You know that weirdly charming guy that EA used to show off some of the changes coming in EA Sports FC 24’s biggest update? Well, it’s time for a massive spring overhaul and I’m happy to say they’re back, baby!
Yeah, forget about the chaos of that wrong Rodri image being added to the Ultimate Team card and how, until recently, your precious re-creation of a millionaire footballer was in danger due to a mistake, everything in the world Back to normal. Just take a good look at the bright colors of these stupid demonstrators and relax.
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It’s time for the Spring Update, and as you can see from the size of the blog post EA put together about the update, it’s a big deal. Title Update 11 (to give it an alternative name) is titled “86 new star avatars,” along with improvements to stadium gameplay via some “playstyle tweaks” and “Legendary CPU AI difficulty tweaks.”
It was the former of the latter two that prompted EA to debut skinless, morphing suit-style followers, and more specifically, surprisingly reduce the “maximum possible sprint jockey speed” for players with a jockey playstyle The thing is, that doesn’t make them very good at riding horses. The first non-human use of the specified changes was a little competition between two guys with pre and post versions of PlayStyle, as shown below. It’s almost breathtaking to watch as it loops through the blog post.
Outlining that the purpose of the PlayStyle tweaks is to “ensure players have access to meaningfully different options when building their squads, with PlayStyles and PlayStyles+ helping to provide more variety,” EA helped break down its set of changes into two categories – “Slight adjustment” and “Significant adjustment”.
Meanwhile, in terms of the Legendary AI changes, EA says its “goal is to give our players more agency in matches against tough opponents, especially on defense.” As a result, legendary AI players have become more predictable and should follow their defined tendencies more closely.
Now, a quick overview of the rest of the uses for these non-human beings, because that’s all we really care about. The update comes with a series of new animations “based on volumetric data captured from real matches in the Champions League group stages.” There’s Erling Haaland’s shot, Vinicius Junior’s ‘step-over’ trick and, most importantly, a new clearance based on a highlight reel from Dortmund’s game against Paris Saint-Germain.
All are lovingly re-enacted by non-humans, whose public service will hopefully eventually reward them with official virtual human status. While you wait for that happy day to arrive, why not check out the full description of this update, which will be rolling out soon if it’s not yet available for your platform of choice.
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