Announced today.
https://youtu.be/9E4HMgh7ZsE
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Announced today.
https://youtu.be/9E4HMgh7ZsE
Not interested in Fifa Street anymore.
I’ll stick to PES, thanks. Presuming there’s another one. :eyemouth:
As I said in the other thread, the Volta stuff looks shit.
Rare packs instead of Jumbo Premium ones with the Ultimate edition can also do one.
A OTW is nice though. Hope it's a player pick.
Expectation = OTW Hazard
Reality = OTW Sturridge
Hope they work on career mode.
FIFA 20 trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgQNOIhRsV4
Yeah, that's a trailer alright. Precision and Enhanced 'somethings'. There must be a style guide set in stone for sports game marketing now.
Pretty sure they just use a thesaurus and auto-replace a few words.
Hopefully free kicks are less crap this time. Dribbling looks a bit weird.
Usually ends badly when they mention 'physics'.
Physics driven ball movement. As opposed to?
Before I click, if they mention improved ball physics as a feature, we're doomed.
https://i.gyazo.com/2527ab917286e723...8d002dd3cc.png
It looks a lot slower, which if I continue forcing this new style on myself should help me a lot.
I'm glad free kicks and pens have had a re-write. Actually choosing the precise spot seems much better than the 1/3 chance you have now.
As long as they stop a players head from giving away the location.
PES does something where, defending free kicks as a keeper, he'll always stretch is arm before the kick in the direction you're going to dive in.
If we dont get a more stat driven game. I will seriosuly think about not playing the game
All of us wanting new and good features when all we'll get is VOLTA FOOTBALL.
Is this CCG keeping its football minigame this year?
Pirlo confirmed to be one of the new Icons.
I wouldn't mind seeing Kaka as one. Though my main gripe is having shit Icons. They're Icons for a reason.
Zidane going to be one too by the sounds of it.
More full backs please.
The icon model needs a full revamp. They cost far too much in the game both on the market and to do the sbc’s.
Wrighty in this one means I may return for another year after all...
FUT news has released today. Though I'm away so only have a mobile link. Someone get the proper one in here.
In short. We now have objectives to complete through the year, these can earn us player cards, stadium styles, balls and celebrations. Etc.
Everything has been given a fresh lick of paint and they've given us an apparently new social game mode within FUT to play with your mates.
Ripped from Madden where it works really well.
Not sure it will translate as well into FIFA but free stuff for doing shit is always nice.
They're helping out the TOP GUYS in Rivals.
Matchmaking caps at 2200 so a guy just scraping into 2100 or so could be going up against someone who has 3000 rivals points or whatever.
To be fair after April I did have to spend a good 10 mins getting into a game.
Though I will say there's a massive skill difference between 2100 and 2400 skill points so some people could be in for a rude awakening.
Really wanted them to scrap the skill ranked rivals games. You should be able to match a rank 1 with rank 5 once in a while.
Really like some of the proposed changes, but quick sell on a radial menu sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Just pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition to take advantage of the OTW card bonus which apparently expires on the 5th August.
Almost convinced I'll do some form of pack only game, but what format will depend on how the new objectives are structured.
They just showed some FIFA20 gameplay from a 2v2 game featuring YouTubers. It wasn't UT(Madrid v Liverpool) but it seemed significantly slower. I've not played kick off/seasons on 19, so I can't compare, but I don't mind that all to much.
Just pre-ordered the Ultimate.
Bit shit that you have to pay up front and their OTW bonus expires so early.
Can't wait to get Harry Maguire OTW.
Has it actually taken the money?
I thought it only did that once the game was available.
I'm still 50/50 on getting this. At least on launch anyway. I threw myself into '17 and then pretty much took '18 off and was better for it. I went pretty hard on '19 and ended up with the best team I've ever had, but I'm not sure I can drop it and do it all again from scratch in a month.
There's 3 or 4 games out close to the same time as this I can see myself putting time into as well.
Just gonna put this here.
Quote:
FIFA 20 will be coming out on PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch on Friday 27 September. If you’re keen to get started sooner, their is also early access available from Tuesday 24 September for players who pre-order the game’s Ultimate or Champions editions. EA Access members can play it even sooner from Thursday 19 September.
Has anything been announced for the data and stat collection of the game. I don't want FIFA 20 to appear and it tells me de tea has 102 games and 0 goals.
Nothing at all, so think that’s what you’ll get.
They changed the layout, so you'll at least see the same information differently!
Fuck off
I guess we’ll find out tomorrow with the beta.
I've just looked at my email again as I realised you only get two modes unlocked.
I've got Ultimate Team and kick off.
Same here, thank fuck.
I haven't received a code. Coming off a ban ay I
Checked last night and I’ve only got Volta and Kick Off. Genuinely don’t think I can be bothered to download it for that.
If I can get on tonight (which I doubt given they'll have surely underestimated the server demands) I'll play it for 4/5 hours and give my thoughts.
I doubt I'll touch Volta all year, just doesn't interest me.
https://i.gyazo.com/57d0fd37da811bc4...35f7e39565.png
Okay well this just got awkward.
Sincere :harold:
I've been unable to use the companion app all through '19 as no matter which of my emails I use to log in, it tells me I have no active account in game. Checked the very first email address I used to sign up to FIFA way back in the day and there it was.
TTH first impressions session tonight then?
I got FUT and kickoff.
Went into FUT and was INSTANTLY booted.
This is going to be fun.
How have you downloaded it already?
Just started mine now, 523MB of 37.9GB done.
I downloaded last night but still at work for a few more hours.
Yeah, the objectives do look interesting and will help a lot with pack only accounts.
Is the FUT part actually playable in the beta or more of a tour of what's available in the full game?
Doesn’t cover playing but wanted to move my post here
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...eta_questions/
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I can't get into the FUT section without being insta-booted. However my thoughts from kick off:
- Passing seems much improved. Players seem to be able to better decide if the ball should go inside, or outside the full back for example. Your more gifted players are more able to get the weight of the pass spot on.
- Player animations seem more fluid. For example, if a pass is slightly behind your player they can bring it under control without having to stop dead or face the other way. It may go slightly ahead of them, but it makes much more sense to continue the momentum, than stop dead in the tracks.
- Finishing seems more sensible. You're not banging in 35 yard volleys with your back to goal with Blanc on this one. Whereas get Salah into the box and you can tuck away reliably. You don't have to use the same finish each time either.
- General play is rewarded. The idea of the game seems to be to using passing or the odd skill move to break open a defence and get into the box. La Croqueta spam is gone. You might get 2 off but every time after the ball is getting further out of control. Though this did score me a goal. A miscontrol after a 2nd Croqueta actually went into space behind the defender and Salah got it first to bury it.
I feel like a 4-3-3 with 1 DM may be popular this year.
- Defending seems to give you a choice. No longer can you just put the controller down and let the AI do it. You either sit and hold your shape, which if you do it well, will work. Or you can press the ball. The key point here is by doing the latter, or being bad at the former, you pull players out of position. Add that to everything I've mentioned above and your opponent can tear you up.
- Speed also seems to have been fixed. I sent Salah in behind Aurier from the halfway line. Even with Salah having the ball from about 40 yards out, Aurier could not catch him.
Ah-fucking-men for the last one.
is it likley do you reckon Fox that 11 men behind the ball and countering won't be anywhere near as effective this year?
The more I think about FIFA19 it was such a steaming pile of shit to play. Easily the least enjoyable since I've got back into the series.
Aguero is pulling my team of absolute shit to pretty good in squad battles.
Oh and Sincere, no detailed stats again.
How many attempts did it take you to get in Mahow?
FUT always plays differently to kick off mode, so it's hard to tell. But it's not as easy as pinging one ball in behind now.
It will still be effective to some. I mean teams wouldn't do it so much in real life if it didn't. But you're now requiring the opponent to keep in their shape and then play out when they get the ball back.
Got in first time. :cool:
I know the pack weight is enhanced for the beta, but this might a good time to road test a pack only game.
EDIT: Scrap that, just got booted from the starter pack choice screen. :moop:
Ffs. I’ve tried that many already. Bodes well.
Finally in. Took about 25 attempts I think.
Jonjo Shelvey and Aguero on loan the highlights of the starting squad.
In, playing SB and looking to get to full Gold and Silver and 100 chem as quickly as possible to get on with placing in Rivals and making the weekend league.
This fucking grey box thing gonna be flying around all the fucking time?
Some thoughts:
The way the squad battles rewards are displayed is so dumb.
The milestone objectives are rubbish, no one is going to score 100 bicycle kicks without just whacking it on easy thus defeating the point. The rest of the objectives look very good and open up some sweet possibilities.
The pack opening animation is like something out of Brass Eye. Which might not be a bad thing.
Went into Squad Battles and played the hardest team from the four on Professional difficulty. Game feels a bit ponderous and controlling the ball odd, but that might be due to the sheer number of bronze shit in my team.
No idea what I'm doing with pens.
Yeah it's so they know who to punish if some video/screenshot from the Beta gets put on the internet.
Payet and Saul from my Electrum Players Pack :drool:, handy since I’m looking to build a French side.
You know it doesn't carry over to the full game right?
It gets wiped on the 21st.
