FIFA 14

Drake5 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:17

The EA forums are a fantastic resource, learned so much from them. Some fantastic guides on there as well. You should take a look. Very active to, more so than the thread on here.

Happy_2008, I never complained about your play style so not sure what you're on about there?

You kept the ball constantly which frustrated me so I had to find out what to do to regain possession and that was to break your build up play down with lobbed through balls.

I must have done something right as I won didn't I?

And I am looking to change my bundes side up, whether it be formation or player changes, I can't win lately. Lost about 20 in a row.

Rybo89 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:22

Tim are we going to have are final match soon?

Only got a normal team now, no IF's. 50k team

Rusty0611 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:22

This is bad, about 4 days after being £400 up from selling my coins I'm getting the urge to build teams again

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Bad Rusty, use your two good teams and forget about it!

RedStarRiot · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:23

Tom_D said:
The EA forums are a fantastic resource, learned so much from them. Some fantastic guides on there as well. You should take a look. Very active to, more so than the thread on here.

Happy_2008, I never complained about your play style so not sure what you're on about there?

You kept the ball constantly which frustrated me so I had to find out what to do to regain possession and that was to break your build up play down with lobbed through balls.

I must have done something right as I won didn't I?

Really, this thread is quite active as well.

Although "I had to find out what to do to regain possession and that was to break your build up play down with lobbed through balls. doesn't really make sense

Surely you break his play down by using what ever tactic and then use lobbed through balls as a counter to his style of play. Regardless, you won at the end of the day but you lost the right to complain about anybody else's style of play ever again. I've heard you call out people for cross spamming, through ball spamming, lobbed through ball, sweating etc....

Rybo89 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:23

£400 'up'? As in you have made money?

RedStarRiot · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:24

Rusty0611 said:
This is bad, about 4 days after being £400 up from selling my coins I'm getting the urge to build teams again .

Bad Rusty, use your two good teams and forget about it!

I'll try to get on this evening Rusty for a game, flat is getting done up just now so I've been quite busy. Got on last night but you or Rob were not online

ps3ud0 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:25

Rusty0611 said:
This is bad, about 4 days after being £400 up from selling my coins I'm getting the urge to build teams again .

Bad Rusty, use your two good teams and forget about it!

Buy me a team if you like

ps3ud0

Drake5 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:26

I cannot defend at all at the moment. Should not be losing this many games.

Rusty0611 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:28

Rybo89 said:
£400 'up'? As in you have made money?

You're right technically not £400 up (badly worded) but I'm about £100-150 up. I dunno it's hard to track. I've opened a lot of packs but tbh the majority of my coinage was via trading. Trading is real hard work nowadays. It helped the webapp being glitched to be honest as it gave you more time to get the real bargains before the autobuyers did

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My last pack openings didn't yield anything of real value so the coins I had at the end were not affected that much by the packs.

RedStarRiot said:
I'll try to get on this evening Rusty for a game, flat is getting done up just now so I've been quite busy. Got on last night but you or Rob were not online

OK mate cool. Not sure I'll be on tonight. Will see how interesting the Barca vs City game is.

ps3ud0 said:
Buy me a team if you like

ps3ud0

I would have sent you 100k if you were half a week earlier

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Rybo89 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:31

Tom its FIFA, you are a noob. You win, you lose. Just enjoy the rage and atmosphere the game can give.

I woke the whole street up the other night when i scored an absolute beast of a Volley on pro teams about 1AM. You would have thought i had won the Euro millions lotto

happy_2008 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:32

Tom_D said:
Happy_2008, I never complained about your play style so not sure what you're on about there?

You kept the ball constantly which frustrated me so I had to find out what to do to regain possession and that was to break your build up play down with lobbed through balls.

I must have done something right as I won didn't I?

To be honest you only started the lob through balls after you went 1-0 down. But in response to your question no you didn't do it right as the game ended 1-0.

