs to aggressively intercept and combined with the legacy defending I just LOVE to defend in this game.
- I still manage to keep good teams at 80's% pass accuracy with default sliders. CPU uses mostly the fast low driven pass (RB+A for users) and I've seen that, even with first touch at 50, they make some bad first touches.
- CPU shoots from everywere. I have yet to see them dribbling without a purpose outside the box.
- Many logically complain about the "pointless" passing of CPU in the midfield and their own half. I understand that if someone wants to play a football videogame wants action. First of all, this kind of passing is not pointless. You can easily check this by leaving an attacking cpu player unmarked. Bam! They will try right away the long ball to that player. Then we come to the dilemma: Do we want a pure football sim or not? Go see Leicester (my team) in BPL. Then play them in the game trying to implement their tactics and you'll be amazed.
- I'm playing with handballs on except penalties and I think it's the only way to play the game without having these excessive penalties. Negative: EA patch the penalties. Both for handballs and takers. The whole penalty procedure is floaty, unresponsive and the AI behaviour is bad.
Many members here know that I'm too harsh with football videogames and that's true. That said, I still can't believe that EA changed the game completely. There must be some new devs arrivals at EA Canada. I hope OS will have a post release interview with EA Canada so we can have some insight about their thoughts.