EA SPORTS FC™ 25 news & patch notes

• Controller Support Enhancements
• Expanded Display Settings
• Improved Graphics Settings Usability
• Display Settings Guide
• Graphics Settings Guide
• PC Requirements
• EA Javelin Anticheat

Controller Support Enhancements

• DualShock®4 Support: Full vibration support when playing on PC with a USB connection.
• DualSense™ Controller Support: Includes haptics and adaptive triggers for a more immersive experience with a USB connection (basic vibration support over Bluetooth).

Expanded Display Settings

• Active Monitor Selection: Choose which monitor you want to run the game on directly from in-game settings.
• Aspect Ratio Filter: Quickly find supported resolutions based on your display’s aspect ratio.
• More Frame Rate Limit Options: Frame rate limits now extend beyond 120 FPS, with support for 144, 165, and 240 FPS.
• More VSync Options: Sync your frame rate to a fraction of your monitor’s refresh rate (½, ⅓, ¼).
• Render Scale: Adjust resolution relative to your render setting, especially useful for windowed or borderless modes.
• Dynamic Resolution FPS Target: Set a performance target to trigger dynamic resolution scaling automatically.

Improved Graphics Settings Usability

• Informative Settings Descriptions: Every graphics setting now includes descriptions and impact details on CPU, GPU, and VRAM usage.
• Graphics Quality Presets: Switch between predefined options like Low, Medium, High, Ultra, and Auto to adjust quality settings (restart required to take effect).

Display Settings Guide

Screen Setup

• Active Monitor (NEW): Choose which monitor displays the game in Borderless or Full Screen.
• Display Mode: Borderless: Fills your screen without borders (cannot be resized). Fullscreen: Uses your entire screen. Windowed: Runs in a resizable, movable window.
• Aspect Ratio (NEW): Filters resolutions by chosen aspect ratio (Fullscreen only).
• Screen Resolution: Sets display resolution. Higher = sharper image, but lower performance (Fullscreen only). Borderless uses OS resolution. Tip: use Render Scale to adjust in Borderless.

Frame Rate & Refresh

• Refresh Rate: Controls how often your monitor refreshes (Fullscreen only).
• Frame Rate Limit: Caps FPS when VSync is off.
• VSync: Syncs FPS to your monitor to prevent tearing. Off: No sync. On: Matches refresh rate. 50%, 33%, 25%: Syncs FPS to a fraction of refresh rate. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45702522/8fbe8fbf9642ee1068364628ac5803c6305b3930.png

  Graphics Settings Guide

  The game will need to be restarted for changes to graphics settings to take effect.

  Graphics Presets (NEW)

  • Auto: Optimized for your hardware.
  • Low: Best for minimum-spec PCs.
  • Medium: Balanced visuals and performance.
  • High: Improved fidelity for stronger PCs.
  • Ultra: Maximum detail for top-tier hardware.

  Fidelity Settings

  • Rendering Quality: Controls detail and lighting on players, stadiums, and objects. CPU: Heavy use GPU: Heavy use VRAM: Heavy use
  • Strand Based Hair: Simulates individual strands of hair. CPU: Moderate use GPU: Heavy use VRAM: Low use
  • Cloth Quality: Determines jersey look and physics. CPU: Heavy use GPU: Moderate use VRAM: Low use
  • Ambient Occlusion Quality: Adds depth and realism with shading. CPU: Heavy use GPU: Heavy use VRAM: Moderate use

    Stadium Settings

  • Grass Quality: Controls pitch detail. CPU: Low use GPU: Moderate use VRAM: Low use
  • Crowd Quality: Controls crowd detail and animation. CPU: Moderate use GPU: Moderate use VRAM: Moderate use

    Visual Extras

  • Motion Blur: Slight blur on fast-moving objects. CPU: Low use GPU: Low use VRAM: Low use {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45702522/cd42f23b2287014eec45a03a9067bce81bd63701.png

