fifa 12

[H R Pantsington]

I just switched to all-manual and let me say that passing is $#@!ing awesome when you can decide where to put the ball in space rather than sending it directly at the player. I've gotten pretty good at passing, decent at lobbing and through balls, but am still atrocious at crossing and shooting. The shooting thing is especially ridiculous. I've gone from winning most of the time on Professional w/ assisted shooting to sometimes needing last minute goals to squeak by crappy teams on Semi Pro. The keeper saves about 80% of my shots including break-aways, and the rest go wide or hit the post. I like it better, but only being able to score 1-2 goals gets old.

I'm also having this weird issue: I have to change my settings from assisted to manual every time I load the game. I haven't found a way to save my settings which is really freaking annoying. I think my career is resetting them since I started it with the default settings. Anybody else had trouble keeping your game settings or controller settings?

[Derka Derka]

Arsenal: 12 wins, 1 draw, zero losses. Goal differential: 41. 37 points through 13 matches.

Blackburn Rovers: 2 wins, 5 draws, 6 losses. Goal differential: -6. 11 points through 13 matches.


After 5 consecutive simulations:

Blackburn: 5 wins, 0 draws, zero losses. Arsenal: 5 losses, 0 draws, 0 wins. This is $#@!ing retarded. Right now I want to find any EA sports programmer and kick him in his $#@!ing balls until they fall out of his scrotum. Seriously, this is $#@!ing retarded. Oh yea, and Wojo Sczezny broke his $#@!ing leg in the 15th minute of one of those losses, yet her finished the game. Brilliant.

[Derka Derka]

Make that 6 wins, zro draws, zero losses. Oh yeah, and I already played these scrubs and smashed them 4-1. Also, in 3 of the 6 losses I've suffered either a major injury or red card to one of my star players. Seriously. $#@! EA.

[Derka Derka]

After a loss to Blackburn Rovers and a draw with Tranmere Rovers, Bournemouth has defeated the best team in the world twice in a row. This is literally akin to predicting that a college football team would beat the Super Bowl champs.

[Derka Derka]

3 simulations with $#@!ing Bournemouth, and ive got 2 draws and a loss, and a player red carded each match. My starting 11:

Szczesny
Sagna
Pique
Samuel
Sergio Ramos
Remy
Mikel Arteta
my VP who is an 89 overall
Walcott
van Persie
Gervinho


This squad has yielded those results in 3 sims. If EA ran the world I could kick Bones Jones ass on any given day.

[Derka Derka]

another sim, another draw. That's n4 now. i should also mention that I simmed my match against Aston Villa, and despite 2 players getting red carded, AV deeated me 2-1, with the winning goal coming down 9-11 in terms of players. Seriously. No.....SERIOUSLY. I want to meet someone who helped design this game just so I can do something that will make their lie $#@!ing suck ass for a decent amount of time. Whether it's fart in their mouth, kick them in the balls, or pay a homeless guy with AIDS to rape their mom, I want bad things to happen to the people responsible for this.

[Derka Derka]

$#@!ing BOURNEMOUTH. WHO?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[RichUT]

There is obviously some sort of progressive difficulty logic built into the game. It doesn't think you should have that many points after that many games and is trying to keep the title race closer.

It's dirty pool, in my book. I hate when programmers rely on "catch up" logic to make the game more difficult or try to force results that fit in with their definition of realistic.

[aaronisnotcool]

well i'm in my 7th season. i got hereford united out of the the nPower League 2 and into the Champions League in 7 seasons. It's going to be a few years before i can compete with the ac milans and real madrids. esp since the transfer budget doesn't rollover like it did in 11.

[Derka Derka]

So, I actually spent way more time than I should have over the holiday break making a 2nd highlight reel, and after uploading it to youtube found out that it had an audio track that was disabled due to a copyright claim, which is crazy to me because alphahydro used Niggas in Paris on his UT highlight reel and that was OK, but apparently "Gorgeous", also by kanye, was not. Neither was C.R.E.A.M., which is a damn shame, because the video I made with those two songs is $#@!ing badass. Anyhoo, I was kinda burnt out on trying to find songs that synched well wit the highlight reel, being that I made it around 2 other specific songs, so Ive just put that on the back burner and just been playing FIFA.

