FIFA 22: The 7 most exciting innovations in the gameplay

The developer of FIFA 22 have explained in the Pitch Notes to which digits of the gameplay is rotated. Here you will find an overview of the most exciting changes that could change your game.

What's going on at FIFA 22? On July 29, 2021, a new gameplay trailer went online, in which some scenes of the game were shown in action. Among other things, Hypermotion was shown in more detail again, and things like the goalkeeper rewrite were addressed.

At the same time, EA Sports published a new pitch notes article that explains in detail which changes players to expect in FIFA 22. You can find it here (via EA Sports).

The most important innovations that could effectively affect your play on the course, we show you here.

1. Hypermotion and new animations

A lot has already been said to hypermotion. The new NextGen feature brings with it the largest animation rework of previous FIFA history, including 4,000 new animations. Everything should work more realistic and closer to real football. This goes from small tackling to free and dribblings.

How does that ultimately be noticeable in the gameplay, it will still have to show. However, there should be many new situations that I have to set as a player first - be it with two fighting, running duters or degrees.

Even off the ball, your players will be human behavior. In addition, there is an adaptation of ball physics, which will also be noticeable.

An accurate overview of hypermotion can be found here.

2 . New Skill Moves and Tricks

This is new: There are some adjustments in skill moves and tricks. They should continue to feel effective, but the right timing should be crucial.

Some well-known moves have been adjusted. For example, the speed of the "Bridge" and the "Directional Nutmegs" has been reduced - both tricks that are very popular in FIFA 21 because were strong.

A new option is to run Skill Moves directly at the moment, where your player gets the ball. That went only with an attack shots - now it is also with skills with the right stick an option. Although they are harder to control, but ensure extremely fast movements:

In addition, there are four new skill moves:

• **** Do the Four Touch
• **** The Skilled Bridge
• **** The First Time Spin
• **** and the scoop turn fake

How effective these four new moves are, will show.

No real skill-Move, but an exciting mechanics is the "explosive sprint". This gives you a small speed boost, if you press the Sprint key at the right moment. This takes about, if you are in a 1-to-1 situation and want to sprint slightly offset by the defender. The whole thing is just right.

An exact overview of the explosive sprint we show you here.

Also useful: the opportunity to give you the ball very far when you are right in the middle of the sprint. For this you have to press the right stick twice - that looks like this:

3 . New Tactics

This is new: In addition to a new KI, FIFA 22 also has a new type of tactics on board - especially in the offensive. Here are two different sections that you can customize.

• **** Steering game in your own half
• **** Chance Creation in the opposing half

Here you can now determine if you may want to have a controlled, safe construction to the centerline, but would like to act in the opposing half then with sudden sprints. Or if you rather play the opponent with ball possession pass game before the sixteen dizzy, but before only long balls in the top skin.

The new tactics give you more control about how your team should act as a whole.

Apart from the attack pitch, there are also adaptations to the known tactics. So you can now determine the latitude and depth of your teams more precisely and there are some revised instructions for your players.

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• 6 players who could become worse in FIFA 22
• 3 reasons why FIFA 22 needs a demo again
• FIFA 22: Developer Sam Rivera in the interview

4 . Stronger Defense, Sleeer Attack

This makes the defensive differently: The Ki has been newly adjusted, and produces new tactical orientation. The new "Tactical AI" is to provide on the NextGen version of FIFA 22 for football behavior.

In the defensive, this is noticeable, among other things, that the defense now secures different zones, rather than individual players. She moves together and ensures better hedge.

Important: The work rates and the exhaustion should be a noticeable influence on the positioning of the players. That also concerns the playing on wrong positions: For example, footballers playing in the internal defense should have a worse positioning if that is not their position at all.

This is likely to be attacked by the FIFA 21 meta, which would like to simply put fast players on IV. Also interesting: There is a new way of catching passports. It should be particularly effective if your player is directly in the way of a pass, rather than addressing the opponent or the ball right.

In addition, there is a comprehensive adaptation of goalkeeper Ki - by the way also on the old consoles and the PC. They are now clearly smarter and reliable. This was also positively noticeable in the first MeinmMo test to FIFA 22.

That changes in the attack: In the attack, players should now make up to six times faster decisions, so they do not need so long to respond to new situations. This is supposed to worry about better runways - especially, as offensive players should now be better in view of their surroundings.

Players agree with each other and should basically be in the right place than usual. This suggests that the players are positioning so that more dangerous attacks occur over pass and edge - and not just about skill moves, Dribblings and speed.

5 . Player change

That changes: A seemingly small, but interesting change is the possibility of a new player change. In addition to switching with L1 / LB or the right stick you can now also use "icon switching".

For this, you press the right stick in the defensive, whereupon four symbols appear about your players. Using the right stick you can then select exactly which player you want to take over. So it can not happen to you anymore that you get the wrong players.

6 . New settings in FUT

This changes: In certain competitive modes, your settings are automatically adjusted - on less assistance. So fewer automatisms should grab in the game and have more control. This means, however, simultaneously that you need to act more closely in total, for example, to beat successful passes into the top.

An accurate overview of the changed competitive settings can be found here.

7 . New Statistics

This is new: With FIFA 22 she gets after the game and also in the half-time comprehensive statistics for the game. There are plenty of different facts.

Among other things, the game tells you where exactly your players have stopped the most. Where you lost the ball especially often, and where did you have won. You can see exactly what kind of shots have led to success? Which pest types were strong? And where can you may improve?

In addition, there is very exact data for your individual players. They show you a heatmap, different shots, in turn the different subspecies of degrees and the whole thing for passes or defensive statistics.

In short: You get a lot of numbers and visual representations of your performance available. And that may be able to make sure that you can make your tactics more successful again.

Are you looking forward to FIFA 22? Or do not convince you the innovations yet? Tell us in the comments! Everything about the FIFA 22 release you can learn here.