FIFA 21: Featuring the FUT 100

[Yevrah]

Funny you should say that as despite my comments, I may well do it. :D

[Yevrah]

I couldn't fit him into my first team at this time, but that beast coming off the bench in Fut Champs would be a game changer.

Plus, I've got the coins, probably even the players already to do it.

Mbappe is getting done as well should he make it and not be 4m coins. It's been too long since I've used a card of his.

[Yevrah]

There's about 150k of decent ish packs back too.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I am thinking of doing Son.

[Yevrah]

If you have an untradeable version of a player in the club and a tradeable version of the same player on the transfer list is there a way to get that untradeable player off the transfer list and into an SBC?

[Danny]

Yeah. You need to get to the page where you assign items (moving them up and down)

Move the tradeable to the middle section and swap them out. It will be unassigned but just back out and do what you need to do.

[Yevrah]

Top man. Cheers.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just played 2 Rivals games and my team are refusing to pass properly.

There's either massive delay, passing to the wrong person and/or seriously underpowered.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

3-1 down in a game so I switch to my ultra attacking formation.

83rd minute Delaney
84th minute Forsberg
90th minute Inaki Williams
90th minute Heung Min Son

:cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The "Team" 2s are a disgrace.

[Yevrah]

How so Mahow?

Some decent, if no doubt expensive, picks in there.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I wish they'd have done a full 11 release.

Also, there are teams that don't have a RTTF. Sure they wont add someone from Krasnodar who aren't in the game but Porto or Rennes for instance don't have one.

[Danny]

Sandro SBC will be done.


Edit: they really should do one for every team. Give all fans a reason to get involved in giving them money.

[Raoul Duke]

I picked up Rodri OTW for under 80k - his gold card has been immense for me and I don't want to miss out on a potential upgrade if he gets an IF (like I did with Ziyech :moop:).

Also grabbed a few TOTW Benzema's. He's high-rated, French and TOTW. Seems like a good option for the Mbappe SBC when it drops.

Sandro SBC looks good (player and value-wise) but not so sure about Correa. Lazio are shit and he's no better than Dybala or even Martinez

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Almost done with the season objectives and I'm not sure who to take.

It was going to be Sabitzer first but I have Goretzka, Forsberg and Kramaric as first owner options there.

Probably leaning towards Bernat right now.

[Raoul Duke]

I took Sabitzer last night. Was either between him or Bernat but I couldn't justify "wasting" 100k XP on a left-back. I find them basically useless this game so just need someone with stamina and pace to stick back and defend. Currently have Atal and Florenzi in those positions right now.

The Lacazette is so woefully specced for even this stage of the game, it's unreal. I loved his Summer Heat card last year but this one is mince.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That reasoning is exactly why I'm hesitant to take Bernat.

[Yevrah]

42 silver upgrade packs. Wanna guess how many Sud/Lib cards I get?

[Danny]

Whats that, 126 cards?

If you get over 10 I would be shocked.

[Yevrah]

Sorry, Bronze to Silver. So 84 cards.

[Danny]

Then nowhere near 10. Probably closer to 5.

[Yevrah]

3 in the end. 2 Lib players and 1 Sud.

Absolutely pathetic. There is no way to grind these SBC's. No way at all.

[phonics]

Just found out that playing on Steam means I can’t play with anyone who didn’t buy it on Steam. Absolutely mental. Total player base on a Friday evening? 700 people.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just played someone with the POTM Son and he was great.

Largely because the guy was able to do some mad knock on balls while running with him, would take out my whole defence. No idea how he was doing it because when I knock the ball on by flicking the right stick my players barely push it on.

Also, I'm up to division 4 in Rivals.

[Yevrah]

Just found out that playing on Steam means I can’t play with anyone who didn’t buy it on Steam. Absolutely mental. Total player base on a Friday evening? 700 people.

Yeah, the PC version is a wasteland at the best of times.

[Danny]

Just played someone with the POTM Son and he was great.

Largely because the guy was able to do some mad knock on balls while running with him, would take out my whole defence. No idea how he was doing it because when I knock the ball on by flicking the right stick my players barely push it on.

Also, I'm up to division 4 in Rivals.

Double R1 bridge dribble. Its nuts if you get it right.

Correa done in 6. Last two being the 'score with X' games. Sandro was good too.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Double R1 bridge dribble. Its nuts if you get it right.

Correa done in 6. Last two being the 'score with X' games. Sandro was good too.

I use that too but it wasn't it. Unless you can do them at the same time to get some sort of huge boost.

[Danny]

Interesting. I havent seen anything special outside of that one for speed boosting.

[phonics]

Where do I find out what a 'bridge dribble' and others are that isn't some awful youtuber. Anywhere in written form?

[Danny]

Honestly I usually end up watching them on youtube just to see the skills, the timing and get an idea of where they are most effective.

Boraslegend is a good one for skills and who I would usually check out.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's also not a twat.

[Danny]

Also a good point.

