List of Bugs EA need to fix

[davidmmac]

Here is a list of bugs I have come across in Fifa 09 that EA need to fix, add ones I have missed.

1. Invisible players bug: I discovered this bug when I was in my secound season and the ball went out for a throw, Players were then invisible until I kicked the ball out of play again. I then had it again the next day, except this time the only way to fix it was to restart the game.

2. Manager mode crashing: This usually happens when scheduling a new season, when it is around 76% - 80%.

3. Ready to play bug: Online bug, that desperately needs fixing.

4. Anelka bug: Not sure if this one has been fixed yet, but need I say any more.

5. Online bug where the opponent quits and they get the win (I think thats how it goes)

6. Ball going through the net and bar

7. When the ball hit's the side of the net and a goal is given

8. cut scenes that don't make sense, as said in #3

9. Bad Commentary: When you foul the keeper in the box and the commentators say that this is a great chance, even though it's a free kick to the opposition in their goal box.

10. Your players behind the goal line: Every now and then, all (except the GK) are behind the oppositions goal line, and the opposition run up the field and score (unless your GK saves it). I've found this usually only happens from goal kicks though.

11. You foal a player close to the oppositions goal box and the ref gives you a free kick, but all the oppositions players disappear. If you change players then the opposition players re-appear, but if you just shoot, you score.

12. Free kicks being taken from spots where they weren't awarded

13. The "mouse shoot bug" as described by the person in post #8

I'm sure I've forgotten some, so just reply to this and I'll add them.

Come on EA, look at this and fix it!

[Andycats0]

dont for get the side net bug goal and lagging

[vickystormo]

I found out a bug where my player gets carded.But the funny thing about it is that in the cut scene the players of my own team ask the referee to show the card to my own player instead of the opponent team.Thats crazyyy!!

[davidmmac]

Thanks for your replies guys, I've added them to my first post

[blyadj]

hello guys!at once excuse me please for bad English because i'm from Russia.
I'm playing Fifa for many years but so much bugs i didn't never see!
1st problem is physics.its amazing how the ball is moving and how players moves
vith it
2nd.it may looks strange,but complexity of game of computer is defins not by how its playing (good or bad) and degree cheat.
when computer loses he make bugs to win.(not deserved free kiks,"super shots" and so on)
3rd is REFEREES!!!!!!!!!
and 4th is on-line play (you already know all about it)

[davidmmac]

Originally Posted by blyadj

2nd.it may looks strange,but complexity of game of computer is defins not by how its playing (good or bad) and degree cheat.
when computer loses he make bugs to win.(not deserved free kiks,"super shots" and so on)

So the computer cheats?

[autogoal]

Originally Posted by blyadj

when computer loses he make bugs to win.(not deserved free kiks,"super shots" and so on)

yes and its much easier to score at the end of half and at the end of the game. but this things I think its not bugs (unintentionaly made) but they are part of the game code.

[LIRAN2005]

are you kidding?
You've forgot the most annoying bug that I don't play fifa anymore because of it.

the "mouse shoot" bug, that you can't shoot high with the mouse!!

all the bugs are nothing compare to this, the mouse control worth nothing if you can't score normally, I bought the game only because the idea of the mouse control.

[chchan74]

how about the following?

1. u foul a pc player, referee play advantage, and then award the free kick at a different spot (mostly nearer to your goal). i encounter once when the ref award a penalty kick when i fouled the pc player near mid field!
2. manager mode crashing - in my 2nd season and game crashed during january transfer period. the same old player limit bug like fifa08?

[blyadj]

Originally Posted by chchan74

1. u foul a pc player, referee play advantage, and then award the free kick at a different spot (mostly nearer to your goal). i encounter once when the ref award a penalty kick when i fouled the pc player near mid field!

oh yes,i forgot about it,its very important especially when C.Ronaldo kicks

[davidmmac]

Thanks for your replies guys, I've added them to the list.

[Rearden]

david, I don't mean to offend you but I doubt that any of the EA staff is taking their time to look at this thread or the forums. They're probably working on another game or somethin'.

[stankefa90]

No.I think they just don't care.I know that because I've been posting bugs for years and they never showed up to say "Thanks for posting,we are gonna fix them" or smth...
It's usually useless unfortunately,but it's a probably the most important topic...

[davidmmac]

Originally Posted by Rearden

david, I don't mean to offend you but I doubt that any of the EA staff is taking their time to look at this thread or the forums. They're probably working on another game or somethin'.

Originally Posted by stankefa90

No.I think they just don't care.I know that because I've been posting bugs for years and they never showed up to say "Thanks for posting,we are gonna fix them" or smth...
It's usually useless unfortunately,but it's a probably the most important topic...

Well I hope (for fifa 09's sake) that your both wrong in that ea don't care about these forums. The developers should be reading these forums daily, to read the threads to see what is actually import to the people who buy the games.

[ScorePlayer]

Very good topic. C'mon EA we need Patch 3! Here's a list of problems, fix the game!

[QPRCramb]

I've compiled a list as well. Some of them overlap with some of the ones already mentioned but I suppose it doesn't hurt for EA to see that it's not just one person experiencing a particular problem.

Things that aren’t quite right with FIFA 09:

In no particular order:

1) Game often stops responding to keyboard – can be fixed with alt-tab.

2) Penalties – the game doesn’t respond to the direction controls on the keyboard when taking penalties, unless you hold down the direction button from long before you press the shoot button until long after you’ve released the shoot button. This has been a problem for years.