& Chiellini from a 2 player pack from the SBCs. 212k min list :drool:
Just sold a silver healing card for 2,500. Nuts.
The coin balance in this is so broken.
Completing SBC's (the selecting players part) is horrific.
Yes, I don't like that you can't just switch to the next slot with R2/L2 anymore.
I don’t like the squad/players UI’s one bit. As long as the app is decent it’s fine though as I do 90% of my squad building and management on there
There’s 250k coins rewarded for 100 finesse goals ffs. That’s Maybe 10 squad battles on amateur for finesse, more for chips but i’ve Scored 4 of those just in the two games I’ve played.
DC’d in my first Rivals game despite have 365mb/s and 10ms ping. Fucking frustrating.
You also don't seem to be able to clear the squad in one go anymore either.
Oh and the radial wheel thing is absolute arse.
Finally got in. England starter pack. Jack Cork being my feaured player. Aguero as my loan.
Going through the menu and the objs it feels very slow. Andreas Pereira in my first pack filling in a hole in my side!
I had a freekick early on and the icons for freekicks stuck over his Andreas Pereira's head for a while. It then moved to my keeper :face: and then anyone peforming a 'restart' (goal kicks, throw-in etc)
Played a few games now and while I didn't think it was possible forward runs are even worse than last year.
Just got 30,000 coins and a Rare Consumables Pack from what I assume is the daily beta gift.
Opened a 7.5k pack and Umtiti popped out.
I packed Malcolm and not much else from that. A couple of prem players so I now have a full prem team.
Game feels a lot slower. Although, as someone noted above, I am not sure if its just the shit players.
First foray into online and it's drop back counter bollocks ahoy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...any_beta_roll/
Volta no matter your lot apparently
Keita from the seasons megapack reward. I like the pack animation when you get an 83+.
Played for a few hours tonight and that'll be it until next Friday.
The menu stuff (while slow to navigate) is great and the possibilities could conjure up some cracking stuff. The gameplay however on first impressions is a bit shit. It's slow, forward runs are worse than ever and the ball bouncing back to your opponent when you tackle them is still widerife. I know it's only a beta and as I haven't experienced one before I don't know how significantly these things normally change, but it looks like they've taken FIFA19, slapped it about a bit, then served it up.
Well, I enjoyed the placing games and went 3-1-1, the loss being the DC when I was winning. Game feels just as quick to me, @Yevrah, but only since getting an entirely 80+ team with chem styles - I always think the new ones are sluggish stepping down from a 195 end game team in the previous edition, so I’d suggest it might be that?
I’ve gone 1-3 in Rivals, and it’s fucking horrible. Congested middle of the park, and constantly being robbed of the ball miliseconds after I make the tackle. The former seems no worse a scenario than in ‘19, but obviously I’d need to learn how to break it again, the latter seems worse, which is saying something. It genuinely feels like there’s little point winning the ball at times as they rob it back in a better position- it’s no surprise these cunts don’t bother tackling and simple cut passing lanes when they’re defending.
Still not sold on keeping up with Fifa this year, I think it might be my year out.
Seem to be running into errors every few minutes today.
Packs, transfer market, SBCs, Objectives etc. etc.
Finally got an 83+ (Payet) and the animation really is sweet.
Hopefully I'll be able to see a walkout soon.
They have detailed stats with those shit friendly game modes though.
Tells me how many goals scored vs opponents, the breakdown of those goals (short range, long range, free kicks, penalties), shot conversion, goal times, where I scored the goal (I favour both the bottom corners based on 1 match), the attacking lanes you use, ground passing success rate, crossing, dribbling, standing tackles, sliding tackles, interceptions, blocked shots and discipline.
Why they couldn't do that on regular UT and player stats I have no idea.
That king of the hill mode is kind of dumb. Hold the ball in a box to get a multiplier than then score before it expires. Lad I was playing quit at 10-0 after 30 mins.
There wasn't one for Chiellini or Saul for me (89 and 85 respectively and amongst top for their positions in their divisions) so I'm wondering if it's disabled for the Beta
Currently rocking:
GK Sirigu 82
LB Gaya 79
CB Chiellini 89
CB Rugani 82
RB Roberto 84
LM Guedes 82
CM Saul 85
CM Partey 82
RM Dembele 83
SC Toko Embele 80
SC Rodrigo 84
Yeah, I didn’t get one for Umtiti either.
The few hours on this have pretty much put the final nail in the coffin of 19 for me. I tried to load it up to do some objectives but lasted about 30 seconds
Packed Umtiti which is by far my best pull on the beta thus far.
All modes are now open.
That closed beta pack is pretty nice.
Fifa cashback
https://www.quidco.com/campaign/new-...-a105dbc41bf1/
How is the timed finishing?
That closed beta pack has ruined the pack only element of what I was doing somewhat, but will be useful to see what the game plays like with properly good players.
Have they given out a pack containing loads of good players?
Pack of 36 containing big FIFA 19 TOTS/TOTY players.
https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...500&height=375
Not my picture.
Just played my first Rivals game and the pinballing around defence is still rife.
Logged in to find 180k waiting for me. Not sure I'm a fan of that pack animation though.
Also, if I had opened my pack I imagine it would look something like this one.
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...ec&oe=5DC85679
Wink wink.
I gave up on this. Went to load it yesterday it crashed and after the forced restart I had to reformat my drive :cab:
:cab:
He's not even retired ffs.
He'll be bang average as well.
Seriously, if some of these 'icons' aren't far more affordable this year there really is no point.
Apparently people have the full game already.
That's good news on Essien. If he isnt retired yet, then that gives hope that other old players like Zlatan, De Rossi, Iniesta, etc could all get icon cards
I would like to see them make the lowest icons less rated and the prime/moments much better. Have they confirmed anything about moments yet?
It is less than three weeks away.
Yeah, some Spanish retailers have just given it to people apparently. For money obvs.
Moments haven't been confirmed but it looks likely:
https://media.contentapi.ea.com/cont...16x9.1455w.png
The only other thing it could be is a special milestones/objective card lower than the baby but I doubt it.
They better not drop the moment's cards out of nowhere and we better get them as SBCs.
I don't like how each version of a card, look the same when they are actually playing. Every version of Ian Wright will probably be bald or have hair. Which is annoying.
Which team will be the new Valladolid where the players will cost an arm and a leg?
It's hard to tell.
I'd just recommend getting as many high level league silvers as you can early doors.
Prem is going to be Sheff Utd. I dont think Norwich and Villa will be that profitable. Just need to eye them up once the squads are out.
1. Teams with a low amount of gold cards
2. Teams with a low amount of defenders
Demo out tomorrow apparently: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-a9097796.html
Demo is OUT NOW.
Good time to have a day off. Downloading it now. Its not going to be online i suspect.
Kick off and Volta.
I'll give it a shot like I always do.
Volta seems ok. It's exactly the same as FIFA Street really.
Always find the demos a bit weird as they play quite a lot differently to the full game.
Difficult to judge without online, but it feels very promising.
Share played and it still feels really good. You are rewarded for actual defeding.
I also opened a few packs on FIFA 19 that i still had and manged to pull C.Ron and Blanc :cab:
When's the web app out?
18th according to reddit
Is this coming out with that 10 hour preview thing on EA Access like last year or whatever? How's this working out this year?
It is. Thursday I think
Icons wont be used in SBCs too which is brilliant and quick sells are being lowered.
https://media.contentapi.ea.com/cont...dapt.1456w.pngQuote:
ICON Swaps in FUT 20
Alongside being able to purchase ICONs on the Transfer Market or finding them in Packs, in FUT 20 we are introducing ICON Swaps, a new way to allow players to unlock select ICONs in exchange for Player Tokens which can be earned by completing objectives you exchange. Simply put:
Complete Player Token Objectives.
Receive Player Tokens.
Redeem for ICON Rewards available in a Swaps release.
There will be 3 ICON Swaps released throughout the year.
Each ICON Swaps release will contain at least 20 individual ICONs (Untradeable).
Player Tokens can also be redeemed for select Guaranteed ICON Packs during each Swaps release.
Each ICON Swaps release will contain a range of ICON versions.
If an ICON has already been released in an ICON Swaps Release, it will not have any other versions released in a Future ICON Swaps Release.
ICON Swaps objectives will reflect the rewards on offer.
Each ICON Swaps release will have a unique set of Player Tokens tied to it.
Each Individual ICON in an ICON Swaps will require a certain number of Player Tokens in order to redeem.
Each Player Token can only be redeemed in that specific ICON Swaps release and does not roll over to the next ICON Swaps release.
The Player Tokens will be released over the duration of each ICON Swaps release.
Similar to FUT Swap Deals, you will need to choose which ICONs you want to unlock based on how many Player Tokens you have earned.
ICON Swaps 1 will be released October 11th, 2019 and will run to December. ICON Swaps 1 also allows you to earn select Prime ICON players before they go into packs. It will feature the following ICONs with their specific version detailed in the image below:
Scenes.
Drogba looks tempting from swaps 1.
I'm not trying to be a pain in the ass but if folks could detail their moves and ideas for FUT this year I'd be appreciative cause I'm trying to go without buying packs (though that'll probably last a day if even.)
I always see you all stocking up on certain players/teams and I'm just really beyond my depth.