[Raoul Duke]

Where do I find out what a 'bridge dribble' and others are that isn't some awful youtuber. Anywhere in written form?

This is decent: link (https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/jn5wxs/a_hopefully_comprehensive_guide_on_skills_moves/) but videos are probably better. +1 for Boras

[Yevrah]

That link is great, there are skill moves I was using different buttons to try and do that are nowhere near as effective as his methods.

Group stage objectives done in 7 games, which is nice.

[Yevrah]

Lib/Sud players seem to have dropped in price quite a bit.

[Danny]

You figure those and UCL will die down once the initial OMG hype passes

[Yevrah]

Indeed. If that is the case the TOTY grind is back on.

Weekend League attempt 3:

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Yevrah]

And guess how I knew they were going down? Sud players started popping in bronze packs. Scummy company.

[Raoul Duke]

Paging Danny https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/jty9vm/beckham_found_in_the_transfermarket_filter_on_pc/ :sherlock:

[Yevrah]

8-7 at the halfway point.

Started well with a 5-1 win and then had 9 games of utter shite against people not only doing 1 depth drop back, but living it too. Almost every game was 60%+ possession for me, 3 shots and 3 goals for them, which took me to 4-6 after 10 games.

Then I had a run of 4 wins in a row to take it to 8-6 (my first time at +2 on this year's version), before losing the last one of the day against a super team/not bad player.

I'll take that overall though. 6 wins needed tomorrow for Gold 3 again.

[Danny]

Paging Danny https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/jty9vm/beckham_found_in_the_transfermarket_filter_on_pc/ :sherlock:

I will sell everything for the prime :lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If Boom plays FUT he'll cream both of his jeans when he sees that.

[Danny]

Also I wont be touching that TOTW SBC. No minimum :face:

[Shindig]

I finally got out of the England job in Pro Evo. Won the World Cup and then didn't renew my contract. The route to victory was surprisingly comfy.

Group Games
2-0 vs Croatia
4-0 vs Japan
2-2 vs Ecuador (we had to fight for that point as well)

2-1 vs Cameroon
2-1 vs Portugal
5-3 vs Germany ( :drool: )
3-0 vs Turkey

The Germany match was ridiculous. Neuer was tragic throughout and their defence just let us in as soon as they found a way back. I enjoyed that. Seems like the front 3 from Rashford / Sterling / Calvert-Lewin / Sancho / Kane was unstoppable. Videogame England is just the best.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I really wish I had done Bellarabi.

He was a little too expensive but I really hate Sancho right now. He offers so little.

[The Merse]

Sancho is shite. RW really lets Bundesliga down.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yep.

I liked Sancho when I first got him a couple of weeks ago but the more I use him the more I hate him. He also seems to make really shit runs.

I have a hunter on him but he still feels slow, he can't shoot, his crossing isn't that great and he's so damn weak.

I've been subbing him off for Talisca for the second half more and more lately who offers so much more.

[The Merse]

Talisca is a beast.

Thinking of selling up after this weekend. I’ve not been getting time to play with the missus being pretty much out of work and therefore staying up late in front of the shared telly. I can make 400k on my sellable starters right now. I’m sat on a further 360k and have a shit load of players in the club and a full transfer list so I’d be in a good place to take advantage of league SBCs or whatever promo is around when I return to the game at a later point when I’m able to play enough to actually feel I’m being rewarded for it.

[Raoul Duke]

If you can't play much at the moment then there's probably not much point having a mega first team - better off selling off the high-priced players (but keep the cheap/reliable players like Dembele and Ben Yedder etc.) and just pop in for SBCs that take your fancy.

Built this team earlier: https://www.futbin.com/21/squad/2956495 - looking forwards to trying it out. Atal looks a beast in like every position

[Yevrah]

Back on, 6 wins needed and ideally before the servers die at 6pm.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Yevrah]

11-10 and Silver 1 secured.

3 wins from 9 and it's over for another week.

[Yevrah]

Won the next three to take it 14-10.

No idea how I was facing the calibre of player I was at +2 and +3 compared to yersterday's shitfest.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Telles has tested positive for Covid again :moop:

My investments in his OTW looking like shit right now.

[Yevrah]

That's Alex Sandro and Son done.

Will no doubt do Felipe Anderson as well.

Seems like I have loads more RTTF players this year than last and I haven't bought a single one yet.

[Danny]

Telles has tested positive for Covid again :moop:

My investments in his OTW looking like shit right now.

Now tested negative apparently.

[Shindig]

Doing the hokey Covid.

[Yevrah]

It meant relegating Dembele to the wing (sob) and putting Reguillon in the team, but Heung Min Son with a Finisher on 10 chem is outstanding.

[Raoul Duke]

What's your current team? Dembele remains the best player in the game for me, cost:quality-wise

[Yevrah]

Rocking this now:

https://i.postimg.cc/SNg2c0pS/Team.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

What's yours?

[Yevrah]

Oh and who is winning in that Liverpool vs Real Madrid shite?

