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[Yevrah]

Mine hasn't landed yet. I should get the Ultimate one as I hammered the EA Access, but I've had a few weekends away since release so it depends how many days one can miss.

[Boom-Boom-18]

Mine hasn't landed yet. I should get the Ultimate one as I hammered the EA Access, but I've had a few weekends away since release so it depends how many days one can miss.

9-50 Session Days = Jumbo Premium Gold Pack
51-100 Session Days = Prime Gold Players Packs
101-131 Session Days = Rare Mega Pack
132+ Session Days = Ultimate Pack

I got an ultimate pack and I have had a few weeks away since launch.

[thommo]

Haven't got my pack as of yet. Sold a ton of Germans on for 1-2k tonight thanks to the Demirbay objective.

[Gray Fox]

At least the kit is nice...

[Yevrah]

9-50 Session Days = Jumbo Premium Gold Pack
51-100 Session Days = Prime Gold Players Packs
101-131 Session Days = Rare Mega Pack
132+ Session Days = Ultimate Pack

I got an ultimate pack and I have had a few weeks away since launch.

If you've had a few weeks away and that list is right then you shouldn't have done. There have been 130 days since the game was officially released and 138 since EA Access.

[Yevrah]

Also, the pertinent question is what is defined as a "session day"? My gut would be just whacking the game on and playing a match or two wouldn't be enough.

[Danny]

I got the ultimate and I know for a fact I haven’t played every day.

[Gray Fox]

Apparently it's just logging into the game, Web App or Companion app. No need to play a game.

[Danny]

Makes sense then. I am a sucker for checking the webapp atleast once a day.

[thommo]

Got my pack - a Rare Mega Pack in the end. Absolute rubbish though, just one 83 in Bruno Fernandes. All untradeable as well, but I guess it's a freebie so can't complain too much.

[Boom-Boom-18]

If you've had a few weeks away and that list is right then you shouldn't have done. There have been 130 days since the game was officially released and 138 since EA Access.

Web App must count because I have missed at the very least 10 days. I am terrible for logging into the app, constantly on it.

Does anyone know when POTM is released? I have my fingers crossed for Rashford.

[Yevrah]

I got the Ultimate Pack. Would have been pissed had I not given I've basically lived on his game this year, but I'm pretty sure I'll have missed more than 6 days.

[Yevrah]

Khedira, Lacazette, Neto, William Carvalho and Glik. I'd have spunked my load over that had it been a pack only account.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Rare mega only ffs. I pre-ordered a digital copy so got the game early and I've been on the web app every day.

Kramaric in there to take double the piss too.

[Danny]

K. Navas, Alba, Thiago, Barzagli and Leno in my Ultimate.

[The Merse]

If you've had a few weeks away and that list is right then you shouldn't have done. There have been 130 days since the game was officially released and 138 since EA Access.

Counts the web/mobile apps as well I believe as I've not loaded up on console for at least 2 days in most weeks.

Edit - oh, Fox did mention, missed that first time around skimming.

[Yevrah]

My pack only shit team is progressing nicely and now have a first team with 90 chemistry.

https://i.postimg.cc/JnhVDjn1/Untitled.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Finished my 5 division rivals qualifying games and with 3 losses, 1 draw and 1 win it put me in division 6. Still haven't won a game in that yet, a couple of draws and 3/4 defeats, so I'll probably be in division 7 soon and fuck only knows what resides there.

On the plus side I have all but secured rank 3 in division 6, so that'll be 2 untradeable mega-packs come Thursday morning. Think I'll play to Gold 1 in Squad Battles, which will be 3 more packs and 11,000 coins. IF Bats is in my sights from the Futswap Deals as well.

Other than that hammering bronze packs and now have over 200 players in the club (about 40 of them gold).

[thommo]

Playing the game as you are Yev reminds me of the opening few weeks of Ultimate Team, and finding those hidden gem players out of starter packs that perform way above their level. Whilst I really do enjoy getting all of the special cards, and playing with a really amazing team, I think the start is my most enjoyable phase of the game.

And whilst I have, like everyone else, knocked EA for some of the decisions they make throughout the lifespan of each game, I have actually enjoyed a few of the last weekly objectives, no matter how much of a grind they have been. I've been able to find some cheaper gems and play with teams I would never really use in FUT Champions. A couple of weeks ago it was Memphis Depay who was tearing it up up front; this week, in the extremely budget German squad I've compiled to get the Demirbay card, it's been Kevin Volland who has been great to use. Kehrer and Tah have made for a formidable centre-back pairing too.

I managed 4 wins and 2 draws last night in Division 5, so just another 4 to go for the objective.

[Yevrah]

Yep, the more I do this the more I think it's the way forward. I'm actually looking forward to getting Batshuayi from Futswaps as he'll genuinely improve my team. And the Demirbay example is another great one. Had I been doing this from the start I'd have had a German team to give that a crack with.

Providing EA don't change things fundamentally for FIFA20 (leaving a similar number of packs available from division rivals, for example) I'll definitely start the game this way next year.

[five time]

I think I had more fun earlier on when I was sticking to themes - Ligue 1/Bundesliga etc. Breaking the bank for that one star player in your league/country feels better and you end up using players you wouldn't otherwise.

Not sure if I have the coin to do it this year but I quite fancy the idea of doing a full England team. Shearer and Owen up front and Lampard, Gerrard and Scholes in midfield. :drool: I imagine we will see a flashback Ashley Cole at some point too.

Hopefully Beckham cans his deal with PES soon also, he's high on my list of wanted icons.

[thommo]

https://i.redd.it/ecs7i2t4qye21.jpg

A few big hitters in the TOTW this time around.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I don't understand how Ronaldo got one considering they drew.

[Gray Fox]

Someone is going to get that Red CR7 tomorrow who finished Silver 1, whilst I'm going to be lucky to get Joshua King.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I seem to be doing better at scoring in this new patch.

I always get a lot of one on one chances but would miss a lot but I'm now utilising the low driven shot and it's working great.

I would be scoring bucket loads if I could cross with this mechanic though, I find a defender/goalkeeper about 9 out of 10 times.

[thommo]

New SBC out, to "celebrate Hamsik's legacy with his club". 91 rated, he looks pretty insane but wouldn't fit in my squad.

Two squads needed, 85 and 86 rated each with 2 TOTWs.

[Gray Fox]

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Looks really good. FUTBIN reckons 350k so far.

[Gray Fox]

Napoli have just cancelled the sale. :D

[The Merse]

Great TOTW, active promo & MOTM in packs is making an Icon SBC attractive right now. Nesta looks like he needs doing.

[The Merse]

Meh, couple of MOTM (Piatek and some other discard), Buffon, Khedira and some 83/84s. Not awful, but probably puts me at somewhere around 300k spend for Nesta. Still, that's now 5 Icons. No more until the Elites come into play for me.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I love the low driven shot to counter the dickheads who move their keeper.

I've just done it in two rivals matches with my opponent covering the far post whilst I buried it into the wide open near post.

Edit: And again, it's so satisfying.

[Gray Fox]

My favourite thing if 1v1, is to do the fake shot stop. (B and then A with no left stick input) you'll stop dead on the spot facing the centre of the goal.

Because you can see the other player powering a shot up you'll find they move to one side in a gamble. Simply pop it in the other side.

As for Icons I'll be doing Nakata to put into Rijkaard tomorrow after rewards. He's a needed physical upgrade in the midfield. That'll put me in a nice spot for a future big time Icon. I'd happily trade in Ballack and Rijkaard for a Viera or a Gullit.
I'd also let Raul and one of the others go in order to go into R9, Ronaldinho or Eusebio.

