Tim Cahill - What Can You Say!

[mateinone]

Yeah not a great fan of it so far.
The Journey is a big upgrade on last year, in that the story line is longer, but it is still extremely linear, so becomes a little boring.

The 3 areas that I have noticed the biggest differences are

1) Tackling. I always have used "Legacy Defending" as I don't like the "Tactical Defending", but this year it feels "off". It seems much more difficult to defend. Just as an example, the last 2 years I have completed Division 1 seasons on the World League which last year the difficulty level was
Ultimate
Ultimate
Ultimate
Legendary
Ultimate
Ultimate
Ultimate
Ultimate
Legendary
Ultimate

To win, you had to win all 10, so the way I played I needed to keep a lot of clean sheets (I play a very high possession game, rather than fast break).

This year.. I am even getting scored against in the new "Squad Battles" format on professional level, with the Full Backs missing tackles far too often.

2) Dribbling. Whilst FiFA 15-17 made a lot of steps forward with dribbling, I have yet to get the technique in this one. Holding the ball is much the same, but those dinky little stepovers or even fake pass/shots just done seem as smooth so far.

3) Shooting.. Sending Finesse shots over the bar from 6 yards, or not being able to find the corners of the nets this year has been really frustrating. I am sure that is just something that needs some time to develop. but in one squad battle I had something like 16 shots and couldn't score. I felt like Man United when they used to play against Blackburn and Friedel was in goal.

It is probably just that I haven't taken the time to adapt and it is always easier to play the previous version, but so far those issues have dampened my enthusiasm a fair bit for it this year.

I have only played 2 1-1 games so far against my son, so I can't really compare the head to head features this year.

I got the early release Ronaldo Edition and after the 1st week, I have only probably played it a further 5 times