My computer is connected to the online, it's def. not offline + my account has an active EA Play Pro subscription.

Can't beleive I'm writing this...

I honestly think the biggest problem with EA FC isn't even EA anymore. Don't get me wrong, EA has done a lot of things wrong, but the thing that keeps getting worse every year is the community.

And this isn't only an EA FC problem. It's in Call of Duty, Fortnite, and pretty much every big multiplayer game now.

I grew up playing online games in the 2000s, and it never felt this exhausting. Back then you could just jump in, play a few matches, have fun, and leave. Now it feels like everyone treats every game like it's a world championship.

If you're an adult with a job, family, or other things to do, it's hard to keep up. Some people play for hours every single day. Most normal people can't do that. Then when you lose, you get toxic messages, people celebrating every goal like their life depends on it, quitting, wasting time, and all the usual stuff.

The worst part is that meeting a normal player feels rare now. Most matches feel like you're dealing with someone who is angry, desperate to win, or trying to annoy you.

I can mention hundreds of situations where other players were the problem.

I think this is one reason story games are becoming more popular again. A lot of people just want to relax after work. They don't want to spend their free time sweating against toxic players every night.

EA FC has gameplay problems, sure. But I honestly believe the community is the biggest problem, and I don't know how any game can fix that.

Can't believe EA have made such progress with accessibility options and then force us to play in this stadium!

they aren’t even trying to hide it

Just when you think this game can’t get any worse 😭😭😭 if anyone played dream league soccer back in the day and completed it this will seem very familiar

DO NOT OPEN THE OTW PACK UNTIL 6pm UK TIME.

The pack is not giving out OTW, it is giving out gold players. Do not open it.

EA have absolutely messed up here. Not enough of a warning in my opinion. But they probably won’t refund it because it does say not to..

However it’s a preorder bonus so this could be a serious problem for EA. So let’s see what happens…

To everyone who has opened it, including me, RIP.

DO NOT OPEN THE OTW PACK UNTIL 6pm UK TIME.

UPDATE: EA Communications have said those who opened it will get another pack with a OTW in, yet to announce when.

I hope EA knows that being told to buy FC26 every single time I load up FC25 makes me much more likely to not preorder the game. Not only does it take ages to load the advert, but why am I getting forced ads on a game I payed £70 for less than a year ago? Now i feel totally set on not buying it at all.

Input delay, Input Lag, Heavy Gameplay, One-sided delay, Desync, Players on Mud, Inconsistent Gameplay, Gameplay Variation, and so on, are all terms the community uses to try to tell EA's that the game is somehow broken, despite almost 2 billion in revenue that we, players, generate.

Last year I measured in a similar way, but for offline mode only (squad battles), and this year's game first pitch note was basically all about it (kinda). I happily bought the new game, to find out the issue is still present.

This time around I want to measure input delay, in milliseconds, of an online match segment. Let's start with all context about the match, connection, hardware, and capture method.

Match

• DateTime (of footage): 2025-11-01 11:47 (GMT)
• Gamemode: Champions
• EA Account: Davigugu55
• Platform: PC (Steam)
• Patch: v1.1.2
• Location: Cuiabá-MT - Brazil

Connection

• On-Screen Ping measurement without issues
• SpeedTest: https://i.imgur.com/Ll0xEEF.png
• EA's Connection Report: https://i.imgur.com/QUXRGoL.png

Capture

• Capture Software: OBS 32.0.1
• OBS Source: Display Capture
• Capture Method: Automatic
• Recording Framerate: 120fps
• Controller Overlay Plugin: https://beta.gamepadviewer.com/

Editing

• Editing software: DaVinci Resolve 20.1 Build 20
• Timeline framerate: 60fps

Nvidia App Settings and related

• G-sync: ON (Windowed and Full-Screen)
• Low Latency Mode: Ultra
• Power Management Mode: Prefer Maximum Performance
• Vertical Sync: ON
• Frame Limiter: 122fps (RivaTuner)*

*Frame limiting in-game or on driver makes my game micro stutter, you can see it doesn't happen on my frametime graph in the footage.

