Needless to say we’re very, very impressed and the original change log is can be found here and it also details the issues the team are still working on so well worth a look.

*Update* It’s been confirmed on Twitter by EASportsFIFA that the Career Mode fixes will apply to existing save files, so there is no need to restart to apply the fixes. Excellent News.

*Update 2* If you’re experiencing issues after installing the patch, please post them on the Official EA Forums, following the format at the top of the post.

FIFA 12: Patch 2 Details

Gameplay

• Sometimes the game would get confused when a user called a second player to take a quick throw-in, where the game would consider the ball to have re-entered play. We’ve made sure this won’t happen anymore.
• We have fixed an occasional problem where a user’s crossing setting would default to Manual and need to be reset.
• Very rarely indeed, a physics error could cause a player’s leg positioning to become misaligned. You may have seen some videos of that around the time we brought out the demo for FIFA 12. As rare as it was (the vast majority of people will have never experienced it), it’s now fully extinct,

Career Mode

• You can now select the weather conditions before entering a game.
• Your chief executive’s salary suggestions when offering a youth player a senior contract will now remain consistent when exiting and re-entering the negotiation screens.
• We have made sure that, after releasing a player from the Youth Squad, his salary returns to the Wage Budget.
• When loaning in a player with an option to buy him at the end of the season, if that player caused you to reach the maximum squad size, you wouldn’t be able to buy him. Now you can.
• It’s now no longer possible to sign a Youth Player with a wage greater than your available wage budget.
• We have addressed a couple of rare situations where specific actions would cause controller buttons to become unresponsive.
• When playing as a player in Career Mode, your manager will now be more inclined to sub off your player if he’s getting too tired.
• We’ve made sure that commentary won’t fail to show up when playing League Cup games involving Manchester United.
• We have fixed a situation where, given a certain set of circumstances when editing and saving player positions, you could see player names converted to numbers before experiencing a console hang.
• We fixed an issue where it was possible for the user’s player’s team to enter a new season without a goalkeeper, or without the minimum number of players needed to play a match.
• We have solved a problem that involved the player’s team recording a win despite forfeiting a league game because of an insufficient match-day squad.
• Recently signed Youth Squad players who you’re attempting to sell on will now enter negotiations with an accurate, consistent ‘Current Wage’ displayed, meaning you’ll see them picked up much more easily by CPU teams.
• If you and a friend entered a Career Mode game with two controllers, advanced beyond the Player Selection screen and then backed all the way out again, the game would hang. We got that fixed.
• We have taken care of a bug that caused apparently random crashes in Career Mode, with players sometimes appearing with a zeroed cash value.
• Physical attributes of players were growing a little unrealistically since they were tied to their overall growth potential. We have made a change that separates the growth of these attributes from others, resulting in much more steady progression.
• You can now offer a new contract to players you have loaned out for the last year of their contract, before they run off and become free agents.
• Loaned players weren’t always growing fast enough. We have tuned this to be more noticeable, making loaning players out much more rewarding.
• More mid-week Career Mode games will now be played with night-time lighting conditions.

FIFA 12 Ultimate Team

• Using an outdated “Take Me There” link on a Trade Feed notification in the FUT hub will no longer result in your coins not being returned if you lost the auction.
• The Trade Feed notification in the FUT Hub for a newly acquired Goalkeeper Coach will no longer cause the game to hang.
• Creating a new squad, then immediately deleting an old one before then applying an item to your new squad could result in a disconnection. Not now it won’t.
• We have made sure that real-time information is displayed on active auctions. You’ll no longer find yourself unknowingly outbid while waiting for those auctions to count down.
• We have isolated and eradicated a data-flow interruption that sometimes caused the game to crash while players were on the Match Setup screen before a FUT game.
• You will now see your EAS FC XP increase – and your news feed update – after playing a single-player or play-a-friend game in FUT.
• We have optimised the game to make sure the console won’t struggle, or even crash, when paging through a lot of FUT auction pages.
• We have taken care of a crash that would occur if users entered FUT and downloaded the latest update after creating a Virtual Pro.
• We have made a couple of separate enhancements to the FUT pack purchasing system to make sure sudden losses of internet connectivity (such as pulling the network cable) won’t result in console crashes.
• We discovered that if you downloaded a roster update in FUT and, while still on the update confirmation screen, signed out from your Gamer Profile, the game would crash. Not many people would do that but, just in case they do, they’re now safe.