Welp, I just scored what is easily one of my nastiest goals ever, and you will DEFINITELY see this when again when the next highlight reel comes out. I listed Douglas as one of my favorite players to play with in this game in career mode, and you're about to see why:

[Gurrry]

I want to know the trick to ripping it. I can get a fast shot to stay low maybe 1 time out of 100 shots. If you hold the button too long, it obviously skies it. However, some people online can just rip the $#@! out of the ball every shot. What the $#@! is the $#@!ing trick to this $#@!?

Everytime im in the box, i try to finesse it. When im outside the box, i just shoot regularly.

I also have a tough time maintaining possession near the box. I tend to panic sometimes when I get down there. I think half of my trouble is being addicted to the turbo button, but ive tried to lay off of it lately.

Anyone have any secret fifa tips they are sitting on that could help a brotha out?

[Durant Durant]

gonna play the $#@! out of this this weekend. looking forward to it!

[Derka Derka]

I want to know the trick to ripping it. I can get a fast shot to stay low maybe 1 time out of 100 shots. If you hold the button too long, it obviously skies it. However, some people online can just rip the $#@! out of the ball every shot. What the $#@! is the $#@!ing trick to this $#@!?

Everytime im in the box, i try to finesse it. When im outside the box, i just shoot regularly.

I also have a tough time maintaining possession near the box. I tend to panic sometimes when I get down there. I think half of my trouble is being addicted to the turbo button, but ive tried to lay off of it lately.

Anyone have any secret fifa tips they are sitting on that could help a brotha out?

anywhere from 20-35 yards out I would recommend tapping B twice when you shoot, with the second tap determining the power. So the farther out you are, the longer you hold it. I discovered this by accident one night when for some inexplicable reason I did this and smoked one. Even players with poor finishing and a poor long shot rating will often just rip one-timers from 30+ yards out. I had a bunch of friends over for my bday in November, and I scored one of these early in a 2 on 2 match we were having. Everyone was just like, "Got damn! how did you do that?" I told them about the double tap and theyve all been able to do it with regular success now.

I'm gonna actually just go ahead and post that 2nd highlight reel that I had mentioned and let y'all choose your own music to jam while viewing it. There's a ton of deep shots in here and I'd bet almost all of them were with the double tap. Ive never seen this trick mentioned anywhere online or in any manual, but it appears to be the secret to keeping your shots low. I even double tap from inside the box when I wanna keep it on the ground.

Now then, as for players like Douglas, there are a few center backs in this game who I've noticed have 90+ kick power. if you get them by the 4th or 5th year of your Career Mode they may even be 95+. With these guys I dont use the double tap from that far out, but if I ever feel like I have a clear opening and the right kind of run up to the ball, I'll let one fly from even 45 yards out, as evidenced. On that particular play I just saw that I'd have a good run up to the ball (the only other time is usually when sprinting- Douglas is a 90+ speed but as a CB kicks the ball way out in front of himself while sprinting) and gave it about 75-80%power and hoped for the best. Usually, if it even makes it to the keeper he deflects it back out into play. But, once every blue moon I guess he'll be off his line, you'll hit it perfect, and it'll be in. Oh, and that video:

[Derka Derka]

Also you've correctly diagnosed your problem with controlling the ball around the box. I was doing the exact same thing until I finally forced myself to just slow down. With certain guys like van Persie or Doumbia, it's surprising sometimes how easily you can shift your way through a few defenders and score without even using the L trigger. You just have to really slow down and focus. What I did to help myself was treat it like basketball. Once my best ball handler got the ball near the box in a situation where everyone was all in the upper third, I'd just treat him like my PG and casually dribble up to "the top of the key" (about 3-6 yards outside the box) and kinda dribble there for a while surveying the scene. Just dribbling the ball back and forth waiting for someone to make a good run. Defenders tend to not press great ball handlers and generally just let you dribble there so as to let you blow by them. I got better immediately and got more and more used to instinctively taking everything slower around that area. You know what your problem is, and you'll be much better even a week from now.

[Derka Derka]

Goal from DEEP at 1:06 of highlight reel: double tap with Lukaku in year 2017 of Career Mode.

[Gurrry]

ill def be trying the double tap, thx

[NK]

I want to know the trick to ripping it. I can get a fast shot to stay low maybe 1 time out of 100 shots. If you hold the button too long, it obviously skies it. However, some people online can just rip the $#@! out of the ball every shot. What the $#@! is the $#@!ing trick to this $#@!?

