This man is a blessing in this community. He explains everything that I despise in this game perfectly.

It’s insane how many good tackles you do just for the ball to magically go back to the other player

Fifa turned into a game for people that don’t watch The Game.

Shoutout to the defenders ALWAYS keeping attackers on side for no apparent reason, so much Truth in his words

Welcome to FIFA, where the best way to break down a team is to aim for the opponent, and the best way to dribble past a defender is to run straight at him. The best way to defend is run away and the best way to shoot is taking half chances. No logic

Does anyone else feel like people who’ve watched and played football all their lives struggle against people who only play fifa? Cause it seems that way. The passes you know should work don’t work and the passes you’d never even let enter your mind are the “perfect” ball...

never fails to amaze me that this game is used in e-sports

What I most hate about FIFA is that the defender stops running back when you select them leaving you expose

You know which decision in FIFA matters? When you delete the game - works perfectly and stays deleted.

9/10 times i read my opponents play, try to cut passing lines et cetera. However i always fail to get the ball. The ball literally rolls 1 ft past my defender and he does not even care to move his leg and intercept the ball... it makers you feel so powerless...

This explains a lot. Also, defenders are too vulnerables to 1-2’s as they are baited to move away instantly even if u knew the ball’s gonna come back to that player. Insanely frustrating.

I just started playing fifa21, thought I was going crazy at how easily my defenders were getting passed around. I was sure I'd blocked passing routes - this video at least explains some of it. Thank you!

Moral of the story is to stop playing, it's been like this for years. They won't stop til their money stops 🤷🏾‍♂️

Perfectly described the current state of passing. When watching the video, I recognized a few gameplay scenes and realised you used my gameplay as an example 👍🏼😅

I feel bad for my opponent when I win and angry for myself when I lose... its a lose lose situation

PES has good physics in their passing system. You feel like what you do matters. Passing, tempo, acceleration, timing, everything. As someone who loves to play the sport in real life, I really appreciate what Konami has done with that game as it's the closest you can get to playing the game digitally.

This game is an insult to the beautiful game of football

so youre telling me the whole time ive been screaming "this game is so rigged" ive been right??

PES 2021 man loving it, might be the game we need to hold EA accountable

Funniest one for me has become how you will win the header every time the player you're knocking it onto is offside.

The coolest sistem EA has implemented this year, speaking of passes, is the AI that chooses always the player that is in offside position. If you have two players one offside and another on, the pass will always, always no mather what, go to the offside player. Cheers.

Dad: Why are you getting angry it's just a game... Game: ...

thanks, always had this in the back of my mind while playing. never took my time to actually care and think bput it enough but u did it for me mate thanks all my pain is shared good to know

Keep up the good work man, these vids are spot on. Us OGs of fifa are quickly falling out of love with this game because off all the assist and points you mention in your video. You hit the nail on the head!

Fun fact: "EA only lets you score when it wants you to score"

Catering to the noobs, so it’s easier to score, impossible to defend and gets people to buy packs.....all they care about is money

Thank you! This is also a reason why playing without the ball/defending feels so terrible in this game, even against AI. I hadn't play a FIFA in a few years and was absolutely disgusted with what I found, it made me quit. Football games had passing errors since the dawn of time, I still find astounding that whenever there's a player in offside position, no matter if you want to pass the ball to the oposite side it will almost always choose that player, it's a joke that things so basic can't be fixed to this day, but the fact that they get worse every year is too much for me.

Thank you for putting this into words. I've always tried to intercept when defending but I've always had issues when I didn't think I should. +1 sub

Is it just me or you can tell if yout going to lose a game before you even start. Its like the game is arldy planned out

For too long I thought I was crazy and the flaws in FIFA were all my own incompetence. I see now that I'm not the only one who struggles with this crap

Omg I just found this video and it is freaking gold! This is everything I go thru but can't explain! shout out to you bro everything you said here happens all the time 💯. this shit is sad.

The reason I got into rocket league was precisely because every single decision you make has consequence. It makes every mistake painful and every little triumph exhilarating

6:57 is one of the reasons why this is the worst fifa ever and only stop at gold 3 now. never seen such a low skill gap in my life idc what anyone says utter shambles

FIFA was never supposed to be a competitive money driven game. It's an arcade, almost family friendly party game who's being ruined by gambling.

Dude!! Your video is SO good!! Keep up the good work!!

Wow. I just stopped beating my head against the wall. Spot on. So accurate. Thank you

I think tackling needs a big fix too. The amount of times I’ve tackled an opponent who is fully sprinting straight at me and they have continued with the ball without a dip in momentum speed or ball control is outrageous. Attacking bias is a huge problem.

Switched to PES after 20 years of playing Fifa. Best decision of my life.

It is even more noticeable when you turn it to "semi" assisted. It at times does exactly what you want but sometimes it doesn't go even remotely to a location you press it to go. And there's still the same problem with the hybrid passes when the AI changes the pass to either your advantage or against you depending on what side it wants to favour.

