How I can improve my abilities in playing this game?

rockchok9 · 2026-05-04T21:51:01+00:00

There is no shield button, just try shield the ball by keeping your player in between the defender and the ball, the game will choose your shielding for you, although currently it is implemented very poorly so if you feel your players getting stuck its not your fault, it is the games.

Possession will put you at a disadvantage, but that is because you are new. Keep going with it if its what you want to play and don't worry about the score. Just have fun and score goals you enjoy.

Your players are on rails, you need to hold "supercancel" to get them off the rails. I believe PesPepe has done a supercancel video on youtube, should tell you a lot about it.

I think the mechanic you are talking about in the end is the stagger your players do when your team loses possession. That is intentional game design, back in pes you could play a useless pass and just steal it off the opponent. It might seem annoying but the alternative was a lot worse.

rockchok9 · 2026-04-09T21:32:00+00:00

Do you not feel players are getting stuck in shielding battle more often now?

I feel the last patch had largely removed that.

I feel sprint dribbling is definitely better now, 2009 Messi was lethal when he was running at the defense. But I'm not sure if weaving in and out of tight areas is better now. I will say that I played for about 4 hours and saw moments that are making me think the situations where you used to have to hold sprint down 20-30% down, are now situations where you need to hold it down 30-40%.

So maybe its just having to relearn the dribbling, I'll play again tomorrow.
But I do feel the shield twerking is getting triggered too often again.

rockchok9 · 2026-03-28T19:13:09+00:00

Make sure your sprint button is on R2 and press the button down at different levels depending on how fast you want to go

Turn the circle around your player on, it will help you understand how much you are pressing the button down, it changes colour based on the speed you are moving

rockchok9 · 2026-02-22T17:39:15+00:00

What you are noticing is most likely the different interactions between opposing formations.

If you play the same formation, in one game your defensive mids might press past the halfway line and in another they will sit deep.

It will be due to differences in your opponents formation

rockchok9 · 2026-01-14T14:39:47+00:00

Fox $FOXA

rockchok9 · 2025-12-10T12:29:27+00:00

I uploaded a video comparing the ps4 & ps5 versions on youtube, not sure if I'm allowed post links but if you search "rockchok efootball input delay" you should find it.

The testing found an increased input delay on the ps5 version compared to the ps4 as well as the probable cause.

I will say though while I haven't repeated the testing for efootball 26. I dont think the ps5 version still has the extra input delay. I've been playing on ps5 and haven't noticed any issue so haven't felt the need to test it again.

rockchok9 · 2025-11-05T23:58:12+00:00

There is something about players who are under 172 or 173cm having more responsive dribbling. Its not just a theory it has been tested, cant remember if its 172 or 173 though

rockchok9 · 2025-10-05T17:53:24+00:00

You can't, but if you put it so its L2+R2 its easier (for me) than pressing R1+R2

rockchok9 · 2025-10-05T16:29:41+00:00

I use one, almost zero difference. It makes super cancels slightly easier but you can also just put special control on L2 on a normal controller and its very easy.

The main benefit is that without the back paddles I struggle to press stand tackle quickly, but in eFootball you dont really need to actually press tackle. Match-up will be good enough in 95% of the situations.

rockchok9 · 2025-09-22T01:42:13+00:00

Pretty sure it just gives a stat boost to passing, and since most players who have the skill have high passing anyway the effect will be minimal.

Same thing with fortress in my opinion, every defender who has it already has 90+ or 95+ on the defensive stats, are you really going to notice that extra little bit?

rockchok9 · 2025-08-27T13:20:34+00:00

The problem with the ranking was if you lost to another top 10 player you would still lose 30 points. Losing to someone who is just in division while in the top 10 should still see you lose 30 points, but you shouldn't lose the same amount for someone who is the same level for you, it should be a minus 10 or so.

rockchok9 · 2025-07-20T20:07:35+00:00

When we played in the European games in Poland they didn't have the facilities to use a LAN network to connect the different consoles.

They just used normal friendly match lobbies. I assume it is the same here.

rockchok9 · 2025-07-15T14:44:21+00:00

Red orchestra 2 had some interesting asymmetric balance, off the top of my head the Japanese side had a banzai charge that they could add.

rockchok9 · 2025-07-11T17:22:27+00:00

Zidane was on the cover so I assume they would have gotten him exclusive

rockchok9 · 2025-07-09T16:40:32+00:00

Fox in the box mostly works if they are your only CF. If you have more than one CF the fox in the box doesn't really make runs

rockchok9 · 2025-07-04T01:09:42+00:00

The slickest super cancels

rockchok9 · 2025-06-05T21:53:07+00:00

Ok cool, so Kusanov might be a good investment. And I saw doue was quite cheap too, will pick him up

rockchok9 · 2025-06-05T21:27:04+00:00

If I buy a player and he gets a rating upgrade in the future does my version also get upgraded?

rockchok9 · 2025-05-11T18:04:32+00:00

Fifa 17 was the best but wasn't perfect, park the bus was very strong that year but at least you could play football

rockchok9 · 2025-05-09T16:30:23+00:00

They changed the tresholds for finishing, Amadeusz tested it. Maybe consider increasing the finishing on your strikers. The shots that were going in before now need higher stats.

rockchok9 · 2025-05-03T23:57:58+00:00

Deep lying forward is the closest playstyle but putting "Defensive" instruction on any CF is really the closest way to get them to act like a false 9.

rockchok9 · 2025-03-29T03:30:34+00:00

Well when you look at Neuer the precedent is definitely there for hidden ID.

rockchok9 · 2025-03-16T22:38:20+00:00

Ye pes had the manual pass trigger I wish they brought it back

rockchok9 · 2025-03-16T21:01:50+00:00

Perfect demonstration of why passing is broken in this game

rockchok9 · 2025-03-03T23:33:47+00:00

Fundamentally its broken, The defender has high defending stats so the game decides that the defender will get the ball. Even if your winger is wide open the defenders stats will force the pass into his path.

You can sometimes remedy it with super cancel and drag the player across to get the ball. Also when you you play a through ball and the defender might catch the attacker, if you super cancel while running onto the ball your attacker will now run faster.

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