New FIFA 12 Pro Clubs Details

| August 19, 2011 | 80 Comments

Romily Broad on Twitter has just released these new features to the Pro Clubs mode of FIFA 12.

The information comes after a lot of unrest from hardcore Pro Clubs fans at the lack of new features and attention the FIFA 12 Pro Clubs has received.

New FIFA 12 Pro Clubs Features

  • Friends records has a dedicated screen.
  • More player stats in Clubs for Midfielders and Defenders.
  • New My Pro menu in Clubs for ease access to editing your Pro and viewing accomplishments.
  • Top speed for small Pro’s has been dialled back a touch.
  • Added some long term, tough to get accomplishments Virtual Pro accomplishments for the hardcore fans out there.
  • Tuned unlocks so that the cooler items are obtainable by better players (shoes, gear, etc.)
  • Tuned some of the accomplishments and added a few new ones around lay off passes.
  • Better reskinned hub screen. Bigger area.
  • Tuned matchmaking to prevent games between clubs too far apart.

So what do you think???  Are you happy with the changes or did you expect more?  Let us know…

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Gleuf
Gleuf

Playing as any sucks, because you can do that already in other features, like head to head. Pro club should be for just playing with one character a person, you're own character. People who are complaining that AI defending teams have an advantage are talking crap! They rather run past 3/4 defenders and score.....go back to arcade if you're into that. You can definately outplay the AI defenders by combinations....but perhaps they lack those skills... What I really wish they would improve is being able to enlist yourself to like 5 different clubs, so you don't have to resign and loose your stats anymore. Furthermore I would like to see less goals scored in the same way....cutting inside and hit a curlbal in the far corner. Really annoying....even scoring one.

loony uk
loony uk

there should be no(any) choice... if you cant create a team that's your problem . people shouldn't be on the pitch looking like a tango doll . and the first 5 minutes of a game gives you chance to quit .. what a joke i think clubs should be played 2 games max a week not unlimited..cuz now it gives new players no hope of feeling cup glory you should have substitute defaults for in game. with defaults getting better as the the team gets better matching teams against similar quality. i could go on and on about what could be better

LolRagers
LolRagers

I hate the 5 minute rule too, but to be honest no one really goes on the attack before the 5 mins. My club just keep possesion of the ball until the 5 min mark has been passed. I disagree with only having the ability to play 2 games a week. I hate playing career mode, because I cant play with my friends, and I hate playing ranked matches cause everyone picks midfielder/attacker positions. Pro clubs is the only way I can still play with friends and my pro at the same time, and I dont want to play only 2 games a week.

Patrick
Patrick

Just want to say that the computer as any is absolutely unreal. You really need to lower the difficulty of them otherwise its a waste of time even playing clubs cause its a shambles. Lower the computer difficulty rating or make it so that somebody needs to be any instead of just pressing A to get it straight to your feet. Its far to hard to play the computer and needs to be changed for it to be a better game.

Stop Complaining
Stop Complaining

Everyone who complains about computer players should just quit the game. It is already set to professional difficulty. What more you want. Practice or find people who know how to play.

Vinz
Vinz

Me and my mates have been FIFA Pro Club fans since FIFA 10, we really love it. Improvements we would like to see are: - Reintroduce downloading club member gamefaces! - Introduce non-random ANY players (if possible), so that one could get attached to the any players instead of them being random. If possible even customize the ANY players. - Reintroduce showing the pants at pro club match kit select, so one could better judge which kit to pick. - Making it possible to save memorable goals within the pro club screen functionality, so all club members could watch back those moments. Big plus for FIFA 12 pro clubs already is the fact that there's little to no lags or disconnects during matcups, and the finding of opponents goes really smoothly. Thumbs up! I'm wondering how important pro clubs is to EA Sports when compared to other functionality. I'm sure it is less popular still than the head to head stuff, but for me and my mates it's by far the nicest thing about FIFA, and we're hoping it will get more attention as the game develops :)

Dazt81
Dazt81

Could someone please tell me what the star ratings mean for the club? Does if mean when you get to a 5 star team the CPU are better???

Aedan
Aedan

I was wondering where I should go, where the best place is to find myself a club to play for? I would appreciate some help. If not, is anyone in need of a flexible player for their club. If so, please add weemangoodie.... On PS3 only. Thanks

Confused
Confused

In Pro club, when i go to edit my players name, he has the right last name, but when I go to play a game in Pro Club, the game changes his name to a random last name, is there any way to change this?

Pro Clubber
Pro Clubber

Me and my club have a problem! We are stuck on level 14! Every time the team level bar goes up to the end of level 14 after a match, it just resets back to the start of level 14! This has happened twice now. PLEASE HELP! WE DON'T WANT TO BE STUCK ON LEVEL 14!! :O

ash
ash

i want people to join my new pro club, any tips and any of you on here want to join?

