FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

[blackceasar]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

I would write an impression of this game if I could actually play it. I'm one of the poor souls that's gets the super choppiness when the games start. I mean its totally unplayable. I understand people have said make changes in your router settings but I'm on google fiber and I can only mess with it so far. In addition, Im playing OFFLINE. I shouldnt have to mess with my ISP and Router to get EA's game to work for me. Hope this gets fixed soon, it's really sad on EA's part.

[cadalyst17]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

I would write an impression of this game if I could actually play it. I'm one of the poor souls that's gets the super choppiness when the games start. I mean its totally unplayable. I understand people have said make changes in your router settings but I'm on google fiber and I can only mess with it so far. In addition, Im playing OFFLINE. I shouldnt have to mess with my ISP and Router to get EA's game to work for me. Hope this gets fixed soon, it's really sad on EA's part.

I understand that you are upset and frustrated, but be grateful that EA even offers this service, and it's free :-)

[mfp]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

I'm kind of weird though, I'd like the game to play semi-smart D out of the box.

Sorry, but defending is worse this year. Use teammate pressure and your guy misses the player with the ball and gets horribly out of position (watch how after they run past the guy with the ball they simply keep going into empty space). Don't use it and your guy stands there and watches the ball go in the back of the net.

The only way to play D in this game is to rapidly switch players and do the job of 10 guys yourself.

Count me as weird too then.

Online is especially a mess, with the predominate tactic being clearance/long-pass to forward, sprint to goal, shoot.

Offline is nice in that the CPU doesn't exploit the game's flaws, but defending still sucks while the CPU defense this year is strangely passive.

It's a beautiful but wickedly imbalanced game.

[zanner]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

So how big of a difference is a bpl career mode presentation vs. Presentation in serie a? Is it commentary difference, crowd difference, cut scenes ? Is there anything specifically that stands out that makes it so much more above the rest as people claim?

As for actual gameplay I've had so far apart from FUT server issues and horrible pack pulls , I'm really enjoying the game. One knocks that I have similar to every other game in past are

A.) Air control sucks, just no way to do anything in the air to jump up and get the ball when you're only one there. I'd like to see more ability when the ball bounces right above head level rather than passing or letting it coming back down to the ground.

B.) Non responsive or stupid cpu teammates on some attacks. Tired of seeing 3 or 4 players randomly running forward towards the box on offense when the ball is clearly going the other way behind them. Goes back to players being horrible when the ball is off the ground I think.

The other thing is it gets some getting used to the new shot and header mechanics, but I think I still hit too many crossbars than what is realistic each game .

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[Und Lahm]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

Has anyone noticed that the CPU gets super-juiced for some games?

Right from the start of the game they are running and passing and dribbling maniacs. It's like all the players (even ones with 70 speed and agility) got plugged into the Matrix and had Ronaldo code uploaded into them.

The only thing you can do is hope to survive the onslaught!!!

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[fearwhatnow]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

Has anyone noticed that the CPU gets super-juiced for some games?

Right from the start of the game they are running and passing and dribbling maniacs. It's like all the players (even ones with 70 speed and agility) got plugged into the Matrix and had Ronaldo code uploaded into them.

The only thing you can do is hope to survive the onslaught!!!

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A pc modder found 2 coded lines about cpu adaptive difficulty...

[BL8001]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

A pc modder found 2 coded lines about cpu adaptive difficulty...

Oh wow, if the details are somewhere can they be linked or posted here?

[fearwhatnow]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

Oh wow, if the details are somewhere can they be linked or posted here?

http://www.soccergaming.com/forums/s...190579&page=15

Post number 215.
If this is hardcoded in the console versions then I really don't know how EA can get away with it.

[BL8001]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

Haha, one of the replies in that thread.

---Fantastic if you can find the solution to this age-old issue with FIFA. It's the most annoying aspect of the game for me. I play one game and the game play is perfect and balanced and fair throughout. Then I play another game and the CPU is running around like crazy men on drugs. I can't get the ball away from them, they push my players aside with ease, I can't tackle them, every CPU pass and cross and header is perfect, etc.---


I had this exact experience last night. Played Man U at Everton and I was up 3-0, the adaptive difficulty kicked in.

