This game has a nice learning curve so far. The basic controls are very simple and easy to memorise, and when you inevitably fuck up it's usually hilarious. At the same time, it is satisfying to start mastering some of the more advanced (though still relatively basic) mechanics and pulling off through balls between defenders or feints that create space. The three different game modes (3v3, 4v4, 5v5) feel like a nice progression too, as space inevitably gets tighter with more players on the pitch which forces you to make quicker decisions. I wasn't sure if having prior experience playing the sport would help or hinder but so far it definitely feels like the former. The biggest issues so far seem to be the netcode and the matchmaking time (quite long in SEA and Oceania).

It's out and I was in the playtests

The playtests weren't horrible, they were very fun with friends, but the issue was the networking, very laggy, hope it'll be fixed

Them accepting Linux support is great, I feared that it might not work when the playtests introduced EAC

I had some crashes, but they seemed like a fault of the playtest itself, my friend also experienced some, told him that it fixed it for me when I logged out and logged back in (it was a restart for him)

I hope they continue like this

Have played a few hours, it's pretty fun with friends, but also kinda buggy and there's no cross play yet.

Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat

It looks cool, might pick it up when they have cleaned up the technical issues and added crossplay