[Yevrah]

Played 1 game on Squad Battles and the patch has absolutely nerfed constant pressure. Completely ruins your players.

On its own that's a good thing, but as far as I can see it'll just make drop back, 1 depth even more effective as it's taken away one of the tools for dealing with it.

This game was good 6 weeks ago.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I always think the base version (extending into a patch or two) is usually the best.

The game seems to play a lot more free flowing and it's usually actually a joy to play. The more patches they put out, the more restrictive, defensive and soul sapping it becomes.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh and who is winning in that Liverpool vs Real Madrid shite?

https://i.imgur.com/13Yeupz.png

The packs are shit though.

You get a Premium Electrum for doing all the Madrid objectives (10 goals with La Liga players in SB, score using La Liga players in 3 separate matches with the Madrid kit, 3 rivals with 1 Madrid player in the team while using the badge and 5 assists with Madrid players in SB) and a premium gold for the team shit.

[Yevrah]

They are, but who is winning?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Madrid, despite having Liverpool's badge.

[Raoul Duke]

Rocking this now:

What's yours?

Interesting line-up - are you just trying to keep it as cheap as possible? I tried Kroos for a couple of SB games but couldn't get on with him.

I have two teams (outside of league-specific squads) that I switch around: Team 1 (https://www.futbin.com/21/squad/2575171) and Team 2 (https://www.futbin.com/21/squad/2956495).

[Yevrah]

They've put a limit of games you can play on the latest friendly objectives. I don't even...

[Yevrah]

Interesting line-up - are you just trying to keep it as cheap as possible? I tried Kroos for a couple of SB games but couldn't get on with him.

I have two teams (outside of league-specific squads) that I switch around: Team 1 (https://www.futbin.com/21/squad/2575171) and Team 2 (https://www.futbin.com/21/squad/2956495).

Nice teams Raoul. What's Ben Yedder like?

Trying to level up incrementally rather than splurge the coins in one go. That said, I've got about 3-4m coins invested at the moment, so not many coins on hand to improve anyway.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They've put a limit of games you can play on the latest friendly objectives. I don't even...

They're such a weird company.

[Raoul Duke]

Nice teams Raoul. What's Ben Yedder like?

Trying to level up incrementally rather than splurge the coins in one go. That said, I've got about 3-4m coins invested at the moment, so not many coins on hand to improve anyway.

Ben Yedder is great - same as last year really. He's come down enough that I wanted to pick him up. Cost me 20k ish. Similar to Williams but the added 5* WF is better. Stronger shot too.

On the RTTF thing - what the fuck? Competitive friendlies? Idiots

[Yevrah]

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

Back on for silver stars and Correa objectives.

[Raoul Duke]

Just finished up Correa, that was painful. My Serie A team used to be alright at the start but I've really gone off it now.

[Yevrah]

Adams done in 3 + one game where my opponent inexplicably quit 7 minutes in at 0-0.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

IF Casteels from my pre-order packs.

Might go towards Son.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

RTTF cards don't count as a UCL rare apparently.

I'm going to skip that objective (even if it is for a great pack) as I sold my tradeable UCL rares when the SBC came out and don't feel like re-buying shit for mental prices.

[Yevrah]

I'm leaving it until Thursday when hopefully all the try hards have finished with it.

[Yevrah]

Correa done in 6, which is nice. Tonight's good run will haunt me when I do the UCL shit on Thursday no doubt.

[Yevrah]

If you open a fuckton of bronze packs the Sudamericana SBC might actually be worth it.

[Raoul Duke]

14-year old kid goes 150-0 so far :|

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/jvw4e2/danish_14_year_old_anders_vejrgang_has_gone_1500/

[Shindig]

I'd love to know how much he ran up on his parent's credit cards. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I doubt he has. He's a pro and I imagine his club buy his points.

[Raoul Duke]

His team isn't anything outrageous. It's good but not FC Credit Card good.

[Danny]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/jwic26/an_86_rated_beckham_is_going_to_be_available_to/

:drool:

[Yevrah]

There has got to be a catch to that...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's on their Twitter too.

So long Sancho.

[Raoul Duke]

Surely it'll just be a loan icon?

[Danny]

There has got to be a catch to that...

86 rated with low pace winger. Builds hype though and its likely to be the worst card he has.

He will be in my team until I get one of the better ones though. Guess its time to start saving.



Edit:

That is coming after he gets added

Will David Beckham be added to FUT 21 as an ICON?
Yes, David Beckham will be joining the squad of ICONS with his base and middle ICON items in FUT 21 on December 4th.

Will Beckham’s ICON ratings be the same as on the Beckham FUT Item?
Beckham's ratings on his untradeable item are reflective of his LaLiga debut for Real Madrid. The ratings are different than those of his ICON items, which will reflect three distinct eras of his career.


https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/fifa/fifa-21/david-beckham?utm_campaign=fifa21_hd_ww_ic_ic_twt_pl-beckham-announcement-16112020&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cid=66456&ts=1605719436136#faq

[Yevrah]

Fair points.

