Fouls In FIFA 14

[orion523]

Going by their track record, it's seems pretty obvious to me at least that there's a philosophy in place at EA Sports in which they purposely limit the number of fouls/penalties in their sports games. Do you agree with this philosophy or do you feel that FIFA, Madden, and NHL ultimately suffer due to the exclusion?

[Yeats]

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Going by their track record, it's seems pretty obvious to me at least that there's a philosophy in place at EA Sports in which they purposely limit the number of fouls/penalties in their sports games.

I've been saying that for years, my assumption being they think it takes away from flow of the gameplay. There's a point where too much realism isn't fun anymore. For me though it's a simple thing to edit the game and add fouls back in as I only ever play offline against the CPU, so it's a non-issue.

[ROABS]

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Being a fan of every major sport i feel penalties are a huge part of each game. ea has lacked in penalties for as long as i can remember. yeats may be correct in there thinking that it disrupts the flow of game. In my opinion the majority of gamers dont care about sim they just mainly want to get in a quick game and have it fast paced. If you see how each ea sports game comes setup out of the box its either 6 min halfs (fifa) , 5 min qtrs (madden) and 6 min periods for hockey. i really wish they could just add a penalty slider for fifa.(that actually works)

[Gnemi]

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In response to EA's philosophy, I sent one of their developers a tweet:

"Without fouls, why do you guys even bother having FK Specialist as a trait? Or FK abilities at all?"

You can't take free kicks if you're not fouled. In FIFA, even when you're fouled, you're not fouled. It's maddening.

[eyeamg0dly]

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I see more fouls in this years game, problem is that they have been mostly red cards. Last game I played had 4 red cards. 3 on me and 1 on the cpu. Mostly from silly tangled situations the players get put into because of the game engine.

I want to see more fouls, but less cards

[BL8001]

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In response to EA's philosophy, I sent one of their developers a tweet:

"Without fouls, why do you guys even bother having FK Specialist as a trait? Or FK abilities at all?"

You can't take free kicks if you're not fouled. In FIFA, even when you're fouled, you're not fouled. It's maddening.

Not just that but why the hell is there a custom set play designer? Oh great I can make two people run over the ball and one back heel it and then I swoop in and take a thunderous boot into the back of the ball and...

Oh wait never mind. I can set them up but won't get a chance to use them.

1 FK in range in 70 some matches.

[BL8001]

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Also in terms of online logic it would be amazing if it could tell if the user was sprinting all game long. Because then It could take that into account and start calling fouls and carding people who sprint and slide tackle all game long.

If you fly around the pitch like a madman in real life and barge into someone you get a card.

Same with the CPU offline. If they race around the pitch and step in and tackle the ball from me 20 times the odds are 1 of those is going to be a foul.

[PAPERNUT]

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I had a reply to this issue a few days ago from one of the FIFA developers, Gilliard Lopez and this was his response.

@grunglopes:"I'm not sure a 'slider' would make sense. Fouls are a result of physical interactions which are completely dynamic in #FIFA14". "That said, we can of course tune it - and we did. I think physical play is well balanced, would hate to have too many stoppages".


I think his last part sums up their approach and why it is what it is.....

[Krebstar]

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In response to EA's philosophy, I sent one of their developers a tweet:

"Without fouls, why do you guys even bother having FK Specialist as a trait? Or FK abilities at all?"

You can't take free kicks if you're not fouled. In FIFA, even when you're fouled, you're not fouled. It's maddening.

This is why I don't feel that they do it on purpose.

I've never bought the argument that EA wants to give everyone an open game, so they limit fouls. The same crowd that only wants an open game is also the crowd who want to score crazy free kicks.

I think they could fix it, but they don't because it's not high on their list. I don't think they intentionally leave it to create a certain game, though.

[topside]

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Who doesn't enjoy getting fouled and taking free kicks? This years game reminds me of buying a Bentley just to put spinners for wheels.. Beautiful game just fix the fouls it's not that hard EA..

Next ear tey need to add a player attribute called discipline.

[nWo]

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The lack of fouls is my biggest gripe with this game. Rarely do I have games where the CPU gets a card of any sort, much let multiple cards. More fouls would make the game even more realistic and would give players the opportunity to test their free kick skills.

[mpt117]

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yeah, there are barely any fouls/free kicks in the game. what is most annoying to me is that the fouls that are called, i barely touch the player or don't even touch the player at all! then, i get my legs taken out from under me and nothing is called. it doesn't make any sense.

[Dogslax41]

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I have started drawing a ton more fouls recently. I have started rarely using sprint or even the right stick. I am making more moves by just slightly moving the left stick to keep the ball at my feet and the CPU comes in a lot harder.

I have also noticed the normal speed produces a significant more number of fouls than slow in case anyone is playing on slow.

In no way by saying this do I think fouls are close to correct in FIFA. Was more just throwing out experience if people wanted a way to try and draw some fouls.

On the human side I need to get a lot more composure because I get ham fisted inside my box and am giving up far too many penalties by just flat out running over the striker. Steven Taylor and Coloccini are becoming masters at leveling opposing strikers illegally.

[MrRudy]

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Not a foul....

[xfactor9600]

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Is it me or are there a ton more offsides penalties this year? Could be the overall skill of my club (lech Poznan).