The limited matches vs A.I. me and Nestor played today I don't think either of us won haha. The stuff you see on streams people playing on regular btw. I walked in to NES losing 3-0. I watched Neymar skin him in the box with 3 moves in a row which was cool. Atletico Madrid is officially my kryptonite. I didn't beat them once vs A.I. or vs Human controlling them. They are perfectly set up for how I play. The A.I. we played was really good and looked natural doing it. Was very varied. Saw multiple crosses, individual dribbles and great passes. Defensively the issues Matt find on def. positioning seem to happen vs Human opponent I think CPU is better about it. But one thing I agree is when players are set up as wingers they don" t track back as Matt said unless ball is super deep in final third. I will feed the back to Adam and Asim.
I spoke with the lead Japanese developer for a half hour today. Got all our points across boys!!! His translator helped me. I talked about Individuality from PS2 days as well as tactics. I told him how they changed pressing to be risk/reward now and he was so happy he said I was the first person to tell him that and that was one of the things he worked on the most the past few months so we hit it off well. Once I buttered his bread I got into some suggestions. He said they really worked on individuality for CPU and they were worked super hard on the A.I. in general. The previous build he had he felt the defenders were too brilliant so had to ease up.
We talked about PS2 tactics. He seems to prefer the advanced instructions so may be tougher to get PES2011 system or PS2 system back
A couple nuggets. There was a moment in my match against him where I came in one v one with the keeper on a 45 degree angle and the keeper didn't go down like he did when you got one v one more centrally. He saw it, I told him that needed to be fixed he agreed so that was a big plus to show him that. Otherwise guys, keepers are really good aside from the floaty jump they sometimes do on weaker shots. I even told him about football kingdom nets lol
So with the auto shielding check this out. Heres a cool example about the stats, a player like Gabriel Jesus vs Diego Godin, If Jesus is shielding ball vs Godin depending on positioning double tap X and Godin will stick his foot between Jesus' legs and tapped the ball away where as when Godin is shielding the ball vs Jesus, if you double tap X with Jesus he will try to reach in and tap the ball but Godin's physicality will hold him off and animations for it lookreally good. The sense of urgency in defending and cutting off passing lanes and the physicality of strikers holding off a defender waiting for an incoming pass looks gorgeous and is done really well. **** Atletico Madrid
They really fixed passing individuality. With lower pass stats from say defenders there lofted passes and through balls will be floaty and also you have to power up more for more power compared to a player like Iniesta where you can put low power and have good pace and accuracy. So playing out of the back under pressure is fucking dangerous. So a player like Pique it will take him a split second longer to power up more for a harder pass and get his long ass legs going in a passing animation (by no means a delay btw responsiveness is spot on) so under pressure there is more a chance you could get the ball taken off you. If you don't power up hard enough you will hit a softer pass in that direction with a greater chance of change of possession.
CPU A.I. on games we played today misplaced passes. Also ripped us new assholes. A.I. was really good and varied but such a small sample size sorry.
The more I take shots the more I do notice difference in shooting from last year it is pretty good. Problem is getting shots off is fucking hard lol. I'd like to see more shooting animations but the ones they got are done well. Better than 2017 hands down. Jose actually thinks the shooting is really fuckin good. He's used to FIFA's shooting variety and animations so take that as big compliment. Some shots are still too powerful looking but you really have to load up on power bar to see those.
This E3 demo really was something special. If they **** it up change stuff and make it more assisted and you guys dont get to play what we played I'd feel gutted for you guys.
I'm stuck at the airport for next 3 hrs any questions post them i'll be hanging around