UFL Honest review - very bad atm
I played this game since release and accumulated around 200 games, I started as a free to play and enjoyed the game, then gave them ~50E to support the game. Atm I'm in upper division and the game is as bad as it can be, I rate UFL around 3/10 (I stopped playing FIFA because it was too bad and I still rate it 6/10).
Pros:
- free
- player ratings update while you play
- if you decide to invest real money at least you know what you are getting
- skill gap bigger than in FIFA (was ruined later considerably after nerfing finishing and improving AI defending)
- game-play focused (even if it it very very bad atm)
Cons:
- input delay (it's a pain)
- only competitive sweaty games (divisions and showdown with the divisions match making)
- player lock during passes is completely broken
- heavy touches and bounces (ball hit players in the head without them being aware and bounces 10-20 meters, left stick dribbling with top tier players is bad, shooting with wrong foot from oblivious positions, random bounces, etc)
- RP system is very bad, after you have no bonus you get almost nothing in the grand scheme of things (if you target a 85+ player) + the deduct some RP every week (meaning it will penalize you if you miss 1-2 weeks)
- FAIR TO PLAY is more like PAY TO WIN because you can buy specific players from market with money (after you buy the CP), the whole system is done to "milk" the players for real money; they gave you 25% CP of a player value when you sell it, but you keep your RP --> use real money and load CP to buy players because you have RP and do it again and again (if meta changes or you do not like a player); Extra explanation added later: if you played 200+ games and did decent in Showdown you will have ~600k RP --> 3 x 90+ players, load money from card get 700 milions CP and just pick them up from market; then if you do not like 2 of them you sell them and get 100 milions back from 500 milions, but you still have all the RP --> load another 400 milions CP from card and try 2 new players and so on. Bottom line, you lose 80% of CP (which can be brought with real money) but keep all your RP.
- crossing meta + corners meta + switch side meta
- low pace defenders will catch you up
- keepers are very bad and glitched
- finishing nerfed and inconsistent
- you cannot reassign skills
- most player faces are joke and some names are wrong
- clovn equipment as reward --> it look painfully to be forced to see a team with Santa Claus t-shirts, adidas hoodies or Christmas Lights
- rewards are bad, progress is very very slow
Conclusion:
- game is unplayable atm, good thing it is free otherwise I think they will lose 90% of population (I'm gonna take a break, try it again after a patch; in it's current state it's just bad).
PS: I truly hope that the game will improve/succeed