I agree, I have raged so many times at the passing, as well as some of the refereeing decisions, giving fouls for good tackles, I haven't played a football game in sometime and have seen a lot of problems that use to annoy me in the past are still there

I deleted FIFA and started to play PES. One of the best decisions in my life. The only thing I regret is it took me 20 years to do it.

FIFA presentation with PES gameplay would be a dream come true

The reason why I gave up playing FIFA all together, from 17 it just became a nightmare playing that game

You just put the words and video proof of my ongoing fifa rants out here in this video. 10/10

This game treat professionals as if they either have ultra instincts and have figured out the matrix or have the braincells of a cabbage there is no inbetween.

Man after all these years of your work, they should have everything at hand to fix it. Incredible that this is still a thing

Power to you. I totally agree with your analysis and I hate the game does not reward soccer knowledge in defense or attack. Another issue I noticed constantly is with the players with stupid slim arms in career mode. Thanks for the content.

respect for this man,u ve said it all...i stopped playing cuz of fifa bs....scripted shit + passing &/defending stuff...its jus annoying...when ur choices dont matter...it really is not about losing game...i ve been so many times in a situation where m winning but being pissed cuz of fifa bs...✌️

Difficulty Level is in fact Computer's cheating level.

“Keep doing what you’re doing and believe that you’re prime Pirlo on the sticks” 😂😂😂😂

I started playing football games in 2004, x (or the down button) has always been for passing in the foot of the player, while triangle (or the up button) has always been for a pass through, for a pass into space.

This was the best thing I've seen all day

This game is frustrating. I play it less and less everyday the mechanics are horrible this year

This game makes no sense, I thought my controller was broken because for the life of me I cant pass

That’s exactly why I didn’t bought FIFA this year, 100% agree. That’s a nice video, hope things will get better

This is so true. I taught i was playing really bad because i cant get a pass in this game everything goes wrong. This is a joke. Thanks for puting this out here man.

Itallion is the only KZfaqr giving us QUALITY CHECK and QUALITY ANALYSES !! Keep going man

1:31 is the most painful thing I experience every time

100% agree. So frustrating. I am really good at anticipating passes. In previous fifa games interceptions was one of my strong suits. Now I almost never get interceptions. I play cam and pride myself on being unselfish and being the assist man. However in this addition not so much. Trying to do through balls into space often ends in me doing a dink little layoff pass to a player running up behind me instead of the open space that I aim at.

Ohh lord. I so feel you bro😂😂😂. Stopped playing for a year now. Was playing since 05

Good examples, good work. The game is very inconsistent and it's good to have such documentation of it. Very funny that there are still people defending this, I don't have slightest of clue how their brain works

Ive been driving myself fucken insane trying to figure out if I suck at passing now or its just inconsistent. Thank you for the clarity and the amazing content, this game is laughable.

Just found this vid, everything you say is 100% right, even friends have given up playing it because of this shit. I've always said it seems cpu has the control over your choices whether assist is on or not. For me personally I can never get a cross right, no matter where I aim it either goes to the keeper or ridiculously back towards halfway line.

you earned my sub bro

33 year old messi outruns F.Mandy in his early 20s ONE of the fucking speediest defender at the moment

The first time playing FIFA 21 I was like "WTF is going on" I was swearing through the whole match While my friends were laughing in the background

I always yelled “this game cheated me” every time I missed the pass or shoot.

I agree with you brother, people who play fifa since the begining of times know better, I'm 34 years old and I've played almost every single fifa in my lifetime, and the last fifa disappointed me over and over again.

"Prime Pirlo on the sticks" - I like that line. Anyway this is true, impossible to intercept pass even though my defender blocks the path.

It’s literally impossible to intercept a pass yet somehow impossible to make a simple pass at the same time. Game is garbage

Thank you so much man. Great work. I played full manual cause I want to play the game after spending my money and not to played by the game.

This is so true that now when it happens, I just smile. I tell myself that it’s just a game and that I’m just trying to pass time and distract myself. Otherwise, I’d get a coronary.

Lmao, we've known FIFA to be scripting for years. There's been evidence for a couple years now. At this point its on you for buying the game

I saw this from the beginning of FIFA, almost 20 years ago. That's why pro evo was far superior in game play

I played a lot of fifa 12. I see that this game will never change.

I've always been a casual FIFA player. Maybe played a total of 5 games over the year and never spent a lot of time with them. It has been several years since I played so figured I'd give 21 a try since it was recently on sale. Glad to know I'm not losing my mind because I'm seeing the similar things shown in this video and was confused why it wasn't playing similar to what I remember.

For me defending is broken as well. I can count on two hands the number of clean sheets I've had across hundreds of games. And I'm not bad at defending either. I'm not Van Dijk, but I'm solid in defense. That is until FIFA 21.

