Well, i always play easy tackling, and i never were hammered by others who uses normal/hard tackling, you only need to try some matches and se the pros/cons. With current injury rates, i decided to sacrifice a 5% posession each match to have healthier players
But hard tackling should affect to injuries in the other tem not in yours. Am i wrong??
Hard tackling affect
both teams, and only increases ball posession, it doesn't improve your team's defensive performance (or the impact is so low that there's no real difference).
By the way, there are many things i don't like with this new engine, but at least now receiving a red card has a real penalty: with the old engine your tactical rates could be improved if a weak player was sent off, that could be more like a blessing than a real penalty, many teams played better matches after a player were sent off, it doesn't happen anymore, now you lose strength everytime you have one less player