Weirdly his card doesn't look like an icon mind.

[Danny]

Edited more info. It looks like its just a special "look what we did" card.

[Raoul Duke]

He'll be decent enough to swap into central midfield (maybe go narrow with a 4-1-2-1-2). Good links too if he's at Real in-game.

[Raoul Duke]

Full Utd Icon team is now possible:

Ruud - Cantona

Scholes - Keane - Veron - Beckham

Giggs - Rio - Vidic - Best

Schmeichel

:drool:

[Danny]

352

With Blanc at the back and get everyone on chem.

Owen, Larsson and VDS not even mentioned!

[Yevrah]

Saudi and French League SBC's are here.

[Yevrah]

Only 3 of the packs for the Saudi league have gold players in them. :lol:

[Danny]

No players at the end but the expire in 31 days.

TOTW has some decent cards in it but no silver stars is disappointing (I think its because of season end Friday).

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Why do they keep making the league SBCs worse every year?

It's like they enjoy making their player base miserable.

[Danny]

Sell German rare silvers.

They are required for this SBC.

[Yevrah]

Doing the Saudi league and if you're opening enough bronze packs it looks like the most grindable thing ever. The prices for the few cards I have needed have been so low, presumably due to the packs being utter shite, but they will give you a near endless supply of silver cards.

Might be worth.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[The Merse]

Why do they keep making the league SBCs worse every year?

It's like they enjoy making their player base miserable.

Cottoned on to those of us pulling all the best TOTS that way I guess.

Bit of a bastard. I’ve built EPL and Bundesliga stocks of 13 x players from every club. Was gonna make a start on France tonight before this.

Selling up tomorrow.

[Yevrah]

Dogshit picks, comfortably the worst selection so far. Plumping for Coufal and Pandev, with none of the other options rated over 77.

[Raoul Duke]

Nothing of note from my packs so I did the Felipe Anderson SBC. Still on the fence about Alex Sandro.

[Danny]

IF Mario Rui in my packs this morning. Nothing else.

People are predicting/expecting a FB Robben soon so I picked up a couple of RB Dumfries.

[Yevrah]

Does he play in Holland still? Quincy must have rocketed...

[Danny]

Plays for Groningen (so yes)

[Yevrah]

God damn, I was looking at the Promes for 250k, wish I'd dived in now.

[Danny]

Still showing at 246k on futbin

[Danny]

And Bamba got POTM :face:

So much for the people pushing it was Mbappe.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Who the fuck was voting for Bamba?

Surely EA has fudged that.

[Yevrah]

Gutted about that.

UCL shitfest objectives starting soon.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Yevrah]

The cost of that Bamba. :lol:

Shit value Flashback Khedira as well.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Those requirements :lol:

[Danny]

That have fucked that Bamba card. Khedira looks decent but nothing special.

[Yevrah]

500k+ apparently.

They're outdoing themselves in terms of killing the game in the menus this year.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Also, I was going to do the Polish independence kit as I always do them.

3 fucking segments...

I know there are brick slots in each team but it's still 22 players in total.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Also, no menu lag on the PS5 :drool:

EA should have said it was such a simple fix to the problem, just splashing out £450 on a next gen console.

Cheers lads.

[Yevrah]

2-2 after four games in that UCL knockout thing. It's horrible.

[Raoul Duke]

Don't forget to get your pack for the Real/Liverpool thing if you did it (and chose Real). It's available now.

[Danny]

I need 2 from 2 to complete this UCL thing. This is terrible.

[Yevrah]

I'm 3-2 now and it's the sweatiest game mode outside of weekend league I've ever played.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Yevrah]

Did it, 6-5.

Was planning to throw any games I had left to gift wins if I did it early, but almost everyone I came up against was enjoying 8 men behind the ball, 33% possession and then countering the shit out of me, so fuck that, the 12th game will never be played.

[Danny]

93 POTM Lewandowski is out. Around 300k from what I can see. 85, 85, 86

Cheaper than Bamba :face:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

So long Hwangers & Mash, you have served me well.

I also don't think I'll be doing Son now.

[Yevrah]

I might have to do him too. Have never had a Lewa special card.

Annoyingly I'm now down to my last 300k of coins, with millions tied up in investments. I really need (decent) icon SBC's to land tonight.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's done and I'm down to just 67k.

I've also sold Sancho and brought in the cheaper Gnabry so Lewandowski is on full chem.

[Yevrah]

Is the new season here already?

[Danny]

Yep and the players are tragic.

[Yevrah]

I've just seen. Fucking hell. They're the worst ever.

[Yevrah]

Icon SBC's are going to be dreadful, aren't they?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The South Korean RM looks alright (although I wouldn't be able to start him), the La Liga CB looks like a fucking rock but the level 30 players are crap.

[Danny]

The South Korean RM looks alright (although I wouldn't be able to start him), the La Liga CB looks like a fucking rock but the level 30 players are crap.

