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Cheers Danny, that sort of stuff is very welcome advice.
Try it with the defenders in space to get a feel how it works, then progress to moving forward with it. I find myself forgetting to use it when under pressure but it can open up so much room, especially on the edge of the box for a timed finesse.
People on Reddit are thinking so. For 20k it was worth a look. Especially with the coin balance I (or we since I see you are closing in on 1m) have.
Trying out 451 as well after a poor run this morning, struggling to find space against deep defences and compromising myself when moving the full backs up by going attacking.
2 games, 5 goals, 2 wins. It also means fitting in IF Hulk, and pushing Anderson up alongside him as well as giving Firmino a go. All three look good. To complete the two squads for next weekend I’ll need another 250k or so as at the moment I’m making do with NIF Felipe Anderson in both sides, when I’d prefer his IF in one and Sane in the other, though also entertaining the notion of selling up a whole bunch of players and going balls deep for Hazard.
One complaint is the CAMs switching with the wingers so much. But shit, that.
Looking at these scream cards, I'd like to buy one I might at least get some use out of, but they either don't fit into my team or are absolutely tragic.
Went for Ochoa at 15k in the hope I'll be able to whack him in(to the SBC) and still maintain chemistry.
I'll literally only be doing this SBC because I can though, which really isn't the right move, but hey ho.
That video is great Danny.
Looks like it's useful against high pressing wankers too.
It really is, like I said you can exit in multiple directions too. Sometimes I often do the dragback but go forward (from where I came from) to avoid a tackle.
So many times in that first half I'm thinking "do the drag back".
:D
I was thinking it while watching.
One more win should secure Elite 2, which is all I wanted to play to this week (and feel so much better for it), but I've enough games left to actually hit Elite 1.
Grr, this bastard drags you in so easily.
Oh and I'm enjoying Toni Kroos in the side. I mean he's not worth keeping ahead of the 100k or so I'll eventually be able to get for him, but his 5 star weak foot is a joy.
Thats what happens to me when a game gets frenzied and messy. I end up forgetting to slow down.
Is he up that high? I guess his pace boost this year will make him more valuable than the last few years. Who would you be looking to get in there instead? If he is that good, might be worth just keeping.
He's at 72k now, but I imagine he'll hit 100k when an SBC that needs a 90+ is released.
That said, I only paid 43,500 for him so it's tempting to sell today.
I'd just whack Renato Sanches back in the side if I did bin him off.
Untradeble Scream Bastian Schweinsteiger
Min 3 Germany
Min 3 MLS
83 Rating
80 Chem
No scream requirement (yet imo)
I managed to nab one Schweinsteiger for 6k. So should make easy money on him
The end of that game where I nearly spunked a 3-0 lead shows how shit the match engine in single player is this year. The horrific defensive approach from the AI meant I could knock it round the back for 3 minutes under no pressure whatsoever, despite the opponent having clawed back to 2-3 and having nothing whatsoever to lose.
Have EA run mad? That card is so disgustingly bad, what's the point?
This might just be the worst promo they've ever done.
You got your fullback on stay back Yev? With IF Meunier and Guerreiro being your full backs I would have thought you had them getting forward.
The plan was to do so as I did in FIFA18 and loved it. Scored a fuckload of goals with Florenzi and Bale overlapping, which is why I went for Meunier and Guerrero. Sadly, if I do that I get absolutely molested online and touched up in Squad Battles, so I've told them to stay back. It's not as fun, but I win so much more.
Those last two games were like wading through treacle. I don't know exactly how many Squad Battles games I can cope with in a week against this turgid engine, but I think it was about 5 too many this week (which is much better than previous). Still Elite 2 is done, so that'll be 5 packs to open in the morning and 1 million coins hit if that random Belgian league IF sells.
Fair enough. I play 4-3-2-1 and have mine on 'balanced attack' and 'overlap'.
Well I just took a loss to the crap team as my internet dropped in the middle of the game :face:
Scream Koke and Blind next. Diego Costa also a scream card, but no mention of how he’ll be obtained - Sqaud Battles maybe?
Costa is in packs, no?
Is he? My bad.
Its all good! Looks like he is on the market right now for around 140k on both consoles.
That’s probably not a terrible deal. He’s one I would be interested in.
Just had my late push for Elite 3 in Squad Battles halted with 2 dreadful losses.
Game 1 - Struggle to break down a very good team, albeit with awful chemistry. Pull back to 1-1 with a late header, then proceed to hit the post twice in extra time. Get an early advantage in the shoot-out, but then have 3 penalties saved.
Game 2 - Know that I need to win my remaining games well to get into Elite 3, but come up against a real god squad playing 4-2-4. Nothing I do makes a lick of difference, and I'm 2-0 down by half time. 3 minutes into the second half, my De Vrij is sent off for an innocuous challenge 40 yards out, the resulting free kick is volleyed in from the edge of the box. I decide to cut my losses and forfeit.
Next week I have to make sure I'm not so invested in Squad Battles, I've had to take a short break to alleviate my annoyance.
Squad battles this year seems less worth it. The prizes seem to have taken a fair knock down and there's no legendary "trick" this year either.
I think I've slowly "got" it now. However my finishing still needs work. I seem to be in control of 7/8 of 10 games, however I just can't cut out those counter attack goals. The big annoyance is that I'm not leaving open space in behind, nor am I allowing people into the box easily, rather they counter to just about the edge of the D and then unleash one into the top corner.
I used scream Mings for one SB game with my rotation side and he was actually kinda fun. With his current skills and a sentinel chem style he isnt half bad. Not a 20k left back but still.
I didnt realize he was 6' 5". He is a beast.
Qualified for my first-weekend league. I want to to reach gold3 3 at a minimum which should qualify me for the next weekend league.
SB is dead too me now. Unless there is a tactic to beat legendary consistently. Im done grinding it out. I can get to gold 3 with only a handful of games.
Also played with scary deeney and he isnt that bad. Super strongyp protect the ball.
Neither did I, I’m all over that as a result.
Rewards came in and I packed a couple of IFs which was better than last week. Hit the 1m mark and now sit at 1,012k. Need to spend some serious time buying up leagues and high rated but cheap players, but the games just keep coming thick and fast.
As for squad battles Something clicked last week and I’m now winning around 80% of my games on Legendary, which means at current run rates I need to play about 20 games a week to hit Elite 2, which I think I can just about stomach.
Im enjoying online divisions at the moment. My whole game plan is to frustrate my opponent by refusing to close down the ball unless you are on my 18 yard box. My whole team including the strikers are set to 'come back on defence'
Packed an Iniesta last night in my SB rewards - didn't realise he was still a walkout and 87 rated.
Just realised I have a wedding this weekend. I think I have already renewed my FUT champs which means I have one less day to do it.
https://i.redd.it/vlut5bjg9kt11.jpg
Koke looks good. I imagine he will be the SBC
You only need to make it to Silver 1(11 wins) in order to get enough points to qualify again.
I'm planning on it myself, even though it's the worse of my weekend rotations with work.
I also haven't touched DR since Saturday. Logged in about 2am to claim my weekly pre-order back and I was still just in Rank 1. So may give it a bash over the next day or 2 and see if I can stay there.
I’m looking at Gary Lineker. The H/L work rates could make him a dream.
Which one? 529k for the baby isn’t bad at all, not likely to drop too much either.
I actually bought 86 Keane this morning for 475. He had been up and over 500k all weekend so figured I would get in. Might even flip him at EOW if he goes back up.
Edit: Ruud might be another HL option.
Yeah, was looking at the baby one. Broad idea is that I’d like to bring Mbappe and Neymar in and need an icon to keep the chemistry up I think, albeit haven’t checked yet.
How does chemistry work for icons? Only links with country and other icons?
Been bronze packing for a couple hours today at work. Seems like a no brainer now with those scream SBC bronzes. Packed a couple of them but I'd have broken even anyway whilst adding a fuck load of bronze players into the club that I have no room to sell. I'll hang onto the Ligue 1/Bundesliga ones in case they're useful for the league SBC.
They link to all players. They get green/strong links to players of the same nation and weak/orange links to everyone else.
Found this:
Q: How does chemistry work with FUT Icons?
A: FUT Icons chemistry follows these rules:
The same nationality will have a hyper link (green)
Different nationalities will have a strong link (green)
Icons and non-Icons players with the same nationality will have a strong link (green)
Icons and non-Icons players with a different nationality will have a weak link (orange)
Icons players will at least have a weak link with every player in FUT 19.
How many bronze scream players are there? Might move to the 750 coin packs as a result.
Struggle like fuck just to win on world class at this version. Suffered my worst humiliating defeat yesterday 3-0. Could barely get 4 passes in a row in that match. Against weak teams I can win on legendary but an evenly matched teams or better will take everything I got.
Noticed that the patches now change depending on the competition, with teams relegated to the Championship using EFL numbers and I'd assume when I get promoted we won't be the odd one out with the blank Skybet patches. While welcome, the fact this is the biggest change they've made to career mode is also a bit of an arse.
China and France league SBCs out
Augusto and Oscar
Depay and Thauvin
Depay looks very good.
The China SBC should make Bronze packs even stronger if anything.
Think I sold a Pirates player after the SBC ended which is hilarious.
Only needed two players for Montpelier. First team done on this version.
I have 100 players on my transfer list and 50 unassigned players (all duplicates)
I have just bought a couple of players but I cannot find them anywhere. It seems like unassigned is limited to 50 players but the players I have just bought are nowhere to be found.
Got about 5 CSL teams already done so weighing up whether I want that Augusto. If I go back to three CMs he’d sit nicely alongside Paulinho and IF Anderson Talisca, but he’d replace neither and I’m not sure he has the pace to play as a CAM in the 451 I’m trying out. I’ll mull it over, and if not then sell up the sides I have. I’m erring towards the latter.
Shame, was hoping for Paulinho, Bakambu, Carrasco, Lavezzi or Talisca.
These are repeatable also in case you want to try both Oscar and Augusto.
Does the hype for these SBCs usually die down after a while? Some of the Ligue 1 players are ridiculously expensive.
Unless someone can tell me otherwise I am pretty sure I have just lost about 100K worth of players due to this.
My transfer list is maxed out at 100 players.
My unassigned list is maxed out at 50 players.
I have still been buying players and just assuming they were going in my unassigned pile (I wasn't paying attention to how many players were on this list until I wondered were a certain player was). However, I just sold a player on my transfer list and moved one of my unassigned players to the transfer list. I now have 49 players in my unassigned pile and 100 players on my transfer list and no sign of the other players.
Anyone know different or have I screwed myself?
They'll calm down a little after the hype, but they will stay reasonably expensive so long as the cards/rewards are desirable.
I've carried on a few games and now sit on 17k DR points. 3k above the Rank 1 threshold. Only problem is I now sit at 1590 skill points. One more win will get me promoted. I'm not sure if I want to yet.
Assuming no changes to my team, I'll have about 100k to improve it, if I take the coin reward. I could get a good 3 or 4 players for that, or go for one big one.
Every league gets an SBC right? If so I'll start buying up Bundesliga players now in advance. Might not come out for a while but will save a lot of coin.
If anything, Ligue 1 got more expensive the past couple of years as Silvers with the likes of Toulouse became more rare. I paid 50k to complete some shite teams for the Laca card in 17.
Prem, Serie A and La Liga die down as there’s very few silvers. It’s the silvers that ramp it up.
I’ve got EPL almost done, with just a few Citeh and Man U high rated players to go, and for La Liga I just need a Busquets (sold mine for 85k yesterday) and a few of the Madrid players to reach 85 rated (Kroos, Courtois and Benzema).
Not touching Oscar btw. Complete shite with that physical.
Keano is fun. Him and Seri have legs for days around Sigurdsson.
I think once I got Pogba in there (and probably Kante for Seri) it will be mad. I think I might wait a couple of weeks for that though, hope to get back to 1m and hope for a Black Friday dip
Is Mané or Firmino worth sacrificing several position upgrades on my team for?
What you got at the moment?
I'm trying out Felipe Anderson and Jesus for now. Very basic elsewhere really. I was thinking if I spread it around I could well bring in Fernandino, Sanchez at the back and maybe a new goalkeeper, if not full-back.
https://i.gyazo.com/3460d8cb7e1d6683...11ba0e493f.png
I would get Mane and Firmino in with Jesus upfront in that.
That back four is solid enough, maybe Robertson at left back? Seri is a bit of a beast too, although he runs a lot so I probably wouldnt replace Ndidi with him.
I should have mentioned I'm only going to have about 100k. Can only really afford one or the other, or spent it around the team.
Did the Chinese League team SBC that gives you a Jumbo Premium Silver Pack.
First card out is a keeper from Argentina that sells for 15k. :cool:
Unelsss they have changed things. The players are still there. You just have to sell players as they only show 50 players. I dont know if the have changed it in FIFA 19 but you can still do the unassgined trick so it sounds unlikely they would have changed things. The players are still there I suspect, but are just hidden
I qualified for weekend league but I didnt renew which is good as I have a wedding this weekend so I dont know if I will be able to win 12 games this week.
Just pulled Messi from one of the Ligue 1 SBCs. Oh lord
I've stuck him in the club so I can try him out for a couple of games but I imagine I'll be getting rid. Thinking of picking up an icon, potentially LW Henry for a similar price.
Lucky cunt
If you want to get rid of him don't use him for a couple of games, you'll get a fair bit more for a clean card.
It's Xbox, but cheapest BIN right now is 885k, cheapest unused card is 900k.
I've been tracking him for a while and the gap has been as high as 40k, which is basically your tax paid.
Cheers for the heads up. Sold him for 900K BIN in the end.
Went over budget completing the Reus SBC so the icon plan is on hold for a bit. Still left with 750K and prime Shearer is somewhere near 900 so it should be doable in the near future.
Wait, it makes a difference if the card hasn't been used already?
I mean i guess that makes sense cause then it's a player that's only played for you.
Some people have wild OCD and want a card that has not been used before.
Dates back to the first couple of FUTs when cards tracked the apps/goals/assists across all owners. So, if you wanted to easily track productivity you’d pay up to 20% extra for a clean card.
Now it shows both that and the stats specific to your club so the difference isn’t as much as that anymore as it’s only Autistic geezers going after them.
i have like 900k saved up but i'm really shit at deciding how to get cards to flip into making more money
is it really as simple as checking futbin, seeing what a card normally goes for, then trying to snipe a low BIN or something?
i realize this is stupid to ask, but if anyone has any sure fire ways to make some coin please let me know.
I'm about 40% of the way to George Best and don't want to fuck it up
Got Sczcezny from the UCL upgrade SBC. Not bad actually. Links with both my defenders.
The SBC's have been shocking so far this year. Really poor.
Add a player that is rare to a concept squad so you can quick check player prices daily. For example UCL Kompany goes for about 70k. Becuase he is rare, sometimes you can get him for less than 65k.
I would buy a few IF arnatovic. He is 62k which is cheap for the actual card. The card is worth 70k+ once TOTW is finished tomorrow.
Who charges for Marquee Matchup predictions? There are loads of free sites available.
Did 1 UCL upgrade pack and the reward was wank, but just seen how much some of my League 1 players go for. :drool:
Binned off Scream Ochoa to do the Schweinsteiger SBC. He's crap, but a scream player will be needed for an SBC at some point and an 81 rated German will be more use.
I did the repeatable one once and got Kroos. Woof.
I rinsed some shite through the UCL and the best I got was Bernando Silva.... duplicate ffs
Looks like there was an accident leak on the app. Lewandowski, Di Maria and Mahrez IF coming.
RIP me selling that Mahrez for 125k (at least it was a profit :happycry: )
Picked up two Mahrez earlier for 30k and a Martial for 30k. The latter went up to 50k a time one stage on Saturday so hoping to make 30k profit across the three cards once they’re out of packs.
I’d bloody love either of them as red cards tomorrow too. No one else in the leak looks to be beneficial for me.
Watch everyone buy him up, only for EA to troll and take him back out of TOTW. This is the leak for what it's worth:
https://i.gyazo.com/ca1d109768e4e662...00128e4e5e.jpg
I swapped Willian out for Mahrez last night and I enjoy the latter more. Especially when he plays as a CAM. Some more solid wins getting my skill rating to 1650 now. Then came the most irritating game I've played.
Guy runs up the wing with Mbappe and swings crosses in over and over. This scores him 2 goals eventually. After this he clearly switches up to ultra defensive. Try as I might I can't find any space near his goal for a clear shot. All he does is hoof it over the top looking for Mbappe.
I finally get a penalty midway through the 2nd half. Send the keeper the wrong way, but the ball hits the post and bobbles right back into Mkhitaryans(the taker) path. However he's stuck in an animation of disappointment of missing the penalty. No matter how I try I can't auto switch to him. The ball literally at his feet 6 yards out. His keeper gets up, runs over and picks the ball up.
After that I hit the post twice and have a sweaty cutback somehow miracle saved by his keeper. From about the 80th minute, any time he gets the ball its straight to the corner flag.
If the ball went straight into the post without the keeper touching it, which based on your description it did, that’s the games way of making sure you can’t touch it again and cause an indirect free kick
I didn't know that was a rule wow
Yep someone else has to touch the ball just like a free kick.
Also I got in on the OTW Mahrez (no way the common user saw the leak on reddit) and he is already up 25k.
Lala looks seriously good. May pick him/Di Maria up depending on price.
I'd have jumped in had I been able to afford him. Leak confirmed true now too.
I will say it's a bit of a disappointing TOTW. Maybe 5 players from it worth looking at. The TOTW items seem barely an improvement this year too. Just a standard +1 in most things.
Positive is that I bought my Mahrez for 24k and he's already up to 30k.
I've sold Jesus on because I ended up putting him in at CAM/LW and he wasn't really noticeably better than Mkhitaryan. 90k in the bank now. I'm still 3k above the Rank 1 cut off(it seems to raise about 3.5k per day in Div 5) and so should have that 50odd thousand coming my way. A few more games tonight to secure Rank 1 and I'll have 150k to either build a new team, more if I sell further items on, or 150k to add to what I have.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...ed_my_winrate/
I found this pretty helpful. I still fall back on the sprint button way too much though, it's like a muscle memory thing.
Fabian and Vecino both look like really nice options for my Serie A squad. Don't really want to take Kessie out though, he's a monster.
New tradeable UCL SBC is out. Do it. They are still up for no reason.
Farfan, Stambouli & Maksimovic :(
The requirements for that look really soft. Viewing on my phone, am I missing something?
One thing I've noticed in this FIFA is that high rated players really feel 'worth it'. After upgrading my team it's very noticeably easier to control games.
A couple of games back when I was playing previously it felt like a few random 80-83 rated players were the actual best players in the game and the numbers on the cards didn't matter.
That’s pretty much the consensus I think. Albeit, half the community appreciates it and the other half hate it, as per pretty much everything.
I thought this every time I've tried out the higher rated loan cards.
Mertens and Sane for example feel light years ahead of anyone I've used so far.
It is actually growing on me what EA have done here. Few tweaks and I think we’re set.
Quite a few CL players are fairly affordable at the moment. Seems like the market has been flooded with them due to the SBC.
Picked up 85 Javi Martinez for sub 10k and 84 Kagawa for 3k.
Just played a division rivals game where my players seemed to be so sluggish they could barely move. The oppositions players were fine, but I managed to escape with a 1-1.
Does that shit sometimes happen?
I swear it does to me every now and then but it could've been mental to be quite fair.
Are they played on the dedicated servers now or is it still P2P?
I'm sure it's the former. My wireless connection is a nightmare connecting to it. I'll get random bouts of the screen freezing for 5 seconds, then speeds right back up for 5 seconds. It's a nightmare if I or my opponent are near the goal because I just become a spectator.
Absolute shocker tonight. 2 draws and 3 losses and scoring fuck all.
Can't seem to create any space whatsoever in and around the box. Feels so different to previously.
I wouldnt bother, the upgardes on them are pitiful. Its just enough to tip the face stats.
Martinez only has 17 extra IGS.
https://www.futbin.com/19/compare/443/439
There must be a version of form in Division Rivals as game 6 tonight is won 7-0. Ben Yedder scoring 5.
Biggest win and worst player I've faced so far. Either drunk or a sympathy bot.
Still, that's rank II secured and up to 1.15m coins in the morning. I need to buy some new players soon.
I've seen an idea for a team you could well use. I believe you have some of these already if I remember right.
https://i.gyazo.com/8adf4f06fac60949...ba35dcae96.png
Someone knock up a team for me.
Has to make use of UCL untradeables Kroos, Walker and Smalling.
Budget is like 60k.
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512k total but take out the UCLs and FUTBIN reckons 51k.
I'm liking that, cheers.
You do have options too.
Keeper with a hard link either way (Pickford, Navas, Courtois, DDG) can go in or dual soft links (Rico).
Any La Liga left back.
Seri can go for any Prem Midfielder, I like him so wouldnt recommend changing though.
Jesus can go for Firminho, Benzema or Kane
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You’ll enjoy that. I’ve played with all of them bar Ben Yedder and Promes. The defence is great, but Paulinho and Talisca really make it for me. I’ve moved to 433(3)I think - the one with 2 CM and a CAM and Talisca dominates game in, game out for one of my sides - far more than Firminio and to the extent that I’m considering moving to one side with him as the star man within the next fortnight. I’d consider Douglas Costa and IF Hulk as well. The latter is just stunning as a striker with Hawk. Brilliantly rounded.
I couldn't even afford half of Mbappe! I was just suggesting a squad Yev could use.
Took the coins and now have 150k myself. Now I'm looking through the community squads section of FUTBIN to give me ideas. I know what I could get for the coin in the EPL, but Serie A has become a lot cheaper since I left it.
Yeh totally misread that!
Well if Yev plumps for Talisca and Paulinho he’ll love ‘em too I’m sure (well, aside from Taliscas 78 stamina which is the only that lets him down really).
Had a play around on FUTBIN and this is very within my range. I'd have to sell Mahrez to fund it but I'd be able to make it.
https://i.gyazo.com/c833c6462e4c86e3...9479a2aeba.png
If I don't do that I could very well add 4 or 5 to my current team. The only problem with an EPL team is the striker. Once you go past Jesus at 30k, you're looking at 200k+ to make a meaningful addition.
Excluding Bobby at 80k?
I pulled unreadable NIF Laca last night so now I really am considering ditching his IF for Bobby and putting NIF Laca in team 2.
Mkhitaryan is serviceable so I'd look at more needs areas of the team first.
CB, LB, CDM and LW would be the priority. Or I turn my current side into a fitness side and make the 2nd team above my main.
Cheers for the team advice. I figured there are things I need to do first before buying new players, namely:
Sort my custom tactics out - I want a high pressing one, any guides anywhere on this?
Learn more (some!) skill moves
Open a shitload of bronze and or silver packs.
Have a reasonably free weekend too. :drool:
Is today's SBC the 11th Futswap player available?
Does anywhere keep a list?
IF Fabian & Eriksen from various SBCs today.
I have 11, pretty sure I have them all (including today) so I think thats the count.
Fuck knows what to do, I dont care for any of the players but throwing 10 at a prime gold players pack seems like a waste
https://www.fifauteam.com/fifa-19-pa...oldPlayersPack
Today brought me Davison Sanchez and Ibra. The former is like 60k. Thinking I need to sell and get him back later
I havent tried him yet. Not sure what to do with him really
I'll be going for Lallana on the Futswap as he's a decent card (I facking love 5 star weak foot players) and will be a good sub as a result.
Also offers a way into the English league should I ever wish to.
