These are the makers of FUT 22 Coins. EA motion-captured for the very first time a 90-minute live football match. This enabled EA to observe the movements of players at the highest level, which it could use to expand its animation database.

The gaming company looked for the major details right all the way down to the smallest details: from how a full-back hits the ball with their laces, to how a playmaker instinctively glances over their shoulders prior to receiving a pass. Gareth Eaves (senior animation director at EA) was the instructor for the session remotely. “Ultimately, realism equals better games.” “We wanted it for years but the technology was not there.”

EA generally uses actors, optical capture, and occasionally , a famous footballer such as Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo to create new animations. But it involves a small area with only the presence of just two or three players at a time – making it hard to attack the ball at pace or ping moves from one side to the other. The motion-captured plays that are restricted such as one-on one dribbles, must be adapted by FIFA animators into free-flowing movements that mimic eleven-a-side games.

But now, the cameras have been removed. The motion capture stage was discarded. Only the Xsens suits are left. Eaves says that drift was a problem. We knew where joints of the players were to one another but not necessarily in space.

It meant that players would play around, and then return to buy FIFA 22 Coins their starting place ten metres away. The game changer from EA is a local positioning system. Instead of GPS satellites, LPS beacons were dotted all over the field, along with motion sensors strapped to players their chests.