EA Sports activities has revealed its plan to easily “make gameplay higher” in FC 26 by way of a Gameplay Deep Dive posted to its official YouTube channel.
It’s develop into cliche to explain the year-to-year adjustments in FC (and beforehand FIFA) video games as iterative or incremental, however there’s not rather more you possibly can say to explain the nerdy, under-the-hood tinkering that goes on beneath the match engine to create a meaningfully completely different expertise between releases.
This three phrase mantra is the following step in EA’s seemingly back-to-basics and down-to-earth strategy with FC 26, which it says is its “most neighborhood pushed title” to this point.
For a lot of gamers, essentially the most attention-grabbing adjustments come as a part of what EA is looking “Gameplay Fundamentals”.
That is supposed to incorporate:
- Extra responsive dribbling
- Clearer motion with fewer sprinting varieties
- Extra constant goalkeepers who push the ball out of play and to teammates
- Tackles which maintain the ball or ricochet to teammates as a substitute of the opponent
- No extra timed ending, however each participant can low-driven by double-tapping shoot
A few of these adjustments are fairly nebulous, like “extra responsive” dribbling has supposedly been achieved by rebalancing and retuning animations, foot choice logic and the time between dribbling touches.
Nevertheless, some are extra apparent. The in-between dash kinds like “Managed Prolonged” have been eliminated and there at the moment are simply three once more: Explosive, Managed and Prolonged. So whereas there’ll most likely nonetheless be outliers, hopefully there shall be fewer cases of random gamers being unexpectedly fast.
Defensively, two large neighborhood bugbears for years have been rebound targets from klutzy keepers and the ball seeming to be sucked again in the direction of the ft of an attacker you’ve already tackled thrice.
For goalies, EA has apparently given them a extra management of deflections to considerably improve the prospect of them going out of play or to a teammate, whereas work has additionally been achieved to assist them observe the flight of the ball and minimize down on green-timed finesse and trivela exploits.
Related adjustments have been made to the trajectory of unfastened balls after a deal with, in a direct effort to fight the state of affairs each FC participant has encountered, the place you are feeling like each time you wrestle the ball out of your opponent it instantly nestles again at their ft.
Talking of green-timed trivela photographs flying in from the nook flag, timed ending has been fully eliminated and the not too long ago launched low-driven shot has been remapped to a double-tap of the shoot button after powering up your shot.
Timed ending was an attention-grabbing mechanic for rising the skill-gap wanted for high-level play, however it clearly proved tough to steadiness for EA. When you may grasp it, as seen within the later phases of FC 25you would ping in trivelas from nearly anyplace within the attacking third in a manner that wasn’t conducive to reactive, back-and-forth gameplay.
To complete on one other cliche: as all the time, how these adjustments play out within the ultimate combine stays to be seen. However you possibly can pour over the remainder of the gameplay adjustments in EA Sports activities FC 26 within the gameplay deep dive video on EA Sports activities’ YouTube channel, together with the 5 new PlayStyles coming in FC 26.
EA Sports activities FC 26 releases, fittingly, on September 26 2025 on PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo consoles, and PC.