You should be prepared for games like this though. I had one game the other day where the opponent played exactly like me holding the ball and passing it around waiting for chances to open. He won that 2-0 in the end although it should have been a draw but never in Fifa 14 have i ended a game where by the posession, shots were literally 50/50 and both teams pass accuracy ended 91% EACH :eek:

Drake5 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:32

Rybo89 said:
Tom its FIFA, you are a noob. You win, you lose. Just enjoy the rage and atmosphere the game can give.

I woke the whole street up the other night when i scored an absolute beast of a Volley on pro teams about 1AM. You would have thought i had won the Euro millions lotto

I understand this but what frustrates me the most is why I can have a few days of playing really well and win most games and then just start losing every game.

Dredd · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:33

i'm having really bad time at the moment with fifa, all my games are high scoring games i can't defended at all.

someone tell me what i'm doing wrong?

they seem to just run around my players and score,

Drake5 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:35

happy_2008 said:
To be honest you only started the lob through balls after you went 1-0 down. But in response to your question no you didn't do it right as the game ended 1-0.

You should be prepared for games like this though. I had one game the other day where the opponent played exactly like me holding the ball and passing it around waiting for chances to open. He won that 2-0 in the end although it should have been a draw but never in Fifa 14 have i ended a game where by the posession, shots were literally 50/50 and both teams pass accuracy ended 91% EACH

I'm not bothered about playing nice football any more, or possession football etc as it just doesn't win in seasons and I want to actually progress in seasons.

I am now going to adopt a sweaty style of play like everyone else I play against in seasons. I'm just going to spam lob balls and spam crosses.

If it gets me wins then I'm all for it.

Rybo89 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:36

Tom_D said:
I understand this but what frustrates me the most is why I can have a few days of playing really well and win most games and then just start losing every game.

If you could have seen my stats a month ago and look at them now, you'll understand what a **** time i have had on FIFA lately.

Got use to it now though.

happy_2008 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:42

Tom_D said:
I'm not bothered about playing nice football any more, or possession football etc as it just doesn't win in seasons and I want to actually progress in seasons.

I am now going to adopt a sweaty style of play like everyone else I play against in seasons. I'm just going to spam lob balls and spam crosses.

If it gets me wins then I'm all for it.

Personally I think this is really the wrong approach. I tend to find that when I have fast players I slowly without realising become more of a one man team. My style of play changes automatically and I end up losing games when I should be comfortably winning. Anyhow I'm currently in Div 6 and slowly moving my way up whenever I can be bothered to play seasons.

Rusty0611 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:54

Tom_D said:
I'm not bothered about playing nice football any more, or possession football etc as it just doesn't win in seasons and I want to actually progress in seasons.

I am now going to adopt a sweaty style of play like everyone else I play against in seasons. I'm just going to spam lob balls and spam crosses.

If it gets me wins then I'm all for it.

If you get fun from it then fair enough but there's more fun to be had than just winning.

I get fun from absolutely humiliating people by skilling. I'm not as good as the best skillers out there but I can nail some really nice combos.

Rybo89 · 12 Mar 2014 at 16:55

^ where as i just fall on my arse 9 out 10 of the times.

Kanifee · 12 Mar 2014 at 17:04

Rybo89 said:
^ where as i just fall on my arse 9 out 10 of the times.

In the practice arena i can get them out pretty fluidly, a wide variety too but if you stick someone in front of me i go to pot, mistiming them, mind going blank and forgetting which would suite what situation... Very frustrating.

Do you guys use O to tackle or do you just use the analogue stick and player position? Im having a little trouble consistently wining tackles and wonder if im doing it wrong, I use O.

Rusty0611 · 12 Mar 2014 at 17:10

It's all about context and timing. If you're facing someone up and thinking in advance which skill move you want to use then it probably won't work work. It may but it's less likely to.

You have to react to the situation you're in and use the skill corresponding to the the situation. Three or four are normally a good place to start to learn and then just append new moves into your repertoire as you go on. I use probably 5 moves max normally but when I'm being a smart arse I'll whip them all out

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