5 Vital Improvements for Fifa 13

Posted by on Feb 3, 2012 in Fifa 12 News, Fifa 13, Fifa 13 news, Fifa News
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Fifa 13 Improvements

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5 things that I want Fifa 13 to improve on.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Fifa 12. It is by far better than all of the previous Fifa games and the PES series. Yet, when I play the game, I notice things that are not quite right, plain stupid, or things that would make the game much, much better.

You may have noticed various sites and Youtubers mentioning Fifa 13 improvements already. KSIOlajidebt, UltimateTeam.co.uk, Sweetpatch.tv, FifaSoccerBlog and various others.

So, I ordered these improvements in what I thought was most important to least important, see what you think!

 

1. Sorting out the referees

Many a time I am through the defence, clean through on goal, tap the right stick to push the ball around the keeper, and am violently tackled to the ground by the keeper. Now, correct me if I am wrong, but that should be a straight red card and an instant penalty. However, the referees on Fifa 12 decide that the challenge was perfectly fine and play should continue as normal. This annoys me so much! What should have been a goal often turns into my opponent counterattacking and sometimes in my player picking up a bloody injury!

Next to this, the ‘revolutionary’ impact engine often decides that the perfectly fine tackle I made is a straight red card. what often is a little nudge, turns into my player being sent off, how can this be right! If these issues are not fixed in Fifa 13 I will be a very unhappy man! Check out KSIOlajidebt’s coverage of these issues.

 

2. Viewer mode

This is more of an improvement than a problem. I would really love to be able to watch my friends and Fifa Youtubers playing against each other. Having a spectator mode would be really great for the community. Imagine watching a Fifa 13 match between Haaazeee and Teodor, two Youtubers who destroy their opponents with their silky skills, how great would that be for their fanbase!

Also being able to watch your friends play each other, and dishing out the banter over the microphone at a missed opportunity or a red card. What a contribution that would be to Fifa 13.

 

3. Tweaks to the Impact engine

Thought they are very funny, when two players collide and are thrown 50 yards across the pitch, you really have to question how good the impact engine really is. It has happened to me several times, and once t even stopped me from scoring a goal. There are millions of videos on Youtube highlighting this issue, simply search “fifa 12 fails” and a whole load of clips will show you what I mean.

Simple things like this can make a game look much sleeker and help keep Fifa fans everywhere, and prevent a whole load of Youtube videos!

 

4. Fixing the Fifa Servers

There is definitely a problem with the Fifa 12 servers, ever so often, you find that the connection to the servers has been lost, or, without warning, you are kicked out of a match and given a loss. This is a problem that has affected Fifa players everywhere, people constantly complain to EA about how they cannot connect and you would think that EA would sort the problem out to reduce the number of complaints.

Changing this in Fifa 13 would have a big impact on the community, make a  lot of players everywhere very happy, and Ea customer support happier, yet I cannot see it happening. Ea promised to fix it for Fifa 12… I guess we can only hope.

 

5. Pro clubs

There are so many problems with Fifa 12 pro clubs that I probably will not be able to go through all of them. I shall start on the goalkeepers, which are so over-powered it is ridiculous. People stick their 99 rated player in goal, with every setting on assisted. This means that players trying to score have a very hard job, as it is next to impossible to get it past the keeper.

Next is clubs who play CPU as any, this means that the xbox plays against you and is stupidly hard to play against, and generally means that you end up losing. This must be addressed in Fifa 13.

 

I am going to end it there, Fifa 13 is going to be a great game if it is done properly.  EA did a great job on Fifa 12 and I don’t doubt that they will do an even better on Fifa 12. Look forward to this game!

 

What did miss?

Please leave a comment below about what you want in Fifa 13. Did I miss anything?

