We're currently at an interesting time in the life cycle of EA Sports FC 26: the week of advanced access for players who were willing to pay the entry fee. This is the period where dedicated grinders carve out the meta in preparation to destroy unsuspecting players on release day with their full rare gold teams.
An ongoing point of contention in the community concerns the new defending system, which is more manual than in previous entries. You actually have to jockey and time your tackles appropriately, instead of the AI just bullying attackers off the ball.
This new system has polarised the community: one side argues that defenders are now ineffective, resulting in dull goal-fests. Others argue that players need time to adapt to the new system, and these changes facilitate greater skill expression in offence.
The latter group is worried about what will happen when the game fully releases, when EA is inevitably swamped with complaints about how difficult defending is. Glittering_Shirt102 voices this concern in a recent Reddit thread.
"The gameplay is good, it's fun, it's responsive," they write. "It has its issues, and some are really annoying, but the experience is fun, even...