Craig Cole
Craig Cole

Have you checked out The FVPA at http://fvpa.co.uk? They're the biggest Pro Clubs community in the UK and have dedicated areas specifically for Clubs recruitment and free agents.

corey
corey

Looking for team to join on pro clubs 82 striker or 87 gk inbox me if you want me to join you club xbox 360

alex
alex

hi can i use my creation center team as a base for pro club? or how can i have my own logo on pro club?

Robbie
Robbie

AND BTW, IT BE THE BEST UPGRADE OUTTA THEM ALL, IF YOU LET US MAKE OUR ON KIT AND BADGE, N PICK OUR OWN NUMBERS, AND YOU NEED TO GET MORE NAME ON THERE, HALF 1S I LIKE NEVER ON ,

Robbie
Robbie

fifa 12 club is decent, but still at times is really boring, some clubs cpu are running thr game passn about all way up pitch, and always predicting our passes or ill runs, and they 99% always win 50/50s, and then some teams cpu r average, n makes mistakes, where as some clubs, dont, and if you play v a team with cpu that are like spain, you dont have a chance, and tbh my club cpu are so shit they stand and watch half time and always take to long to clear or pass, tbh i dont mind any on clubs, i just hate how easier it is for cpu players to be able to turn you, and there pasn seems 10 times better then yours, worse thing on clubs by a mile, is LAAAAAAG and DC i dont get it, ea servers seems to get worse every year they make updates to it, and another thing its like 1 in a 100 chance in a game you get to take long shots , cpu predict it and charge all time, or it takes to long to power it up and it gets blockd, FIFaS HAS TO MENY UNREAL BLOCKS, and teams that use 5 at back with gk and utra are just boring, but no matter what you do , people will always moan about games, i love club, just as times its annoying, and i know alot people are not playing it as much anymore, because to much lagg, or DC or just predictable teams playing same way, AND SOME GAMES FEEL AS IF NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, ITS LIKE FIX THAT OTHER TEAM WINS, CLUB needs to get slower, you hardly ever have time on ball, cpu charge you from outter no where, or u try n move in space they predict it and push you off ball, never a foul, but you push cpu off ball its a foul, and lst thing, attacking speed it unreal, you push ball infront of you and sprint, cpu catches up with seconds and pushes you off, no way, if ronaldo go infront of lets say john terry, never catch up in a million years, AND 1 THING THAT I KNOW PISSES ALOT PEOPLE OFF, YOU SEE THE SAME GOALS ALL TIME, FINESE FROM OUTSIDE BOX TO AN ANGLE INTO TOP CORNER, CORNER ARE TO HARD TO SCORE FROM, 1 IN MILLION CHANCE U GET TO SCORE A SCREAMER, CLUB NEEDS TO MIX UP WAY YOU CAN SCORE, INSTEAD SAME KINDA GOALS, THAT BORES PEOPLE, YOU NEED TO MAKE A CM POSTION, AS WELL AS THE CAM AND CDM, CUZ PICK CAM WAK HEADERING N ALL THAT GOOD SHOOTING, CDM WAK ATTACKING GD DEFENCE, CM HAVE HALF EACH, LIKE A XAVI KINDA ROLE THATS ALL PEACE

philip price
philip price

my vertual pro requested to leave my club and thats the las thing i want to do. i dnt think its good that this can happen because now his form and moral will go down, thats if the club dosent sell him with out my say so. is there any thing i can do to stop my pro from having to leave please help?

Kyle
Kyle

hello does anyone know whats wrong with my fifa 12 when i want to join a pro club and i click on my player hub it says gamre profile restricted how do fix it ?

LaLaLLA
LaLaLLA

Yeah you have to set your privacy settings to adult hope this helped. Can anyone answer why opposition computers pass it round like real madrid and ours give it straight to them, does it help to be a good team like barca then do barca defult. Any good tips for getting past computers. Me and my mate have just started up and won 3 cups in 24 hours but we are out of our league now and need help!!!!

Stevie
Stevie

One problem with the fifa 12 that ive been having is that in pro clubs we keep playing with teams at 5k and we have only started playing. Also the computer players on the other team are much faster and skilled than ours as well.

Steve
Steve

EA needs to implement an online multiplayer career mode where 2 (or more) players can play on the same team with their VP's. This would be the best change I think as people could then stop complaining about playing people that use or don't use an any b/c they would be playing only computers and they could update their teams AI by the natural recruiting of FIFA and not have to even worry about UT.

ceejay
ceejay

dc everygame....only in clubs...FIX THAT!!