 

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  • ryan cook

    that fifa should put on an add on to buy latest boots and psn and xbox, for a small fee, so you could put it on your favourite players and VP

    • andres coll

      The only thing i hate about fifa is that when you change the difficulty to professional it seems as if no matter what you do the cpu always gets the ball back and as if the video game minipulates your passes and shots to make sure you dont win. i was playing as argentina aagainst chivas usa and there defenders were just as fast and tackled all of messi’s moves very easily. im sorry but no one on chivas is as fast as messi. the game is a CHEAT!i have literally won twice against cpu on professional. even when i do shoot it hits the post of is field blocked or i miss. i seriously feel like the game will not let you win. even when i do score a goal right after the kick off they score imidiately. i thought it was just me and i needed to practice at first. but when i saw players from mexico tackling and out running drogba i knew the game was a CHEAT!! the cpu reads how you play and makes it better than you no matter what team or skill level you have. they really need to change this or else i will stop playing/buying the game.

      • Joey

        If you think Professional is bad try Legendary … the CPU never gives up possession. And even the most unskilled attacker will dribble around the best defence. EA you really need to learn the difference between increasing the difficulty and just annoying the gamer.

      • Tom Prince

        Clearly you are just bad at the game… accept it! Pro clubs is the best game mode out there. If they make any changes too the gameplay it affects other things. You can’t just make the computer better and or sign real players. I think if you could actually change the way your team plays, give them real tactics and also identity then it would be better…also create a kit and badge are must. My main point is definitely pet us controlling the way the computer plays and scrap the any! Keepers are ridiculously good but I enjoy the challenge, but making your club your own in different ways is needed. We want tactics ie custom formations and tactics before we enter the lobby. Create kits and badges

  • Dom Martin

    MORE CELEBRATIONS FOR ONLINE!

    Other points that you made I didnt think of, like spectator mode would be pretty cool, making it so you can freely join and leave whenever you please would be cool.

    Before I was banned from XBL I found the EA servers were less frequent in throwing you off compared to 11 lol but yeah I think I only got thrown off once or twice which was when they were updating!

    Some good ideas Danny, keep the posts coming lol!

    • joe

      I totally agree, like for example they should put team ones in like the fish celebration it makes celebarting more fun!

    • kiranjones

      u should have be a refare

  • Dom Martin

    *Also I find the impact engine hilarious when players get seismic thrown from one side of the field to the other, like before a goal kick, run around the goalkeepers closest defender and sometimes your player will get thrown! :P

    And Ryan you should get small add ons like that for free, after all the money I pay towards Xbox lol!
    Should be able to create your own kits and equipment in Pro clubs after so many wins or something!!

  • http://playfifaforcash.blogspot.com Martin333

    I would add on referees to let the game continue on damn OFFSIDES also!!

    And also,,, defenders,, even when i put them on their correct positions they are very stupid. For example, when the other team have 2 attackers, I have 2 defenders, and i hunt the ball with one defender, the other defender must hold the other defender centrally, or get closer to the center if he on the outside..

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  • Brunopsst

    I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT PRO CLUBS AND ASK A COUPLE OF THINGS.

    1st: Please… please, end with this no “any” in clubs. If we wanna play against cpu, we do career mode. Several “clubs” play with a GK human and a striker. CPU do all the work. It´s very annoying, i’m truly honest when i say that if this continue in fifa 13, it´s gonna be my last fifa. I play fifa since 94. If you keep this no “any” please make it fair and easier to those o playing against and deserve to have fun too.

    2nd: If i’m playing any and i´m attacking with a teammate and he have the ball, it´s very hard to select my VP (if he’s striker) to keep along with him in the attack, sometime i just can when im near the box…

    • platypus

      i think they should bring back staff and stadium upgrades on career mode and the stadiums actually look bigger also they should have it where you can be the player manger(play for a club country and be manger for country) or manger for your country so you can play world cup and euros with rising stars.

      • Shaun

        Yeah! that was cool. As well as real player development in career mode, so young guns go from 69 to 85 instead 69 to 72. If you have a striker you bought from Ligue 2 in France whose overall is 63 but scores 41 goals in the season his transfer value should be £25 Million not £600,000. Less transfers of huge players, like Chelsea AC Milan and Bayern all have new squads in the second season, maybe 2 additions t their first team, not 6. The lesser leagues have to be done better. I want the A-League players to have their actual faces! Please! And real stadia. It looks fake and horrible.

