Yeah I’m in the exact same boat unfortunately. There needs to be more variation in the way games play out. Tactics need to be more of an impactful thing, and more of them too. Ai should take the game on more through the middle when they’re down, vice versa when they’re up to defend a lead. Sadly I feel like it’s an extremely hard balance to strike with any sports game. Literally have to make marking, rucking, tackling near impossible to have a closeish game which takes a lot of the fun out of it. I feel like evo 2 had the closest thing to balancing it all, that being the clutch stat. Yes it absolutely drove me up the wall when they’d just pile on 8 goals straight in a quarter but at least most of the games were close. Would love for the difficulty to be beefed up in 26.
Is online any different for those that play? Haven’t had xbox gold for a long time but might consider it