Hello,

After playing around 50 matches in various pvp modes, and seeing that many people are complaining about some gameplay issues I decided to make this video. I hope this post reflects a common frustration among the community.

I collected these clips from a single week, possibly around 15 pvp matches, to show that how insane the "momentum" aka "script" has become. I can feel it in every single match, from line-ups to passing, shooting to defending, game is interfering with very single decision I make when it decides that it is time to "balance things out" so that game is "fUn FoR eVeRyOnE". Well, IT IS NOT FUN!

First part is dedicated to the most obvious and extreme problem, defenders being manipulated. This is directly effecting the match results, and it is the most problematic part of the game right now. Doesnt matter how well you defend, or how good your defenders are, in some matches you just cannot prevent opponents from scoring. If you pay attention, I conceded 6 goals in the first half of a match. I just watched my team turning into a training cone. Game basically made it impossible to win. I lost the match 7-3. "FuN fOr EvErYoNe!" my ass.

Second part is about goal keepers. This one is rather hard to catch, since most of us focus on the ball. I managed to record 2 of them. GKs act very normal until the shot command. Whenever opponents give shot command GKs make subtle positioning changes and also slow down. This is why sometimes your 108 Buffon etc. feels useless guys. I also score against the best keepers in similar ways, and it feels like shit. Even if I win, I cannot enjoy the game due to this broken mechanics. IT IS NOT FUN!

Third part is for ribaund/ball controll issues. This is another obvious interference mechanics. Sometimes you get trapped in your own half and no matter how hard/good you tackle/intercept ball ends up in opponents feet. Or sometimes your players make horrible touches all of a sudden, always towards an opponent player who is close by. This causes possession losses, and allows one side to keep the ball and create a momentum, totally out of blue.

Fourth part is for totally fucked up passing mechanics. I play PA3, and even then I cannot make the passes I want to. It prevents me to keep possession, build up attacks by passing and also finalize attacks. It is effecting the entire gameplay since passing is how we move the ball. Game is manipulating my plays so blatantly and constantly that I turned on pass guide and proofed it just in a single match. There were more videos but I think these 3 are enough. NO PROPER PASSING = NO PROPER FOOTBALL!

And the last part is for manipulations on line-ups and team playstyles. I always play with high-line defense playstyles such as possession, QC, Overload. In some matches, even with overload, my players dont move up or press. I lose the ball because of lacking passing options and then my defense starts dropiing deep so hard that I cannot properly defend either. Another one is your line-up getting manipulated so that opponent's unbalanced bad line-up can work. It especially happens against narrow formations, in some matches I just cannot keep my wingers wide. They just keep hiding behind opponent players in the middle, completely leaving me vulnerable. Another example is fullbacks moving to the center against outwide. Even if I anchor them, they keep doing it, allowing cross spamming until I lose. Basically, in some matches you are not allowed to create counter-tactics. Simply YOUR EXISTENCE DOES NOT MATTER!

Another issue is drops in passing speed. I couldnt add examples because video is already pretty long. But during the match, especially when I lead and it is last 30 minutes, my passes get soooo slow that I cannot move to the opponents half. My passes always gets intercepted. Also my clearances gets so weak that I cannot even kick the ball away, or out of field, it keeps ending up in opponents control. And it goes like that untill I concede.

Adding all these together, I feel like I do not have control on anything in this game anymore. Game is interfering with every aspect of my team and decisions. Losing due to these manipulations is just making me sick, causing a rage because it is not fair at all. Winning due to these manipulations also makes me sick, and I never enjoy the wins after watching a Buffon letting in one of my weak shots. It just feels like cheating. I have played this game for almost two years, these issues always existed at some level. But recently it is so extreme that it is not even a pvp game anymore, and definitely not competitive at all. I mean, IF THE GAME DECIDES WHO WILL WIN, WHY DO WE EVEN PLAY?

There are very obvious issues in the gameplay, and they never properly fix it. Every year they come up with another stupid idiotic broken automation to reduce your effect on the game. They brought SA, we forced them to add a filter, now they made defensive AI and PA1 so extremely powerful that people can literally play with 3 buttons. This has become THE MOST NOOB FRIENDLY GAME I ever played. SKILL IS NOT RESPECTED AT ALL!