I'd love to pack something big and look into getting Best, as he expires in 2 days, however the only way I can see myself doing that is by selling CR7 and for obvious reasons I'd really like to keep him.
If pack weights were not dropped during these promos I'd be extremely tempted(I still am really). He sells for 1.7m with best costing 1.48m according to FUTBIN. Along with discard value of my rewards, i'd have about 300k left, if I didn't pack anything with Bests packs either.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

4 in 4 and this is my favourite of them:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ScEHMB-CA

Oh and I totally meant this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYEFAC1fbRU

[Danny]

Did Huntelaar and bought the new Ziyech. Used a lot of players from the club and then pulled Fabinho and a shadow so it didnt cost me too much.

Need to get my hands on the 400k De Ligt to get the remainder of the OP Ajax players. I just dont have that coin to spend on "fun" because I really dont play enough anymore :lol:

[Yevrah]

Got IF Camapana, Thauvin, Luis Gustavo, Anderson Talisca, Herrera, Joao Cancelo, Oscar, Clyne and Fellaini (amongst others) and some useful consumables from my Division Rivals untradeable rewards for my pack only account.

Loving this.

[The Merse]

Picks were King, who looks useable, and 85 Kagawa. Not bad.

Chose tradeable packs for rank 1 rewards so had a fair few packs to add to the Gold 2 haul. IF Fabregas, Varane, and a single pack containing K Navas, M Asenjo and Verratti came up.

Good morning, and combined with what was packed already yesterday, I’m probably back where I was before doing Nesta. Can’t wait for the Gullit SBC.

[thommo]

Struggled a bit last night in the hunt for Demirbay, only getting 1 win overall. Kept getting pegged back late in games and drew a lot, but it did mean I comfortably reached Rank 2 in Division 5. I'm quite tempted to take the untradeable rewards later on, as I'm thinking of completing the Headliners Carvajal SBC. I currently use a Red 86 Carvajal, so it would be a natural upgrade at RB.

[Yevrah]

Sold a fair bit throughout the day and am up to 8k coins, so could either open another Premium Gold Pack now or hammer on tonight and go for a Premium Gold Jumbo.

Opening packs playing the game this way is somehow even better than normal, it's going to be immense when I get my first walkout.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I have decided to sell Aouar and Crespo.

It pains me but I want Rashford and I don't know yet for the other position.

[Gray Fox]

89 Higuain and 87 Donnarumma in my reds which is pretty fantastic to be fair. The former looks like my kind of poacher, but his speed and 70 stamina is a bit off-putting. He's making the bench for sure though. This also makes the 3rd time I've seen a red Donnarumma. The game really wants me to have him.

TOTW Kagawa and then another low rated one in my 100k packs and then Ozil from my untradeable rival rewards. Not the greatest of earners to be fair, but should see me with enough to do Nakata and then look at Rijkaard.

[Boom-Boom-18]

Flashback Torres is out.

I have just cashed in on nearly a hundred Cesc Fabregas Monaco cards. Purchased for 4K and sold for 8.8K, I knew he would rise but I wasn't expecting to make that much.

Fingers crossed for a POTM Rashford tomorrow.

[Yevrah]

I think with bronze players I can do two of those Marquee Matchup SBC's. :jayjay:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://i.imgur.com/Rsk6PWW.jpg

Who would you plug in? I have about 2.5m to spend. That final spot can either play at ST, CAM (with Raul at ST) or CM (Raul ST, KDB CAM) and has to be an icon.

I'm thinking middle Eusebio, prime Henry, prime Stoichkov, prime Matthaus, prime Ronaldinho, prime Ballack or prime Socrates.

[Danny]

Why does it have to be an icon?

Headliner Pogba would work.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Because I didn't think of that ffs.

I can't make up my mind now.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Or TOTY Kante...

[Danny]

With you having Kondogbia and Keane I figured you wouldn’t want another defensive minded player.

[Yevrah]

I'm getting absolutely humped online with this team. Another defeat, this time 6-0, drops my skill rating to 744 and 44 points off division 7. On the plus side I'm now 5% of the way to qualifying for the weekend league.

[Gray Fox]

Sold my 86 Felipe Anderson and Hazard to take my tally up to 420k. Did Nakata and had about 75k left, so he cost about 350k. Pulled Marcelo from the packs to cut that cost down even further.
I also swapped him for my one and now have an almost complete First Owner squad. I then turned in the remaining 3 parts of Rijkaard and pulled Headliner Zapata. One of the lower tier ones, but got me another 90k back.

This leaves me with this, and about 130k in the bank:

https://i.gyazo.com/6e413468c2008e136e49e334c239da3c.png


That Flashback Torres is a killer for me as it's a massive temptation, however as you can see I don't have a LM. I also don't quite have the funds to get either Anderson or Hazard back.
As of now the plan is to pick up the best version of Sane I can get. The other option is to sell CR7 and buy TOTY Marcelo, Neymar and then maybe do something like complete Flashback Torres.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bought Headliners Pogba.

With Solskjaer leading the train there's no limit to how many IFs he'll get. Clean for 1.67m.

[Gray Fox]

January POTM will be between him and Rashford as well, so he could get his first bump soon if they count too.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They don't sadly.

[Gray Fox]

I wonder if it will work the other way around. POTM items are almost always a +2 on the previous version of a card.

[Boom-Boom-18]

January POTM will be between him and Rashford as well, so he could get his first bump soon if they count too.

Pogba isn't a nominee.

[Gray Fox]

Pogba isn't a nominee.

They've done the nominees already?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They've done the nominees already?

Yeah and the voting has closed.

The nominees were Tom Heaton, Josh King, Lacazette, Ward-Prowse, Lindelof and Rashford.

Rashford is surely going to win although I think Lindelof deserves it.

[Gray Fox]

Well what rock have I been under?!

Between King and Rashford. Unfortunately you saw just how good Van Dijk had to be to win it and even then I'd argue he shouldn't have(Salah getting fuck all recognition at TOTY has annoyed me).

Rashford will walk it. I'm interested if he's an 88. I've his TOTW item as a red and it's always been OP when coming off the bench. Has he been playing striker?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yes, he's been our first choice striker since Ole came in.

We even played a match with him up top and Lukaku on the wing.

[Yevrah]

Finally won my first Division Rivals game tonight, which was nice.

Did one of the MM's SBC's and managed to cobble together enough for another Jumbo Premium Gold pack, which unfortunately was crap. Then did a Player Pick Upgrade and packed Fekir, which I was pretty pleased with.

Have a few decent Ligue 1 players now, but biggest problem bar none is the striker situation. Those I have, without exception, are all absolute garbage. I tried Doumbia in a game tonight on decent chem and it was genuinely laughable how bad he was.

[Yevrah]

Awoudja and Al Fehaid in a single bronze pack. :cool:

[thommo]

84 Brandt was my best choice in a fairly poor player pick. Nothing else in the reward packs for the Weekend League. I then took the untradeable rewards for Rivals, giving me 2 rare player packs and 2 mega packs. From these I pulled Keylor Navas, Nainggolan, IF De Jong and a few 83s. Navas helped as I was then able to complete the Carvajal Headliner SBC for nothing at all, so he's going straight into my squad, replacing the red 86 I had before.

I still need one more Rivals win for Demirbay so hopefully will get that done before 6pm when I get home. Last night was a real struggle as I got to 7 wins, and wanted to get the last before bed. I then lost either 4 or 5 in a row, matching up against a couple of very very good players, and fluffing my lines against more equal opponents. A 1-0 loss to someone who only managed 2 shots all game was particularly galling. I sacked it off when I lost connection to someone when 4-3 up - I was actually suspicious they had somehow managed to quit without getting a loss as I remained connected to the internet and the UT servers.

All this means I dropped from around 1430 in Div 5, to approximately 1240. :moop:

[The Merse]

Fucked up and redeemed weekend league accidentally. I’m in Dublin from 8am tomorrow and at a gig tonight, so I’ll likely have trouble qualifying next week. Annoyingly, I was on 1400 qualification points before the reward, it’s so shit you can’t just bank them, or at least up to 4000, and spend your 2000 on qualification out of that pot.