FIFA 12 Clubs

• Changes that Clubs players make to camera settings during a Clubs game will now find those settings saved for subsequent games.
• You will now be able to change your penalty kick taker via Team Management between the penalty kick being awarded and taken.
• Clubs players’ accomplishments are now fully tracked in online matches.
• We asked you, and you told us. Community feedback overwhelmingly suggests that the default AI in Clubs is too powerful, leading to clubs choosing not to field defenders in order to allow the AI to do their work for them. We have therefore dropped the AI difficulty level in Clubs from World Class to Professional, and have made some complimentary minor adjustments to AI goalkeepers.

My Live Season

• Injured or suspended players will now be automatically moved to the reserves, not the subs bench. And there’ll be no more missing subs as a result in subsequent games.

EA SPORTS Football Club

• We have made an optimisation that stops the game making too many calls for Support Your Club information on entering the EAS FC hub.
• Every now and then, when coming back to the main menu from another area of the game, the Back/Select button to go to the EAS FC hub was not always displayed and functional. That won’t happen anymore.
• We have taken care of a rare crash bug that cropped up when entering the EAS FC hub from the main menu.
• We have enhanced the way the game loads the pre-match arena before an EAS FC Challenge.
• All your Career Mode activity will now display correctly in the EAS FC news feed.

FIFA 12 Online

• An occasional problem saw users repeatedly failing to match-up online due to mismatching squad files, despite re-downloading the online squad file. We’ve made sure that won’t bother anyone again.
• A small number of people found their stats not tracking properly for Online Friendlies games. They are now.
  Creation Centre
• We have solved a problem that saw FIFA 12 crash when trying to download PNG images (e.g. a team crest) that were over the maximum file size.
• Particularly keen Creation Centre users who bookmarked a lot of items to download into their game could find that they were not able to enter the Creation Centre gallery. Now they can.
• We have fixed a rare problem where it was possible in specific circumstances to find your Creation Centre team hit the pitch with a man missing.
• We have made sure that swapping and changing kit sponsor images on the web will no longer cause any problems on the console.
• We have improved the way FIFA 12 handles large numbers of Creation Centre downloads to make sure there’s no slow-down in the performance of team-selection screens.
• The game no longer struggles to retrieve Tournament Crest images in the Creation Centre gallery.

EA SPORTS Arena

• We have enabled private sessions within the EA SPORTS Arena.

And some others…

• We have turned on our in-game podcasts. If you want to listen in, you can access our regular five-minute chunks of audio news and information by turning the option on in the Game Settings > Audio menu. [English language only]
• We have made some optimisations to make sure that people with lots of save files on their hard drives don’t suffer long load times or server disconnections.
• [PC only] We have corrected a problem where, after scoring a goal, custom music would stop playing for around two minutes.
• [PC only] We have added an option to the FIFA 12 launcher to disable some Windows settings, improving the framerate for people with lower-spec PCs.

“The whole FIFA MANAGER database is updated, including more than 2.200 winter transfers from all 46 licensed leagues are part of this update. Player levels have been adjusted based on the real performances of the first half of the season. Besides the more than 2,000 transfers more than 900 loans were implemented, 500 new player pictures were added and 150 new XXL player pictures bring even more realism to the virtual managers at home.”

Impressive stuff. One thing to bear in mind is that to utilise this transfer update you will need to start a new FIFA Manager 11 game save. Existing game saves will still work but will not have the new transfers, player photos etc.

You can see the full change log HERE

PS3: Available NOW
Xbox 360: Available NOW
Automatic update for connected consoles

As this patch is classed as an “automatic” or “mandatory” update it means you should be prompted to download and install the FIFA 11 patch BEFORE you get in to the main FIFA 11 menu. If you’re in to the main menu, with no patch installation, then your console hasn’t picked it up or it hasn’t been released yet.