        • sridhar

          I agree with the real player development thing…….. in fifa 12 u noe how much da player is going to grow(as in da range) which is not true….. I had grown this mid-fielder from 59 to 86 and he grew all da way till he was 26. But this other player was 69 when i got him and stopped at 80 even though he was pretty young and this was because of the stupid “the player will always grow into that given range” thing which is shown before u sign them into the first team.
          Also another really annoying thing is that the fifa world becomes void of good players after say 8-10 yrs. No team ever produces players from their youth academy. I want this to be changed as it is kinda pathetic to see team like man utd or barca having just 2-3 players over 80.

  • Eddy

    What about when you are playing against the CPU in career mode and the CPU takes the ball with the forward or midfielder dribbles it allllllll the way back to the defensive third and just kicks it out of bounds!! God I hate that

    • http://FifaMonster.com Dan

      Haha agreed man, it’s hilarious to watch though :P

  • Steven

    Being manager for a country would be a great addition. Going through a manager mode in the World Cup and Euro’s would be great and something I’ve wanted for years in a FIFA game. Being able to customise your kits in a manger mode would be good also, playing through six seasons with the same club and playing in the same kits gets a little boring after awhile, so that would also be a good addition. The thing I want the most is when a team from, say, The Championship is promoted to the Premier League, the badge on their sleeves should change from “The NPower Football League” patch to the “Barclays Premier League” patch. It’s something that’s annoyed me for years on the series and would give it abit more realism.

    • Zach

      I don’t see it happening, though it would be great fun. They already sell the Euros and the WCs as separate games, and make an obscene amount of money off of them to. So they probably won’t give that up.

  • Luqmaan

    Fifa should try and have a real life simulator, like the sims. when playing virtual pro you should be able to live your life, not only play games. you should be able to control your VP on and off the pitch. beable to buy houses live everyday in the game, on off days go to the gym, trainning grounds, or just chill out at home

    • joe

      that would be amazing like test drive (yer it racing) but same principal you had you racing carer and then of the track able buy houses, boats ect

      • baggio

        there is a real madrid game exactly like this. the game is not great but it’s fun.

        Would be nice to see it on fifa

  • James Clift

    Agree with most things in this. The so called “spectator” mode would be pretty needless when i’d rather they sorted out the hundreds of other bugs with the game.

    The Human Goalkeepers bit i can not agree with more. On more than one occassion me and my friends have not won a game because of some noob with his 99 rated goalkeeper pulling off some ridiculous saves. There is NOTHING that gets past.

    However, i disagree with the notion that people playing without an “any” is bad. Whats the point in playing clubs, where you’re meant to all control your VP, if you’re just going to be everyone? You might as well play career mode. I don’t see how its harder to get past the computer either. My team plays without an “any” (albeit with a DM) and the computer is so stupid it just costs us goals all the time. We look forward to games where the other team also isn’t using an “any” because its 10x easier to beat the computer than another player.

    The other major change i’d make is to the player part of career mode. Right now it is just labourious. You have to do everything, no matter where you play. The other team always end up with 70ish% possession no matter who you/they are. Despite this possession, they never shoot. Just go side to side to side to side for 20 minutes at a time. While your team refuses to tackle them and you, no matter if you’re a winger or a striker or any player, have to come back to tackle then get all the way up the pitch to score too.
    I could actually go on and on about this mode. It needs so much work, which is unbelievable to say it debuted years ago. IMO, this mode would give it the edge over the more realistic (and generally more playable) football manager sims. That is, if it was any good.

    • Alex Smith

      1)The referee should toss to decide which way the teams are shooting
      2)The fans, fourth officials, managers etc should be moving around.

  • Mr. G

    Really need to sort out Player Career Mode. I actually thought it was better (aka more realistic) in FIFA 11 where, if you were, say, a Prospect, the manager would only pick you (albeit at random…which should have been fixed) for occasional games. In FIFA 12 you can create a player with 1 in every stat and he’ll still get picked for every single game provided he’s not too low on stamina. It feels way too unrealistic.

