Hi All,
here are my thoughts on the latest 2.8 AI, not his DB.
The positives:
- Yellows and fouls. Love it, feels like a real game there.
- Amazing goals, kicks, goalkeeping and skills with the AI.
- Overall strategy is much better than the default one.
- Fidel has done his best to switch off as many "script cheats" as he can. The AI still sometimes does an amazing job of scoring on me in the last second which annoys me, but overall his mod is far superior than the default gameplay.
Now my general complaints remain the same for me:
- Tackles are too perfect at times, while others not so much. This wouldn't be bad if it was the defenders doing it, but even attackers have crazy tackle skills. This comment is 2.8AI but NOT Fidel's DB which I will try today.
- Protecting is generally good, but I have seen certain players not sure if it is fast players or certain players with higher skill bypass my protect, nudge the ball off of my feet and blast past me. I will continue to analyze this, as this could be due to the fact that it isn't a player with higher control.
- Tackling the PC is very very hard, so I generally play containment football.
- Reactions of my AI players and heck even me at times is too slow. AI will be going one direction, and then switch directions, and my player will be left behind. Enemy AI does it to MY AI all the time as well. This issue is EA in general and has NOTHING to do with Fidel's mod, but part of me hopes somehow he can find a way around it.
- With Fidel's mod i am not sure if different teams retain their team strategies, like Barcelona and Bayern Munich do slow build up, while real madrid and Dortmund do counter football. If anyone knows for sure, let me know.
- Also, I have found that due to computer reaction vs me clicking buttons, the AI will almost ALWAYS win a one on one challenge. For example, if I rush towards the ball, even if my player is faster, for some weird reason AI gets to it first. Also, if we both get to it the same time, more often than not, AI will get possession, I will loose possession.
DISCLAIMER: I do not know if much of this difficulty is due to World Class difficulty "cheats and scripts" installed to make the game harder vs. having the game play smarter.
Things I would LOVE to see:
- Better protect
- Better AI assisting me, i'm tired of doing EVERYTHINg
- Zero cheats, except for an occasional morale system that either pushes a team to try and catch up or has the team give up if they're too far behind.
- Better headers, i have had MAJOR issues getting any headed in from a corner or free kick.
- Less perfect tackles
- PC not winning every single one on one challenge (annoying to see two of my players or three even having issues dispossessing an unknown)
Tonight, I intend to do testing with Fidel's DB and 2.8 AI. For some reason his 2.3 experimental AI remains my favorite.