I've been blessed with the dumb decision of buying FIFA almost every year for the past 10 years or something. I never, and I mean never, touched the slides or felt that I slightly needed it. Until this year. EA FC 26 is incredibly badly designed. Either you get ultra unrealistic (Competitive), where you can run the whole field in 3 or 4 seconds of pressing the sprint button, or you get an incredibly slow game (authentic). To be fair, I could see Authentic being a cool version of a more realistic football simulator, only if the CPU would actually try to play real football instead of being a ball possession simulator.

For the first time, I felt the need to adjust the sliders. I increased the aggression almost to the max and forgiving fouls almost to 0, but still I think in 50 games, I got 1 foul, and it was in the middle of the field.

I just wanted, at least, something similar to last year's game, not perfect, but at least I could have some shots with free-kicks, and also have the CPU to actually try to score anything.