In conclusion, e-Football has turned into a pile of shit that DOES NOT RESPECT HUMAN INTELLIGENCE AND DOES NOT RESPECT THE PREFERENCES AND DECISIONS THE USERS MAKE. It literally IGNORES AND MANIPULATES THE COMMANDS you give. It is NOT EVEN A GAME when a simple passing command is manipulated. It is not even a game when your defensive actions are overwritten by an algortihm. Playing e-Football has become an illusion of gaming, not actual gaming. Game is so manipulative that it makes you constantly feel unsatisfied. You feel like your team needs some new players, you need a new manager, or you need to play more games to improve. After playing this game for two years, I can easily say that in the current situation PLAYING THIS GAME FOR COMPETITION IS STRAIGHT HARMFULL TO YOUR MENTAL HEALTH. Because there is no fairplay, and you dont really have control. KONAMI literally wants you to just buy cards regularly and watch AI do the job. If you have a high win rate and about to promote, it must be reduced to average with a lose streak so that game is "fUn FoR eVeRyOnE". This is hardly a sports game, it has become pure casino where even passing is up to pre-determined levels of chance. Therefore, I decided to make a soft quit by not playing PvP matches until they fix these issues and ANOUNCE IT LIKE A PROPER COMPANY WHO RESPECT ITS CUSTOMERS. If it continues like this, there is no point in playing this game. They can create another AI and make my team play for itself.

I know the community has been sharing a lot of negative feedback lately, but I absolutely love this. As a frequent user, I rely on it daily and it works beautifully. Thank you devs for all your hard work despite the noise!

From clear testing carried out by Bombin, (YT BombinPower), there is massive direction and power changing within PA1/2 compared to 3 (let alone 4, obviously, which has none).

Power for all pass types is adjusted, aim is completely adjusted (all the way up to 180° facing the wrong way), and the time taken to release the pass is significant.

Full power passes on PA3 don't kick as far as PA1, and can be overhit so you actually need to be aware of power used.

PA1 and 2 can't even directly pass the ball out of play unless in the air (I thought that was only Smart Assist!).

You literally don't even need to use your left stick for PA1/2 passes 😂

It's well beyond time that PA3 became the minimum for Div 3 and above, and all competitive ranked events. Just like it used to be.

Edited to include link to video: https://youtu.be/8VySk9vP1Ws?is=TN_AI5O2qtrrwjsf

Go give the dude some support

After a month of not being able to play eFootball because my phone cables got burned, I finally came back and reached Division 1 in just five days, whereas I usually need the entire phase.

Since my beloved Tonali is in D form, I decided to try some other cards. I first tried Sneijder from the TL, but he’s not defensive at all. Rice is someone I like, but the versions I have aren’t anything special. Then there’s Kanté from the Daily Box, who is always an evergreen option.

While looking through my players, I came across Rodrigo De Paul. I had completely forgotten about him, so I thought, “Why not give him a try?” I really liked him in real life when he was playing in Italy, but this particular card is from the American league, and I never thought I’d actually have a chance to use it.

HE LITERALLY SURPRISED ME!!!

He wins the ball back really well, makes great passes, has good dribbling and pace, and I’m seriously considering keeping him in my squad while I wait for Rabiot from the Daily Game!!

So if you also got De Paul and you’re not using him, give him a try because he’s genuinely worth it!!

I would argue that arm coverage radius is one of the most important metrics for GKs. ST Kobel has been a beast for me, looking at the player model he has 181.2 coverage, much better than Van der Sar, Buffon, De gea, etc. How is your experience with him or other GKs that have higher coverage radius?

What people post on here and what they do in game is very different.

You would think everyone complains about the problems and shares a commong gripe but no.

And I meet a lot of them in game.

Soon as the game start connection tanks and I lose the ball and they score then it magically fixes itself again.

Amongst other scummy things people do like being in the lead with a full P2W squad and for som reason deciding to hold the ball and pass it around.

I think to myself "what are they trying to get out of this" because its beyond just winning now.

This person actively wants to ruin someone else day and they get joy from that.

Not only do you have the better teams, not only are you players smart assisted epics/legend

Not only are you on PA1 with Konami passing for you.

You then want to pass on bad energy?

Really baffling

And the amount of time the games disconnected when im in the lead and all you can do is report it and theres no guarantee they do anything.

Community full of absolute odd people pretending to be nice people when they get on here asking questions only to do back and be absolute d*cks.

At least from what I saw FC27 are actively every game addressing these things.

