I havent played the game for that long, so I am just pointing out things i noticed in my 5 days of owning the game. Here are some little things i think EA can take care of. I know there is a lot of serious problems that are very major but what are the chances of EA addressing those in some sort of patch? Very doubtful.
1.) When clicking on the RANDOM button during league/team selection for an opponent, i get a a team i am not familar with. I dont mind who I play against, but i would like to know who is in control of the ball when im on defense. I use camera angle #6 (when selecting with keyboard) which is a side to side camera angle. I can not see the back of the players shirts unless they are running up the field towards a sideline (which the AI never does). I have a very good videocard (nvidia geforce 5600 256mb) and can see the backs fine, but some teams dont have player names on their shirts and i have no idea who is in control of the ball. The commentators dont say who has the ball unless i am playing against Real Madrid or AC Milan or any of the other big popular clubs. But when i play against a team from the Swedish league, and i am not familar with any of those teams, i would like to see who tackled me and who is on a break away and who is going to be getting the ball from a long pass. I dont think this is so difficult to add that feature into the game. When the computer gets the ball, then the players name pops up in the bottom right side of the screen.
2.) Since a lot of us here are playing FIFA 2004 on our PC's, then why not give us more options/features that can be used with the keyboard. Im using an MS Sidewinder Gamepad. It only has 10 buttons on it. Since the camera angles can be switched using the keyboard on the fly instead of pausing the game to goto Camera's setting, why cant they have strategies on the fly too and implement the keyboards extra buttons. I think in FIFA 1999, you could change on the fly your tactics, whether it be going on all out offense, regular play or all out defense. I know this is not difficult for players using the gamepad to quickly take their hands off the directional pad when you lob the ball in the air, and hit a button on your keyboard to change to an all out offense or to an all out defense. What about in FIFA 2001 i think it was where you could press a button on defense and your defenders would move together to get the offensive player in an offside position. Im sure that again the players can take their hands off the D-Pad for a split second to hit the key on their keyboard that calls that play. What about on offense to bring back the Dive button? This would be more difficult if the button was placed on the keyboard because you would have to take your fingers off the D-Pad or buttons to accomplish this.
3.) Give me total control of my players. I'm sick of having the computer control the player i have selected. When the ball is going out of bounds and my player is close to it, the computer takes control of the path i am running in. I do not want that to happen EVER again. Most of the time the players run at such a slow speed and the opposing team outpaces me and takes the ball. Very unrealistic. Or when the opposing team's goalkeeper has the ball and my players are forced to back up, i want them to stay with the last 2 defenders instead of going automatically to midfield. Even when i control Inzaghi, i want him to as close to the last defenders as possible, I don;t want to see him goto the centre line (unless thats where the last defenders are).
4.) What happened to LOBBING the ball?? When i press the lob button and there is a player 4 feet infront of me (without pressing the OTB button) the ball is softly lobbed to him, but i held the button down and was aiming for a deep lob to my forwards. I dont want to always have to control the OTB players because that is slower and takes away from a quick counter attack with a deep lob.
Im going have to cut my list short as its getting late, but add on if you want. I havent played in career or tournament yet and have not downloaded the patch because i will be doing a format soon. So if any of these things is in the patch dont bust my balls please.
1.) When clicking on the RANDOM button during league/team selection for an opponent, i get a a team i am not familar with. I dont mind who I play against, but i would like to know who is in control of the ball when im on defense. I use camera angle #6 (when selecting with keyboard) which is a side to side camera angle. I can not see the back of the players shirts unless they are running up the field towards a sideline (which the AI never does). I have a very good videocard (nvidia geforce 5600 256mb) and can see the backs fine, but some teams dont have player names on their shirts and i have no idea who is in control of the ball. The commentators dont say who has the ball unless i am playing against Real Madrid or AC Milan or any of the other big popular clubs. But when i play against a team from the Swedish league, and i am not familar with any of those teams, i would like to see who tackled me and who is on a break away and who is going to be getting the ball from a long pass. I dont think this is so difficult to add that feature into the game. When the computer gets the ball, then the players name pops up in the bottom right side of the screen.
2.) Since a lot of us here are playing FIFA 2004 on our PC's, then why not give us more options/features that can be used with the keyboard. Im using an MS Sidewinder Gamepad. It only has 10 buttons on it. Since the camera angles can be switched using the keyboard on the fly instead of pausing the game to goto Camera's setting, why cant they have strategies on the fly too and implement the keyboards extra buttons. I think in FIFA 1999, you could change on the fly your tactics, whether it be going on all out offense, regular play or all out defense. I know this is not difficult for players using the gamepad to quickly take their hands off the directional pad when you lob the ball in the air, and hit a button on your keyboard to change to an all out offense or to an all out defense. What about in FIFA 2001 i think it was where you could press a button on defense and your defenders would move together to get the offensive player in an offside position. Im sure that again the players can take their hands off the D-Pad for a split second to hit the key on their keyboard that calls that play. What about on offense to bring back the Dive button? This would be more difficult if the button was placed on the keyboard because you would have to take your fingers off the D-Pad or buttons to accomplish this.
3.) Give me total control of my players. I'm sick of having the computer control the player i have selected. When the ball is going out of bounds and my player is close to it, the computer takes control of the path i am running in. I do not want that to happen EVER again. Most of the time the players run at such a slow speed and the opposing team outpaces me and takes the ball. Very unrealistic. Or when the opposing team's goalkeeper has the ball and my players are forced to back up, i want them to stay with the last 2 defenders instead of going automatically to midfield. Even when i control Inzaghi, i want him to as close to the last defenders as possible, I don;t want to see him goto the centre line (unless thats where the last defenders are).
4.) What happened to LOBBING the ball?? When i press the lob button and there is a player 4 feet infront of me (without pressing the OTB button) the ball is softly lobbed to him, but i held the button down and was aiming for a deep lob to my forwards. I dont want to always have to control the OTB players because that is slower and takes away from a quick counter attack with a deep lob.
Im going have to cut my list short as its getting late, but add on if you want. I havent played in career or tournament yet and have not downloaded the patch because i will be doing a format soon. So if any of these things is in the patch dont bust my balls please.