Everytime im in the box, i try to finesse it. When im outside the box, i just shoot regularly.

I also have a tough time maintaining possession near the box. I tend to panic sometimes when I get down there. I think half of my trouble is being addicted to the turbo button, but ive tried to lay off of it lately.

Anyone have any secret fifa tips they are sitting on that could help a brotha out?

I like to shoot finesse shots from the corner of the box to the opposite goal post.

I just fill the power meter about halfway to keep power shots low. I would imagine the double tap is just an artificial way of doing that timing-wise.

My favorite shots are the ones that bounce twice on the way to the goal and still go in.

[Durant Durant]

Goal from DEEP at 1:06 of highlight reel: double tap with Lukaku in year 2017 of Career Mode.

Lukaku is that dude! I'm in 2020 and he comes off my bench in almost every game and leads the league in goals.

[Durant Durant]

Meant to post this the other day. It's only a picture because it's the computer saving one of my goals. If my guy did this I'd save a full replay. LOL. Incredible stop though. There was another really nice save before this too if I recall correctly.

[RichUT]

Nice matches today, JNip. Feel free to hit me up for a game any time you see me online. Enjoyed it.

[ludosc]

Lukaku is that dude! I'm in 2020 and he comes off my bench in almost every game and leads the league in goals.

lukaku is the $#@!...anytime i get tired of my career mode and decide to start a new one he is one of the first players i try to get...

[Derka Derka]

lukaku is the $#@!...anytime i get tired of my career mode and decide to start a new one he is one of the first players i try to get...

Indeed. He and Douglas, and I guess Doumbia too, are 3 guys I love to play with and always try and snag.

Also just curious: based on the highlight reels I've posted, how to I compare to yall, like skill/goal scoring wise? I'be got finishing down pretty well, but I still have a long way to go to ne where I wanna be skill nice wise.

tippy tap taparoo

[Derka Derka]

And DD thats a nasty save.

tippy tap taparoo

[JNip]

Last night I was playing FIFA with a couple of friends and this happened!! Hilarious!!

[JNip]

Oh $#@! Derka, amazing stuff. Whats your xbox live id??!! I wanna play vs you

[Derka Derka]

Oh $#@! Derka, amazing stuff. Whats your xbox live id??!! I wanna play vs you

Thanks dude!

ZedsDeadBaby2

[bluto]

Thanks dude!

nawlinsboi69

fify

[Durant Durant]

hahaha

[AuwstinTexasBaby]

I want to know the trick to ripping it. I can get a fast shot to stay low maybe 1 time out of 100 shots. If you hold the button too long, it obviously skies it. However, some people online can just rip the $#@! out of the ball every shot. What the $#@! is the $#@!ing trick to this $#@!?

Everytime im in the box, i try to finesse it. When im outside the box, i just shoot regularly.

I also have a tough time maintaining possession near the box. I tend to panic sometimes when I get down there. I think half of my trouble is being addicted to the turbo button, but ive tried to lay off of it lately.

Anyone have any secret fifa tips they are sitting on that could help a brotha out?

I like to shoot finesse shots from the corner of the box to the opposite goal post.

I just fill the power meter about halfway to keep power shots low. I would imagine the double tap is just an artificial way of doing that timing-wise.

My favorite shots are the ones that bounce twice on the way to the goal and still go in.

A rule of thumb that i like to use is, pretty much anytime i'm in the box I finesse the shot. Its kind of hard to explain exactly how to rip it from outside of the box but i can almost guarantee you if you start finessing your shots inside the box you will have more success scoring. And for what it's worth...Man City is the most underrated underused badass team online. One thing that pisses me off is when players get knocked off the ball easily, especially strikers. Besides the obvious guys like Rooney, Drogba, and Ronaldo...Tevez is one of the better players in the game IMO with not getting knocked off the ball and finishing.

[Derka Derka]

Gurry- any luck w the double tap?

tippy tap taparoo

[Paul in uh........]

Do you find double tapping to be more effective than holding LT while shooting? I have found that holding LT while shooting keeps the ball down a bit more.