Pulled Matuidi from the MM's and decided to use the 200k+ I've received today to build the final one team squad and buy up some fitness cards. I'm at the stage where were I to continue with fitness squads then upgrading both teams is necessary, but it's also fast becoming a false economy. So, I've upgraded in goal by bringing back Courtois for a few grand less than I sold mine, also returning is Alex Sandro, who has cost twice as much as I sold him for a couple of weeks back, Douglas Costa at LW, and I finally get to try out Rabiot and Lala (opted for SIF), who I've been keen to try. But of course, Mbappe is the star.
Medium-Long term, I'll aim to bring in an Icon at CM in Rabiot's place, and Costa will need to go too as he's too weak and his finishing is gash. Also hoping Talisca, Hulk and Paulinho get more in-forms. CSL has had quite a few so far, and the three fo them are raking in the goals and assists as I understand it, so there's hope for a reasonably stamina'd Talisca and even better Hulk and Paulinho cards yet.
Scored within 2 minutes of his debut with his first touch, chipping the keeper from wide right :drool:
http://oi64.tinypic.com/2wqvjtu.jpg
Lacazettes price is up to almost 300k ahead of the weekend. So on the market he goes. 86 Keane's price is also up almost 60k from when I bought him so he can go too.
Not sure how much I will play this weekend, so i will take the big profit!
Cracking team there Merse.
That 84 Lala looks ridiculous.
That entire team looks obscene. I'd hate to come up against that, very much.
Done 4 of the 5 slots on my custom tactics. Only really used two of them so far. One is my standard keep it tight and the other is an obscene pressing 3-5-2. You can't use it for a full game, but just switched it on for the last 30 minutes in a squad battles game and ran out a 9-1 winner (comfortably my biggest win on SB in FIFA19). Ok, the opposition was bilge, but very pleasing to see it in action as it essentially functions like the press you could do in 18 that they turned off in 19.
Ben Yedder netting another 5 goal haul, finishing the game at CAM. I love my front 3 and don't ever really want to change them.
Enjoying the formation too. This, along with 442 were traditionally always my FUT formations, but I abandoned both when PTB and narrow formations became en vogue in '17 and it used to get overrun in midfield. This year it feels a little more balanced, even if I'm often using a scrambling defence, but my play style and team cope with that at the moment. I'm up to D4 now, having spent the past month bumbling around D5 on 1200-1300 skill points. So, it's definitely as effective as it is fun for me. Whether it works in Weekend League is another question.
Rabiot is giving me a headache too - I thought I'd try him and revert to Kondogbia (also 10 chem with this), but he's a lot better than I thought he'd be, and I'm now unsure as to which makes the starting XI tomorrow night.
Work rate is an issue... Especially given Rabiot is at RCM and is also H/M. He's not as bad as Marcelo for spending all his time overlapping, but he does really love a gallop. Hence, the shadow. He's quick enough to have an anchor, but I need excess recovery pace and interception stats with him galavanting around the joint.
Saying that, he's incredible, and cheap as chips at 30k.
He must be one of the best right backs in the game and being French is easy to link.
I'm sorely tempted to buy 50 of him when the price hits a low with the aim of making 5k per card in a week or two.
When are IFs normally at their cheapest?
Talking of IFs, there are now only 4 Ben Yedder's on the Xbox market, with the cheapest at 120k. I paid 55k for him.
There's a fortune to be made here.
As for Rabiot and Kondogbia, I prefer the former actually (despite his feet ability flaws) so can see where you're coming from Merse. Kondogbia's hugely overrated for me, he's just feels too clumsy and his workrates don't suit that either, so I can see why his price has bombed since I bought him. 75% drop. Good player, but that's it.
On the other hand, I really liked Kondogbia breaking things up in the 4321. For some reason, a CM with stay back really does acnhor a midfield in that formation, which doesn't happen to an RCM/LCM in this formation. Think I'm gonna take Rabiot into Champs anyway.
IF's are hard to predict, but some of the recent inflation and lack of supply is just part of a general trend in the early weeks - 90% of people can't afford them and everyone would rather sell those they get to bring in players across their team. There's always a point, normally a little later than this, when they pick back up as NIFs plummet, as suddenly a much greater proportion of players can afford the IFs. This seems to have happened just this last week or so.
Crash comes in a few weeks - I'd beware any investments planned for more than a week, as prices stagnate and drop in anticipation. One of the reasons I went one team this week was the 25% profit on offer for van Dijk, Lloris, Felipe Anderson and Lloris on what I paid for them. That would've been wiped in a couple of weeks (probably the same for my targets though I guess, so probably not really anything to celebrate).
The other thing I want to get into is OtW, is that really easy money?
Buy after they've not got the IF and sell before the teams are announced?
EDIT: Cheers for the tips. Might hold fire a bit and I see the couple of IFs I bought last week haven't really increased in value.
OTW seems to be decent money if you buy on a Sunday and are willing to hold a week to sell on prematch hype. Before his IF Mahrez was available at 90k and going up to around 120k at game time. Richarlison seems similar, albeit 22k up to 30k on game day.
I nabbed a few of his cheap today to hopefully sell ahead of the game Saturday. I wont be getting greed though, 3/4k will do for an initial dabble.
Edit: 86 Keane - Only two on the market. One at 538k and one at 794k so I got greed and split it for an hour to see what I can maybe make....
Edit 2: Shit, two people undercut me with valuations closer to 600k! (That would still be 120k profit though)
How many Futswap players are they releasing in total? I think I only have 8 so far - missed completing a few in the first week of the promo. I'm only still doing it as I want the 86 El Sha, going to be quite irritating if I wont have enough.
14, so if you still have the current SBC to do you’ll be able to make it.
On 11 now so one tonight to finish it off would be nice. Albeit there’s probably some value in being picky about who I submit.
Nearly scored with a drag back last night. :drool:
Bollocks, I did the SBC last night. I'm going to be one short. :facepalm:
Seems like a lot of work just to get a 50k pack or whatever the reward at 10 players is.
Made my Serie A team last night and gave it a test in Div 4. Lost 4-1, 5-0 and then won 6-0 so god knows. The players in general being slower is taking getting used to.
It's the flip side of the EPL team. Everyone is tall and strong minus Mertens. Perisic isn't quite as strong as I'd hoped though. In any case I'll give it a try. The idea is to try and play 5 game chunks here and there.
If I make it beyond 10 wins I'll be happy.
https://mobile.twitter.com/EASPORTSF...61607098548225
First shapeshift. Looks like one stat stayed the same and one changed for a lot of them (so I presume all).
Blind is weekly obj. Currently has 90 pace and 91 pass.
Oh and fucking Fellaini now has 91 pace ffs
Shifted Laca for 298 this morning and he is already back down into the 270s. Bit more of a drop and I will probably get him back. Got greedy on Keane though and he never sold for the inflated price :lol:
New Icon SBC
https://mobile.twitter.com/EASPORTSF...443364865?s=09
Rio and Lamps :nod:
I desperately need a decent 83 / 84 SBC. I took the advice via Reddit and invested in a mountain of 83 / 84 players and they have all dropped in price since.
I can't open any packs because I have so many unassigned players and I am desperate to improve my team. If nothing comes out tomorrow I think I will have to take the hit and sell.
I'll have won FIFA if I could score the goal that Nepenthez does at 6 minutes 20 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0NgZZYVQYk
What moves is he rocking there?
I'm also interested. I know the full dragback is RB, but the shimmys he does left and right look really useful.
5 games down in the WL. 5 wins and only 2 goals conceded. I'd say in the first 4 games I was the better player, with the last game requiring the most skill. However after I went 2-1 up late in it, my opponent devolved his play into looking for space for finesse shots on the edge. That allowed me to read him relatively easily.
I've no misconceptions of myself going 30-0 here, but it's always fantastic to go 4-1 or better in your first 5 games. I'm still only looking to get into double figures. If I can make it into Gold anything that would be a dream first stab at this.
That goal/video is infuriating. I get distracted just listening to a podcast while I'm playing FIFA, never mind describing what I'm doing and talking about other things while recording myself.
Looks like a dragback and maybe la croqueta?
He did say la croqueta.
Ah I watched it with sound off. Settles that one :lol:
https://youtu.be/C8Nqi1O7vJM
Forgot to renew weekend league. Played rivals and im on 9 game winning streak. I need someone to blame. Fuck you all
Blame whoever is getting married (that was you and this weekend right?)
Loads to do today:
Get 4 division rivals wins which will take me to Lalllana
Hit the 2,000 FUT Champions Qualification points
Marquee Matchups (look worth it for once)
Secure Elite 1 in Squad Battles
Bronze packs
Gut the club of shit
Go through all the bronzes and see where we are
A good wind could see me to 1.2m coins today,
I love you too Sincere.
Streaming again.
https://mixer.com/Chemical_Locust
What's that Merse?
I wasn't, no.
5 more games down and I've been knocked down to 7-3.
All but one was competitive with a blowout loss in there. I probably should be 8-2, which would look a whole lot healthier, but it has shown me things about my side.
Milinkovic-Savic has been pretty disappointing. He's sluggish both on and off the ball and I really need to have Matuidi or Nainggolan in there. He was being useful for his height, but in my last game I was 1-0 up and the other guy used a player controller corner. In trying to get over to his man he got stuck on another player and gave him a free header. He then switched to a 4-3-3(4) and suffocated the life out of me.
I can't afford Matuidi until Wednesday either, so for now it's either soldier on, or look at IF Pellegrini, IF Fabian or IF Vecino as a short term replacement.
20 games left and the aim is to try and win half of those.
16-12 in Champs this weekend after committing the cardinal sin of playing most of my games on Friday, against many an R9, but pleased with it so far. Will get the final win to make Gold 2 and ensure my player picks are choice of 4’s from my last three games tomorrow I’m sure.
I might try buying and running a ethernet cable and see it is improves any. I'm only 10 feet or so from my hub, but it does that slow down/speed up thing at least once per game.
Another 5 games, another 2-3 session. I really really should have gone 4-1. Now 9-6 in total.
Is there something which gives away where you are putting your penalty? I've missed my past 4. The last one hurt too. 2-0 down. Despite being better. Brought it back to 2-1 and then got a penalty with a red card. He saved it then kept the ball in the corner for 15 minutes.
Moved into Elite 1 for Squad Battles and have 4 games in hand still to play.
Won 2 division rivals games as well so halfway to Lallana and 1/6th of the way to Scream Blind.
I see the Futbin app still has the same problem as last year in that it tells you a player is on the market for xk and there are actually loads for 200 coins.
This remains awesome though.
https://i.postimg.cc/nLg1D2Tr/futbin.jpg
Since day 1, I’ve always found Friday a struggle, matching up against a lot of difficult opponents with big teams. I always assumed this was due to matchmaking being weighted on performance in the league itself and no one yet having put together much of a record, along with that I’d start early after/during my usual work from home day, and that would likely mean facing a lot of the other accomplished players who started early to get the full 40 games in.
Pitch notes (EA’s new method of communicating all the shit players want to know, and a massive step forward for community engagement amongst the hardcore - not that the ungrateful shits are much appeased) recently clarified matchmaking in Fut Champs, and it seems that I was right to some extent -
https://www.easports.com/fifa/news/2...weekend-league
TL;DR, it’s all based on form, and on Friday, no one has form outside of the allowed differential. So I could face Nepenthez or Faze Taz or AA9Skillz etc
Add to that I still think the real hardcore types dominate Friday Fifa and it becomes a real nightmare of a day. Saturday morning through to Sunday morning, by contrast, sees me tearing apart people.
Problem is, that’s the most difficult time for me to play due to social, Arsenal and gf commitments. Bah. Life.
It’s all based on Bins. Given a lot of players on open bid are listed at 10k max, it gets skewed. The easiest way to filter it out is to only look at High chance of selling. Med and Low normally mean they go on open bid.
It mainly cuts down time for me in focusing me on sale candidiates which I then check out in game, as opposed to being a real pricing guide.
I didn't realise they've got rid of monthly rewards for these weekly reds. I'm not sure I like it, but then I guess it takes the pressure off having to go every week.
Does mean I can stop when I reach a point of it not being possible to get the next reward set.
Up to 1.4m in the bank, with 250k of items to sell.
Need to figure out what the hell to do with the side.
Much better IMHO. It makes each W/E league more valuable. I’d normally get a couple of Gold 1 finishes and then not be able to play the other couple of weekend so end up with crappy silvers. This, along with being able to choose the player you want, is far far better.
Also nicer having a quicker turnaround.
I've been thinking about mine and Kante and Pogba are seriously appealing.
Got Futswap Lallana. The card looks very nice.
Only planned on playing 5 games, but got on a roll with some peace and quiet. I'm done at I believe 18-11. This has also pushed me up to Rank 1 in DR too. 65k coins if I stay there.
I'll have 2 player picks, a rare gold pack, 2 rare mega packs and 45k coins coming my way. There's potential of a Ronaldo TOTW item this week, as well as Mané, but in truth I'll be greatful for any player of use.
I will add that 30 games, combined with the non-monthly rewards, makes this so, so much better.
Aubameyang POTM potentially incoming. I would go all out for that.
Same :nod:
Pogba and Kante closing in on 500k and 400k each (down from pre/ealy weekend prices of 550 and 450) might pick up a Pog before the game incase he does something and then flip.
46,879 for Squad Battles with 9 games to go. Need to work out what should seal Elite 1 as I'm buggered if I'm playing all of them, but thinking somewhere around 52k, so three wins.
81 points off FUT Champions qualification too. Won't be able to play it next weekend, but once I'm in that (providing I win at least 20% of my games) it'll transform the club and get me off the squad battles tedium.
Closing in on 1.2m of coins and itching to spend some, but too close to the Black Friday crash to do that.
Picked up Scream Verratti earlier for around 45k net after selling his normal card. I'll probably end up keeping him as most of the boosts should be useful, but it turns out knocking people off the ball with a 5'5" midget and scoring from outside the box at will is pretty fun right now.
The price of most of these should hopefully go up when the boost switches to pace as well so they shouldn't be an awful investment.
Decided to buy Pogba earlier, before he scored and assisted so maybe I can get out him at evens.
Slotted him into the side as LCM in 4321, free role and get forward. 2 goals before half time forcing a rage quit.
There really is a big difference in the higher rated players and not this year.
Just got my best pull.
David Silva.
@Yevrah, how is lallana? I haven’t used my tokens yet, he could potentially replace Seri in my side (I love that little bastard)
IF Lewandowski in my rewards :drool:
Edit: IF Pacheco in my weeklys.
Keita the best in my weeklys, bah.
Managed to pull Scream Ampadu in my SB rewards. Discard price though.
Absolute dogshit in my rewards and jumbos.
Lallana seems ok Danny, but probably too early to judge.
Have they still yet to release the Scream Koke card? Hopefully it'll be an SBC with a Scream card requirement, can either sell Ampadu on or use him then.
Ive got nine FUT Swap cards. Is it possible to still get 12?
Including the Rivals weekly objective that’s current active? If you haven’t got that one already then I believe that yes, you can still get 12.
I have 12 and I am pretty sure that’s 100% of what’s available.
There's a daily objective one available now. Bit shady of them to put it in without an announcement.
Ive got this weeks obj FUT SWAP but I dont see anything for the daily obj FUT SWAP. I havent been given the option to win it.
Just under 3 hours left.
https://i.gyazo.com/b7226c55800e1666...4f050e4c14.png
Looks like only a select view received that obj. I dont have it.
I don’t have that on either. I would have completed it yesterday had it been there.
Thats a bit shit. Obj like that, should be universal across the board. Especially since they are so tricky to get.
Seems not everyone gets the same objectives every day in that case. Which is very shitty of them.
I think I've only got 5 or 6. Are the packs for them tradeable?
I believe so.
I finally flipped and bought enough packs to get 93 George Best. Pretty fucking chuffed, fellas.
It has become a bit of an obsession of mine since I realized he was gonna be in the game.
Now, I can spend the rest of the season flipping cards like a normal person and not dropping $35+ in FIFA points every weekend hoping to pack things I can sell.
Got a "clean" card at 2,020,000 and then bought Samir Handonovic's CL card (89) for like 140k and left the basic chem on there as some of you suggested. In fairness I did throw the clean Best back on the market at 2.5mil to see if anyone would bite while I was watching Orlando City play but once that expired it was straight in.
On the aesthetic side, I've decided to go full Miami Vice and took this kit:
https://futhead.cursecdn.com/static/...1_112392_0.png
and the generic Palermo badge. Why would anyone care? I don't know but I'm just typing to be typing at this point.
What kit is that?
Al Raed away kit I believe.
Just bought it for 150. Nice.
I just logged in pissed there was new content as I love me an SBC. Took a minute to realize your time changed but here didn’t yet :face:
I like what they've done with kits/stadia this year.
Last 2 years you had people using stadia with awful shadows just to troll you and if you wore an EA kit, no one would play you in FUT Champs as they were usually there to show you won it through being good at the game in some way.
Now they have it so both of you play in the EA stadium, whilst your opponent will have on your away kit and you your home kit. On their screen it will be their home kit and their away kit too.
Apparently there's an SBC Koke about to come out?
Do their stats shape shift as well? If not I want him bossing about my midfield please :D
Koke would be essential as a CM. Might still be worth it as an LM played at CM on 7 Chem with the right boosts and chem styles.
I’ll be using leftovers in the club with one or two purchases to field a fitness team in Rivals. Whilst FUT Champs deserves a dedicated side, I’ve enough high rated players to play one in every three Rivals games without paying out 100’s. Will be nice to be free to experiment as well as bring Jesus and Lucas back into the fold, hopefully with a couple of FUT Champs rewards cards.
Are they boosted all year and just change which stats are boosted when there is a full moon etc. ?
They have two stats boosted at all time but the boosted stats change. When they were released they had two stats at 90, then last week they ‘shifted’. Pretty sure only one stat moves and that stat became 91.
So we could see the 90 move and become 91 also at the next shift. Can’t imagine they will go to 92, yet.
Example being the Schweinsteiger I posted above. He has 37 pace and that’s how he was released. Right now he has 91 pace but retained his 90 dribbling.
They've only said at selected times through the season. Last years lot got bumped 5 or 6 times after the original run if I remember right.
I've given up on the 2 squads idea for now and gone full on Serie A. I've also sold off the assets I wasn't using and now sit on 45k. Another 45k in Champs rewards and at least 50k from Rivals.
Looking at bringing 3 or 4 players into the team for this weekend. Matuidi, Douglas Costa and Handanovic are must adds for me. To add beyond that needs some pack luck.
Finally finished the Ligue 1 SBC. Went for Thauvin over Depay as he may not start over Cavani and Mbappe would be a massive outlay right now. He's almost definitely not worth the money it cost, but I'm a sucker for collectibles.
http://i.imgur.com/0kG4hrp.jpg
Will Futswap happen again next month? Will be all over any Ligue 1/Bundesliga players if so.
Pretty sure its monthly this time around
I'm going to guess new year will be the next lot. I wish I'd had the coins and wherewithal to keep up with collecting the cards. The El Shawarway would be perfect for my team as it is.
Assuming I can actually with a Rivals game, I can grab the last one and take my total to 6. I'll probably pick up the two players in case they are needed in future SBCs.
Futswap is monthly now.
Will you be able to use this months players in next months?
Nope.
Got nothing from the Koke SBCs (except him of course) but I did ditch some tat on the market to pay for it.
Mahrez goal today saw me sell him for 200k. He is already back down to the 180's.
Also, if anyone is looking at him Davinson Sanchez price is still falling. Down under 40k now
I've heard not, but I don't know how they'll actually stop you.
Like others in this thread I also didn't get the Futswap daily objective yesterday. I'd be fuming if I needed it.
I wasn't going to do Koke, but those packs make it worthwhile.
EDIT: He also offers a way for me to get Messi in the team but keep Ben Yedder at striker.
Did Koke. I'm in the worst run of pack luck I can remember. Nothing higher than an 82 in either. Haven't had anything more than an 83 for what feels like weeks now.
Are you on this yet John?
I'm playing a division rivals game against two players. What in the fuck?
Someone tried that against me yesterday I saw the second player join in the lobby and backed out before playing. They are either going to be complete dog shit or dominate going forward
3 Division Rivals games tonight, 3 losses. Almost everything gone against me that possibly could.
This game has more capacity to trigger than anything I've ever played before.
Did Koke with duplicates from my transfer pile. He’s pretty good, should be a decent sub in for Talisca when he’s done by the 60th min in FUT Champs and he’s currently at LW in my B Team. Went up to D4, definitely a tangible step up, but look forward to better rewards next week.
I was on the cusp of Division 5, but the three losses have fucked that somewhat.
Still, I'm now only two Promes goals in separate games away from Scream Blind.
I'm struggling with D4 a little too.
Though from reading up, it seems people are purposefully relegating themselves to get there. Div 3/4 have the best reward structure compared to time put in and so are the places to be.
Soldiered on and got Blind after a few wins. They really need to sort pace out or do something to nobble people who camp on the halfway line and spend the entire game pressing.
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It’s going ok actually. I’m holding steady around the 1600 pt mark, losing more with the B Team of course, but generally
Getting the results I need to grind out the points. Certainly won’t be at all interested in D3 though. There be the whales.
Kind of miss the days when I was winning D1 in seasons in ‘17 or holding my own there with an all Scottish XI at various points of four or five FUTs previous to that. FUT Champs and now Rivals totally robbed me of the feeling that you were actually good at this game. I now feel painfully average.
According to reddit EA are just giving people the missing futswap player.
They are. I got him this morning. A Dortmund player.
Futbin import is annoying. It says my bronze and silver players are worth 1500+ but when i check, they are not even selling for 200 BIN
Yeah, it rarely works unfortunately.
The problem with FUTBIN and the silvers is it doesn’t check/update enough. If the price is one I am happy with I typically just list for 100/200 less and let it go and keep relisting; they seem to sell eventually.
If I may, Dries Mertens & Sergej Milinovic-Savic(spl) have been fucking monster for me. Radja is pretty great as well.
Was going to provide stats to back this up but apparently the fifa app doesn't show your club stats for goals/appearances, but Sergej has scored quite a few corners for me especially (even with bicycle kicks lmao).
Sorry if you already have these guys and i'm just talking into the wind but I'd highly recommend.
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I'm thinking about picking up Matuidi as I have Pogba coming off the bench... feel like I can sort out my chem with PP with Best+Matuidi but gotta figure out how to keep Dybala in the side at CAM. I guess I could move Dybala up to a ST of some kind but then Mertens would have to go wide left and then likely drop Insigne.
Hm.
What formation you playing? You could probably shoehorn all of them in, even more so with the in game formation switching these days.
Milinkovic-Savic is good for his power. Pure physical presence in the midfield. However I have replaced him with Matuidi this morning and I'm not looking back. He's everywhere. He also has the finesse shot trait which is crucial in this game.
Hamsik is now sticking out for being a little sluggish, but he weighs in with a lot of goals for me. I've also noticed I play much better when I bring newly acquired super subs, Promes and Depay on off the bench. I don't know if it's just because they are fresh legs, but I seem to improve.
Mertens is a tough one. I feel like he should be better than he is. My last 2 games have pointed this out. In the first I went up quickly and scored 4, 2 with Mertens, both quality finishes just outside the box. The 2nd game, I was 3-0 down. Came back to 3-2 and was all out attack. He finally got the ball unmarked just inside the box dead centre and he put it wide. I was finessing and didn't use a timed finish either. It's a tough one that, even though he has value, the next step up is Dybala and he is is a good 200k away.
