FIFA 20 hasn’t been officially announced just yet but that hasn’t stopped EA from providing fans with some interesting details about gameplay improvements they can expect in this year’s entry to the beloved sports franchise.
According to the developer in a post on the FIFA blog titled “Gameplay Beyond FIFA 19”, the gameplay team has been listening to player feedback through the year and are prioritizing AI defending is at the top of the developer’s priority list from improvements, with the intention of placing a greater emphasis and more incentive on utilizing manual defending as opposed to allowing the CPU to defend on your behalf. One of the ways in which EA will achieve this is by increasing the chance that the use of a manual tackle will direct the ball to a teammate. In addition, the reaction times of automatic CPU defending will be reduced and therefore, AI defending will be considered less efficient.
We don’t when FIFA 20 will officially launch but we expect it to be announced soon as previous iterations in the series have maintained a September release date. There is also plenty of speculation as to who will be on the front of this year’s installment but only time will tell, perhaps after Liverpool’s stunning comeback against Barcelona in May of this year, we’ll see Mo Salah take the cover for the 2020 cycle!