    If your Player is only a Prospect, the Manager should, for example, pick him for a Carling Cup game or something and judge his performance to see if he’s worthy to play in a bigger game (such as a Premier League home match against a crap team like QPR or Wigan). Your player should also be able to be substituted, both on and off…it’s something that really gets on my goat when your player has been picked for a meaningless game and plays 90 minutes because he can’t be substituted and is then rested during the big important Champions League game coming up next.

    I’d also like more control over the player’s career itself. You should be able to sign, say, a three year contract with your team and decide whether or not you want to renew when it starts running down…perhaps even have the manager offer you a new contract and you can bargain for better deals etc. It would be great if other clubs could contact you throughout the season letting you know how interested they are in acquiring your services.

    In addition, you should be able to leave your club at any time during the transfer window (including the January one!) and also contact any other clubs yourself to see if they are interested, because one problem that REALLY needs to be addressed is the useless selection of teams to choose from if you want to transfer – it’s always the same: an English club, a French club, a Spanish club, an Italian club, a German club and a crappy mid/low table Scottish club that wants you to be their Captain. What if I want my VP to have a spell with, say, CSKA Moscow? I have to start a new Career!

    Sorry if that’s a bit long winded but I’ve wanted to get that off my chest for a long time, and it’s ridiculous that Player Career mode is technically worse in FIFA 12 than in FIFA 11.

    Manager Mode is mostly very good but you should be able to get fired or change clubs mid-season and the youth system could be better. The ability to move from one club to another as Player Manager really needs to be implemented, too.

    As for other issues, please add ‘CPU Strength’ and ‘CPU possession’ to the slider list, because the CPU is still overpowered and in FIFA 12 have developed a frustrating habit of playing keep-ball whilst not actually attacking. The opposition should also be able to foul you a little more often, as opposed to tackling perfectly all the time.

    Would also be nice if you could customise your VP’s playing style a little more. For example, it would be nice to create a VP fullback who likes to score goals, yet he can’t because, despite the ability to control how far forward your fullbacks go, he will never actually cut into the box, will never go up for corners (unless Ultra Attacking is on) or short free kicks even if he’s 6’10, plus his finishing is rubbish so maybe a trait like ‘Goal Scoring Defender’ or something to help out there…because some people like to create defender VPs but EVERYONE wants to score goals.

    • Sinisa Grobari Ultra

      as per usual with the release date of another fifa upon us some excellent ideas from the fifa community…sadly we all know that as per usual EA Sports wont listen or take on board any of our ideas and it will be the same as fifa 12 with all the same repetative game modes…shocking servers and the only thing they’ll change is the squads and strips ….it really gets to me that they have the audacity to charge 40 plus pounds sterling for a rather mediocur game. OH and since im having a rant could they please make the referees a tad more realistic because some of the decisions against you are criminal!! oh and another thing i like to call “the sweaty goal” its the goal that EVERYONE who playspro clubs would have had scored against them. 2 attacking players sprint past your defence who just stand there and spectate you kbow you’ll have to bring your gk out then you know hes gonna pass it to his supporting player hence sweaty goal. and please please please can you make the CPU more realistic as they get the ball…run around in circles just turning and blocking run down to there own goal area instead of yours then run back up which is absolute nonsense!!… and the CPU in your pro clubs is at times farsical and why the CPU insist to chip or lob a pass to you when your right next to me really gets to me…oh well rant over and i feel some of the fifa rage has been lifted from me lol :)

      • Anubrata

        I want them to improve the player transfer facility by bringing in d player swap among two clubs……..

      • http://FifaMonster.com Danny

        I have found that EA are listening more than ever to the community’s ideas. Their community side is vastly improving, and their 5 community managers are making a big difference. I truly believe that Fifa 13 will be the game that implements the most of the community’s ideas. We just need to have the right ideas.

  • http://@glody.com glody

    i would also like fifa 13 to add an in international career mode for managers

  • katlego

    Graphics!…mostly on the weather(especially rainy conditions) and atleast the shine one can see on the NBA2K series the realistic sweat…and real refree’s.

