Online Q&A

[arturo2424]

I have been playing Fifa Ut for a while with my friend but recently we can not play togheter anymore in the online cups ? even though we have 2 assigned guets which have worked all the time, have there been any updates on this, because it is not working playing togheter anymore in Fifa Ut online cups ????

[Smartinder]

I played a ranked match against a player that had all the best players on it. Like Ronaldo, Drogba etc etc...... This is what you can call an exploit I guess. Anyone else experienced this?

[daherlihy]

Originally Posted by Smartinder

I played a ranked match against a player that had all the best players on it. Like Ronaldo, Drogba etc etc...... This is what you can call an exploit I guess. Anyone else experienced this?

That's possible and allowed in unranked online matches, not in ranked matches. It happened in ranked matches up until just before Christmas (I think) when there was a patch/fix, and there hasn't been much said about it re-occurring since...

Its pointless at the end of the day though. Some people get some sense of achievement or satisfaction from it - they are called video gaming low-lives

[B0dunrin]

Originally Posted by Smartinder

I played a ranked match against a player that had all the best players on it. Like Ronaldo, Drogba etc etc...... This is what you can call an exploit I guess. Anyone else experienced this?

Originally Posted by daherlihy

That's possible and allowed in unranked online matches, not in ranked matches. It happened in ranked matches up until just before Christmas (I think) when there was a patch/fix, and there hasn't been much said about it re-occurring since...

Its pointless at the end of the day though. Some people get some sense of achievement or satisfaction from it - they are called video gaming low-lives

I never knew it was possible to do that prior to the patch, that only happened to me in unranked games...

[daherlihy]

^ its allowed in unranked matches for sure.

I think EA Sports should allow one and one team only team in the game called [username]'s World XI, and they can fill it up themselves with their own dream team for use in offline Exhibition matches and online Unranked matches, instead of this thing where gamers fill up their local 2* team with Ronaldo and Messi thinking they're cool... its pointlessly pathetic to be honest.

[Smartinder]

Well it was a ranked match. It is in recent games in career stats.. And it was yesterday.

[daherlihy]

Originally Posted by Smartinder

Well it was a ranked match. It is in recent games in career stats.. And it was yesterday.

Interesting - I just saw another thread about this issue closed... EA Sports hiding another flaw?!

[sunshinefish]

Hi when i go in to the leader board section why is all my stats at the bottom empty

[pwwato]

can anyone help iv plaed a fair bit online , but none off my stats come up when i look at any leaderboards, they all have dashes (--) in them, it frustrating the hell out of me.

very frustrated ps3 user

[kriton]

Ok regarding unresponsive players and game play, for example i can play one game as argentina and be playing a level 1 opponent and my players are fast passing is good and acurate, then next game i will play a level 7 and all of a sudden my players have wooden legs, no speed passing is short shots go way over bar despite just tapping on key, why is this? is the server giving the level 7 an advantage over me because im only level 1, it happens a lot, its always the same, It changes from one game to the next, my connection speed is 20 meg, only me on my connection and no lag, this happens to my mates to, they experience tha same thing, play a low ranked and have a good game then play a higher rank and their team turn to jelly, there is now a suggestion that the servers are fixed to help higher ranked players, which if true does not encourage anyone to play , all players should be equal on the pitch no matter what ranking they are, ranking should be based on winning a game based on your ability to play the game, but this is not evident at the moment, it seems like the servers make my team slow, make constant bad passes, poor shots etc etc etc when i play a higher level opponent, can you explain this?????

Originally Posted by EA_WilsonVenhola

Hi, I'm back.

Responses included.



I have to apologize, I'm not sure how to best respond to this. I have read the long thread that is "Online Changes", and I see there is a lot of passion about this topic but it's still not clear to me what exactly is the problem. Right now, I think I should re-iterate that there were no changes to gameplay ( online or not ) between the patch that fixed the crab walking bug and now. If you find a pattern, reasoning, or cause to these sluggish, non-responsive games please keep us informed.

I should also mention that there should be a distinction made between the what you consider sluggish or non-responsive and the specific items you have listed. An underpowered pass is not necessarily unresponsive. It's coherant to say that an underpowered pass may in fact be very responsive. The same holds true for for underpowered chip shots, and ball player collisions. Although I would be hard pressed to find a situation where I would ever classify a ball player collision as responsive or unresponsive.

It's an important distinction for any engineer looking at the problem because the architecture of the peer to peer online gameplay means that network conditions will affect the responsiveness ( latency, lag, sluggishness ) of when your gameplay actions are applied, but will NOT affect the power applied to passes, chip shots, or the timing of player ball collisions.



If there is a problem with the game servers, it will be corrected as we identify it. If you could provide a little more information about your connection quality, that would help a lot in narrowing down the problem. It wouldn't do us any good to add better or more hardware to the servers, if the problem actually stems from a routing problem between your location and the nearest server.

With regards to online gameplay latency, I find the opposite true myself, clubs matches are generally more responsive than 1v1 matches for me. In Vancouver, when I play with our dev team club, we generally match-up against opponents on the North American west coast server. However, when I match up against 1v1 opponents they are generally from a broader pool of opponents ( I'd hazard a guess that the average latency I experience would end up being equivalent to playing a NA east coast opponent )

I see you're in Norway. The european game servers are located in Geneva. Can you try pinging 159.153.161.74 and report back what kind of latency you get? ( type ping 159.153.161.74 on the command prompt ( on windows, start->run->cmd.exe) , and copy the output into this thread. )



Re: Question 1 - I believe that's really a design question. I'm not a designer!

The advantage rule is a relatively tricky one, and I'm not an expert on the implementation in FIFA so I'll decline to comment.

