2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Available Now, Post Your Impressions

[dickey1331]

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Madagascar has some weird names for their players. One is so long that when you are playing the game and you have that player selected at the bottom where it lists his name it has to scroll it's that long.

[theloungerr]

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I have massive player rating drop issues. Just made it through qualifying with Antigua and Barbuda and the top scorer on that team went from a 67 to a 58 by the time the world cup started.

My team overall rating at the start went from a rating of
ATT 62
MID 59
DEF 57

at the World Cup squad select the same squad was
ATT 53
MID 54
DEF 54

I reloaded and old save and Messi in a run I did with Argentina went from 94 to 90

[racerx]

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I have massive player rating drop issues. Just made it through qualifying with Antigua and Barbuda and the top scorer on that team went from a 67 to a 58 by the time the world cup started.

My team overall rating at the start went from a rating of
ATT 62
MID 59
DEF 57

at the World Cup squad select the same squad was
ATT 53
MID 54
DEF 54

I reloaded and old save and Messi in a run I did with Argentina went from 94 to 90

Yea I am dealing with the same issue with Italy going through the qualifying rounds where most of my starting 11 has dropped on avg 3-6 points.

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[wjmooner]

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I qualified for the World Cup with the USA on legendary and I thought the game played pretty well. I was pretty annoyed at the selection squad glitch where I couldn't select my squad for the World Cup, but whatever. I didn't play any 5 star teams in qualifying of course.

Then I played the World Cup with Argentina. What a disaster this game is when you play with a good team. Every game I played last night had 8-10 goals (6-4 and 5-3 wins, 7-2 loss) Just ridiculous ping-pong back and forth. And I'm playing on slow.

Also, how is it possible that Tevez and Pastore aren't even available to be selected for the Argentine MNT?

[zmcman1]

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Also, how is it possible that Tevez and Pastore aren't even available to be selected for the Argentine MNT?

I've seen with a few countries, if the player hasn't played internationally for a few years, EA left them out of the pool. Tevez/Pastore haven't played for the team since 2011 according to wikipedia.

That said, I know Diego Costa recently debuted for Spain and he isn't in the game. The rosters may have been completed for the game before he debuted, but he should probably get added in a squad update.

[dubcity]

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Then I played the World Cup with Argentina. What a disaster this game is when you play with a good team. Every game I played last night had 8-10 goals (6-4 and 5-3 wins, 7-2 loss) Just ridiculous ping-pong back and forth. And I'm playing on slow.

Yeah, it's like you get punished for playing with the top teams. Both teams play out of their minds on crack. The speed and accuracy is stupid. I would try addressing it with sliders, but that usually opens up a different can of worms.

[ADHAMM3R]

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Also, how is it possible that Tevez and Pastore aren't even available to be selected for the Argentine MNT?

from what I know, Tevez is pretty much done playing internationally. He already stated he won't play this year, so logically, they wouldn't include him in a WORLD CUP game.

Idk about Pastore though. It isn't like they don't already have a wealth of attackers far better than Pastore. I know it takes away from the realism a bit, but hopefully they will address that soon. I expect another roster update by mid-May, after more international friendlies are played.

[jms25613]

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Actually, the rosters that are in the game reflect all players that participated in this qualifying cycle. Since Tevez and Pastore didnt participate in any of the CONMEBOL qualifiers, they were omitted. Same reason there is no Costa for Spain, no Julian Green for USA.

Sidenote: Not sure what method was used for Brazil considering they didn't have to qualify. My assumption is that they just picked players that played in the friendlies in the past 3-4 years.

[gopher_guy]

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Question for you guys who are saying that playing with the top teams is too "arcade-y", however you want to describe it. Did you lower the passing accuracy sliders?

I'm playing on manual passing, and have lowered the CPU's passing accuracy. Even when playing as 5 star teams, both me and the CPU miss some passes, which in turn obviously slows the game down.

[JustCRu7ing]

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I have a few questions:

I bought the game a few days ago and have been messing around in friendlies and personally it looks much better and feels way slicker than FIFA 14 to me

Does player overalls increase in Road to Wolrd Cup mode? Like in career mode on FIFA? Does it decrease when they hit 30? Would like to know if there is a growth system and if so how it works.

