Re: AI Too Difficult (not a happy anniversary)

Me too!!!!

Since the last update it seems the AI difficulty in icones chronicles has been turned up to insane levels (maybe other offline modes in general but not sure since there isn't other modes really available at the moment). I play this game to relax on my phone, I feel like you shouldn't have to be basically perfect just to win one game at pro difficulty. I mean, from their players being near unstopable with the ball, their goalies making impossible saves, their passing slicing through any semblance of defence you can put up and them being able to score wonder goals from nowhere, I can't imagine what the champion difficulty of this AI looks like when this is only pro ! Can I have any developper word on if this is intended or not ? I am a veteran player of several years, have spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on the game and I am probably way better than your average player, so me finding the AI so difficult should concern you a lot. I almost want to ragequit sometimes...

So fixing AI passing in manager mode also makes them have near-invincible ball control, impossibly quick tackling, superhuman goalkeeping and overpowered long shooting abilities in vs AI matches ? @mendozzamagic 

I'm glad to learn that EA doesn't control and test the updates. 🙌

Imbalance between auto switching times of both teams becomes a key outcome influencer and sadly this is too reliant on the game engine and outside user control.

Pls ensure both teams get same switching speed irrespective of whether it is PvE, PvP or PvP autoplay/disconnected

It’s absurd how they released this without properly testing it. And then taking crazy long to get a fix out and totally not communicating about it. It’s so disrespectful and so unprofessional. There better be a good compensation for all this… (but knowing  EA, it will probably come down to 3 coins and an unusable, untradable 95 OVR player) 

Totw matches unplayable

1. Defs wont jump

2. The players play badly whichwver side i pick

3. Ball watching and not running to receive a through pass

4. All passes nerfed. Even driven passes

5. Players slow down automatically as they reach near an opponent... hence imposs tp chase down anyone but the ai can chase down my st like hell

6. When the game decides the Ai has to score then all tackle commands go unnoticed or massively delayed

7. Switching speed and reaction times of Ai is unreal.. even slowmo replay seems fast

8. The apparent lag in my players doesnt seem to affect the way opponent LB or RB operate... its as if their workrates were set to 3000

@jobjjobjEveryone knows that, except EA. This game is optimized with a trowel.

@mendozzamagic what do you think? Concerns valid? If these ai matches can be like this.. it goes without saying that any ai mode even in div rivals can act like this (on behalf of a disconnected player or an autoplayer for example)

And boy, to get 3000 pts one must win these 4 matches like 20+ times? And the 3000 pt pack gives us what? Coin exchange fodder? No thanks.

Either nobody in EA has guts to call it out or they are just clocking in the hours to keep earning their monthly wages....pitiful state of affairs

Another dumb thing in this game : The gallery in the Anniversary event. Can someone tell me what is the utility of this gallery, except showing us players we will never have ?

I've been playing the Anniversary event for 3 weeks. I have spent Gems in the store and I haven't won any of the players in the gallery. Nothing ! Rien ! Nada !

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@jobjjobj wrote:

Totw matches unplayable

1. Defs wont jump

2. The players play badly whichwver side i pick

3. Ball watching and not running to receive a through pass

4. All passes nerfed. Even driven passes

5. Players slow down automatically as they reach near an opponent... hence imposs tp chase down anyone but the ai can chase down my st like hell

6. When the game decides the Ai has to score then all tackle commands go unnoticed or massively delayed

7. Switching speed and reaction times of Ai is unreal.. even slowmo replay seems fast

8. The apparent lag in my players doesnt seem to affect the way opponent LB or RB operate... its as if their workrates were set to 3000

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TOTW is the only high difficulty one I can manage to beat - the match centre ones on the other hand, sheesh 🙄 

The AI difficulty, particularly at Pro and World Class level seems to be too overpowered and way too erratic - I personally can play the same match three times and get wildly different results, which just doesn’t make sense.

The team is working on it and will hopefully be able to provide an update on what it is doing about it in the near future 

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@jobjjobj wrote:

@mendozzamagic what do you think? Concerns valid? If these ai matches can be like this.. it goes without saying that any ai mode even in div rivals can act like this (on behalf of a disconnected player or an autoplayer for example)

And boy, to get 3000 pts one must win these 4 matches like 20+ times? And the 3000 pt pack gives us what? Coin exchange fodder? No thanks.

Either nobody in EA has guts to call it out or they are just clocking in the hours to keep earning their monthly wages....pitiful state of affairs

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The AI in Div Rivals is tuned differently, so should not have the same impact as in the pve pro and world class, but that said I haven’t had a disconnected opponent in h2h in some time (possibly because I only play it when I absolutely have to) so can’t reliably comment on whether that is the case.

However, from what I have been told by league mates and friends on discord, it does seem to confirm that the h2h AI has not been noticeably impacted by the recent changes 

it remains the case though, that if a player disconnects in h2h, if you moderate your play and don’t sprint at the opposition like you would in actual h2h gameplay, the AI will hold off and essentially let you slowly make your way to the penalty box and get a shot away … it is pretty much the only way I can win h2h with the lag that I experience I every h2h match.

Sometimes a load time disconnected player shows up with an orange wifi symbol and god mode players... very similar to the matxh center ai gameplay

I would be interested to see the completion rate at world class for football centre. 

The intro graphics are terrible for football  centre liv v che. You can't the formations as the graphics scrolls too quickly. Also, the selection buttons for team and difficulty are poorly defined 

The FC mobile is unplayable because the AI is too difficult. It’s giving me stress. I have wasted too many energy as well as stamina points in icon chronicles and you would never repair my mental stress. F you EA. I wish worst for the one who came up with this idea of AI boost. F them. F you. F you F you. 

@mendozzamagic 

Meanwhile everything, the whole game.

From VSA to H2H, as well as MM for a long time and recently, after adjusting the AI, also certain event games🫣😔

@mendozzamagic  You should know well, cuz you work there not us and please stop this pretending, it doesn't suit