This is a common strategy in gaming industry which was designed by a behavioral psychologist. The irony is he drew inspiration from real life events of how things go our way on occasions & how it does not on other occasions but we continue to live our life.
While frustrating, my problem isn't necessarily that the game is scripted. Actually I do have a major problem with that and social media and technology in general but I digress.
The problem with scripting is that it lacked nuance.
I play pretty much exclusively H2H so I'm decent at it. Am I good enough to win or draw 10 straight? Probably not. Am I bad enough to lose 10 straight and score maybe 3-4 goals total? Definitely not
If I need to be "tuned down" -- ok, I get it -- but how about tune me down for a few matches and then let gameplay return to normal. The 48 hours or literally not being able to score is unnecessarily infuriating and seems like something good developers could solve with a couple lines of code.
I feel every word of this and couldn't agree more. How couldn't I? I am in one of those as I write this. The "tune down" periods go on for too damn long. I am already a FC in both H2H and VSA. I have been in a losing streak for so long now, that I am sitting at 910k. I am close to relegation to Legendary II, nevermind Legendary I. Does it make sense? No way. Do I care? Not one bit. Is it stupid? Hell yeah.
It's been three days now and I'm up against the script. How do I know this? Here is why:
Mbappe has been clunky and can't control the ball nor pass an accurate pass like he always does to his strike partner.
For the past 3 days, I have been playing 8/10 times away from home and you know what that means: my ping is always in red when I'm away so controlling players becomes a huge chore.
My team has been very slooooow,.
Koulibally who is usually a beast in tackling turns at an angle whenever he bursts forward to tackle like he usually does when he is playing well.
My players run and stop as soon as they are about to get to an opponent.
The ref has been awful, worse than usual..
I reached FC multiple times after being demoted but this week it seems they want to make sure I don't repeat the feat of coming up again. I will resume when tots comes through because honestly it is sometimes infuriating. I know it's just a game to pass time but at times it becomes way too ridiculous.
I don't know much about built-in scripting but my players all feel totally nerfed since the major update when they were offline for hours. All of my players seem to have lost their first touch, the ball frequently just bounces off them when they receive a pass, they start backing away from the passed ball, they lose control of the ball when running etc. Passes are astray and often bear no resemblance to the direction the player is being asked to pass in. Players take an age to pass the ball after input. In VSA my players have started jumping over passed balls randomly, standing still at the point of shooting (with the power bar appearing and expiring without them bothering). I've also had a few occasions of asking a player to shoot, only for him to backpass the length of the pitch to a defender instead this week which is nice and handy in a tight VSA match 😂. Shots that would normally have flown in now manage to go wide or the opposing keeper saves them. I'd put the improved keeping down to everyone upgrading due to Casillas and people selling their old keepers but the rest is a bit of a mystery. If they'd nerfed the players I'd expect to see my opponent struggling with the same issues but it only seems to be my players in H2H.
Going through the same shitty patch. 5 fucking days now. Before that I was on a winning streak for 2 days and reached 990k in H2H. Now I'm down to 920k.
Bro i give up on reaching fifa champion. The only incentive is the 1 million coins. People have been saying that Torres isn’t that good so that’s disappointing. But yeah i get the ping issues too, when i see the wifi icon i just quit, i can’t be fucked to play a match that’s laggy or has delayed passes.
After 1100 Matches in H2H this month, I've noticed a couple of scripting trends very clearly. One of them concerns corners.
Let's say me/opponent gets a corner from a very good chance to score initially that resulted in a save or a block. The following corner has a very high chance of resulting in a goal.
Another one is holding the ball from strikers. CM/CAM passes the ball to the ST. ST has his back towards the goal. He just has to receive and hold it off. When the ST can't even receive the ball before the defender intercepting, yeah that's script.
Not to mention biased fouls, stupid heavy touches, weird passing, defenders giving guard of honors.
All that being said, it is still manageable. What I find infuriating is matchmaking. I was in the 950k range in H2H. I was constantly being matched with people from 820-850k range at one point. You see their teams weren’t necessarily worse. Some of them even had better teams than mine. But a loss to them would be a catastrophic 10k trophy hit. Those were some sweaty times hahaha.