3) Career mode: Had a multiple choice question about a player who’d retired the previous season. Just to make it more of a nuisance the game didn’t even bring him back for me.

4) After play has stopped, occasionally it will resume with all the players missing from one team, and if it is for a free kick and that team’s players are missing the free-kick will be given to the other team. I have once scored from a direct free-kick into an open goal (or perhaps the keeper was still there) awarded to me because I was offside but the opposing team had disappeared so I was given the free-kick instead. The players then return the next time play stops.

5) I’ve seen the ball pass through the goal from outside to in and vice-versa, on occasion, and when passing from outside of the goal to in, a goal is given and when inside to out a goal-kick/corner – i.e. the opposite of the correct decision.

6) It’s taking it a bit far having free kicks given for hand ball when a player’s arm gets in the way whilst making a slide tackle, especially since it only ever happens when a player’s made a perfectly good tackle – can’t the players be made to keep their arms out of the way?

7) Also why do players always seem to get in the way of shots from their team mates? Especially annoying as they’ll be in an offside position so not only will the shot be blocked but possession will be wasted. Surely they can stay out of the way of a shot and if they’re offside, always be doing their best to get back onside, which they should be doing in any situation. Too often players make their runs very poorly they’re either offside or they’re not getting forward enough for a cross to be worthwhile.

When the goalkeeper has been sent off and you are taking off an outfield player immediately in order to bring on the substitute keeper, the player leaving will leave in a goalkeeper shirt. Also, when a player is sent off, you never see them actually leaving the pitch.

English Commentary:

9) The game often refers to teams being neck and neck while one is in the lead by a goal. This is fine for high-scoring games (presumably meant for games with long halves), but is shown up when at half time Andy Gray says things will change if there’s a goal, when a goal has already been scored by one team or the other in the first half.

10) There is line that is poorly scripted, when it is raining Andy Gray mentions that the first touch needs to be good, then goes on to say if these things are ok, or something similar when he has only listed on condition. The only other thing he says is that the ball moves faster on the wet pitch, but that is independent of what the players do.

11) When a free kick is given in or near the box to the defending team, it triggers a piece of commentary saying that it was close to being a penalty.

12) The commentary doesn’t distinguish between red cards for dangerous play and red cards for professional fouls. Whenever a player is sent off for being the last man when making a foul, his tackle is often described as though it were a really bad one. Similarly when a player is suspended for accumulating bookings, and missing from a subsequent match, the commentary will often talk about him letting the team down getting himself sent off when that didn’t actually happen.

13) Why are there home and away teams in cup finals (and FA Cup semi-final)? Why are the Community Shield and Super Cup introduced with the same commentary that opens a cup game as if it were an opening round or final of an ongoing cup competition? Why do group stages get referred to in rounds of cup competitions that have been knock-out all the way through?

14) When the ball hits the post and goes in, the game often mistakenly uses commentary to describe the situation as though the ball had come back off the post and a player had scored from the rebound, sometimes even going as far as criticising the defence for not getting to the rebound first.

15) There’s a grammatical error when Andy Gray says “It’s got to be won on that green thing in front of you and I.” It should be “in front of you and me”. It’s the object, not the subject.


16) Italian Commentary: - What’s going on with the name Bosingwa? Are they making fun of him? Don’t get me wrong, I love to ridicule Chelsea players but this is borderline racism.

17) Referee and Linesmen. Great to be able to see them on the pitch, but can’t they be animated to do all the gestures they’re supposed to do. Otherwise they’re not really doing their job properly. Linesmen should wave and point their flag for throw-ins and offsides, in the appropriate direction, and also to draw attention to fouls that the referees misses. The referee’s got a whole repertoire of signals he should give too.

[milamber182]

Corner camera bug
Black menu screen bug

[Leeroy007]

I got Fifa 09 for pc, installed it and started like normal.. BUT.....
When the game starts its like its stuck on fast forward?? I cant seem to control or do anything as its just going 2 fast... any1 know what the cause of this problem is and how to fix it ??

[QPRCramb]

Bump. Surely this is one of the most important threads and we want to make it as easy as possible for EA to keep an eye on it.

[Andycats0]

ea wont do any thing at all 2 fix this so ther for i dont play fifa09 witch is so bad while at min iam playing on pes09 and its mutch better

[davidmmac]

Originally Posted by Leeroy007

I got Fifa 09 for pc, installed it and started like normal.. BUT.....
When the game starts its like its stuck on fast forward?? I cant seem to control or do anything as its just going 2 fast... any1 know what the cause of this problem is and how to fix it ??

I think there is a setting called "game speed" under settings, modify that and see if it works.

[QPRCramb]

Originally Posted by Andycats0

ea wont do any thing at all 2 fix this so ther for i dont play fifa09 witch is so bad while at min iam playing on pes09 and its mutch better

Well they certainly won't if we don't make it nice and easy for them to receive our feedback. Bump.

[davidmmac]

This threads been out for 2 weeks now, and still no response from any mods, adims, developers, etc

[AGomez]

Well, we can ALL send the list of bugs in the "contact us" zone. Maybe they "listen" to us.

Tired of this online service.

[QPRCramb]

Wow, have you FOUND a contact us page? I spent ages looking for it and all I ever got was a link to the forums - as if this is the only channel through which we can feed back. Got a link?