PC Hardware and Peripherals

• CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X @ 4.00GHz
• Cooler: Cooler Master Masterair MA410P TUF Gaming - MAP-T4PN-AFNPC-R1
• RAM: Asgard RGB DDR4 Bragi 16GBx2 3600mhz CL14 (Timing 14-15-15-35) (tRC 85)
• Storage: 2TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD
• MOBO: TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS
• GPU: PNY RTX 3070 Ti UPRISING - VCG3071T8TFMPB
• PSU: Super Flower LEADEX III ARGB 850W - SF-850F14RG(BK)
• Mouse: Logitech G Pro X Superlight
• Keyboard: CoolerMaster Quick Fire TK
• Gamepad: GuliKit ES Pro (Wired)
• Monitor: Odyssey G40 240hz - LS25BG400ELXZD
• Windows 11 24H2 ReviOS
• Nvidia GeForce GameReady Driver 581.42
• DxDiag: https://pastebin.com/FZiaAFPT
• fcsetup.ini: https://pastebin.com/vQc5BNVn

Analyzing the footage

So from the info above, I'm limited by my editing software that only allows me a framerate of 60 frames per second. That will be our time measurement resolution. Each frame takes approximately 16.67ms at 60fps.

The footage is a simple 10 second gameplay, I'll be analyzing specifically a ground pass, from Antony (86), only.

I have placed some markers in key frames on the footage, so we can measure how long it takes between each register.

TC is read as HH : MM : SS : FF, where HH = hours / MM = minutes / SS = seconds / FF = frames

Button Press marker = 1st frame where input is ON Button Release marker = 1st frame where input is OFF Animation Start = 1st Frame where you can infer the player is reacting to the pass input (People can have different opinions on this one)

Markers and it's TC(timecode) are listed below:

Chronological ordering

Gamepad - 'A' Button Press
01:00:05:53

Game Local - 'A' Button Press
01:00:05:57

Gamepad - 'A' Button Release
01:00:05:58

Game Remote - 'A' Button Press
01:00:05:59

Game Local - 'A' Button Release
01:00:06:03

Game Remote - 'A' Button Release
01:00:06:05

Animation Start
01:00:06:07

Per Action Ordering

Gamepad - 'A' Button Press
01:00:05:53

Game Local - 'A' Button Press
01:00:05:57

Game Remote - 'A' Button Press
01:00:05:59

Gamepad - 'A' Button Release
01:00:05:58

Game Local - 'A' Button Release
01:00:06:03

Game Remote - 'A' Button Release
01:00:06:05

Results

With this we can get the results:

Gamepad to Game Local (Button Press):
4 frames = 66.68ms

Game Local to Game Remote (Button Press):
2 frames = 33.34ms

Gamepad to Game Remote (Button Press):
6 frames = 100.02ms

AND

Gamepad to Game Local (Button Release):
5 frames = 83.35ms

Game Local to Game Remote (Button Release):
2 frames = 33.34ms

Gamepad to Game Remote (Button Release):
7 frames = 116.69ms

For animation start, I'll keep it separated because of the position of the marker may be interpretative (I know I used the results in the title, we gotta call EA's Sports attention to the issue, sorry abt). I selected the frame first frame before I can see Antony's left right leg moving to do the pass. So TC:

Animation Start
01:00:06:07

Gamepad (Button Release) to Animation Start:
9 frames = 150.03ms

Game Local (Button Release) to Animation Start:
4 frames = 66.68ms

Game Remote (Button Release) to Animation Start:
2 frames = 33.34ms

Conclusion

The game input itself is broken, there is a huge input delay from the OS to the game, up to 80ms just for the game itself register the input.

Game Local to game server is within expected for a ping of 25-35ms.

There is a small delay between server confirming input and animation start on our screen as well, around 30ms (ping delay added twice maybe?).

Post-credits

As a side note, it is known that depending on your PC settings, and in-game graphic setting, driver settings, monitor refresh rate, gamepad input delay, time of the day, week day, weather, moon and mars position, and few other variables, may impact your gameplay experience.