Guys have like 30 Allan cards and turn them into millions by November whereas I'm pretty sure I sunk over $500 if not more on packs last year.
Do the bronze pack method (I will be doing this as I sunk way too much money in over 18 and 19) and it can make you loads (especially at the start) but it does need a lot of time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzeyiHnqYUo
Unfortunately, the more I read and take in on FIFA 20, the more I feel myself getting pulled back in. The start of FUT is always the most rewarding, but I know I can save so much time in my life if I don't get it this year.
You're basically a prostitute with a meth addiction at this point. Just give in Thomas.
The icon news is brilliant and makes me think I may not go fully pack only this year.
If he can be picked up for 63k, then I'd even have a go with players like Inzaghi, for example.
I do however, think I'm going to aim for a 2 year cycle with this version, which means I can take things at a much slower pace and actually enjoy whatever team I end up with come July.
Oh and that 85 Guardiola might actually be the worst icon card ever. :D
I like how they have shit icons. I would like to see more lower-rated icons added. Especially at full-back.
I imagine he will cost all the tokens but I think Rio is the man from that first batch. His base is always godly.
Just noticed that the Zanetti prime card is also invovled. Last year it had awful jumping, but if back post crossing isnt super strong. Thats me.
Mahow's an enabler. He needs other people around him to tell him this is normal.
The web app is out. It begins!
People are getting regular golds out of their OTW preorder packs :lol:
I purchased the "EA SPORTS™ FIFA 20 Ultimate Edition + Limited Time Bonus* (Full Game)" but I've just got a load of shit packs. Where's the OTW pack?
Will come with the full release. I'd imagine.
I don't have mine.
PS4 players saying they didn’t get it. Others saying it just had a gold card in it
Sony fucked up on PS4 side but they say they'll sort it.
Hearing that all PC players (with the Ultimate) got a OTW pack even if they missed the deadline.
Is there a daily gift on the app?
If not I’d rather do my team on the actual game tomorrow.
There is.
I'm hoping this comes out on EA Access at midnight tonight or something
Right, well I have EA Access anyway so I will play the 10 hours, and see how I feel. Hopefully it will completely turn me off the full game. Tempted to pop on the web app now and see what I get in the starter packs though...
I can’t even find the web app on iPhone.
Is the early access out yet?
No.
Can't even pre-load.
But it's out NOW.
What type of playthrough are you going with Mahow?
I'm in.
Notable/80+ players from the welcome/starter packs:
88 Aubameyang - Loan (5 games)
82 Lecomte
80 Musacchio
81 Milivojevic
80 Joaquin
80 Radu
84 Paulinho (still looks beastly)
80 Inigo Martinez
80 Livakovic
90 Van Dijk - Loan (7 games)
84 Sancho - Loan (7 games)
79 Vinicius Junior - Loan (7 games)
89 Ian Rush - Loan (5 games)
Pogba and van Dijk on loan. I've got a Dutch starter team for my 10 hours.
Why does the "Your Rank" tab in squad battles still not show you how many points you need to get to get a rank?
What batch of packs did you get? I didn't manage to get an Icon on loan either.
I got 4 All Players Packs, 2 Gold Packs, a Loan Pack, an Icon loan pack and 2 Rare Gold Packs (presumably from the Ultimate Edition).
EDIT: Oh and a kit pack full of wank.
I got all but the last two on the web app, I anticipate getting the latter when I have the game downloaded and log in
What’s the Pukki SBC looking like? Gotta love an early cheap POTM
What a sack of shit:
https://i.postimg.cc/nVCW2Xkf/Team.jpg
I love this time of year. :drool:
Seems easy enough. Will be doing that.
Oh and I don't know what to do on the pack only side of things.
A load of the objectives are based around buying players, which is obviously a non starter if I can't use the transfer market. :moop:
Nesta as my loan icon which is solid.
First walkout.
IF Gerard Moreno.
First Legendary SB and it's a win. Won on penalties after a 3-3 draw. Bradley Wright-Phillips turned my defence inside out constantly.
Squad right now is:
https://i.imgur.com/7otWHbq.png
It's so bad. Not using the loanees until I decide to go online.
Played a couple of games on Squad Battles, winning 3-0 and 5-2 against the team of the week with the squad above.
Plays a really nice game of football this. Hopefully they don't patch it to arse.
Bateson probably pays the salary for half the FIFA team over the course of a title.
If my maths is correct that's £11,590.39 worth of points. Assuming he's paying directly from Xbox store with the Access discount, could be a little less if he's using CDkeys or whatever. Day one.
I genuinely don't understand the appeal of that. How is that fun whatsoever?
FUT would be utterly ruined for me.
He's an absolutely dreadful Youtuber, so spunking cash up the wall on points is genuinely all he has.
Just packed Lewandowski :eyemouth:
How much does he sell for?
120k or so.
Still fully pack only and just packed IF Koscielny. :cool:
Pulled a couple of decent players in backs tonight Akanji being the most expensive right now.
Starting again is a real headache. Ive downloaded the game last night, but didnt have the energy to start it. Im sitting here now again, and I still don't have the energy.
Probably a symptom of one of your STD's.
The UI on this really is absolute arse. Upgrading bronze to silvers is going to take so much longer as a result.
BPM has started. Just sold a random Faeroe for 1,500 coins.
https://www.futbin.com/20/players?page=1&club=1792
Norwich have no Gold defenders and the silvers right now can be had for sub-500. I think I'm going to load up.
https://i.imgur.com/P7c6gI7.jpg
It's coming together.
Bought Rodri, Ndombele and Lingard and switched to a narrow diamond before going into Rivals.
Lost the first 3-2 against a much better player and then lost 4-2 against a player I felt like I could beat.
Aguero's loan with Pukki is brilliant but my defence (sans loan Van Dijk got abused). Both guys scored a near post header with a CB (my players refused to jump) in what feels like an exploit and I had a couple of unlucky bounce goals go against me.
Up to about 20k of coins now and should make it to Elite 3 for Squad Battles for tomorrow night.
Just won my first game on Legendary, which takes me up to 11,000 points and Elite 3, so Elite 1 might actually be on, which would be totes amazeballs.
https://i.postimg.cc/xdGg1wsG/Team.jpg
Pack only still and that's the squad now.
Switch to 3-5-2 in game, with Paulinho in behind Lukaku and Rafael Leao. The latter and former really are quite good.
Oh and for those that don't know. Fitness cards don't appear to be needed at all in Squad Battles.
The team I was up against was shit, but an 8-0 win on Legendary with Leao scoring 4 and Paulinho getting a hat-trick nets me 2,588 points and into Elite 2. :drool:
The gameplay on this is so much better than FIFA19 already.
Made Elite 1 and reasonably confident I'll stay there as I have another couple of hours left on the trial.
That said, once you do make Elite 1 there's seemingly no way to see either how many points you have or how many points you are ahead of Elite 2, so you can't even use Futbin as a guide as to what you need to do to stay there.
How does that sort of shit get through testing?
I think the UI is really putting me off right now.
The gameplay is much improved but I really want to hammer the menu to improve my team but it's just so much harder than it should be.
@Mahow How is Rodri?
Thinking of using him as my "drop between defenders" CDM.
Some of the AI in the game is baffling. I get tackling is harder, and I am good with that but my defenders just running away and not following men is old already. As is the game deciding the player I am passing to isnt the one I pointed the stick at. Dont get me started on switching, I think it somehow got worse.
going pack only as well, any tips lads?
I thought I was done with FIFA 19, but it feels like I don't even want to start on FIFA 20.
You still can't check the stats and profiles of your friend's list without taking a picture and goalkeepers still tell you they have scored 0 goals.
Are you allowing yourself to buy players to complete objectives?
Not wanting to miss out on the delicious XP from the daily objectives I've done that twice now (buying Rooney and Wilshere). I haven't used either player, but first owner might be a better way to go after all. I really can't decide.
Trial over and I amassed 29,653 points in Squad Battles, which according to Futbin (I can't actually tell in the game, rofl) puts me 5,579 points ahead of Elite 2. The gap in rewards between the two is huge at this stage of the game, so I hope that's enough.
Nope.
Not at all Igor, you just need EA Access, which you can pay for and then cancel and get a refund (if it still works that way).
Circa 26,000 now according to Futbin, so if the afternoon run rate stays the same then I might just squeak Elite 1.
I was Elite 3 when I stopped earlier, played a few Rivals and friendlies to complete the objectives.
I have about 60k in liquid coins and a couple of IFs for investments/using right now (Aurier and Pellegrini - who looks pretty good for 11k. 6" 1' 3* 3* and very well rounded.) and a decent first team.
Fahrmann
Aurier
Bailly
Lindelof
Rose
Henderson
Milner
Maddison
Pedro
MOTM Pukki
Almiron
Holding onto the loans as they can be used an unlimited amount of times in friendlies.
I'm going to lose out on Elite 1 by about 300 points. :moop:
I played a few games to sneak into Gold 2 and I really enjoyed those games.
The hard teams are a struggle even on professional.
https://i.imgur.com/7QA2cQf.png
Ended up buying IF Aurier (probably the third best RB behind the Man City duo and he's an investment as these week 1 TOTWs always shoot up in price), Laporte and Mendy today and they're all seriously good. I was a little uneasy about buying Laporte due to his speed but his defensive stats are so good that they more than make up for it. He's also an amazing passer which really helps to start counters. Mendy and Aurier are very good defensively but not great at attacking.