[SincereTheRebel]

Have they patched the position change madness yet?


They still haven't changed the fucking position change problem. Its still broken.

This is still an issue. I dont want to play it if this is still a fault. Ive played a total of 31 games over the past 27 days. I feel stupid waiting for a fix, that just isnt coming. Its been months now.

[SincereTheRebel]

Its about time i compile a list of features that i want to see in the next FIFA. Its mostly simple things, that we still dont have :face:

[Danny]

1093872075754930176.

God that’s tempting

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If you're not getting his headliner I would do it 100%.

[thommo]

Fucking hell, I bet I see that in about 25 games over the Weekend League.

[Gray Fox]

FUTBIN reckons that's about 460k to do.

100k, 50k 45k and 35k pack back too which is great value. I'd say do it before 6pm if definitely going to do it. Always the chance you pack a headliner.

[Yevrah]

He would definitely improve my pack only team.....

[Gray Fox]

Another candidate for a winter upgrade as well.

Now they're really tempting me to sell CR7. He and Torres both look great(I really wish there was a loan Torres).

[thommo]

He does look insane, and at that price, would be worth it. But he really doesn't fit into my squad, and Griezmann is just too fun to take out, so I think I'll pass.

[Trancemeister]

If he was a winger I'd do it for sure. But I've got Stoichkov on top so pass.

[Gray Fox]

Okay the price has risen nearly 100k since I last posted. I'm guessing it then involves a fair few TOTW items.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Okay the price has risen nearly 100k since I last posted. I'm guessing it then involves a fair few TOTW items.

7 total.

500k according to Futbin but you can have his headliners for a little cheaper (although it has risen) and it can go higher.

[Yevrah]

This might be an unpopular opinion, but that card isn't worth doing for 500k.

[Danny]

500k is a bit high. I always find Rashford in game to be pretty overpowered for his stats though.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

This might be an unpopular opinion, but that card isn't worth doing for 500k.

You can pay a bit more and get his headliner.

One IF and it's the exact same as the POTM card. A second IF/special card and he's better.

[Gray Fox]

Prime Nedved is out. Requires an Icon and not a lot else to be fair. FUTBIN has it below 800k. He has 5* WF and great Stamina and workrates, so could be very good CAM. Not bad, but not quite an endgame card unfortunately.

They also remembered scream cards exist. There has been a stat shift and they have announced they will shift twice more. 15th March and 12th April. With the April update, 2 of the stats will set to 99 and then stay there for the rest of the game.

There's a pretty nice looking kit in the weekly objectives but not much else going on.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

My players are playing like shit today.

Their reactions are horseshit, they're making bullshit runs unless I'm tapping the button like mad, getting all bounces against me, losing the ball constantly etc etc.

1-2 but the second loss was a joke.

I'll end it there and hope Saturday is normal.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I knew it was going to be a shitter when one on one, Raul decides to take the heaviest of touches (as if I had hit the right stick to push it forward) just as he's about to enter the box which allows his keeper to casually scoop it up.

[Yevrah]

The bullshit runs I’d a feature of this game, they’re absolutely shocking.

[Gray Fox]

You mean the ones where your player points to signal he wants the pass, then stops running as you power it up? Maddening.

Anyone doing that Torres? Wouldn't mind knowing his worth before I think about it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

So I'm not the only one fucked by that.

They've also been running at defenders today rather than towards space so all my through balls are getting cut out.

[Danny]

FIFA is recognizing I dont play much.

https://i.imgur.com/Kl9qnde.png

Also pulled IF Alfreð Finnbogason

[Yevrah]

Forward runs are just awful, in every way.

There will be times when your players will just stop when it's clear they should be hammering on to exploit space in behind and other times when they Forrest Gump the fuck out of it (generally when your ball carrying player is in the final third) so that they're either ahead of the defender in front of them and marked out of the game as a result, or just flat out offside.

I'm sure if you're a better player than I am there are things you can do to slow play to mitigate this so you might not even notice (ball rolls, drag backs etc.) but if the attacking positioning stat means anything then you really shouldn't have to. For me, TOTY Mbappe (with his 99 attack positioning) moves no better than the absolute garbage in my pack only account - my best striker being Demba Ba for fuck's sake.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's especially annoying for me as I'm horrible at doing any sort of hold up play.

I want to attack at a fast pace but the shit forward runs really hamper my game. I've never been one for too much side passing or ball rolls and shit.

[Gray Fox]

As soon as you get just past the centre circle in your opponents half, unless it's a counter attack, take your finger off sprint. You can react much quicker and you can actually hold the ball up. Your players tend not to make those weird heavy touches either.

[Gray Fox]

Fridays edition of bullshit goals comes with this beauty:

https://xboxdvr.com/gamer/sniper-wolf-tp4/video/69030535

That cost my opponent the game and moves me to 5-0.

[Yevrah]

Streaming some pack only stuff.

https://mixer.com/SupplyArtist393

[Gray Fox]

200 games up for Raul now.

199 goals and 116 assists. He's mad.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, I found him surprisingly good.

How many players is one likely to get in a mega pack? Just battered 2 shit teams on legendary in Squad Battles to take me to the cusp of Elite 3, which is 1 Mega Pack, 2 Premium Gold Players Packs and 12,000 coins.

To finish there now would be very easy, but I could push for Elite 2, which would be 2 Mega Packs, 1 Premium Gold Players Pack and 15,000 coins, but thinking about it, for the purposes of a pack only account to get players in the club, Elite 3 might actually be better.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Pogba with two goals.

Give him an IF please EA.

His headliners on PS4 has gone up by about 300k.

[Gray Fox]

30 items, 26 gold, 18 rare. Doesn't say exactly how many players though.

[Gray Fox]

7-1 now. Stopping to watch Liverpool probably lose, but I'm finding the 4-2-3-1 a lot less reliable. It is probably a personnel issue, but I'm finding 4-1-2-1-2 works a bit better so far.

The loss was irritating. The guy was a very good defender but brought Zlatan on late in his RW spot. He managed to get matched up to Marcelo at the back post twice for the 2-1 loss.

Playing okay, but my left side definitely needs improvement. All of my better opponents are going down this side over and over.

[Danny]

After pulling Aguero last night I have no dea what to do with my team. Currently using this:

https://i.imgur.com/SwWVJlN.jpg

If I want to get IF Aguero in I would have to drop Ibra, but then I also want to try POTM or Headliner Rashford (I could do the former without selling Aguero but would 100% have to sell for the latter). To get Rashford into the team I would have to change to a formation without wingers. This means I need to find a central premier league player who can play out right for Mahrez.

Aguero feels like a waste at RCAM in the 4-2-3-1. Ibra feels like a waste if I dont use him.

Other options include:

Son
Arnautovic
Live Messi Lingard

I dont even play this damn game so not sure why I give a shit :lol:

[Yevrah]

Weekly Objectives take on a new level of usefulness in a pack only game, so for those this week:

Swap Deals Player - Score using Brazilian Players in 4 separate rivals wins - It's possible I might be able to do this one, as I have Oscar and Anderson Talisca in one of my two teams, but realistically it would probably take about 15 games, so not going to happen.

Swap Deals Player II - Win 8 online matches this week - I'd suggest no chance

Northern Lights - Win a match using a squad featuring a player from each Nordic country - I like the kit and it's easy to do, but I don't have an Icelandic players. I'm sat on 14k coins and I'm going to spam the shit out of bronze packs when my tradepile clears so I might pack one doing that, but there are only 14 in the database.

Hunter - Score using an Ultimate Scream player in 3 separate matches - I don't have any, so that's a no here.

Shadow - Score 5 goals from crosses in squad battles - Should get this by just playing, which is nice.

