FIFA 21 Title Update #8 Details

Gameplay

Made the following changes:

• Made several adjustments to the Team Press D-Pad Tactic.
  • Decreased the amount of time the Team Press D-Pad Tactic can be active for, before requiring cooldown, from 20 seconds to 15 seconds.
  • Once Team Press is requested, its effect takes 2 seconds to activate.
  • In situations where the defending team is using Team Press and recovers possession, Team Press will not automatically remain active on the following loss of possession.
• Made several adjustments to Stepover and Reverse Step Over Skill Moves.
  • Both Skill Moves are no longer considered Easy Skill Moves and will be less effective when chained together while moving.
  • The animations for both Skill Moves have been slowed down.
  • Decreased player transition speed when exiting either Skill Move at forward angles.

Addressed the following issues:

• The goalkeeper sometimes gets stuck to the net geometry and is unable to put the ball into play, resulting in matches not finishing within the expected time.
• After a defender positioned themselves in front of the ball carrier following a heavy touch, the defender sometimes did not contest the ball.
• Improved referee penalty kick logic in situations where the goalkeeper dives at the ball carrier’s feet.
• Improved referee logic when making decisions in breakaway tackling situations outside of the box.
• When a goalkeeper moved then stood still during a penalty kick, they could sometimes deflect the ball into their own net when it was hit directly at them.
  • This does not affect other types of potential deflections that could occur.
• In situations where the ball carrier would start a shooting animation, but the shot was canceled in time, the defender could sometimes perform an unintended blocking animation.

FIFA Ultimate Team

Made the following changes:

• In online matches, players will no longer see their opponent’s equipped Ball Item, they will instead always see their own.
• Co-Op Squad Battles matches can now be paused during gameplay by either player.
• Co-Op Squad Battles matches no longer have a pause limit.

Addressed the following issues:

• After claiming FUT Coins from Team Event Objectives, the overall FUT Coin total did not increase until FUT was exited and re-entered.
  • The correct amount of FUT Coins was being claimed, this issue only impacted when the display of the overall total would increase.
• When a previously locked Objective group was unlocked, it continued to display as locked until the player exited and re-entered FUT.
• The Co-Op widget could stop responding after the Pricing filter was used during a Transfer Market search.
• After engaging with the Recommended Consumable Search option found in the Radial Menu, not all menu navigation button callouts were functioning as expected.
• If a Co-Op Lobby guest left the Lobby while the Host was opening a pack, the Host’s menu background would incorrectly display.
• When previewing Goal Music, Chant, Anthem, and Crowd Items in My Stadium, the audio would reset if the previewed Item was selected.
• The progress UI would animate every time the Community Event screen was visited.
• Updated Competitor Mode description.
• The Club name was incorrectly displayed when viewing Player Ratings in the pause menu.
• Updated the FUT Champions Qualification Points icon displayed on the Weekend League details screen.
• Trophies displayed in Milestone Objectives were not facing in the correct direction.
• Updated background on the pop up that displays when choosing a Season reward that has multiple choices.
• When a Community Event was completed, the UI did not display correctly.
• Addressed a potential stability issue that could occur in a Co-Op lobby.
• Repetitive commentary could occur during some corner kicks.

Career Mode

Made the following change:

• The potential quality of Youth Players is now more aligned with the general football region that they come from.

Addressed the following issues:

• Player OVRs could remain unrealistically high in their 30s, resulting in players retiring seemingly at their peak.
• Addressed further instances of Strikers taking too long to be retrained as Center Forwards.

VOLTA FOOTBALL

Addressed the following issues:

• Some hairstyles did not display correctly.
• Updated a typo on the message that displays when discarding items.

Pro Clubs

Addressed the following issue:

• A Virtual Pro’s customized boot colors did not always save.

General, Audio, and Video

Made the following changes:

• Updated badges, kits, 2D portraits, stadiums, and ad boards.
• Added 34 new Starheads and updated 29 existing Starheads which will be activated at a later date through a Server Release.
  • Stay tuned to the EA SPORTS FIFA Tracker to learn when these Starheads will become active.

Addressed the following issues:

• The Nike Serie A TIM Merlin 2019 Hi-Vis ball did not display a shadow in-game.
• The inactivity timer did not start while the Origin overlay was active in some online matches.