Fred is decent but nowhere near as good as on 19 but Ndombele seems to be everywhere.
Get a lot more out of my team when I bring on the IF Moreno for Fred (he's fantastic at CM coming on late) and Richarlison for Tammy Abraham who is absolutely shit.
Also, I'm going to be saving any packs I get for Friday in the hopes of packing a OTW.
19 minutes of the trial left. Shit all from my Elite 2 rewards except two of the same 80 rated who goes for a couple of k.
If you have the Ultimate Edition on Xbox you can play it now if you change your location to New Zealand.
Just tried it, it works.
I only have him on loan, but Hazard is obscene.
First walkout, unfortunately it was Keylor Navas.
Packed N'Dombele from one of the league and hybrid nations SBC. At 21k I might have to flog him and just keep an eye on his price.
Kondogbia, Herrera, Juan Jesus, Javi Martinez, Romagnoli, Biglia, Acheampong (check out the pace and dribbling), Navas, Fabian and Rui Patricio from my squad battles rewards and rare gold packs.
Not a bad haul that.
Acheampong's height (is it still an issue in this version?) and composure look a little low but he looks like a cracking early game super sub.
He's tiny, a bit too left footed and from a shit league, but he's exactly the sort of player that playing the game this way was designed to encourage me using.
And on that note, I'm definitely allowing myself to buy players when it comes to objectives. Haven't used any of them yet mind.
The game's decided to repeatedly kick me out and just did so during a Legendary game I was winning in which Acheampong had scored. Lost 3-0 and his goal doesn't count.
Grrr. That's it for the night now.
This might be PS4 only but Tadic can be had on open bid for 2k. Thats an 84. 100% profit if you have coins and some patience.
I have put all my coins into him and Dzeko.
Did MM's this morning and packed Real's keeper and Wilson. Another 16k right there.
Stuck between Ballack and Carlos Alberto for my mid Icon 5 match loan card.
Ballack would be better for my team in Rivals right now but that Alberto looks so damn good.
Edit: Ballack it is.
Conceded a last minute goal to draw 2-2 in Rivals :moop:
I defended really well but made two bastard mistakes, I also had loads of chances but kept putting them wide.
I had Zola, Stoichkov, Makelele and then two others I can’t even remember. Went for Stoichkov since he looks fun.
100k for potm Martinez seems steep.
Just won a qualifying Rivals game 7-1 although I turned off slightly after 5-0.
Pukki, Hazard (who I brought on for Abraham at the start) and Sancho (on for Ndombele) absolutely dicked him.
I'm pretty shit with the new L2+R2 Defending thing but it's still really effective.
Needed it to be a little better to bait people into paying a premium for 84s
I see there's an update. :uhoh:
So I lost all of my Division Rivals placement matches on purpose (I'm going to manage the fuck out of DR this year), but it's given me a skill rating of 235 and put me in Division 9. Nine. :D
9 must be filled with spastics and 6 year olds.
I believe I won my first game in seven 5-0.
Sticking to First Owner now (rather than pack only) as it seems to strike the right balance. With that in mind and also needing a better striker I've just done Pukki.
Annoyingly I got rid of a bronze Norwich RM player into MM's this morning which would have worked great as someone to sub out.
Oh and heading seems completely broken in this.
It's horseshit.
Although I've been done by 3 near post corners in 6 online matches.
Omg
Just opened what I think is something like my 5th premium gold pack of fifa 20:
https://scontent.flhr6-1.fna.fbcdn.n...31&oe=5E329C6E
Dick.
Got 690k, pleased with that. Sorry @Yevrah but I'm absolutely fucking off pack only after that :D
I don't understand why Nep is championing that Martinez SBC.
Yes the card looks great but 100K+ for a player that can't be utilised in the first 11 so soon into the game cycle is shit.
Maybe if he's around the same price near the end of the SBC (I think it will rise to 150ish though) it would be alright.
No worries Igor. 🙂
And you’re right Mahow, he’s shit value.
Any great value Bundesliga players?
Edit/ Scrap that. Think I have to go Serie A after my pack pulls.
Handanovic, Godin, Milinkovic-Savic, Rebic. Yup definately Serie A this year.
Division Rivals tonight for as long as it takes me to get to rank 3 to get a decent number of untradeable packs. Given I'm in Div 9, hopefully that won't be long.
Lads, gonna build a ~100k squad to get used to the game (not pissing away my neymar money until I know what kinda players I prefer), any suggestions?
Any league preference?
Team at the moment
https://www.futbin.com/20/squad/8456649
https://i.imgur.com/PVYodLF.jpg
His Fahrmann had Twenty nine saves...
Any PS4er mind hopping on at some point tonight and gifting me 2 wins (my PSN is Mahow) to get that Early Access pack.
My connection is playing up tonight and I don't feel like playing another 2+ full games.
Nope, any league/nation/hybrid whatever works.
Only real preferences are :
Love pacey strikers with good finishing. Used Ben Yedder for the entirety of fifa 19 with great success.
Like playing 4-3-3. Tackling, strength, stamina and short passing for two cms, and long shots, finishing and passing for the AMC.
Inside forwards who are quick and good finishers and passers on the wing. Essentially see them as secondary strikers.
Super skillful dribblers utterly wasted on me as I'm too shit. Skill move star rating probably the least important attribute for me.
Got Pique in a pack.
Plus my EA Access pack yielded bullshit from the TOTW but Sokratis in the picks.
Once I get off work tonight I finally get a shot to really dive deep into FIFA beyond just playing career to manage my 10 hours. :drool:
I gave up not buying packs when I came home off my ass the other night and ended up picking up a few decent cards but nothing too exciting.
TOTW Aurier
Muller
Diego Costa
Thomas Lemar
Mesut Ozil
Torreira
Ruben Neves
off the top of my head
Probably end up selling Muller and running an EPL squad at least for now.
I really want to stay away from buying fifa packs so I'm hoping I can fight the urge and just plug away at squad battles etc. to build my team.
So again, if anyone has any strategies they're employing please feel free to share everything to the most minute detail lololol.
Keep Aurier for a month or so and he'll be expensive.
Week 1 and 2 TOTW cards always shoot up in value because they become extinct.
Did the Around the World challenge from Hybrid Nations with a Rare Gold Players Pack as the reward and packed Busquets.
He's probably unusable, but I'll take an 89.
Packed untradeable Inaki Williams. Would have been a decent little coin boost.
Division 9 is a joy. Only had to play two games to secure rank 3 and two Mega Packs with it.
Doing objectives there might actually be fun.
I've played about 8 hours of my trial so far, and I'm still stuck debating whether to get the game or not. I'll play the last 2 hours tonight, and probably finish off my Rivals placement games, and I'll have to make a decision then.
I've built a couple of basic starter squads, one Dutch, and one Liga NOS/Serie A. If I was to carry on, I really don't have a clue what sort of team I'd aim for.
Packed Cancelo this morning. Think the weekly preorder packs came in.
He would likely slot into my team over IF Aurier but not going to turn the coins down right now.
Went with a ligue 1 starting team. Couldnt resist ben yedder. Cost me about 125k -
K navas
Bernat
Marquinhos
Kimpembe
Atal
Thiago Mendes
Gueye
Onyekuru
Draxler
Thauvin
Ben yedder
Robertson, K Navas and IF Lecompte.
120k worth of premier league fullbacks today. Already packed Shaw, Digne and Tierney this year. Fair few coins in Prem fullbacks
I played a couple of the friendly house rules games in the last hours of my trial last night. Really enjoyed Mystery Ball, but found the King of the Hill mode a bit irritating.
Picked up Nathan Ake for my Dutch team and he seems to be a very effective CB.
I went 2-1-2 in the rivals placement games, which landed me in Div 6 with a score of about 950.
The team now, all first owner:
https://i.postimg.cc/zXn5hpKC/Team-092719.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/FH3vjpSb/Subs-092719.jpg
Huge improvement on where I was 7 days ago, but a few obvious things to sort. Don't have a single decent RM or RW and still annoyed I put a bronze Norwich right winger into MM's as that would have kept Pukki on 10 chem while giving me more options in the middle. Rookie mistake. As it is I generally sub on Draxler for Lallana immediately. He's a bit slow, but can dribble well and has 5 star weak foot, which is schweet.
Bar putting a Sniper on Pukki I've done nothing with consumables as you can see, so that might be a job for this weekend. Have 20k coins in the bank and (I know I said this last week) but should get Elite 1 in SB this week, which is nice.
The OTW player could be huge and shape things in a different direction depending on who I pack. I have loads of options beyond what you see there, with over 550 players in the club, 196 of them gold ones.
Categorising the OTW's available:
Feeling if I packed them:
Fapping myself silly: Hazard, Griezzmann
Very happy with that: Ben Yeddder,
He'll do: Coutinho, De Jong, Jovic, Pepe, Lozano, Joao Felix,
Meh: Icardi, Lukaku, Rodri, Hernandez, Brandt, De Ligt, Wan-Bissaka, Pulisic.
Jesus fucking christ: Haller, Pedro Sarabia, Maguire, Barella, Joelinton, Other Hazard.