    PC Requirements

    Here are the minimum and recommended PC specifications for FC 26 so you can prepare your setup accordingly:
  • Minimum (720p, 60 FPS gameplay, Low preset) OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit, latest update) CPU: Intel Core i5-6600k or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Memory: 8 GB RAM GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti or AMD RX 570 (4 GB VRAM) Storage: 100 GB DirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Recommended (1080p, 60 FPS gameplay, Medium preset) OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit, latest update) CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Memory: 12 GB RAM GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1660 or AMD RX 5600 XT (6 GB VRAM) Storage: 100 GB DirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connection {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45702522/fe739d8887d0d1922b95d4bc0e86670093b1a2db.jpg

    EA Javelin Anticheat

    You’ve told us how important it is to tackle cheating on PC, and it remains one of our top priorities as we keep developing and refining solutions to protect fair play. For FC 26 on PC, we’re continuing to protect fair play with EA Javelin Anticheat.

    What EA Javelin Anticheat Does

    EA Javelin Anticheat aims to prevent, identify, and address bad experiences wherever possible. It’s active in FC 26 from day one and is always working in the background when you’re playing.

    What’s New for FC 26

  • Refined Detection Methods: EA Javelin Anticheat now includes new classes of detections that make it better at spotting unfair play.
  • Improved Fair Play Controls: FC 26 has more controls to verify that EA Javelin Anticheat is running and hasn’t been tampered with whenever you play, preventing various forms of unfair play.

    Kernel-Level Protection

    Some cheats run at the deepest level of a computer’s operating system, which can make them almost invisible to traditional detection methods. EA Javelin Anticheat runs at the kernel level so it can spot and block those cheats effectively. For FC players, this means:
  • EA Javelin Anticheat only runs when EA SPORTS FC 26 is active on your PC.
  • If you uninstall FC 26 (and any other EA games that use EA Javelin Anticheat), the driver also uninstalls.

    Share Your Feedback

    We’re committed to making sure the PC experience feels just as smooth, fair and optimized as any other platform. Your feedback is essential, so please use the FC Feedback Hub and join the EA SPORTS FC Discord to provide feedback directly for our teams. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3405690/EA_SPORTS_FC_26/

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Gameplay

• Failed tackles can now take longer to transition out of, with hard tackles being the most impacted.
• The intent of this change is to reduce situations where failed tackles instantaneously lead to another tackle attempt.

Ultimate Team

• In some specific cases, claiming Premium Pass rewards did not function as intended.

Career Mode

• Updated list of available ICONs in Player Career.
• This change will be activated through a Server Release shortly after the Title Update.

General, Audio, and Visual

• Updated some button callouts, hair, kits, equipment, stadium, trophies, badges, ad boards as well as placeholder text and images.

Shapeshifters become brand-new superstars with unique position changes, upgraded stats, and fresh PlayStyles to bring new squad-building opportunities to Football Ultimate Team™.

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Hey everyone, the Season Finale Update (Title Update #15) is releasing soon for EA SPORTS FC 25. With this update we’re making three adjustments to game balance based on your feedback, and some updates to Ultimate Team and Career Mode. Here’s what you can expect:

• Moderately increased accuracy of Ground Passes for players with high Passing related Attributes.

• Significantly reduced effectiveness of goalkeepers rushing out with the Rush Out PlayStyle, and slightly reduced that effectiveness for Rush Out PlayStyle+ players.

• Slightly increased accuracy of contested and uncontested headers.

• A new season and Premium Pass in Ultimate Team.

• Increased the maximum number of PlayStyles+ UT Player Items can have up to five.

• Updated Player Career ICON selection.

• Refreshed Career Mode UI for Fixtures and Results.

• Refreshed the main menu with a festive celebration theme.

One of our main goals with this update is to provide fair and fun gameplay outcomes based on your feedback, but without drastically changing how the game is being played.

Let’s dig into it some more.

