re: FIFA 16 Official Thread

I haven't had consistency issues on 16 but on 15 I'd be in a match with a good connection for like minutes, and when someone would score, it'd go to complete shite for the rest of the game. if I'm really paying attention I can see the judder in the pre game sequences and just quit FIFA from the Xbox menu but it just infuriates me. more then getting skunked 5-0 I don't understand how it's enjoyable for the other player although I assume they've never known any different.


I've noticed it more with American players now(or at least it says they're American, not sure what determines that) but because I'm in DFW, unless I turn the local matchmaking option off, over 50% of my games are against Mexicans

and Rise, I don't even take the latency bars word for it. unless it's after midnight, I check the other guys profile and if anything on it comes off as Hispanic I back out. which is a shame because there's plenty of Mexican players with good internet. I'm just too gun shy to even try anymore

has anyone had the infamous leaderboard issue? when I switched platforms all my Seasons stats disappeared. the only ones being catalogued now are the top 100 stats, and only the weekly and monthly. which is fine because frankly I'm never gonna sniff even the top 1000 I just like to compare to see how I'm improving or lack thereof

that's right where I'm at. 2 seasons in division 3, 2 relegations. but I'm getting close, that's for sure. much more encouraging than my play on 15'

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A simple tactical shift and a change in formation is what won the Xbox FIWC final match.

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the one where the guy had no time left and went 4-2-4 and got a miracle goal in extra time?

i just had one of those FUT games where my defenders moved like they were in quicksand

It also happens across the board. After midnight, I see it less and less. Two games into normal Seasons in Div 3 with 1 win and 1 loss, my loss was to River Plate playing with Leicester City. I had 3 wide open net goals taken by hitting the post twice and Drinkwater straight up missing the ball and falling like Charlie Brown. The last slowly rolled towards goal until the keeper grabbed it.

On the flip side, I played Div 5 matches after midnight and mostly matched against BVB, Arsenal, and Tottenham. I had 7 wins straight. From a software engineering standpoint, experiencing the same issues in 3 different locations with everything from 30Mbps to my Gigabit connection at home almost HAS to be by design.

I've read that "morale" plays a role this year behind the scenes, and I do notice that once I get on a run in a division, I tend to keep it going. That said, I think that they do everything in their power to keep you near those with a similar ELO Chess rating. I know for a fact that it's in the game, even though they've stated otherwise, after datamining the PC version in FIFA 14 and FIFA 15.

The right stick has some really, really inconsistent switching. Lots of frickery.

It's like once you start seeing the issues, they never go away. Routing's been considered a possible issue. I do know that LUS Fiber, which I have, routes through the Dallas node that's, for lack of a better word, fricked. This is the same one that one of the network engineers has stated that some packets take up to 6 seconds to make it through and he's certain that a large portion of packets don't even make it. That also seems to support the notion that low traffic periods lead to less of the frickery.

My best theory (after literally thousands of hours of doing and testing everything possible) is that the constant streaming data to the EA servers is either hitting bottlenecks during peak hours in Europe (since you're always connected to a server in Ireland or the UK). Another is that bad routing is leading to a slow build up of packets that are taking longer than they should to reach their destination leading to delays of milliseconds that cause somewhat of "desync" issue leading to an input lag effect. Lastly, it may just be awful lag compensation, but I've seen this same effect happen in almost every EA game along with NBA2K, as well.

I think that morale mixed with whatever is causing the small network issues is making the game unplayable in certain situations. I played a guy who lives in the same city who I've played hundreds of matches with over the years, and I experienced it the other day. Two days before, it played perfectly fine.

I'd really love to play someone else in the US who sees this issue a lot and see how their gameplay is compared to mine. If both players run into it, it's network based. Otherwise, it'd be interesting to see how it goes down. I pulled off a MITM attack during a match to intercept the packets, but I was too afraid to do too much and being banned for some sort of non-sense by Xbox Live or FIFA for packet tampering.

L1 is tough on breaks, esp when the play restarts after a goal or half.

when the opposition wins the ball, i always try to use r-pad to get a CB away from the play and pull him back. that's the safest play and how i typically play my contain D. the lines are horrible (and theoretically you can play a winger onsides) but this isn't real soccer

if i'm lucky that causes a non-forward pass or 2 and i can get my CDM and roam free to disrupt lanes/players at the box

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I'm going to use the money to invest in the best youth player scouts

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I mean they don't cost that much and there's only 3 allowed

You could always buy a few high potential youth guys already in the game and groom them. Idk what's it's like with financial takeover for a small club, but a medium/large club will get you a 130 million budget