The odds are not good.
It took 13 hours, but I buckled and bought the full game at lunch. :moop:
I really like Rodri as my CDM. He feels pretty mobile on the ball for his size, strong and can pass. I wouldn’t mind him in mine.
He just doesn't strike me as the sort of player who is going to get (m)any IFs.
That said, I'm already looking at the categorizations and think I need to tweak it a bit.
Packed Lozano last night. He's fricking 20k+. I mean I have to sell, he'll never be this expensive again. And as a 82 I'll probably pack him over and over.
@Yevrah, fair enough! I was more thinking how useful he is.
Agree with selling there Trance, I sold Robertson and Cancelo for the same reason. I am expecting a dip in a couple of hours when people hammer OTW packs.
He might go up next week when his OTW is in packs.
They usually do but the overinflated prices now make it a tough call.
I need a good SBC to come out. I have about 100 84s ready to make me rich!
How in the fuck have you generated so much already? Dip in with a few packs to get things going?
I had about 25 in PSN credit so I bought some packs but I have been lucky since then. Robertson and Cancelo yesterday netted me over 100k, before that Ndombele 20k. That’s half of my investment already.
The rest has just been hammering out 84 trading since they are dirt cheap + game coins/coin rewards.
Fair enough. You should be well set now then.
If you have spare coins I would recommend 84s. They just can’t go lower.
I've bought a few, but I'm trying to moderate how much I play this year and a reduction in trading seemed a good way to do that as (BPM aside) it's the gateway to everything.
Wan-Bissaka from my OTW.
Let the coins rain Danny.
Pulisic from my OTW. :face:
I got Barella. He doesn’t even make my bench.
I’m actually disgusted.
Wan-Bissaka for me.
Just not sure how many special cards he's going to get.
Ndombele in objectives.
Lewandowski is coming in at 162kish.
That is incredibly tempting.
Got Joelinton in my OTW, who is obviously going to do fuck all. Cheers.
Anyone else finding the web app to be really laggy today?
Lewandowski DONE.
Wont be able to fit him into my first 11 for a little bit (I'll buy Goretzka and Havertz probably) but he looks the business.
I fucking hate fifa. I just have no idea how to defend. How come whatever mope I play against in div 6 makes like 3 passes from kickoff and they have like 4 attacking players against my back 4, whereas they always seem to have about 50 players behind the ball? I've been crap since they changed defending but now I think I'm just done. I try to do the thing of controlling the midfielders and running back with them but that doesnt do shit either. Grumble grumble.
Why does an sbc for a rare players pack cost 78k to do? What in the fuck.
I see it’s one of the longer term advanced ones, so as you were.
All stadiums are selling for 400 coins+ by the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rutgPnRo2dk
L2+R2 defending is the way to go this year and just trying to run into the man/make an interception.
Tackling is too broken and punishing if you get wrong.
It's broken even if you get it right.
Started on the Ndombele objectives, which are actually pleasant in Division 9. Just need to work out how I can gerrymander it so I stay there.
Tackling or defending in general? Although you're probably right with both.
It punishes you for actually attempting to win the ball, you're largely forced into trying to make your opponent make a mistake.
Tackling. You can time it seemingly perfectly and the ball will just bounce straight back to your opponent. If that were a rare occurrence then fine, but it happens all too often.
Its two fays old and I just don't have the energy to buy it.
It's good Sincere.
Needs some work, but it's good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T1sX77qfpQ
I don't remember the last time (has to be FIFA 15 or earlier) that I scored a goal directly from a cross.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoHfuhpMEMQ
Also Lewandowski is really good. Played two World Class SBs with him and he's scored two in each. The first he came on after 55 minutes and in the second he started on 4 chemistry.
I hear career mode is a horrific shitshow at the minute.
Hearing good things about gameplay so far. Though after the state '19 got into that may not be hard.
It's a lot more enjoyable to play although crossing/headers are completely dead which is a bit annoying as there are objectives for them (for OTW Ndombele you need to score from crosses in 3 Squad battles games and Silver weekly is one cross/header).
The only bad bits in the gameplay right now is that you're punished for going for tackles because if you miss your defence is fucked, if you succeed the ball could go anywhere. Also too many rebound goals right now.
For the Ndombele objective just whack it on semi-pro and use the ground cross (RB + cross) and it's a piece of piss.
I agree the silver weekly objective is a pain in the arse though. Wait until you get to gold. :D
That Saint-Maximin SBC is ridiculously shit value. What on earth were they thinking?
Packed Oblak in my second pack :pards:
I think I've scored 1 corner across all my games thus far but how in the fuck am I going to score a header in two separate Rivals games but said header can only be scored with Lewandowski or Laporte in my team.
Not a chance I'll finish them all but there is some nice XP for not a lot with a couple.
I just packed OTW Hazard \0/.
Only Thorgan sadly.
3 assists in 5 games (4 of which were starts) so he's clearly got potential for an IF or two as well.
4/8 done for Dembele and halfway through most of the others, which is nice.
Bronze pack method paying out well too at the moment.
I've done nothing so far on the Rivals side. Will probably hammer them out on Monday perhaps, or at least put a dent in them.
I really need to look through my club because I think I've got some serious coins in there. Earlier, I opened a pack from one of the Hybrid Leagues SBCs, checked the price of a duplicate and he's going for about 5k.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKdNAGW-9Xk
His reaction at 3m29 is genuinely perfect.
When he's good and not moaning about a casual mode he is great.
Just sold a bronze Swedish binman right back for 3,500 coins. People are nuts, but I love it.
King of the Hill, which I had to play to complete the last foundation objective is absolute toilet.
Can you complete objectives in friendly modes?
During the early access/web app opening I bought quite a few SBC league silvers for 200 (largely for the objective) and I just sold one for 6k.
Packed Ndombele and sees he goes for over 10k. Is he this years Bakayoko?
He was going for over 20k before his OTW objective was released.
I packed Josef Martinez and Gelson Martins from MM's last night. Their pace from the bench has revolutionised my team.
In other questions, why don't managers have contract bonuses any more and where is the 6% boost I do have coming from?
Can anyone remember what the requirements were for the OTW SBCs last year?
Looking to stock up ahead of tonight and can't find them anywhere.
https://www.futbin.com/19/squad-building-challenges
Full list of all '19 SBCs.
Top man, thanks Fox.
Just packed Fabinho from that shitty Pulisic SBC. He goes for nearly 80k, which is fucking tempting. That'll keep me in bronze packs for ages.
I'd sell him as he will go down in price.
Being a non-walkout he will get packed quite a bit and you can get Rodri for (30-35, will be less when his base card is in packs again) who isn't that much worse or even Fernandinho who is a better than both:
https://www.futbin.com/20/compare/470/918/304
I can't get Rodri though as I'm not allowed to buy him to use him.
I've never really liked Fabinho, so selling is the plan, but is there any chance he'll go up for weekend league?
I forgot about the first owner :moop:
There's a chance, it depends how long it is until the WL but he could due to the strong link with VVD and the Liverpool fullbacks.
Think it's this weekend.
Never mind, listed him for 79k and he's gone.
Up to 117k of coins. :drool:
Base Martinez now has 13 goals in 10 games for me as sub. It's quite tempting to do his potm SBC now, even though it is horrendous value.
https://i.imgur.com/mBmjXAC.jpg
That's how I'm looking right now having bought Goretzka yesterday and Brandt today.
Really liking the team right now and I was thinking of replacing Rodri with Fernandinho when I first bought him but I like Rodri too much now.
This is mine right now:
https://i.imgur.com/nShVVQx.jpg
Much room for improvement.
If Douglas is tradeable you might want to sell him now.
He's currently about 25k.
Packed Son this morning and shifted him for 440k :drool:
Have put myself together a pretty swish team now but with enough average mooks left that there's still something to build towards. Got 120k left to do SBCs/trade. The Silvas from City are both fairly cheap, considering their ratings. Also picked up Kane and then Rodri, Macguire and A W-B's OTW cards.
I feel like generally this year they've rated players lower so that they can release more IFs and other random shit.
Packed an IF TAA.
Kroos from my Milestone reward pack for winning 50 squad battles. I got excited when I saw it was a walkout again. I keep packing the shittest ones though.
Seems odd to me you can get Vertonghen and Alderweireld, both 87, for the same cost as Laporte, also 87. It has to be nation and the strong links to City players.
Laporte has 64 pace, Jan 63 and Toby 64. One of the reasons it makes little sense!
Hmm, you're right - I was sure he was kinda quick. That's weird. I guess he's just cooler.
Has anyone found whichever site it was that lists out the SBCs by value : reward ratio?
It usually circles around on reddit but I dont think anyone has put it together/released it.
Couple of new SBCs out - Brandt and Hernandez.
https://www.futbin.com/stc/challenges
Futbin has been doing it since last year too.
I got shit all from them earlier. I did pack Kovacic and was kind of excited until I saw he was worth fuck all :lol:
Squad Battles and Bonus Pack rewards:
Kyle Walker, Jumbo Premium Gold Pack unlock (never seen that before), Ramsey (thought it was Bale for a minute. :moop:) and a few 82s but none of any note.
