EA SPORTS FC™ 25 | Season Finale Update

Hey everyone, the Season Finale Update (Title Update #15) is releasing soon for EA SPORTS FC 25. With this update we’re making three adjustments to game balance based on your feedback, and some updates to Ultimate Team and Career Mode. Here’s what you can expect:

• Moderately increased accuracy of Ground Passes for players with high Passing related Attributes.
• Significantly reduced effectiveness of goalkeepers rushing out with the Rush Out PlayStyle, and slightly reduced that effectiveness for Rush Out PlayStyle+ players.
• Slightly increased accuracy of contested and uncontested headers.
• A new season and Premium Pass in Ultimate Team.
• Increased the maximum number of PlayStyles+ UT Player Items can have up to five.
• Updated Player Career ICON selection.
• Refreshed Career Mode UI for Fixtures and Results.
• Refreshed the main menu with a festive celebration theme.

One of our main goals with this update is to provide fair and fun gameplay outcomes based on your feedback, but without drastically changing how the game is being played.

Let’s dig into it some more.

Gameplay Updates

Improving Ground Passes For Skilled Passers

In the Season Finale Update, we’ve made the following passing change based on your feedback:

• Moderately increased Ground Pass accuracy for players with high Passing related Attributes.
  • This change does not impact Driven Ground Passes.

With this change we’re looking to reduce the gap between players who can be excellent passers thanks to their high Passing related Attributes, and players who have passing related PlayStyles. We want both types of players to be able to perform great passes.

Here’s how a Ground Pass could have looked before this update, with a high Passing Attribute player.

Now let’s take a look at how this pass can play out after the update. Note the increase in accuracy.

Of course, passing is still impacted by everything you’d expect including clean inputs and defensive pressure on the passer.

We want passing to feel authentic in FC 25, and we want players who pass the ball well in real life to pass it well in our game too.

Reduced GK Rush Out PlayStyle Effectiveness

We’ve tweaked goalkeepers in the Season Finale Update based on your feedback:

• Slightly reduced the rate of acceleration for goalkeepers with the Rush Out PlayStyle+.
• Significantly reduced the rate of acceleration for goalkeepers with the Rush Out PlayStyle.

We’ve seen and heard from you that the keepers with the Rush Out PlayStyle+ were overly effective at closing down attackers. Here’s how that could have looked before this update.

Now, here’s how that situation can play out. Note that the goalkeeper isn’t closing down the space as quickly as before.

Naturally we don’t want to take away the ability of goalkeepers to rush incoming attackers, but with this change our goal is to create more balanced one on one situations and encourage a wider variety of defensive strategies.

Improving Header Accuracy

We’ve seen your feedback about wanting headers to be a more viable attacking option, so we made the following change:

• Slightly increased accuracy of headers performed by the shooting input.

While nobody wants every single header to be a goal, we’ve seen the need for increasing the effectiveness of headers in FC 25. Here’s how a header could have looked before the Season Finale Update.

Now let’s take a look at a more accurate header that you can perform after this update.

As always, we’ll continue to look at your feedback on headers and all other gameplay aspects of FC 25, so please keep it coming in places like our Feedback Portal and Discord.

Football Ultimate Team Updates

Season 8 And A New Premium Pass

It’s almost time for Season 8 in FUT, and it’ll be kicking off on Thursday, June 5th. The new season also brings a brand new Premium Pass to FC 25, and we’ve listed everything you can expect from it below. 

We have updated our Playstyle+ Evolution Consumables requirements for Season 8! 

• In the Standard Ladder, the requirements for the Playstyle+ Evolutions will be: Max 95 OVR, Max 9 Playstyles, Max 3 Playstyle+.
• In the Premium Pass, the requirements for the Playstyle+ Evolutions will be: Max 96 OVR, Max 9 Playstyles, Max 3 Playstyle+.

If you want to know about the Season Pass and how it works in-game, be sure to check out our Pitch Notes on it, complete with an FAQ section.

Increased Maximum Amount Of PlayStyle+ Assignments

With the Season Finale Update, Player Items can now have up to five PlayStyle+ in Ultimate Team.

We’re making this update so we can provide you with a larger variety of Player Items going forward. You may notice that you can now gain up to a maximum of five new PlayStyle+ as rewards through Evolutions, or certain Player Items show more PlayStyle+ UI indicators.

Of course this doesn’t mean that every Player Item with multiple PlayStyles+ will have five of them, it just means that five is the new max.

Career Mode, Main Menu, And More

As part of the Season Finale Update, we’re adding the final set of Live Start Points for FC 25, plus you can now play as the following ICONs in Player Career:

• Birgit Prinz
• George Best
• Johan Cruyff
• Garrincha

In Manager Career, you will now be able to play 5v5 Youth Tournament Matches in co-op, up to four players, via the addition of the Side Select functionality.

We’ve also tweaked how match results around your club are covered in your Career Mode social media feeds, with a new and improved logic allowing you to see a refreshed Fixtures & Results UI, like the one below.

You can also expect a refreshed main menu, themed to match the new season.

Feedback

We’re excited to hear what you think about these changes. You can share your feedback directly in the Season Finale Update thread in our #game-feedback Discord channel here, and on the Player Feedback Portal.

Thanks for stopping by.

– The EA SPORTS FC Team

EA SPORTS FC™ 25 is available now for PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch™, as well as through EA Play.

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