I just realized i broke my controller for a scripted game

Bro you are totaly right, thats why you sometimes feel like its the first time you play fifa even if you have some good hours played.. Thats what makes this game so frustrating to play and i hope EA will make some sense and change this.

Absolutely spot on

It’s actually hilarious, I wonder how many people I’ve lost to who just wing their passes and hope for the best

My defenders still make runs forward when instructions tell them to stay back

I have felt this so many times

Been playing Fifa since fifa 99 you are right about the triangle and normal pass.

Passing as well as finishing (at times) is super weird in this game. I believe that EA in both instances programmed it in a way that it takes the ratings of the players, based on the input and the positioning of the players it calculates the outcome and then matches the animations to that outcome. So basically: Input->outcome->animations this is also why this game is an animation hell, almost any goal you see the ball glitches through legs, feet, sometimes even the upper body. The hit boxes of the player only apply when the calculated outcome needs it to apply. This also applies for defenders locking on to balls and not doing so in a lot of instances As for passing, it is no secret that this pass assistance is to help "level the playing field" for new and not so good players, because otherwise they'd get intercepted a ton. Also it's to gloss over the poor attacking AI, because if your passes get to the players you want to pass them to, less people notice that the runs from the attackers are bad :)

when you watch videos like this you start to realise and appriciate old fifas from ps3 and early ps4

I mostly agree with this. One exception: in modern football it's often not desirable anymore to pass straight into your team mate's feet. To accelerate your game, you should pass at him on the side you want this second player to pass the next pass to. That way, less time is lost on receiving and controlling the ball. So someone would not be entirely wrong, if stating that the old system with one pass into one's feet and one pass into one's running path is obsolete (or at least not all-embracing).

2:39 Lol, that's a mighty offside.

Playing fifa doesn't make any logical footballing sense Am playing less n less by the day Fifa needs a new engine

Interesting analysis. And prime Pirlo on the sticks🤣

Fifa 10 - 12 was probably the best era. Each was quite a different playing experience to the other. Fifa 10, ping pong passing with really fast gameplay. Fifa 11, pace and crossing ruled the day. Fifa 12, total revamp of the defending system making the learning curve a crushing grind.

I've been playing fifa from day one so I really do understand exactly what you mean

And that's why I still play FIFA 14.

And this is the thing that gets me fuming the most at this game, stuff that just aren’t in your control.

This has been a problem for years but not enough people know.

I agree with you BUT there is one thing you miss though that many people dont know about.. in this fifa for example the high deep pass ( l1 triangle ) will be only given perfectly when the timing is right. This means you have to give the pass when you are on the same line as your opponent and are able to run him out, if you give the pass to early ( this was possible in fifa 20 ) now you wont get it right. Same thing with cross balls from the side, many people complain it doesnt work, so I tell them, try to time it right, keep an eye on the guy you want to pass it to! Same with the passing system, if you want to avoid those stupid passes.. look at the movement of your player, if he runs forward.. time it right with traingle and wait for him to walk side by side or wait till he stops running again and press X, all timing!!

At times you have two player options to pass to when making a counter attack one down the wing and one running straight into the box ahead of you and you decide to make a through pass to the one running down the wing since the one running onto the box in-front is marked but then due to assisted through balls, the ball is passed into the one in-front, possession is lost and you waste tghe counter. I really hate it when that happens.

This isn't a new problem IMO. Playing with the assists, the game has to guess what you're expecting to happen. 9/10 times it gets it right (or close enough) but it's not perfect, and the times it gets it wrong can be really frustrating. My friend and I play a co-op career every year. We've been doing it for years. Around FIFA 15 we decided we were fed up with all the occasions in a game when a pass would go wrong and we were holding the pad out at each other saying "I tried to pass to you, look I'm pointing the stick right at your guy". We were unsure if we did something wrong, or if the game misinterpreted what we were wanting. We switched to fully manual passing and shooting so it removed any doubt and at least when it went wrong we KNEW it was our error and can just say "Sorry man, I messed up that pass". It took a few games to get used to but we've been playing on full manual settings for 5/6 years now. It's much more fun, we've never looked back. You can ping the ball into areas of space wherever you want to on the pitch without limitation, so it opens up many more possibilities. It does what you want it to every time so there's no more frustration at misinterpreted inputs. And when you string a passing move together and score a great goal, the reward you feel is 10x more than you feel on the automatic settings. If you've got the patience to get through the first few games where you'll be putting every other pass into touch, I'd really recommend giving the manual settings a go.

I've always liked playing the passing game. that is my strategy. I know how to dribble, but I think passing game is so much more fun, but in this year's game it is so broken and the pass NEVER GOES as I want. I play X and it goes Y and I pass Y and it goes to the player's foot ... it simply doesn't work. My best performance is defending, but for some reason I never seem to read the pass because it goes in a different direction... this video is perfect.

Solid W on this entire review.