With the release of EA FC 26, there is a lot of excitement and discussion around all the changes. Each year, new settings and sliders become available, along with new features to explore, and ways to make the game feel just a bit more realistic. As if the game couldn’t get more accessible, you have the option to mold the game to your own personal liking.
There seem to be many sliders and settings out there, but to find the combinations that suit you is the real key. There is not much to go off of yet, but for early access, you can apply the changes that will be discussed here. Today, we’re going to be showing you the best settings and sliders, whether it’s for the AI behavior, camera, or just to make the game more realistic.
Best AI Sliders
EA FC 26 offers presets for sliders with the dynamic and tactical presets. Before giving the custom sliders a go, you can try out the presets to see if they fit you; otherwise, the best custom sliders for AI behavior are as follows:
- Tackle Aggression: 70
- Dribble frequency and Cross frequency: 65
These seem to be the only slider changes you might want to make for a better AI experience, and to not cause major changes in the gameplay. By increasing tackle aggression to 75, it will ensure more fouls are committed, which should make your gameplay feel much more realistic. This falls more in line with how professional football is being played currently. While it may not always result in cards, it sure will make the game much more exciting, giving you more chances to practice free kicks.
Next up are the dribble frequency and cross frequency sliders. The AI players, while possessing abilities such as pace or skill, hesitate to go one-on-one with you, which makes the game a bit too vanilla. This increase will surely make it interesting as AI players will challenge you more frequently and run at your defenders, giving you a hard time. On top of that, increased crosses would lead to a larger aerial threat needing better defending.
Best Realistic Sliders
Realism in the game is something most players strive for, and the following changes to your sliders are guaranteed to give you a much better experience with that. There are presets for the gameplay as well, such as the competitive preset and the authentic preset, where EA has its own slider settings to make the game more life-like.
However, if you’re looking for even more realism, try these settings below:
- Sprint Speed: 38
- Acceleration: 45
- Shot Error: 60
- Shot Speed: 47
- Header Shot Error: 35
- Pass Error: 65
- Pass Speed: 40
- Header Pass Error: 55
- Injury Frequency: 70
- Injury Severity: 30
In the previous FC games, decreasing the acceleration made the players look like they were running in quicksand, and that’s mainly because they removed the game speed feature. However, in EA FC 26, you can edit acceleration, and it will not feel that way; it will feel much more realistic.
Shooting feels relatively easy in the game, and just to switch it up, you can increase shot error to make scoring goals a bit more difficult. The same goes for the shot speed, shots seem to quick sometimes, especially for the CPU, so to get a more realistic experience, you can lower it a bit. Headers have become more and more impossible over the past few games, and just to bring them back, you can decrease the shot error to experience more last-minute match winners.
Passing is relatively easy in this game, even on a higher difficulty level, so by increasing pass error to 65, what you are doing is adding a bit of a challenge for yourself and replicating a real-life feel. As for the pass speed, some of you might need time adjusting to the slower gameplay, but I assure you, it makes for a better gaming experience. Passing with your head is more difficult, and to put that in the game, you can increase the slider to 55 to make it much more realistic with more misplaced passes and drama.
Next up, injury frequency. This is a controversial one, as most people hate seeing their players down. But it rarely ever happens in matches, and if you’re one for realism, then it’s a good choice.
Best Pro Player Camera Settings
- Camera Type: Tele Broadcast
- Power Shot Zoom: Off
- Camera Height: 20
- Camera Zoom: 0
The Tele Broadcast camera seems to be the most popular camera to use, and it is for a reason. This camera type resembles a lot the camera angles that you watch in most football games, and that is why it will give you a better view of the full pitch as well. Turning off the power shot zoom is more of a preference, but it does add to the realism and saves you from the dramatic zoom as you lock in to shoot. Adding on to that, the camera height at 20 gives you a much wider view of the pitch, allowing you to view all the players and see where you pass. The same goes for the camera zoom, as it gives you an enhanced view of the pitch and the players.
