Hello, I have just installed the last 4.4 beta, and played some matches. I apreciate very much the effort of the comunity to tweak this game and make it better. I consider that developers often read these forums, and I can't resist to express my opinion about the game (also our opinions could be usefull for modders). Understand this like a constructive criticism.
For my taste, the big problem I have with this game is that the phisics is far away from what it should. I'm not complaining about this mod, of course, I'm speaking about the game itself, and the way it uses to emulate something called “football”. I think I would prefer a game with all players with exactly the same attributes (all the same speed, same skills, etc), just because I think it would be much easier to detect anomalies and emulate correctly the phisics. Anyway I'm not expecting a great database, I'm only interested in the football game itself, not in the footballers. I say this because sometimes I see how a shot or a simple pass is more or less correctly drawn, and suddenly, when I change the player, the same action gives me as a result a missile without sense, or a ball trayectory totally antinatural.
In my opinion this game is too much arcade, and also let let the computer to decide more things than desired. For my taste, a football game can’t be good if I have not the possibility of kicking the ball with the power I want, and send in the direction I want, at the height I want, and that the ball trace a path believable and natural. I think this should be the basis of a good game of football, and whatever comes next shoud be a bonus. I’m not saying this to discourage anyone, but for depelopers (to give them another opinion).
This game offers the possibility to modify the attributes of the players, yes, but I get the feeling that this versatility does nothing but confuse. I do not know if it may be nonsense for others, but I think I'd like a patch to put all players with exactly the same attributes, and to focus on the response of that player "model" would be as credible as possible.
It would also be interesting that Fifa 13 take into account small details that kill the immersion, such as the horrifying pespective used in the cameras, or the disproportion in the size of the areas. I would recommend them to forget everything and focus on a piece of land and a ball, and try to make teh ball behave naturally ... and then everything else. What happened with that Nvidia Phisics? plan to apply exclusively to chess games?
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