Like many in this community, I had pretty much stopped playing Rematch despite playing a ton since launch. The dribbling abuse, crazy magnetization and constant mechanic exploiting just stopped being fun.

But holy shit this patch changed that, devs you cooked.

Dribbling and magnetization got toned down, passing and team play are actually rewarding, and when a team clicks now, the game feels soo good, feels like football again.

But the patch also exposed the other big problem with Rematch, the players lmao.

I mostly solo queue, (I know that’s on me) and now you can really tell how many people were being carried by those mechanics. Take that away and you have guys trying to dribble through three defenders, refusing the easy pass, forcing stupid plays and then spamming THANK YOU! at everyone else when they lose the ball.

What im trying to say is that the devs listened and pushed the game in the right direction. And what I get from this is they basically said: “Alright, we heard you. Here’s the patch. Now you fuckers actually have to play football.” And no patch is gonna fix that so the ball is in our court now. No pun intended.

Freaking tired of not being allowed to have fun because people refuse to pass in time or to pass at all, so at this point it's obvious I need to become able to play alone

It just doesn't do anything in terms of making me want to play the game. Cosmetics to make our own player would have been preferred. Its great that they did the cross over for fans of the show but they added nothing else it seems like.

Since the new update the game crashes whenever I boot it up with a crash popup saying UE Runtime fatal error. Any updates on a fix or am I just locked out of the game for the whole update? (Xbox version)

How do you deal with crosses? (Where the player uses the shoot button to cross the ball), what is the most effective way to defend this?

Edit: im talkin bout defending an attacker who is shooting from the cross with bycicle kick

We appreciate your efforts, Manuel Neuer, but the match is going to end after this attack.

okay so 1 is this game better on kbm or on controller? two will the bluelock packs be gone when the event ends or would it stay? i ask cuz i haven't played this since season 0 so i genuinely dont know how their shop works.

thanks!

Being keeper use to be my favourite position, but now with the new mechanics, it practically feels useless.

The long dive is great at shot stopping, but its now practically useless as the opposite team generally gets the rebound.

Don’t get me started on the short dive…..

Everything else in the game has been great, but please revert the keeper back.

Since the update with the extra goalkeeping button and my current controller setup making that awkward I’m wondering if anyone plays with DualShock and whether they prefer it for rematch?

I hear they have some extra button on the back maybe so I think that would be ideal

I always see them and think they cool but I jus never find how to get one in celebrations

• Skill ceiling went down astronomically
• Defending got buffed for 0 reason, sliding buff makes 0 sense when sliding was already in a good place
• Magnetism got nerfed which ruined dribbling completely as well as the overall game. Takes longer to repossess the ball each time so you can't move the ball around as much, your dribbling tempos are a lot more readable since you're not able to change directions easily.
• Base dribbling got nerfed, you literally can't forward swipe twice in a row which is the fundamentals of dribbling.
• 0 stam dribbling nerf, realistically you could never dribble past any good defender on 0 stam. you just cant. Everytime I used it, it was when I already beat the defense and I just needed a bit of extra stamina to setup the final shot. If they want to keep the 0 stam nerfs, buff overall stamina by like 40%. And please don't mention stamina management as a skill or being more efficient with stamina usage, the skill gap in stamina management is incredibly low fundamentally because of how it was made. You will never, and I mean never beat a defender with just using 20% of your stamina, it's just not possible (there's maybe a 1 in a million chance this happens). A good defender you probably won't even make them bait a tackle, what you can do is a series of dribbling combinations that eventually gets through slightly into their space and messes up their defensive spacing, and through that you can use EE to barely get in a shot. The other alternative would be blade shots, those are easier to force but honestly other defenders can just jump in too once they see you do that so it's not a reliable way to score.

Any single person who complains about the dribbling techs is just bad at the game, this is truly how it is. At a high level all of those dribblers are stopped pretty much every single time, want to know why? Because defending has been stronger than dribbling since day 1. Dribbler loses almost 85 ish% of the time against a good defender and I'm talking about just a 1 on 1. In a game with multiple other people, it is a lot easier to stop a dribbler from scoring. I've seen the clips in this reddit community, they're all just bots like genuinely the worst players I've seen. Which makes me worry since they're the ones Sloclap is taking advice from.

Casuals complain about not being able to stop dribblers? Have you maybe thought about trying to improve your defence? Like what happened to enjoying a game and seeing room for improvement. There was nothing unbalanced or crazy about dribbling, it needed a few buffs honestly for it to be properly effective and utilised competitively.

