Of all the tweaks to keepers, the bolded change is by far the most important. High finesse shots from outside the box are the meta right now, and it’s ruining a lot of FUT 23 Coins online play as well as making the offline gameplay worse considering that the AI does now shoot from distance. The Pitch Notes highlighted how these shots will see an uptick in accuracy within the box, but this is all we have to go on in terms of these shots being toned down from outside the box. In a nutshell, keepers were too good at saving finesse shots inside the box and too poor at saving them from outside the box.
These two changes are for the greater good here as both offline and online players were in agreement that keepers needed some tweaking.
Defense Updated the defensive logic for players near the halfway line when defending a counter attack that originated from a corner situation. Defenders near the halfway line will now attempt to more closely mark the counter attacking players.
This is a nice tweak to the defensive logic. Counters from corners have been a problem both offline as well in Pro Clubs where corners tend to see most humans push up or defend in the box. With ball physics still needing work when it comes to headers, the chance to break against the AI from this situation is easily exploitable because the AI has trouble marking in this situation, usually either leaving a man free or doing the dreaded side shuffle animation that’s easy to dribble past.
In some situations, the defending team’s player would momentarily stop moving after the attacking side performed a Lobbed Through Pass.
One of the stranger bugs in FIFA 23 is precisely this one. While the AI doesn’t spam the lobbed through ball quite like people do, there are still too many instances where your defenders will momentarily stop, jog, or buy FIFA 23 Coins side shuffle for no apparent reason. This bug is near disastrous as it usually happens when the opponent is nearly through on goal.
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