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[The Merse]

Sancho for me. Which is nice.

[The Merse]

Duplicate Cazorla (third time?) in the 94+. Such a shit EA thing to tilt the scales to land you with duplicates so frequently. Absolute shysters :D

In fairness, they are handing tots like confetti.

Bonkers this year.

[Raoul Duke]

A few versions ago they just gave you the cards - now you have to dick about with SBCs and admin rather than just playing the game

[Yevrah]

Sane done in the nick of time. Jesus that was tedious and it didn't even take that long.

[Danny]

97 Kane objectives (easy) and 94 Meunier SBC (81 rated)

[Danny]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbwd85q-8A

[SincereTheRebel]

Hopefully, they get rid of that stupid mechanic where if your opponent is keeping possession, your player's go full-on team press. I understand why they do that, but fucking with my team's playstyle isnt the solution. The AI should take over your opponents player and just kick the ball out of play.

Its foolish

[Raoul Duke]

Kane looks good. Luckily I kept hold of my 83 Rashford who should be able to take care of this

[Danny]

Did an Icon moments to get rid of that Sommer and ended up with Kluivert. Obviously hopeful when I saw Dutch but when I saw ST I really wanted Ruud.

[Trancemeister]

Salah from the 90+ pick sbc. And it's repeatable.

[Danny]

I am going to wait until rewards tomorrow to do it. I am away from the PS until Monday night so wont even make a dent in Kane until then.

[Raoul Duke]

I did a 90+ pick and had Kovacic, Hummels and Zaha. Went with Hummels as my BuLi team needed CBs.

I tend to find tha Player Picks are usually pretty decent so will try and get a few more done.

[Yevrah]

I got Thiago, Greenwood and Brandt.

Dogshit.

[Yevrah]

And only PIM pack done to date, Deco. :nono:

[Yevrah]

Coins > 81+ Double Upgrade Packs > 5x 82+ Upgrade packs.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Yevrah]

Ben Yedder from an 81+

[Raoul Duke]

I did a 90+ pick and had Kovacic, Hummels and Zaha. Went with Hummels as my BuLi team needed CBs.

I tend to find tha Player Picks are usually pretty decent so will try and get a few more done.

Did another as I got Biscuits from a random objective pack and managed to turn him into Jonathon David :moop: Rolled again and had a choice between some shitter, 95 Der Stegen and 95 Vardy. Took the latter as he should be handy for the Kane objectives and his 87 was a club legend before being sacrificed at the altar of SBCs

[Yevrah]

Ben Yedder from an 81+

He's absolutely ridiculous.

[Raoul Duke]

He's absolutely ridiculous.

I think he's gotta be peak for this version of the game. His 83 was lethal enough.

[Yevrah]

Results of today's uber-grind.

Spent about 500k on rare golds to get the following:

https://i.postimg.cc/6pKtHB2r/FIFA.jpg (https://postimg.cc/3dtsN5ZN)

Obviously Ben Yedder makes it, but there are a couple of other decent players in there as well as a few I'd have bought anyway.

Down to my last 600k of coins now, which I'll probably sit on to make sure I have enough to see out the last few SBC's and have something in the bank in case they make SBC's even better after Friday (which with another few weeks of this season left had better not be it for special players in packs).

[Danny]

89 Chiellini and Birthday Gaitan from SBs. Should help with some of the SBCs over the next week. Doubt I’ll touch Arthur. Current midfield in Serie A is Eriksen, Kessie and Seasons Matuidi.

[Trancemeister]

Double 92+ repeatable sbc. I've got nothing left that I'm comfortable with departing with. Could sell Eusebio and whore this out and see what I get.

[Raoul Duke]

I got Arthur and Douglas Costa as the hyperlinks are interesting. Played a guy earlier who had Costa up front which is an intriguing idea

[Danny]

Very. With his massive 78 finishing (before chem)

[Raoul Duke]

Stick a Deadeye on him and he's fine

[Danny]

Did the double 92 using a duplicate Depay and pulled Depay and Ignacio Fernández (https://www.futbin.com/20/player/48431/ignacio-fern%C3%A1ndez) who looks nuts.

[Yevrah]

Did it twice.

Rubbish and duplicate the first time and CM Henderson and someone else half decent the second.

I've got so many TOTS now that it's probably not worth doing again. Maybe the 90+ PP.

[Yevrah]

Here's a question. What's better?

Birthday Bale and the Icon/PIM pack or circa 110k of coins (for selling the Birthday Bale) and 95 Bale.

[Yevrah]

Got to do Kane tonight and I'm already dreading it.

[Danny]

I would be going for 95 bale but I think it depends on the position you need?

Just finished Kane while on a call and moved upto Division 3 for, I think, the first time this year.

