We review all the news of a new FIFA 21 patch for PC, PS4, Xbox One and soon on PS5 and Xbox Series.
FIFA 21 has received this Wednesday, December 2, a new patch, 1.09. The EA Sports game, which is available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and which will arrive on December 4 with the next generation update on PS5 and Xbox Series, changes several elements both in terms of errors and also at the playable level. The list is quite extensive and is designed to try to improve a gameplay that many users have already criticized after the release of the game and also the changes in later patches. We are going to review them below.
Playable changes
- Reduced the distance that AI-controlled players can go to block a ball (the famous autoblock)
- Improved interception logic when the defender is on his way to the ball
- Reduced the player’s transition speed while cycling after successfully cycling
- Increase in the distance the ball can travel after a goalkeeper rejection
Error correction
- Defenders sometimes stretched their legs higher than expected when trying to block a ball
- blocking the opponent with the shoulder caused an unexpected movement
- when exchanging a player on a penalty where the striker was going to shoot, he would get stuck
Changes in FUT
- After claiming a reward from Community on the objectives screen, the player would appear in the season progress tab instead of Community
- On the Club tab of the Squad screen, the toggle list view action was not working
- The widget in this section could remain on the screen in some exceptional case
- when equipped, the Islandoa anthem item would not play during pre-match scenes
- The running player celebration item was wrongly listed as T-Rex
Career bug changes
- Negotiation scenes showed incorrect coaches on both teams
- During negotiation scenes, officers sometimes wore the wrong club badge
- In the player career, the statistics of the Pro Virtual matches did not register correctly when they were partially simulated and the Virtual Pro was replaced before the simulation
Bug fixes in VOLTA
- In some cases when playing Pro Clubs before matchmaking in Volta, the error “could not set up the match”
- Informal match lobbies for Volta teams were not dissolving properly
- In some cases, the post-match Event Progress screen incorrectly indicated that there were two captains on one team
- A rare stability issue could occur when accepting a friendly online
Changes in online mode
- The attributes in the game are modified according to the position of each player in seasons and cooperative
- In friendly lobbies, players can choose whether to activate the default FIFA attributes