Aidoo does look decent. I packed Diego Carlos and Lenglet untradeable already so I doubt I used him but decent option for people not as luck as I have been with La Liga CB's who need FO

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just had such a satisfying win on Rivals.

Guy I was playing had a paint by numbers "budget meta" French/Premiership team and he was one of those slow paced drag-back possession with drop back dickheads.

I took the lead in the 34th minute with Allan thanks to nice work from Lewandowski and he hit back right before half time with Rodrigo. In the 56th minute he scored with Bale (he took his time with a celebration and replay for both goals) but Lewandowski won a penalty in the 61st minute which he converted.

From there it was a little cagey and I was struggling to get into the game plus I wanted to win so switched to my ultra attacking formation. He then scored with Gabriel Jesus but it was offside. I then scored with Talisca thanks to him using some muscle against a defender then made it 4-2 with Lewandowski creating some space and made it 5-2 from a corner in injury time.

This version of FIFA seems to be the first since 16 or 17 to suit my play style.

[Yevrah]

I missed this when looking through.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/jxtbsh/community_ea_can_you_stop_giving_us_ugly/

:face:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

There's a horrible "cushion" one too.

[Danny]

Mid Figo, Mid Zanetti and Base VDS are here.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Figo, Van Der Sar and Zanetti SBCs are up.

Mid for Figo and Zanetti with the base for VDS.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5tp2fZgBW4

Lewa <3.

[Danny]

Oh and loans for friendlies.....

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I was thinking of doing Figo and then saw his requirements.

Bronze rare squad
Silver rare squad
81 rated with IF
82 rated, 1 Portuguese, 1 IF
86 rated, 1 Barca, 1 IF
87 rated, 1 Madrid, 1 IF
88 rated, 1 Serie A, 1 IF
89 rated.

Only 29 days too.

They do let you use red picks in place of the IF's though which is something I guess.

[Danny]

I wont be doing these. VDS would be the only consideration for me. Waiting for Beckham :drool:

[Yevrah]

They've not fucked it as much as I thought they would.

There had better be some available over TOTY mind. I suspect there won't be.

[Danny]

Figo loan requires all rare gold players but a min 60 team rating. I think thats meant to be min chem. Go ahead and throw your rare gold shitters in there before they fix it

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nice one.

[Yevrah]

Cheers Danny.

[Raoul Duke]

EA completely shitting the bed again, I see.

- Icon SBCs more expensive than buying the player off market :cab: although thankfully they've at least made the rewards tradable
- Did the loan icons, which will at least make some more options in friendly games (although they'll probably ruin those by putting game limits)
- Level 15 players are horseshit (82s?)
- Level 30 are dreadful. Will probably go for Romagnoli to help the FO team

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The level 15 players are not horseshit.

Aidoo with a shadow is an 88 rated CB with 92 speed, 89 defending and 90 physical. He also has extremely high agility and balance for a defender (he has the second most balance for a CB) and Woo Yeong Jeong is the best Bundesliga RM other than the overpriced Bellarabi SBC card.

Never look at the number on the card, they're completely misleading. Those level 15 players (I haven't looked at the Serie A guy) are serious shit.

[Raoul Duke]

I'll give you Aidoo, but I don't really use my Serie A team all that much and already have Koulibaly and Romagnoli as FO. Could maybe do ok at DM in a pure shitkicker role.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Aidoo is from La Liga.

The Serie A player is Tello who is alright but nothing special.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just played one of the best games in a long while.

Got matched up with a guy who was ridiculously good and absolutely lethal attacking. He went 3-0 up after 10 minutes as Ousmane Dembele and Talisca ripped me to shreds.

I thought fuck it and switched to my ultra attacking formation and he started struggling with the pressure. Missed some chances but Allan and Gnabry scored just before halftime and I knocked it down to attacking as my side were fucked.

Lewandowski levelled it up after 53 minutes but he started coming back into it and Ben Yedder scored from a perfect scoop turn inside the box. I had some more chances (including nipping in front of a short goal kick but fucked the finish) but finally Son made it 4-4 in the 86th minute. Kept trying but my side were dead and I couldn't find a winner.

The game is a genuine pleasure to play when you're playing someone who is actually trying to win.

[Yevrah]

Agree with that last comment.

If that UCL objective is anything to go by, I'm dreading weekend league tomorrow.

[Danny]

Looking at those cards more I think level 15 shits all over level 30. The winger looks like one of those who feels great in game, a Korean Kent. Aidoo with the shadow (as ‘how said) looks like a rock, he even has decent agility and balance for a CB. Tello is likely the worst of the three but he is 1 face start from Gullit gang with a gladiator. Could be very good box to box

[Raoul Duke]

Yeah - I've had some really enjoyable games this version, whereas in 20 there were times when I knew I'd lose 10 mins into a match

[Yevrah]

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

Weekend league begins again.

[Yevrah]

7-3 after 10 games, with 5 wins in a row. Could have won all 3 I lost as well. Not really sure what's going on.