  • RSG

    Fifa don’t use servers online. They can’t fix it. They make the match and then the connection is P2P from console to console. If the connection drops either you or the opponent has sh*t broadband. I know I suffer at around 6pm every day or whenever some1 in my house uses the pc. Sucks but I just don’t play Fifa at those times anymore.

    • gavin

      then why when it kicks you out u lose connection to servers all together and sometimes trys to blame playstation network when the connection is fine its not as bad as 11 but needs to be stopped for 13

  • http://Goggle John

    I need improvement in the realistic of players e.g messi da geo etc for ps2 please your biggest fan john

  • Dave

    The corners against CPU need improving, it is very unrealistic how static all the players are, should be more of a hussle and bussle scrap.

    Secondly the defending is awful, if the CPU attacks sometimes I will mark the winger, and just before the winger passes, the defender marking the second man runs away from the man he is marking for no reason and the pass is completed and they score. VERY FRUSTRATING!!

    Thirdly the pace difference isn’t enough, with a player sprint speed 85, accel 85 a defender who is much slower can catch up and tackle. Just stupid

    Finally in Career mode the young players can’t take free kicks, so 8 years in, there wasn’t a single player with fk ability above 80 that was under the age of 27! RIDICULOUS. Sort player growth out, NOT HARD!

    • Tom

      PLAYER GROWTH. Please oh please. The whole Scouting Network option is pointless. Even if I do get a prospect that is rated 67 when promoted to the squad, he will never develop fast enough to be of any use in an 80+ starting 11 squad. VERY FRUSTRATING how slow players develop when sent out on loan. Maybe possible to add a “Potential” stat like in the NHL franchise so that it would be possible to gauge how much the player will improve and/or whether they have peaked and are now in decline. This would greatly help the longevity of Career mode.

      For example, I know right now in Fifa 12 that by getting Lukaku, Wilshere and Criscito early, they will develop into monsters. However, I only know this because I have already finished Career Mode once…

      • sridhar

        Before anything i would say fifa12 manager mode was a big improvement to its predecessors. The best change was to allow transfer talks between matches. Also the youth academy has been really improved(though it is not flawless). I would compare it to fifa 7, fifa 11 as they are the fifa versions i have played the most. fifa 7 had players who grow erratically and fifa 11 there was never any use of youth players. fifa 12 is different. If you target the correct players and develop them they do grow into superstars and that too at the proper pace(not like fifa 7) of around 1 to 4(sometimes but rarely more) each season. So a player who starts out at the age of 17 at reaches 80+ by the time he is 21 or 22 which sounds reasonable. I myself had a team of all players by the 15 season where there were 3-4 players over 85, 7-8 players between 80-85 and a few good prospects. also i had sold like 6-7 players who were 80+. So i believe dat dis was a great plus to fifa12 over its predecessors(again i repeat it is not the ultimate youth setup i want)

        There is a trick to this…… when u sign a player into ur first team squad from da youth academy, it shows player potential, and if u play him like for the carling cup and and oder small games he will reach midway betn the range. I had a player who was 59 when he joined and grew upto 86 all da way till he was 26 and another player who stared at 70 and grew only till 81 even though he was just 21. I am by no way advocating this and i do not want to know in advance how much my player is going to grow and i want him to grow on the basis of his performances and chance he is given.

        Another thing i have noticed about loans is that the player grows only in the leagues u can monitor via stats or whose results u can see. I had this goalkeeper who was transferred to Birmingham which was in the epl that season and i was liverpool. He played each match and grew by 8 points. Next season i loaned him out to germany he hardly grew. The seasons after dat i kept him with me and ocassionally occasionally used him and he steadily grew to 84. In short the player only grows in the leagues that are simulated(assuming that he is of the level to be given chance). This is crap again….. so ur player will never grow in a championship side if u are playing on the top level.

        Another downside to all fifas uptil now is that the world becomes devoid of talent after 8-10 yrs. It kinda feels crappy to have tems like barca and madrid have not e1 11 players who are above 80.

