FIFA 12 Handicap/Momentum/Scripting

I don't even play online anymore unless it's with friends, too many s who get dominated without conceding, score 1 goal themselves and then pass it around at the back.

You can definately sometimes feel the game has a shift for or against you. I've had games when I'm unbelievably clinical and others where my players can't finish for chit. Doesn't help that things like corners are simply a lottery unless you have a tall aerial threat

I'm sceptical about scripting. It's just that sometimes you concede some ridiculous goals but tbh I'd just say they're unlucky. Not EA bias, just EA faults

I once played Man Utd on my career with Leicester. I had just been promoted so my team was very average by premier league standards.

However, I was three up at the break and it should probably have been 5 or 6.

United scored after an hour and after that I couldn't get the ball. It was ridiculous. Everything I did went wrong. They scored another after 85 mins and I was getting desperate.

Injury time, under relentless pressure, I couldn't even blast it clear into touch without them stopping it. Then they get a corner, all I need to do is clear it and I'm home and dry. Result? David De Gea rises like a salmon and heads the ball into the corner.

Not had anything so weird happen since, but after that game I am utterly convinced there is some kind of momentum system in the game.

Can you blame me?!!

Offline is very annoying,, and the bias to the CPU is ridiculously clear. At least while you see momentum change in matches online, you never get the feeilng of bias you get when you play CPU.

If that makes sense..

Result? David De Gea rises like a salmon and heads the ball into the corner.

Also, as an electrician, I work away from home a lot so I take the Xbox with me and play against my labourer in the evenings. We're of a pretty similar standard so we have some epic matches.

We have both found that you can be under the cosh for large periods of a game where your passes go astray, blatant fouls aren't given, etc. Then out of nowhere it's like having ten Messi's playing outfield. Very strange.

Whether the momentum rumour has legs I don't know, but I like to think it does. It would certainly explain a lot and add an extra touch of realism to what I think is an already solid simulation.

Now if they could just make the crowd more interactive. Really bugs me when you hit a 30 yard winner in stoppage time only for the crowd behind the goal to remain glued to their seats. Whilst I'm not looking for pitch invasions, I don't want Highbury either!

Offline is very annoying,, and the bias to the CPU is ridiculously clear. At least while you see momentum change in matches online, you never get the feeilng of bias you get when you play CPU.
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Exactly. I moaned like this to my mate, and he just said the game's AI was just making it more difficult for me to make me a better player There's that, then there's just making it impossible for me to score.

Scripting quite obviously exists.