[Danny]

Friendly objectives Bellerin out (similar to Mollet). Only 85 rated.

[Danny]

7-3 after 10 games, with 5 wins in a row. Could have won all 3 I lost as well. Not really sure what's going on.

Thats top work!

[Yevrah]

Cheers.

Normal service resumed with 3 losses in a row, including one just now against someone who was disgustingly good.

7-6. Just one more win will do today.

[Yevrah]

8-6 and that'll be that for today.

[Danny]

Telles finally gets a start and his card is up about 20k. People are mad.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I could sell my haul for a little profit but I'm hoping he sets up a goal or scores one himself.

I bought my 12 for a total of 1.239m so an average price of 103,250.

They were down to 85k a couple of days ago and I'm annoying I didn't scoop up more.

[Yevrah]

Apparently there's a baby icon sbc pack in the code now.

[Yevrah]

And is this an elaborate wind up or genuine?

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/jy9blt/how_to_abuse_momentumscripting_and_detilt/

[Danny]

Someone else in the comments said they did it too. I would say no fucking way but it wouldnt shock me.

[Yevrah]

Back on. 6 wins needed for Gold 3.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Yevrah]

3-1 rage quit after 15 mins. 9-6. Very nice.

[Yevrah]

Humped in game 16 by someone who was soo good going forward and then 4-0 after 20 minutes in the next sees the second rage quit of the day and it's 10-7.

Gameplay is the best I've ever had it today. Players responsive as fuck and everything so fluid. An actual joy to play even in that humping.

[Yevrah]

14-14 and done.

Was playing quite well to get to 13-10 (IIRC) and then had four horrid games in a row, losing all of them, before winning the last one with another rage quit.

On the plus side, the decision to play to Gold 2 is now out of my hands and that always nags, even if it's manifestly not worth it.

[Danny]

EFL Milestones out (similar to the MLS one) for an 84 Josh King, you earn an 82 Dack and Sinclair along the way.

[Danny]

EFL Milestones out (similar to the MLS one) for an 84 Josh King, you earn an 82 Dack and Sinclair along the way.

This is in managerial masterpiece (same as Bellerin) meaning you can only use 3 silvers. Champ golds should rise significantly.

[Yevrah]

Stadium Dev III is out too, complete with Pitch Line Colours. :sick:

[Raoul Duke]

Stadium Dev III is out too, complete with Pitch Line Colours. :sick:

Animated Tifos :drool:

[Danny]

Apparently you dont see other peoples line colours. Thank fuck

[Gray Fox]

I was watching Yev in the WL and some guy had lime green goalpost and nets.

[Danny]

Yeah thats a thing (problem) but someone on reddit posted that the lines dont change

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/jz2fbb/psa_no_you_wont_be_able_to_see_your_opponents/

I cant find where they grabbed that from though. I dont want to see any of it.

[The Merse]

Will have a pop at that Bellerin, even though I’ve sold up. Have untradeable Cancelo, Bailly, J Gomez, Reguillon, IF Watkins and Rodrigo so it’s a decent start and I’ll be able to play the required games over the course of the 40 odd days. I think these friendlies will be my go to’s until I return to competitive. Might wait until I have my hands on the new Xbox to get back into champs.

[thommo]

Got to 8-6 last night, playing in between all the big server issues, until an internet outage cut my evening short. I need to make up 1000 WL pts through Rivals games/rewards if I'm to get back in next weekend.

I didn't have much time to play at all over the last week - 11-6 in the previous WL gave me an awful 77 rated red pick, although I did get Courtois in the packs. I finished off Che Adams and RTTF Correa, but had to pass on the Kounde card. Too much work in too little time for a card that I will probably never use.

[Raoul Duke]

My rewards/packs this morning were total gash, again. Feels like ages since I actually packed something decent.

[Yevrah]

81+ Double Upgrades out. 11 Rare Golds needed.

Will be hammering those for the TOTY pack pile, but may wait to see if Black Friday brings league specific ones.

[Raoul Duke]

There's a "This TOTW" pack too. 83 squad is probably a bit too steep considering the team.

Wonder if you can do it and save it :sherlock:

[thommo]

The more I think about it, the more I'm tempted by the Flashback Sami Khedira. Would be a nice way to hybrid the Serie A and Bundesliga, and his stats are really good.

[Raoul Duke]

The more I think about it, the more I'm tempted by the Flashback Sami Khedira. Would be a nice way to hybrid the Serie A and Bundesliga, and his stats are really good.

Yeah, he looks good. Makes me wish I'd done Alex Sandro now

[Gray Fox]

A FIFA purchase has been cleared with management. I could well be back on the horse shortly. No one tell her about Cyberpunk though...

[Yevrah]

Haha, good to have you back on board!

[Danny]

Non Repeatable base icon SBC.

85 x2, 86 and 87

[Yevrah]

Will you do it?

[Yevrah]

Fucking hell, that works out at over 500k.

