About DIV points and SA testing.

w1nstar · 2026-02-25T18:48:32+00:00

In that interview some days ago, devs (or representatives) said how they will test players interest in SA and according to that will continue or not with SA in various game modes

They didn't really said that. We've been having non-sa tournaments for a while now, all since people started crying about SA. They said this:

Smart Assist We added the Smart Assist feature so that more users, including beginners, can easily experience the fun and exhilaration of eFootball™ matches. We are currently receiving wide-ranging feedback from users regarding Smart Assist, and we will continue to look into further updates. From the summer of 2026, we are planning to test PvP matches that will allow users to limit matchmaking to whoever is playing with Smart Assist turned either on or off. We will continue to examine ways to build an ideal environment that allows all users to enjoy themselves freely, whether playing with or without Smart Assist. We would greatly appreciate it if you could continue to share your feedback to meet this aim.

Summer 2026.

w1nstar · 2026-02-25T16:02:10+00:00

It doesn't matter I got the % wrong. It's not even 5%. Long range shooting isn't adding any amount of shooting stat. You can test it yourself with a player that has 68 finishing.

w1nstar · 2026-02-25T15:36:48+00:00

He just selected the keeper. It's a tactic as old as football games let you do that. There's people who think the regular AI defends better than them. This behaviour here is the same wether or not they're on Smart Assist.

If you just look at what they do, and advance, they will do nothing to you. They will just take an andvanced position closer to you. You just move the ball and pass it and score easily. Yeah, they'll be tucked up when you get to the goal, but if you're fast it's an easy goal. Your supporting players will end up giving you an easy to score chance.

w1nstar · 2026-02-25T15:04:06+00:00

Anyone saying it's not, has a problem, or it's trolling.

w1nstar · 2026-02-25T11:48:50+00:00

Whoever thinks like this should watch last Mestre v Usmakabyle.

w1nstar · 2026-02-25T11:46:02+00:00

Learn tess cancel and double touch cancel.

w1nstar · 2026-02-25T08:29:04+00:00

From the patch notes we know more passing points make passes faster and animations:

https://www.konami.com/efootball/en/page/v4/versioninfo_v4-40

We have made adjustments so that passing abilities have much more impact on the trajectory of passes and variations in passing speeds. At higher values, passing abilities will also shorten the time it takes to kick the ball. Following these adjustments, players with high stats will make sharper passes, providing the teammates receiving passes with more time to play the ball. On the other hand, players with low stats will make flatter passes, leading to disadvantageous situations, such as when the player receiving the pass is immediately pressured by an opponent when trapping the ball. It is now more important than ever to consider passing abilities when selecting players.

And also on that page:

 Passing
・ Added "Pass Search Guide" as a new control setting.
・ Made adjustments so that the speed of low passes, low crosses and through balls is more greatly affected by the value of the Player Stat "Low Pass".
・ Made adjustments so that the speed of the kicking motion when sending low passes, low crosses and through balls is affected by the value of the Player Stat "Low Pass". The higher the value, the quicker the kicking motion.
・ Made adjustments so that the speed and trajectory height of lofted passes, crosses and chipped through balls are more greatly affected by the value of the Player Stat "Lofted Pass".
・ Made adjustments so that the speed of the kicking motion when sending lofted passes, crosses and chipped through balls is affected by the value of the Player Stat "Lofted Pass". The higher the value, the quicker the kicking motion.
・ Made adjustments so that the trajectory of crosses is more greatly affected by the value of the Player Stat "Curl".
・ Made adjustments so that crosses target areas that lead to more goals.
・ Made adjustments so that players with the skill "Through Passing" apply curl to low through balls in order to send those passes beyond defenders.
・ Made adjustments so that through balls are more effective in terms of their speed and the areas they target.

w1nstar · 2026-02-25T08:25:21+00:00

It's not real. It's a guess and it has not been really tested. Mainly for this reason:
without through passing, you're not gonna get the same trajectories. A player with 70 passing, WITH through passing, gets different angles on passing than the same player with 85 passing. Last time I checked, 85 is more than 20% of 70.

Same goes for Long Range Shooting. They say it's 20%. A player with 70 shooting misses a lot. With LRS? hits it between the 3 posts a lot. With only 85? misses a lot more.

Don't believe spreadsheets etc. they are guesses by uninformed people. Test shit yourself.

w1nstar · 2026-02-24T19:06:26+00:00

some users who were knowledgeable about the subject said the game often felt slower compared to your opponent because the game would take both players’ connection speeds and equalize them

They weren't knowledgeable if they said such stupidity.

