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FIFA 18 Career Mode Patch (Frosty Mod)

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elwoodpdowd

Club Supporter
bangus said:
All of that can easily be made to happen in the game with just a few slider tweaks. Even more so when one edits the db. FIFA 18 can be changed from arcadey to an exceptional football game, it just takes a bit of effort. The sliders alone can fix every one of those issues.

If you win 10-0 on legendary and are ping-ping passing with impunity, it's because you're using assisted controls. Play using manual controls. Lower CPU shot/pass/first touch error to 10 and raise User shot/pass/first touch error to 90. Raise CPU speed/accel sliders 10 points above yours. Etc. No more 10-zip games.
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What you are talking about is making the player worse and not making the cpu better. This is a constant problem with EA sports games.
I rememeber rory mcilory golf on the ps4. The ai was hopeless. EA refused to make the game a challenge and the only way to make the batter was to make you the player worse. This is a negative,
I tired the game again last week and ea have added courses but done nothing to make the game ai harder.
There our thousands of people asking ea to make the game ai harder and they absolutely refused to even acknowledge them. Consequently the game flopped. But EA did not care as they maintained their power over their games. Thats what its really all about. Power and control. Ea are masters at that. Its not going to change.
 
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bangus

Starting XI
elwoodpdowd said:
What you are talking about is making the player worse and not making the cpu better.

EA refused to make the game a challengeThats what its really all about. Power and control. Ea are masters at that. Its not going to change.
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All I care about is making the game fun to play. And I make it fun by using sliders and db edits to create a fair and balanced game. It's all perspective. You call it making it worse. I call it doing whatever it takes. Half-empty, half-full.

FIFA 18 plays an absolutely fantastic game of football with the right tweaks. I suggest you let go of the personal issues you have with EA, and stop waiting for them to fix things for you. Because you're missing out.
 
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Stepkick

Club Supporter
Playing with a handicap is not fun. Giving the AI God-like pass accuracy and taking out all your pass accuracy isn't a direction I would take towards making the game more fun. The game is more fun if the AI knows how to build a good attack. Sometimes there are obviously better passes that the AI clearly misses and chooses a more marked option instead. This is rather a fix I would hope to make towards making the game more fun. Next by playing full manual you have to be like a fraction of a degree accurate with passes in the game or else your pass is miles off. This is again nonsense when you can't make good passes with players like Messi, Ineista, KDB who are pass masters. I think pass inaccuracy should be increased across the board in the default version of the game itself. So, that the first touch isn't always the best. Many times in real life players need to extend more than they would like to make a pass completion possible. This shifts their center of balance and then they have a hard time keeping the ball, giving their marker a good enough time to close the gap or take the ball away from them. This simply happens too rarely in the game, passes are impeccable on both sides (AI and human) and this generally means a ping pong game to the back of the net.
 
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bangus

Starting XI
Stepkick said:
I think pass inaccuracy should be increased across the board in the default version of the game itself. So, that the first touch isn't always the best.
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Completely fixed in 2 seconds by raising the first touch error sliders.
Stepkick said:
Next by playing full manual you have to be like a fraction of a degree accurate with passes in the game or else your pass is miles off.
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Nonsense, you obviously have never spent any real time playing the game on manual. Plus again, you can use sliders to adjust that; make manual passing harder or easier, your choice.
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passes are impeccable on both sides (AI and human) and this generally means a ping pong game to the back of the net.
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It's a ping pong game because YOU ARE USING ASSISTED PASSING, good gracious. And the CPU in my game is nicely horrible at passing. All I did was raise the CPU pass error slider, again it takes 2 seconds.
 
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Joakim

Club Supporter
Do we know when the mod will work again? After the patch yesterday it hasn't been working.
 
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Tscofield

Club Supporter
elwoodpdowd said:
What you are talking about is making the player worse and not making the cpu better. This is a constant problem with EA sports games.
I rememeber rory mcilory golf on the ps4. The ai was hopeless. EA refused to make the game a challenge and the only way to make the batter was to make you the player worse. This is a negative,
I tired the game again last week and ea have added courses but done nothing to make the game ai harder.
There our thousands of people asking ea to make the game ai harder and they absolutely refused to even acknowledge them. Consequently the game flopped. But EA did not care as they maintained their power over their games. Thats what its really all about. Power and control. Ea are masters at that. Its not going to change.
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I agree. I´ve tried many sliders settings, community sliders, profesional community sliders with ricardodc´s custom tactics (wich is great)
but none of this can make you forget the existence of EA. Really hard putting "personal issues" aside since it is notorious and sick
the effort EA does to be in control and manipulate results on the league table and cup matches. I´m not sure but i believe they pre-set you a table place
at the begining of a season and they manipulate whenever you aproach a place outside the projected table area, making it easier or harder like a story driven disney adventure with "emotions".
You can feel the manipulation in the first seconds by how your players respond to your input, you can even predict when you will miss your passes and shots.
Many other examples are out there.
I am not a developer but i try to wonder why EA make this decisions. I believe they just don´t know or don´t need to make a realistic simulation of AI.
Heavy AI physics have a great impact on processors and i believe most of its users are kids and casuals playing drunk with friends, and last the thing they will
notice is some sort of AI cheating. I don´t know how to build AI but i think as long AI don´t use deep learning, it´s almost impossible to make it challenging and realistic
without cheating. In the other hand the could work better and harder to make this manipulation more subtle.
 
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bangus

Starting XI
Tscofield said:
Really hard putting "personal issues" aside since it is notorious and sick the effort EA does to be in control and manipulate results on the league table and cup matches.

You can feel the manipulation in the first seconds by how your players respond to your input, you can even predict when you will miss your passes and shots. I don´t know how to build AI but i think as long AI don´t use deep learning, it´s almost impossible to make it challenging and realistic without cheating. In the other hand the could work better and harder to make this manipulation more subtle.
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It's dead easy putting personal issues aside: stopping blaming EA, accept the game is very good even if imperfect, and then get on with taking responsibility for fixing whatever issues you're having. This is a modding forum after all, and we've discussed for years how to improve FIFA, including how to eliminate the goofy CPU cheat programming. I found ways to get rid of the cheat boosts 6-7 years ago. It just requires a bit of reading the forum threads, experimenting with the modding tools people here have created, and then learning to edit the db.

Easy to just complain and make it EA's fault etc. Like I said to the other guy, that's your choice, and I don't care one way or the other. Nevertheless you're missing out on a very good football game. With the right edits, a terrific game in fact.
 
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Tscofield

Club Supporter
Ok Bangus, good to know it is possible to fix the boosts. Is there a link covering all the steps? I´ve been looking for it for a long time.

About EA´s fault, i don´t think i understand your argument. Someone could edit the Fifa code and transform it in a great space combat game if someone wanted to.
I´m talking about the vanilla design of the game and the worldwide known suspicious practices associated with Electronic Arts. If there is a mod like Frosty Manager, which some guys had a hard work for years to develop, struggling to break into the game´s code and delivering almost a playable game, i won´t thank EA for that. I´ll thank the mod makers.

Sorry for hijacking the thread. I wont make any comment about it further
 
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