I'd do it but other upgrades would need that coin first. Alex Sandro is needed. While I'd also like to add Radja and Douglas Costa in as a RW.
it's the 4-3-3 (4) at the moment:
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* - Best will go to 10 once I get enough games in for the loyalty bonus.
My bench currently consists of:
Pogba, Hamsik, Cuardado, Icardi, Callejon, Cesc, and Carvajal
Bringing Pogba off the bench hasn't been the worst thing for me and often is a great boost to the midfield in the 2nd half but still feel like i'm wasting coins by having a 400-500k player sitting on the bench for most of the time... but then I think well if you sell PP (who I packed praise Jesus) who would you even get that could upgrade the team at this point.
Hm.
Get Matuidi in that team ASAP. You wont be sorry.
@Gray Fox Ya all of my buddies have raved about Matuidi, I might just have to make the plunge to see what he's all about.
Am I a shithead because I don't want Douglas Costa cause he spit in some dude's mouth? I realize that's kinda petty but idk lmfao makes me feel grimy.
I'd also def agree Hamsik is pretty sluggish for the most part, which is why I ended up dropping him to the bench in favor of SMS & Radja. if Matuidi turns out to be a player I may have a problem on my hands as far as CM's are concerned lmao (I also did this same thing with CB's and just recently decided to stick with Manolas and sold off De Vrij, Bonucci, + Skriniar(spl). I probably should've kept one or two but was in full "I NEED GEORGE BEST" mode)
I'm also thinking about going to the one where the forwards are LF, ST, RF as that was what I was using with Insigne\Mertens\Icardi and was scoring for fun. I feel like Best stays too wide even deep in the 3rd which kinda messes up how I play (generally kicking it around at the top of the box waiting for a nice 1-2 to emerge)
I also, like a n00b, haven't fucked around with the custom tactics at all, so that's probably what I need to work on next
The patch has hit and brought with it a few noticeable changes.
- Firstly they've got rid of the EA logo flashing at the bottom to give away a walkout, when opening a pack.
- They've very annoyingly removed the ability to skip a goal replay as the person who conceded. Prepare to watch all replays against thatguy again.
- Changing your players around now saves them in the formation you have set currently, not the starting formation.
I'd also noticed before that sometimes switching up to a 4-1-2-1-2 narrow, my players would not be where I put them. For example Mertens should be the CAM, but often I'd have seen him at LM in what looks very much a 4-4-2.
There's also a reported TOTW leak showing Suarez, Ronaldo and Pogba. But I'm not buying it.
I have seen predictions but no leaks yet. I can imagine them getting them all in though. Would be a massive point spending spree.
I can't wait for them all to get in and then have to chose between 79-82 rated for my player picks.
Anything on gameplay in the patch?
Removing the ability to skip opponents replays is devastating. If anyone wants to watch their goal back they can do so in match highlights.
Being able to skip celebrations / goal replays is the best feature they have added. I haven't celebrated or watched a replay once.
Bound to feel like a completely different game then....
I have 10 FUT swap cards with 0 currenty avicllable. Is lallana dead?
Let me check when I get home. I have all but the one they handed out today.
@SincereTheRebel I have 13, so 1 left.
Other than the rewards for ranking, do you get any Fut Champions qualification points for playing Fut Champs matches?
IF Pickford from my costume party pack, that's more like it.
Anyone given Kane a go? Figuring I will give him a shot upfront instead of going in for Auba/rebuying IF Laca. The potential loss on Kane for BF sales is a lot less!
Cheers. Those premium electrum player packs might actually be worth it. You only need to average 1k a player to break even and with the silver market being what it is it’s possible.
Shouldn’t lose too much either way and there’s the slim possibility of pulling something decent.
Surprised not to see Barkley get his second IF. It is him or Auba for POTM.
LM Willian is a shame. Not going to compete with Sane, Mane, Martial or the eventual Sonaldo!
Was going to say Sancho could be fun until I saw his finishing.
As much as I would love POTM Auba it would cost too much. Barkley could be a reasonable cost. Might have to keep an eye on his IFs bet they ask for it.
May pick up Marquinhos if he's cheap, but nothing else I'm too interested in there. Waiting on the Bundesliga POTM, Sancho or Jovic I've heard.
I’d be very happy with Marquinhos or Mane in player picks, with Pato the minimum to keep me pleased.
I bought 4 Pizarro's (76) when I saw today's SBC for 1,300 and they have sold for 8,000. Happy with that.
You know we're picking from the group of players on the right don't you? I'd be pretty much happy with anything on the left of the split.
A little disappointing there's only 3 Serie A players. Only 2 usable ones too. If I could get one of them I'd be over the moon.
I'm trying to make sure I hit Rank 1 in Rivals but the score keeps going up and up. You can now keep track of them on FUTBIN too. They've only a few divisions for now, but more to add soon.
I've not had any player pick yet, was just joking around.
I've seen some players finish top 100, and of their 5 pick packs get a single 84 and 4 garbage reds. That Manolas would be a dream. He's by far the best CB I've used thus far.
I've just won 3 quick games. One guy rage quit after my first goal. Then won a close good game, then he took the ball straight into his own net and quit. 25.5k points. Surely that's enough?
Yeh I think each player to pick from has the same odds of being any particular player once your Gold or above, you just get more to select from or more packs as you move up the rankings. Hence, some gold 2 get a Lewandowski. Top 100 stalwarts are raging as a result.
I'm happy with anything usable. They're informs for free after all. I just hope I don't have to make a hard choice!
These upgrades :face:
https://www.futbin.com/19/compare/805/17151/804
Unless they reelease two FUT SWAP cards over the next 28 hours. I will be short for Lallana which is annoying. We should have a schedule on when they are available.
By my calculations there's 1 still to come (as I've definitely used 13 of them), but I agree, they've handled it really poorly. The opportunities to earn them should be labelled as "Futswap Card x of 14" and there should at least be some idea of when they're coming.
The annoying thing is they've not announced them when they come out. Wasn't there a card that was only available as a daily in the first 24 hours?
There was. You had to win 3 division rivals games to get it as a daily objective reward. You have to at least be semi looking for them to find them some of them.
Ridiculous. So badly implemented but there is time and room for improvements. After reading the notes, we should have had 14 SWAPS during October. We haven't had that many and we are now in Novemember.
Servers down?
Went to claim my rewards and can't get on.
I was kicked off just after 6pm and haven't been able to get on since. Very annoying because I was hoping to get 3 wins tonight to qualify for the weekend league.
I've just got on and been able to collect my rewards.
First player pick was a choice of: Mancini(78), Zardes(79), Willian(86) and Hilton(82)
Second player pick was a choice of: Marquinhos(86), Sharp(78), Bellarabi(83) and Hilton(82)
Delighted to add Marquinhos and Willian to the club. I don't know quite where they'd fit into the team, but I'll have to figure that out. I've at least gained 2 super subs.
Nothing from the packs unfortunately, but plenty of fitness card goodness.
Weekend league is going to be delayed by 24 hours and extended 24 hours on the other side. Someone fucked something up big time on their end. All matchmaking has been disabled too.
Also along with the weekend league rewards they handed out kits from a bunch of the eSports teams. Some look quite tasty to be fair.
This weekend league shift is odd, but might work out for me. I’m at a wedding tomorrow in Brighton so won’t be back home until midday Sunday, so fitting in 8-10 hours over Sunday and Monday night should be do-able.
I would've been happy with just Pato to be fair. I kind of feel obliged to get them in the team now! I've been told by countless people how lucky a sod I am. Hell of a lot of reports of people with better packs than me getting a little bit shit on.
How is Douglas Costa? I've been planning on buying and using him as a RW on 8 Chem. He seems perfect right up until the 67 finishing.
This is the current team:
https://i.gyazo.com/506fabf563609ca9...cea9a3039f.png
I have 160k on hand to improve it.
I'm torn between adding a big player or 2, or spreading it out. Alex Sandro would pretty much wipe out the whole budget, but would likely set my left back for a long time.
Nainggolan would be just over 60k if I sold Hamsik back on to fund it.
Elsewhere I'd like to improve the keeper to Handanovic and I'd consider moving Allan on and switching to the 4-3-3(4) in order to bring in a more physical presence up front. The RW spot is a tough one in Serie A, hence wanting to play Costa over there. Insigne is also an option.
Benatia also seems like a fair upgrade on Skriniar. Both have the same sprint speed, but Benatia is much stronger and better in the air.
No consideration for Koulibaly?
He has a high attacking workrate, so would leave a gaping hole in the defence now and then. He also seems to have lost 3 inches since FIFA 18? :sherlock: Beyond that they're very similar with their in-game stats.
So I've started trying to play my squad battles on Ultimate and can I just say it's really annoying how the game doesn't actually become harder it just forces your players to do dumber shit to compensate for the skill difference.
Edit: Maybe it's Legendary? Whichever is the one above WC.
Serie A and Japan League SBCs just dropped to a tonne of disappointment. Dzeko and Skriniar with tiny upgrades are the rewards for Serie A.
Fut swap for october is still live with an additinal 30 days. Wtf. Same rewards. Lallana is still available.
Edit: not days hour. It says 30 hours. Im 100% sure i saw days though..
It did say days for a little bit. They've given people an extra day to claim and use the last item that was there via SBC.
Giving it an extra day because of the server downtime. Makes sense.
A League and Serie A SBCs up. Makes me think we will see the “main” leagues very soon but the cards will be meh.
Did half of the Serie A SBC’s for the better packs using mainly players in the club. Pulled IF Sancho, IF Nani and David Silva amongst quite a few 83-84’s which I’m saving up for Black Friday and Futmas SBCs.
Few comments from me.
The rewards for the new League SBC are bilge, but I have quite a lot of players for both so I'm tempted to roll the dice and do them all and see what the packs bring.
I redeemed my entry for Fut Champs (which I wouldn't have done had I known I it wouldn't be available tonight), so I'll be making my debut tomorrow.
I still love Ousmane Dembele.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing
Hopefully the link works.
I put together a tab for each of the prem teams (I didnt grab all players, decided to keep it reasonable). I have highlighted the ones I will looking to buy. I think City and United are going to cost a bomb.
Needs permission.
Alright, should be public now.
Cardiff could be a money maker. Only 4 golds in their squad.
Did you export that from Futbin or type it all up?
Either way, great job.
Looks solid.
I ask about the exporting because I'd love it for La Liga too.
On the new League SBC's, a lot of the players I'm missing are silvers, so this might be a good time to recycle my bronze players into upgrade packs, selling any that I can get decent coin for.
I've got about 1,800 of the fuckers, so that'd be 300+ silvers and some decent wedge from sorting through and selling those I can.
Went on futwiz, searched for Prem and I had to go page by page coping to excel.
When you copy over you can click one image (player pics copy over) and press ctrl + a to select them all and delete. Then I unmerged, unwrapped and stuck a formula on end to get a team name on the end for easy sorting.
I've also just listed 7 De Rossi's for 2.2k each. I've had them on the trade pile since the early access so enough is enough.
When they sell I'll hit the 1.3m coins mark, but watch an SBC land tomorrow that whacks them up massively.
Hmmm.
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/92/...m=10&schem=100
If you can accommodate the switch into midfield, he's an absolute bargain, surely?
The other thing I'm looking at is the PotM Eden Hazard, partly because he's an end game card and partly because I'm due some pack luck and the packs are pretty decent. I've already done 1 of them as well.
Has anyone used him?
I looked at who I could swap him into midfield for. Obvious answer is Desailly, but the best budget choice seems to be Matuidi, which I doubt would work. Mind you, I am rocking Kehrer at the back at the moment.
As for Hazard, so many comments saying he's weak, so if I'm going to take a punt on a weaking it'd be Messi. Well, were it not for the Hazard SBC packs. Damn packs.
Right, we're going in.
We open with a 3-1 loss.
He completely bossed the first half, but I was still level until the 42nd minute when I won a free kick just inside my own half. My players pushed forward for me to take it leaving me exposed on the counter when he stole the ball. 0-1. Any free kick I get in no man's land is just getting booted straight out of play from here on in.
Second half comes and getting frustrated he starts with the sweaty pressing, which strangely gives me more space as he's not very good at it. I break and Guerrrero whips a ball across for Dembele to nod in. 1-1. I literally screamed yes and punched the air at that point.
Sadly he gets another with Jesus and with 15 minutes left I go all out attack for him to steal a third in the dying seconds.
Still, not an awful experience and 400 Division Rivals points in the bag.
Lost my second game but won my third! So nerve racking, but held on for a 2-1 win in extra time.
Fuck knows how people do this for a living.
1-2 and 1 win away from my first target.
I am 2-1 after 3 games. Losing on penalties in my 3rd game.
I am aiming for 11 wins and hoping for 14. As much as I enjoy FIFA and the rewards the weekend league brings I do find it taking over your weekends. I didn't really want to play last night but felt like I had to because I needed 175 points to qualify for this weekend league, took me 6 games.
1-3 now.
Really should have won the last game. Lucas denied in the final seconds of extra time with a wonder fingertip save when 1 on 1 from the 45 degree angle that one always scores from.
Went to penalties and well, what a complete shitfest that is. Is there a way I can practice them? Without the direction bar I have no clue what I'm doing.
It's absolutely exhausting me so far. I'm knackered from work anyway, but 4 games of this is has been so draining.
My ultimate target was to get to Silver 3 as I'd love the chance to get a Fut Champs card, but whether I'm good enough/will be able to play enough games to do so I'm not sure. The last guy was the worst opponent I've faced so far though, so things seem to be getting easier as my form bombs.
Oh and on Icon watch, another cheap but cracker is baby LB Maldini.
About 700k ish and looks a beast that you could also move into the centre.
Thats what a lot of people did early on last year with his LB. Many even started in him there on 7 chem.
I did that, he was brilliant.
3-4 now and if I was 10% better I could be 5-2.
Only been outclassed in one game, the opener.
Dembele is a legend. Two winners so far.
First day is always the hardest with matchmaking too, that’s a respectable place to be.
Also, it seems less sweaty than Div Rivals this year in comparison to Seasons/DKO vs Fut Champs in previous years.
Probably won’t get much time on it this weekend as at a wedding today, so I’ll see if I can scrape a Gold 2 finish from 20-22 games over tomorrow night and Monday night. Need a solid 6 hours on Monday really.
Ended up getting to this:
https://i.gyazo.com/b77f085a06903299...89b28fe98a.png
Gave it a test last night and it worked alright. Nice to have a bit more muscle up front. Unfortunately Costa doesn't feel great. I'm not sure if it's the chemistry issue, but if it is, I didn't nearly think it would affect him this much.
Yev, you can practice penalties in the practice arena.
Gray, I do not think the issue will be Costa's chemistry. I have never noticed a difference with players on 7 chem.
I am currently 5-2 in this weekend league. Very pleased so far and my last game was a 7-1 win.
Get Sandro as soon as you can. He’s a beast.
Also, if you don’t get on with Willian, I’m finding Douglas Costa more effective than Mbappe. Which is most surprising. He’s not Sane level of productivity but he just seems to ghost into goal scoring positions really effectively.
Edit: just noticed you have Costa at RW. Interested to see how you find them both as I’ve also considered IF Willian.
Hmmm, two 4-2 losses on the bounce in games I was never really in takes me to 3-6.
Massive game this as a win and I'd be pretty happy to be 4-6 (better than I expected at least), whereas 3-7 would be a tad disappointing after the first 7 games.
And you're right on the sweat Merse, haven't played a single high pressing wanker so far, just people who're genuinely good at the game and no problem taking defeats to them.
I need a better team though, that much has become clear. 8 of the 9 sides I've faced have been objectively better than mine, most by some margin.
My penalty arrow had disappeared.
Also where is the casual seasons in online FUT? Champs and Rivals and super competative. Ive looked for online seasons but i cant find it in the menu. Please tell me it is still here?
Pretty sure rivals replaces a combination of that and DKT it.
Yeah there isn't a casual mode any more unfortunately.
Division Rivals has combined seasons and the DKT. Division 4 seems to be a sweet spot for it too, so guess where the best players are preferring to hang out? Last week I found the Weekend League more fun than Rivals. We'll see how this week goes. I've not played a game yet.
It's never available in FutChamps though, right?
Won the 10th game to go 4-6 and it was the best game so far. Came back from 1-0 down to go 3-1 with 75 minutes gone. He gets a goal back where I swear I tackled Aubameyang about three times and the ball just kept bouncing back to him, then with a minute to go I have a goal kick and shitting myself as to what to do. He's beavearing around my defence so I punt it long for Rabiot, who can't control it, he breaks and scores in the last seconds to make it 3-3. Into extra time I hit the post before he scores a sublime goal with Aubameyang. Thinking fuck this I go all out attack and bring on Schweinsteiger, Lucas and Nakajima. I break and Lucas whips it in for Nakajima to head the equaliser. We pour forward again in the dying seconds (I'm losing on penalties, so no point not to at this stage) and Nakajima curls a stonker into the top corner for the winner, the beautiful little bastard.
Bronze 1 secured.
I need a lie down.
Totally agree. D4 is horrendous. D5 tolerable, FUT Champs has oddly become light relief.
@Yevrah
Will be interested to see if you’re hooked after rewards.
It's been immensely enjoyable so far (as you can probably tell....), the best fun I've ever had on FIFA probably - I'm punching the air when I score, not too pissed off when I concede because the people I'm playing aren't sweating the shit out of it with absolute wanker tactics and when Nakajima got that winner I literally lept off the sofa in delight.
Might be getting ahead of myself here, but are the player pick packs for the silver rewards the same for each rank?
Silver 1 and above can pull any card. The only differences being the number of packs you get and the number of player choices you get.
Silver 2 and below you can only pull a maximum 84 rated player.
https://www.fifauteam.com/fut-champi...wards-fifa-19/
Yes, that is fact.
I am not sure what I make of rivals. Receiving the weekly rewards in a large lump sum is nice because I seem to be able to build up my coins quickly but I have been in division 5 since launch and never once looked like being relegated / promoted. I feel like I don't have much to aim for with rivals.
5-7 and think I'm getting a bit fatigued now.
Lost the 11th game 1-0, which was a bit of a shitfest. I felt like the better player throughout, but things just weren't clicking and I couldn't break through. At about 80 minutes went very attacking and it backfired as he scored on the break to seal the win.
Next game and I meet my first high pressing wanker and school him beautifully. 75 minutes of slog in which he scores once, but with 15 to go I turn the tables, bring on some fresh legs and press the shit out of him with a 3-5-2 and we run out 3-1 winners.
I even dabbed at the end.
Flashback Gotze.
If he isn't weak as piss he might just fit my side.
71 strength, meh.
I do like the idea of the Flashbacks though, they use it well on MUT.
Have they removed online singles match too? That was the casual game in the last FIFA
A good rant from Nepenthez here on Icons and other wank SBC's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ygg3IhKbDg
For those who have been following this, EA have clearly flipped a switch on his account when they saw he'd be doing a first owner run.
Decided against Gotze, but sold Martinez and Sule for 10k each.
5-0 start again. I think it was laggy gameplay that made Costa feel sluggish. Today he's been electric. Firmino has really allowed me to hold up the ball better. Such a reliable finish too.
The new formation is really allowing me to pressure and pen people in. I've only noted 2 issues so far. 1 is that Allan is more of a jack of all trades in this role, but I think a more pure box-to-box type is needed. Another Matuidi type would be amazing. The other is Costas finishing. He's missed 2 sitters already and they were on him, not me.
Going to need to push a big session out later to try and get my games in.
I've also noticed what might have been my penalty problem. I missed 7 in-game ones in a row. The taker as he runs up, seems to turn his head towards the side you have placed it, unless you switch it about during the run up. I got a pen before and switched at the very last second. Sure enough the keeper dived the way I was originally intending.
How do you do that pressing filth you do Fox?
First proper humping, losing 5-0 to go 5-8.
Seriously fatigued now. I don't know how people do this every week and hold down a life and a job. It's nuts.
Imagine what it was like when it was 40 games. I finished my first weekend league a couple of weeks ago and I felt like I had spent my whole weekend on FIFA, certainly don't fancy doing it every weekend but the rewards are good and it's a nice way to track improvement.
Three sets of rewards this week is giving me the horn.
I'd be better if I stopped now and I'm not playing more than 15 today, but the opportunity to hit Silver 3 with one win in the next two is appealing. Alternatively a 5-10 record would be a bit pants.
Are you bothering at all this year Mahow?
I'm hoping to.
I'm just finding MUT so much more enjoyable this year.
I keep making squads (here's the latest) hoping that it will drag me in but it has yet to do so. I've done some SBC's as well.
Hopefully next week I'll find some time and just start in the hopes that it sparks something.
Edit: That Nepenthez video is pretty damning. Especially as the MUT team are doing a much better job of actually communicating with people and changing things that aren't working. They're not perfect but they're trying hard and it's coming off like they actually care.
The Gotze SBC is actually fairly affordable. Been stockpiling Bundesliga players which helped mind.
https://i.imgur.com/yRJd1Ar.jpg
Had to throw in Ribery and Kimmich into the SBC but I'll wait until after the promo to buy them back. Packed Sane in the Mega pack so I'm up coins as well.
The only issue with investing so much in untradeables is their longevity. As attacking players usually get in forms more often, Reus and Gotze could be surpassed in a couple months as I'm not sure they're 'end game' ready.
I tend to use formations that have either a CAM or 3 men in the middle. I try to select the former, as they are usually fast, then chase the ball about with that player. If I switch it's to a CDM usually and hope to close down the edge of the area.
Previous years I'd continue to back off and invite the long shot, but not this year.
Done for the day on Fut Champions.
Was 5-8 and played the one more game:
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Might stream a bit on Monday night for the first time, inspired by Yev. Would also like to play him and Fox and anyone else on Xbone it up for it though I’ve not been able to play PvP connections on fifa in previous versions so not sure if that’s going to work.
Didn't realise you were on Xbox Merse. Would be up for that and would be keen to watch either you or Fox stream.
Talking of streaming, I didn't want to do it while playing FutChamps (can't take the pressure), but on now:
https://mixer.com/Chemical_Locust
I'd be up for a game. Just got to get these games out the way first.
Losing the Friday was annoying, as with being on lates Monday I have very little time. As such I'll likely have to play 10 games tonight.
After my 5-0 start last week I basically went 13-11. Hopefully with the upgrades this week, I'll turn one or two of those losses into wins.
I’d be keen to see how we match up. Me and Fox have similar fut Champs records IIRC but I get the feeling we might ply very differently. I’m quite the purist and get a lot of abuse from very meta players - I don’t skill, I don’t use the typical ‘exploita’ Of game mechanics and have spent twenty years on fifa basically trying to be wengers wet dream of pass and move circa 1998.
Played some more as I felt I was playing good FIFA.
I'm now 9-3. One loss was infuriating. I lost 4-0. He has Neuer in goal. Saved at least 6 shots I expected to score, then I conceded as I pushed on. The next loss was 1-0. I had a memorable chance where I kept pushing the ball to the right then knocked one around the keeper. Fell to Costa, just inside the box on the right, open goal infront of him, but he took it on his right and missed. To add insult, my opponent later scored in an almost repeat of my should be goal.
Last game was the most heartbreaking. This was similar to my 4-0 loss earlier with the ball just not going in. However he had Mbappe and blitzed me over and over on the counter. At 3-1 with 15 mins left I went all-out and pulled off the miracle to go 3-3. Then in extra time, his Mbappe out-jumped Dalbert at the back post with a header that imo should never have gone in.