I'm still yet to pack an 83 in this game. Will be making an effort in Rivals this week to push for Weekend League points. It would be good to get a couple of early good red picks.
Still running very basic starter squads with about 50k in the bank, and yet to decide on where/who to upgrade.
Nothing for me.
Hoping the hotel I'm in this week has better WiFi so I can play Rivals without tremendous lag.
65k for Walker is sooo tempting, but on the flip side he’s a Prem full back that will be at least competent for the entire game cycle and other than SBC’s, of which there are no desirable ones at the moment, I don’t really need the coins.
Oh and up to 160k of coins on hand now too. I really need to go through my club and gut the profitable items. There must easily be enough there to take me to 250k now. Long slog doing it though...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX1VmwlNzXs
I love these mongs.
https://www.futbin.com/20/player/42850/atal
Just packed this guy who looks like he could be a quality supersub.
Packed Rashford from one of the leauge & nation hybrid sbc. He's fucking 90k!
He is probably ridiculous on this game. He always is due to his physical attibutes but this game seems to love everything EA will have rated him good at.
I have 3 objectives left in Ndombele. Winning games with the Ligue 1 front free was rough. Base Ndombele and Lloris will be my token frenchies to complete the rest!
Just three more games in Rivals with an assist from a base midfielder needed to unlock Ndombele.
Once that's done I might sort the club.
Any tips for the headering based objectives? With heading so unbelievably broken it's some sort of sick joke to put those in.
Just packed Witsel from the Brandt SBC. Tempted to build a squad around him, but he's worth 40-45k. Should I cash in?
The ones I have left (Oktoberfest and Gold Week 1) have to be done in Rivals. :moop:
Pray.
I wouldn't mind and to be fair I probably don't, but it would be useful if there was an indication from EA as to how many of these shitty objectives you have to do to get rank 30 by the time 'season 1' is up.
It should be about 150% of the level 30 target XP for that period available, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was 105%, or they just flat out balls it up and don't offer enough for anyone to get there.
EDIT: I've just hit level 13, so only 78,000 XP to go. I know how Sincere felt on Gran Turismo now.
Finished Hybrid leagues and my rare mega pack had IF Carlos Eduardo, Haverts, David Luiz, UCL Akanji (these are in packs....) and Promes
The UCL cards are in standard packs intentionally now? I like that.
This shit is so broken.
I dont think they are supposed to be in packs. People are packing UCL versions instead of OTW.
Looks like a fuck up as apparently they're not even upgraded versions, not even with a shitty +1 like last year.
Ndombele in.
The OTW cards look awful on the squad screen. All blurry and the star crosses the border edge of the card. :nono:
Two assist games to go for me for Ndombele. I think I need to go back to the drawing board with team set up. Teams are all over us.
I don't think they're meant to have upgrades this year from what I've seen on Twitter. Still a cock up that they've been released already though.
I ended up selling Witsel for 45k, and I've been chipping away at the various objectives. Level 9 for the season now, and halfway to Ndombele.
I got Lenglet in my weekly packs, who goes for about 75k :drool:
Just packed OTW Jovic from the Rodri SBC.
How the fuck is he only 22k?
If I wasn't first owner I'd be all over that.
Yeah, I'm stunned it's that low. I was expecting at least double that amount.
I think people just don't fancy his chances at an IF but he is getting games as Zidane is rotating a lot.
There are some seriously cheap OTW's. Might be worth a Joelinton and Maguire for when then SBCs come around later, never mind an IF.
https://i.postimg.cc/dVxj3yWX/Team-093019.jpg
Didn't expect to have a team that good at this stage if I'm honest.
Decided to sell Rodri's base and buy his OTW.
I'm not convinced he'll get an IF but his base card stats are worth 50k to me and if he does get an upgrade he'll be amazing.
Yes. In previous games desirable SBCs that aren't rip offs require 84's to complete.
Due to the demand, people buy them all up when one drops and the price shoots up. For example Illaramendi last year was perfect. 84 rated, great nationality, league and position. You could buy him for 2-3k and then when the SBC dropped most times you'd double your money or close to it.
If you have more coins to invest and can hang on for a bit Busquets is great value. 89 rated and under 20k ish. Cheaper than most 88's.
I'm going to hold fire for a bit, but if you time it right you'll triple your investment.
Are you in this year Fox?
What Fox said, that and discard price IFs are the way to go.
Oh and the UCLs shouldn’t have been in packs :face:
Maybe i'm just not cut out for this shit outside of dumping dozens of dollars into it every paycheck.
I have no idea what I'm doing with my team. No real direction whatsoever.
Right now I'm lining up 4-2-3-1(2)
Kepa
Tagliafico
Otamendi
Maguire
IF Aurier
Blind
Torreira
Depay
Promes
IF Malen
Bergwijn
Notable otherwise:
Lukaku
Muller
Ozil
Lemar
Hummels
Diego Costa
got a nice handful of 83's and a few 84's
Ilicic
Kampl
Pavlenka
Nico Schulz
I technically have 457 players but they're all basically useless.
I was trying to stack my duplicates on my Transfer List but ended up just trying to sell as many as I could at whatever price point.
Idk. It sounds like first world problems typing this out but anyways. Feel myself slipping into the abyss of fifa points and wanted to vent.
Are people still saying it's best to open your packs on the console? I have my two rare golds I just realized.
Bruh, there isn't a single player in the game that's useless. There'll more or less all have their day for an SBC at some point.
Might self sacrifice down a level or two in Rivals just to try and help with the Ndombele objectives.
Only have 1/10 for the midfield maestro and 0/3 for the Ligue 1 scorers (I did have Atal score 1 in my last match off the bench but he couldn't get a second).
I did it all in Division 9 (probably the equivalent of someone good at the game being in Division 6) and it was a joy.
The system is fucking stupid and with all the XP/Icon Swaps on offer it's only going to get worse as the game goes on.
EDIT: To give you an idea, I used Loric Remy for the Ligue 1 scorers one. No chance am I doing that in Div 4/5. For the assists one I didn't need to win so I chucked games to keep me in Division 9 too.
I'll be managing things so I stay there for as long as I can.
I went for a front 6 of:
Bamba Cavani Di Maria
Ndombele Torreira Lo Celso
Took me probably 5 games to get used to them and get it completed.
Bruh, that looks like a fun team, maybe need to ditch Maguire and Blind though. They seems too slow. Van Der Beek might be a more mobile option
I suppose I should add that not being able to buy players would see me even more fucked and frustrated in the higher divisions than last year.
Vardy is pretty intensely overpowered at the moment.
In fourteen games for me he has twenty six goals and ten assists, with all of those games having been played in rivals. He's basically unstoppable when he gets running and something in his stats, I suspect his high defensive work rate in concert with his good for a striker defensive stats make him win the ball off defenders far more often than is decent.
Ill grap this sometimes this week.
Picked up OTW Joelinton, OTW Maguire, IF Orban and IF Brozovic. All at pretty much discard.
I can’t shake the urge to do potm Martinez. His base card is so good even as sub. Must resist.
Specific request I know, but does anyone know of anyone doing a fut let's play with pack only and not spending money?
Decided to spend 100k on a few random high-rated players in the hope I can make some decent profit when they're needed for an SBC
Finally finished league and nation hybrid and got a double walkout from the rare mega.
Bernardo Silva who is, surprisingly, going for buttons. Second walkout was Isco.
He left first owner in the run up to tots though. I’d love to see him do a proper pack only.
It's amazing how shit people are.
Changed my team name to 'FREE WINS' and started tanking to get to division 9.
Just had a guy who instantly paused letting all time go then he refused to shoot when I moved my keeper away and then after I score an own goal he does the shush celebration whilst running to the corner flag.
I was so close to just deciding to fuck him over which wouldn't be hard as I think I won every division 7 game I had last week by at least 4.
You probably won’t need to drop as far as 9 Mahow, I’m only there because I threw all my placement games, but when I see an up to date list of what the rewards per division are I’ll make a move to it if it’s better than 9.
EDIT: Providing I can still complete objectives easily.
I don't mean to be a pain in the ass but if you guys could remember to possibly post which players you bought when you make these posts about hoarding them for future profits I'd really appreciate it.
I realize it's a little more work for literally no reward so don't mind me necessarily just saying if you think about it.
I have a stupid question.
In your passing options... are you guys using assisted, semi-assisted, off....
I used to play with my through balls being completely off back in the day and I feel like I was fucking lethal but then when I got back into playing xbox (Fifa 16 or 17) for some reason I just left all of them on assisted.
I'm beginning to think if I could just take the time to adjust my brain to the manual settings I'd fare much better.
There's one I made early. A bunch of discard specials. The OTW are going to take a while. IFs should climb soon.
Outside that check out the cheapest 84, 85s and 86s on futbin. https://www.futbin.com/stc/cheapest There is just no way some of those 84s stay that low. They would get close to 10k quite often last year when the right SBCs dropped.
Take Illarramendi last year. Look at the spikes on his chart. We are in the early 2k stages now (less for some)
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/104...r+Illarramendi
Or Verratti. You can pick up 86 like him (Bonucci, Parejo or Verratti himself) for under 10k. This time last year he was 7k, by the end of October he was 30k.
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/856/Marco+Verratti
3/4 on All in, 2/3 on Origin Story and still 1/10 for Midfield Maestro.