Silver - Win 5 Online Single Matches using silvers - My silvers are shit, so I've not much chance of doing this. However, the reward of a Prime Gold Players Pack for this one is awesome, so I may well try. One option is to recycle all my stored bronzes into silvers, but I don't really want to do that yet as they're a way into Marquee Matchup SBC's.

The Madrid Derby - Win 4 Squad Battles matches using a squad with specified requirements - Would like to do this, but don't have the players currently.

Bronze - Win 4 squad Battles matches using only Bronze players - Just done this. Was easier than I thought it'd be against 188 teams and the like on semi-pro and was quite fun too. Had a couple of Bundesliga 3 Germans from the same club up front and they tore it up.

Overall not a bad few to aim for, but no player reward is a shame.

[Gray Fox]

Danny do the loan version of Rashford? Might help you decide before you spend the capital on him. I'd personally rather have him than Aguero. Rashford is tall, strong enough and had good stamina. With Aguero you're getting better finishing and composure, but you're losing that pace in behind. I haven't used him myself so can't tell you if he's worth dropping Mahrez for. I still use Mahrez myself if that's any indication.

Yevrah you could get help from us on Swap Deals Player 2. I don't mind chucking you a few wins, but then that may defy the point of what you're doing.

[Yevrah]

Cheers Fox. It's tempting, but it's a slippery slope. I think I need to stay firm and try and play through without manipulation.

[Gray Fox]

Yeah I get it. Let me know if you change your mind.

Anyone know when Winter Upgrades will be due?

I'm also hoping for something big tonight, although I'm not sure what we're due. Shevchenko is gone in 20 mins so we may get another to replace him.

[The Merse]

Went 7-3 before heading off to the gig and then Dublin. Get home at 11ish tomorrow, off on Monday so will pull an all nighter to reach at Gold 3, preferably Gold 2. I’ve been tracking performance on a spreadsheet as I’m a total saddo, and there’s some odd inconsistency over the past 4 weekend leagues. I’ve gone from an even spread in the two weekends pre-patch, in terms of G&A but Cavani as the major threat amongst my front 4, to last weekend relying heavily on Suarez at CAM and koke at CM, to this weekend having no goals from Suarez and the midfield with Mbappe/Griezmann and Cavani all on a goal a game or so. But the biggest thing of note is Marcelo vs Lala. The former gets a couple of goals and assists a weekend, not much as normally my full backs are used to ‘assist the assister’, but it’s in stark contrast to Lala who no direct goal contributions at all. I think that’s indicative of their indirect contribution too, Marcelo just offers so much more, so I’d like to upgrade Lala to another true attacking weapon at some stage.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Pogba is now 400k above the price I paid for him.

Cheers for the suggestion the other day Danny.

[The Merse]

Yeah I get it. Let me know if you change your mind.

Anyone know when Winter Upgrades will be due?

I'm also hoping for something big tonight, although I'm not sure what we're due. Shevchenko is gone in 20 mins so we may get another to replace him.

It’s varied in recent years, but generally it’s around about now.

[The Merse]

Yeah I get it. Let me know if you change your mind.

Anyone know when Winter Upgrades will be due?

I'm also hoping for something big tonight, although I'm not sure what we're due. Shevchenko is gone in 20 mins so we may get another to replace him.

It’s varied in recent years, but generally it’s around about now.

[Danny]

Perfect timing @how

Should get upgraded too.

[Yevrah]

Had a cracking bronze pack session just now. Spent an hour opening them and ended up with more coins than I started with, two bronze upgrade SBC’s and now have over 500 players in the club.

On the cusp of Elite 2 for squad battles and I think I will play up to that now.

[Gray Fox]

As much as he is end game material, I think I'm coming to the conclusion of selling CR7.

I keep going back and forth between doing it and not.

[Yevrah]

I still can’t get over you packing him twice.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Wait what?

I thought he packed him once.

I packed him once as well.

[thommo]

Just had this crazy game in FUT Champions (myself on the right):

https://screenshotscontent-d3001.xboxlive.com/xuid-2533274894873584-private/eb05aa62-e4a9-4fbc-a015-b38021dd49c6.PNG?sv=2015-12-11&sr=b&si=DefaultAccess&sig=CzzD%2FtumlfLNB%2BUACC%2B2CyxVzNcFy3sZ%2BJZJAu Q4tZU%3D

Came back from 3-1 down thanks to two headed goals from corners, and my opponent's Courtois made 19 saves. I would have been so tilted if I had slipped up on penalties, but instead it was pure relief as I saved 3 of his 4.

[Gray Fox]

Nope @Mahow I've packed him twice. Once from a Mega pack in Gold 3 rewards, one in my pre-order pack about 2 weeks ago.

thommo holy hell, 49 shots in one game? I bet that was satisfying.

I've just got a bit miffed myself. I was 12-1 and went into my next game. My opponent was penned back and 3 times stopped me with a last ditch tackle. I finally broke through and caused the mistake that lead to a penalty. His Eder Militao got sent off. The bastard quit as the ball was hitting the back of the net. Because the game takes a second or so for the 1 to go onto the scoreboard it didn't count as a win.
Next match I went into was the most enjoyable one so far. Proper end to end stuff with great football by both me and my opponent. His keeper made a point blank save in the 89th minute to deny me. He then went up the other end and hit a pot shot from 30 yards that flew into the top corner. Can't complain about that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just lost my first game today

The guy was much better and he beat me 3-0 but I should have made it harder. I barely got on the ball but I had 2 really good chances (at 0-0 at 1-0) but I didn't look as he moved his keeper and put it right at him.

5-1 today which puts me at 6-3 thus far.

[Yevrah]

Bit of late night Bronze packing. Maybe some Squad Battles too though I'm afraid.

https://mixer.com/SupplyArtist393

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

8-3 and I'll bow out for the day.

Took me a little while to really click with Pogba and Rashford but it's starting to click now. Pogba is at 15 games, 4 goals and 5 assists (should be more if it wasn't for some poor finishing but what I like most about Pogba is the way he carries the ball) with Rashford at 15 games, 12 goals and 2 assists. Pretty good return considering it wasn't until his fifth game that he scored IIRC. I feel like I've shanked more shots than I would have with Crespo but I'm getting a hell of a lot more chances.

Not too keen on De Bruyne at CAM for some reason though. Aouar was so much better there and De Bruyne did more at CM.

[Gray Fox]

I'm tired of talking myself in and out of it so TTH decides.

Team 1:

https://i.gyazo.com/b77ad556775cc0f18a8001c251858d8a.png

Team 2:

https://i.gyazo.com/0776af4cd5ae64b2af482714945b3478.png

Team 3:

https://i.gyazo.com/afbf9f4acfd2aeb2f762cc054929f403.jpg


Which would you take?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

11-5 which is the same I stopped on the last two times I played.

[Yevrah]

Secured Elite 2 in SB and with that will come the Futswap card I need to get IF Batshuayi, who will make a huge difference. I packed Coquelin earlier from a Premium Gold pack, so will be able to get the Batman on 10 chem.

[Gray Fox]

After getting to 16 wins I've just conceded a 90th minute loser in 3 straight games. All 3 games saw me take the lead as well.

I seem to be losing the close ones this weekend. As such Ronaldo has sold. Sterling has missed a few good opportunities that I know someone like Neymar would have smashed in. I can upgrade the left side and it's not exactly like the striking options available are shit.

[Yevrah]

First walkout, Mane. :jayjay:

[Yevrah]

And Kondogbia, who is French according to his bio, but not his flag.

[Danny]

They finally updated half of him.

[Gray Fox]

He's going to feel like a massive upgrade on what you have. A quick search shows that Kondogbias UEL Live card remains French so all of the fears were for nothing.

