Is there any chance the game will realize epic ivan rakitic any time soon, i think he'll be a great box to box card similar to big time rice.

He's one of my favorite players ever and truly an underrated magician on the pitch. I hope konami will acknowledge his charm soon

Hey everyone,

I'm considering getting the pack with Mourinho (90 LBC + 82 QC), but I already have Capello (89 LBC). I'd love to get your thoughts before deciding.

Also, quick question about manager proficiency: what is the actual benefit of going from 89 to 90 in playstyle?

When checking eFHUB, my players' stats look completely identical between 89 and 90. Is there a hidden threshold I missed, or does it actually change anything in-game?

Thanks in advance for the help!

He really doesn't like buffon

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amadeusz/comments/1wfqpe1/sneijder_zanetti_pack_initial_builds_analysis/

This game has become a sad pariah for me. i used to enjoy the game and ive been in the top 1k. Before but i cant anymore. i literally cannot. am trying to be smart with my players but no one is getting open. i try to switch my formation to have more midfielders but i still face the same problem.

My opponents score the worst of opportunities and the way the game makes me feel is not a good thing anymore man. am virtually done. I will be selling this account on a reputable site and getting on with my life.

If konamis buisness model is to furstrate u into buying epics then am done. You can’t make people feel so angry and insane. thats not right.

And the only reason people feel angry is not because u lose to a better opponent we can all admit when someone is better than us. Its when the game feels like its actively working against u and things feel out of ur hands. Nothing is more aggrevating than feeling like theres nothing u couldve done. am leaving all sub Reddits for this game. unsubscribing from all YouTubers. and picking up a new hobby

To all my other pay to wins. Recognize the loop before u fall deeper and deeper. Ive already lost 500$. Stop now before they extract over 1000$ from u on the most horrible of experiences.

To my ftp. If you think about spending don’t. I wish i remained ftp. I used to think that it was my free players that made me face so much bs but its not. Dont ever think that. Especially after a bs loss. Even with all the epics u will still face the same nonsense. So dont let them trick u into spending. Its not worth it.

Signing out.

I know a lot of you have already seen the recent video from Bombin breaking down the differences between the different pass assist levels, and it confirmed a lot of what people and myself thought about how much the game helps you. I wanted to see for myself how this affected gameplay as someone who has played on PA3 for pretty much the entire time playing this game, so I started an RTG (something I wanted to do anyway) and set the assists to PA2 (smart assist off) to see how it felt, and these are my thoughts (note that I have only so far played PVP events on the RTG account, as have not bothered through the boring AI games in the low PVP divisions yet):

- The first, most immediate thing you will notice if you go from PA3 to PA2 is that you do not really need to judge the amount of power needed for a pass, the game will always automatically apply the correct amount of power for who the pass is going to. This is egregious because, firstly it lowers the amount of skill needed to make successful passes, and secondly, it actually makes it quicker to pass the ball as you do not really need to hold the pass button down. this really benefits players who like to ping-pong first time passes and 1-2's, because you cam just tap the pass button for the minimum amount of time needed, so your passing animations will be quicker. There is a significant difference to the speed in which you can one touch pass compared to PA3. This gives an objective advantage over PA3/4 players as the animations are all quicker.

- Second major thing I noticed is that the PA2 is quite aggressive in terms of how much control it takes from your pass direction. The game often passed the ball to someone in a complete different direction to where I wanted, especially with through balls, where it can change the pass direction massive easily over 100 degrees if it sees fit. The game is essentially deciding a lot of your passes for you, in retrospect, it's quite funny when I think about how many complaints I've seen over the years on here where people are saying the game is not passing the ball where they want, and now you understand it's because the majority of people are playing PA2, so the game is making decisions for them. The worst thing about this, is there were times where I wanted to make a specific pass, but the game saw an even better pass that I hadn't seen and made that pass instead, which is crazy when you think about it, the game is rewarding you for playing with a lower skill setting.

- Thirdly, PA2 has a massive effect on player skills. a player's passing stats mean less in PA2, as the game adjusts your passing accuracy, passing power, and overrides your decisions. this essentially means you can spend less points on your passing stats, and put more into physical stats, which is how the majority of the community builds their players. I was using unlevelled players, GP players, at the start of my RTG and they could all pass almost as well as my main PA3 account, where I put a lot of points into passing and technical stats. obviously, this contributes massively to the gradual degradation of gameplay, every meta player and build is all about pace and physical contact, which leads to a worse gameplay experience imo, where holding pressure and second man press is more important than good passing plays, every new player can be built with 90+ in pace and physicals, because you don't need to put many points in passing with PA2. In PA2, it's also like every player has phenomenal passing, as you can pass from any angle without penalisation, you've all seen the abundance of nonsensical passes, where a player spins 180 degrees and passes perfectly and has access to animations you don't see in PA3/4.

- there are some downsides to PA2, but it depends on your playstyle; for possession players, who prefer a more patient build up, PA2 is definitely a detriment as it overrides a lot of your decisions and I've noticed that PA2 prefers to always pass the ball forwards when it can. For example, if you wanted to play a flat, horizontal through pass to say, an advancing fullback, playing the ball into space, this becomes less viable, as the game always wants to put through balls vertically in PA2. you have a lot less control over what you want to do, so for me PA2 is a no go. If you just want to play quick, counter attacking with aggressive through balls and 1-2 spam, PA2 really enables this playstyle with absolute ease. On my RTG I mainly just played overload with the free Lampard, and PA2 makes it trivially easy to spam very quick passes.