Jesus. RIP the menus this year.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'd have done it if it was still up until TOTY (hopefully it or a mid SBC comes up then) but it's a hell of a lot for right now. Especially as I'm sitting on packs until TOTY.

Only 38 that are worth more than 500k (the last 4 are under 550k) and 62 under than mark.

[Danny]

Will you do it?

No chance.

Though I will be keeping an eye on the players in the club.

[Danny]

Some late UCL MM's have popped up.

I am half way through the EFL Champ stuff. Figured why not.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I hate Nick Pope so much, he seems to be my sides kryptonite.

Just lost 3-2 in which he had 16 saves and was named MOTM with a 10 rating :moop:

[Raoul Duke]

This shitty Icon SBC has done nothing to help me shift my fodder :moop:

[Yevrah]

How's the TOTY pack haul going Mahow?

[Gray Fox]

So I'm pretty much buying this tomorrow, though I've been told if I buy it through the PS store(£35), I might not actually be able to play it until the next-gen release? Is that true?

If that's so, am I any better off buying a version with a disc?

[Raoul Duke]

4th Dec is the PS5 release: https://twitter.com/EASPORTSFIFA/status/1331311628097302534

[Yevrah]

The version I have works on the XBox One and XBSX and comes with a 'free' upgrade to the XBSX version when released. Lol if you can't buy that version from the store on the next gen consoles.

[Gray Fox]

The way I'm reading it, if you have the disc, you can play and then upgrade on the 4th but will need to contact EA to help with the transition.

If you have the digital edition, you've gotta wait until the 4th.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm up to 37 packs now, couple of Rare Jumbo Players from the objectives should be quite handy in January.

Opened my 2 pre-order packs and in one was Thomas Muller, UCL Saul and a shadow. Not too bad.

[Danny]

I have digital, bought on PS4, and then I was able to install the PS4 version on the PS5 to use for now.

I just won a game in this EFL thing 9-8. Neither of us had an answers defensively.

[Gray Fox]

Yeah the weird way it was worded on the EA site was what had me a bit confused. Seems I'm all good to go tomorrow.

[Yevrah]

Built 25 of those 81+ Double Upgrade packs last night by buying the players with coins.

Managed to do all of them for 9k ish each and building them wasn't nearly as hellish as I thought once I got which leagues and players down to use. Would have carried on but I'm down to my last 100k of coins liquid now. Really need some fodder to go up in price.

[thommo]

Just packed Joe Gomez from a Small Electrum Players Pack - pretty nice pull worth 60k and now I get to inflict the pain of playing against him on all of my opponents.

[Yevrah]

Nice stuff thommo. As you say, he is a complete arse to play against...

[Raoul Duke]

Next patch nerfs AI auto-blocking and boosts keeper deflection distance when saving.

It amazes me how they release the same game every year but still can't consistently fix certain issue like this. Meanwhile they ignore massive flaws like midfielders never tracking back and people tackling with their wrong feet all the time

[thommo]

Just had a long session grinding Rivals to earn the WL pts I need for this upcoming weekend. Went 6-2-2 across 10 games, and it's the best the game has ever felt for me. Good connection, responsive players and the ball going where I wanted it to about 98% of the time. It helped that I came up against some solid opponents which made for some enjoyable wins and close games.

It's just a shame that half the time, especially during FUT Champs, the online games feel so stodgy because it's really enjoyable when it plays as it should. Up to Rank 1 now, with enough points to redeem for this weekend. I'm also up to 1417 skill rating in Div 4 for Rivals, which I think is my highest ever since they introduced this system.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm also in division 4, I was close to 1500 points a couple of days ago but took 3 losses in a row.

I really should push for high rewards but I always find myself just sticking with rank 3.

[Yevrah]

Check your club for Maradona. :nono:

[Raoul Duke]

Ah, cheers - had one I forgot I packed

[Yevrah]

Me too. Made 1m more coins than I would have done had I sold him yesterday.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

His cards have spiked by 700k.

Buying up older icons that are still alive could yield huge profit.

[Raoul Duke]

Me too. Made 1m more coins than I would have done had I sold him yesterday.

:D never waste a crisis


His cards have spiked by 700k.

Buying up older icons that are still alive could yield huge profit.

Murdering ex-footballers for FIFA profit :drool:

[Danny]

Pele will go any day now, he probably just wanted to outlive Maradona

[Yevrah]

I am of course joking and not at Maradona's expense. More targeting the morbid fascination this community has when a player dies.

[Danny]

That new silver stars card looks really good.

https://www.futbin.com/21/player/26713/junior-sambia

[Yevrah]

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

Objectives, more 81+ Pack grinding and maybe that icon pack. :eyemouth:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Losing a rivals match 3-1, I pull it back to 3-2 and on my next attack I'm booted whilst running free down the wing.

Counts as a loss :moop:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1S5tjBYR6I

I almost feel bad for the guy.

[Yevrah]

Been watching streamers open these icon packs and they don't look rigged in favour of the shite or goalkeepers.