I brought in Neymar, TOTY Marcelo and did Torres for the price of selling CR7. Pushed on to 20 wins and had 4 games left. I immediately lost to put the pressure on. Managed to win the next one but was well and truly super-keepered to a 1-0 loss. So 21 wins it is. Quite good considering I played 16 games in one sitting pretty much and was playing like ass at the start.

I put Marcelo in at CDM, moved Rijkaard to CB and moved Ramos out to LB. It's a lot of fun having him in the centre. He's a little terrier without the ball. With it, even better. He's a better passer than Ballack and has the dribbling ability to get himself out of trouble too. He's very good but I'm not sure he's 1m coins worth of good, if you want to play him LB.
I'm considering selling him back. It'll allow me to bring in FFS Mendy, Varane, Headliner Lala and Mbappe.

It'll lose me a little having Varane and not VVD, however I'd be giving my RB a big upgrade, arguably upgrading my RM too.

[Danny]

Does he remain French or remain French until his next update? Reddit seems to have no clue :lol:

[The Merse]

Does he remain French or remain French until his next update? Reddit seems to have no clue :lol:

Remains French - there's always been that precedent for special cards, and when OTW were first released it stated that nation wouldn't change, so I'd expect that of all live items. I certainly hope so anyway. Although, it'll only be an issue in my current team.

Finished 20-9 after a marathon tonight. Got home at 11.20 and was sitting on 7-4. Benefitted from a lot of rage quitters in getting it done, but my eyes have been on stilts in the last hour but managed 13-5 from the session, glad to have put the effort in. All but one defeat were games I felt I should have won too, but for serious cheese - rebounds/deflections/ludicrous super keepering (including a guy who ended up winning 4-2 in extra time after I went all out, and messaged me after to say sorry for the manner of the goals - his de Gea made 22 saves ffs) etc, so I feel like I'm back around my best Fifa at the moment.

Looking to move to this once the Gullit SBC is released, should be affordable by selling Ramos, Griezmann and 3IF Lala, as I have a heck of lot of high rated players and 5 icons in the club for the Gullit as well as 525k before rewards are even landing.
http://oi63.tinypic.com/2lvmheb.jpg

Might start saving packs for TOTS, as I'm pretty set on that line up and so won't have much need for coins for a while, until Gullit is released.

[Danny]

Remains French - there's always been that precedent for special cards, and when OTW were first released it stated that nation wouldn't change, so I'd expect that of all live items. I certainly hope so anyway. Although, it'll only be an issue in my current team.

Last years FAQ says it would change

https://www.easports.com/fifa/ultimate-team/news/2017/fut-18-ones-to-watch-faq



Q: What happens if a Ones To Watch Player changes nationality?

A: The Ones To Watch Player Item will be updated with the new nationality as soon as possible.

[Gray Fox]

I also had a wind down game after my last loss. Decided to try some things out, got another chance to score my favourite kind of goal. Nothing makes your opponent look an idiot more that that.

https://xboxdvr.com/gamer/sniper-wolf-tp4/video/69144887


I'm going to need to play a fair bit of Rivals this and next week. I'm on lates Friday and will have literally no time to play after that so will not be redeeming my WL entry. I'll probably take the coin reward to try and make up for it, but a nice pull in the 100k packs would certainly help things along.

I'm really hoping we get a better Icon at some point this/next week. I played against Gullit this weekend and he was a nightmare. Can't say I encountered POTM Rashford though.

[SincereTheRebel]

Ive been transfer market banned and I think I knoethe reason why. Malcom MOTM came out on Friday night and I went and bought tons of his OTW card at max BIN at the time (75k which im now losing coins on). 24 hours later im banned. Ive contacted EA helpdesk, and EA twitter, and not even responce.

RIP.

[The Merse]

Last years FAQ says it would change

https://www.easports.com/fifa/ultimate-team/news/2017/fut-18-ones-to-watch-faq

Hmmm. Fair. Now I’m worried.

[Danny]

I think they would have done it by now though. Just seems weird

[The Merse]

It’d be shite to do it. The potential to ruin the value of the owners cards in one fell swoop is too great a price for the sake of it.

[SincereTheRebel]

Ive been transfer market banned and I think I knoethe reason why. Malcom MOTM came out on Friday night and I went and bought tons of his OTW card at max BIN at the time (75k which im now losing coins on). 24 hours later im banned. Ive contacted EA helpdesk, and EA twitter, and not even responce.

RIP.

EA came back to me with an automatted respoonce confirming im still banned becuase I

*Engage in coin distrubution
*Buy coins
*Sell coins

Im putting this down to buying the OTW Malcom card at midnight on Friday, and then being banned on Saturday morning. The Agent up to his old tricks again.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:harold:

Don't do illegal things.

[SincereTheRebel]

I didnt. Well I dont think I did. If that is the reason why I was banned in the first place. Im guessing at this point but the timeline adds up. Buying a card for its maximum BIN hoping it gets increased which it did. Im guilty as charged lad.

[Yevrah]

If the max BIN was above the current going market rate, and you bought a lot of them at that max BIN, that's why you've been banned, yes.

Their algorithm will have assumed you were shifting coins from one account to another.

[thommo]

Managed to get to 11-8 last night so another Silver 1 finish and re-entry for next weekend. One day I'll get the 30 games in and push for a better rank. I'm a little disappointed as I started 5-1 and could have done better, but a combination of some poor decisions from me and some good opponents meant I went on a little losing streak.

Griezmann once again was the king - 19 games (3 of them where the opponent quit before the 35th minute), 20 goals, 10 assists. If I have the coins I might upgrade to an IF Griezmann.

[Trancemeister]

That Cech sbc looks easy to do for a 91 rated card. Not sure he's better than De Gea though.

[Danny]

Assuming Futbin is right Howard is 20k cheaper than the cheapest 89 and Cech is the second cheapest 91, then plus packs

[Yevrah]

I possibly have enough in my club to do that Howard. I won’t because it would be nuts, but given I’ve only been on this account for two weeks if gives you an idea of what’s possible with pack only.

[The Merse]

If the max BIN was above the current going market rate, and you bought a lot of them at that max BIN, that's why you've been banned, yes.

Their algorithm will have assumed you were shifting coins from one account to another.

In effect, it's not illegal things, just damn daft things only a bot should be doing...

[The Merse]

I'll do Howard and Cech due to the overall cost being the same as for a pair of 89 & 91's, and I can use Cech in the B Team as an upgrade on Ederson. Shame he'll never fit in the A team as he looks great.

[Yevrah]

In effect, it's not illegal things, just damn daft things only a bot should be doing...

I did wonder why he'd be paying over the market rate, but hey ho.

[Yevrah]

This is the pack only team now, chem styles (all basic but going to apply some that I have tonight) and positions correct.

https://i.postimg.cc/x8J39cQV/Untitled.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Allan, Rami, Deulofeu and Tierney on the bench, with the latter coming on as sub for the cheeky scouser.

In terms of the club, I've opened so many 400 coin bronze packs that I've been able to do 3 of the Icon Humble beginning SBC's and now have the following in terms of players:

2 Special
123 Gold
98 Silver
957 Bronze
1,180 Total

Have 35k of coins on hand. After packing Sterling most of the Gold Premium Packs I've opened have been wank (as you'd expect), so might turn my attention to silver packs for the time being and see how that flies. I'll need to do them at some point if I want to start completing league SBC's. Have 7 players for one of the Chinese teams, but that's the closest so far.

[The Merse]

Did Cech and Howard for 65k total using about 70% players in the club, of which about half were already unradeable SBC fodder. Packed an In Form, a Pizzi (83 going for 5.5k right now), along with 5k of discard duplicates and some useful consumables so I'm happy with that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

1095049866282061824

Ultra prime icons?

[Yevrah]

EA's share price woes are really hitting them hard.

"So cunts, we need to fleece some more money out of muppet user base, what's the plan?"