[Yevrah]

95 has better stats, but then the FB one has a 5 star weak foot.

[Danny]

4 vs 5 Rather than his normal 3* WF.

I would take the extra stats over that 1*. If he had the 3* I think I would say birthday.

[Raoul Duke]

Most of the Kane objectives are fine but the "score X type of retarded goal" are a massive pain

[Danny]

Handanovic into the 94+ and I get Carvahal back out of it.

[Yevrah]

Most of the Kane objectives are fine but the "score X type of retarded goal" are a massive pain

Yeah, I'd agree they're not too bad, I just hate the fact that I have to do it by a time that someone else says I have to. I don't ever want to play a game like that again. It's utterly unnecessary.

[Danny]

Got TOTS Thiago and TOTS Gulasci from my rewards this morning. Pumped them into the 94+ upgrades as I have 96 Thiago and TOTS Sommer

Gulasci turned into TOTS Havertz (happy with that but struggles to get my team with UCL Goretzka, SH Delaney and Thiago)
Thiago turned into TOTS Carvahal (duplicate)
Carvahal turned into Depay (duplicate)

Turned off the PS4 in frustration :lol:

[Raoul Duke]

Powered through the Kane objectives this evening, which wasn't actually that bad in the end. Had a few enjoyable games and got to help some guy out in my last game once I got a goal with Rashford. His Rooney scoring 10 over ninety minutes :D

Did the 94+ and got Ziyech. Looks great and goes well with my Donny VD Beek but I don't think I'll ever really play either of them, which is ludicrous when you think of the cards.

The power curve now means you'll always be up against god squads, but imagine packing Mbappe or CR7 early on in the game. You'd absolutely monster most teams full of common gold shitmunchers.

[Yevrah]

Doing Kane now. I hate this game.

Tackles bouncing straight back to the opposition, lag and every fucker with 10 men behind the ball.

[Yevrah]

7 games in and only two wins so far, with two 2 goal leads spunked. :moop:

[SincereTheRebel]

Doing Kane now. I hate this game.

Tackles bouncing straight back to the opposition, lag and every fucker with 10 men behind the ball.

They really have to address that in FIFA 21. Having 10 men behind the ball is shocking to play against.

Early signs don't look good though. The FIFA 21 previews so far, the depth still has 10 bars of customization and you can still put come back on defence on all midfield players and strikers.

[Yevrah]

I'll try not to be too intolerable while you're all playing it, but it's going to be a bit shit. We all know that already.

[Raoul Duke]

It's going to be basically the same - but Career Mode looks interesting enough that I'll definitely give that a bash.

[Danny]

Rinsed a few more.

Another Sommer, who I then turned into Salvio (again but not a dupe). Also did the pre season challenge and got TOTS 94 SMS. Not use for him so he will probably end up going soon too.

[Yevrah]

I've been enjoying the 82+ upgrade pack.

Half decent pack and you can go again by just buying a few 79s.

So many duplicates now though as I'm basically card collecting.

[Yevrah]

Kane done. As much fun as drowning I'd imagine.

[SincereTheRebel]

I've been enjoying the 82+ upgrade pack.

Half decent pack and you can go again by just buying a few 79s.

So many duplicates now though as I'm basically card collecting.

It would be good if we had some type of panini FIFA card collecting in-game where it tells you what cards you have owned since FIFA start.

[Raoul Duke]

97 Buffon SBC (83 squad, 50 chem) and 95 Werner Objective - pretty similar to Kane in terms of requirements, maybe a bit easier and will take a few more games as you need goals from Premier league and German forwards. Might be able to build a funky hybrid :sherlock:

[SincereTheRebel]

Unless something drastic changes, this will be my team for the future. I have no desire to get FIFA 21, but that may change. All players have 10 chem in a false 9 formation. I haven't used Messi, Dembele or Goretzka yet.

https://i.ibb.co/ChmfVdB/Screenshot-20200830-183956.jpg (https://ibb.co/86NHP3M)

Messi has 99 everything and he does not play like 94 Kubo. I don't understand why. Kubo can dribble and cut through people, but Messi just cant. They are the same height. Messi has horrid workrates but he still should feel amazing on the ball

[phonics]

Just a small FYI but you might want to hold off on buying FIFA 21 at launch if you're on Xbox.

EA's subscription service will be merging with Microsoft Game Pass in November so you can get FIFA and many other games including any Microsoft exclusives (Halo etc.) for a fiver a month.

[Yevrah]

Why are there no special players in packs?

[Yevrah]

Doing a load of those 94+ TOTS upgrades every day but the pack weight is so shit that I don't think I'm packing any worth over 100k.

[Yevrah]

And then I go and pack Griezmann and I already have him tradeable. 200k coins in, thank you very much.