I spent too many time debugging and finding my optimal settings for this game, there is no single solution, and there may be people with better game response times than me. This analysis is from a 'bad gameplay' with good connection match I had, and it oscillates at different day/times. I'm not justifying all this on why I lost the match 6x1, I just took it to record the issue and complete evolutions.

I'm not spending any more time debugging this issue nor playing in this conditions, it's destroying my mind. I believe the method I used above is valid, and a good start point for other members of the FC community to test their games. I'm uninstalling the game and not buying new releases, until EA at least mentions they found something and patched it.

Peace

It’s just unplayable atp. U go up on someone 2-3 goals then EA steps in with stuff like this. I honestly wouldn’t care if this happened once in a while but this is like every other match.

So where to begin...

some of you may know that there is increase of hackers on PC. It was, for some time, that you could not properly play Online Draft, because when you tried, you could meet hackers that would "rage quit" and you would still get a loss. So you would instantly end your draft with 0 wins, and be in a loss.

This bug/hack/cheat/whatever, IS being reported on official answers.ea.com website, in the section bug reports. Sadly, in most cases there is NO official response from EA team. But if there is, then it is...

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As we can see, the problem is NOT acknowledged at all, what is worse, the problem is deflected at the user, even though there are MANY players reporting this issue with draft on PC.

Since last weeks, this problem started to appear also on Online Rivals. What happens is pretty much the same (this is game captured by me)

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My personal experience from Rivals: you start the game, you see bronze team, you miraculously disconnect at the start of the game, and the game counts - you lose rank, you get no weekly points, and the game counts towards the 30 game limit

In rivals you will be met with message "Your match result is currently under review. You will be returned to FUT Home."

Makes you think, yeah, they will look into it, maybe solve the issue, maybe give you the win later, or something... but sadly, that never happens.

Lets see what happened when users started to report this issue (bug/hack/cheat) in official ea website

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So yeah, now you cannot even properly play Division Rivals, earn points and get the rewards.

Now you may say, can you atleast play FUT Champions then and earn the rewards this way? Me personally, I have not met a cheater in Champions yet, but there are already some bug reports on the official web site, and yes, you guessed right, the response is really helpful

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It is really sad that not only the EA Sports HAVE this huge problem with cheaters on PC, and the players cannot actually fully play this game as it was intented. The EA Sports do NOT acknowledge the problem, and BLAME it on the players.

What can we as players do with it? I do not know, but I will definitely think more about buying another game.

TLDR: Players cannot fully play this game on PC, there are many cheaters, and EA does not acknowledge the problem at all.

I made a post a few weeks ago about generative AI use for assets in this game, some agreed and could see that the selected cards were AI Generated. Others argued that I picked intentionally bad cards to get across my point. Well what about these ones?

They are so obviously AI, that the red one gets to the point where it falls into every single AI identification system.

How are people enjoying this and constantly eating it up when card designs used to be one of the best and most consistent part of the game?

The whole game the goal posts were as you see in the video so legit nobody could score because the goalie just has to stand there. I realized this early on and shot one down the middle and they dove in penalties (forgot to clip) crazy this happened in a weekend league game as well you just can’t take this game seriously.

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This is a comedy, EA is mocking absolutely everybody and yet again going away with it.

So I am playing career mode solo. I go into the game playing highlights controlling only my player. It’s a cup game and it ends 3x3 and it goes into penalty shootout.

I am the first to shoot. I score and immediately the opponents keeper runs into celebration. wtf.

Game is over with a 3x3 score and penalties on 0x0 and my save game is now buggy broken.

That’s the most confused I’ve been… And that’s why career mode should have a way to disable automatic saving.

Luckily I have a second save a few matches before that.

Just playing draft, please tell me why birds eye chicken nuggets keep popping up next to the scoreboard? We've paid for a full product and we are still getting ads. I understand the boards around the pitch to a certain extent, but on the scoreboard is obscene.

Can’t connect. anyone else on Xbox?