Please hear me out here guys, I am not doing any modding myself but felt this is very important to be posted in this forum, in this FIFA 14 Mods and Patches section, as this is something I have just posted on the *cough* EA Official Fifa 14 forum re: the v1.2 patch and how it has killed the CPU AI (but of course I never mentioned you guys who will be able to wipe the floor with this v1.2 patch anyway!):----
Here is what I posted 'over there'.....:-
Ok, let me start by saying I have both PS3 and 360, but always get the PC version of any game (especially FIFA) due to its graphical superiority as well as the fact that, ie with patches/updates, I can see what is going on in terms of game updates....).
Now for the interesting bit..........I am a rare FIFA fanatic in that I sit through countless CPU vs CPU matches, and have a big interest in AI for Single Player gaming and am happy to do so for hours on end as opposed to actually playing it (please hear me out here all those who only play online), but at least this means I can qualify myself as an expert on what I see the CPU teams doing, or were doing before the v1.2 patch.......
I have been very very impressed with the flair, the tricks, the combinations, the flow of all moves whilst on v1.0 before any EA patches (albeit during a time when most of you were having freezing, quitting, various other major issues especially on the consoles)..................and then comes along v1.2 update, the update that fixes some of the issues you guys have been having, but how about this, it has, in its current state, completely ruined all the nuances, the flair, the skillmoves, the realistically skilful moves that the CPU AI was capable of, and made the animations, in my opinion, revert back to FIFA 11. Every single CPU attack now, (the same in Amateur up to Legendary levels), is a simplistic rush end to end, with no players doing any flair/freestyle/skillmove to beat an opponent, its very disturbing, its hard to believe the fixes to resolve the crashing issues meant this knock on effect has literally made the game, at least in terms of the CPU AI itself, revert back 3 years.
By renaming the PATCH.BH and the PATCH.BIG that come with the v1.2 FIFA.exe, the game still retains the skill and flow I mention above, but I feel for those on the consoles who are into the Single Player game and cannot rename the files as we can on PC.............
I mentioned elsewhere, before the v1.2 patch came out, that the only issue I personally have with the game is the Rainbow skillmoves, attempted by the CPU, always failing with the same end result (no-one else seems to have noticed this), but I am afraid that the above mentioned ruining of the CPU AI (unless you are on PC and can edit out the PATCH.BH and PATCH.BIG files) is a bigger issue for me now, and it may even be an issue that those who only play online will never encounter and be bothered about...............but I am sure, and hope, there are lots more Single Player fans out there like myself who have witnessed this major AI issue with the new update.
Roll on v1.3..............
Here is what I posted 'over there'.....:-
Ok, let me start by saying I have both PS3 and 360, but always get the PC version of any game (especially FIFA) due to its graphical superiority as well as the fact that, ie with patches/updates, I can see what is going on in terms of game updates....).
Now for the interesting bit..........I am a rare FIFA fanatic in that I sit through countless CPU vs CPU matches, and have a big interest in AI for Single Player gaming and am happy to do so for hours on end as opposed to actually playing it (please hear me out here all those who only play online), but at least this means I can qualify myself as an expert on what I see the CPU teams doing, or were doing before the v1.2 patch.......
I have been very very impressed with the flair, the tricks, the combinations, the flow of all moves whilst on v1.0 before any EA patches (albeit during a time when most of you were having freezing, quitting, various other major issues especially on the consoles)..................and then comes along v1.2 update, the update that fixes some of the issues you guys have been having, but how about this, it has, in its current state, completely ruined all the nuances, the flair, the skillmoves, the realistically skilful moves that the CPU AI was capable of, and made the animations, in my opinion, revert back to FIFA 11. Every single CPU attack now, (the same in Amateur up to Legendary levels), is a simplistic rush end to end, with no players doing any flair/freestyle/skillmove to beat an opponent, its very disturbing, its hard to believe the fixes to resolve the crashing issues meant this knock on effect has literally made the game, at least in terms of the CPU AI itself, revert back 3 years.
By renaming the PATCH.BH and the PATCH.BIG that come with the v1.2 FIFA.exe, the game still retains the skill and flow I mention above, but I feel for those on the consoles who are into the Single Player game and cannot rename the files as we can on PC.............
I mentioned elsewhere, before the v1.2 patch came out, that the only issue I personally have with the game is the Rainbow skillmoves, attempted by the CPU, always failing with the same end result (no-one else seems to have noticed this), but I am afraid that the above mentioned ruining of the CPU AI (unless you are on PC and can edit out the PATCH.BH and PATCH.BIG files) is a bigger issue for me now, and it may even be an issue that those who only play online will never encounter and be bothered about...............but I am sure, and hope, there are lots more Single Player fans out there like myself who have witnessed this major AI issue with the new update.
Roll on v1.3..............
i will try this
Also, I use a hex editor to view the executable in memory while playing a match.