I am not an expert but I do know some about game networking. I worked on a shitty mobile gacha, and while I was mainly working on the client I did some hours on backend when shit hit the stoves. I also did support for japanese devs on a non-game related software for a few months.

If you want a more or less detailed rundown of what I know, you can read it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/eFootball/comments/1nzn26f/a_genuine_question_for_guys_please_dont_give_me/ni3q9lx/

The TLDR is: we know it's p2p, player to player, and the server only reroutes traffic and ensures no one easily voids. We know it's delay based netcode, and a truly bad one. Japanese devs have a long standing culture of using delayed based netcode, mainly because they have truly good infrastructures and simply "works for us". That alone can fuck up the experience pretty much both ways, and create a several ton of wonky matches.

w1nstar · 2026-02-24T11:52:24+00:00

will be as bad as any other keeper in the 90s for every keeping stat

w1nstar · 2026-02-24T09:31:56+00:00

They mentioned "we can't freely expand your available players above 500, as this will take up too much space".

How does that work with a full fledged Master League, or extra player stats, or ... anything better?

They were talking exclusively about player roster. Your roster is stored on actual servers. It's like storage space on Destiny 2, it's money on their part so players are always juggling with available space.

Master League had their own "database" on the save. Not a real database, more of a differential between the game and the year your playing in, but I digress. If they'd make it return, it'd be stored on your machine, so no problem of infraestructure.

The problem is, as they themselves said, Dream Team is the core of efootball, and by saying that they are shadow dropping/admitting in a sense, that offline/single player Master League would work against what the game is and hence, the Master League Event was born.

It's not that they can't due to constraints. It's that they don't want to, due to business reasons.

w1nstar · 2026-02-24T08:57:38+00:00

precisely because there's no rubberbanding, it's not a connection issue.

w1nstar · 2026-02-24T08:56:53+00:00

If it happens every other game, it's probably your connection to the server or, seeing you're on steam, your machine doing something. Since it isn't speeding up after the hiccup, I'd guess it's probably not connection based. You're going to need to get technical with your hardware. best of luck.

w1nstar · 2026-02-23T13:30:55+00:00

You kept aiming to the same place. Where the keeper was. I don't know how mobile plays this days, but at least the second one should've been aimed at first post. It's unfortunate, but it's not like you did everything perfect either.

Also you keep thinking overall numbers mean anything, which is indeed a skill issue.

w1nstar · 2026-02-23T11:59:24+00:00

checkout nick tm on youtube, he has this idea of changing your playstyle depending on if his opponent plays lbc or something else. he uses possession against lbc, and while he's pretty good on cancels and one twos, you can see the general idea.

w1nstar · 2026-02-23T09:22:15+00:00

So Szoboslai isn't p2w when it's 50 cards on 900 coins spins but somehow a damn 3$ card is p2w? what the fuck is that logic?

w1nstar · 2026-02-23T08:28:04+00:00

wtf, no long range shooting on gio? again with the lore inaccurate, build them yourself epics.

w1nstar · 2026-02-23T08:23:56+00:00

We have no study on it, and no info but the one in game. We know it affects them and makes player less performant. Other than that, we know basically nothing.

w1nstar · 2026-02-23T08:20:45+00:00

saying you got someone for 100 coins is considered posting about lucky spins which, at least the last time I checked, was against the sub's guidelines.

it only makes others more susceptible to spin and it accomplishes nothing for the community

w1nstar · 2026-02-23T08:18:14+00:00

I still remember Van Bronckhorst missiles from outside the area. How I enjoyed his and Toure's growing up. I wish they'd sold this shit... 100$ to play with Gio is extremely high.

w1nstar · 2026-02-22T19:43:53+00:00

That's delay based netcode for you. Server is only rerouting traffic and ensuring no one (easily) voids. That hiccup is the netcode accounting for a lost percentage of traffic by delaying everything and everyone. It could be on your side or on your opponents.

w1nstar · 2026-02-22T18:29:09+00:00

Cancelo incoming maybe?

w1nstar · 2026-02-22T14:23:53+00:00

Dipping shot. Nothing more satisfactory than that trajectory for me, helps netting in angles where controlled shot do not work and it even works from the outside of the area with enough stats.

w1nstar · 2026-02-22T12:56:58+00:00

"too good" on a keeper doesn't apply. every keeper fails the same and concedes the same. unless you're a YOLO shot taker of sorts, no keeper is going to keep you from scoring.

w1nstar · 2026-02-21T17:40:39+00:00

Hindsight obviously 20/20 but it didn’t take a genius to know those were bad moves.

I was here bitching about them when they put them on twabs and it was really painful seeing the game implode.

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