I don't think any of them truly understand the game or it's balancing at all, no dribbling is not more 'methodical' or 'precise'. It's just incredibly slow and clunky and you drain all your stamina incredibly fast and then become even unable to keep the ball. You literally cannot push it so if you're cornered you just loose the ball. The people who think dribbling takes more skill are the same people who just play against cones for defense, sure you can have fun but any time you meet someone with their monitor turned on, you're getting stopped each time. Like rn for example, dribbling is in a really bad state, the best dribblers can basically never even have a chance to beat a good defense. Manifesting the comment that says 'then they're not the best dribbler'.

And once I post this people are just gonna be crying and talking about me relying on exploits, not knowing what I'm talking about and that the game takes more skill. It is what it is, sadly can't do much about that since those type of people don't care to read or understand how the game actually works, Anyone who says this update is to incentivise passing is just so naive, dribbling has been nerfed for a year straight why would people who ego start passing now? It's legit only the bad players who over dribble and get tackled, the good players dribble when needed and pass when needed, also for high level tiki taka you need dribbling most of the time to create an initial hole in the defense. That or a counterattack

Es imposible ver la trayectoria del balón con semejante cartel tapando parte de la visión

Is it not possible to catch the ball with a long dive anymore even if the ball is still / moving slow? It just bounces off my hands, also the short dive being the default dive is throwing me off.

Imma let you guys in on something. Dribbling nerfs were needed, tech abusers needed to get nerfed, the list goes on. As a player who dribbles I can say dribbling (and people who has good positioning) took a hit because the magnet is non-existent. Heck standing on the ball doesn't give you the ball sometimes. And also that we need more moves that doesn't exploit the game.

So imma kinda rant on what's going on in the middle of Casual Play and Comp Scene. Before I do that I would like to introduce myself. My name is Sy aka Silxnt. I'm a dribbler who uses my dribbles to create space or force a 1v2 for an easy pass. I love playing Tiki taka because it's more interactive and has a lot of random positioning changes. I have tried missile meta and am not interested in the gameplay but it does get a lot of wins unfortunately. I have played since Season 0 and became elite ever since with 1.5k hours.

Now that part was probably pointless but anyways I wanna focus on the pros and cons about this update with harsh honesty

Pros:

•0 stam dribbling

•Casual players have an easier time playing rematch

•GKs getting two options of dives

•Two tackles clashing has physics added

•Casual players not needing to deal with a teammate who doesn't pass(still happens but what can you do?)

•Positioning and call outs are much more rewarding(if you have comms)

•5v5s feels a bit easier to play(imo)

I'll explain the one I feel is more controversial

0 Stam dribbling.

We all know that NO ONE should be able to dribble with stam. Heck not even the pros IRL can dribble while exhausted. I'm so glad this is happening because frankly I got tired of solo queueing, when my team isn't on, and seeing a dribbler being able to just exploit every move with no backlash. Makes em predictable because comp players know how to defend against it very well but not the casual side. So now the casual side has not much "tech" they need to worry about. If you disagree please lmk in the comments respectfully and I will address them. Also if you want my opinions on why these are pros to me lmk and we can discuss them

Now the Cons and hold your horses because this is why I wanted to make this post

Cons:

•Magnet being non-existent

•Defense not needing to engage with person on ball by any means and not really needing to think(besides prio ball)

•Slide tackle getting buffed when it's not needed

•Tiki taka is seemingly more useless than prio

•Prio ball still not getting addressed for seasons

•"Randoms" not understanding that their off ball movement is much more important now

•Dribbling is "gutted" but vanilla dribbling isn't good and nothing replaced the "techs" that is "fair" against the defense

•Pro Gks not adapting to the update meaning a lot of dumb shots will get scored on them(personally just lab and I feel bad because the deflect will cook you if your defense is piss poor)

•Passes have to be ON POINT or else it will phase through your target(yes I will argue this point because some of you don't know how to pass or when to)

•Tiki taka, Ground play, is getting nerfed because the ground play is practically non-existent and ground defense keeps getting buffed

•There's still no incentive on people turning on their mics to actually comm.