        Sorry for the very long comment

  • Gibbs

    I agree on most but not the CPU controlled any. I think the CPU controlled ANY is a liability, always passing the ball to the other team and being poor at defending – so called ‘scumbag’ goals with a square ball across the box is so common with CPU AI.
    With a human as ANY it can easily be cut out.
    I don’t think you should be allowed to play as ANY as a human – the game is Virtual Pro, not a normal head to head with a couple of individuals on the team. I think you should only be able to be an individual

  • sean

    remove the origin thing that u have download the game inorder to play its a terrible thing i cant even play fifa 12 anymore because. of origin plz can we install 13 the same way as fifa 11 we dont want to download the game we want to install it simple as that

  • sean

    and put internatiional matches for example if you an english born player then u play for england french than play for france like in between the season threre good be internatinal braeks where u play for ur country this should be in manager mode

  • Marco

    NUMBER 1 COMPLAINT from anyone who honestly builds their pro. STOP HACKED PROS!!!! I dont care what you do. change the way the pro is saved, make it all online. Just cut it out of the game. Playing against gianst with 127 everything is ridiculous. Ruins clubs, Ruins pro-ranked. You guys say you have a way of catching it? then why are there so many!!!! Any real player knows you are NOT monitoring this situation at ALL! I want them gone and anyone with any sense of sportsmanship wants them gone! its the equivalent of VIDEO GAME STERIODS and it ruins the game!

  • Scott Urquhart

    For Career Mode, Managers Should Have The Option To Pay Lets Say 5m + A Player for another player

  • ronny

    well goes with out saying sort the refs out lol and like some one else said clubs needs to be changed so a player has to go on ANY and control the team and not the cpu and the cpu players clearly need to be better, well looking back from fifa 09 i thought how can they improve , well in fifa 10 they brought in the 360 degrees dribble then fifa 11 they added pro passing to stop the ping pong passing and i played fifa 10 the other day just to see how much fifa has changed up to now and it has a lot that game was awful lol at the time i didnt see nothing wrong with the game how things change lol so what out has changed they added personality plus massive improvment like i said you dont relise to you play the older games, so fifa 12 added tactical defending which is brilliant so relistic precision dribbling this is great so much control over the ball and the new camara angle more relistic like a real game watching it on tv, so what else can be added to fifa 13 to improve gameplay well not sure i know they will tho, i thought its a bout time all the stadiums were the real ones and improve the crowds oh yeah if you score at 5 or under mins the other player quits you dont get the win this clearly needs to be changed so annoying

  • Gareth

    I think ut should go bk to FIFA 09 when u could use ur own pro in the team and make career made longer and get the opportunity to get to manage ur country

  • Derek

    Well I feel the following issues need to be addressed:

    1) Advantage play-on by ref: many times I am fouled and the ref allows advantage only to lose the ball immediately and not receive my free kick.

    2) Toning down the right analogue pushing ability: I feel this is overused and there is no link to reality, as one is pushed off the ball where a foul has actually been committed, and needs to be toned down.

    3) Shot interference: Countless times I am at the end of a shot where a defender blocks my leg (not the shot) and no foul is given, this should be an automatic free kick.

    4) Servers! Servers! Servers!! :-)

  • joe

    being able to put fifa 12 ultimate team into your fifa 13 people have to spend money on msp and it pointless each year i do this and see no point also crowds they should put songs like ynwa on liverpool and the crowd graphics they all cheer if you score even away fans it makes no sense sort it out

  • Jordan

    1. improve ref
    2. improve impact engine
    3. career mode- more options when it comes to transfers
    4. make celebrations after winning the league or finals better and more realistic
    5. career mode- add more training injuries
    6. fix the damn servers
    7. more real stadiums
    8. career mode- have the chance for your club to have takeover bids to make clubs richer or poorer.
    9. have like mini head to head showdowns and maybe a little fight between two players to increase the chance of being fouled.
    10.OFFLINE MODES ONLY!!!!!!!- diving.

    • Jonny

      i asked about that last year about players fighting but ea and fifa do not want make fighting part of the game because it promotes violence in football which is trying to be ousted from football in most leagues

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