Mind Blowing
I've been a FIFA player since the original on the SNES, making the move onto PS1 in 1998, PS2 in 2002 and finally PS3 in 2013 (FIFA game years).
FIFA on the PS3 was a huge difference compared to the PS2 game engine, which I had become so accustomed to for several years. It felt nice to be challenged again by the time I started playing FIFA 13 on the Playstation 3 but eventually, through hours of playing manager mode I started to get the same success I achieved on past games and consoles.
It wasn't until FIFA 14 that I started to question the whole game engine. I never thought I would on the better console but it happened when I started winning games on professional mode too easily. 5 out of 4 games versus the computer would end in the opposition having 0 shots on my goal. It got very boring, despite being top of the table and winning cups.
Naively, I put the difficulty up to World Class. I enjoyed the competitiveness for the first couple of games but after 10 games I started to notice a pattern. I would win 1-0 or 2-1 a few times, then guaranteed to lose by any means possible. I remember one time the CPU player physically went through my defender like he was a ghost so he was one on one and scored.
Another example fresher in my memory was Lua-Lua the pacey winger who could out run most full backs in the game on Professional level, went against a full back with pace and acc skills in the 60's. Lua-Lua could not out pace him and that's when I stopped playing the game.
Since then I have been reading this post and others similar out there on the internet and struggling to get my head around this USER/CPU gameplay slider. I did not know it even existed.
There are so many variations, I do not really know where to start.
Two things I would like clarified are:
1) What's the scale? For example 0 = lowest 100 = highest
2) The settings for LINE HEIGHT, LINE LENGTH, LINE WIDTH as someone kindly explained what they mean in this thread, seem to contradict the TACTICS and CUSTOMISED TACTICS in the game. Does anyone use tactics or are they just for cosmetic purposes?
I was enjoying a brilliant game with Brighton & Hove Albion and I hope I can savour it with these game slider adjustments. Although it looks like it will take awhile to find something that will suit me.
Lastly, thanks for all the contributions in this thread it's nice to see some possible solutions to some shocking default settings EA has made on this game. I can only imagine it is a conspiracy to force those of us who enjoy career mode offline, to play online and thus spend more money than the RRP price we pay for the initial game.