I’ll be starting a brand new Virtual Pro Career Mode on Wednesday and I urge you all to do the same to find out just how much work EA have done to fix the rather poor team mate AI.

Get in touch and let us know your thoughts on the effectiveness of the new patch once it’s released.

This represents quite a hefty update for FIFA 11 Ultimate Team which so far since launch has been very well supported by EA. If you want to see the best of the 50 new improvements you can find them all HERE.

Could February 17th possibly coincide with the January roster update as well? Hmmmmm

Remember you can look after your FIFA 11 Ultimate Team this year by using the all new Web App.

As an update for you, we wanted to let you know that we are actively working on fixes for the following:
- Various crashes reported through our automated systems;
- Micro-pausing in offline and online matches;
- OTP Club issues related to searching, lag during peak and stat reporting;
- Gameplay fixes around positioning and advantage rule;
- Career Mode fixes around stat display and growth;
- Online exploits, Pro Passing in ranked matches, and cheaters punishment;
- Custom Chants issues.

This is great news for FIFA 11 and hopefully a patch will be winging its way to us sooner rather than later. To see the post and thread in full follow this link but please play nice.

Worry no longer! We have the codes to unlock world cup colorways of both the Predator X and the Adipure III, worn by Lampard and David Silva respectively. Not to mention the code for the all new Adidas Adizero F50, worn by no other than Messi.

Hit the jump to grab the codes and update your game.

YouTube – Unlock adiPure Cleats for EA World Cup’10

Adidas adiPure III TRX – Black/Sun
CODE: HHDO-PWPM-IXZQ-OJOZ

Important: Enter the Codes without (-), only the letters !!!

YouTube – Unlock Predator Cleats for EA World Cup’10

Adidas Predator_X – Black/Sun
CODE: OCEG-ZCUH-XOBS-BNFU

YouTube – Unlock F50 Cleats for EA World Cup’10

Adidas F50 adizero – Chameleon
CODE: VOKM-NEZT-JOQP-ULUT

Adidas F50 adizero – Black/Sun/Sun
CODE: SGFS-TZPP-XCHH-MJMH

Adidas F50 adizero – Sun/Black/Gold
CODE: YOZC-CVIF-JGKQ-JWTW

Because so many have asked, we can confirm there will be a downloadable roster update for FIFA 10 after the January transfer window has closed. Fear not. We’ll update you on that as soon as we’ve fixed a date.

Don’t expect any gameplay tweaks though – this is purely a roster update. Thanks again to Alexrstone for the heads-up.

The teams are: Liverpool, Chelsea, Newcastle United, Bayern Munich and Marseille.

Currently the release date for the update hasn’t been confirmed for PSN users, but Rom confirmed Xbox Live Gold members will have the opportunity to download it May 28th, with Silver members having to wait a week later.

As soon as EA confirm an official release date for PSN users we’ll let you know. Cheers to Rom for the heads up!

Firstly, it’s not classed as a title update, so you do not get a pop-up prompting you to download it when you start the game – you have to manually download it. I’ve put together some brief instructions on how to obtain it and use it below:

For Offline Use (Manager Mode etc.)

The only way that we know of to download the updated squad file for offline use is by updating your Adidas Live Season data. For that you simply go to the Adidas Live Season menu and select the “Download Latest Update” option – once this saves you will then have the latest squad file for offline use.

Obviously the Adidas Live Season data updates cost money, but you get one league free using the code on the back of your FIFA 09 manual (it’s surprising how many people don’t realise it’s there), so all you have to do is enter that code and activate your chosen free league. Once you’ve done that you can download the updated squad file (and if you don’t like the features of Adidas Live Season they can all be turned off in the main options).

For Online Use

To get the squad file for online use is as easy as pie; just start an online game (such as “Quick Ranked Match”), or create a new BAP session or something similar. The servers will automatically check to see if you have the new squad file, and if not it will ask you to download the new one. Once downloaded and saved to your storage device you’re good to go.