I've stopped to avoid a full on tilt. 18 games remaining and going 8-10 in those will see me into Gold 2, which has to be the aim. The most frustrating thing is that I could really be 11-1 here.
im currently 14-6. Three of those losses, are games I feel I should have won. My best victory was a guy who just passed around on the edge of my box. He was 2-0 up in the first half. My tactic is to get 11 men behind the ball and to defend. He ended up losing 6-2 after I kept my wide men on stay forward. Every goal was a swift counter after he tried some unnecessary skill move on my 18-yard box instead of shooting the ball.
In the weekend league. You can't pick who you want to take penalties during a shoot-out? It just puts you straight in.
Im building a hatred for players with yellow hair or mohawks. Radja and especially that Brazilian 84 rated IF can both fuck off
Talisca? :lol:
I sold up again heading into the weekend. Kane and Valencia making me a small profit and Pogba a small loss. I expect the latters price to fall (its already over 30k down from what I sold him for!) so figured I would minimize the loss and get back in on him later. At some point I am going to have to accept I will lose money on these big names and just deal with it!
Almost 1.7m in the bank with 6 OTW Lemars.
On the big names, I'm going in when the Black Friday crash happens and if I like the players I buy I'll be keeping them.
I'll lose a shitload, but it's so easy to make coins in this version that it'll be fun building them back up again.
Yeah I think thats my plan. Pogba and Kante are down like 30k today from yesterday
Did you buy Matthaus? You could run a 352/532 formation to get him in the side and in game switch to get him in midfield.
I haven't, largely because (he's such a bad centre back) I can't see him going up in price.
Looked at how I'd fit him in and the best bet to keep the team I have would be to buy Matuidi and then swap the two in game. But that will all change when the crash comes so I've left it for now.
Is there a website anywhere that shows SBC's for FIFA18? Keen to see what the Black Friday ones were last year.
Not that a quick google shows me. I thought I found it on FUTWIZ but Black Friday tab was blank.
First FutChamps game of the day and it's a win to go 7-8.
The single most cagey opponent I've ever played. Only interested in attacking when he won the ball in his own half to set up a counter and even when I went 1-0 with 5 minutes to go he wouldn't press me in my own half so I just passed the ball about to see out the win.
Bizarre.
One more game to play before I need to pop out, to win that and go 8-8 (hitting Silver 2 in the process) would be fapworthy.
I've now got myself to the 10 games to go mark. Record is 14-6. A couple of infuriating losses, both guys had Mbappe(I'm noticing a theme developing here) and I saw more of the ball and had several great chances auto-blocked. They countered and Mbappe just can't be stopped.
The other loss was fully deserved. The guy had over 60% possession and not matter what formation I switched to I couldn't get close. That I'd have to go 9-1 from here to make Elite, shows how far I've got to go.
6-4 from here gets me Gold 1. 3-7 to Gold 2. Unfortunately there's no difference in player picks between the two finishes, just the packs. I'm saving the games until later. If I get to Gold 2 with any reasonable comfort I may push on.
Elite feels much harder this year. From 72% win rate to 76% doesn’t feel like a huge jump but over 30 games also leaves less room for error. I generally missed Elie by a per cent or two even at my best, though I made in monthlies a few times. Don’t think I’ll make it all this year.
Hopefully my Richarlison OTW gets a boost this week, but Anderson and Sterling might nibble that as I can’t see three IF wingers from the Prem in a single TOTW. Paulinho scoring twice is exciting me most of the TOTW contenders. Love his NIF card.
It could well be another great TOTW. Maybe not so many stars in it, but solid depth. Mertens looks a shoe-in for one.
Agree on Elite being tougher. Higher win % needed in less amount of games means every loss hurts bad. I'm hoping to go 20-10 overall. Even 19-11. Show some progress. I've no idea what to do with the team though. I'm not all in on Costa. He's great on the ball but just lacks the end product.
Lost the 16th game before I popped out to go 7-9 (just cannot get to that 50% win rate), but won the 17th with a solid 2-0 victory to go 8-9 and get Silver 2.
Silver 1 has to be the aim now, but I'm actually running at a win ratio that would see me sneak Gold 3 if I could a) maintain it and b) play all the games. Both of those are very doubtful.
I guess this happens to all of us, but I've just lost a game where I had 25 shots on goal, 15 on target, with Buffon saving almost everything and I lost 3-2.
3 losses in a row now and absolutely battered in the last two games to go 8-12.
The last two games are representative of the quality I was expecting to face.
Need 3 from 10 to get Silver 1 now, so may not bother.
What chem style on Costa?
He needs deadeye. Means you can’t boost the physical which is a shame, but needs the +15 finishing and positioning to make him usable for me. Still get tempted to replace him. Another Anderson upgrade might do that, though it then also pushes Sandro down to 8 chem with no obvious replacement.
Shit. Just heard Paulinho scored twice in a big game. That’s a shame. Particularly as there’s only a couple more CSL game days, only one of which is on a weekend, so my dreams of further Paulinho/Hulk/Anderson Talisca upgrades are floundering and I may need to re-jig the makeup of my left side and striker to stay competitive.
No, he’s an investment. Not enough profit to sell on hype right now. I think he may rise further due to playing at Striker, if his IF is a position change then the OTW remaining a LW may increase.
5 losses in a row now, to take me to 8-14 from 8-9.
I don't understand why form exists in this anyway (so it's no major beef) but it's clearly broken as I'm still coming up against players who have Futchamps rewards in their sides.
3 wins from 8 game seems unlikely on this run rate, but I'll play one or two more and if I win one of this soldier on.
First-weekend league got me in gold 2 which im happy with given the team and exp Ive got. 18-11 with a game spare.
I've canned it at 8-14.
Was just too depressing to carry on.
Still, that's Elite 3 in Squad Battles, Silver 2 in Weekend League and Rank 2 in division rivals rewards secured.
I'm gonna do some SBC's and general club management for a couple of hours.
5-0 start to Fut Champs, having scored 5+ goals in four of those games. Really feeling comfortable with this team now, though a lot of tonights success is likely down to matchmaking against other low form players (mine having been 0 until earlier this evening)
I had a noticeable shift in opponent quality when I was 7-0. Every game since has been close. Going to try and grind out the 3 wins needed shortly. If that goes well I'll make a Gold 1 push.
Won my 6th game 6-0 and now really wish I could sack off work in the morning and keep going. Some of the opponents have been really good players but I’m just making very good decisions both ends, being very clinical with my finishing and once they go attacking I’m running up the score giving them no chance of coming back.
Giving Mbappe deadeye over the marksman I had on him has brought him a lot more. I did it for the positioning and vision boosts, and there’s a noticeable upturn in both his runs and his through balls, whilst the extra shot power and finishing has made him particularly lethal.
I’ll have at least a couple of spells of successive losses tomorrow, but it’s nice to have a cushion and to feel I’m back in the form I was late last season where I had 8-9 game winning streaks at times.
I’ll be after a few IF Sancho’s as fully expect him to rise in anticipation of Ratings Refresh come Jan/Feb.
Do IF cards get upgraded also when a player gets a winter upgrade?
Cheap IFs are, as long as they’re cheap enough (12k or less in my book) a low risk investment. They’ll hold value for SBCs, including just in using them myself, their discard would only represent a 15% loss at the very worst case and with a bit of luck they could make a pile back due to particular SBC requirements, complimentary IFs released, change of clubs or ratings upgrades.
Talking of complmntary IFs, i’d love to partner Sancho with an IF Striker Reis Nelson in my Rivals-only B team were it to happen. With 5 goals from 6 games often as a striker for the latter, it’s a distinct possibility.
Who is the best keeper in this year’s game?
Cheers. It was quite apparent during the weekend league that a good keeper is very important.
Handanovic is a definite upgrade on Szczesny(?) but I'm not sure it warrants the 40k extra he currently is. I've found De Gea and Neuer to be unbelievable to face. The two of them have single handedly caused me 2-3 losses this week.
I soldiered on in FUT Champs last night. I got to 18-7 and began to dream of the 5 win streak needed for Elite. That soon turned into 19-9. Had to think if I actually wanted to make Gold 1 due to getting no consumables back, but I'm sure you can quick sell the 100k pack for 24k coins or so, so in essence that is just short of 100k earned with no pack pulls at all.
Lost my 29th game, but clutched the last one. It was 1-1 for most of the game with me pressing forward. Eventually a sub on of Depay and Promes paid off big time as the latter had the legs to blast past the full-back to the byline and cut back(the amount of these that are auto cut out now is really insane) for Mertens.
2 win improvement on last week and I felt I played a lot better. I did cram games into 2 days as opposed to spreading over the 3, but Friday was lost, so unavoidable. I wouldn't mind trying a new team, but Sunday afternoon - Wednesday is a bad time to sell.
The next step up is 3 more wins and those will be the toughest. But it's either that or be stuck at Gold 1/2 forever.
Any CDM recommendations? I've picked up Kroos as I can link him with Reus and Gotze for 10 chemistry but I'm not sure he's defensive enough. Does anyone use the 'Stay Back' instruction for a specific player and does it help? I've left everything on default so far this year.
Kroos is a bit wank (I can't decide whether he or UCL Renato Sanches is better) and I certainly wouldn't expect much in the way of defensive solidity.
Stay back is great, been using it on my forwards, midfielders and full backs, in a 4-3-2-1. Only problem (unsurprisingly) is that you lose a lot going forward and (as the weekend league taught me) it's pointless if you come up against someone who can use Nepenthez style tricks to unlock a defence.
Oh and decided I'm going to work up to as many coins as possible for Black Friday and build a completely new first team, with the current one taking the place of my fitness side.
Will have over 1.5m by the time the division rivals and WL rewards drop, so 2m is the aim.
Looking at the SBC analyser, I'm basically 400k short of doing the Prime Icon Set 2 if I'm prepared to let go of a fair number of players from the club. I could fund that tomorrow, but am more tempted to hold onto the current team for a couple of sets of Thursday rewards and re-assess then. Lampard is very, very tempting. Then again, he's binning for 1.1m, so an SBC with a similar cost delivering an untradeable card would only be worth it with the additional packs.
I found that (Nick from Runthefutmarket had it in a video) but those are FIFA 17 cards so I sacked it off as wrong
After a few weeks I have to report that George Best doesn't really seem to give me anything that I wasn't necessarily already getting from my front 3.
I'd like to say it was 2mil wasted but I would've have obsessively chased the card regardless and it's not as if he's BAD or something, he plays great, but I'm pretty positive I could've used that 2mil and strengthened the entire team and possibly been better off (though then again there isn't a TON of improvement to be found outside of obvious upgrades from NIF=>IF.
I was going to chase either OTW Radja or TOTW Sandro last weekend until Mertens scored 3 and assisted 1 and basically guaranteed an IF :drool: My favorite player on my team getting upgraded has me pretty excited.
I still have been too scary to dive into division rivals or try to qualify for WL. I don't want to end up hating the game like a lot of my friends are (but I ponder if they were just pace whores and are now being donned by the changed mechanics).
Anyways.
On the changed mechanics. Removing pace abuse is a step forward, but the improvement has been completely negated (and some) by people being able to sit on the halfway line with minimal danger from being countered and curl in time’s finesse after timed finesse.
Which overall is a step backwards for me.
De nerf pace a touch and nerf timed finishes a touch and we’d have a great engine.
Watching Nepenthez play and that's really evident. Most of his goals are timed finesses with Dr Bruyne.
New Futswap out also with 87 Flashback Pedro as the reward. I'll try and pick up Guilavogi as I used his normal card before and it played surprisingly well. Niang can split into my Ligue 1 side as a supersub also.
Lost game 7 on pens after playing someone who refused to tackle me for most of the game, and equalised in the 90th and 118th mins. Won the next 3-1 to put me on 7-1 and looking good to get to at least Gold 2 in tonight’s marathon session and for the last half hour the servers have been down.
Is SvN diverting power from EA to get this place back up?
Hopefully they extend to tomorrow night and I get another crack, otherwise I’ll likely be maroooned in Gold 3 if this runs another hour.
Servers back and I’m 10-2 and playing great stuff. Fucking EA. Will probably bow out at Gold 3 so not to fall asleep at my desk tomorrow.
When do rewards land?
Thursday night.
I shall look forward to my pick from two In form silvers then.
Played my first Rivals match just now.
He was slightly better (I'm putting that down to me not bothering with custom tactics) and beat me 2-0. However I missed a chance in the 89th minute that would have made it 1-1.
Pardon me. Bad prediction from me on IF Marko Arnie. He has dropped 20k since I bought him and I have 5 cards with 100k loss.
Changed my tactics based on Boras' video and played my second game.
Quickly noticed that I was superior to the guy so I switched to my attacking game plan and I won 6-0 although it should have been more. 23 shots of which 15 were on target.
Kroos absolutely controlled the game.
Which vid is that Mahow?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygC3VsljAIo
With my current loan mismatch squad I've gone for 4-1-2-1-2(2) in balanced, 4-2-2-2 in defensive, 5-2-1-2 in ultra defensive, 4-1-3-2 in attacking and 4-2-4 in ultra attacking.
Only used the attacking really but it felt solid and a lot better than just the default stuff.
15-3. Without the server outage I’d be up for Elite :moop:
Aw shit, completely missed an 85 Rooney was out for the MLS SBC.
They're releasing these very quickly. I need to get stocked up on PL and La Liga players.
Any theories as to why they're coming out so quickly?
EDIT: Although we'll clearly get a Flashback Rooney at some stage.
Mass criticism for not releasing early last year, which seems to have manifested in quick fire release but worse rewards with no coins and worse players.
Card 1: November 5: Free card given away Calero
Card 2: November 5: 72 hour SBC. Strerry
Lets track these this month.
Tapped out at 17-5. Easily my best WL for a long while. To do so when 6-2 would get me into Elite and the TOTW pack that comes with it is gutting, but there’s no way I’m doing more now. Still, considering this a big step forward, especially with the manner of the victories, and as my first Gold 1 finish of the year as 3-5 would have been easily achievable. Now two days to make up about 9-10,000 div Rivals points to finish rank 1, and I should have an enjoyable Thursday rewards night.
Yeah if we could get some tracking of the players this month that'd be great. That Pedro looks a very good CAM. Be sure to get the bonfire night kit if you want it too.
I think it was @The Merse wanted to know how I found Willian? I really liked him. He's very versatile too. He can play any midfield position forward of CDM and even striker if needs be.
My stats for the Brazil 3 this weekend: Firmino: 31 played, 31 goals, 13 assists. Willian: 35 played, 11 goals, 9 assists. Douglas Costa: 35 games, 14 goals, 11 assists. The stats don't look as good as Costa, but it has to be said I did a lot of switching to 4-1-2-1-2(2) through the weekend and in that, Willian plays CM whilst Costa is a striker.
Firmino is the obvious star of the team and I really enjoyed having him in. I'm not sure I'd want to see him go. But having him in boxes the team into a corner. It's either change the team or bring in someone else up top.
Valencia, Sanchez and Firmino at the lowest they have been.
The Serie A SBC, Sampdoria only have silver goalkeepers and they are all 5k+. Cardiff also have only silver and bronze goalkeeepers.
Cardiff are going to be a good team to invest in. Prem and mostly silvers:nod:
Yeh I’m quite happy. Went 12-5 after the initial winning streak and was keeping up the 2.5:1 form against full icon/elite players rather than ever freefalling into negative streaks. Never actually lost a consecutive game, which kept me away from that rage/tilt mode that sometimes sets in when things don’t go my way.
https://preview.ibb.co/gjLAaA/2-AFA5...48773-AD57.jpg
https://preview.ibb.co/eei7Nq/F4-B7-...4-F4-F5988.png
Upgrading the bench with the guys I brought in for my Div rivals B team really helped this week. Firmino scored important goals replacing a knackered Talisca, and has similar attributes that helped continuity rather than Jesus who I subbed in for Talisca in the past couple of WL’s. Koke is a fantastically frenetic Fred-style disruptor/box to box CM who can be very effective with his passing and pace in the final 25 mins, and Kondogbia is a natural replacement for Rabiot.
Also subbed in Bailly in midfield to counter Pogba to good effect, and moved Hulk back to CAM, Mbappe to St and Lucas in at RW when looking get some crosses in against stubborn defences. Getting to grips with adapting style and personnel in game definitely felt like another difference maker.
As for the starting XI, Ramos offers an instant affordable upgrade, mainly in the air vs Umtiti, so he’s an option. Rabiot is another who I feel I could improve, but only Potba stands out as an option and even then, only at 8 Chem, unless I go with an Icon.
Apparently anyone who made last weekend league is being given 2000 FUT Champs Qualification points after the mess of this past weekend. Doesn't help those of us who made Gold or combined Silver with a Rank 3+ finish in Rivals, but it's something at least. An extension or a bump on the rewards would be preferred for me... Still might come on Thursday but I won't be holding my breath.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen..._of_the_cycle/
Fuck you and that blonde Brazilian @The Merse
Merse is your team name Supreme Dream or something along those lines?
Just played an almost identical team, only with POTM Lucas and IF Lacazette up front.
Nope. Mile End FC
Sounds a lot like the precursor to this team, mind.
UCL SBCs up. If you have tradeable dog shit UCL players they are going for 3k+
The rest of the market is falling. Auba is down 60k from the weekend....
Golds are going for an absolute fortune if they fit the SBC formations.
That UCL 81+ Upgrade pack must be up there as one of the worst value SBC's ever.
Bilge from my 3 UCL pack, but Chiellini and Rakitic from one of the Primes.
Vinicius from my 3 UCL pack.
Looks like he could be good coming off the bench.
Fuck all out of mine aside from Gomez, did one 81+ as well and got Stones. Made about 40k selling Barca, Benfica and Ajax duplicates on my list though, so 135k of my 280k on a couple of Busquets for the La Liga and Black Friday SBCs, ter Stegen (competing my 86 rated Barca squad) and a couple of big Real players.
Now only need Kroos and Asenjo to reach an 85 rated Real squad and have 14+ players for every other LLS side. Also brought in Valencia for the B Team and Utd SBC whilst cheap as I love him in my old side, and figured I’d keep the rest to use with my reward coins to purchase Ramos on Thursday.
That’ll also mean dropping Umtiti into the B team alongside ter Stegen in place of Azpilicueta and Kepa. Keen not to purchase players for the B team, and instead drop them down from my Fut Champs side as I build that out, along with untradeables I have and those I’m buying for SBCs.
Brought in:
Auba 255k (down from 300k this weekend)
Valencia 20k (down from 32k)
Sanchez 27k (down from 40k)
Looking to get Firmini for sub 60k. Should all go up enough heading into WL to make me a little profit and let me try them out.
This drop in prices is troublesome for someone who was thinking about selling up. I'm sure I paid near 80k for Firmino on Friday.
@The Merse You've got about halfway to affording a Neymar there. He'd also fit your FUT Champs squad perfectly and much improve the scoring output from the LW.
There's also another gameplay affecting patch about to hit.
Major changes:
- Shooting angle on first time finesse shots has been nerfed. You know how you'd concede because your opponents Hazard did a 230 degree spin backwards timed finesse that went right into the top corner? Well that's being changed so it will have a much worse success rate than if the ball came in on a natural angle.
- Defensive pressure part 1. Got a defender right in your opponents face, only to have him still smash it top corner time after time? That's being made so your defender has a higher chance of putting the guy off. Same goes for guys to the left/right and pulling from behind the attacker.
- Defensive pressure part 2. This is a biggie for me. I've found it really hard to score 1v1s this year, but they're making shots more successful in times that your opponent does not have a defender near you to apply pressure.
- Division Rivals opponent select screen will now be the same as FUT Champs is. Too many people have been cherry picking or backing out if they were the away team etc.
I was going to do a couple of those 81+ UCL sbcs until I saw the requirements.
Fuck. That. Shit.
My Ethernet cable came today so hopefully that stops some of the lag issues I've been facing. I also need to remember to do the swap SBC tonight.
I'm not sure what to do with the team still, but I'll need to play a few tonight to secure Rank 2. I don't want to play the several extra to hit 1 this week. I've been thinking of taking the packs. The 100k packs with Gold 1 ensures I'll be pretty much getting 100k there, so it might be worth taking extra chances on the packs as opposed to just pumping the 50k in.
I was going to ask if Gotze was worth the now 95k it takes to do him, but I have to leave for work in a second and didn't realise he ended today. Hopefully I don't regret missing out on him.
https://i.redd.it/19swkxbpaxw11.png
That’s a bit shit. In general that is, there’s a couple of standouts in there
WTF. No sterling? I grinded to my first gold 2 in FUT Champs for this...
What is the point man. Mertens is basically his CL card with +1's to like 5 categories.
That's how they've been doing it. They've also been adding heftier weights to stats that a card doesn't need.
Look at Romagnoli for instance, +2 to pace, dribbling, defending and physical. However they've given him +5 to shooting and +4 to passing.
It's annoying as shit.
The worst part is I fucking knew they'd do it but of course Mertens goes ape shit for Napoli and I get my hopes up anyways.
I guess the only thing I can really say is at least the CL card will fall and maybe I can just snipe one for cheap to get those little upgrades.
I mean I guess it'll be a decent upgrade from my NIF that I have now but damn man like how does that make sense?
That is a woeful totw.
Anderson would be handy for me I guess... not exactly rich pickings for me to expect tomorrow. Glad I didn’t push for the Elite TOTW pack after all.
Has a patch landed? Just played two squad battles against bad teams and had to slog to victory in both.
My team feels different and the opposition seem to be boosted again. Are EA determined to make no element of Squad Battles enjoyable this year?
I get quite close to sacking this game off entirely now and again.
i swear to God if they ruined the things about this game i actually like
Richarlison OTW price falling if anyone was considering. Back down to around 27k.
Anderson is ruining Richarlison OTW potential.
Speaking of Anderson, having seen his IGS I’d love to grab him tomorrow night from my picks. The long shots and shot power alone look worth dropping Sandro to 8 chem for.
Aha, EA have also announced rewards are coming at 8:00am now. Nice. Will enjoy opening on my way to work tomorrow.
Don't they say if you open off console you have a worse chance for some reason?
It's also heavily theorised the other way around.
Thinking on it, I won't even have left until 8.20 most mornings anyway as I'm only 20 mins from the office so I can happily do so with a coffee as a Thursday morning treat on console anyway. At least I can enjoy the non-walkouts in fully animated glory then I guess.
lololol true.
Fuck D4. It’s so shit. Have played so many players that abuse a single mechanic over, and over, and over. They’ve all reverted to 82 teams as well, the serious ones having gone liquid for Black Friday causing the crash this week.
Fuck this. Cannot wait to get back to D5. Just wish I could stay there. Every time I go up I have to sit through hours of this shite getting only 200 odd Rivals points when I lose, derailing me getting into rank 1.
The best players have openly admitted to purposefully relegating themselves to Div 3/4. I'm thinking of dropping to 5 myself. Simply to avoid this shit. FUT Champs is a nice break from midweek play now, which is something I never thought I'd say.
That TOTW is disappointing. Although anything above 82 rated would be quite decent. I'll probably decide on my team after rewards are claimed.
Problem is, I just go straight back to D4. I threw a game to go back down, leaving D4 this time with 1 win, 1 draw and 5 savage losses alongside that one. Back in D5 I won my first two games 3-0 and even then when I drew 4-4 it was after being 3-0 up, then having the AI give away a pen and red card on my behalf, and the guy got a corner goal that rebounded off about 6 players to go in. Had I gave a shite I’d have subbed on a defender (left myself without an LB) and shored up, but D5 is too easy. The gap though is utterly, utterly mental.
