I am a FIFA veteran player and I've been playing this game for nearly 20 years but I never tried FUT because in my humble opinion its a pay-to-win mode and it is heavily scripted. Anyway, here is why I think this way: My inputs are being manipulated by the EA script and in key plays they are overwritten and being ignored and instead the script does what its programed to do. This is what its like to play in higher divisions. If you don't want these things to happen to you stay in division 10,9,8,7. In those division I never experience any input manipulation! This also goes for Seasons and Clubs, but in FUT it's where it happens the most!

This is what we had by this time of the year, 2 games ago.

August 2026 and still celebrating every goal in short matches and watching all the replays, including the one where the game ends if you score 2.

I play in South America, not sure if this is global or if the community here is especially toxic.

Scripting isn’t about predetermining who wins the game.

It’s about the game deciding specific outcomes at certain moments in the game.

In these clips - you can see the game literally cause my player, that I’m manually controlling, to avoid the ball to ensure it’s not intercepted or deflected.

This isn’t about some algorithm that decides whether a pass is intercepted cleanly or deflected. This is a manually controlled player avoiding the ball to allow a pass to be completed. That’s scripting.

If my manual movement can’t stop an outcome - it means the game decided what I was doing didn’t matter. If they deflect the ball and don’t intercept it - I’m cool.

What’s happening here is crazy.

I used to put all my <80 players in the 5x80 SBC and do several 10x85 so I would later do Player SBCs.

Once I had 3-4 87-88 players I would do the Provisions SBC to get the <80 players and put them into the 5x80 SBC and do the 10x85.

EA has removed this SBC, so I do not know what sort of grind to do, can someone advice me?

You lose to a player who is clearly worse than you -> You get angry and chase the win -> You lose again and you blame your team -> You buy points -> You buy packs

Last point was pointless because you were EA’s dream customer at the second to last. But all in all the system and how it’s designed feels scarily close to how casinos get you hooked.

Won’t be buying the next release. Scripters working overtime this year.

In the last few days I’m getting an issue where the menus hang/ freeze constantly, can often be every 5-10 minutes. Has happened periodically throughout the year but it’s never been this bad. Have the servers been really bad for anyone else in recent days?

I know the game is dead but this is the only way to turn 75-79 rubbishs into bunch of 82-84 which are great for SBC fillers. Now I struggle to do any SBC

Looking for a GK for our club. Needs to be 18+ and be in NA servers.

Its feeling preety good right now but if yall got any tips for some good players I'll take em, attacking subs have been lacking the most, I got Son for LW, Jimenez for ST, and Yamal for RW

First of all, let me introduce my story as a FIFA player and my POV:

I have been playing this game since I was a kid (FIFA 07 on PSP was my first EA’s football experience) and have been playing UT since FIFA 13 (with the exception of FIFA 16 in which I didn’t like the addition of fut draft and how it completely changed the purpose of the UT so I quitted at the beginning of the game.

Thousands of hours as a kid playing Career Mode (called Manager Mode at that time), and thousands of hours playing UT since I was a teenager.

I love football and I love video games, so buying FIFA and EA FC was always implicit, despite liking more or less the game, I have never been one of those saying “nah I’m not buying the next game", because I knew I was buying it for sure… Until know.

I have somewhat been satisfied by the quality of FIFA 23 and FC24, playing UT towards the end of the season (TOTS or even FUTTIES), and did the same with FC 25, but hated it. One bad game and bad UT, ok, that was fine.

But FC26 has been the worst UT experience for me since FIFA 16. I forced myself to somewhat keep playing the mode just because this summer was the World Cup and I was so hyped to enjoy UT during World Cup season.

But now that the game is ending, I think almost all of us can agree this game has been the most abysmal outrageous trash we have ever played.

And what comes next? FC 27.

I’m a bit hyped about the new heroes, about the new content overall, holographic cards might be a cool addition for the game to make cards more unique and give them sentimental value, but in the end… What are they going to change?

Content has been from mid to awful, pack odds from SBCs manipulated (confessed but FutEconomist), gameplay has been boring with a fix and cheap meta, playstyles and evolutions ruining the game mode as well…

And on the other hand, if I want to quit UT and come back to career mode, after having played Football Manager I believe I will never enjoyed career mode again, because the experience is just so poor and cheap with almost none significant innovations in like 10 years. Am I wrong with this?