Ryan T
Ryan T

one thing that would be straight is fixing the leaderboards for the virtual pro's i am a goalie and am rated 400th in the world when the number one goalie has less games more goals conceded and less games and clean sheets and a lower save percentage

robo
robo

i agree with aidan pro clubs isnt made for playing with any its made for playin 11vs11 its pointless making a point about ultra defensive tactics and using Ai pllayers cos at the end of the day it wasnt made for controlling any... in my opinion any should be taken off because then everyone would have to play the same regardless of the number of players on their team etc... i have no complaints or thoughts until i sit down first thing friday an play the official game....

Aidan
Aidan

I play pro clubs with my friends and we do not use any. We only have 5 people and the whole point of this game mode is to use your pro. I see alot of people complaining that people who dont use any have an advantage and that is ridiculous. We dont rely on the computer because you CAN'T rely on the computer. They are slow both mentally and physically. half the time you call for the ball they try a little a trick and lose it or pass straight to the opposition. They let people jog past them instead of sticking a leg out and tackling them. The goalkeeper is a retard. No more need be said on thew goalkeeper really as someone has already commented on how stupid they are. We think teams with any have an advantage over us because the AI is terrible. We can play some great football between the 5 of us and be winning and then the computer will fluff up and then we will be losing. Games end up 5-4 6-5 etc all because the computer are crap. Even if you do play 5 at the back and ultra defensive they are still soooo easy to get past and score against. However saying all this we never back out of a match no matter what. If we lose 9-3 then we lose 9-3. You still lose points if you lose so whats the point in quitting? All in all i think playing without any is a huge disadvantage. And me and my friends all agree as do many others... if you want to use any and not nplay AI then go play head to head - thats what it is there for.

Toscani
Toscani

I think you should just make a seperate game for FIFA and FIFA Virtual Pro, so there can be more features included on Virtual Pro.

matt
matt

Fifa 11 clubs was the worst ever, it gives the opportunity for rubbish players to be as good as the great players with virtual pros, GO BACK TO 2009 CLUBS, fifa have ruined clubs. The computer needs to better aswell, they have no brains, ive seen 6 year olds know how to defend better e.g. fast players can jog past the CPU down the wing, FML! Fifa needs to go back to 09, it gives a betterm variety of players rather being stuck with one pro, FIfa have only done clubs like this to only get more people who have no idea about football to play the game, keep virtual pros but only for manager modes and stuff like that, FIFA WILL RUIN CLUBS AGAIN FOR 2012, SHAME!

other krab
other krab

i have fell in love with the pro clubs at the beggining but no more. modders and glitchers out there ruined any sort of fair competition, the mere fact that EA is fixing the problems from 11 is just another bit of evidence that they don't give a damn about the virtual pro. if they did they would have fixed the bugs on 11 so for 12 we are getting what we should of had in 11. there are so many things missing from clubs. 1. substitutions! 2. realitic pros with slider edits rather than height fixed to speed (cristiano ronaldo is 6ft 3" and one of the fastest players around but in virtual pro world 6ft 3" = slow) 3. when a team quits out you should be able to finish the match with the computer controlling the opposition. 4. kit editor 5. smarter team AI if you choose not control any. 6. there are a lot of clubs that have only two players and the leveling of the club as a whole (the star system)sucks so how about the club having to complete achievements to make them better rather than the basic 5 levels 7. don't give modders the option, have all the data for the VPs on the disc rather than as a save file that can be manipulated. 8. set and keep the formation you want in pro clubs so you don't have to change it every game you play! 9. consistent referees, looks like a foul ? no but then you do an identical tackle on your opposition and freekick! 10.decent referees, ones that don't give free kicks away for nothing. 11. the ability to leave the ball if your in an offside position 12. offside regognition, when a ball is played through and your onside but it gets called off for a player that is nowhere near the ball. 13. lag! match making based on connection speed (it happened to me today 1-0 up and then bang i'm getting a frame a second and before i know it i'm 2-1 down) 14. never has a football team been awarded -43pts for a loss keep it real win = 3pts, draw = 1pt and a loss 0pts. this is just what i can think of off the top of my head but there are many more points that make pro clubs suck at this time. i really am not optimistic about there being a great deal of improvements to pro clubs, but hey everyone will buy it either way. i think that modders will return (EA said themselves they've fixed the problems so if they haven't changed the way a VP is created then the modders will be rife because it's the same system that let them mod in 11 and winning a game with skill and teamwork is too hard for them).

Bill
Bill

Number 3 is a fantastic idea!!! I'd like to add to that that if they quit and the comp starts to play as them then it turns it onto professional difficulty and the team that quit have a 10 minutes ban for quitting. Offisde recognition is also a great idea and lag, well need I say more..

matt
matt

so true, especially with the points, my club has nearly 7000 points and when we draw we get nothing, a win is like 5 points and a loss IS -50 POINTS, WTF, GET GOOD FIFA!

chris broughton
chris broughton

you should not be able to play as any on pro clubs. and a lot of people would agree with me .

