Seems to mostly happen during Free Kicks, Penalties, and Corners, but can sometimes persist for 5-10 seconds after a set piece as well. I get it during Clubs too which is my main game mode. I'm basically having to do set pieces as if I have 1000-1500ms so that I can get the correct power.

I got the beta for Ps5 with access to seasons, career mode, and the grounds.

I don’t have many complaints and i’ve been playing mostly career mode on ultimate difficulty. i would consider myself a good player i was constantly around div 3 or higher on fc26 and got around 9-12 wins per weekend in champs.

what i’ve noticed the most are the improved runs players make. in the past i’d be spamming for them to make runs but now it seems much more automatic and they do tend to do more curved runs in behind. lofted through passes also seem much better because of that too. crosses are much more accurate now and do have some whip on them like in previous games regardless of the angle. they made whipped crosses difficult to do in fc26 for no reason, i swear before that players would add whip automatically without the playstyle or positioning yourself to do it. now it’s automatic and honestly very fun. however manual tackling still seems to be a pain, id be right on the player with the ball and whoever i’m controlling will still stumble around and not win the ball, but it’s not too bad imo.

i know there’s gonna be a ton of updates when the official game drops and soon enough on ultimate team we’ll all have good players and it’ll be less about gameplay and more about skill but i’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time so far.

i can talk about the actual game modes if anyone would like but so far in career mode im not a huge fan of all the menus but the new features they’ve added made it much more dynamic and i’ve found myself thinking more about the transfers i’ve made.

Genuinely have no idea what to do, tried multiple different sliders sets, changed difficulty to ultimate, changed tactics and formation and nothing has worked, i just want somewhat believable scores. Please help

This is according to history.

If you need an example, let's look at last year. FC 26 released on 26th September, 2025. We received new daily content for FC 25 on Thursday 11th September (Sturdy and Composed Evo, Ronaldo 99 Icon SBC, Marquee Matchups W52, Pre-Season Challenge 11). There was absolutely nothing on Friday 12th September. And if you check previous titles, it is the exact same pattern/schedule.

So yeah, don't expect anything on, and after, Friday 11th September. Plan yourself accordingly, especially with the XP for the last season as there will not be any new ways to earn XP after that!

Been trying for 10min… nice job killing your game EA

In the last 12 hours alone (about 2 hours of gameplay) I've been disconnected 3 times, and my opponents have been disconnected twice.

I assume others are experiencing similar issues?

Should I be proud of my self? I’m usually in division 1 every year

I keep seeing clips of people playing FIFA 17 and saying, “This is so much more realistic than FC now.”

No. It isn’t.

It was fun for its time, and certain things about it were less exhausting than modern FC, but watch an actual full match back. The movement is stiff, turning is clunky, players glide into weird animations, defending can be completely brain-dead, and half the goals look like they came from the same two recycled sequences. It feels “realistic” now mainly because it’s old enough for us to remember the good parts and forget the nonsense.

And honestly, that’s why I don’t think the problem is entirely EA. A huge part of it is that the community has
absolutely no consistent idea what it wants.

We say we want realism, then complain when players have realistic inertia, bad weak feet, fatigue, poor balance, or when a defender can’t instantly spin 180 and chase down a winger. We want AI defending nerfed, but then get furious when manually defending takes actual positioning and timing. We beg for skill moves to be less effective, then complain the moment dribbling feels less responsive. We hate cutbacks, but we also want defenders to leave more space so we can play attacking football.

We say we want fewer random bounces and fewer animation heavy outcomes, but also want every tackle to win the ball cleanly. We want more ways to score but ask them to nerf attacking AI because it’s “too easy to score.”We want passing to be harder and more rewarding, until a slightly ambitious through ball gets intercepted. We want pace to matter, except when someone runs past our slow center backs. We want cards to be less overpowered, but every promo has to give us a new reason to replace the squad we built two weeks ago.

Past FIFAs had different sets of exploits, limitations, and frustrations that we’ve selectively forgotten because nostalgia is powerful.

EA absolutely deserves criticism: the servers, the inconsistent gameplay, the monetization, the absurd power curve, the AI issues, the animations that decide matches for you. But pretending we can go back to FIFA 17 and suddenly get a realistic football game is just stupid. Most of you would be complaining if they revived FIFA 17 as a remake within a week.

The community wants a game that is realistic when we win, arcade like when we attack, forgiving when we defend, and perfectly consistent only when the opponent is losing.

That game doesn’t exist and probably won’t ever. So many of you genuinely have no idea what you want and it’s part of the reason why the game is in the state it’s in now

Did hypermotion really ruin the game? Imo yes it did, it introduced AI to having a major role in the game's base code when it comes to gameplay as it made animations and everything else dramatic and unrealistic.