It doesn’t even feel like a true skill gap, it’s just guys that abuse one or two mechanics at most, many just drag back and turn in circles until they can finesse from the D, another guy couldn’t receive the ball without using the flick up to volley to every player, over and over until finally he volleys in the area...
It’s the fifa equivalent of when Kerlon was running about doing the seal trick. Or Denilson doing step over after step over with fuck all to his game.
Oh, and they all play no pressure deep defence.
I've just played the most mental game of FIFA to round out the weeks Rivals games.
https://i.gyazo.com/24c8b32e388df845...481ce7a780.png
I scored from kick off and then he went all out attack in some form of 3-4-3 for the rest of the game. He had pretty much as best a Bundesliga side as money could buy and would score instantly from kick offs. His defence is what won me the match however. He would just charge at the ball at full speed. In the late stages his players tired and I bagged my final 2 goals in the last 10 minutes.
14 goals? Jesus.
Got Felipe Anderson from my player picks. :drool:
I got Chilwell.
Could have been worse and now up to 1.6m coins.
I got Chilwell and Hazard for my FUT rewards. Chilwell will go straight into my team and Hazard, will make the bench and eventually will get traded in. Do these RED cards counts as IF with SBC?
I find rivals D5 much harder than FUT Champs. Ive only played one FUT Champs weekend and played rivals all other times so my experience in Champs is lacking.
Completely gutted my club and managed to gather about 300k in coins whats the best way to plan for Black Friday? I'm thinking of doing the Bronze Pack Method, and then doing the silver and gold upgrades with any bronze/silvers from leagues that wont have an SBC, that will leave me with a load of nice gold and silver cards ready for the flash SBC's what do you guys think?
Converting bronze to silvers is a long slog and you go from having tradeable bronzes to untradeable silvers.
That said, I don't think BPM pays out anywhere near as well as it once did, so Silver Pack Method might be where it's at. I'll be testing again next week.
Timo Werner in my rewards :drool:
Finishing off my Bundesliga SBC spreadsheet (so much more painless finishing up the silver teams now when you can snipe players for under 1k rather than 10k max BIN) and noticed Javi Martinez is going for 2.8K. Are prices crashing already? Surely he's going to be worth more than that as a decent league/nationality 84 when a new SBC comes out?
I knew I should have into into some big players last night. Market is up again today. I do have 6 Fabinhos bought for about 71k last night but I didn’t really commit
For the probably Auba POTM. Ive already had lots of the cheapest prem league IF. Duffy and Mitravoic are both are 15k which is 4k more than I paid for them. Im selling them now and buying the gold ozils, mullers, matic, etc. 85-87 rated players. Ozil is 23k which is a little pricey, but im taking risk on this FIFA. A premire league 86 rated team will be required, im certain of it.
Edit: As long as Barkley does not win.
I don’t know if Sama is lurking still, but anyone’s welcome to partake.
2m coins (I have less but based on prices dropping) what team would you build on Xbox?
Belotti and then Hazard from my picks. Both could be semi usable I guess, but I'll never complain about being given free in-forms.
My 100k packs had TOTW Hazard again and then David Silva, to bag me another 70k or so. Felt my luck was in so I then opted for the tradeable packs from Rivals Rank 2.
Pulled TOTW Richarlison from my Jumbo Premium Gold pack, nothing from the Mega pack, but then pulled Matic and TOTW Chester from the final 50k pack.
That takes me from 20k to 150k. I still haven't sold Richarlison as he looks actually quite useful under the hood. I'm guessing I probably should though. I also have about 60 rare golds and 20 non-rares on the trade pile.
All sold up I'd have 240k to hand without selling anyone. Could bump that to 500k if I sold up.
https://i.gyazo.com/9d37ab7e3f44f422...276872aa75.jpg
Adding Ramos would just take it above 2m, but you can put any La Liga players in goal and the right of defence anyway. It's not quite perfect, but that'd do you well.
I personally think Mbappe must be in teams at all costs.
“I personally think Mbappe must be in teams at all costs.“ doesn’t put him in his team :D
I went though and built one and it came out to be 2.4m :face: although it would be closer to 2m if you want until after the weekend league/do well in the crash.
Courtois
Valencia
IF T. Hernandez
Varane
Marcelo
Pogba
Kante
Mordic
Mbappe
IF Laca
Martial (base, inform makes it a 2.6m team)
I was supposed to have put the 2nd team I made underneath that :D
https://i.gyazo.com/13a00a48c3533f2c...39ef7958ac.png
Here it is anyway!
We have thought along the same lines on that second tram :nod: going the French route.
Trams to France for everyone.
Should come in just under 2m. Gustavo is just to fit in Mbappe but he's very solid defensively.
http://i.imgur.com/T0MfWFC.jpg
:D fuck. I am leaving it now.
I sold my Valencia and Sánchez this morning for a nice easy 20k profit. I’ll pick them up again next week. If Auba goes for 290/300 over the weekend and I shift my Lemars I will be at about 2.25m. Really need to do something with it.
Ramos has gone up 25k :moop:
FFS
All the big names have. Pogba, Kante and VVD are up 30/40k over night.
Not sure how many if you guys use it but I would really recommend Futbins list option. Basically a short list of players you can refresh any time.
I have it stacked with big names, investments and a couple of other randoms I wanna see. It’s under tools/lists.
How do you add to the list?
Should be an “add FUT 19 player to your list” box, type in there like a normal search.
Cheers.
On Squad Battles again and they've definitely made it harder against the wank teams on Legendary. Absolute tossers.
Buffon and Gundogan from MM. Take that. I might put the former straight into the team.
Hamsik and Ederson for me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...ing_tomorrrow/
Interesting.
I've redeemed Futchamps qualification for this weekend.
I am guessing this is going to kill the market tomorrow evening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqMntCPEE4I
This luck. Christ.
This tweet :lol:
Sneaky peek at tomorrow.
So I've been playing about and come up with this. Solves the problem RW spot pretty well and brings in another CM favourite of mine, but this one may just be out of my price range to do in one week. I'm also unconvinced by the defence of this.
https://i.gyazo.com/d493d39effde0fda...3cc6de7509.png
The other option is to sell up and splash the cash on moving to the Premier League(can't beat them, join them) and buying big on defence. I could afford Walker, Sanchez and Van Dijk with what I have already. I could even save on Virgil and spend that money about the midfield.
Bought Ramos. Debut game he instantly felt more aggressive than Umtiti, but gave away an 86' pen only to turn up at a corner in the 90' min and grab his first goal for the club :drool:
Auba POTM and he is needed :drool: profit :drool:
Also, when his price falls it’s a pretty reasonable SBC
Edit: maybe not that good for a +2
That was why I enjoyed it so much.
4-1 start to WL. Really should be 5-0 but I just couldn’t finish for treacle in my first game, where I had about 20 shots to his 2.
Hoping for La Liga SBC very soon. I’ve got 650k of squads ready to go and anything but a right sided player is likely to fit in either my A or B teams.
Do that Tah's stats increase if Leverkusen move through the CL?
And have EA confirmed what upgrades each dynamic UCL player gets? If it follows the IF path then that Renato Sanches. :drool:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Drl9o9AXcAAsFJe.jpg:large
I'm not sure how accurate that is but jesus.
That Aubameyang upgrade is disgraceful. They've hardly touched his shooting or Stamina and that's 500k. The only reason I'd do it is if I already had the standard version in my team.
That 90 is batshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSeLAiYhcSA
@Gray Fox it really is. Might not be a bad look in a few weeks but really doesnt look worth it.
Actual FUTBIN list of players too
https://www.futbin.com/19/totw/UCLLIVE
Schakle are all but through, Fahrmann looking nice. Same for Tagliafico.
The big news here is that even if the club finishes 3rd in their group(Liverpool/Spurs) the card will convert to a Europa League version and follow the same pattern.
First session in the books and I've played more than I'd ideally like due to not having Sunday night available to me. I'm 9-2 and I've played some frenetic stuff in there. My front 3 is now the Liverpool 3. I decided it best to transition into the EPL from front to back as I can't quite afford it in one hit, so this will have to do.
I had watched a video basically explaining the easiest way to score. If your opponent is aggressive with their players, quick pass around them until they have pulled enough out of position that the opening comes.
The easiest ones to beat and these are the ones I have crushed tonight, are the ones that come forward with their full-backs. A quick LB + A pass off and then through ball into the space that full-back has vacated has brought me no end of joy.
The 2 losses were deserved. One saw a guy who was a very good defender almost shut me out. I pulled it back to 2-1 late on, but he then just kept the ball. The other was more frustrating I was creating chances but kept putting it wide or hitting the woodwork. I'd then concede on the counter. Managed to make it 2-2, but in the 89th minute Aguero out-jumped Benatia to head a cross home off the 6 yard line.
I'll play more tomorrow, hoping to make Gold 1 again. The key is avoiding consecutive losses.
Hasn't Renato Sanches been shite/barely played for about two years? Why is he the new Messi? It's all a bit To Madeira.
0-2 so far. FML.
What's the team you're using Yev?
Same as before, albeit I've swapped Buffon in for Fahrmann.
I'm just not very good at this game and it's annoying. Second game was so winnable as well. Both were really.
4-1 win in the 3rd game against a player that was no better than the first two.
We're back in the game.
2-0 in the 4th. Bronze 3 secured and the first time I've been level on losses and wins since I started last weekend.
The addition of chucking a load of fake passes in (I still can't do the drag back) is working wonders.
5th game was a cracker, but I lost 5-4 and then something hit me. A mate had text me halfway through asking if I wanted to go for a pint and my immediate thought was I need to get to at least Silver 3 before I do that.
Then it dawned on me, I don't actually like this game, I just have a mild addiction to it.
EA have ruined Squad Battles, turning it from something fun into a hateful, hateful mode that's tedious beyond belief. Division Rivals is full of people employing wanker tactics at every opportunity and while Weekend League is fun, 30 games is a fucking joke. Even with a conservative estimate of 3 games every hour, that's 10 hours solid and we all know it takes longer than that. Now you could say you don't have to play all of the games, but for me in particular, I have to play a fair chunk to get anything remotely worth bothering with and actually, that's probably the same for most.
Then there's the gameplay, which is also dogshit. Forward runs are broken (this really hits home in SB with the ludicrously tight AI defences), passing goes to the wrong player far too often, player switching has a ludicrous delay, players lunge backwards after tackles when they should be hunting the ball down and the pace nerf is just too much.
The only actual good thing about the game is the coin/team building element, which is done well, but once I finally spunk the 2m (coins + assets) I have in the club on a much better side, the incremental upgrades are going to take ages to bring in, it's a massive time sink and ultimately I have to start all over again next September anyway.
I'm not saying I'm out permanently, the drug is too effective to shake for that, but I'm minded to take a break until Black Friday and see whether I can be arsed after that. One thing is for sure though, I'm off out for a pint now.
Ended up spending most of my coins to put this together for the weekend league.
http://i.imgur.com/VYp1gNP.jpg
Agree with you about incremental improvements Yev. The team building aspect is my favourite part but I probably won't be able to upgrade too much further without throwing FIFA Points at it or some more ridiculous pack luck.
On a positive note, Bobby Moore is a dream to play with. One of the cheaper icons as well.
Roma, Napoli and PGS are moderately prices SBCs that give back rare player packs. With UCL packs its worth a look.....
1. Walk out. Matic
2. Walk out....UCL Davinson Sanchez
3. Nothing.
That Sanchez card could be ridiculous if Spurs progress fairly far through the Europa League.
SBC Milinkovic Savic up, EL card so +1 boost.
@five time yeah not sure what to do with him. I have tried his normal card twice and hated it :lol:
Are the CL cards more than +1. The loading screen says otherwise.
+1 to begin with and work like normal IFs is what I ready. Which once they get to like 85 is only +1 anyway.
@The Merse are you playing this weekend?
My first session had either 3 or 4 people quit out on me in the first 30 minutes of a game. I was wondering if you were experiencing the same.
Not since Friday. Nope, only had one rage quit.
Also had the usual horrific matchmaking on day 1, constantly getting guys who were using the finesse from the top of the box with POTM Hazard and POTM Schurrle. Almost enough to put me off the whole weekend.
You get more used to dealing with those guys, but then all they need is one shot to pop off and you're done.
Another stint down and I'm now 16-4. The 2 losses have come as a result of late equalisers in normal time. The first had all 3 of the EPL POTM cards and was a nightmare to deal with. I thought I had him, but then he pulled off an obscene half volley on a 90 degree angle from about 35 yards out with Hazard. Then in ET he hit a timed finesse with Auba in the 118th. Gutting.
The 2nd loss came as a result of the other guy having Ronaldo. I'd kept him quiet all game at 1-0, only to see him bundle through in the 89th minute and squeeze a beautiful finish into the corner. It ended up going to penalties and I lost out.
Gold 1 is the aim for tomorrow. Unfortunately I lose the Sunday night though, so I'm going to have to cram the games in somewhere. I'm obviously aware that Elite is possible from here, but given my matchmaking will be tougher now, that'd be a struggle. I'd need to get lucky with matchmaking.
I was at 19 wins for the weekend league with 1 game remaining to sneak into gold 1. I lost badly. He was the best guy I faced the whole weekend. He had stochkov in his midfield who was running through my defence with skill moves. He couldn't be stopped. Disapoointed I couldn't reach gold 1. I'm not going back to two games, I should have won but they scored a last minute equailizer, then I lost on penalties. Elite 3 is the obvious goal and I should aceheive it at some stage.
FUT Weekend League
Week 1 - Gold 3, 17W-12L
Week 2 - Gold 2, 19W-11L
Decided to focus on the bit of the game I enjoy and sort my club out at the same time.
Going through all the SBC's that offer any sort of value, culminating in a mass pack opening that I'll stream tomorrow night if anyone's interested.
Milinkovic-Savic just done. Not that the card fits at all, but with the packs you get he's worth it.
That's great stuff Sincere.
What team are you rocking now?
I was about to pos my team anyway, A pretty basic one. I don't know why I haven't upgraded yet. I will probably do it next week actually. The formation works really well for my play style. The LF and RF are on come back on defence. It puts the three CM and wide forward in a line in front of my back for. It is difficulty at times for my opponenet to break me down. Its the only way I can play the game as I find it really difficulty to tackle but my opponenet can sprint towards my using G.Jesus, hit the ball and player, bounce around and come out with the ball. I can't do that though. I don't know what buttons combinations people are pressing. It feels like they just hold X. When I hold X, there is about 2 meters of distance between my player and my opponenet. When they do, they just close my down and tackle.
https://i.imgur.com/34gGTMX.jpg
How much have you got to upgrade? You're not waiting for Black Friday then?
Black Friday. Forgout about that. I have 500k. Is the promo next week?
23rd November.
What's Lewandwski like? I'm tempted to buy him to make the Tah objective a bit more tolerable, but I'll no doubt lose coins on him doing so.
EDIT: Werner with a Sniper might be a safer bet.
Just dawned on me that Renato Sanches' card is a base common gold, which means I can pack him in a silver upgrade SBC pack. Given all the league SBC's, that makes the silver pack method even more appealing.
I’ll be in Italy for Black Friday, being shouted at by my other half for using my phone to complete SBCs no doubt. It also means next weekend will be my last weekend league for a fortnight, so I may find myself falling behind on the squad front going into December.
That Tah item is going to be tough. 10 wins with a Bundesliga player scoring in each. I'll be doing Rivals games to get that 2nd swap player anyway, but I currently only own the red Hazard from the Bundesliga.
Also as a PSA, there are two Swap Deals items you need to play to earn. One requires 10 wins by 2 goals or more in any match. The other is scoring 20 goals in Rivals.
I don't think Tah is tough, just a time sink. It'll probably take me about 20 games.
16-4 --> 17-10. I fucking hate Sundays.
You've lost 6 out of 7 games? Fuck me, what sort of teams/players have you been facing?
14 packs already and think I'll be close to 50 by the time this is done. Tuesday might be the opening now.
My pack luck lately. Fucking hell.
UCL two player pack.
City Mendy. He is down quite a bit over the last day or so and I am not sure what to do.
Prime Gold Players Pack.
RTTF Kimpembe.
I could rock this for the purcahse of Pogba, Meunier, Lloris and Kante.
https://www.futbin.com//squad-builder/view/1760055
Or I can sell UCL Mendy, RTTF Sanchez and RTTF Kimpembe for almost 400k and go in a completely different direction.
Reading a lot of people who are advising to buy your teams now. Player prices have tumbled over the past few days.
It cant be the worst idea for some players. Heres whats happened to the ones I am watching over the past few days. Somewhat approx numbers but still interesting to see.
Kane - Down 20k to under 90k
VVD - Down 30k to 110k.
Sanchez - Down 10k to 30k.
Firmino - Down 20k to 46k.
Fabinho - Down 12k to 67k
Valencia - Down 11k to 17k
Pogba - Down 30k to 450k
Kante - Down 20k to 375k
Lukaku - Down 30k to 150k
DDG - Down 25k to 130k
Bale - Down 40k to 380k
Mbappe - Down 40k to 424k
I bought Firmino today because I am still strugging to 'get on' with a Prem striker. I like IF Laca but have not been too impressed with Auba (Reg or POTM) or Kane. Next is Lukaku if I am not feeling Firmino.
Got back on FIFA a bit this weekend, and managed to get up to Gold 1 in Squad Battles. Pulled Kane in my rewards - don't know whether to cash in, or have him replace Arnautovic up top.
The first 2 I faced were clearly better than me and both had teams not dissimilar to Nepenthez. Both had a very irritating ability to allow me to put a tackle in that felt like I should win the ball, only to come through on the other side of my defender.
Of the other 4 losses, 3 went to extra time and the last was an injury time winner. So I wasn't being outclassed here, just the game did not go my way. The win was easy too.
In a side note, POTM Auba ruins me. Every time.
I find it the other way around. I've started 5-0 every Friday so far. If I had the time one Friday I'd love to play all 30 games on the one night, see how things went.
The theory is that the 2-3 weeks you wait to make a saving on your team, you'll earn more back by having a better team and beating those who have sold up now.
19 packs in the bank with the overnight rewards.
Plan for today is to go for Tah (don't think I'll do it in one day), seal the two Futswap tokens to get Guilavogui and get Wayne Rooney from the MLS SBC.
The 50k Rare Player Packs in the icon SBC's can be done for about 35k.
1-1 on the pursuit of Tah so far.
I find Timo Werner to be absolutely useless in every FIFA I've used him in.
Yeah I'm not a fan either.
People go nuts for him though.
His stats should mean he's amazing, but he plays like absolute arse. Like he's on 3 chemistry or something.
I just got UCL Bonucci from that no easy games SBC.
Only about 42k but that's probably my best pull yet.
2-2 in the Tah objective now.
Just played an absolute dickhead who insisted on watching every replay, celebration and pausing it for the full allotted time.
He was shit, but somehow went 3-1 up, I went all out attack in the second half and won 5-4. So satisfying.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...ds_on_fifa_19/
Not perfect as the poster messed up on IF boosts for some of the lower rated but still.
@Yevrah subbing in scream Kalou might not be a bad shout. 90 pace and 91 shot right now.
That is a great shout. Cheers Danny.
Are you bothering with Tah?
Not going to build a team to play for him but I might pick up Kalou, bring him on when I am winning and see how it pans out.
I, unintentionally, got promoted from Div 5 over the weekend. That will be interesting. I have accumulated enough points for a weekend league now too so I might buy a team this week and have a go.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...ward_nominees/
Get in early enough and that might be worth a look.
Halfway there now (5-2) and actually really enjoying this team.
Having a CM (Guilavogui) with Med/High workrates makes a massive difference to Kondogbia. Werner has clicked, Bellarabi is a joy and Kalou a nice addition.
Need one more 2 goal win to get Guilavogi's Futswap card as well, which is nice.
I don't know whether to go for the Pedro with all the Futswap tokens, or pick up someone like Guilavogui and get a big pack with the rest. Pedro probably wouldn't start on the right ahead of POTM Lucas, so not sure if it's worth it for a super-sub.
Just did a few SBCs.
Godin the best.
RTTF Marcos Alonso in an SBC. 84 rated makes him the best Prem leftback (+2 on his base and Mendy CL)
Jumbo Rare Players Pack and a Mega pack for the rewards too.
If he stays at the 120k mark (I can't do him now) it's very, very worth it.
Wow, I bought 40 Fabregas and 20 Kompany cards yesterday.
Bought Fabregas for 3.9K and sold for 10K.
Bought Kompany for 9K and sold for 21K.
Okay how do you decide on picking these players up? That's like 400k profit in one night if I'm working that out right.
PSA: Swap deals player available via SBC.
I am certainly no expert in trading but I have been picking up Fabregas every time he drops below 4K and Kompany every time he drops below 10K (this has usually been on Thursday's when the WL rewards drop), I have then been selling them the next day for 1-3K profit each. There is always the chance you will get lucky with an SBC with these two cards.
I actually listed up every Fabregas for 4.8K / Kompany for 11K yesterday because I wanted to buy Hazard and not one of them sold.
Did Alonso, bought the new Renato Sanchez and Fahrmann and once I get Tah tomorrow that’ll be the second team sorted for the rest of the game.
Not sure whether to do Rooney or just sell the MLS players I have. Between that and, the Aussie and Chinese one I probably have 200k of players to sell. Down to 1.1m coins now, but have 28 packs to open, with a fair few decent ones.
Plan for tomorrow is to finish off Tah and do all the value pack SBCs down to Jumbo Gold Premiums, which should take me to 40 or 50 to open.
After that I’ll see what I pull but might take a break to play Fallout 76.
Sweet jesus. I guess you can afford that Hazard now :D
In other news the price crash is hitting hard. For example when I tried Nainggolan last weekend he was 87k. He is now in the 50's. I guess it makes sense to make the switch over now?
Prices are only going to be relative surely.
Messi’s still at 780k, which is a low, but not by much.
I think they’ll drop further if EA release the packs for Black Friday.
Bought a clean Renato Sanches for 126k.
'Mon Bayern, win the UCL.
How is Alonso, @Yevrah?
I have Mendy as my first choice right now, I packed his UCL the other day so could easily slot that in there, or I could sell him for 50k+ and hit Alonso.
Haven't used him yet, still trying to do that fucking Tah objective.
From 5-2 I'm now 5-7, having lost 5 games in a row. I'm coming up against super teams, Fut Champs players, the works. In Division 6.
The rot stopped. 6-7.
Sincere, are you still using the compact strikers and midfielders drop back approach? I was getting great success with it early doors but it seems absolutely useless now and most of my success lately is when I go all out in the second half.
Makes me want to go with defenders with ludicrous pace when I finally build the first team and just sit on the halfway line.
I see Manolas has 95 pace and acceleration with a Shadow. He and RTTF Florenzi could be incoming.
How long are the RTTF players in packs for?
I keep one striker on balanced now. The LF and RF are still on come back. It is still working well for me. Im still getting to gold 2 in weekend league. When i lose though, I lose my a wide margin. What i find now is there is too much of a gap between the midfield and defence. Opposition strikers often drop into the space between and cause havoc. I should probably adjust.
Patch is out on Xbox.
If the patch does what it says it does, then those timed finesse shots are a game changer.
https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/fifa/...-notes-patch-3
I want passing nerved. It is still far too accurate, especially one touch ping pong passing between players.
I think they've only nerfed it when you receive the ball from a weird angle and do it on the turn.
7-1-7 in my pursuit of Tah now. It's been enjoyable and is definitely a proper challenge, but I can't wait to get back to my actual team. Levekusen had better go balls deep in the Europa League.
