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FIFA 2004 Bugs and things to be fixed
- Thread starter juanmanuelsanchez
- Start date
I've tried to sum up the things I think should be fixed in a 2nd patch for Fifa 2004:
Menus:
- Team management: Whole line-up (11 players) should be visible in 1 screen. Possibility to scroll down, not page down
- Team management: Make room for more player attributes in 1 screen.
- Overall the menu system is hopelessly bothersome and un-intuitive.
Gameplay/In game:
- Camera angle changes to opposite side sometimes after a corner is taken, resulting in that players in the box are heading/shooting in the wrong direction.
- Corners always lands in the same spot
- Short corners is impossible
- Missing corner flags
- Missing linesmen
- Keeper moving through the net
- Make it possible to dribble past defenders, at least at lower difficulty levels.
- Power bar is sometimes by the wrong player when taking penalties
- Player names missing for some teams (Have seen this on some Norwegian teams, e.g. Stabaek, Bryne...)
- Goal net not moving when a player scores. (Do others have the same problem?)
- Goal nets looks like they’re made of steel fence.
- Power bar should be visible some time after the shot is taken.
- Keeper can not put the ball down to his feet.
- Too much delay on commentary, sometimes after a goal is scored.
Controllers:
- Support for Thrustmaster game pads is a must!!
- Other controller issues…
Player ratings:
Player ratings for most "unknown" teams are often completely wrong. Better research is needed, or at least an editable database with the game CD or the creation centre. Hope this improves in Fifa2005…
If EA doesn’t release a patch for these and other issues, they are not taking their customers seriously. It has obviously been a really bad QA/testing of this game. Hope to see a patch soon!! The game looks promising after all…
Menus:
- Team management: Whole line-up (11 players) should be visible in 1 screen. Possibility to scroll down, not page down
- Team management: Make room for more player attributes in 1 screen.
- Overall the menu system is hopelessly bothersome and un-intuitive.
Gameplay/In game:
- Camera angle changes to opposite side sometimes after a corner is taken, resulting in that players in the box are heading/shooting in the wrong direction.
- Corners always lands in the same spot
- Short corners is impossible
- Missing corner flags
- Missing linesmen
- Keeper moving through the net
- Make it possible to dribble past defenders, at least at lower difficulty levels.
- Power bar is sometimes by the wrong player when taking penalties
- Player names missing for some teams (Have seen this on some Norwegian teams, e.g. Stabaek, Bryne...)
- Goal net not moving when a player scores. (Do others have the same problem?)
- Goal nets looks like they’re made of steel fence.
- Power bar should be visible some time after the shot is taken.
- Keeper can not put the ball down to his feet.
- Too much delay on commentary, sometimes after a goal is scored.
Controllers:
- Support for Thrustmaster game pads is a must!!
- Other controller issues…
Player ratings:
Player ratings for most "unknown" teams are often completely wrong. Better research is needed, or at least an editable database with the game CD or the creation centre. Hope this improves in Fifa2005…
If EA doesn’t release a patch for these and other issues, they are not taking their customers seriously. It has obviously been a really bad QA/testing of this game. Hope to see a patch soon!! The game looks promising after all…
I think EA needs to "patch" the first patch. Is the version of the patch that is listed as "english" on an "alternate download website" only for Europe? I'm sure I'm not the only US player who tried to download the patch, the browser screen closed, and there is no way to try to download this patch again from EA's North America website.
I'm happy with most of the game. Long distance shooting being too easy has been mentioned as a bug here. Has anyone had trouble playing online then had the entire game shrink down to less than half the size of the computer screen?
I'm happy with most of the game. Long distance shooting being too easy has been mentioned as a bug here. Has anyone had trouble playing online then had the entire game shrink down to less than half the size of the computer screen?
juanmanuelsanchez
Youth Team
I still say that the worst bug Is that no matter what foul you make as long as the referee makes "the advantage law" you will never get carded...
Replay showing wrong end of pitch......the net even ripples as if a ball went in.
Playing in the Champions League, it says Premier League over the names of the teams when u start a match.
Promoted teams still have lower division patches on sleeves.
Goalie charge?
Home teams celebrate draws as wins.
Away fans wearing home team colours
Cinematic of fans celebrating high in the stands often has easily identifiable players among them!!!!
Playing in the Champions League, it says Premier League over the names of the teams when u start a match.
Promoted teams still have lower division patches on sleeves.
Goalie charge?
Home teams celebrate draws as wins.
Away fans wearing home team colours
Cinematic of fans celebrating high in the stands often has easily identifiable players among them!!!!
I don't know if these were mentioned but we need this fixed:
- I don't want to click on the replay button twice just to watch a damn replay.