"Well Sir Bastard, next up is Lunar New Year"

"I like it, what's the approach? Boost all the household names phoning a living in in China and stick them in packs?"

"Er no, we normally do a 2 for 1 pack promo"

"YOU FUCKING WHAT?"

"Well, we normally give a bit back to the people who're still playing this version with us"

"Well that's not fucking happening, we need to SELL more packs not give them away you moron. What about Icons, let's stick them on an SBC timer so that people feel compelled to buy packs for fear of missing out"

"Er, we've tried that already the last time you flip...suggested we do something more profitable"

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

fuuuuuuuuu.

Just played a single player game to get that Northern Lights kit but I forgot to put a Finnish player in.

Was trying to master the croquetas move but it only seems to come off about 4-5/10 I attempt to do it. A lot of times I do a little flick which actually could be quite useful but I don't know how to do that reliably either.

Edit: Okay I've got them both. Youtubers said it doesn't matter where you're facing when doing the Croquetas but it does.

[Yevrah]

That reminds me, I packed an Icelandic bronze and got that kit last night. I quite like it.

Two back to back wins in Rivals secures me two more untradeable mega packs for Thursday. Played a right couple of twats with super teams who didn't like being beaten by my cobbled together shite and pissed around pausing and time wasting as a result.

Still, that's 12.5% of the way to the weekend league with my heroes.

[bruhnaldo]

Ahhhh nothing like blowing your wallet out to get Prime George Best because reasons for them to say hey you know what mate how about we just make him a LITTLE better.

[Yevrah]

Is it possible to score a header in this without doing the stupid cross, playing 4-2-3-1 or having Ibra in the team?

I've got a Gladiator on IF Bats and he's scoring, but I can't get him anywhere near a cross.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You need the cheap cross.

[bruhnaldo]

What cross is this? I literally never score crosses.

[Gray Fox]

LB + X or L1 + Square. It's the only cross I seem to score with that isn't the El Tornado one. People who play me have success whipping one in, however.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

R1+L1 headers are also the most effective.

Fuck whatever that is for the Xbox.

[Yevrah]

Tried LB crosses and find them absolutely useless too.

I was scoring headers for fun a couple of moths ago as well.

[Gray Fox]

I can't say I've ever had much success crossing to be fair, corners non-withstanding. I'll maybe score 5 from crosses in a 30 game WL run.

I've just caught up on this new Icon Moment bollocks. I'm taking that as a slap in the face for every one they release that I've done the SBC of. Hearing those who are in a position where they aren't allowed to be critical of EA trying to justify this is quite annoying. This is nothing else but a pure money grab. Anyone who has done one of these Icons SBCs should get the upgrade on that card too. Whether for free, or a small fee and trading the old card in.


Cech looks a very good goalkeeper, but his nationality and club makes him hard to fit into something that isn't a pure EPL team. Howard is a nice touch and cheap, but again is hard to link.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Great for SBC's though.

Oh and I was opening bronze packs earlier for the Icon SBCs (I need to complete Nakata) and I pulled Nketiah who sold for 4.4k :drool:

[Gray Fox]

For the Bronze squads in Icons, the Chinese league is very easy to link up and cheap.

For the Silvers, use the Norwegian league.

[Rich407]

I’m trying to plan an upgrade to my team and can’t decide what to do. What would you guys recommend?

Get Headliner Rashford and eventually Foden, with the way Rashford is playing I guess he could be an end game 90+ card:

https://i.imgur.com/wT8mGPD.png

Get some of the better NIF cards, would be playing a 4222 with one of Neymar or Mbappe alongside Ibra.

https://i.imgur.com/jhKN7Op.png

Or finally do the Owen Prime SBC which would put all my players on 10 chem and get me some packs too.

https://i.imgur.com/52c6Bnp.png

What would you do?

[Yevrah]

Great for SBC's though.

Oh and I was opening bronze packs earlier for the Icon SBCs (I need to complete Nakata) and I pulled Nketiah who sold for 4.4k :drool:

Bronze packs are impossible not to make coin from at the moment, particularly with all of the Icon SBC's you can get silvers from. I've packed 2 La Liga players doing that who've sold for 10k+ each.

[Danny]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/aprtaj/good_news/

[Yevrah]

I'm one Spurs or Dortmund player away from being able to do those UEFA MM's.

Gutting.

[Yevrah]

So, my options are.

Spunk 58k of coins on packs in an effort to get my man
Do the Man Utd one and pray
Recycle over 1,000 bronzes into silver packs (should get me about 200 silver players) and then recycle some into gold players.

Decisions, decisions.

[Gray Fox]

1095404699468029952

I do hope ratings refresh is included in this. I have a fair few players in the club that could make it in/out of my team based on them.

[thommo]

Winter OTWs make no sense to me. I know it is a promo they have done since introducing OTW players but there were no real major transfers this winter, and does anything really believe that these players are going to be receiving informs to make them worth using?

Prime Icon Moments is a load of bollocks too (in my opinion), so the only really interesting thing from this is a ratings refresh, which hasn't even been confirmed yet.

[five time]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/aprtaj/good_news/

'Later in FUT19' isn't too promising given they haven't even released close to all of the current icons in the game. I imagine you'll need to submit team(s) on top of your current icon when it comes out also.

Existing icons are already out of reach for most people that don't spend coins/play the game excessively, this does feel like an unimaginative promo just for the 'whales' that are dropping hundreds or thousands on the game.

[Yevrah]

It's an awful, awful idea, but it now makes sense why none of the icons were ever 99 rated.

[Gray Fox]

I've been thinking about it and I'm thinking this could a response to what we saw earlier in the year. By that I mean people being "too prepared" for Icons dropping. I still believe that's why we haven't seen any of the most desirable ones yet as well. By this point last FIFA we had all Icon SBCs available and they weren't time limited.

We'll get them soon, but I bet there about double the cost they were going to be. It wouldn't even surprise me if they dropped the Icon trade-in requirement and replaced them with something more expensive to stop us prepping that way.

I'll judge them based on the trade in they're going to offer on those upgraded that have already had Prime SBCs. If you're having to pay 100k and trade your card in, I suppose that's fair enough, but putting it into a whole new set and needing 1m+ to get it would be a scumbag move.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Pogba in the totw :drool:

That will mean his headliner goes to 91.

[The Merse]

Cavani has risen about 100k :drool:

Anyone have an idea how quickly they upgrade?

[Danny]

RIP Kondogbia

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/aq88fg/rip_ea_confirms_kondogbia_uel_card_will_change/

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

ffs.

He won't work in my team anymore.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.futbin.com/19/player/17732/Arthur/?chem=engine&pchem=10&schem=100

I think I'll go with Arthur to replace him.

[The Merse]

Still works for me if I can convert Griezmann back to Striker, Cavani to CM and shuffle even more players around at KO than before. Ball ache, but no major issue and works in the eventual team I want still too.

[Danny]

Sterling out as an 88 LW. 8 IF needed. No special Sterling needed. Glad I only bought 1...


So back when the POTM came out I bought a Sterling for 180. He wasn’t needed and tanked like 90k. This upgrade means I could sell him for a profit :lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

1095744454734954496

Finally.

[Danny]

Is that a 3 jump for Reus? Jesus

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I think I'm going to skip Arthur, I've just realised I can start like this:

https://www.futbin.com/19/squad/1469664

I thought I wasn't able to bring in Aouar on full chem but I can with a different starting formation.

[Danny]

Can you not do that same formation, swap Raul into the Aouar slot and leave Kondogbia out left AM?

Surrounded by two icons and a shared league.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I could have it appears but I've already sold him and Aouar is fucking mega.

I loved it when I had De Bruyne at CM (he works better for me there than CAM for some reason) with Aouar at CAM.

Now that I've seen Aouar can come in again I'm more than happy that they ruined Kondogbia.