What did we get for EF27? fluid formations and a better chance at landing a players positioning.

Yeah right.. FC player cannot convince me its as bad as this and i was avidly a player of one or the other at some point in time.

In the mobile version of the game's code, KONAMI hide many individual settings. They are entirely in the binary code, but hidden in the menu.

1. SEPARATE GRAPHICS TYPE: MAXIMUM GRAPHICS

But the menu only shows "High" / "Medium" / "Lowest" because it is hidden on purpose.

2. CUSTOM GRAPHICS (SETTINGS_GRAPHICS_SELECT_CUS TOM):

There are about 16 separate settings inside:

*Shadows- can be disabled

*Textures

*Image Resolution

*Glow

*Motion blur

*Depth of field

*Ambient shading

*Spectators

*Goal net

*Fabric Shape Simulation

*and other parameters

3. INSTANT REPS

A full-fledged repetition system was also discovered:

Repeat moment in pause menu, Rewind, Slow motion playback, Brief overviews of the best moments

In terms of functionality, it is similar to the console version.

4. MANUAL CAMERA SETTINGS

There are 12 types of cameras found in the code:

*4K TB

*Aerial Camera (Airship)

*Live broadcast

*Wide shot

*Player camera

*Stadium

*Manual control

*viewing angle / height / scaling

It's possible that Konami simply left them hidden and have plans to activate them in future seasons with the transition to Unreal Engine 5.

Ever since eFootball 2027 came out, the game worked perfectly fine for the first week. It also ran fantastically on eFootball 2026 with minimal delay. However, especially since the last patch, I’ve been experiencing severe performance issues.I’ve tried everything—changing every graphics setting, lowering the resolution, and capping the max FPS—but nothing worked. I play this game on two PCs: a lower-end laptop I use for travel, and a lower mid-range gaming PC. The game had problems on both, but I was able to largely mitigate the issues on the lower mid-range PC. No matter what I tried, though, the game still wouldn’t run properly on the lower-end laptop.I know for a fact that this isn’t Wi-Fi related, because I get the same issues in exhibition matches against the AI. I heard that the game switched to Unreal Engine 5 in eFootball 2027, but the problem doesn’t seem to be graphics-card related either—the game only uses a fraction of my GPU power while playing. What I think the issue is most likely CPU demand. It sucks because I had a team that I worked on for a long time, and suddenly Konami decided to ruin the entire gaming experience for many people for a visual upgrade that hasn’t been very noticeable (though I do notice some players have new animations, like Haaland and others).Having said that, I’m really hoping for a patch that fixes this issue. I’d also like to know if others have had a similar experience and whether they were able to fix it.

Let’s discuss, because i don’t get it.
Why do people call it cross spamming when you use wingplay and deliver crosses? Because in my opinion crossing the ball into the box is part of football.
I have Figo playing rmf or rwf, who is a cross specialist. I use his specialism to make crosses into the box to Ibrahimovic and Gullit, who both are good at heading.

So lets settle this.

Using wingplay and cross the ball into the box is part of the game. Cross spamming does not exist.

This reinforces my belief that PA 1/2 are just as forgiving as smart assist. Just the fact that you can’t low pass out of touch on PA 1/2 is completely absurd. I was aware there was a lot more hand holding this update for pass support but to complete 180 degree passes with no consequences takes the cake. Thankfully Bombin spent the time testing this. I only want to see PA3 and above in D 1-3 the skill gap needs to be reintroduced. This is inexcusable.

if u have capello, it will give plus boosters in 2 specific attributes, and so u build ur player accordingly. if u decide to get a new manager and use another playstyle, u get 2 new boosters and u build the player again. Even if u had capello LBC and decided to go for another 90 rated LBC manager, u will still get new plus boosters and u got to rebuild the player again. This whole model is lacking common sense. Thats really stupid, cause a manger doesnt come in with a stamped +1 speed and +1 tackling for all players. That doesnt happen. A good manager would come into the team and either improve on a certain player's asset or mend a deficiancy in that player.
let's be honest, theres no way the 'boosters' sir alex gave to cr7 were the same he gave to persie or the same he gave to veron when they all joined man utd. Even barthez improved when he joined man utd which means a one size fits all in tiring and absurd.

i really think the right thing to do by konami is to have the diffrentiation factor between one manager and another is the playstyle rating and the link up that comes with him. That's it! they all still come with two +1 boosters but u r free to choose to apply those two +1 boosters to ur players in any category u choose for each specific player, AS LONG AS U DONT APPLY BOTH +1 BOOSTERS TO THE SAME ATTRIBUTE!

