re: FIFA 16 Official Thread

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I used my online draft coin on my phone while laying bed this morning and played the game before doing anything else today and got fricking wrecked I think I've done 3 total drafts(two of them last year) and I've never even come within a goal of winning. I know there's drafting formulas and whatnot but that's sterile

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I've literally just picked the best team possible with only minor attempts at chemistry and got 3/4 games into it every time. The first few times I tried, I tried to work the chemistry and ended up with subpar players with okay chemistry against squads with Ronaldo, Neymar, Messi, etc all in the starting 11 and mostly out of position. Got worked. It's all a sham.

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they need to get rid of the P2P server. because ironically enough, I've never had significant lag issues playing BF4.

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It's called Dedicated Servers, and at one time, Xbox One was going to make them mandatory for online play before they forced Kinect and mentioned DRM at E3 and got slaughtered. Their initial vision was one very similar to what Steam's done with game sharing with friends, cloud-computing used for additional power, dedicated servers on all titles, etc.

They don't do this simply because of the costs. They'd have to invest in massive server farms (which they already have anyway) in various areas globally, and using P2P simply offsets these costs and can also really improve the experience if proximity-matchmaking is done properly.

Honestly, I don't think it's the P2P aspect of it because that sort of lag behaves differently than this. That's your more traditional stuttering or teleportation type of lag. This is almost like a desync issue, but ironically, I've only experienced it while connected to EA servers. Same goes for 2K, which ironically also uses Prolexic.

What I have documented over the past 3 years of obsessing over this issue shows that the EA servers will inadvertently use European nodes even if you're in America. Other times, it uses the two West Coast nodes. This alone has caused some observable issues, but easily playable for most of the time. However, when things DO act really bad while being routed to the London or Irish nodes, they're absolutely abysmal.

I honestly think that it's partially EA tinkering with values in the matches along with bad networking practice all working together to ruin everyone's lives. I mean, no one ever brings it up, but if you start FIFA on a brand new account, the intro match asks you if you'd like to allow the difficulty to scale up and down during it to dynamically set the difficulty you should play at. There's no way in hell they created such a complex feature just for one intro match for brand new players. It's one thing if they'd just collect data and recommend a difficulty at the end, but this is legit dynamic difficulty modification in real time.

I mean we used to talk about the "Comeback Code" in NCAA 2007 so this nothing new for EA, but that was usually only at the end and not nearly as egregious. I don't even care when I lose. I lost for years and years, and I just loved to play and get better. I just hate feeling like a good run of form is going to lead to several matches of being incapable of doing anything good.

For me, when it's bad, it's really bad. Suddenly, my tactics go wonky, every shot and pass either comes off too hard or too soft, players slide off of my defenders like they're lubed up, etc. It comes and goes in streaks, and it actually happens offline as well as long as I'm connected to the EA servers. I've done everything short of moving cross-country into the closest shack to where they're located.

Strangely, I never had this problem in any FIFA until FIFA14 when I started playing competitively and at a much higher rate. Actually, I remember the exact date of the first time it ever happened because it was the first day of the FUT United event they were having.

February 21, 2014, one of the darkest days in my life.

futhead.com

awfully quiet in here for a Saturday....everyone must be playing well

So I found out my Europa League draw...

Everton, Besiktas, and Lech Poznan

I've got one match to win to get into division 6, I was playing a 4-3-3(5) and doing really well but I hit a wall. like hard. I couldn't keep anyone out. so I'm back to the middle diamond, had to buy some position changes and picked up Dempsey and altidore and won 2 games pretty handily. I was working on H2H last night to get up into division 3. going to try to make a run at division 1 this week before the cup window opens

Cavani got sold to ManU in my career and he's a monster

I played this squad last night in division 3 on fut (after holding my own in division 1 for 3 season I promptly got my arse kicked in division 2 and was relegated again)



Beat them 4-3. 93 Pogba scored his first hat trick for me, including a 35 yarder at the 45' mark that was an absolute scorcher

Going to start a Ligue 2 career tonight. Probably AC Ajaccio.