FIFA 21 Career Mode Trailer and Plenty of Details Revealed

[Steve_OS]

EA continues providing plenty of details for current-gen FIFA 21. Today, they revealed their career mode...

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[Gosens6]

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This all looks good if there’s no game breaking bugs at launch like last year.

Also, didn’t see anything about the player potential and progression system. I hope it was tweaked so that AI players progress the same as human players.


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[jrnlgrn]

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Like was already said as long as it all works then it should be all good. Hopefully they had someone actually test the changes this year. Would say I'm still neutral at this point. Everything looks good but if it doesn't work out the gate and is poorly executed and requires a ton of patches then its a failure. Can't have another instance of 2 months with an unplayable game mode.

Just read on the twitter Q&A:
We added more countries where you can send your Youth Scout to, such as Wales, Ukraine, Serbia, Albania, the Baltics, and more.

The database of names to pick from for Youth Players has increased to over 5000 first names and 8000 last names.

[Qb]

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Pre-match screen finally displays opponents formation/starting 11. Helpful.

I don't sim many, if any, matches but the interactive simulation adds a lot. Being able to jump in/out is a great feature, especially if you play longer matches (I prefer 15 minute halves). Also there have been a few times I wanted to start a new career and sim ahead in the season. This at least makes that easier to do while still adjusting lineups and even making subs for preseason or dead-rubber European matches later in the season... play the kids!

XP-fueled growth can be focused on weak foot/skills and work rates as well as attributes!

Player position conversion!!! I need to stop and take a deep breath.

[jb12780]

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I’m actually kind of impressed by EA.


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[Qb]

Re: FIFA 21 Career Mode Trailer and Plenty of Details Revealed

Yeah, I've regained my composure and finished the deep dive article. Strict negotiations, established youth academy, tweaking morale/form, and the new fitness/sharpness system. I'm sure it will need some balancing and some old warts will remain, but EA really put some work into CM for this year. I will gladly take this end of generation dead cat bounce.

[cjacks17]

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With the caveat that it needs to be functional, as someone that plays both FIFA and Madden, it's beyond frustrating that FIFA has gotten to such a great point and Madden hasn't done that.

[jrnlgrn]

Re: FIFA 21 Career Mode Trailer and Plenty of Details Revealed

With the amount of changes across all the game modes (sorry pro clubs and player career) this reinforces in my mind that they threw in the towel early on FIFA 20 and that all the work was being focused on the the transition to next gen. Assuming my previous statement was true this would also give a good reason to moving to an every other year model. The need for completely new sports games every year is no longer necessary since we can get patches/updates via the internet.

I'm still not pre-ordering and it's debatable if this is a day 1 purchase. Depends on what those that get that 3 day early access say. Still the changes listed are all positives and I see nothing to complain about from what they've listed. There are a couple things I don't think they bothered fixing that seemed like low hanging fruit but we'll see if they got addressed.

[Tom0307]

Not that impressed. Match Sim and the transfer stuff is things they've taken out of the game before so they can add them back in later like a new feature (as they've done in Madden), the training things is cool and then the gameplay AI thing applies to any offline match in any game mode so doesn't really have a lot to do with career mode.

[Mackrel829]

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Pre-match screen finally displays opponents formation/starting 11. Helpful.

I don't sim many, if any, matches but the interactive simulation adds a lot. Being able to jump in/out is a great feature, especially if you play longer matches (I prefer 15 minute halves). Also there have been a few times I wanted to start a new career and sim ahead in the season. This at least makes that easier to do while still adjusting lineups and even making subs for preseason or dead-rubber European matches later in the season... play the kids!

XP-fueled growth can be focused on weak foot/skills and work rates as well as attributes!

Player position conversion!!! I need to stop and take a deep breath.

It's overwhelming right?!

I don't usually simulate many games either, but I don't usually make it that far into career modes either. I think the addition of the interactive SIM option will probably encourage me to SIM a few more games and give a little more longevity to my career modes, which is good.

I barely watch football anymore but I'm far more excited for this FIFA than I've been in years.

[PPerfect_CJ]

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Seriously hope they fixed the player editing, this year. Having to go in, pick the country, then the team, then find the player you're looking for each time you edited someone absolutely BLEW. Plus, it took away the players secondary positions. Also, hope we can finally create/edit players to be a CM, CF, LW, RW, LWB, and RWB. I still don't understand how they've been missing this.

[Qb]

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It's overwhelming right?!

I don't usually simulate many games either, but I don't usually make it that far into career modes either. I think the addition of the interactive SIM option will probably encourage me to SIM a few more games and give a little more longevity to my career modes, which is good.

I barely watch football anymore but I'm far more excited for this FIFA than I've been in years.

Last night I finished the final match of my second season in my CM. Played every match, including preseason, Euro 2020 (which I won with Switzerland, haha), and making to the Quarterfinals of the Europa League in year two. And this is on 15 minute halves for nearly every match. Easily the most I've played through a CM in years.

After a second look, it appears the interactive sim plays at twice the speed of a played match. I wonder if that's scaled to your half lengths, or if they use the default (6 min?) as a baseline. Because half the speed of my 15/half matches is still about 20 minutes to sim, although I concede I spend more time in menus than most probably do.

Anyway, I can see using the interactive sim in certain situations like I said before. In both of my seasons I was fighting for European places right down to the wire, but what if I am decidedly mid-table with five matches to go and no chance of Europe or relegation? Perfect time to control the lineups/subs but still knock those matches out much quicker to move on to the next season. I tend to play a lot for a week or two then take a long break, so anything that keeps me from losing interest or momentum could help me get deeper into a career.

[jrnlgrn]

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Last night I finished the final match of my second season in my CM. Played every match, including preseason, Euro 2020 (which I won with Switzerland, haha), and making to the Quarterfinals of the Europa League in year two. And this is on 15 minute halves for nearly every match. Easily the most I've played through a CM in years.

After a second look, it appears the interactive sim plays at twice the speed of a played match. I wonder if that's scaled to your half lengths, or if they use the default (6 min?) as a baseline. Because half the speed of my 15/half matches is still about 20 minutes to sim, although I concede I spend more time in menus than most probably do.

Anyway, I can see using the interactive sim in certain situations like I said before. In both of my seasons I was fighting for European places right down to the wire, but what if I am decidedly mid-table with five matches to go and no chance of Europe or relegation? Perfect time to control the lineups/subs but still knock those matches out much quicker to move on to the next season. I tend to play a lot for a week or two then take a long break, so anything that keeps me from losing interest or momentum could help me get deeper into a career.

This was from the Q&A they did on twitter yesterday.
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[RedAL925]

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This is all encouraging, provided it all works properly. Certainly more than I was expecting to be announced.

[NorthLdN]

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I must say I’m really looking forward to this now, finally they’ve put some thought and effort behind CM. I’ve also just been given a Closed Beta code for CM the first time ever so will hopefully dive into it tonight and see what’s what!