Right now I'm just forcing the ball to IF Atal who comes on instantly but for a few games I had him on basic chemistry and his finishing was atrocious. For my last game I put a deadeye on him and he was lethal.
When I finish with the Ligue 1 one (hopefully in my first match tomorrow) I'll then just have to keep spamming through balls with my midfielders.
How's the self relegation going?
Having used him for a bit Ndombele is sadly not that good. Hopefully he gets an in form tonight.
Went down to 9.
First game I played in the division was against someone who had also self-relegated because they were division 6+ quality and I struggled to a 2-2 draw.
The other 2 games that I played were a puddle of piss. Had an early rage quit (with Atal scoring twice) and then I won 7-0.
Yeah, I’ve come up against a few people who were clearly doing the same thing, which is quite nice actually as it provides a tougher test and keeps the elo down.
Yep yep. They aren’t going to be instant profit but you should see decent return on those. On the back of looking at that I went and picked up a couple of each of the cheap 86’s myself.
We should get Prem player of the month soon too, hopefully that will start to move the price of these players since we aren’t getting icon SBCs
Ndombele SNUBBED.
What a shocking TOTW that is.
I just did the Playstation FC SBC not realising it was for just a kit :moop:
Also the new squad add in for SBC is both better and worse.
What have they done to it?
You can now add players easier and move position to position like before. However, when you press the button to preview selection the requirements list is covered up.
Pointless.
In watching from afar and im not impressed.
Packed Handanovic from my first pack from the European MM and nothing afterwards. I really need to save the packs for later when my first is a decent pull as the following ones are always shite after that.
Pavard is extinct on PC. Easy 20k
Yeah, all the lower rated Bayern players are due to the European Marquee Matchups. I had him and Martinez untradeable and whacked them both in.
Ah cool, I dont do any of this SBC stuff. I should follow it more for the profit I guess.
If you can be arsed you can check the solutions on here and see who/which leagues are selling for coin.
https://www.futbin.com/squad-building-challenges
Cheers big man
Oooh that's a good idea.
Last night I chucked like 50 of my 75 rated golds onto the transfer market.
I generally kept the lowest potential price at 300 but then would bump up the buy now to 450-500 or something like that.
I was surprised to find almost nearly all of them sold at the buy now price :\
This also makes me feel relatively silly because I notoriously quick sale'd most of my lower rated cards I didn't think would get me anything other than the quick sale amount anyways.
Everything is worth something.
Yup I've followed the bronze pack method, got.em all listed and made about 6k off selling them, having spent 3200 on packs. Small but easy profit.
Up to 74k now.
I'm starting to think it wise to just hoard every card rated above 82 or 83 and try to sell everything else for a (relative) premium.
I also had this Bundesliga 2 player from Germany that was a 75 gold sell for like 2500, luckily having checked his other cards on the market before throwing him on there.
https://www.futwiz.com/en/fifa20/pla...hnatterer/2366
I've been spamming the bronze packs to buggery and am up to over 1,000 players now.
Think I've just guaranteed Rank 2 in Div 9 Rivals which is 2 Prime Electrum Packs and 4 Jumbo Premium Gold. Not worth the extra effort vs the 2 Mega Packs for Rank 3, but I was a fair bit of the way there after doing the Ndombele objectives.
Just got the 10 rivals matches with midfield assists left (8 in total) for Ndombele.
Annoyingly, I thought it was assists total not assists in separate matches. Got 6 in my last match and then realised :(
I somehow managed a corner goal in Rivals, it was also a header and it was with Lewandowski who is only one of two players in my team with over 82 physicality.
8 days to try and nab another headed goal with Lewandowski or Laporte.
Went on a soplurge with my coins, looking like this:
https://i.imgur.com/wmsmaos.jpg
Got a feeling Lozano's price will just rise.
I did not realise that Lozano was only 40k. I've picked him up.
His cards are always great, he always gets upgrades as he scores for fun and he's actually in a useable league now.
He;s fucking amazing cutting in from the right
https://i.postimg.cc/htf2mtZv/Team-03102019.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/0QdnvMjW/Stats-03102019.jpg
Current state of play. I really need a better right sided midfielder. Lozano would be golden.
If you've got some coins, I'd look at buying Allan.
https://www.futbin.com/20/player/731...rques+Loureiro
He's gone up by 20k since a few Youtubers mentioned him but he looks stunning.
An anchor on him and he's an amazing CDM.
Delle Alli in my Rivals rewards. Another player I’d never normally use but he’ll go into the team somehow.
I only played 1 game of Rivals last night, but managed to win 2-1 with 10 men, so I've earned some small rewards from that, a 7.5k & 15k pack.
Decided to just open them on the phone in work, and got Casillas (an 83) in the first pack, and then Verratti, my first walkout, in the second. I can't argue with that, and that'll be useful for either an SBC or selling once the prices rise in the future.
Lozan has gone up almost 8k on PC overnight lol
Finished Week 1 Gold \0/.
Alexis or Mhktariyan from the OTW sbc. Went with Alexis.
Just packed Rashford.
90k easy.
Lucky. My best was IF Doherty. 12k. Looks like he is sitting in the club for a while.
I also took Alexis. He is more likely to play.
I struggle to think of two more unappealing players that could have been put in a OTW SBC.
I went for Sanchez as his previous FUT cards have been pretty good.
Seems to be playing and he's scored one this season so far.
I suspect I’ll hit him up too.
Just had someone quit a Rivals match with 80 minutes gone.
What was the point?
2 games left with midfield assists for Ndombele.
I was given a OTW Barella to replace the UCL one I packed when the game was broken the other night.
My play is pretty shit right now because I'm not overly concerned about winning, it's all about getting the ball to a midfielder and getting an assist with them.
Defensively I'm playing so offensively and risky and in attack I've passed up on easy goals as they wouldn't have been assisted by one of the right players.
Still won all bar 3 or 4 thus far I think and I'm into division 8. I'll probably keep myself in division 6 eventually though.
Dele Alli in for Amadou at CAM with Busquets and Ndombele in behind in a 3-5-2. Got them all on 10 chem, with Marksman, Backbone and Guardian the chem styles respectively.
Haven't tried the new team yet, but pretty keen to. Loving this first owner malarkey.
Ndombele finally done.
Did the last two in consecutive matches and the last one I managed to get an assist in about 4 games minutes. Won 7-2 with him disconnecting in injury time.
Bought two more Lozano OTWs for 46.5k each.
The matches between Torino and Napoli usually results in lots of goals (Napoli have won the last 4 away 3-1, 3-1, 5-0 and 2-1), Torino have conceded in their 3 home league matches (plus 3 to Wolves in Europe) and Napoli have scored 10 in their 3 away league matches this season.
If Lozano starts then he's got a great chance of grabbing an IF.
Robertson from that two player Marquee Moments SBC.
Fucking hell, he goes for like 75k.
H/H, can't shoot, he's gone.
Up to 266,000 coins now.
Should probably think about investing seriously now, or do Martinez. The latter would be more fun. I guess as well I now have an amount of coins (and a load of shit in the club) that I'll be able to do the next properly good SBC that comes along.
I know you are all over that Promes @Yevrah
What Promes is that? Just logged on and all I can see that's been added are the week 2 season objectives, which is shit.
They can’t do anything right :face:
Looks like they took it down for an error.
Oh and while I'm on the objectives, they're crap, aren't they?
They've dedicated an entire section to it but the things you have to do are either unimaginative or borderline impossible. Once you do them you earn XP but you've no way of knowing how much more there is to come so can't select what you'd like to do and there'll be people who miss out on getting the level 30 reward by a few hundred XP from nearly 100,000 as a result.
The player rewards for level 30 are also crap by the time we'll be able to get them. I highly doubt an 85 Zaha would be a guaranteed starter for me in 30+ days time and I'm running a first owner game. If I was allowed to buy players with coins to use in my team there'd be absolutely no chance he would.
Absolute shambles.
Still when it's back up I'll be all over that if it's not a ludicrous price. He's clearly been nerfed from previous versions, but he's in a league full of goat herders and an IF or two will see him being the bollocks again.
Looking sub 40k right now.
I'll do it for that. The solution I'm looking at on Futbin is going to come in a fair bit higher than it claims currently mind.
Premium Gold Pack from One Nation Midfield SBC. I'll take it:
https://i.imgur.com/qzf3Fnn.jpg
Fucking hell, after not playing since my first couple of days I logged on to open my packs for rivals and squad battles. Some random IF, gnabry and u dembele :beer:
Now have 750k to play with. Can I get the tth hivemind to build me a squad?
Thought about spunking it all on one marquee player then going back to first owner/pack only?
fuck. you know what, that's incredibly tempting.
in previous fifas i've tried to do the sensible slow accumulation thing, but it generally just gave me a headache and i'd get annoyed with myself when i did shit like buy kroos for 70k, hate him, then end up selling him for 50k. and the two fifas i enjoyed FUT most on were the ones i did the DUTCH league and the TURKISH league, as imposing massive restrictions on myself made me appreciate scraping out wins in div 6 and 7 far more than in higher divs with better teams. my awful lack of ambition clearly applies to video game as well.
also, I've always loved the idea of having an icon/legend, but i've never been able to afford one except the shit 85 rated 5'9'' centre backs in the arse-end of the game cycle.
how well do icons hold their value, in case i massively regret it/hate the one i go with?
