The first trailer for FC 25 is here. As usual, when introducing the new EA FC, care is taken to offer as much spectacle as possible. Details about the gameplay are not yet the focus. In 2 seconds of the new trailer, a new feature was presented that could fundamentally change the whole game.
How is the new feature introduced in the trailer? In the trailer, after you have experienced the first scenes of the game up close, the camera zooms out of the action and opens up the perspective of a fan looking down on the field from above in the stands.
At this moment the design changes. The players are marked with circles and lines, like in an analysis tool that we know from the TV tactics experts. At the same time, 4 large letters appear on the pitch: “FC IQ”
Pay particular attention to minute 1:17 in the trailer.
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FC IQ: “most significant change in over a decade”
The producer of the Match Experience for FC 25, Thomas Caleffi, announced at the presentation of the new successor FC IQ as “the most significant change in over a decade”.
What is this new feature? The term FC IQ is made up of the letters “FC”, which stands for the genre EA FC, and “IQ”, which we generally know as the intelligence quotient. The name therefore indicates an in-house produced game intelligence.
While the newly introduced playstyles were intended to more realistically depict the players’ abilities with the ball last year, FC IQ is now also taking a close look at the players’ movements away from the ball. To do this, EA’s analysis tool “Opta” used and evaluated up to 4,000 minutes of data from individual players.
The result is a new concept that EA will introduce as “player roles” in FC 25.
New player roles replace work rates
Player roles include player instructions and positioning of players on the field in play with and without the ball. The work rates you have known for many years are a thing of the past.
Player roles now determine when and how the player works forwards and backwards on the pitch. While you previously had to laboriously give detailed instructions to each individual player manually, in FC 25 you can simply assign the player a specific offensive or defensive task area.
A player can play up to 5 different roles per position. The best players can play their roles particularly well as a “+ variant” or “++ variant”. This means that they have even better control of the running routes, can recognise different situations more quickly and position themselves cleverly accordingly.
At the launch of FC 25, there will be over 30 unique roles for players, which can even be assigned up to 3 different focuses, depending on whether the player should concentrate more on attack or defense.
The mix of different player roles and focuses results in countless combinations for FC 25. This could make the tactics and gameplay feel more unique than ever before.
We cannot yet say exactly how FC IQ will affect the game. The gameplay deep dive trailer, which will be released in the next few weeks, could provide further information. Everything else that is known about FC 25 can be found here on MeinMMO: EA FC 25: All information on release, price and new features