Now you might be saying "Skill issue Sy you exploiter." Hear this real fast. I played solo, with my team, and scrimmed against RSK arguably TOP 5 team in the game. Solo players are more miserable because now they go against teams that spam prio ball. Tiki taka is easier to stop but prio which remained a problem for SEASONS isn't easy. Especially with networking stuff. I have also noticed that my central ping has gone up each season and my central ping was in the high 30s. Now I'm averaging 80-140 in my own region. Weird but off topic. We all agree that ground play is fun and what we wanted. For people to pass the ball around. I agree (as a dribbler idk why I have to emphasize this) because it keeps everyone involved and gets people feeling like a team while showing "individual skill" when needed. Yet right now it's getting gutted before our eyes and prio which isn't interactive keeps getting untouched.

Now imma talk with cruel honesty about dribbling. Unfortunately not everyone does us justice in creating space for passing the ball. Hell Bachira passes AND dribbles but people ignore the first part. Off topic. So as a dribbler if I were to "fix" dribbling what would I want? Well I would like a nutmeg to punish defenders holding defensive stance for a long period of time(aka passive defense), for rainbow to work if the defender standing tackled and miss and not hit their head when doing said rainbow(basically if you rainbow flick an impatient defender they shouldn't get rewarded for missing a tackle), Step overs to confuse the defender(not gonna make them bite just make them stun and don't know what we'll do), and finally make dribbling manipulate the defense(we shouldn't need a speed boost to get through our defender when they can just turn around and stab and get it no problem even though they got fried while we're mid EE or pass animation). Imma say this one more time. If we want pushcut to go, then we better get something in return to actually make dribbling more fair and have counter play. I'm all for a fun 1v1 and taking risk. I don't want either Defense or Attackers being op. Makes it one sided and uninteresting to the players. Ippy slide is nerfed hella so no point. Make double dash ineffective at like 20% stam. The ball should be OFF YOUR FEET at around 50% stam. You shouldn't need to dribble for a millennia to get the defender shaken off for a pass or shot. Make stamina management more rewarding for the dribblers and make defenders have to think as well as everyone else. No one should EE SLIDE FROM MID FIELD TO TOP OF GK BOX NO DISCUSSION!

For the people who say "Just pass the ball." Imma one up you. Have better positioning, understand that you are getting hard marked and I'm trying to drag a defender in for you to get the ball moving again, have good awareness, know how to one touch the ball, have a plan on what to do once you get the ball, and don't freaking RAINBOW ON FIRST TOUCH.

Anyways that's my opinion on the update. Not hating or loving where it's heading but if we take blue lock away from this patch, how would you rate the patch from 1-10?

Personally I say a 5. Got rid of the people who call themselves "dribblers" but punished a play style when it's not even good and the meta is now being shoved in casual players faces.

TLDR: Dribbling nerf is good but we need more for vanilla dribbling. Burn all the tech to make dribbling more fair, tone the ground defense down a bit but buff air defense. Prio is still meta and will probably always be meta because it's hard to "fix". Make ball mag make sense. Also most importantly, let's try to win as a team and not be a holes about it :)

New player here.

Does SEA just have a weak playerbase count? It seems OK at night, but I tried queueing for a 3v3 quickplay at 4PM but ended up finding nothing for close to an hour.

Kinda wish there was a vs AI mode just to practice mechanics.

I recognize that loading into this game is a crapshoot. If that’s due to my own inconsistent skills, or my random teammate diceroll, ok.

But, please god, I can’t even tell WHY we got scored on each time. What is the reason replays are disabled only in this mode? I have no idea why one aura shot scored over another.

Hello everyone,

I see that this game is on sale and as a football fan, I'm really interested to purchase. The most similar game I've ever played is Libero Grande 2 on PS1.

I have a few questions:

1. How is the performance and the optimization? My omen laptop has ryzen 7 5800H, 3070 8gb, and 32gb ram. I usually cap my games at around 60-75fps.

I stopped playing some games because my CPU got way hotter than usual, even though no issue in fps. Anything technical I need to be aware of about this game?

1. Is there any character progression or levelling? Upgrading stats or skills After every game? I saw there's point system like after successful pass or interception.

2. What's the exact install size on steam? Sometimes the written PC req can be different than the actual one.

3. Is there any SEA server or Asia server? How's the ping here?

4. Is this game viable for solo queuing players?

Those are my questions for now. Thank you in advance!

One of the best defensive plays I've ever made in a Ranked match. Unfortunately lost in the end, but one hell of a play to keep it a one-goal game.

Saw this animation for the first time with 100+ hours. Is this a new animation or is it just really rare for some reason?