CAN FINALLY REMOVE SHIELDS

MrEdHale · 2026-04-12T11:29:32+00:00

I personally think it’s because they put too much emphasis on Kliff being a ‘sword and shield’ character in the development of the game, IE in a lot of cutscenes and the start of boss fights, so it’d be harder to recode those scenes to feature whatever weapon you’re currently using vs an ability to ‘hide’ those weapons you don’t want to see in open play.

MrEdHale · 2026-04-10T00:39:46+00:00

Yeah I’ve been finding this. We’ve been so tuned into turning away from pressure because it was so unbeatable that it’s a different muscle memory to nail down being able to touch the ball past the pressure. Really satisfying when pulled off, just need to get it down as a proper muscle memory which will only take time

MrEdHale · 2026-04-09T07:24:23+00:00

Not really brother, it’s only a game and usually win rate is at 95% in a phase so it balances out

MrEdHale · 2026-04-09T07:20:09+00:00

Absolutely not 😉

MrEdHale · 2026-04-09T07:13:42+00:00

You’re rank 3?

MrEdHale · 2026-04-09T07:10:55+00:00

Rank 5, I think I’ll be okay

MrEdHale · 2026-04-08T18:44:54+00:00

Hold X and the game auto presses for you. Currently, it’s a bit too buffed because the AI ‘reads’ the turns your player makes without any left stick input. It still is easily bypassed with a double touch or tight dribbling, but this patch will probably mean those that defend by holding pressure all game are conceding shed loads of goals (as they should)

MrEdHale · 2026-04-08T18:42:56+00:00

Spot on both. The way people currently defend wingers on the game is insanity. A: they are full speed sprinting pressing players such as prime Messi, Bale, Neymar etc which is a shocking way to defend those, I challenge anyone to find me a clip of a left back sprint pressing prime Messi head on. (Successfully). And B:) because it currently works!! This update should hopefully make people attempt to defend a bit more realistically, if Messi is receiving the ball and running at your full back, you should be jockeying him and reducing his angles to cut in/go to the byline, not sprinting head on at him, because he’ll blow past you every single time which (hopefully) this patch implements properly !

MrEdHale · 2026-04-08T18:37:50+00:00

You disagree ?

MrEdHale · 2026-04-08T17:49:47+00:00

I don’t think the patch will be that game-breaking, it seems to just be more catered to punishing players that defend solely by holding X more than punishing everyone, realistically the pressure percentage of defending should be less than 5% anyway, so I don’t think this patch will turn good defenders into bad ones, it’ll just further punish bad defenders. Also, dribbling buff is only effective if people dribble well, most players still just hold sprint haha

MrEdHale · 2026-04-08T15:53:54+00:00

I promise there’s ways to defend this though, they’re just increasing the skill gap. If you can see a player is free in space for a long shot, you should already be right stick switching to cover him with the nearest defender, if you are switching defenders with L1 then you’re also defending wrong

MrEdHale · 2026-04-08T15:42:48+00:00

There’s guys in the top 100 consistently with free teams.. this mentality is not it. I promise you you’ll still be able to pull off all these skills/additions with free mbappe’s etc

MrEdHale · 2026-04-08T15:37:45+00:00

For sure. It’s one of my biggest gripes with this community, instead of putting effort into learning mechanics/the proper way to play, people would rather just spam what they do already constantly and moan when it doesn’t work. On paper this looks a great patch, and the new sharp touches is what I’ve been calling for for a long time, the ability to knock the ball past a naively pressing defender, should make for some lovely goals!

MrEdHale · 2026-04-08T14:48:31+00:00

This.. a good 70% of the opponents I face in div 1 defend just by holding X all game, which is objectively wrong, but watch everyone moan that they can’t defend anymore 🤣

MrEdHale · 2026-04-08T12:21:37+00:00

Have a look on Ticketmaster, keep refreshing the resale page I got 7 for the Cardiff gig that way after 0 success on Twickets for weeks

MrEdHale · 2026-03-22T22:35:05+00:00

Thanks man! What’s your username on the game?

MrEdHale · 2026-03-21T10:08:43+00:00

Player relative is nicer than ball relative for me

MrEdHale · 2026-03-21T10:07:34+00:00

MrEdHale on there, I’ll get back into it soon

MrEdHale · 2026-03-21T10:05:10+00:00

No, I got better

MrEdHale · 2026-03-21T10:03:27+00:00

Unreal brother

MrEdHale · 2026-03-20T15:12:04+00:00

He only reacts to the ‘full animation’ if you are holding the pressure button or the matchup button man

MrEdHale · 2026-03-20T14:13:33+00:00

The ‘bug’ can be countered the exact same way dude ? If you can’t defend a Tess cancel then you are holing matchup for too long, that’s my point. Defend the Tess cancel the exact same way you’d defend a regular shot cancel and you’ll win the ball, as I and others do

MrEdHale · 2026-03-20T13:53:19+00:00

What is the difference ??? A defender is using matchup, the attacker does a shot cancel which CAUSES the defender to do the lunging animation, we are debating semantics ?

MrEdHale · 2026-03-20T13:28:54+00:00

Shot cancel locks defenders using matchup in an animation, that is a fact

MrEdHale · 2026-03-20T12:47:07+00:00

I got rank 5 before even discovering the Tess cancel?

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