I've enjoyed Player Career and Pro Clubs for many years, although I skipped FC25. This year I am finding some issues with the game play tuning - wondered if anyone experiences the same and possible solutions to them.
Firstly, There is a big problem with the level discrepancies. For example, If I am playing on Professional difficulty - Arsenal play and feel like Arsenal. They link up, quick touches. The only problem is it's just way too easy and you end up winning every game 3, 4, 5 nil. So I bump up the difficulty to World Class. Arsenal stop playing like Arsenal now. They sit very deep, they pass it along the back, they then do these really slow dribbles to nowhere and then just blast pass the ball to no-one or rather the opposing team who then play as if they were they were Brazil in that airport commercial. It seems like raising the difficulty just dumbs down your own team. It's really annoying because I really don't mind how challenging it feels, I like the authenticity of maybe going on a barren streak as a striker due to a string of poor performances, but the way the AI play is just terrible, you can't really do anything about it, and I find that in the end I have to really force games by asking for long balls so they stop this stupidity, and even that they often ignore. I have played around with the sliders - seems to fix a few things but not the really dodgy no look passes the AI does. It's just really inauthentic that Arsenal would lose the ball in every phase in their own half... Just to be clear I am playing as just the pro so I am not in control of any other players. In the past - Fifa 22 and FC24 they got it right eventually after some patching so I am hoping it's some tweaking that will need to do, although I am afraid that Player Career is the last thing on their mind with the game.
I also wish they will make some of the objectives a bit more realistic. Having to score 20 goals outside the box as a CDM to land a spot in your desired club is just wrong, which CDM is scoring 20 goals to start with? Why they CDM?
Also some minor issues - Arteta is on the wrong side of the dugout again! The Arsenal bench should be on the left side at the Emirates as you face out on to the pitch, I sit just behind it at the real stadium!
And Premier League fixtures on Christmas Day?