- If I save a replay, it would be nice to have the ability to replay it again.
- We should be able to buy players from Rest of The World, i got no clue why we can't
- When taking a goal kick, sometimes my own goalie is offside, how the **** does that work?
- Bugs with varying player stats from screen to screen
- I dunno if this is a bug, but I trained a player in shooting and he now has more power in his power bar for free kicks but when i take a shot and get it before the red it goes over as if i got in the red
- The champions league thing where it shows the 3d league logo at a CL game, just put in the EA logo if you're lazy
- easier free kicks, if @^&#^&665 impossible to score on professional with beckham in good positions with perfect power and green
That's all I can think of. I will be surprised if EA fixes ANY of these things. There porbably won't be another patch. EA just doesn't give a flying ****. in 2003 they didn't even fix a big where your settings kept getting reset.
EDIT
- I forgot the constant cinematic and replay bugs. Sometimes right after scoring a goal the game ****s up and shows the other net or the middle of the field or some stupid **** like that. And when you press esc on a miss replay the goal kick cinematic ****s up and regular bull**** like that.
- I don't want to click on the replay button twice just to watch a damn replay.
- If I save a replay, it would be nice to have the ability to replay it again.
- We should be able to buy players from Rest of The World, i got no clue why we can't
- When taking a goal kick, sometimes my own goalie is offside, how the **** does that work?
- Bugs with varying player stats from screen to screen
- I dunno if this is a bug, but I trained a player in shooting and he now has more power in his power bar for free kicks but when i take a shot and get it before the red it goes over as if i got in the red
- The champions league thing where it shows the 3d league logo at a CL game, just put in the EA logo if you're lazy
- easier free kicks, if @^&#^&665 impossible to score on professional with beckham in good positions with perfect power and green
That's all I can think of. I will be surprised if EA fixes ANY of these things. There porbably won't be another patch. EA just doesn't give a flying ****. in 2003 they didn't even fix a big where your settings kept getting reset.
EDIT
- I forgot the constant cinematic and replay bugs. Sometimes right after scoring a goal the game ****s up and shows the other net or the middle of the field or some stupid **** like that. And when you press esc on a miss replay the goal kick cinematic ****s up and regular bull**** like that.
juanmanuelsanchez
Youth Team
its unrealistic anyway... you have to play all season... or at least tell you if you want to finish it and claim yourself champion
juanmanuelsanchez
Youth Team
the cinematics are always the same for the first goal for each player...so you will see the same cinematics every game until you score all goals with the same player.... BORING !!! ariel please fix this...
The biggest problem with 2004 is the bugs. Dont get me wrong, i think its the best FIFA yet, and proabbaly best footie game yet for me. but all these bugs let me down. It crashes too much to be acceptable in a released game. sometimes after missing, scrring it beeps and freezes or the screen just goes black. And sometimes the goalie just drops the ball after a kick-out animation, and the referee must be sorted out. Another funny thing. 3rd div. northamptons sub. striker, smith is caled bobic by th cmmentator, pretty funny....
interface -- bad interface that nor even can fully view starting 11 and magnetic scroll bar, hate to use it
cpu AI -- cpu never make sub, attack from middle, less lobbing, no creativity
refree strictness -- WTF with the advantages rules? 1 on 1 perfect chance to score but get slite tackle from behind in penalty box. eventually no card, no penalty but have freekick and my player injured.....
gameplay -- first touch is bad, keeper is sucks, OTB is nearly impossibilty --> is too damn accurate, corner is not flexible at least freekick still better
random weather -- freakin world, no rain, no show, only day and night
wrong expected return date -- my player injured at 24/11/2003, but expectected return date is 16/10/2003, WTF??
brightness -- freakin dark in some stadium but suppose in real life is 100x brighter than that
configuration -- no controller configuration, no gameplay configuration
cpu AI -- cpu never make sub, attack from middle, less lobbing, no creativity
refree strictness -- WTF with the advantages rules? 1 on 1 perfect chance to score but get slite tackle from behind in penalty box. eventually no card, no penalty but have freekick and my player injured.....
gameplay -- first touch is bad, keeper is sucks, OTB is nearly impossibilty --> is too damn accurate, corner is not flexible at least freekick still better
random weather -- freakin world, no rain, no show, only day and night
wrong expected return date -- my player injured at 24/11/2003, but expectected return date is 16/10/2003, WTF??
brightness -- freakin dark in some stadium but suppose in real life is 100x brighter than that
configuration -- no controller configuration, no gameplay configuration
juanmanuelsanchez
Youth Team
the replays cant be loaded... you can save them but you cant see them.. very smart