Let me upload the goal everton scored to youtube. Hold on just a sec...Pardon my language, NSFW

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[~LiverpoolRed~]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

Really impressed so far how better the AI adapts to situations in this game. Examples:

- I was playing against Leicester City and they had CB Wes Morgan sent off. Straight away they replaced striker David Nugent with Wasilewski the backup CB.

- I played against Aston Villa and was trailing 2-1 with about 10 minutes to go. They subbed off Fabian Delph and brought on another CB in Nathan Baker to shore up the defense.

- I'm also seeing the AI play the ball down to the corner flag a lot more near the end of matches. They do it when they have a 1 goal advantage but I'm also seeing them do it with the game level suggesting they are happy with a point.

[KG]

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Here's Eden Hazard with a wonderful run that he caps off with a well taken shot.

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The problem: Watch how brain-dead Garreth Barry, James McCarthy, and Distin are. They all take turns in escorting Eden into the box.

OK, McCarthy switches off to Garreth Barry - I'm OK with that

Barry is a huge speed disadvantage to Eden but instead of playing him into the LB & CB (~0:03) he overruns it allowing me to cut back inside

McCarthy is looking right at Eden (0:05) but instead of cutting off the space he just stops for 2 secs (~0:05 - 0:07) until he realizes he needs to track back at which point it's too late

Distin is watching the entire play unfold (nothing wrong with that) until ~0:07 at which point he makes a straight line for Eden. Only problem is that Eden isn't running in a straight line. He then stops for a second before resuming the chase.

Even the RB (Seamus Coleman) watches the run and gets beat for pace.

This is on World Class - Full Manual - Orion's sliders btw

While making the run I was thinking "what the hell are they doing" before going into the replay and watching the horrible AI in slow motion. I usually don't go back and dissect replays but this one jumped out at me immediately.

[mfp]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

Here's Eden Hazard with a wonderful run that he caps off with a well taken shot.

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The problem: Watch how brain-dead Garreth Barry, James McCarthy, and Distin are. They all take turns in escorting Eden into the box.

OK, McCarthy switches off to Garreth Barry - I'm OK with that

Barry is a huge speed disadvantage to Eden but instead of playing him into the LB & CB (~0:03) he overruns it allowing me to cut back inside

McCarthy is looking right at Eden (0:05) but instead of cutting off the space he just stops for 2 secs (~0:05 - 0:07) until he realizes he needs to track back at which point it's too late

Distin is watching the entire play unfold (nothing wrong with that) until ~0:07 at which point he makes a straight line for Eden. Only problem is that Eden isn't running in a straight line. He then stops for a second before resuming the chase.

Even the RB (Seamus Coleman) watches the run and gets beat for pace.

This is on World Class - Full Manual - Orion's sliders btw

While making the run I was thinking "what the hell are they doing" before going into the replay and watching the horrible AI in slow motion. I usually don't go back and dissect replays but this one jumped out at me immediately.

Yep, that's the same as my experience and similar to the videos I posted previously in here. Last year the defensive AI had trouble tracking runs, among things. This year they still have most of those issues PLUS they don't bother attempting tackles in many situations.

It's a shame because the attacking side of the game is superb, but when it's so easy to score goals because of extremely poor defensive AI, it's not particularly satisfying.

[mfp]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

btw, I don't know how many people know this but EA have setup a forum (for some reason it's within the FUT forum) to post videos of gameplay issues. I've posted there and suggest others do as well.

Here's the link:http://forum.ea.com/uk/forums/show/202.page

[Moses Shuttlesworth]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

Question for anyone on the PS4:

I just got the game and when I started it up I was able to adjust the screen size in accordance with my TV.

I realize now that I adjusted it too much and I need to zoom out. How do I get to that screen again? I tried deleting the FIFA app installed on the HDD, then I reinstalled, updated again, but it did not reappear.

[blackceasar]

Re: FIFA 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS4, XB1)

I understand that you are upset and frustrated, but be grateful that EA even offers this service, and it's free :-)

What service are you talking about and what do you mean by free? I cant even play an OFFline game. Not even an exhibition. Its like the game stutters so bad, at times it freezes for 2-4 seconds then the ball goes flying. Same thing with the menus. I'm not talking about online play. I'm talking about literally putting the game in, firing it up and playing OFFline.