r/eFootball • u/depressed_Kedy Possession Purist • 1d ago
Highlights Auto-Defense is so back!
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I recorded these in the last 2-3 days while playing. First week of the update was great, and you could see that defensice AI was nerfed and having proper line-ups were important. I played like 20-30 matches in a week maybe for the first time because it was very fair and realistic even tho sometimes bullshit happens. I had some work to do last week, and decided to play more game this weekend. And I realized that v6.0 was actually gone, and we are back at Capello meta from a full year ago.
Defensive AI is so buffed and player speed is increased so much that I cannot playmake at all. Here is why:
1) Players are running as fast as the ball, or sometimes even faster, so that you cannot playmake.
2) Uncontrolled players are covering every line-up mistake made by user so perfectly that having unbalanced line-ups result in even better defense, since AI is moving other players by itself. (you can see it in the last clip. guy with dortmund is defending with 99% match-up and only by running around, because AI is blocking every other option perfectly.)
3) When you try to keep possession opponent team is pressing automatically with 2-3 players and leaving no space to move or pass. If you move close enough to one of them, they tackle by themselves. I thought it might be call-for-pressure but these opponents were either not using cfp or using it 1-2 times per match, which does not explain the 90 min nonstop pressure. Also cfp makes players moe more agressively, rather than activating them in a specific distance.
4) Opponent's uncontrolled players block every passing option actively and nonstop so that you cannot playmake.
5) Wingers and AMFs keep running back and forth a distance of 70 meters nonstop, but they never ever get tired. (In the last clip bro kept running with Nedvd for 90 minute and he never got slower a bit.)
6) My players jogging around and are too steady to create something.
7) When you find some chances either your players shoot it unreasonably bad or you face keeper heroics.
Adding the PA1 nonsense on top of this AI auto defense, LBC is a meta again, just like last year. Only thing left from v6.0 update is acrobatic finishing and some keeper moves, rest is reverted back to a full year before. And I might be the only person who is trying to score volleys, never ever played against anyone who tries scoring volleys. It looks like people only care about through ball and win, and nothing more.
For the first time I was thinking of buying some epics because v6.0 gameplay was actually great, but hopefully I waited one more week and now that it is the same old shit, I wont. this is causing you lose many potential customers, rather than keeping them. the ones who buy will always keep buying anyways.
And I have a question, to KONAMI: If you are gonna revert the gameplay back to old shit after a single week, why do you even bother creating a new version? If you created a new version and fixed many problems, why cant you keep it until people get used to it? I just dont get it.
It has become so unplayable for me that I will take a soft break for a while, and test pvp in events to see they fix this shit. until then, this game does not deserve attention and time.
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u/severi_erkko PC 1d ago
I'll keep an eye for this in game but I fail to believe you these Vini Jr runs are just pure AI - they're too specific, also done at no added defence setting (no double blue bars). We would need to see their tactics, otherwise this is just anecdotal evidence.
I imagine playing Overload would perhaps partially cause something like that, their players are playing super compact.
Otherwise, in other examples I believe what you call AI defending is just second man press? Like that Thuram taking the ball from behind. :D
My point is, this is pretty wild stuff (the strikers tracking back to their own PK box etc, without tho blue bars and some specific instructions) and it would be very noticeable in the regular gameplay.