[Gray Fox]

Good to see the ratings refresh hitting.

Anyone who did the latest POTM Reus could well see their 91 rated turn into a 94 rated. Sterling confirmed up to an 87 gets things off to a great start for me, my POTM could well get itself up to a 90 rating. It matches what was said on SoFIFA.

SoFIFA also has Van Dijk moving to 88 rated, Alisson at 87 and Aubameyang up to 88 to name a few.

This means I'm saving my 100k packs for Friday. I'll just open my reds tomorrow.

[Danny]

:D

I wasnt sure if you had already ditched him.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It took me ages to shift him as the price would keep lowering by 10k whenever I put him up.

Sold him in the end for 430k and instantly his price starting fucking rising. He's back to 480k now.

[The Merse]

Ffs :D done that a few times.

[The Merse]

Took Laporte (86) and Pizzi (85) from the pick packs for the ratings alone. Also took the tradeable packs from my DR rewards with the promo there. Will add the MM packs tonight, and have 15 odd packs saved for an opening tomorrow evening.

[Yevrah]

Got Adan and Moreno from my DR rewards.

Was going to hold fire until the promos but the lure of packing a Dortmund or Spurs players was too great to resist. I didn't pack one.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dante as my red, ugh.

[Gray Fox]

Bellerabi 85 and someone whose name I cant remember as an 81 for me. Haven't yet touched my rivals rewards or opened any other packs.

[five time]

Is anyone still bothering with Futswap? If have thought the player quality would be ramping up, but that much effort for a 86 rated card doesn't seem to be worth it.

[Mike]

Picked up FIFA19 for £20 so hi boys!

[Danny]

Is anyone still bothering with Futswap? If have thought the player quality would be ramping up, but that much effort for a 86 rated card doesn't seem to be worth it.

I do the easy SBCs and challenges but that’s it’s. I don’t do the challenges that require me to change my team or slog a mode.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is anyone still bothering with Futswap? If have thought the player quality would be ramping up, but that much effort for a 86 rated card doesn't seem to be worth it.

I just go for the rare mega pack and then get the silvers with whatever I have left.

[Rich407]

What the hell, why do EA have to give Rashford 5 star skills tonight. Finally reached being able to afford him after days of trading and he goes up in price because EA decide to update this today!

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Rashford HL up 150k from when I bought him.

[Gray Fox]

That'll probably sway me into the Rashford POTM. It'll help if he gets a refresh tomorrow as well.

[The Merse]

105 Rare Gold players coming tomorrow. Even just a rating refreshed player would satisfy me.

[Raoul Duke]

:D

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/aqnl97/martin_tyler_fifa_rap_ft_alan_smith/

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I completely fucked the finish up (I think I was a little surprised it came off) but I really need to try and use this in WL:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zek10DHMs5s

[Gray Fox]

I'm assuming that'd the headliner version you have there? In which case how would you compare him to say, Raul?

The 5* upgrade has pushed his headliner to 640k on xbox, whilst his POTM can currently be done for 480k and you get some packs back. I'm almost certainly going to sell Marcelo back and then bring in him and Mendy/Varane etc.

I have a sneaking feeling that they're going to release the refreshed players in stages, rather than all at once. I do hope I'm wrong though.

[Shindig]

So ... there's a bundle on PSN with the last three games for £35. It's ... potentially good value, I guess.

[SincereTheRebel]

EA are adament ive been involved in coin distrubtion and i am a fraud. They are refusing to unban me. I will continue to fight my case though and email and call them daily.

[Yevrah]

What, exactly did you do that you think you've been banned for?

[SincereTheRebel]

Saturday 9th February
@ 12:00am - Malcom 85 gets a new MOTM card
@ 12:01am - I buy 20+ OTW Malcom 83 at max BIN 75k becuase he will get upgraded and i think he will be worth more than the 75k
@ 12:15am - Malcom OTW 83 is extinct
@ 05:00am - Malcom OTW 83 card is upgraded to Malcom OTW 85 with increased price range
@ 05:20am - Malcom OTW 85 card is at 60k (so im making a large loss on the all the cards I bought)
@ 06:30am - EA claim Im involved in coin distrubition (selling) and ban me for life

[Danny]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1T3vP-2NRCa2NV7Ka2miEOhzkLrA1O2vjsBqp4NWuSHQ/htmlview?sle=true#gid=0

[Gray Fox]

The Alisson OTW went up to 88 rated last night, but I'm not sure if he still is as I'm not at my console.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm assuming that'd the headliner version you have there? In which case how would you compare him to say, Raul?

The 5* upgrade has pushed his headliner to 640k on xbox, whilst his POTM can currently be done for 480k and you get some packs back. I'm almost certainly going to sell Marcelo back and then bring in him and Mendy/Varane etc.

I have a sneaking feeling that they're going to release the refreshed players in stages, rather than all at once. I do hope I'm wrong though.

I like him a lot, it took me a few games to really get to grips with him as he's different from Crespo. The one thing that I miss over Crespo is the jumping but he's got a rocket shot, the skills are there and he's got a great turn of pace.

Nep compared him very favourably to Ronaldo (in that he has some amazing animations) when he tried him in draft.

[The Merse]

Ffs. Forgot to redeem entrance to weekend league last night. Weekend off for me then...

[SincereTheRebel]

Ffs. Forgot to redeem entrance to weekend league last night. Weekend off for me then...

I read the new patch which came out on console earlier in the week. You should be able to redeem even after it has started...

[Danny]

Some nice upgrades. My Richarlison OTW investments looking decent. Ziyech going up to 88 is a nice boost too!

[thommo]

Do Red IFs upgrade as well?

I sold OTW Alisson for 93k about 3-4 weeks back, didn't really anticipate him potentially getting a big upgrade.

[The Merse]

I read the new patch which came out on console earlier in the week. You should be able to redeem even after it has started...

Nope, just did it - it's redeemed me for next weekend, not this.

[The Merse]

Do Red IFs upgrade as well?

I sold OTW Alisson for 93k about 3-4 weeks back, didn't really anticipate him potentially getting a big upgrade.

Normally

But the OTW's and IF's that have gone up in game alreayd haven't had their reds boosted yet. Hopefully just a matter of time as I have Robertson, Alison and Anderson IF's.

[SincereTheRebel]

What, exactly did you do that you think you've been banned for?


Saturday 9th February
@ 12:00am - Malcom 85 gets a new MOTM card
@ 12:01am - I buy 20+ OTW Malcom 83 at max BIN 75k becuase he will get upgraded and i think he will be worth more than the 75k
@ 12:15am - Malcom OTW 83 is extinct
@ 05:00am - Malcom OTW 83 card is upgraded to Malcom OTW 85 with increased price range
@ 05:20am - Malcom OTW 85 card is at 60k (so im making a large loss on the all the cards I bought)
@ 06:30am - EA claim Im involved in coin distrubition (selling) and ban me for life

Ive called this three times this week. Ive just got off the phone with them again. The EA helpdesk have zero concept on how FIFA works. I feel the should to be fair. Same old "Escalete it to the high powers and fuck all will happen"

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://i.redd.it/u09p9todlpg21.jpg

Baby Icon SBC finally in coming.

[Yevrah]

I could do some serious bronze pack grinding on my pack only account with those this weekend.

[Yevrah]

Did they expiring European SBC to get a Prime Gold pack, which I'll save and I think I'm 1 player short (another sodding German) from being able to do all of Marquee Matchups.

Now up to nearly 1,500 bronze players in the cloob.

[Yevrah]

A Ones to Watch Weekly Objective. :drool:

Need 7 wins with TOTW players scoring. IF Bats is going to have to come up big here.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Baby Icon SBC needs an 84 an 85 and an 86, all require 1 IF.