Racked up 6800 odd SB points letting the AI play out quick 5-0 amateur leads today whilst working to make sure I get that FUT Swap card as I’d like Guilavogui in the club. Looking at the ranks the past few weeks it seems not many people are bothering with it now, so I’m hopeful that with a few games in later in the week whilst doing other things I can sit tight in Gold 1 or 2 and grab some more effort free reward packs for Monday.
Toiled through the SBC's and now have 40 packs (some are the three common gold ones).
Opening at 9:
https://mixer.com/Chemical_Locust
Until Friday.
Be warned with Florenzi, I absolutely love him as a defender and right back in general. However his height at the back post has been exposed a fair few times for me. It's for this reason I'm looking at that TOTW Meunier to pair with my red Marquinhos.
Cheers for the heads up. I was struggling anyway to get full chemistry with Serie A players in the team and Pogba, Kante and Mbappe (who're all basically locks).
Mhkitarian :drool:
Glad I have 12 Shakhtar players inc a UCL version.
He might make POTM Aubameyang usable/tempting for me.
Did Milinkovic Savic earlier, pulled crap from the packs but his card looks like a grand sub so I’m happy enough with the 40k I spent doing it.
About 180k each for these cards if you're starting from scratch.
For some reason I find myself sorely tempted to do that POTM Aubameyang. A bit annoying it was only available for 2 weeks after Hazards was a month.
Tempted to chuck some cash into this as I don't have time to fuck about with grinding my way to Yev's Scrooge McDuck pile of cash. When's the best time to get them and go through some packs?
I'll be buying packs on Black Friday.
There will be loads of deals but the market won't be as kind to sellers.
Does chemistey even apply to the AI? Played a team with 39 chem lost 4-0. Defence was rock solid and they played extrem tiki taka football. On legendary.
They've definitely made Squad Battles harder (again) Trance.
I had Legendary almost licked and I too lost 4-0 tonight, to a 59 chemistry team.
Packs in 5 if anyone's interested.
https://mixer.com/Chemical_Locust
Need some 'save Maria' style TTH magic.
Would watch as I am a sucker for a pack opening but I am out and about. You have to get something from that many!
Finally finished my placement matches and I got into division 6 (my penultimate game I was against someone shit and I knew I could beat him but I got kicked and then I lost 8-4 in the final one).
Just played my first division 6 match and easily won 5-1. Could have been a lot more too and it pushed me up into division 5.
50/2000 to FUT Champs \0/.
This is what I'm rolling with right now:
https://i.imgur.com/6GqiHct.jpg
De Gea and Isco's loans just finished which is a shame.
Rodrigo is pretty damn swish and I like Gundogan a lot.
Jesus this man has packs for days
I'm going to have to clear the transfer list soon though. :moop:
I'm a bit surprised it seems none of your players are actually up for listing?
I'm usually throwing everything on the list and then just re-listing over and over and over lol
I had 40 on the list before I started (but all 82+'s) that I'd rather not sell for buttons.
I've acquired 40 duplicates in doing this. Occupational hazard unfortunately.
I've just realised I've not started on Tah yet so I should probably get cracking. I'm going to feel bad getting rid of Mertens and Allan. Beyond that there's some reasonable performers but I don't think anyone I'll miss too much.
These are some pretty shocking packs so far.
Matic and a couple of wank in forms is it.
You fucking beauty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mbappe, noice.
Wowwwwwww i look down and you're packing Mbappe
Congrats bub
I'll have almost broken even from doing this having pulled him.
Sorry gents, gonna have to clear the transfer list again before I open the last 8 packs.
niceeee
Casemiro too.
Not sure how much he goes for, but I could actually put him in the team.
He's not worth a lot because people are still obsessed with speed.
This is my favorite song
SWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY WITH ME
24 rare players and only 3 of which are 80+... i'd fucking scream
What a perfect way to kill off the end of my shift. Cheers for that my boy. Gratz on the Mbappe/Casemiro
Should have saved that Jumbo Rare Players Pack for last.
Still, can't complain. I had 1.6m (now down to 1.1m) coins when I started saving/doing packs and with Mbappe, Matic, Casemiro, 3/4 IFs and the legions of shite, I'll have made coins on the endeavour and I have a couple of handy RTTF players out of it too.
Rage quit at 3-0 ahead going into half time and that's Tah done.
I'm also now within 50 points of Division 2 rank 1 and have 650 Fut Champions qualification points (with another 500 to come from last weekend's Bronze 3 ranking).
EDIT: Division 6, not 2.
New patch feels nice flr me. Played 11 games in rivals and im undeafeted with 8 wins. My skill rating went from 1289 to 1474. It now takes a lot longer to search for games.
Sold Werner, IF Bellarabi and Tah and brought in Alaba and Kimpembe to make the team this:
https://i.postimg.cc/PqvgGDFj/New-Squad.jpg
This will effectively become the second team when I spunk the coins and build the first team, which is why Mbappe isn't in it even though he could slot straight in. Gonna work out tomorrow whether I sell him and buy him back for Black Friday with the aim of making coins doing that, but he'd need to drop by 50k+ for it to be worth bothering with, so I might just stick him in the above side while I'm working out what team to build.
1.1m coins left, but think I've got at least 500k in the club, which if I can be arsed to sell will effectively leave me with a 2m+ coin first team to move forward with, which is nice.
370 on xbox right now according to FUTBIN. He up to like 410k after rewards last week. That might be your time to sell.
Trying to get Messi and Mbappe in the same team without having to crowbar in shite for chemistry is a real headache.
What formation and where you trying to use Messi?
Can build a pretty mega La Liga side with a Ligue 1 right side (Meunier hard linking > Rabiot > Perfect link to Mbappe)
4-3-2-1.
What did you come up with?
I should add I was trying to get Kante and Pogba in there too.
Pre Pobga/Kante
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With Pogba and Kante
How are you for in game formation swaps? Using the dpad tactic options?
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Or a completely different direction:
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I love building squads but I never do it :lol:
Cheers Danny, some great ideas in there.
Does anyone know what time the weekly objectives roll over? Doubt I'll be able to play tonight and I've still got 7 wins to get for the Tah objective as well as the other Futswap ones. :moop:
Objectives swap at 6pm UK time every day with weekly ones on a Friday at 6.
There's a swap deals player SBC running out at 6 today so be sure to do it.
Also there's a special item to earn in SB. Anyone know what it is?
I would guess the special item is another Swap Deals player - they had them throughout October. I really need to get on tonight and tomorrow to finish off Tah and the two weekly swap deals objectives. Still need 8 wins with a Bundesliga scorer so I have to hope I have enough time.
It's definitely a swap deals player.
So I won via a last-minute goal.
https://youtu.be/laHdckAOfpo
I might make that my new corner tactic.
@Yevrah how many SB points am I likely to need to get that player?
This would be a great week to get some good luck on the player picks.
I brought in Reus to sub straight on, but forcing the ball to him hurt me. First game saw me winning, but just not with him scoring so pointless. 2nd game and I disconnected after scoring with him 1-0 up. Internet went down for the night.
Hopping on now to do that SBC and try and get as close as possible.
Depay will be overpriced, but him and Plea would slot straight into my teams. I already have POTM Reus so that will probably be the high rated card I pull. He also looks fairly likely to be Bundesliga POTM again for November as well. Hopefully his old card helps out a bit with the SBC if so.
I can 100% see one of his special cards being a requirement if he wins it again.
If this game loves me, it will give me a red Robertson. I just really hope I'm not faced with an impossible choice.
Spent most of the afternoon selling bronze and silver players and am now closing in on 1.3m. It takes fecking ages and I've still got 1,999 players in the club.
Played two games with the new team above in Division Rivals and won both.
Tah is a beast, Alaba is fantastic and Kimpembe a massive upgrade on Kehrer.
So tempting to unleash Mbappe, but a clean version of him seems to attract a 25k premium and want to wait to see what his price does ahead of the weekend league teams being assembled.
Paulinho rumoured to be winning the CSL POTY.
If they do a card for that :drool:
He’s by far the best all round base card I’ve ever used at CM in any version. Absolute gem of a player.
Keep that Mbappe and use him Yev, you've plenty of coin and how often do you get a first owner player like that?
I'm at 4/10 on Tah.The last 2 clearly against people going for the card as I am. Werner is a massive help.
UCL Cuadrado from the UCL Packs. Will shift him after rewards tomorrow.
I currently have 1.2 million invested items to sell for the post rewards hype :|
How does post rewards hype work?
Shouldn’t prices go down if the market is flooded with rewards.
I have always found that 84 and lower rated cards crash for a few hours and then gradually rise back up. I have made money every week by buying Fabregas for 3-4K and selling him for over 5K a few hours later.
People who just time waste.
Fuck off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUH--npYZYg
I love having a useable Renato Sanches.
Pretty much this. There is an initial dip when they come out but overall there is more money in the market and people are buying/rebuying for weekend league.
Look at the price graph for Fabinho and VVD
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/470/Fabinho/
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/469...%20van%20Dijk/
Fabinho is the best example but he dips during the week and flys up as people want him in their team.
How many points we thinking for Rank 3 in division 5?
I'm not going to push for Rank II (the extra rewards don't seem worth it) but don't want to have to play more matches than I need to secure 3.
I reckon 3500 to be safe (X-Box)
Actually, it's saying I'm in division 5 but my rewards are listed as division 6 ones.
ffs.
You must have been in Division 6 at the time of the refresh last week. 2,000 points will probably secure rank 3 (27.5K)
Just played some credit card fc god squad in rivals.
Neuer
Walker
Blanc
Rio
Marcelo
Kante
Salah
Gullit
Veron
Neymar
Suarez
Kid was awful and I slapped him 5-1. Just 5 goals needed now for the 5th futswap.
Jesus, what a squad.
I just lost my first rivals, the guy was one of those constant pressure pricks :(
Been using this weird squad in an attempt to get the RTTF Tah. Alcacer has been really fun to use.
https://i.postimg.cc/L6cd1xTZ/Squad.png
Yesterday, everything started well, 4 games with 2 wins and 2 draws, and lots of goals being scored. Today it's all changed; won 1-0, then lost 4-1 and 2-0 and just can't seem to finish off any chances. I still need 7 wins for Tah, but not sure if I will have the time to do it now.
Fabian is a dick btw.
He fisted me (red version) in my only loss thus far in rivals.
6 wins now done for Tah. 11 games so far. Annoyingly I wasted a win by not being able to work it to a Bundesliga guy in front of goal. I was just 2-0 up for win #7 but my internet has cut off at pretty much the exact time it did last night too.
I'm going to be right on the cusp of Div 4 Rank 2/3 too.
@thommo how is 3 at the back working out? I feel like that would be horrible.
I thought I had worked out how to get that squad (with 1/2 cheap changes) into 4-1-2-1-2 but Plea is on 8. So close.
It's fun but pretty awful defensively. The wingers track back, but Castillejo especially has crap stamina, so you feel the effects. I only built it because I packed Thiago and Scream Caceres in untradeable rewards, and they linked well with Koke and Alcacer. Just lost another close one, 3-2 this time - I'm getting gashed everytime I face 4-3-3.
https://www.futbin.com//19/squad/1878583
Thats it if you wanna have a look.
I packed Firmino and got IF Shezknee and IF Plea from my FUT rewards
Misjudged Division Rivals and missed out Rank 1 by 90 points. Grrr.
But packed Eriksen in my Bronze 3 Fut Champions rewards.
Selling him will take me close to 1.5m coins again.
Icon SBC expires in 8 hours. Will they release another one today or tomorrow? Im not too sure. POTM Auba has an early expire date. He is only available for 15 days compared to the usualy 30 days of other POTM SBC. That tells me they dont want the Auba SBC to overlap onto Black Friday for some reason.
They don't want Auba to overlap with Black Friday because it'll be much cheaper to do.
As for icons, they've totally fucked those in this version and the only way they can redeem it is if they do a baby icon sbc for a reasonable price, which I suspect they might.
Went for the untradeables in division 6 rank 3 rewards and I got a UCL live Fekir.
I always take the coins, but building a team around all untradeables sounds like a fantastic option.
I dont know if it is this new patch or not but i went from 1290 in rivals to 1536. Only losing 1 game in the run :drool:
Further to what I mentioned before.
I managed to get 7/8 VVDs for around 105-107k over the last few days and he is now selling for between 135 and 140k. Three just went for the latter. 30k pretax profit for a 1 to 2 day hold. I wish I had paid a little more to pick up more of him.
I have some Kane’s that I should make money on too but UCL Mendy (x2) and UCL Dembele might lose me 10/15k as a group due to the UCL SBC knocking them down.
Packpulled UCL Cuadrado went for 80k, he was only 60k when I packed him.
I won’t touch it for a couple of weekends after this because of thanksgiving and then one week to see how the market is settling. I think it’s going to be a year long trend though, just need to move with the in vogue cards
What's the best day to buy on then?
Gold 2 Champs rewards and managed to sneak Rank 2 in Div 4. Took tradeable packs. Got Saul and a load of rubbish in all of them.
Red player picks were Hector and a lovely red Andy Robertson :wub:
Robertson the only player I got rated above 82 to choose.
I've now got 1,547 Fut Champions points. Quite tempted to push on tonight to qualify. Won't be able to until about 7 though.
Monday/Tuesday I found. It was hard to get them for the price I was happy with last night.
I was trying to buy at -5% of BIN so I could just sell at that if need be.
Do it Yev. Get breaking in that Mbappe while you're at it.
I've played him in a few games today. I'm not sure I like him, or rather if he's worth 400k.
Merse, do you have him? What's your verdict?
Further to the point @Danny made I checked up on Fabinho. On Xbox he has gone down to 59k the past 2 Tuesdays. By Thursday he is back up to 68k and is currently pushing over 73k.
If you have the coin to bag him you can make a few hundred thousand without trying.
:nod:
I will breakdown my profit on loss in this over the weekend. UCL Cards are fucking me (thankfully I only bought 3) but a meta golds are the ones
Is every single one of those cheaper to buy than craft?
Outstanding EA.
The only instance I can see someone wanting to do one of those is incase they pack an untradeable icon in one of their rewards somewhere and it happens to be a bit of a shit one. You can swap it for almost free that way. Doing it for 700k from scratch at least, is some kind of stupid unless you have millions. Are the Icons at least tradeable?
Lack of anything in my packs means it's going to be tough to afford that POTM Aubameyang in time. I'd need a very solid weekend league finish, to sell Salah and get lucky in the packs. Once I do this Tah challenge I'll be selling my Reus and Werner back to get me 45k to add to my other 170.
Then I'll be after a CB and probably Walker. Trying the Marquinhos-Meunier combo has shown me whilst his pace is useful, he is just not physical enough. Meunier was a dream full back though.
I then need either a CAM or Striker, depending on where I shift Firmino.
This Buy Mon/Tue sell Thursday thing is very intriguing
They had it more right in 17 when you could actually pick the shitter ones up for around 100k. Last year was tolerable, this year is just a farce.
I could just about excuse EA for the first set, the second was poor, but for someone to actually push the button on set 3 knowing full well that they're all cheaper to buy is a joke.
A reasonably affordable baby icon SBC is their only way out of this now, as there simply aren't enough icons in supply to make these remotely worthwhile/affordable.
Although I see it basically only costs the icon now as they've removed nearly all of the other requirements.
EDIT: Why does it say it's only available for another 31 minutes?
Yeah, they've fucked this up.
https://twitter.com/NepentheZ/status...39535570247680
Buy icon for 650k
Submit icon into sbc and get 100k pack
Complete “world class”sbc for 40k and get 50k pack
Complete the bronze and silver sbc for cheap and get irrelevant packs.
Obtain icon for completing SBC
Now repeat but instead of spending the 650k on the icon, you just use the icon you just obtained.
You’re getting 150k worth of packs for 40k, you will eventually recoup that 650k you initially spent, and end up with profit and a free prime icon.
Shame I don't have 650k :(
I do, but if it's gone in 17 minutes then I don't have enough time to make it back.
Those with an icon already and that were quick could have made a fucking killing from this.
I'm so tempted to take this into the weekend league in a shit or bust fashion.
https://www.futbin.com/19/squad/1913372
Wow if only I had the coin to have got the original Icon. That's mental.
If I was at home I would have smashed through that, done Giggs last and kept him until something better came out.
It's gone.
Up to 1,597 FUT Champs Qualification points, but just been promoted to division 5. Guess that's a good thing in terms of more points per win but I'll be facing harder opponents I'd imagine.
Division 5 is mince.
I lost 1, drew 1 and then won like 4 or 5 comfortably.
And I'm shit at defending.
I hear he's an absolute beast, but I'm hesitant due to being stuck with him if he isn't and the fact that building that team tonight will cost me 100k+ more than if I'd done it a day ago.
Still, what a side though and if I sell all my investments (+Mbappe) I can do it while keeping my second team still.
Have either of you done the loan? I was not impressed with his work rates.
1-1-2 now in Division 5.
Just came up against Pogba and my players were bouncing off him. 290 points to go, but back to hating this game now.
Mbappe is, unfortunately, a bit crap and in no way worth 390k, so he'll be getting sold. I may well do it tonight.
Tommy Muller from MM's this week.
So here is where my weekend trading has gone so far. Beware massive image. Bold means sold for that price. Other prices are what they were last time I checked.
Demeble was fresh
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Edit: and I just remembered I have two Valencias (18k each) to sell but he is only at 20k right now.
Some cracking work there Danny.
Two wins on the spin takes me to 160 points to go.
Worked out what's wrong with Mbappe, his movement just doesn't reflect someone with his dribbling stats.
My team are like they are running through treacle tonight, so I shall not be playing any more as its annoying.
Of course it happens the night I decide to reedem WL points :moop:
I've been moving him to striker during this bid to qualify for FutChamps if I need a goal in the second half and he's much better there, but I maintain, he's not a 400k card.
Where does he rank in your squad? For example, I've seen you raving far more about other players.
69 points to go, which is 1 win and 1 loss in division 5.
Tah finally done. I'll finish the SBC for it tomorrow. FUTBIN reckons about 25-28k of coin to get that. It took 19 games with the final win taking the longest. I was 1 goal up in 3 successive games and lost the lead late in all of them.
As such I've moved Reus back on for a few thousand more than when I bought him. Werner though has almost halved in value from when I got him, so it offsets. It'll leave me with about 200k in the bank and a few decisions to make.
I'll be bringing in Sanchez at the back and almost certainly Walker too, but up further up there is a decision to make. I'm giving Fabinho and Fernandinho a go as the CMs but I could then bring Firmino back to the CAM spot. There's also the likes of Eriksen and Lukaku that would fall into about my price range for what I'd have left.
Alternatively I could sell Salah and use Mahrez for a weekend or two. I could bring in Van Dijk and Eriksen for what I'd have. Or I could look at bringing in a lethal finisher like Aguero. That loan Aubameyang may not be a bad shout either.
How do you rate Salah Fox?
He's always an absolute arse to play when I face him.
Oh and I've qualified and redeemed entry. Just done Aubameyang's loan card too.
Oh and on another note, have EA forgotten about the scream boosts?
He's incredibly productive, and consistent.He won't dominate anyone - he's just not that player, but he can put away tough opponents in ways others can't and often wins me tight 1-0 battles. I'd say he's one of the less influential but most irreplaceable, if that makes sense? Mind you, worth noting that I've been using him heavily since his YPOTY card in FIFA 17, and his IF, SIF and TOTS were at RF for me most of last year. I cannot envisage a team without him, whilst I'm constantly thinking of who might replace Talisca, who by contrast is probably my absolute favourite and most influential all round player, because I know Mbappe will keep hurting people, whilst Anderson drops a little each weekend as teams muscle up in defence.
Real life took over tonight and I think I'm going to end up short for the Tah card. Need 6 more wins and I'm in work tomorrow. I might give that 4-1-2-1-2 team a run out though, cheers Danny.
Got to Rank 3 in Rivals - took the untradeable rewards and packed Miranda, Fred and Bernardo Silva, along with tons of SBC fodder.
If the gameplay is good he's a delight. He does get pushed off the ball a little easy for my liking though. Sometimes you get a pen for it, but mostly no. I'd give him an 8/10.
Biggest cons are that he's weak and his weak foot is unreliable. However his left foot is a dream and his finesse shots seem to just glide into the top corner effortlessly. I'm not one for cutting inside and looking to the timed finesse shot from the D, but if I did I reckon he'd be even better.
The 2* WF worries me so much.
It's 3* this year, but it doesn't feel much better.
Yeah, if it was 2 I wouldn't touch him, but I've just about managed with 3 star players.
I didn't realise his WF had been increased.
3 is alright.
How is Robertson Carlos? Pulling that UCL Mendy means I could sell him and only, in theory, pay 50k for Robertson. Very tempted.
FUTSWAP TRACKER
Everyone has 5 right?
1. Freebie - Expired
2. SBC - Expired
3. SBC - Expired
4. Weekly Obj (win 10 by 2+) - Expires tomorrow
5. Weekly Obj (Score 20 in Rivals) - Expires tomorrow
6. Squad Battle Reward (finish in silver or above)
How is everyone using them? Not sure if I want to spunk them all on a pack. I like the look of Guilavogui but I have no idea how I would use him. 92 rated CB with anchor is insane. Looks a very good CDM though.
Yeah, I've got 5 and have used 4 of them on Guilavogui who is pretty good.
As for the rest, I'm not sure what I'll do yet.
9 more to earn in only two weeks is a pain in the arse though.
Actually, looking at Antonio with a Sniper, I think I'll go for him.
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/171...m=10&schem=100
I managed to pack an untradeable Kondogbia and tradeable Umtti. Should I sell them to get them into my team somehow? I could remove Sokratis and bring in Umtti and swap Barkley for Kondogbia. I would need to bring in either a French or La Liga right or left back and also get LLoris in goal to get everyone on full chem
Gk - Alisson
DL - Europa League Alonso
DR - Aurier
DC - Sanchez
DC - Sokratis
CM - Fennandinho
CM - Barkley
CM - Firmino
LF - Martial
RF - William
ST - Lacazette
2-2 in Futchamps so far.
2 comfortable wins, 1 close 2-1 loss and a battering where I quit at 3-0 down after 35 minutes (life's too short).
Aubameyang is nice, but get the sense he'd be much better if I was starting him on full chem. I never really get on amazingly with loan players.
That’s pretty much what they did last year, once a month-ish, every full moon, they had changes. Last one was Halloween I think so still time this month
Means they have constant boosts all year round then, which is nice.
3-3 now.
Danny, are you in WL yet?
The most satisfying win I've ever had on FIFA takes me to 4-3.
https://i.postimg.cc/9F0bZQB4/16-11-...9-kikxwbvb.jpg
Never have I faced someone employing more shithouse tactics than this arse. Full pressing wanker, taking two players to my backline every time I had a goal kick, throw ins instant ball back to him, the works.
It was impossible not to cede possession to him, hence the number of shots I faced, but after weathering the storm Aubameyang popped up at the far post to hammer home a header in the dying minutes of extra time.
Beautiful.
Jadon Sancho Bundesliga potm.
Germany players are about to rocket.
Yeah I am off today so i figured this would be a good weekend. 2-0 right now. Cruise of a win in the first game and then I won 7-5 in the second. I swear almost every time I got ahead he would go up the end and equalize within a few mins. He dabbed when he made it 5-5. I made him watch all the dabbing and replay when I made it 7-5 with 5 left :lol:
3-0. I just won 6-2 after extra time. I went off in the first half of ET scoring three and putting the game to bed.
