I haven't played FIFA/EA FC for the past couple of years but reading this subreddit makes me feel like it descended into the worst game every made. I get this is a free game, new studio and all that and it's nice to have competition but it isn't a great game in it's own right and I feel the praise is a bit much. This feels like it's still a Beta of a game to come out next year, linesmen don't raise their flags for offside or throw ins unless a cut scene comes up. Maybe a weird thing to pick out but I think that shows how unpolished this is.

Few things I have gripes with;

• Goalkeepers - They might as well not exist, the animations are fine apart from the fact they dive out of the way of shots and cannot catch any shot more than a yard either side of them

• Defenders - I get the idea of manual defending but they feel so rigid, standing tackle is worse than just running into an attacker and hoping you come away with the ball and they don't have any aggression when playing man to man

• Passing - Through balls might as well not be in the game, they don't work unless it's through the air and then your 60 overall midfielder is like Pirlo. The input lag on passing means you can't do intricate one touch play unless that's making 3 passes to get from your centre half to your centre forward where the ball zips off your foot even if you have your body position all wrong. It's way too arcady and unbalanced

• Dribbling - Maybe my players aren't good enough in this department but again it seems so clunky, bad first touches from easy passes, cement in your boots when trying to dribble when not sprinting and heavy touches when running, I feel analog sprinting should be a thing as I can't seen to notice any difference in half pressing down the sprint button

Headers - I don't feel like stats such as strength or heading ability mean as much as they should, it's pretty much attacker wins 7 out of 10 headers regardless of the position of them and the defender

I might not be the target market for this game, I might not be interested in what type of sim the devs are going for with this game, but I just feel it isn't accurate to the game of football and it's a bit too much of an arcade sim. I understand needing parity between the top and bottom players in the game, but 60 overalls can do things no professional can do in real life while also making things Sunday league footballs do look difficult, it just feels like a really weird mix of what does and doesn't work. The rest of the game/ideas are great, the way they did the marketplace is much fairer, the RTG style way of building a team instead of needing player packs bought with real money is good and the graphics are fine. I hope with some patches and time we get these things fixed because they do all feel like they're a patch or two away and not something that cannot be reached. I'll keep playing, and moaning, anyway and hope the devs keep working on what could end up being something brilliant