[Yevrah]

The 81-86 upgrade only needs 4 gold players. Bronzes are about to go through the roof and I'll be able to do loads of them. :drool:

Not convinced on the value of the league upgrades, particularly the double packs.

[Yevrah]

Baby Icon SBC needs an 84 an 85 and an 86, all require 1 IF.

Futbin has it coming in at 500k+. Wasn't it about 2-300 last year? Were there no IFs needed?

So many questions.

[Yevrah]

It was this:

https://www.futhead.com/18/squad-building-challenges/sets/960/base-icon-upgrade/

Much lower requirements.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Coming in early on Futbin as 402k.

Vieri is cheaper and it's not like the packs are good.

[Yevrah]

What I would say I guess is it's easier than ever to get players on this version. If I'd been doing a pack only since the start, for example, I'd probably be able to do 2 or 3 of them by now if I'd been frugal with other SBC's.

The most appealing thing though is that it's possible (if IFs are in the 81-86 pack) to grind one from Bronze Packs without having to use the 2 Player Gold Upgrade packs, which cuts loads of the shit out.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I just did the 81-86 (using absolute shit) and only got an 81.

I imagine the odds of pulling an 86 are pretty damn low.

[Yevrah]

On the IF bit of that, I've just seen Nick pack a normal 84 Laporte from an 81-86 pack.

[Danny]

I have a theory they will "reload" the players after Christmas with better players.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/aqzcyg/new_players_available_from_existing_league_sbcs/

Very underwhelming but I called it.

[Yevrah]

The upgrades on these fuckers.

https://www.futbin.com/19/player/19403/Alan%20Shearer/

:drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Packed two OTWs so far.

Unfortunately they were Munir and Piatek.

Although Piatek has a good chance at some IF's tbh.

[five time]

Bought an Ultimate pack with coins. That probably deserves a facepalm on its own, but best player was 81 Shaqiri. The pack apparently has a 99% chance at 82+. :D

Also, EA have confirmed there will be no more individual Icon SBCs.

[Yevrah]

Also, EA have confirmed there will be no more individual Icon SBCs.

Did they say what they were doing instead?

They've totally fisted icons this year. Such a poor effort.

[The Merse]

What the fuck am I supposed to do with these shit Icons I’ve done now?!

[The Merse]

Ahh- according to reddit & zaro, there’ll be Moments SBCs covering those who’ve not had one.

86 Torreira looks marvellous. As do my Robertson and Anderson’s. If the new icon SBCs are real and I go ahead with using my I tradeable B team to do them, then at least I’ve got a lot more value sat there now.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I need a CF > CAM card but they're bought out in about a second.

It's almost impossible to get one.

Edit: Just refreshed and the one I bid on was listed an an hour and my bid went in at 59m 59s. I still fucking didn't win it :moop:

[Danny]

FUTMAS Rashford up to 86 :drool:

[Yevrah]

95 bronzes per one of those 81-86 upgrades. If I was off all week an icon could definitely be grinded.

[Yevrah]

For free that is.

[The Merse]

Trezeguet from the Icon SBC, which is a bit naff but most of the submitted players were untradeable so I’m happy enough.

But Best 90 from my packs :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Deco as my Moments Icon loan. Ugh.

[The Merse]

Also FUTmas Torreira is a fucking animal of TOTS Kante proportions. Much more effective than Keane in breaking up play and just a constant menace. The B team is looking very nice with Robertson and Anderson upgrades. The former is noticeably more solid, and the latter, even with just a +1 seems better.

[Danny]

My upgrades. Couple of very nice ones.

IF Sterling 86 > 88
OTW Richarlison 81 > 84
POTM VVD 89 > 89
FUTMAS Torreira 82 > 86
FUTMAS Rashford 84 > 86

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just played my first WL game of the day and I bossed it 5-0.

Usually Friday is shit so I'm stunned at how easy this game was, we played like a Saturday.

2 for Rashford, 2 for Raul and 1 for Aouar with Aouar getting 3 assists, De Bruyne 1 and Rashford 1.

I think it's my biggest win on a Friday and easily the best performance I've put in on a Friday.

Now to lose 3 in a row and quit in a haze of seethe.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loft4UwDU1w

I've missed the Frenchman.

Rage quit after 20 minutes after going 2 up.

Edit: And there's the first loss. It was a strange game where we largely cancelled each other out and neither made any clear cut chances. He scored a pretty flukey rebound goal early (he sent a cross in which one of his players met, it hit the post and VDS before rolling to VVD who just touched to control it but he had an attacker right next to him) and that was it.

Other than the goal the highlights listed a yellow card for VVD, a successful skill move for Rashford and an unsuccessful skill move from Rashford.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Managed to use that flick, twice actually:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRECLWkbIMM

Also my first ever kick off goal.

[Gray Fox]

Some very tasty upgrades waiting for me.

POTM Aubameyang 89 > 90(+3 dribbling!)
POTM Sterling 88 > 90
POTM Van Dijk 89 > 92(holy hell)
Red Robertson 84 > 86
Red Rashford 84 > 86
FUTMAS Torreira 82 > 86


Very productive for me. The saved packs brought me a couple of SMS, an 85 Lacazette untradeable, then a crazy pack that saw me get 2 IFs, OTW Babel, Telles and one of the mentioned SMS.

POTM Rashford has gone up in price it seems, but his 88 looks significantly better than my 86 red card now.

[igor_balis]

LADS LADS LADS

I'm playing a FIFA tournament tomorrow with 4 other mates, we had to draft our sides. Anyone got some lineup suggestions with the blokes I assembled?

Oblak
Courtois
Felipe Luiz
Alex Sandro
Walker
Bellerin
Chiellini
Varane
Benatia
Jerome Boateng
Kondogbia
Matuidi
Fernandinho
Saul
Pogba
C Eriksen
Insigne
Aubaumyang
O Dembele
Dybala
C Ronaldo
Ben-Yedder

Offline so obviously chem isn't an issue. Open to any formations really.

Have a rough idea in my head. thanks gang x

Yevrah
Sir Andy Mahowry
Gray Fox
Danny
The Merse

[Gray Fox]

@Igor

4-2-3-1 narrow

Courtois

Walker Varane Chiellini Alex sandro

Pogba Matuidi

Dembele Eriksen Dybala

Ronaldo

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You could argue Kondogbia over Matuidi but he's nailed it tbh.

[Danny]

Fox has it.

Maybe swapping Dybala and Dembele to get the former coming in on his good foot. The latter has 5* so can go either way.

I would set Matuidi to stay back and central. Have Pogba default. I use him like that with Keane next to him.

[igor_balis]

Ha, that's almost identical to the side I had pencilled in, except i had auba up front, then ronaldo eriksen and dybala as the 3. yours is probably better though.

my biggest fuck up was panicking really early and picking insigne with my like 3rd fucking pick. saw his high overall and genuinely forgot he's about 4'10'' with like 50 finishing. could have had hazard instead as well lol.

[The Merse]

If Chem isn't an issue I'd go 433(4) :


Courtois

Alex Sandro
Walker
Varane
Benatia

Matuidi (stay back)
C Eriksen (get forward)

Ben Yedder

Aubaumyang (wing)
O Dembele
C Ronaldo

[Gray Fox]

Maybe so but there isn't anyone nearly as clinical as CR7 on this game, even if they've removed him from all the branding.

You could have a 4-1-2-1-2 as back up.

Have the same back line with Matuidi/Fernandinho holding, then Pogba/Eriksen as the CMs with Dybala the CAM. CR7 and Auba up top.

[The Merse]

Always find Dybala just a bit shit in Fifa.

[thommo]

I've started out 3-1 this weekend, only loss was avoidable too so hopefully I can push on to Gold 3 and maybe beyond. This is all while having 3 penalties saved in 2 games, both of which I thankfully won.

Griezmann has 8 in 4 already :drool: (and it would be 11 if not for my poor penalties).