EA Sports FC Career Mode?
May 11, 2023 6:56PM
edited May 15
What are you guys expecting? What new features do you want to see? What bugs do you want fixing?
The biggest rumour i've heard is an Online Career Mode, but to me we need a fully working Offline one first 🤦🏻♂️
And i still feel what we currently have is 5 years behind!
What are your thoughts?
The biggest rumour i've heard is an Online Career Mode, but to me we need a fully working Offline one first 🤦🏻♂️
And i still feel what we currently have is 5 years behind!
What are your thoughts?
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Not expecting much, to be honest.
First of all, I'd like there to still BE a career mode.
I'd like to see some of the irritating bugs go. For instance, I get so annoyed when I can't replace an international in a team sheet just before the match, for that match only. That's so unnecessary and never used to happen.
I'd like to see the sack not being an option (I mean, it's my career!), or at least be something you can choose to disable, and especially the apparently irreversible decline in boardroom confidence in the manager for missing one objective (leading to the sack), despite achieving the others.
I'd like to see some of the leagues that we have lost (like Brazil) come back. I'd like to see better penalty kick and free kick (and corners, for that matter) interfacing, because what we have in Fifa 23 is dire, in my opinion.
I'd like to see the ability to alter generated player characteristics, so I can stop a 16 year old looking like he's 50! Also, the ability to tweak some of the player attributes.
When you create new players, they shouldn't automatically appear in the careers you later start. You should have to opt them in - or at least be able to opt them out, without having to delete them. On the subject of creating players, you should be able to copy the attributes of a player you have already created and tweak those you want to change, rather than having to set each player's full set of attributes, as that takes time. It should also be possible to lift players previously created from last year's game into the current version, and alter things like the Date of Birth.
I'd like to see the academy players you inherit at the start of a career to be reflective of the club you are managing. The collection of academy players for Manchester United (for instance) are simply not realistic, they are so poor. I also don't really see a correlation between the quality of the recruits presented by the scouts, and the capabilities of the scouts. You might as well buy the cheapest scouts, as it seems to make not much difference what they 'find'.
It would be useful to carry over the training results you achieved in your first career to subsequent ones, so you don't have to do it all again.
I'd like them to repair dynamic potential. At the very least, it should be possible to 'recover' a player's potential much more straightforwardly than it is now.
Of course, this is far too late for any influence on the actual game (if we ever have had any influence anway!). It's probably now that they will start making decisions for EAFC 25, let alone 24.
Great post mate!
Some great ideas/suggestions, this is the type of focus and attention to detail the Devs need to put into the game too! Do they play the game themselves? Do they thoroughly test it? Its about time we got some Career Mode playtesters to sit down with the Devs and go through all the problems with the mode, before they even think about adding anything new.. There are just so many issues that currently plague Career Mode that it kills the immersion!
Maybe they even need to re-write certain code from scratch? Seeing as Career Mode is pretty much the same since Simon Humber rebuilt Manager Mode from scratch in FIFA 11.. So the Career Mode code is 13 years old!!
Its also seen 2 different engine switches since then switching from the Default > Ignite > Frostbite!
Do the Devs actually read these forums anymore? @RadioShaq
https://fifaforums.easports.com/en/discussion/630634/new-community-forum-manager#latest
Awesome, thanks for the reply!
I have a hard time understanding how on Online Career Mode would actually work. It's so easy raising funds and signing free agents etc., so if you want a challenging CM experience, you have to make restrictions for yourself, not signing these high profile free agents and also forcing yourself to sell a player, if a bigger club comes knocking with a reasonable offer. I can't imagine starting up an Online Career Mode, and then someone else just signs Mbappé for Blackburn Rovers. The game would need to provide the challenges for the players, not the players themselves, if an Online Career Mode should make any sense to me.
So that's a no from me. They should first build/rebuild a fully functioning Career Mode that is more or less bug-free, and make it just a bit challenging too. Or let us have the option to make it easy/medium/hard in terms of allocated funds etc., maybe also reflecting the objectives you'd get. Get more money = Finish higher in the table. This way you could choose a slow build with a lot of young players, without the board screaming for you to sign 3 crucial players and make an 86m profit or something like that.
I agree with most of @Cobblers points too. Except the "Create New Player" thing, not that I disagree with the point, but I just haven't done that myself.
But I would enjoy some interaction between the first team and the youth team in Career Mode, if that's in the pipeline. You bring up these talented players from the academy, and then it's just first team football or nothing for them, declining their potential rapidly, if you can't play them regularly or finding them a loan.
This brings me to the Dynamic Potential, which has never worked properly. Starters become far too good, especially the forwards, and reserves stall their development completely, if they don't play 80-90% of games, or whatever the threshold is. A 69 potential players shouldn't end up with +91, just because you play him regularly, and a talented player shouldn't stall completely, just because he's had an injury keeping him out for a few months.
I would also like the AI transfers to be looked at. I find the activity made by other clubs to be excessive, especially when it comes to English clubs. Brighton or Wolves signing a £140 million player, Camavinga moving to Crystal Palace etc. Could the game twerk some of these transfers to be limited, or could we limit them ourselves? I can choose not to receive offers for a certain player. It would be nice to apply the same option to AI players, for instance making sure that Foden would stay at Man City, Rashford at Man United, Saka at Arsenal etc.
Hey and maybe there can be a setting so that Firmino doesn't go to Juventus in the first Summer EVERY SINGLE TIME
Haha, can't say I've noticed that one, but I do have a list of my own repeats. But yes, less activity on the transfer market in general, and more control in regards to AI transfers, that would be awesome.
I'll formulate this very simply for you. It is ALOT more likely you'd see offline removed all-together than it is you'd EVER see the resources invested in an ''OCM''
They won't invest in anything they can't monetize.
OCM is a phantom limb at this stage representetive of an age that has come and gone.
If Offline isn't removed all together with the announcement of EAFC you should buy a lottery ticket because it means it'll survive another cycle, but to see any considerable resources put into it? Dude try living in the real world.
Awesome, thanks for the reply!
Best tell the dedicated Career Mode devs we've had since FIFA 20..
You chat nonsense!!
'''the dedicated Career Mode devs we've had since FIFA 20..'' <--
You mean the off-brand off-shute EA studio in one of them countries with long names? Same 'dedicated' studio that is working on CODE that is over a decade old?
Man the 'resources' at their disposal must truly be something else considering they are working with DECADE old code instead of writing new one...
I mean the year on year addons three years running we've seen for CM has TRULY been putting every other mode to shame...
Try living in the world for a bit before you have any discussions with people about what it's like.
Jesus wept.
These are tools that were developed for Ultimate Team as the base platform. That's the only reason you have stadium edits and such in CM.