As regular as day turning into night, the tide coming in and out, or trips to the bathroom after a particularly dodgy curry, we all know that each new football season brings with it a new edition of EA's ridiculously popular FIFA. Looks like the network is having some difficulties. If you're expecting to watch a livestream, then the video feed may be offline right now. We've been notified of your error and we're looking into it. Try refreshing the page in a couple of minutes and trying again. We’re tuning our first touch error this year. 

 

It’s a FIFA 17 significant change in the way the FIFA 17 game plays fluidly. There’s going to be less trap error on the ball, especially in easy situations. That’s not because we want less error. It’s an important part of the game. When you’re doing difficult things they should be difficult to accomplish, unless you have the best players in the world. But we wanted to be specific in where we apply that. We’re going to use things like our new FIFA 17 engine to give us more information about balance, to make sure that difficult things are difficult because of the game context. That allows us to make FIFA 17 slightly easier in more straightforward situations, which improves the flow of the game.

 

 Fans of Juventus will enjoy new and updated FIFA 17 3D head scans of stars like Buffon, Pogba, Dybala, and Chiellini and can play at Juventus Stadium, the home of the Italian League Champions, brought to life, accurately modelled, and recreated in-game. The FIFA 17 game issue seems to occur for any upgraded versions of cards that are not “day-one cards” that are far more common and typically less powerful. To expose the problem, FIFA 17 game compared multiple versions of similarly rated day-one and non-day-one cards. 

 

Now, the FIFA 17 game doesn’t expose how well chemistry is boosting cards, but Onix was able to find that — in the exact same chemistry environment — only the day-one cards were able to perform a specific high-level dribbling maneuver. This suggests that the upgraded cards are handicapped in some way when it comes to chemistry. Jamie McKinlay, Vice President of Marketing at EA SPORTS shared his thoughts on the big deal, adding: “We couldn't be more excited that Juventus are now an official global partner. It's a great opportunity to bring an authentic experience of this historic club to fans in FIFA 17. To do that, we’re working on a title update for FIFA 16 on PC, Xbox and PlayStation platforms, and will be deploying it as soon as possible. We’ll continue to keep you updated on timing.

 

We appreciate the help from the FUT community and ongoing dialogue across channels like YouTube, the forums, and r/FIFA. We hear you and your interest in better understanding how FUT works, and as we move towards the launch of FIFA 17, we will be sharing more about the deeper mechanics of Ultimate Team. Things aren't always rosy, however. Even hardened FIFA fans would admit that the series occasionally has something of a duff year. EA's constant need to update the series with new features means it occasionally makes a mis-step or two, so getting a fix on what changes the development team does and doesn't plan on making pre-release has become something of a sport in itself.