Think I'm going to do Sancho.
EDIT: Although I'll wait until Black Friday as I'm fucked if I'm paying 40k+ for IF Hector.
Somebody somewhere will have made a fortune from stockpiling him.
That Sancho card looks to be able to be done for about 70k from scratch. He does have low composure and mid-to-late 70's in every shooting stat though. He looks a very interesting proposition with a sniper card on him.
Also incase you didn't know there are 2 chemistry styles that will increase the composure stat, albeit by only 5. They are Sniper and Guardian.
I'll be on to get that Tah card shortly. He's a 91 rated CB with Anchor on him and we already know Leverkusen have reached the knock out stages, so he's due another upgrade. Hopefully that puts in a little work on his stamina.
Good to see you all enjoying the weekend league :D
Yeah, with a Sniper he looks ok and building towards an all English special card team would be pretty cool.
Already got my Chilwell FutChamps reward. :cool:
Made 50k from selling germans, which is nice.
Pulled IF Hector and IF Robertson from one of the Sancho packs which puts me well in profit. Sell all of your German/Bundesliga IF players now if you have any as they'll probably drop in a week's time.
Unfortunately I had to bow out at 8/10 wins last night for Tah before the girlfriend got home and kicked me off the Xbox. A few bullshit losses in there which makes it more frustrating as well.
Rejigged the lineup though, Reus is so much better as a striker than CAM. I'd been playing with Lewandowski on his own up front and now with Reus in a 4-1-2-1-2 I actually have the option of playing a through ball.
4-4.
Lost a game I dominated and got fucked on the counter twice to lose 2-1.
I'd have taken 4-4 before I started, but annoying not to be 5-3, which for me would have been brilliant.
Also, EA really need to sort out the search functionality. UCL cards have completely broken the Special filter, finding an IF takes forever now.
4-1 and time for a break. Was going to play 5 or stop when I lost so that works out.
The player wasnt good but his team were very good. POTM Hazard, Ronaldo and UCL Sane up top. Maybe I need to improve my team :lol:
5-4. Just won a game 3-2 having trailed all match with a penalty in the 119th minute and a winner from Schweinsteiger in the 121st.
Next game is huge. Silver 3 after 10 games would be immense.
Might try to utilize the "buy now" filters
usually the CL versions are much cheaper from what I remember so i just put the min buy now to a higher price
or conversely just use futbin, figure out what card i want, then do the search parameters around it (say if it says it costs 15k on Futbin i'd do 14k-16k of course).
Tah done and some decent SBC needed players and also a few Germans from the packs. It's just about pushed it back up to the cost of doing it, so I've got the card for free.
Considering that's going to be anything from 86 up to 90 rated, I don't think that's too shabby. He looks like a carbon copy of Jerome Boateng too. If the Bundesliga gets a good RB it'd be tempting to make a team.
5-5.
Lost 3-0 to someone who without obviously being so, was just much better than me.
And +1 for the UCL players being in the special filter being a pain in the arse.
Highly rated but sprint speed is 69. He'll get rinsed in behind by the endless streams of POTM Hazard.
He's also got H/L workrates, which would be fun. :eyemouth:
Need a break from FutChamps, so something interesting on the SBC and objective front at 6 would be welcome.
Whoops, ya that'll do that then. Sorry fellers.
I had IF Jovic in the club who I never sold because his price was crap. Thank you Sancho for that easy 20k.
Jadon Sancho's SBC has vanished now.
EA are having a total shocker.
I'm doing that Duffy weekly objective now on easy on SB before they remove/update it.
EDIT: No new SBC's.
Surely changing his postions is easy work and could be done in real time? Its 2018 and they cant hot fix things yet :face:
Obviously don't buy him now but IF Kaderabak (spelling almost definitely wrong) is really solid. Fairly quick and one of the best crossing stats in the league.
If they re-upload it with changed requirements people will riot I'd imagine.
6-8 now.
Battered someone 3-0 in 30 minutes, then faced two people in a row who did the same to me (quitting both within 30 minute as I'll easily hit rank 1 in rivals this week) and lost the last game 3-2.
Sane is a right fucker.
Got back on and have had two shit games where I felt like I was powerless in attack and defence before a 3-0 win gets me back on track. 5-3.
IF Robertson in for Mendy at LB.
RTTF Sanchez in for Bailly
Valencia in for UCL Aurier.
Picked up RTTF Sanchez for 165k, Telles for 95k and Tagliafico for 15k.
Listed Mbappe up for 392k.
I'll call Futchamps a night for today now and hope my -2 form gives me favourable matchmaking in the morning.
I'd say Robertson is the best LB I've used, but I've not tried the big 3 yet.
Did they really fuck up on another SBC?
Yeah, they listed Sancho as a LM rather than a RM that he should have been.
Why it's taken this long to fix that and what happens to those who already have him as a LM, I don't know.
It's a tough one. If you've done him planning to use him as a LW and he gets changed I imagine you'd not be very happy.
If it was removed solely for the position fuck up (and I'm sceptical it was just for that reason) they should have left as was and re-leased two more SBC's. One with him as a RM that you got by doing the same objectives as the LM one and one with him as a RM that you got by trading his LM card in.
FUT Swap Deal Update
You should currently have I believe 5 in the club, if you have kept up. 1 more is in Squad Battles to be handed out on Monday. 3 more have dropped via weekly objectives.
> Play 3 online singles matches this week
> Score 2 goals in 7 separate wins this week
> Play 10 games in online game modes this week
Hazard or Salah?
I have Salah and enjoy him but I am thinking of upgrading to Hazard. I would be playing him as striker (LF on 7 chem) alongside Lukaku.
If you're using him as a striker I'm not sure Hazard would be an upgrade on Salah. The latter is stronger and a much better finisher. If you have the coins switch to 4321 and get both in as LF and RF either side of Lukaku.
Playing them as a striker is a bit of a waste. They're not quite physical enough to be right up against the centre backs. You'll find Salah is the more reliable finisher on his left foot.
Hazard however has a 4* weak foot and is a much better passer and dribbler. You want these guys facing towards the goal with the ball at all times. I view Hazard as the perfect CAM. If you could I'd concoct something with him switching to a CAM in game, with someone like Salah on the right and bring in a left winger, like Sane or Mane, playing behind someone big and strong(John mentions Lukaku who is perfect)
I've also made a start on FUT Champs. Again it's a 5-0 start. Though it has been harder this time with one extra time appearance. Game 5 saw me come up against the best team I've seen yet.
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His Makelele and Kante combo was frustrating as all hell. Combine that with Courtois in god mode it was tough. What swung it was bringing on regular Depay for Willian. He scored 2 and set up Aubameyang for the 3rd and killer goal to take it 3-1.
Speaking of Aubameyang. He has played 5 games. He's scored 12(twelve) and set up a further 3. If this form carries on I've tough choices to make.
Two losses to start the day to take me to 6-10.
The first I cannot believe I lost and the second I couldn't get the ball of the guy I was playing.
So frustrating.
6-11. 5 losses in a row now I believe.
I'm doing so badly I may as well stream this.
https://mixer.com/Chemical_Locust
Unbelievably won 2 in a row to get Silver 2 and go 8-11.
Three wins from 11 needed to get Silver 1.
FUTSWAP TRACKER
Everyone has 5 right?
1. Freebie - Expired
2. SBC - Expired
3. SBC - Expired
4. Weekly Obj (win 10 by 2+) - Expired
5. Weekly Obj (Score 20 in Rivals) - Expired
6. Squad Battle Reward (finish in silver or above) - Expires Sunday
7. Play 3 online singles matches this week - Expires Friday
8. Score 2 goals in 7 separate wins this week - Expires Friday
9. Play 10 games in online game modes this week - Expires Friday
Combined list. Thanks fox for the last three.
I am 1 away from number 8 and 3 away from number 7.
Decent spell this morning and I am now 11-7 and into silver 1.
Might push into gold for that extra pick pack.
Finished the day on 8-13.
Sorely tempted to do Aubameyang and build that premier league team as prices are falling.
Some of the big names are falling. Pogba and Kante havent been this cheap for a while.
If you do, the extra push to Gold 2 for more to pick from is well worth it.
I’m 14-9, not a great weekend by recent standards, and struggling against deep or gegenpress defending. I’ve also missed 6 pens scattered throughout those defeats, whilst winning 2 matches on pens. Go figure. I also fucked myself by twice accidentally playing with my B team used for fitness in Div Rivals. Not pleasant games.
Also just spent my 300k on SBC investments (for Black Friday, despite the likely situation that I’ll likely struggle to do many of them whilst on holiday), and on Telles for my next weekend league in a fortnight or so, with Immobile, Skriniar, Matuidi and Handanovic also joining my B Team alongside the UCL Live Milinkovic Savic and Douglas Costa that I had ready to go with Alex Sandro dropping down providing Telles works out.
My B team has really struggled in Div Rivals of late, particularly Saul in midfield and Scream Koke at LW (great CM super sub mind), and I wanted a more Hulk-esque striker in place of Gabriel Jesus, so hopefully this sorts it.
If he continues banging the goals in like he is, I'd love to do the Aubameyang one, but it's stuck at 560k on xbox for most of the time it has been out. Salah has lost 30k overnight too. I guess it mainly depends how I finish on the weekend. I don't have much time to play until Sunday night really and given my struggles on that day, it could mean anything.
Aiming to leave myself between 15-20 games for Sunday night. If I can hit Gold 1, it could make Aubameyang manageable without having to pull anything, but I don't want to be sat frantically panicking on Friday needing 1 final part of the SBC with no coins left.
12-9 for me so far. I dont want to play anymore.
Nepenthez has been saying it’s his toughest weekend league and seems to be echoed in Reddit and here. No idea why that might be, maybe the novelty of weekend league qualification being easier this year has worn off for the noobs I was battering in previous weekends (17-5 and 17-6 respectively). Maybe it’s that they’ve caught up tactically and are employing either 0 pressure or 100, both being very effective.
I was watching Nepenthez on stream last night and he was getting properly triggered.
He's 3-0 down in a game now and he's close again I think.
https://www.twitch.tv/nepenthez
Either way, reflects my experience. Will finish off my games tomorrow and take Gold 2 again I should think, but had hoped for an Elite 3 run since I had Monday off and therefore plenty of time Sunday night to make sure I get all 30 games. Still an outside bet of Gold 1, broth room for one defeat, but I doubt it.
13-2 through my first 15 matches. If I could take penalties it'd just be the one loss. I'd say 15 games in FUT Champs is enough to judge the players though. There's a couple of weak areas in the team.
Bailly is starting to get exposed. As is Fernandinho. Both are decent options on a budget, but the latter is quite slow and isn't strong either. I also wouldn't mind upgrading Willian to a more lethal finisher.
Speaking of lethal finisher. Loan POTM Aubameyang has 29 goals in these 15 games...
I’ll be jealous if you do get him. He looks great when he tears me apart, but I just can’t work him in and am too stubborn to change up the whole team, especially to work in more BPL as I fecking hate BPL sides.
EA are having a shambles this weekend. Matchmaking disabled again.
That's the choice facing me. His nationality makes him very hard to hybrid. I hate EPL sides myself, but unfortunately I'm getting close to that stage where the top players from other leagues are the only way to improve it drastically.
If I do his SBC I'm locked into having an EPL team for the next several weeks or months. That's if rewards are kind and I can afford him.
Matchmaking being disabled could be a good thing for me, but being this late in the weekend I doubt there'll be an extension.
I was going to try for the 3 wins I need from 9 games to get Silver one this afternoon.
Will they give me the 2,000 qualification points as they did last time?
EA do not do themselves any favours. The lack of communication regarding issues relating to the game is dreadful.
I am not a big moaner and understand that things can go wrong but it's the lack of communication that has got me here. When they base the entire game on FUT and specifically the 'weekend league' they must know that people plan their weekends around completing the 30 games. They haven't even acknowledged the problem and it has been over 3 hours now.
Andrew Wilson's (EA's CEO) pissed a few people off by suggesting FUT suffers from the innovations they made in the other areas. Like err ...
I'm not really arsed about getting Silver 1 for the rewards, but I would like the 2,000 qualification points, so I hope it stays down for as long as it takes for them to just give me those as I'd really rather not play the remaining games.
Which is the problem they have, because while that suits me, it doesn't suit people like Sincere.
This isn't to excuse them as I think they're a scummy, scummy company, who've released a bad game this year. Watching Nepenthez's live streams really hammer this home - the amount of goals he scores from timed finesses and concedes due to tackles not working is laughable.
John had it right in sitting the whole thing out from the start.
It's strange as the Madden team are so much more upfront about shit.
They fucked up a set (equivalent of a SBC) and they admit something is wrong and that they need to fix it.
This is the frustration. There are a couple of decent community managers at EA, but it feels like the loop between them and the product owners is a lot more frictionful. I can understand it as a PO myself and working with customer engagement folk - PO’s want to spend their time with Dev’s and realising their product visions and roadmaps, and not dealing with every little thing comms managers bring up. But if you don’t get the lines of communication (both ways) right, it ends up being a detriment to the product itself.
And they charged you an extra tenner for it.
Are SB rewards worse than last year?
I’ve put a little time into SB this week and should be in Gold 1 but the 11k and poultry packs look worse than I recall, or am I misremembering since the last time I had a run was about the same time last year?
They're worse.
Ach. Oh well, still means my late night pack opening will be fun. 4 packs with the pre-order ones there as well (think they’re still coming for another week or so) 11k coins to stop me feeling too skint.
Apparently RM Sancho is in concepts.
Hector, the German IF is at 31k now, when he was as high as 45-50k on Friday.
So tempting to clear my trade pile and buy 100 of him.
I was considering doing the same but I was put off by the thought that everyone is doing the same and the market is going to be flooded with them. It's not like the Sancho card is all that desirable either.
It's going to be interesting to see how the market reacts over the past week. I am planning to pick up Aubameyang, Hazard, De Dear and VVD.
Yeah, that's my worry.
Is there a glitch to quit when level without losing?
It's happened to me twice now.
8-14.
My team felt like it was wading through treacle and I lost to a complete shithead.
I'm quite close to deleting my club now.
Yes. There's a no loss glitch going about, though I've no idea how it's done. You can be winning or losing and do it and the game wont count too.
It's not quite as community friendly as when the one in FIFA 17 was rife. That one saw the guy winning still get the win, but can you imagine getting to the 120th minute and being just about to win to have it done to you?
As for Nepenthez discussion on the previous page, I believe he is his own problem. He is obviously a very good player. I mean my skill rating of 18xx is nothing on his 2200 or so, but he seems to almost get locked into just trying the De Bruyne finesse shots, even though his normal dribbling at people playstyle seems to do the job on most occasions.
His other problem is his First Owner account got way too good, too fast and people are ragging on him for it. So much so I believe he just delete the club to start over.
Won game 23 on penalties having been 2-0 down. 9-14.
2 wins from 7 needed.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday with no decent content released.
9-15.
I seem to be exclusively playing people who have no interest in attacking whatsoever now. I think they might be bots.
Oh great, some cunt with Red Arnautovic.
EDIT: 4-0 up in 30 minutes (including 3 goals in the first 8 minutes) and it's a rage quit for 10-15.
No way was he good enough to have got that card.
1 win in 5 needed.
2-2 to get to 13 wins.
Game 1. Walked past a somewhat poor player
Game 2. Someone with a poor Dutch/Roma/Liga Nos Hybrid. I was battering him in the first half but couldnt get more than 1 goal lead then a switch flipped and his team became vintage Barcelona. i lost something like 6-5.
Game 3. Lost 3-2 in ET with 10 men. Very even game no real complaints apart from Gabriel Jesus is stupid good.
Game 4. Rage quit at 3-1 (after a lovely chip from Firmino) gives me a win with 10 men.
Makes me 14-10 over all. I dont think i will have a go at gold 2 as would have to win 3 of the next 6. Which is probably about do able with my current ratio but man this shit is triggering. Might smash a few SBs to make myself feel better as my 11-1 win on legendary between game 3 and 4 got me back into it :lol:
It is the most triggering thing I think I've ever experienced. 26 games of this is enough to send anyone over the edge.
Game 26 and I've done it.
A 3-0 win with both Ben Yedder and Promes getting their 200th goals for the club takes me to 11-15.
With 4 games left I could technically get Gold 3. Which while unlikely isn't actually impossible. My form wouldn't even be positive if I won the last 4 games and I have faced some proper shit in the last two games.
Whether I want to put myself though that is another matter.
Weekend league extended 24 hours. That's come far far too late. That means I'll probably only play 5 games tonight.
I got this on when on pens today when 5-3 up. Fecking annoying as it was when I was 16-9 and ready to bow out with the next win.
You’re right, but I’d extrapolate that out to the broader ‘engaged’ community. Those who spend time on the visa and forums tend to be obsessed by wins and rewards - I am, in fairness. That’s ok, to a degree. I think what’s damaging is when people let that entirely dominate their play style. For me, it’s a positive, forcing me to sometimes switch up my style and cross the ball a bit (ugh) or use long lobbed through balls (ugh), but for others (about 50%+ in my experience) it involves exploiting broken mechanics and high percentage play, like the top of the box finesse or la croquetta-ing all the way to the box, etcQuote:
As for Nepenthez discussion on the previous page, I believe he is his own problem. He is obviously a very good player. I mean my skill rating of 18xx is nothing on his 2200 or so, but he seems to almost get locked into just trying the De Bruyne finesse shots, even though his normal dribbling at people playstyle seems to do the job on most occasions.
His other problem is his First Owner account got way too good, too fast and people are ragging on him for it. So much so I believe he just delete the club to start over.
There’s been much discussion on EA and Reddit around this, with lots of ‘EA force me to play this way to win’ from the apologists.
Well that didn't last long. 2 defeats on the spin and I'll finish on 11-17 for the week.
I'd have taken Silver 1 before I started, but that it was a depressing slog to get there after Friday.
Sancho is back out again. Apparently those who already finished it, can do it again and get to keep both versions.
And Hector instantly back up to 40k from 28k.
Could have made over 1m coins there.
Did you get any?
This week is likely to be a good time to stock up for PL sbc.
FUTSWAP TRACKER
Everyone has 5 right?
1. Freebie - Expired
2. SBC - Expired
3. SBC - Expired
4. Weekly Obj (win 10 by 2+) - Expired
5. Weekly Obj (Score 20 in Rivals) - Expired
6. Squad Battle Reward (finish in silver or above) - Expired
7. Play 3 online singles matches this week - Expires Friday
8. Score 2 goals in 7 separate wins this week - Expires Friday
9. Play 10 games in online game modes this week - Expires Friday
10. Squad Battle Reward (finish in silver or above) - Expires Sunday 25th.
Can confirm that loading in and quitting online singles matches counts for the obj. I typically played a few mins, not like squad battles where I load in and quit for loyalty.
This looks like it could be fun.
https://www.futbin.com//19/squad/2047682
Just loaded up to collect my SB rewards to find I've missed out on Silver at some point last night, meaning I now only have 8 of the available 9 dished out. Am I still going to be able to get that Pedro?
Never managed to get any games in last night either, so it'll be a marathon session tonight. Having never played on the extension on a WL before I've no idea how that will go.
POTM Aubameyang is now down 50k to just under 510k. I've currently got 90k to hand. If I play my remaining 15 games I imagine I'll get the 4 wins needed for Gold 2 plus earning that Tah on Friday will probably net me Rank 1 in Rivals. That'll be 45k with another 65k on top. Selling Salah on top would only take me then to about 380k, so unless I get something in my packs it's looking unlikely that I'm going to be able to do the SBC.
Only giving 2 weeks to do this is quite annoying.
Due to the servers being broken. I didnt get chance to play and im in Gold 2
I was told to try Mkhi. He is now my favourite card and I will be doing his special untradeable card. He has the ability somehow, to go past players and has the strength to hold them off. I dont know how he does it.
Looking at my club, I have so many players untradeable that im not even using. Its so annoying.
Umtiti
kondogbia
FUT CHAMP Hazard 84
FUT CHAMP IF Plea 93
The only thing to be careful of with those CL/EL cards is that, even if their team reaches say the quarter-final, you aren't seeing the upgrade until March. Considering the SBC landscape, FUTMAS and TOTY, not even including players getting TOTW/POTM items, there's a lot of chance for something better to come out in the meantime.
I mean if you like him, do it. But you'll only be getting 1 upgrade out of it between now and February at a maximum.
Yeh it’s not as great as it seems at first. Otherwise I might’ve sold Ramos, taking Fernandez for a little over a third of the price, but it’ll be April by the time he catches up.
Nonetheless, for those I’ve picked up I’m fairly happy. Mikhi was already someone I had in mind as a possible CAM for some time and is a very decent super sub for Talisca, who only lasts 65 mins of any given match. Milinkovic Savic already has a decent enough upgrade to justify inclusion and I loved loanee Telles early on so I felt the need to buy up a +2 version that’s guaranteed to go up another +3, particularly as 84+ full backs tend to be useable right through to TOTS as there’s so few of them with desirable skill sets and linking. Most leagues and nations have no more than one option.
In other news, got Alba in my SB rewards. With the 6 packs and 11k coins it was a nice way to start the week.
The Dortmund portion of the Sancho SBC is dirt cheap and is a pretty good pack for its cost. i only ended up with David Luiz but its a player I needed for the Chelsea SBC so all is not lost.
Yeh I did it again since I got back all the players I submitted in it (featuring undesirable players from the likes of the Greek league and Eredivisie).
Got Javi Martinez, who I didn’t already own and is very handy in SBCs, and a couple of 82s, so it was at least break-even for me.
I would like to pick up the POTM Sancho, but those IF prices are pretty ridiculous right now. I have IF Zieler in my club (thank god I held onto him) so I only need one more, but it's still pretty extortionate.
If Pogba hits 350 and Kante 300 I think I will buy. I am sitting on 2.2m right now. Maybe I should actually enjoy some players.
After sealing 17 wins from 27 on Saturday, I played out my three remaining WL games today for shits n giggles and the off chance I'd hit Gold 1. Lost 2-1 in the first with Hulk squandering 4 one on one's and the guy scoring a couple of long range finesses with POTM Hazard as usual, whilst having nothing else about him, so that was annoying. Moreso that then I brought in my new B Team for the next couple of games to try them out and won both comfortably.
New Rivals B Team:
https://i.imgur.com/uemqofLl.jpg
Milinkovic Savic isn't quite the Anderson Talisca powerhouse at CAM I hoped for - he needs pace and agility upgrades - but I'm hoping once he reaches 87 it'll be a little bit more of a boost and he'll get there. He did score and assist in the two WL games, so it's a start. Immobile feels good - I'd love to try his IF but it's far too expensive for a B Team card for me. Definitely good value at 20k though. Matuidi is another who needs an IF to boost his shooting stats, mainly positioning and finishing, but he's not far off being as good as the previous years versions I loved. It feels like a nicely balanced outfit, which will sit pretty in Rivals for at least a couple of months whilst I continue to throw my coins at my FUT Champs side.
Flashback Javier Hernandez
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/172...ern%C3%A1ndez/
I find playing FUT Champs in the last evening is always the best time. I have had 3 people quit on me this evening once I have gone ahead.
11-9 so far. Really enjoying this years FIFA.
I think I will just suck it up and fork out 39k for the Bundesliga IF. It's probably worth it in terms of the packs you get back - I just pulled Mkhitaryan from the Dortmund SBC for Sancho, so I could break even if I get lucky.