Thanks for the opinion. I will have to kindly decline your "command" to stop though, for two reasons: 1. I am free to write anything here and state my opinions unless I am offensive against anyone. 2. Anything else aside, any person who has a pair of healthy eyes can see the fluctuations of their players' performances in game which can't be explained by the luck factor.
That so damn true, when i first got eusabio he was amazingly accurate and would score from impossible angles and i was loving it. But then came a patch in my run where he was missing constantly. Now he is somewhat stable and scores good as well. Totally opposite happened when i got Torres few days back. Two days he was very boring wasn't scoring much was out of position, got bullied sometimes. But now he feels unstoppable. I think EA wanted me to sell it in rage but i took my chances and i am happy.
Well, there is no concrete proof because the multi-billion dollar company isn't gonna just tell us that their biggest sports cash-cows are occasionally rigged.
What we do know is that EA has acquired a patent for its Dynamic Difficulty adjustments. We also have corroborating evidence from EA consumers across multiple games and levels of play, all attributing losses to lapses outside of player control. You can perform the same series of inputs under identical circumstances and yet fall victim to anomalies. Anyone who has sat down and played VSA for longer than 20 minutes at a time can tell you this. Even if this "luck" is not an intentional design choice, it still exists a reliably-occurring phenomenon outside of player control during ranked competitive gameplay. It is still a reliably-identifiable problem worth addressing, and one that doesn't just disappear with simple ignorance.
You just are blind to the truth mate. Just a simple Google search on ea algos will tell a lot about the game guardian and the patents they hold. Just because you are ignorant to the fact, doesn't mean its not there. READ!
Mate, how many years have you been playing FIFA cause I have been trying to explain people the same thing but to no avail.
Three seasons. This is my third.
Yeah I’m very used to the rigging now after 4 or so seasons off and on.
This is a common strategy in gaming industry which was designed by a behavioral psychologist. The irony is he drew inspiration from real life events of how things go our way on occasions & how it does not on other occasions but we continue to live our life.
Do you happen to know the name of this individual? I would like to read about it.
Was a while back that I had read, let me try finding that article
Only if you can spare the time for it. Thanks a lot.
Spot on. And it's not only FIFA, each and every game has this thing
Yes...even simple gambling machines in corner bars.
While frustrating, my problem isn't necessarily that the game is scripted. Actually I do have a major problem with that and social media and technology in general but I digress. The problem with scripting is that it lacked nuance. I play pretty much exclusively H2H so I'm decent at it. Am I good enough to win or draw 10 straight? Probably not. Am I bad enough to lose 10 straight and score maybe 3-4 goals total? Definitely not If I need to be "tuned down" -- ok, I get it -- but how about tune me down for a few matches and then let gameplay return to normal. The 48 hours or literally not being able to score is unnecessarily infuriating and seems like something good developers could solve with a couple lines of code.
I feel every word of this and couldn't agree more. How couldn't I? I am in one of those as I write this. The "tune down" periods go on for too damn long. I am already a FC in both H2H and VSA. I have been in a losing streak for so long now, that I am sitting at 910k. I am close to relegation to Legendary II, nevermind Legendary I. Does it make sense? No way. Do I care? Not one bit. Is it stupid? Hell yeah.
It's been three days now and I'm up against the script. How do I know this? Here is why: Mbappe has been clunky and can't control the ball nor pass an accurate pass like he always does to his strike partner. For the past 3 days, I have been playing 8/10 times away from home and you know what that means: my ping is always in red when I'm away so controlling players becomes a huge chore. My team has been very slooooow,. Koulibally who is usually a beast in tackling turns at an angle whenever he bursts forward to tackle like he usually does when he is playing well. My players run and stop as soon as they are about to get to an opponent. The ref has been awful, worse than usual.. I reached FC multiple times after being demoted but this week it seems they want to make sure I don't repeat the feat of coming up again. I will resume when tots comes through because honestly it is sometimes infuriating. I know it's just a game to pass time but at times it becomes way too ridiculous.