[RichUT]

When I have tried double tapping, I get a shot on the ground but it's usually very weak. It doesn't matter how long I hold the second button press down.

[ludosc]

When I have tried double tapping, I get a shot on the ground but it's usually very weak. It doesn't matter how long I hold the second button press down.

Same here

[Paul in uh........]

When I have tried double tapping, I get a shot on the ground but it's usually very weak. It doesn't matter how long I hold the second button press down.

^^^this...try holding LT while shooting at about half power.

[Sweatpants boner]

I am getting really pissed on defense. Everyone seems to be able to dribble through my defenders. How do you stop this and how do you completely destroy the defender when dribbling through them? The jockey button seems to do jack $#@! for me.

[Gurrry]

Gurry- any luck w the double tap?

tippy tap taparoo

Ive tried the double tap, but like others have said, it seems like its a weaker shot than I need. It will stay on the ground, but it doesnt have enough speed.

I have kinda just figured out the right amount to press. It took awhile, but there is that sweet spot you eventually find by holding B for a brief second and ripping it. It doesnt stay low to the ground, but most of the time, itll get around the keeper.

Also, anytime its a 1 on 1 with me and the keeper, I will drag the keeper to the left a little bit by moving left with my striker. then before I shoot, ill go to the right and finesse it. It works 90% of the time.

My main problem was turbo taxing myself. Holding turbo when you shoot is an absolute no-no. It makes your shot faster, but it makes it extremely inaccurate. Turbo in general is basically bad, IMO. Anytime I have my finger on that RT, my player gets the ball stolen. I only use turbo when no one is around me or when Im trying to catch someone on a break.

[Gurrry]

I will say that the double tap is perfect off of a parry by the keeper. If your player gets the rebound off the block, double tap that $#@! and youll dunk it.

[Gurrry]

I am getting really pissed on defense. Everyone seems to be able to dribble through my defenders. How do you stop this and how do you completely destroy the defender when dribbling through them? The jockey button seems to do jack $#@! for me.

Honestly, I never use B to do the standing tackle. It usually always $#@!s up and leaves you in a terrible position.

What I do is just hold down A to stay on the ball and hold RB to bring another defender to the ball for a double team. Usually the PC will do a perfectly timed standing tackle and you can go get the ball from then. Obviously this isnt the ideal way to play D, and it leaves you vulnerable when you bring up a double team.. but it gets the job done for me.

Defense is definately my biggest gripe about this game. I wish it was like the older titles... but its w/e.

[Sweatpants boner]

I wish it was like the older titles... but its w/e.

Yes. I used to destroy defensively, now I am pissed constantly. My guys fall down for no reason whatsoever, even when I am not the one controlling them.

[Derka Derka]

When I have tried double tapping, I get a shot on the ground but it's usually very weak. It doesn't matter how long I hold the second button press down.

Weird. Maybe I'm telling you wrong, and its the first time you tap it that dictates power, but I've obviously not had trouble w the double tap. Hmm.

tippy tap taparoo

[Harry J.]

I am getting really pissed on defense. Everyone seems to be able to dribble through my defenders. How do you stop this and how do you completely destroy the defender when dribbling through them? The jockey button seems to do jack $#@! for me.

Honestly, I never use B to do the standing tackle. It usually always $#@!s up and leaves you in a terrible position.

What I do is just hold down A to stay on the ball and hold RB to bring another defender to the ball for a double team. Usually the PC will do a perfectly timed standing tackle and you can go get the ball from then. Obviously this isnt the ideal way to play D, and it leaves you vulnerable when you bring up a double team.. but it gets the job done for me.

Defense is definately my biggest gripe about this game. I wish it was like the older titles... but its w/e.

I use the $#@! out of the jockeying button and it has raised my defensive abilities considerably while making me use the RB (or R1 in my case) a lot less. Mind you, it took a while and plenty of forcing my fingers to do something they weren't used to on defense.

As far as the B (Circle) tackle, I feel like using the jockeying while pressing the standing tackle makes the standing tackle a lot less reckless or leaving you out of position.

[aaronisnotcool]

sometimes i want to completely destroy a players legs out of anger and revenge and get a red card, but with this game i cannot ever do that.