IF Robertson might be a good investment if you have coins free. He is hovering around 100k right now but when that pack supply dries up being the number 1 prem left back might be a money maker.
Also Swedish POTY out in an SBC. Easy and cheap.
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/17275/Paulinho/
Actually looks like he might be a decent supersub. 4* 4* High 80's pace, very high agility and balance.
Just did my first and second drafts of the year.
First has me complaining (year on year, this one) yet again about players with guests being matched up against single players in draft. Does my head in, out first round as a result (also my formation was awful)
Second, I drew a relatively average draft, but found the 442 with 2 CDM's I was playing with to be great for movement, Ndidi to be a beast and Bobby Moore magnificent behind him and managed to win the whole shebang.
Needless to say, shitty packs from the first, but a nice range in the win - Premium Gold Players, Mega Pack and Rare Gold Pack, or so I thought.
Best pull was Arnautovic ffs.
Is it true that you get a pity token now if you lose in the first round?
Hoping to get on and at least make Gold 2 tonight. If you're lucky you can find guys who will quit out when behind in order to squeeze their games in. Happened a lot more on a 40 game weekend league though.
Not for me...
I think it's partly the no of games, but also majorly that there's the 400 Div Rivals points at the end. That's equivalent to somewhere between a narrow win and a draw, so of course people will hang on. It's annoying, but I do myself, though there's rarely more than a couple of games any given weekend I'm completely out of at the end.Quote:
Hoping to get on and at least make Gold 2 tonight. If you're lucky you can find guys who will quit out when behind in order to squeeze their games in. Happened a lot more on a 40 game weekend league though.
I do really like that aspect of it. Gives a real incentive not to rage quit. Learn to battle back in games. I quite often concede first these days so learning that I'd say is the key to my decent starts.
How I transcend that into a full 30 game gameset though is another thing. I also dont know what I'll do when this Auba loan runs out.
What a night of FIFA that has been. I'd truly call that a marathon session.
I'll start with Aubameyang. What an amazing card that is. Every bounce bump and deflection goes his way. I had 5 games left with him from my previous update. Unfortunately for his stats, I went 1-0 up in 4 of those 5 games and the opponent quit. The last one was a loss on penalties. His final stats are spoilered below.
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He left the team with me 17-3. That quickly became 20-4. Then from here it felt like the opponents kicked up a notch. The next game saw me come up against the worst rager I've ever met. He had a super team but I just about hung on in there. About 80 minutes in he invited me to a party and started spamming me with messages to distract me. I joined and could hear him through my monitor talking about how I was nowhere near his level and the usual insults. He scored in extra time to go 4-3 up and then started passing about the back talking shit as he did. Until he fucked up and played a Gerrard to Henry style backpass that gifted me the goal to take it to penalties. He even had a penalty to win it and had Ronaldo on it. He missed and then I won straight away in sudden death. I ran off and dabbed. This sent him into a 15 minute long raging rant at me(I know because I went off for a mini-break at this point and when I came back he was still going).
From 21-4 I went to 21-6, with 2 extra time losses. I also matched up against MattHDGamer as one of those. I tried my best but his Prime R9 was just too good. I'll look out for his video if he posts one with me in.
The next game was a rage quit win. Putting me 22-6 and needing 1 win from 2 to grab Elite for the first time. The first game was a blowout. This guy was supreme at keeping the ball. I was chasing shadows all game.
Came down to the last game and it was a constant pressure very attacking guy. I went 2-0 up quickly and thought he would quit. But a kick-off goal got him right back in it. From there it was end to end all game until Salah popped up just in time to restore the cushion and that's how it ended.
23-7. First time ever in Elite and I'm delighted. Hopefully it's a good TOTW as I'll be getting 70k, a 100k pack but more importantly a TOTW pack with 3 random players. This will discard for a minimum of 30k but then I also get a choice of 3 red players, with 5 to chose from.
The best part here is I was only outclassed in 2 of those losses. The other had I believe 4 penalty shootout losses and one to MattHDGamer in extra time. All of my losses were also to teams that contained at least 1 Icon.
Another note is that it became significantly harder for me to score once Aubameyang was gone.
New update sounds pretty promising:
We have made some changes to reduce the effectiveness of defending by AI Teammates.
Increased the impact to fatigue of playing with defensive pressure.
To make a well-timed tackle more effective, we have increased the tendency of the ball to travel further from the dribbler after the tackle, increasing the likelihood that the dribbler will lose possession of the ball.
https://fifaforums.easports.com/en/discussion/433060/fifa-title-update-20th-november#latest
Where are you getting that intel?
https://fifaforums.easports.com/en/d...-20th-november
Sounds like a game changer if it works correctly.
If anyone has Tah it’s worth noting that Neuer has crashed to 44k. Just picked one up as an investment now.
Are folk enjoying this? I’ve just started to play again after the first week and it’s still dreadful.
I think I get even less enjoyment because I don’t know how to play. My record is still a losing one. I can’t remember the last FIFA I wasn’t 2.5:1 record at the minimum.
They've introduced things this year to widen the skill gap. I like it, but doing that and removing any casual game mode has ruined it for a fair section of their audience.
I enjoy it myself, unless you get that gameplay that feels like everything is moving through treacle.
As for that patch, I don't think the AI defending will be nerfed too much, but the other two could be game changers. I've already found some success picking gegenpressing wankers off late in games thanks to well timed subs abusing their now shite stamina. This should further help.
The tackling mechanic is my biggest bug bear with it. The amount of goals I've lost through tackling but not actually getting the ball cleanly is astounding. I can't wait for it.
I finished off POTM Sancho yesterday, picked up IF Plea for 38k and submitted him, my only expense for the SBC. I got Mkhitaryan, Javi Martinez, Danilo Pereira and a ton of other players, so all in all, well worth it. I didn't realise one of the packs gave you 24 gold players (7 rare). Never seen that pack before.
And I am also going pretty hard on cheap IFs (Sels, Kums and Van de Beek) there is often a TOTW 10 SBC that could need them. You also can’t far wrong buying a card that discards for 10k for about 12k. There’s always hype and need.
Yeh I’ve got 15 IFs stored up and a couple of Dembele OTWs (more of a long game those, for the inevitable February OTW trades).
Same, I have Mariano, Dembele and Sane OTW's for either a flukey upgrade of the inevitable January SBC.
Edit: Just picked up Smolov and Golovin for under 13k.
Sane, Smolov, Golovin, Dembele and Mariano are all under 15k. Pretty sound invesment for anyone with some coin they dont need. Looking back to last year Theo Hernandez was a cheap as chips OTW. Spending most of his time in the mid teens. For the SBC they released (and Ronaldo is one this year dont forget!) he spiked to 40. Its a 2 month hold on cards but it should be worth it.
https://www.futbin.com/18/player/155...ern%C3%A1ndez/
Swap deals player number 11 now in an SBC for the next 48 hours.
I’m resenting this Swaps shite. I’ve got no interest in the players, and it involves playing too much non-WL/DR stuff for my liking. I’d much rather varied content throughout the week.
I've missed 1 so far, so I'm not sure if I can get the Pedro. If I can he's a great super-sub attacker that can be traded into a future SBC thanks to his high rating.
If not the French CDM looks a decent add.
Hoping to see much more interesting players next month though.
You won't be able to get Pedro Fox, there are only 14 in total.
Really?
There have been a couple in SBs which can be obtained by playing a few games on low levels, score some goals and put your controller down. The online singles one can be dont by quitting in the first minute too. I didnt play more than 10 mins in those games :lol:
Pulled Marcelo from a pack today, which is my best so far. Should be worth a bit over 100k
That how I got Gold 1 in SB last week ;)
I’ve had 6 or 7 tokens this month and used them for Silver Players Packs as I’m usually light on Silvers as otherwise I only get them via SBC packs. But still, it’s a bit shit. It’a taking up valuable space for other content peddling out naff players. I mean look at Pedro - the effort to get all of tokens, and you’re rewarded with a third rate winger.
Agree with Merse on that. 4 tokens feels fair for Guilavogui who is very usable, but grinding for a month to get Pedro just doesn't feel worth it when Gotze/Juanfran were released straight over SBC.
Started to do the Sancho SBC (I've been playing with a Bundesliga side) and managed to eke out enough chaff to do 1/3 of it - luckily pulled Alba who goes for 50k-ish, so am up to 175k now after Marcelo went. Nothing like any of you rich swine, but not bad.
Two observations:
1) There aren't that many good Bundesliga players - it's basically Bayern + Reus (who isn't that good as his stamina is bobbins). So I might sack off this team, cash in and switch to the Premier League. At least there's a range of players there.
2) The Sancho SBC is ridiculous. It really isn't worth spending all that cash just to get an 84-rated winger, surely?
This is new recurring content on top of the norm. What, realistically, is it replacing? Movember? Wasn't that crap?
I wont be getting Pedro but I have all the tokens for very little effort. Playing a few SB's during the week and quitting Online Singles are the only 'effort' I have put in, the former I would do for a few packs anyway since they are good objective/fitness games.
Better. more random, 'pure' SBCs with harder requirements that allow us to make some fucking coin. It's just a bit formulaic, and the rewards are genuinely shite - Guilavogui looks good, I enjoyed his normal card, but that's it - everyone else is shite.
Also, leagues, whilst the players are still relevant. They're probably going to mirror last year and not release the big ones until TOTS is almost upon us.
TBF I dont think we would get those harder SBC even if we wanted them! It would be nice though. I think I enjoy them more than the games.
I think next month they may ramp them up. Last month the best was a 86's (iirc), this month is the 87. I think we might see closer to 90, probably 89, with TOTY coming out.
My wild theory, and I could be way off here, is that I think we will see the big leagues before xmas with players added later who are even better. Thats why they are repeatable. Ligue 1 and Serie A got massive screwed if this is the end game.
Just done Auba and pulled Hector and a few 84s.
They've really toned down effectiveness of SBCs this year in terms of value and pack reward. What isn't helping is throwing a new one out every damn day. I'd rather have one good one a week than that.
Take the French SBC for example. In 17, you got a meta Lacazette card that was great for the length of the game because it was a significant bump. This year you're getting Depay. Whilst good, he already has TOTW card that is just -1 every stat and is 200k coins cheaper. It's tradeable too, so the only reason to do the full SBC is the packs, but they're all toned down and there's only about 3 good ones.
I did, thought he was brilliant.
Don’t think he’s particularly god value or anything, more that I can’t see anyone in the Premier League matching him anytime soon.
That said, I’m guaranteed to pull Kane in my red player pick now.
Pretty sure EA have tweaked something on Bronze pack odds. Bought about 50 of them today and pulled no Squad Fitness cards when I was seeing them pretty regularly before.
I was considering buying up stocks of the Bundesliga silvers in advance of that league SBC but I've seen a lot of people getting banned for 'price fixing' silver cards. If EA don't want those cards selling for 10k all they have to do is set the max price to 3k or so.
Wu Lei is CSL player of the year. No Paulinho POTY.
Hopefully the next league sbc they drop is japan, dutch, turkey or germany. Im covered for all four.
This is becoming a real issue. A normal match is giving out 700 coins or so without a boost on. Any kind of squad fitness is insta-selling for 1,500. I've tried sniping them myself and I'm apparently not fast enough.
If Stamina is about to drain faster too I can see it going over 2,000 coins for one.
He could yet make a good super sub.
Stock up during lightening rounds over the next few days :nod:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsiPBWVU0AAcUGN.jpg
Somebody hold me.
Oof. How the fuck they decided that I have no idea... not purely on performance and with an eye on BF I’m guessing. Valencia, van Dijk, Wilnaldum and Pjanic would all make my B team, Sane would force a re-think as I loved his POTM and TOTS cards last year and James Forrest would get me for sentimental reasons. Any one of those tomorrow morning and I’m delighted.
Holy shit. Thats a lot better than I was expecting, like you said though BF decides it.
Valencia doesnt get into my team as a RM so that sucks. I have UCL Sane untradeable so I 100% know what will be in my reds
Almost all of the cards to the left would fit right into my team. A couple of decent subs on the right hand side too.
3 x 5 player picks and a TOTW pack. Hopefully I pull 1 good thing from that lot.
I didn’t notice at first but 4 Liverpool players and Robertson Carlos last week. Jesus.
Speaking of Robertson. There was massive profit to be made here.
There's now a TOTW super link from Alisson out to Robertson through VVD. I had read an investment opportunity this morning that suggested buying Robertson up in case VVD/Alisson made TOTW. Decided to ignore as he was 95-100k at the time.
He's now extinct on PS4 and up to 155k on Xbox. 50k profit per card for a minimal hold time.
I have one, unfortunately he is my first choice left back.
I could sell him and try get Telles in the team as he costs loss and is better with an upgrade coming. i would have to keep Fabinho and find a way to get him a second link that makes sense.
That Mahrez physical upgrade is obscene. 2 IF's before November is out. I might get back on his OTW in the next few weeks.
Beware massive image from reddit.
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Further to that.
https://www.futbin.com/19/compare/17...&schem=100,100
8 chem Telles + Anchor v 10 Chem Robertson + Anchor. I might have to that. Especially as Telles is cheaper and due an upgrade when Porto go through.
One thing to note is Telles could well turn into a Europa League card and receive more upgrades. If it's a choice between the two it's a no brainer as long as you're okay with worse workrates.
Telles is great. Originally thought he’d just be a Div Rivals A teamer, freeing up Sandro for my B team with but with Sandro back in the FUT Champs side at the weekend, but now I think he’s worked his way into the Fut Champs side too. With that card certain to hit 87 he’s an end game left back until at least TOTS. His dribbling and passing is a real asset for me as I like to draw people in with the full back and then pass inside.
Does anyone fancy sharing some sniping filters that work? Follow a few chaps on twitter and the filters they post get picked up by about 10,000 other people so never work.
Rewards opened and I actually do feel rewarded this time. Winning that final game has paid off.
Player pick 1 - Batshuayi
Player pick 2 - Wijnaldum
Player pick 3 - Mahrez
The importance of the extra pick at the end there. It's always a bit meh when you don't see the mega names and I was fearing the worst heading into the last pick, but that Mahrez is a brilliant pull.
I then opened the 100k pack and pulled Mahrez out yet again. He's sold for 185k. I'm not messing about with that. Nothing else in there but money has already been made.
Then came the TOTW pack. I just needed to see a walkout and boy did I get one. Out trots Sane to keep the good times going. Other 2 TOTW items were Orban and Collins.
I felt the luck rolling so took tradeable Rivals rewards after. I did pull Collins TOTW again as well as Dele Alli, but I'd probably have been better taking the coins.
In total, packing that red Mahrez allows be to sell both Salah and the tradeable Mahrez I got. About 370k there to add to the 150k I already had. Wijnaldum goes straight into the team with Mahrez to replace Fernandinho and Salah.
I've not yet sold Sane as I'm really tempted to use him, but I know there's going to be shedloads more of him about with black friday packs and promos. He is another 250k though.
In total I've taken in over 600k from that one weekend whilst also adding Mahrez to my RW spot and replacing a CM I was unsure about bringing in Wijnaldum.
The question here is what to do with it. Positions of need are possibly in goal, but definitely CB and a Striker. Wouldn't mind bringing in an upgrade on Willian on the left either.
Pick 1 gave me the option of Forrest, Valencia and Kolarov with some nobody. I was all set to grab Valencia but hadn’t realised he was an RM. That’s a bit shit. So I took Forrest for my inevitable fun Scotland team sometime around TOTS.
Pick 2 was Allison. As I’ve also Got Robertson as a red tempting me to bring back VDV, I’m quite happy with that.
Fuck all from packs.
Having trouble shifting Sane. Every time I list him up I'm instantly undercut. Could have got 250k for him and is now not budging for 225k.
Batshuayi and Pjanic in my pick packs. Valencia was an option in with the latter and had he been a full back I would have done it but I just cant justify him as RM.
Not the best pack luck today:
Jorhinho + Draft Token
Bruno Fernandes
Szczensny (a day too late) and Asenjo
IF Jedvaj
Barce Dembele
Bats man seems a popular get in the red picks. Not going to lie I was dying to see Van Dijk, but not to be.
In the Wijnaldum pick I did see Valencia as well, but as Danny says, RM ruins it. Other than that no other pickable players came up.
I got Valencia and some other idiot. Valencia at RB on 7 chem? Is that viable?
Could do with some type of repeatable SBC that you have to trade in special cards for other special cards. Do squad battles get these player picks or monthly now?
Assuming Anchor on him he ends up much better going forward but a little worse defensively than his RB base card.
https://www.futbin.com/19/compare/17...&schem=100,100
Squad battles rewards got hit big time this year. You could make a good 40k per week on it without trying last year, knock that down to 10-20k this.
Player picks are FUT Champs only for now.
Streaming now and I'll be opening my Futchamps rewards and division rivals ones (which may just be the coins depending on how the futchamps ones go), plus a couple of two player gold packs from 6.
https://mixer.com/Chemical_Locust
Didn’t opt into weekend league as I am not sure how much I’ll be on so decided to use my draft token, offline, so I can play as I have a chance. Played two before going out and Mbappe has been ridiculously good for me so far. IF Mane has been very very good too.
Bundesliga SBC is out as is J-League. 3 meh cards, but that Gnabry looks like it could be decent.
Dogshit in the Futchamps packs and Bats for my Player Pick.
Meh.
I wish there was a way you could fill SBC's from your trade pile.
Batsman is 4*/5* but the stamina kills the card. Not a bad sub to bring on to hold the ball up I guess.
I used his regular card and found him to be terrible, I know this is an upgrade but I'm not expecting much.
Certainly not worth the 26 game toil for those rewards. Still, you takes your chances.
I really liked Caliguris TOTS last season, obviously a different level to this. Probably helped he was linked to Maldini and EOAE De Rossi
Alderweireld, Jesus, Pepe and Morata from MM's.
Also worth noting Van Dijk didnt drop back to where I picked him up last week and is now in the 150's. Jesus :|
Bonucci and Fabinho from my untradeable division rivals rewards, the latter probably making that choice worthwhile.
I picked up the latter as an investment this week but chucked one of them in my team for Fernandinho. I like him so far.
TOTW Kolarov only decent pull from MMs.
Holy fucking shit.
I just got an icon from Marquee Matchups.
EDIT: I'm streaming every pack opening I do on TTH now.
I mean it's a shit one, RVN's 86 card, but the cheapest Icon on the market is 676k, so I'm clearing 630k if I sell.
I think that's the only sensible option given EA must be releasing a baby icon SBC soon-ish, but fuck me is it tempting to whack it into the Icon 2 SBC and bag Ferdinand or Makalele.
Congrats! I knew something would happen after I stopped watching.
I'd definitely pump him into getting a Makelele or Rio if it were me.
I sold him and I’m now 9k short of 2m coins.
I should be able to build one hell of a team spearheaded by Aubameyang with that.
Good shit Yev! I want to try Makelele at some point. His work rates look perfect for the middle CM role in the 4-3-2-1
So you've 2m as well as POTM Auba? GG. You seriously have to teach me how to make all this coin.
I've got my own dilemma now. Here is almost the team I went 23-7 with:
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I had Salah over Mahrez and Fernandinho over Wijnaldum, whilst having POTM Auba on loan for the first 20. I'm not sure I'll miss Salah too much as when I checked he only had about 35 goals in 80 games.
Everything has sold and I now have 800k or so to spend. The 3 areas to upgrade are obvious, but it's what do I do with it?
A few days ago I was talking about scraping together everything I had to maybe just afford POTM Aubameyang. I never thought I'd be sat here with enough to do him and more. The question here is do I do him and essentially strap myself down to an EPL team for the forseeable. Or I could go and buy 4 big game players that could come in and have the advantage of being able to be sold on in future.
I have to leave for work just after midday tomorrow so I don't have long to choose.
You absolutely loved Auba, I would do him if I was in your shoes. He will make you enough money in future that even if you decided to move on you will think it’s worth it.
Nowt from MM but did Frankfurt and Dortmund In the league SBCs whilst selling up the goods and packed some shite IF and a couple of 84s.
It pretty much comes down to this...
I'm getting Van Dijk and De Gea regardless as they are massive upgrades. If I get Auba, it's pretty much him and that's it. Possibility of adding Sane in if the packs are kind.
If I don't do Auba, I'll also be able to add Kante, Sane/Mane and Aguero.
Things I did:
Got a head start with the early access trial and did it again with the glitch, so had 20 hours in total. During that time I maxed all the coin I could earn from games (squad battles, division rivals, coin boosts etc) and then reinvested all of it. I was getting players for dirt cheap and had a load of major league players and 83+'s that I made huge coin from. Probably a few hundred thousand as the SBC's they were needed for dropped. Made a couple of mistakes here admittedly, in that I bought too many 83's who've barely moved in price at all and bought too many cards that had obscure nationalities. Essentially if you're sticking to the major league's home nations, you can't really go wrong.
Bronze pack method - Explained previously, but you may have seen me selling all of the Aussie players I had in last night's stream (which netted 30k). As long as you're prepared to sit on the cards that have no value when you pack them it's a goldmine - I had half a dozen Lincoln players that were going for 10k each as well, for example.
SBC's - Always do the ones that are value. I've ripped through everything I deemed as value in all the league SBC's and used the chemistry glitch to do all of the advanced ones early on.
Buy low sell high - Sounds ludicrous, but essentially if you're applying the "major league's home nations" buying rule when there's no need to buy them then these players can be picked up for discard and will be worth something eventually.
What I didn't do that I wish I had is invest in consumables more and actually monitor the value of desireable players throughout the week, which as Danny highlighted is a major win. The other major mistake was not clearing my trade pile and buying 100 German Bundesliga IFs when the Sancho SBC went down. I could have made 2m coins. I'm also not familiar enough with the market yet to know what a 'good' price is for many of the higher rated gold cards cards and IFs are.
There might be other things that I'm missing, but essentially that's it.
So Black Friday starts at 14:00.
Is someone on point to post what's available here?
Ill keep you all posted after 2pm on what comes out.
Good man.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...ayers_in_your/
Fucking hell. The "best" TOTW players are in the red packs.
Edit: not in reds, in the TOTW packs.
Classic EA that.
Between the current TOTW and the best TOTW to date, almost every standard version I was hoping to buy for my PL team is now out of packs.
Is Flashback Sturridge it for the SBC's today? Jesus.
Draft token for winning 10 games online this week in all modes.
Three FUT Swap players in objectives too.
Yeah, I like the objectives. Not a fan of the lack of SBC's so far though.
Fuck me he looks good, though. I’m toying with moving to 442 in my two teams and he’d be perfect for one of them as I’m planning on using IF Wijnaldum to link to. I can’t see his stamina on concepts for web app and there’s a couple of days to go so I’ll sit on it until Sunday when I can look up the in games and swoop if it seems sensible then. Cheap for the quality IMO.
Same Sturridge looks somewhat cheap and a good card. Great week to be a Pool fan.
Daily objectives look decent. For a week I won’t play a single game, it’s a hell of a shame.
Glad I read that post. I was planning to do the Sturridge SBC but 2* W/F is unusable.
The stamina wouldn't have been an issue, similar to Aubameyang who I never have trouble with.
Flash SBC up. 20 ish mins left didn’t see it mentioned
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Cheers Danny.
Done it. It wasn't there bang on the hour for some reason so I missed it first time round.
And another one.
Not sure this is worth it though.
It's tricky with these, in that given the players have increased in price you'll generate far more coins from selling players than you're likely to generate from opening the packs, but on the other hand, opening packs is fun and I didn't pay as much for the players I'll be using as they're worth now.