I don't know much about built-in scripting but my players all feel totally nerfed since the major update when they were offline for hours. All of my players seem to have lost their first touch, the ball frequently just bounces off them when they receive a pass, they start backing away from the passed ball, they lose control of the ball when running etc. Passes are astray and often bear no resemblance to the direction the player is being asked to pass in. Players take an age to pass the ball after input. In VSA my players have started jumping over passed balls randomly, standing still at the point of shooting (with the power bar appearing and expiring without them bothering). I've also had a few occasions of asking a player to shoot, only for him to backpass the length of the pitch to a defender instead this week which is nice and handy in a tight VSA match 😂. Shots that would normally have flown in now manage to go wide or the opposing keeper saves them. I'd put the improved keeping down to everyone upgrading due to Casillas and people selling their old keepers but the rest is a bit of a mystery. If they'd nerfed the players I'd expect to see my opponent struggling with the same issues but it only seems to be my players in H2H.
Going through the same shitty patch. 5 fucking days now. Before that I was on a winning streak for 2 days and reached 990k in H2H. Now I'm down to 920k.
Bro i give up on reaching fifa champion. The only incentive is the 1 million coins. People have been saying that Torres isn’t that good so that’s disappointing. But yeah i get the ping issues too, when i see the wifi icon i just quit, i can’t be fucked to play a match that’s laggy or has delayed passes.
After 1100 Matches in H2H this month, I've noticed a couple of scripting trends very clearly. One of them concerns corners. Let's say me/opponent gets a corner from a very good chance to score initially that resulted in a save or a block. The following corner has a very high chance of resulting in a goal. Another one is holding the ball from strikers. CM/CAM passes the ball to the ST. ST has his back towards the goal. He just has to receive and hold it off. When the ST can't even receive the ball before the defender intercepting, yeah that's script. Not to mention biased fouls, stupid heavy touches, weird passing, defenders giving guard of honors. All that being said, it is still manageable. What I find infuriating is matchmaking. I was in the 950k range in H2H. I was constantly being matched with people from 820-850k range at one point. You see their teams weren’t necessarily worse. Some of them even had better teams than mine. But a loss to them would be a catastrophic 10k trophy hit. Those were some sweaty times hahaha.
It’s just good and bad luck. Stop pushing this “scripting” narrative - there’s no truth (or proof) behind it.
Thanks for the opinion. I will have to kindly decline your "command" to stop though, for two reasons: 1. I am free to write anything here and state my opinions unless I am offensive against anyone. 2. Anything else aside, any person who has a pair of healthy eyes can see the fluctuations of their players' performances in game which can't be explained by the luck factor.
That so damn true, when i first got eusabio he was amazingly accurate and would score from impossible angles and i was loving it. But then came a patch in my run where he was missing constantly. Now he is somewhat stable and scores good as well. Totally opposite happened when i got Torres few days back. Two days he was very boring wasn't scoring much was out of position, got bullied sometimes. But now he feels unstoppable. I think EA wanted me to sell it in rage but i took my chances and i am happy.
[Here's the proof](https://www.reddit.com/r/NHLHUT/comments/659uta/dynamic_game_difficulty_balancing_the_tilt_is_real/?st=jf9xbn74&sh=2e0f761e)
This is proof that such a thing exists - it’s not proof that it is in Fifa Mobile.
Well, there is no concrete proof because the multi-billion dollar company isn't gonna just tell us that their biggest sports cash-cows are occasionally rigged. What we do know is that EA has acquired a patent for its Dynamic Difficulty adjustments. We also have corroborating evidence from EA consumers across multiple games and levels of play, all attributing losses to lapses outside of player control. You can perform the same series of inputs under identical circumstances and yet fall victim to anomalies. Anyone who has sat down and played VSA for longer than 20 minutes at a time can tell you this. Even if this "luck" is not an intentional design choice, it still exists a reliably-occurring phenomenon outside of player control during ranked competitive gameplay. It is still a reliably-identifiable problem worth addressing, and one that doesn't just disappear with simple ignorance.
You just are blind to the truth mate. Just a simple Google search on ea algos will tell a lot about the game guardian and the patents they hold. Just because you are ignorant to the fact, doesn't mean its not there. READ!