[Raoul Duke]

Been watching streamers open these icon packs and they don't look rigged in favour of the shite or goalkeepers.

Yeah, the pulls I've been seeing on Reddit don't look too bad. Makes me want to do it, even though I know I'll get Inzaghi'd

[Yevrah]

It's inevitable, isn't it?

[Yevrah]

Er lads...

[Yevrah]

So I did the icon SBC... Had to open it on the web app. Closed the browser before I saw who it was then logged back into FUT to see this:


https://i.postimg.cc/SxqNSkDC/Icon.jpg (https://postimg.cc/cr9NTyqL)

[Gray Fox]

That’s it I’m cancelling my download.

[Raoul Duke]

Fuck's sake

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Knobhead.

[Yevrah]

I suspect it's a mistake, but it's as if EA released it with almost every player having an even weight.

[Danny]

:drool: you bastard. Suppose it’s a reward for all the coin you have given them so far.

How you going to get him in?

[Danny]

Nice little touch from EA giving the tifo and kits. Even if I will never use them.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Gladbach have assured themselves of Europa football and are 4 points ahead of third place right now.

Zakaria will be getting an upgrade :cool:

[Gray Fox]

£33 on the PS store or £35 for the Champions Edition. Chose the latter and in the pack for it got Busquets and a Hunter chem style. If I'm right in thinking that's a nice 25k in the pot to start the club off.

Usually my first actions are to get a kit/stadium/ball etc stuff out of the way, so you don't have to think about them for a while, but I cant seem to see the option to change them or look to buy new ones. I've not used a FIFA menu since '19 though so this is all new to my eyes. This like a season of milestones and rewards wasn't on the game last time I played.

Either way I'm up and running. I think a safe cheap EPL team is probably the way to go with my very limited budget. Though I'm not sure I should be entering FUT Champs any time soon, I probably will asap.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sadly not, Hunters are only around 1k.

They didn't make them super rare this year.

[Danny]

For kits and all that you go on the main page and hold either up or down on the stick (one is squad, one is stadium) you then go through the menus to change everything.

[Gray Fox]

Okay I think I'm getting there on the menu. Barebones EPL team made too. If I remember rightly, Thursday is rewards day(Rivals/WL) so there was no real chance of me sneaking into a placement tonight. But it means fresh start tomorrow.

I'm not really sure what "the plan" is but we'll see where this goes.

[Raoul Duke]

If you want a cheap beast for the Premier League then Rodrigo is your man.

Worth putting together a decent Silver team when you get some coin too, there's frequent silver objectives that are decent.

[Yevrah]

So, FUT Champs rewards.

Rona..I'm just kidding. Fernando and Oscar Plano.

Fernando's ok and may go into the team when I shuffle it around Cruyff.

[Yevrah]

That's 300 packs for TOTY too.

https://i.postimg.cc/HsXcnz5M/Packs.png (https://postimages.org/)

So many untradeables in there though, so EA had better not do a dirty and have no icon SBC's running over that period. If they don't I'll be getting all of them. :drool:

[Danny]

Silver stars done in less than two games. Che Adams is disgusting.

Not sure how I’ll get the French fullback in. I was playing with the squad last night though and think I can on 7 chem. Still leaves Kean, Vydra and the Swiss RM on the bench.

[Yevrah]

There's a pre-Black Friday promo starting in 3 minutes.

[Danny]

Log in page has a TOTW card on it right? But they already released an upgrade SBC. Wonder what they will be pulling out.

[Danny]

Deulofeu Objective. Win 15 in managerial masterclass

Thank god I finished Champ yesterday.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Flash challenge is up for just under 2 hours.

[Yevrah]

Bergkamp, Hernandez and Veron released too.

[Danny]

85 Luis Hernandez
88 Veron
90 Bergkamp

Thats base, mid, mid.
Flash SBC up (2 hours)

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I have shamelessly stolen Yev's pack sheet.

My slightly more modest stack is 46 packs and valued at just under a million coins.

[Yevrah]

You are very welcome Mahow.

[Yevrah]

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

Testing out Cruyff in Rivals.

[Danny]

Built teams for both Bellerin and Deulofeu and won the first game with the latter side (technically second but first was a game against an idiot with the disco ball so I left after seconds). He would be useful to me right now so will push though it. I don’t think I will bother with the former but like the building aspect.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

New flash SBC is up for 2 hours.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

And another. 90 minutes or so left.

[Raoul Duke]

Did the Base Icon SBC and got Nakata :moop: Could probably have done Bergkamp for not much more, who I'd actually want. FFS. Ah well, could have pulled someone mega.

[Danny]

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Check the tweet under that too

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I managed to knock out all the Flash SBC's and I even did a couple of Saudi & Ligue 1 SBCs.

I could really do with Telles doing something this weekend as I'm down to sub 100k now and I want to do the Icon SBC.

Also, speaking of Telles he's down to 92k right now but last week he spiked to 120k when he was named as starter.