[Raoul Duke]

Been playing a few games here and there to do Werner and I keep drawing. Annoying as balls. I think it's because I'm using Gotze to get the 10 German goals and he is wank.

[Danny]

Have you got the wins? I got the wins first and then played a couple of games with a heavy German team. Helped I was able to bring TOTS Werner off the bench in the games where I went for Prem goals.

[Raoul Duke]

Not yet - was going to switch to my full Prem team for that. Only need 4 more with him but he's just a fat, slow dickhead

[Danny]

:lol: I punted him ages ago for that reason.

[Yevrah]

Rattled through 5 TOTS 94+ SBC's this morning. 4 duplicates (all sub 100k players) and then Sommer. :nono:

[Ian]

Stop playing, Yev. Let it go. Free yourself.

[Yevrah]

Want to make the most of what I can still get for when I stay on this version.

[Trancemeister]

Is it officially dead now?

[Yevrah]

Pretty much.

There's nothing in packs anymore, but a few SBC's you can grind to get an icon or a 94+ TOTS.

[Raoul Duke]

Can't imagine there'll be anything more than one or two new SBC/Objectives a week until the end of this season. Anyone still playing now is hooked and they want them onto the new thing to start milking them (us :uhoh:)

[Danny]

Did a moments icon to use some of the stuff that will never see light of day. Laudrup :moop:

I would have taken Schmeichel when I saw the flag.

[Danny]

With that I can now run this ingame (Koeman starts LB off chem)

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

Might rinse some more crap in there for something to do.

[Yevrah]

Just did one and saw the French flag, Striker and was thoroughly baited.

It was of course Trezeguet.

[Yevrah]

Gerrard from my third icon moments pack.

I'll take that.

Now down to 100k of coins, but I do have four thousand bronze player fitness cards, which are all selling for at least 200 coins. That's three more of these packs if I can be arsed to sell them.

[Danny]

Did you sell them? All squad fitness cards are inflated so certainly worth ditching them. I sold all my tradeable ones.

I got some decent rewards yesterday so did a TOTSSF pack and got Dybala. Hoping for a transferred VDB so I can get him into the United side and then call it a day.

[Yevrah]

I'm selling them, but it takes ages to list them all still.

Down to 3,500 now.

[Danny]

I usually do that stuff on the app so I can copy and paste the prices but yeah thats a massive amount of cards to sell. Will take an age either way.

[Yevrah]

Yep, that's what I'm trying, but you can only list 100 at a time and only 50 or sell each listing.

[Trancemeister]

360 gold squad fitness cards. seem to go for about 2,5k. Well thats a no-brainer.

[Yevrah]

4th PIM pack done.

French (if it's Trezeguet again I'm done), CM, Vieira. :jayjay:

Know he's far from meta, but with a sniper he might be able to move.

[Raoul Duke]

Did another 94+ and got Handanovic :moop:

The quest for Werner continues...come on Gotze you chubby little gimp, only three more goals to go

[Yevrah]

Vieira is awesome. 3m+ coin card too.

No idea how I got that lucky.

[Yevrah]

5th Icon pack. Bobby Moore.

2,000 fitness cards sold now too.

At least one more of these packs in me, maybe 2, plus the level 30 one too.

[Danny]

Not sure if you give a shit but that one is prime or moments.

Think I’ll stick to Bale.

[Trancemeister]

Completely drained my club into the 94+TOTS sbc. I've got 3 gold common cards left in my club :D

[Yevrah]

Not sure if you give a shit but that one is prime or moments.

Think I’ll stick to Bale.

Yeah, I packed Bale's FUT Birthday untradeable in the end while he was still in packs, so I'll go with the (no doubt) Prime Icon pack.

[Yevrah]

6th PIM pack. Nesta. Eurgh.

[Danny]

Yeah, I packed Bale's FUT Birthday untradeable in the end while he was still in packs, so I'll go with the (no doubt) Prime Icon pack.

Fair! Not much point for you with that card already

[Yevrah]

7th PIM pack, Baresi.

Thought it was a duplicate, so could have been worse.

[Yevrah]

8th PIM pack, duplicate Gerrard.

Grrrr. Think I've got one more of these left in me, plus the Prime/PIM level 30 pack.

[Danny]

Did another and got Vieri. Will likely put him in one last one.

[Danny]

One last one. PIM Blanc.

Might have a few games over the weekend just to give him a run in my United team.

[Yevrah]

Duplicate Gerrard is still sat with me and I couldn't be arsed to sell anymore fitness cards, so I think that's it. 28k XP needed for level 30 and I'm free of the hamster wheel. I know how Nelson Mandela felt now.

[Yevrah]

Moments Del Piero from my level 30 Prime/Moments icon pack.

Result. Especially after seeing the Italian flag.