Can you walk into passes?

[Frommelgoal]

Kinda of a newb question, but it always bugs me when I play.

When you pass the ball around, sometimes the player is forced to stand still and his marker will jump in front of him and claim the ball. Is there a way to make him run towards the ball (basic football stuff), without using the super-cancel first???

 

[brianon]

you hold R2 to try and move in front I think.

 

[theCRO]

run towrds the ball, this hardly ever happens to me in an annoying way, sometimes the defender reads it well and cuts it out like in real soccer.

 

[Frommelgoal]

Originally posted by theCRO
run towrds the ball, this hardly ever happens to me in an annoying way, sometimes the defender reads it well and cuts it out like in real soccer.

I'm talking about situations where I pass towards a teammate. I then get control over that player, but when I press the directional button to walk towards the ball it doesn't work. When the marker of that player moves it's easy for him to steal the ball. It doesn't happen all the time, but often enough to make it annoying for me!

Brianon, thanks for the tip, I'll try the R2 button

 

[NerazZurRo]

I think you should use "super cancel" by pressing both R1 and R2

 

[Han]

Originally posted by Frommelgoal
I'm talking about situations where I pass towards a teammate. I then get control over that player, but when I press the directional button to walk towards the ball it doesn't work. When the marker of that player moves it's easy for him to steal the ball. It doesn't happen all the time, but often enough to make it annoying for me!

Brianon, thanks for the tip, I'll try the R2 button

That's what TheCRO says IMHO
If you pass to a player with a marker nearby you have a chance he's faster. In that case, you should move the receiving player TOWARDS the ball as soon as possible, so just after you hitted the pass button. Better is NOT to pass to a player with a marker close

 

[SkuzzbaG]

Hold down R2 + X and direct the player towards the ball, I find it helps if you do this as soon as you pass the ball. This works well in intercepting opposing player passes too!

 

[Frostwolf]

Originally posted by NerazZurRo
I think you should use "super cancel" by pressing both R1 and R2

L2 and R2.

 

[Frommelgoal]

Originally posted by Han
That's what TheCRO says IMHO
If you pass to a player with a marker nearby you have a chance he's faster. In that case, you should move the receiving player TOWARDS the ball as soon as possible, so just after you hitted the pass button. Better is NOT to pass to a player with a marker close

It's not a matter of whose faster, Han. Sometimes I can press the buttons all I want but the player has a mind of it's own and just stands there to collect the ball. In my mind that is an AI flaw, since he's both ignoring my commands and basic football knowledge.

Something similar happens with the throughpass when the receiving player is close to the sideline. The player will often just walk next to the ball and has all the time to collect it, but instead just watches the ball go out. Also then. as far as I know, you can't manouvre the player to the ball without using the supercancel. It's a kind of unresponsiveness of the player that I find annoying.

If the AI would be tweaked, so that the receiving player would have a tendency to walk to the ball when he is being marked (basic football knowledge) or when there would be a button to make the player go for the ball (in a similar way that you can mark a player in possession of the ball), it would be a big improvement for me.

Skuzzbag: Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try.