I believe the fix that was applied during the patch fixed a particularly annoying bug whereby it was possible to score a goal on the advantage but have the free kick awarded instead of the goal. I am pretty sure that does not occur anymore.

Re: Question 2 - Sorry I'd have to ask our database team for all the updates it has. Maybe they can provide a big summary in another thread.



I believe this is answered in the clubs faq, but it's a very trivial answer so here goes.

Ranks 1-50 are division 1.
51-100 are division 2.
101-151 are division 3.
etc.



Re: 1.

Having had ACL reconstruction a couple years ago, due to a football injury, I'm not terribly enthusiastic about adding serious injuries to online play as well!

Seriously though, it's something that comes up once in a while, and I cannot confirm or deny anything.

Re: 2.

This is news to me. I haven't read a thread about this, and IL is not a gamemode I frequently play. Do you have more information about this problem?



First off, I totally agree. Asking users to open ports is not ideal, and expecting your kids to do it for you is just plain mean!

We absolutely want it to be as easy as possible to play other people online. We do try to make it so that as many people as possible can connect to each other ( on the 360, microsoft handles the peer 2 peer connection process so we do have to rely on their implementation ). It still remains true that when all else fails the fail safe is to do some port forwarding.



Unfortunately, this substitution freeze bug is causing a lot of grief. It's not only a major frustration because it prevents the game from continuing, but it causes problems with clubs game reporting. I don't think I have any concrete answers about why these games wouldn't be recorded. Can you send me more details about any games where this happened to your club? Opposing club name, number of users on each side, what your team did after the freeze occurred.

In the case where you were assigned a loss, that was probably due to one of your users leaving the game ( maybe resetting the console ), and your team falling below the minimum 3 players required to play the game.



It's technically possible. I'm inclined to think the DNF increase isn't really that big of a punishment, and what do you see in 5 minutes that you wouldn't see in 3 minutes of game time? Personally, I think the bigger problem is being able to quit in those 5 minutes if your opponent is maintaining strong possession. But there I go putting on a designer hat.



I don't know what the exact answer to this is but it's probably ok to say that we did run a script over a history of the FIWC game logs and identified users who consistently exploited the FIWC custom squads bug to gain an unfair advantage.



Yes we are looking into the issue. The more information you can provide about how to cause it, the better chance we have of finding a fix for it. I've yet to experience it any of the 30 odd clubs matches I've played, but several other team members have reported seeing it.

[KayOzz]

Here´s a question..

I have created my own player, but I can´t play online with him. How do I do that.

[aran09]

wat is the next freebie on fifa 09 ultimate team ?

[daherlihy]

Originally Posted by KayOzz

Here´s a question..

I have created my own player, but I can´t play online with him. How do I do that.

You will have to transfer the created player onto the team you'd like him on (either in team management or transfer centre, can't remember which).

Once done (and saved), you can then use that team with that player online, however in unranked matches only.

[fin21]

If you play someone online with the same teams (eg - Chelsea vs Chelsea) does it always come up as playing against the CPU in your recent match history?

I just beat someone 4-3 (Chelsea vs Chelsea) that's what happened, not counting the victory to my online record.

Thanks

[Nlynx]

Originally Posted by fin21

If you play someone online with the same teams (eg - Chelsea vs Chelsea) does it always come up as playing against the CPU in your recent match history?

I just beat someone 4-3 (Chelsea vs Chelsea) that's what happened, not counting the victory to my online record.

Thanks

Probably another bug because there is a lot of MU vs MU and Barça vs Barça and they seem to count to the online record

[lelentz]

I can't acces FIWC from Online Game Modes. Why?

[daherlihy]

Originally Posted by lelentz

I can't acces FIWC from Online Game Modes. Why?

Possibly because FIWC is over.

[20411043]

Hey, I got a problem

My game doesn't detect the 1.3 update........ I still have the 1.2, when the game starts it doesn't ask me to download it.n i started the game it told me i needed the latest update which was 1.2...???? lalala is going on?

[antforce]

Originally Posted by daherlihy

Possibly because FIWC is over.

Why is it over? It was the only game mode that you could use to (quickly) play a ranked game without ALS. Now I'm stuck playing online against others using ALS. Lame.

[daherlihy]

Originally Posted by antforce

Why is it over? It was the only game mode that you could use to (quickly) play a ranked game without ALS. Now I'm stuck playing online against others using ALS. Lame.

ALS is just stats - pick a team yourself that levels up with whatever the stats are of the opposing team.

[THE_Benjamin]

My system has continually crashed since the 1.3 update, can I delete the game data and re-download it?

Also will this delete my saved games?

[sworks84]

Hi everyone,

I would just like to know how i can get a ranking and how i can get my past did not finished games off my profile as i had alot of problems with my internet and so on and am know able o play online without lag and other things.

[daherlihy]

^ no point playing for a ranking position anymore mate, the rank leaderboards are a farce at the moment with cheaters and glitchers. Play unranked until FIFA 10 comes out and enjoy.

[vg88roland]

Originally Posted by sworks84

Hi everyone,

I would just like to know how i can get a ranking and how i can get my past did not finished games off my profile as i had alot of problems with my internet and so on and am know able o play online without lag and other things.

DNF goes down with the amount of matched you play. That is, if you don't disconnect. But why this urge to get ranked? The ranking system is flawed at best and proves nothing. It mostly show the best abusers and boosters. Why mingle with those.

Gather people you like to play against and kick of an online league instead. Enjoy the game.

[sworks84]

Thanks guys for the feed back i have only just started to get on to the online gaming this year so this things are still new to me but it is good to know that it doesn't mean much then and there are cheaters out there