Gameplay Updates

Improving Ground Passes For Skilled Passers

In the Season Finale Update, we’ve made the following passing change based on your feedback:

• Moderately increased Ground Pass accuracy for players with high Passing related Attributes.

  • This change does not impact Driven Ground Passes.

With this change we’re looking to reduce the gap between players who can be excellent passers thanks to their high Passing related Attributes, and players who have passing related PlayStyles. We want both types of players to be able to perform great passes.

Here’s how a Ground Pass could have looked before this update, with a high Passing Attribute player.

Now let’s take a look at how this pass can play out after the update. Note the increase in accuracy.

Of course, passing is still impacted by everything you’d expect including clean inputs and defensive pressure on the passer.

We want passing to feel authentic in FC 25, and we want players who pass the ball well in real life to pass it well in our game too.

Reduced GK Rush Out PlayStyle Effectiveness

We’ve tweaked goalkeepers in the Season Finale Update based on your feedback:

• Slightly reduced the rate of acceleration for goalkeepers with the Rush Out PlayStyle+.

• Significantly reduced the rate of acceleration for goalkeepers with the Rush Out PlayStyle.

We’ve seen and heard from you that the keepers with the Rush Out PlayStyle+ were overly effective at closing down attackers. Here’s how that could have looked before this update.

Now, here’s how that situation can play out. Note that the goalkeeper isn’t closing down the space as quickly as before.

Naturally we don’t want to take away the ability of goalkeepers to rush incoming attackers, but with this change our goal is to create more balanced one on one situations and encourage a wider variety of defensive strategies.

Improving Header Accuracy

We’ve seen your feedback about wanting headers to be a more viable attacking option, so we made the following change:

• Slightly increased accuracy of headers performed by the shooting input.

While nobody wants every single header to be a goal, we’ve seen the need for increasing the effectiveness of headers in FC 25. Here’s how a header could have looked before the Season Finale Update.

Now let’s take a look at a more accurate header that you can perform after this update.

Football Ultimate Team Updates

Season 8 And A New Premium Pass

It’s almost time for Season 8 in FUT, and it’ll be kicking off on Thursday, June 5th. The new season also brings a brand new Premium Pass to FC 25, and we’ve listed everything you can expect from it below. 

We have updated our Playstyle+ Evolution Consumables requirements for Season 8! 

• In the Standard Ladder, the requirements for the Playstyle+ Evolutions will be: Max 95 OVR, Max 9 Playstyles, Max 3 Playstyle+.

• In the Premium Pass, the requirements for the Playstyle+ Evolutions will be: Max 96 OVR, Max 9 Playstyles, Max 3 Playstyle+.

If you want to know about the Season Pass and how it works in-game, be sure to check out our Pitch Notes on it, complete with an FAQ section.

Increased Maximum Amount Of PlayStyle+ Assignments

With the Season Finale Update, Player Items can now have up to five PlayStyle+ in Ultimate Team.

We’re making this update so we can provide you with a larger variety of Player Items going forward. You may notice that you can now gain up to a maximum of five new PlayStyle+ as rewards through Evolutions, or certain Player Items show more PlayStyle+ UI indicators.

Of course this doesn’t mean that every Player Item with multiple PlayStyles+ will have five of them, it just means that five is the new max.

Career Mode, Main Menu, And More

As part of the Season Finale Update, we’re adding the final set of Live Start Points for FC 25, plus you can now play as the following ICONs in Player Career:

• Birgit Prinz

• George Best

• Johan Cruyff

• Garrincha

In Manager Career, you will now be able to play 5v5 Youth Tournament Matches in co-op, up to four players, via the addition of the Side Select functionality.

We’ve also tweaked how match results around your club are covered in your Career Mode social media feeds, with a new and improved logic allowing you to see a refreshed Fixtures & Results UI, like the one below.

Feedback

We’re excited to hear what you think about these changes. You can share your feedback directly in the Season Finale Update thread in our #game-feedback Discord channel here, and on the Player Feedback Portal.

Thanks for stopping by.

– The EA SPORTS FC Team

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