Quote Saddened!="Saddened!"I have moaned for a while about the lack of realistic off the ball runs made by attacking players, but which element of it is annoying you so much?'"
Defending and complete inability to anticipate things around them. Why is it, when I charge up and go for a shot, the only player running to block me is my team mate? Making an off the ball run with absolutely no awareness of my presence. Why is it that I bang in a screaming shot, it gets deflected out for a goal kick, because my team mate is stood on the edge of the box in the only possibly place to block my shot?
When you're defending, a through ball will get played behind, if you don't change to your player and call an assisted team mate, they will just let the ball go through to the player and keep 'running straight'. They do this thing as well, for example, a through ball got played down behind my right back, Guarin was covering at right back but, because he's a midfielder, instead of following the play like any player would, he just stops and moves back into midfield, I have to change to Guarin to get him to chase after the ball, but because Fifa's 'change player' (L1) is so inconsistent, I couldn't change to Guarin as it already had Rolando 'auto running' to the ball for me.
There are many things that the AI doesn't do, they don't defend set pieces, they don't intercept passes and they don't react to the most basic of things, simply because their 'setting' is to hold position and little else. I don't want the AI to do everything for me, but when it's basic common sense to do these things, I can't understand why it doesn't happen.
Also, just for the record, why does almost every shot get blocked? I understand you can't just let rip from anywhere, but when a player has an entire goal to shoot at, but he somehow hits it directly in line with the defender's knee, or the defender's lower back, or the defender's toe, it's infuriating. It's like the solution to their poor goalkeeping - or unrealistic shooting - is just to block 75% of shots from outside of the box. It's just hilarious to see you charge up a sledgehammer, only for a player to stick his knee out and it deflects right to his toes, or his team mate's feet.