I tried a few skill moves and 3 star skill players seem to be able to do 4 star skill moves like Berba spins, rabonas etc. What did they change in terms of skill moves?

Did anyone notice how defenders seem to jump from a few metres behind you to intercept lobbed through balls and corners? Any way to prevent this?

Anyone else having trouble with lobby through balls?

Anyone think the AI makes less silly errors and seems more competitive especially if your a lower team playing against Germany, Spain etc.?

Answers would be appreciated thanks!




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[mrsaito]

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Well I am also going the full qualification route with Latvia. I went to Riga for work a couple of years ago and I'll say that the stadium and surroundings renderings are reasonably good.

I'm having the plunging ratings issue as well. I have not changed anything with respect to rosters.

I hadn't been tracking the ratings closely but after reading this thread I decided to check it out. After a dozen or so games I compared them to those of a 'play now' Latvia roster and 9 out of 11 players were lower on my qualifying squad despite being tied for first place in my group. :-(

[ADHAMM3R]

Re: 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Available Now, Post Your Impressions

I have a few questions:

I bought the game a few days ago and have been messing around in friendlies and personally it looks much better and feels way slicker than FIFA 14 to me

Does player overalls increase in Road to Wolrd Cup mode? Like in career mode on FIFA? Does it decrease when they hit 30? Would like to know if there is a growth system and if so how it works.

I tried a few skill moves and 3 star skill players seem to be able to do 4 star skill moves like Berba spins, rabonas etc. What did they change in terms of skill moves?

Did anyone notice how defenders seem to jump from a few metres behind you to intercept lobbed through balls and corners? Any way to prevent this?

Anyone else having trouble with lobby through balls?

Anyone think the AI makes less silly errors and seems more competitive especially if your a lower team playing against Germany, Spain etc.?

Answers would be appreciated thanks!




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1. Player overalls seem to increase/decrease with form. Some people have been having issues with player form dropping randomly. I haven't had any issues. As far as I know, there are no issues with players over 30. Klose starts at 84 I think? I've had him as high up as 89.

2. I have no idea about skill moves. I find them pretty much useless playing online past the basic ones, so I rarely use them.

3. I haven't noticed this personally, but I'll keep a look out for it now. I would suggest lowering the CPU acceleration a bit. Might help. or the marking slider.

4. Had no problems with through balls in terms of playing them myself. Faced a few people online who tried to abuse them. I play as Germany almost always. Played Argentina, who should be fast than my defenders. His aerial through balls were placed well, but my defenders were able to jostle the attacker out of the way. Haven't had any real problems with them at all.

5. I haven't played any huge teams yet in my Montenegro campaign. But just playing as Ivory Coast/Japan, I've noticed that 5* teams tend to play together really well. Playing against North Korea as Japan and then against France definitely has a difference. NK makes some really aweful passes (as they should) compared to France.



And yeah, I am really liking this game. I find it difficult to go back to playing FIFA 14 after I play the WC game for a while. Its just sooooooo much smoother and fluid than FIFA 14.

[Canada_Carlos_Ball]

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Hands-down my favorite FIFA game to date, only thing close to it is the ol' WC2006 on PS2.

This is excellent, just excellent- fluid gameplay, everything works. The crosses aren't as over-powered as before and you're rewarded for keeping the ball on the ground.

Currently running full qualifications tournaments with Canada (struggling, albeit realistically, with the likes of Santa Lucia and Puerto Rico) and Scotland (currently tied with England atop our qualifying group, and abusing the wings with Ikechi Anya )

[dubcity]

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Question for you guys who are saying that playing with the top teams is too "arcade-y", however you want to describe it. Did you lower the passing accuracy sliders?





I'm playing on manual passing, and have lowered the CPU's passing accuracy. Even when playing as 5 star teams, both me and the CPU miss some passes, which in turn obviously slows the game down.

It's more the playing style and tactics of the top teams than anything that can be addressed by sliders. Spain should not be counter-attacking and making dive bomber runs every single time they get possession. It's the same issue I had with FIFA 13. Spent way too much time tweaking sliders and team tactics in futility back then.

[eagletal88]

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Gameplay is excellent on this game. Best soccer game out there IMO. But the major bugs that this game was released with is kind of embarrassing...

Did they test this stuff?