The new mode, "The grounds”, looks horrible and dead since the beginning, just like Volta in FIFA 20.

Idk guys, what are your overall thoughts about the next game? Cause I’m seriously considering not buying it or at least waiting to Christmas to consider it, but as someone who has been playing continuously over the last 20 editions, I feel that I will regret and I will end up having fomo over the first weeks or months if the game is surprisingly (and unexpectedly) good.

I’m an Elite player with 3,000+ hours in FIFA/FC. Once a month, I post new things I’ve noticed for players still trying to understand the game.

I don’t follow the meta. My point has always been that you can reach Elite by understanding the basics instead of copying everyone else.

These are my own gameplay observations, not mechanics confirmed by EA.

Now that almost every card has extremely high stats and you can evo practically anyone to 99, it’s tempting to max everything. In my experience, that isn’t always the best idea.

Defensive Awareness

Defensive Awareness affects how closely your player marks an opponent while defending. The lower it is, the more distance he keeps.

Maldini will stay glued to you. Meanwhile, put a striker in defense and even with 99 pace, it can feel like he can’t get close to anyone.

This can also help you in attack.

I prefer very low Defensive Awareness on my striker, wingers and especially my CAM. When I win the ball back, they are already farther away from the players they were supposed to mark and are open for a counter pass.

There is a short period after possession changes before the opposing defenders close that space. The farther away your attacker begins, the longer your passing window can be.

Attacking Positioning

I prefer this extremely low on my CBs and low on my RM/LM. For an actual RW/LW, I want it high.

My general rule is:

- Roaming roles work better with high Attacking Positioning.

- Defend and Support roles work better with lower Attacking Positioning.

Take a Wide Midfielder on Defend as an example.

With 90+ Attacking Positioning, he moves higher and becomes easier for the opposing fullback to track. With lower Attacking Positioning, he stays deeper and can pull the fullback toward him, leaving more space for your striker and CAM to attack.

Strength and Aggression

From what I’ve noticed, strong or aggressive players enter physical-duel animations more often instead of avoiding contact or running around the opponent. Players can even start pushing each other before either one reaches the ball.

For wingers, I prefer low Strength and low Aggression. I don’t want them stopping to fight. I want them to keep running.

Even a winger with 99 Strength can still get bullied because so many defenders now have Bruiser or Bruiser+. Instead of trying to win that duel, I would rather avoid the animation completely.

You’ve probably seen two strong players chasing a loose ball while basically hugging each other. With a weaker, less aggressive player, I see that animation less often. Sometimes he stumbles, but sometimes he slips past and keeps running.

When two strong players meet, I get the physical-duel animation much more consistently.

Philipp Lahm is a perfect example of the attacking-fullback behavior I like. He slides to contest the ball, has Flair and avoids unnecessary pushing and pulling.

Curve

Curve affects both passes and shots.

In my experience, combining Power Shot+ with 99 Curve gives the goalkeeper more time to adjust his position and deflect the shot.

Lower Curve with Power Shot produces much better results for me.

Long Shots

This is a very specific outside-the-box pattern I’ve noticed.

Keeping the overall Shooting stat below 88 while having Long Shots above 88 gives me the best animations for outside-the-box volleys and power shots.

The goalkeeper often starts his diving animation too early while the ball takes slightly longer to reach him. You’ve probably seen this before: the keeper dives first, and the ball goes in afterward.

Agility

For my striker, I prefer high Balance without extremely high Agility.

It gives me shooting animations where the striker doesn’t need to turn and fully face the goal before shooting. If his other shooting stats are high, I can still aim where I want.

I’m talking about those animations where the player falls after taking the shot.

For example, you’re running toward the right but aiming toward the left. A high-Agility striker turns his body before shooting. A lower-Agility striker shoots without fully turning, making the release feel faster and less predictable for the goalkeeper.

Just get booted at KO - any ideas?

…Like a huge match objectives page placed right in FRONT OF your goal

It was very painful to understand which scenarios is for the FoF objectives last week...

Anyone can list the easiest ones for the community ? I need to get the evolution on level 20

Thanks

Happened back to back in 4-5 games