Bill
Bill

Who would agree with you? The people you play with?! I wouldnt have a problem playing against no any if they let the comp pass the ball between each other, did'nt have 5-2-1-2 ultra defensive, do you think thats realistic?! NO ANY - NO SKILL

KnightyNufc
KnightyNufc

i agree with him, people that use any ANY is a noob, anyone is better then the AI, its called be a pro not be an ANY if people want to use an any i suggest they just play normal online team play

xnzux tlmttu
xnzux tlmttu

they should add custom kits, custom badges and you should be able to name your bot players so it feals more like a full team! they should also add bot progession in so when your points go up your bot slightly improve aswell so at higher levels bots will be much betetr at running ect.

Jack
Jack

But if I wanted to play against a bloke as any and a striker I would play head to head, works both ways....

Bill
Bill

Then why dont you play pro ranked match of pro career mode?

Anthony
Anthony

Bill I understand ur point, but I agree with jack, I think it would be a great idea if people that played as any could enter a match against other teams that play as any and teams that play as just their vp could play against other teams in the same boat, it's just I enjoy playing with my pro and with mates on the same team so pro ranked match and career mode is no good, and enjoy actually being my pro (making my own runs and finding space etc) u can't do that as any, plus the ai players are not enjoyable to play with whatsoever which I'm sure u can understand

stally
stally

the lag is whoever hosting the game that y they need dedicated servers i no they come wid there own probs but gota be better than not getin a game or it might be ur connection peeps coz i dont get lag well sometimes not often come on fifa 12

LB
LB

Ea need to sort out delayed lag on fifa 12 pro clubs its not fair on you when you run the ball out of play because its late they also need to sort out the invinsible goalkeepers there just impossible to score past and when you do its luck overall i enjoy clubs its just the minor problems that annoy me:0

greener
greener

i love pro clubs but the lag on fifa 11 was really bad i hope this is sorted for fifa 12 :)

IHATEANY
IHATEANY

I HATE ANY. I just played the FIFA12 demo and I'm loving it.But When I think about people playing ANY against my 3-6 players I lose interest. And the pro club AI Goalkeepers are idiots. They turnover on little Goal kick. They Suck at diving. Not once in FIFA11 has my keeper gotten lucky and saved a penalty. They have late reactions. I noticed the ball slowly rolling to the net and my gk dove either after the goal or dove the wrong way.

Bill
Bill

You're an idiot. I bet you play 5-2-1-2 and ultra defensive. Clubs who play no any should only play clubs who play no any, then you'll realise you're all ruining the game.

stally
stally

hi i think it is a great game but they need to sort the pro club servers out i have sat there 20 mins tryin sumtimes im gona be fumin if its the same on fifa 12 n people need to pass more lol ty

Jake
Jake

I know it wont happen but I wish that having a any would be compulsory. I like to play against people not the computer. The computer players seem to have a strength and speed boost compared to when you play as any and also can balatanly foul you without conceding a free kick. Too many people are relying on the computer to be any and using ultra defensive tactics with 5 defenders and 2 defensive mids in there formation. If we wanted to play against the computer we would play practice matches. Also after playing the demo I feel that the tactical defending aspect of the game will make it so everyone will be relying on the computer to be their defenders/any.

Craig Cole
Craig Cole

I know what you mean. It's much better playing against human players and I agree that people will probably rely on the AI more rather than master the new tactical defending. The best thing to do if you want to avoid playing against the AI is play 11 man clubs. There's hundreds of clubs and thousands of players at http://www.fvpa.co.uk if you're looking to start or join an 11 man club for FIFA 12.

paul
paul

Its better to play one player if your in a pro club with your mates as you all get a change to play and you ent got an any passing it round all the time I realy dont like people playing any

ross
ross

We all want to be able to choose sqaud numbers!! Also what abou When players from the team are not online there pro can still play in the games?? And get rid of the delay/lag, so awfull!!!

THFC Manager l
THFC Manager l

I think that soon as the 5th minute of game has been played the opposing team should not be able to back out, its stupid I'm a ranked ST on FIFA 11 (THFC Nani l 17) I was 17th but dropped to 25th because the other teams keep going in the first half, annoying or what!! I also play any so glad to hear about the improvement in the Al side of things. However, I'd like to see what FIFA 13 is like more than FIFA 12 to be honest as I don't think EA have done enough from what I have heard.

Craig Cole
Craig Cole

I know what you mean - it's been difficult to maintain a high rating this year when teams back out and it leaves you with a 6. Worse is when you get disconnected and it gives you a 3! It really gives your rating a knock. One thing that could be done to combat it is knock off 5% off everybody's lowest ratings before calculating your average. This would hopefully get rid of any anomolies and be fairer across the board. (That's still a great achievement on the leaderboards though matey!!!)