[Derka Derka]

sometimes i want to completely destroy a players legs out of anger and revenge and get a red card, but with this game i cannot ever do that.

same, which is super gay. Also super gay are throw ins. There is zero excuse for any throw in to a wide open player 10 yards away to not be perfect, but even making a simple throw in on this game is like scoring from 45 yards out. Its $#@!ing stupid how frequently guys will botch the most simple $#@!ing things. I have guys like Messi and David Villa unable to make a first touch that doesn't fly 12 yards away from them; I have to face defenders with super psychic abilities who, at full speed running backwards somehow know that I'm about to perform a heel chop and actually beat me to the punch; every $#@!ing time i try to score on a rebound and I press LB and then B the game refuses to recognize the pause, and instead of changing me to the the man nearest the ball (LB) and then shooting (B), he does a gay little chip shot (LB+B) that never goes in. And dont even get me started on how gay it is that when you make a long pass, it doesnt even matter if you switch to the pass recipient and command him to run towards the ball! The game renders your controller literally useless whenever it feels like it, just so that a cpu defender can run and intercept a ball that should have easily been received by it's intended target. harrumph.

[Derka Derka]

Seriously. I will say it for the one millionth time: $#@! FIFA PROGRAMMERS. 3 $#@!ing times in a row now Ive had to re start my goddamn mother$#@! piece of goddamn $#@! xbox because the game has decided that I'm due for a major injury during training. Cissohko breaks his leg, Pique tears his LCL, and then Edigar tears his hamstring. I dont play this $#@!ing game to prove to myself that I can overcome devastating injuries to my electronic players and win the make believe title. I play this game to score goals and talk $#@!, so it's pretty $#@!ing frustrating that the game is preventing me from doing that on purpose.

[aaronisnotcool]

i had that happen a few times. i bought a bunch of young guns i bought to build up my team (juan agudelo, christian tello, and sergi roberto), they were the best player on the team and the some of the best players in the league. but they all three got sprained ankles and were out for 4 months. i just took it as ok fifa doesn't think i should be this good, i'll show them.

what really pisses me off is how when these opposing defenders clear the ball, as they're falling away, without looking, it somehow always finds a player making a run, or a the striker who heads it to another guy making a run behind the defense.
anyways the point is the computer offense just consists of long balls forwards.

[ludosc]

Seriously. I will say it for the one millionth time: $#@! FIFA PROGRAMMERS. 3 $#@!ing times in a row now Ive had to re start my goddamn mother$#@! piece of goddamn $#@! xbox because the game has decided that I'm due for a major injury during training. Cissohko breaks his leg, Pique tears his LCL, and then Edigar tears his hamstring. I dont play this $#@!ing game to prove to myself that I can overcome devastating injuries to my electronic players and win the make believe title. I play this game to score goals and talk $#@!, so it's pretty $#@!ing frustrating that the game is preventing me from doing that on purpose.

Pique is made of $#@!ing glass in this game...I had him go down for 3 months in my current season, waited til he was fully recovered to put him back in, not 10 minutes into the game, he goes down again for 2 months...ive had him for 2 seasons now and he's spent more time hurt than healthy...he's getting listed as soon as this current season ends...

[Derka Derka]

Annnnd, back by popular demand:

[Derka Derka]

outside of old dudes like fat Ronaldo when he was trying hang on to his career, there's not really any attacking players in the world who can't sprint the length of a football pitch, but in the world of FIFA guys like Neymar literally cant even sprint for 2/3 of the field, or even less, without just completely running out of gas and grinding to a complete halt. It's retarded.

[406W30th]

After watching Derka's highlights, I really gotta master that Marseille roulette (i.e spin move). Looks like it's all in the timing of it.

Do y'all use the fake shot? It's good if you have a lot of space between you and the keeper, but it takes a long time to come off.

[Derka Derka]

After watching Derka's highlights, I really gotta master that Marseille roulette (i.e spin move). Looks like it's all in the timing of it.

Do y'all use the fake shot? It's good if you have a lot of space between you and the keeper, but it takes a long time to come off.

I do use the fake shot, and I actually learned a dope, new fake shot like a week ago. Finally used it to score a goal tonight. I'll upload it in a second. My est advice w the regular fake shot is to pretty much only use it in a sprint when you have like 4 steps to run up to the ball. Just hold down B for like 3 bars and then hit A. That's the best way to do it imo, because as you pointed out, it takes a minute to pull it off.