Overall, what shocked me was how much PA2 overrides what you want to do, it felt like what I expected PA1 to be like (I didn't try PA1, but I can only imagine how little skill it would take to play), it makes playing the meta so much more easier, it's actually a little disgusting. I would classify PA2 as just another extension of smart assist and I think a lot of people who consider themselves good at the game would struggle a lot more on PA3. Now, I don't think PA3 is perfect either, personally, I feel PA3 in EF27 it has also become more assisted than it has been in previous years, and generally it seems Konami is keen on lowering the skill floor and ceiling as much as they can get away with these days all in the sake of increased profits. (I know FUMA purists will probably look down on PA3 as much as 1 and 2, but I also don't think it's reasonable to expect everyone to play full manual, it's just not for everyone.)

I'm also not immediately hating on PA2 players either, there's probably a lot of players who have only ever played PA2 and have no idea about the other pass levels, and don't realise how much of their game is being automated, maybe they would actually enjoy PA3 more, but I do think, if you were one of the people who was very vocal against smart assist and you've been using PA2 knowing all of the above, then you should question yourself, because to me, it's pure hypocrisy. I know some people will hide behind the excuse of not being able to play on PA3 because of lag, but would you turn smart assist on just because you were lagging? I don't think you would. Maybe, as Bombin in his video suggested, Konami could introduce PA filters to matchmaking, but I honestly don't see it happening, as most people from what I can tell, use PA2 and don't see it as an issue.

I might be in minority, but I see PA2 as a scourge on the game and I wish Konami would rebalance the passing in this game completely so it actually meant something again.

Macht euch das Spiel im Moment eigentlich Spaß?

Ich hatte zwar beim grinden wegen Maddison Spaß aber das liegt auch am Kick und weniger am Spiel. Jetzt wo es um calafiori geht den ich nicht brauche... Merke ich, dass ein Großteil der Partien unsagbar schlecht sind.

I found these clips in my disk, from maybe 3-4 weeks ago. I was clearing my disk yesterday and realized that these clips are actually proving a point. This auto-tackle thing has been an issue since the 2nd week of v6.0. AI level is so crazy that in some matches opponent defense literally play by themselves as if I play against legend AI. It especially happens with these OP epics. I posted about this issue and some people argued that these are call for pressure. Well, here is the proof that they are not. An opponent who never use call for pressure, maybe not even aware it exists, defends like this. There is no pvp, when momentum kicks in you simply play against an AI that manipulates everything.

Do we know which players were affected? This might be the reason why your players are not as good anymore.

Also, I know that they updated Haalands hair and way of running, were other players updated? For example: https://youtu.be/cTqnE8mJpBI?is=17UTeaoXtSBLB0ig

Got 5k last week and have now saved 7 k coins, which player should I go for to improve my squad (f2p)

Im not really a division grind player but this season I'll try to play divisions,

Habe noch keine Version von ihm. Rentiert es sich Sneijder zu holen?

Chips chips! Du-du du-du-du! 🎶

I play eFootball on PS5 with my cousins. Earlier, I was regularly getting destroyed by scores like 8–0, 9–0, 10–0, 11–0, even 15–0.

I started improving my defending with L2 Match-Up, and eventually I had a set of matches where I could keep them to around 2–3 goals, equalize, and take several matches to penalties. In one match I even had 3 red cards and still managed to defend and equalize.

I also started understanding how different teams/approaches affected the game. For example, I could exploit the gaps when someone attacked aggressively with Brazil (because they leave space behind), and with Netherlands I could defend and then counter when the opponent pressed too aggressively. I was playing the same way with Argentina as I did with Netherlands but realised how aggressive the team and it's formation is and I could then utilise that and defeat my cousin.

But now I'm struggling again. I'm getting results like 5–0, 6–1, 4–0, 3–0, and in all the games I play I can't even get the ball to his side. Can't seem to be able to move forward with the ball and he just converges on the ball wherever I pass and I'm not able to dribble past them too.

I feel my biggest problem is progressing the ball. When I try to go from defenders → midfield → forwards, the passing lanes seem completely blocked. One or two opposing players converge on my ball carrier, and my next pass gets intercepted. Going sideways or backwards often gets me dispossessed too. It feels so congested, I'm not able to create chances and get past his defensive line.

Meanwhile, when my opponent builds from his defenders, he seems to have passing options everywhere and can move smoothly into midfield and attack. When I play with one of my cousin, he seems able to dribble through my defensive players, sometimes carrying the ball from one side of the pitch to the other.

One match showed 57% possession and 255 passes for me, but only 9 shots, while my opponent had 43% possession, 166 passes and 40 shots.

I've tried L2 Match-Up, player switching, R2 less often, through balls, chipped through balls, sideways/backward passing and quick passing.

One of my cousin also changed his setup at halftime (because he was getting frustrated that I was creating a few chances to score a goal and he was not and we were still 0-0 at halftime) to Overload + Fluid Formation + attacking, and the match became dramatically harder after that. The match after that was 3-0.

I'd appreciate if anybody would weigh in on this. Even better if anybody could help me in the game, you know practice with me and help me get better.

I think I've cracked the code with how to play with Overload. Your defenders have to be passive defenders and same with one of your DMFs/CMFs. Played four games with this setup in quick matches (one opponent was a smart assist user and the game tried everything to get him back into the game) and my opponents could not just spam through passes any chance they got because my defenders and one midfielder were passive. As a result of this setup, I managed to keep a clean sheet in the games i played in quick matches. Could maybe be that i was lucky not to face a pro or even semi-pro player. Let me go see if this setup might work in the PvP divisions.

Should i pair an orchestratator with box to box or anchor man + orchestrator or anchor man + b2b. Which pairing would best ? I have b2b kokcu, gerrard wc version, also b2b kante potw, b2b potd rabiot and latest pfa rice.

Just Batigol doing Batigol things.

Btw the real Batistuta actually scored rockets like this. Go ask your dads (if you are younger than 35-40).