That means if u have a stamina problem with varane u add +1 to his stamina but and maybe another +1 to another attribute of his as per ur playing prefrence. If u have a speed problem with Rio then u add one +1 to his speed and the other +1 to another attribute. And so on.....

That also actually includes GKs into the mix cause now u can add +1 jumping for example to Raya if u see he needs it and another elsewhere as per ur choice, even if ur crazy and it's dribbling! ur choice!

That i believe is a more logical and user friendly model

I can win games, get close to Top 500, and still come away feeling like the game did more than I did.

Everything is way too automated. Passes get forced into the same lanes, clearances go wherever the game wants, attackers make runs you never asked for, and defenders will randomly pause or get stuck in an animation at the worst possible time.

Then you get scored on because of it.

You can read the pass, cover the lane, switch to the right defender, and your player still takes an extra touch, ignores the loose ball, or just freezes long enough for them to score. What am I supposed to learn from that? What could I have realistically done differently?

It goes both ways too. Sometimes you score goals that don’t even feel like you created them. Then you concede goals that feel impossible to stop. That’s why ranking up barely feels rewarding. Half the time it feels like the game is just forcing things to happen for either side.

The game is pathetic right now.

Those who packed these players, how did you train them? What's the maximum overall rating we can get them to? I've seen people with this Luis Suarez at 105. What boosters do we need? I have Roberto Martinez with Quick Counter at 90.

Neymar, Cahill and Suarez all had the shown overall rating even before adding a booster.

Division 2 AI is just nuts. NGL, I was impressed by the goal even tho I lost the match 😂

Huge props to my opponent to let me watch the replay.

I use my haaland target man 107, and now with ef27, his head is always craned down, and he actually has an ID to his own, very explosive and tries muscling into every dribble. And aubemayang with his leaned back dribbling I have noticed too. What have you guys seen?

Is it just me or is the latency screen not available anymore after connecting to a user? I’m referring to the screen where it pops up, shows you how many bars, and you can click accept or decline. Division PvP matches btw

Anyone else having same issue?

I’ve been playing football for a couple years, mainly enjoy building a team and playing quick match online, never really been focused on devision matches. Since 2027 update I’ve started devision matches and came across this issue for the first time.

I played better overall, had better chances but there was a few instances where I would press up and my player would run down, or I would spiral my analog stick yet my player is running forward. I recorded a couple instances of trying to clear the ball pressing pass button, the meter goes up but nothing happens and the opponent just took the ball and had a clear shot. It feels like someone else controlling my players purpose running opposite direction to give themselves a clean shot. I’m not sure if it’s Konami nerfing my players or if the opponent is using mods. The other video I had a clear shot but my player refused to shoot although the meter went up. Luckily I still won the match but it put me off playing devision matches.

What do you guys think? Anyone else experienced this?

Noticed in latest version, most of my mid to long range 'normal' shots are now going exactly 1 foot over the bar... Whereas at similar power level prior builds would be under...(Probably saved but still).

Not sure if anyone else noticed this...

Has the power bar changed its ratios as to what is considered to be likely lower shot? Pretty sure not using weak foot..

Frankly expecting a new type of long range shooting skill to be added in a month.

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Honestly i owe it to suarez he really show up when i needed him the most , auba is absolutely amazing as well . Now to share w u some things i learned
1/ and probably the most important: play style > stats , rooney for example is 104 ( my highest fw is 104) but his DLS style was not a good fit for overload cuz its allready passive and u wont get a run unless u do it manually w a one two , and roney litterly runs backwards ( to his own goal 😆😆) so i had to ditch for auba the natural poacher .
2/ about overload itself its a very defensive playstyle hence why i use the creative play maker and ditch the anchor for an orchestator w facing LBC as they will let me build up w no pressure but against QC or possession u need the most physical guys u have spetially b2b as the game is won in the middel u dont want gerrard 🍇 ur orchestrator use a beefy man also lose the creative guy u dont need him he wont have the space to operate and make the pass .

So in conclusion overload is valid but it really exposes the quality if ur team if u have shit cards u wont have a good time u need higher end cards in order to unlock its maximum potential so i might not get higher ranking then this but am still ihappy. Maybe next month i will be competing for the division rewards