Previously they've held their value quite well, but this year is different as there won't be any icon SBC's any more, so I'd expect them to behave like regular players more, perhaps even more regular as they won't be required for SBC's at all as regular players always are.
Only baby and middle icons are in packs at the moment as well don't forget.
You'll lose money on whoever you buy, but first owner really is awesome and you'll probably be using that player for the rest of the game cylcle.
How many coins could you scrabble together if you sold everything (bar a few players to cobble together around whoever you buy) and what platform are you on? I could have a look and suggest a few players.
Messi is 914k and Mbappe 823k on Xbox.
The icons at that price point don't look that appealing.
What is this first owner stuff? Are players worse with multiple owners or something?
Got 120k for Modric so bought Koulibaly and Allan
It's a somewhat stupid set of self-imposed rules that might make the game more fun for you if you're that way inclined.
First Owner = you're only allowed to use players in your team that are first owner. e.g. you've packed them or crafted them from an SBC, but not bought them from the transfer market. You can buy players from the transfer market to complete SBC's, just not play them.
Pack Only = As above, but you can't use the transfer market at all to buy anything.
Why would you do these things you might ask? The more you play the game the more you realise that there are a small pool of players that are 'meta', which if you can buy who you want (coins permitting, but they're a piece of piss to generate) you'll always gravitate towards. This pool of players doesn't change a huge amount from version to version and it gets boring using the same players every year. With the above self imposed rules you get much more variety and for me a greater affinity to the players you do use as you're not endlessly chopping and changing.
If I wasn't doing first owner I'd have a much better team than I do now, but I'd be bored as there'd be little to grind for and ultimately the football playing side of the game itself isn't often good enough to keep you playing on its own.
As an example, and looking at my first current first 11.
Which of these would be in my team if I could buy who I wanted:
GK: Lecomte - Nope, much better options available for minimal coins.
RB: Walker - Again, no. He's good, but I don't like full backs with high defensive work rate and if I sold him I could buy Barcelona's Dembele who is an absolute monster and have change left.
LB: Firpo - Rofl, not a chance.
CB: IF/TOTW (In form/Team of the week) Koscielny - No, he's slow as shit.
CM: Busquets: No chance, far too slow.
CM: OTW (One to Watch) Ndombele. He can't shoot at all or really defend no matter what chemistry style you put on him so no.
CM: Dele Alli - 3 star weak foot, which is just a bit shit for an attacking player. 4 star makes a massive difference and 5 star is gold (see Barca Dembele).
RW: Antonio - He's only starting for chemistry reasons, so no.
LW: Fraser - He's good, but there are better, so no.
ST: Potm (player of the month) Pukki - Maybe. He is really good, but again he only has a 3 star weak foot so will be pretty useless in a relatively short space of time when the teams you face get better.
So my team is a bit shit and far inferior to what I could buy with coins, but I love them all, well apart from Antonio who is technically useless, but he gets subbed out for Martinez who is totes amazeballs, but again wouldn't be if I could buy who I want.
Hope those paragraphs of seeming insanity make sense.
Makes sense Yev and I can see the appeal. As a casual.player I'm not into all that but seems an.knteesting challenge.
Finished Salah's Story and completed Week 2 Bronze and most of Week 2 Silver (just have to score in 2 separate games) which doesn't leave me with too much left really.
I have the Rival Header from Oktoberfest which I can't be fucked to do, the Max Chem and King of the Hill friendlies (which can be done in a game in each), Week 2 Gold and then the score in X SB/Rivals matches.
3683 XP from level 19.
They really need to add more soon.
Yeah, it's something I've sort of gravitated towards since I got back into FIFA about 3 years ago and once I'm bored of that I'll probably dip back out again.
Mahow, I'm on.
Level 17, 1,478 XP from level 18, with the following left to do:
Oktoberfest - Rival Header & lucky No.7. I can't be arsed with either and I'm only losing 200XP by not doing them.
Week 1 Gold - Tower of Power and Score a Corner. These two can get fucked in the ear. No chance am I even trying.
Week 2 Silver - Score 5 times, 1 left to do.
Week 2 Gold - Whatever's in there when I unlock it.
Play Online - Score in 20, 40 & 60.
Other than not finishing the early access stuff I think I've done everything else available. It'd be a bit shit if that isn't a good enough run rate to get to level 30, but who knows.
I'm almost certain they'll end up not giving out enough for 30 or leaving it so tight that we'd have had to do everything.
Before the Score a Corner in Rivals objective I had not scored one in any game mode. I've now scored 4 in Rivals and come really close another few times, I seem to have found my groove with them.
How are you doing it?
I've scored 2 so far in all game modes and I've played over 100 games.
https://i.imgur.com/EQK4BP5.png
Aim roughly around the square and just before I begin powering up to 3.5/4 bars I call a second man to try and pull a defender.
Always go for a low header (L1+R1) and aim goalwards. Always seem to get a head on the ball but the placement can be erratic so it's more about luck at that stage.
Cheers.
The Week 2 Gold objectives are absolutely tragic.
Doing all that with players with less than 70 pace, lol.
Just reinforces my decision to lose all my rivals games, get put in a lower division and manipulate the fuck out of it to stay there.
Which is fucking stupid. but screw doing all that in a division against people of my actual skill level who're doing other things and using good players as a result.
In WL leaderboards, does it still say your friend's list have 30 games remaining at all times?
Can you check your WL history?
why is Ogbonna suddenly a 10k player?
He'll be in an SBC solution somewhere.
Or he's just died. :sick:
I've got 280k and cant think of how to strengthen my team beyond silly cards like Dybala, Ronaldo etc.
Rumours that there'll be no league sbcs.
Mertens is about 120k outside my price range lol. Immobile has been banging them in for.fun anyway, considering.I only.play on Semi Pro
I honestly think they're trying to get people out of the menus and into the actual game. Problem is, the more you play the more holes you find.
I don't get why they made SBC squads so hard to navigate (then fixed it but still not fully), the lack of league SBCs (even if they do come it's late), the lack of season/milestone objectives etc.
As long as people are on the game it doesn’t matter where you are to EA surely?
If anything it’d be good for them the more people are in the menus as you can’t buy a pack from the game itself.
If any of you have Sarabia OTW he is going to be getting an IF.
Depends on the player.
Sarabia has doubled in price since yesterday but 28k isn't exactly bonkers.
If Lozano does well tomorrow he will go 100k at least.
This market shit is mental.
Vardy crossed the hundred goal mark for me before his sixtieth game. He's absolutely bonkers.
GK - Lloris
DR - Cancelo
DL - Angelino
DC - Alderweireld
DC - Sokratis
CDM - OTW Rodri
MC - IF Maddison
MC - OTW Ndombele
RW - Mahrez
LW - Felipe Anderson
ST - Vardy
I'm not entirely sold on Rodri yet, I had Gbamin in there before and his pace got me out of trouble a few times, but one IF and Rodri is a monster so he stays for now. Moutinho will be back in instead of Ndombele next time I turn it on. He's noticeably slower but takes up far better positions in the attack and has a great line in perfectly timed runs beyond the striker.
My team.
https://www.futbin.com/20/squad/8456649
Promes on the bench is the OTW version.
Absolutely nothing new again tonight.
I was going to ask how this could possibly be fun but then I remembered last year when they had that Childish Gambino featured squad with the Atlanta United crest et. al. my friends all decided to have a competition where we played them on Beginner to see who could score the most goals. It was the highlight of the season tbh.
One thing that's happened to me a couple times is I'll have reached a level, go to click the right stick and then i'll be short on XP again somehow. It's happened twice. Mind you I'm not really going balls deep with the whole objectives thing but at some level I'm sure this is fucking fucks who are trying to get to level 30.
Apparently it's because it gives you the incorrect XP in the first place then takes it back from you when you try and claim the reward.
Finally finished off OTW Ndombele. I packed IF Darida earlier in a reward pack, and used him in a Bundesliga 4-3-3 - he's a really good budget player to use. Also completed the OTW Sanchez so might look to put him into a Serie A squad soon. Still not sure where I want to focus all my coins yet.
Getting OTW Promes and Sanchez, some Squad Battles to hit Elite 3 (not played much this week) and hopefully a decent pull from the Advanced SBC's if I get round to them.
https://mixer.com/Chemical_Locust
I've just got De Gea and Sissoko from my 2 weekly Rare Gold Packs.
Pulled OTW Hernandez and a duplicate IF Darida (in the same pack) in my Squad Battles rewards. Hernandez would sell for around 100-110k, but I think I'll hold onto him. My decision of what league to focus on may have been made for me with this pack pull, he does look pretty amazing and there's always a possibility of an IF at Bayern.
OTW Sarabia for me. Will hold onto him as I think he might get more upgrades over the season
Dybala from my SB reward/free pack. Fits my team perfect. Seems I can only pull Serie A players this year.
Absolute load of horse cock for me this week. Couple of 83 players. Cheers EA
Flashback 85 Theo Walcott
83, 83 rated plus IF and then an 85 rated. With how much speed matters this year he might be decent.
If he’s a right sided midfielder I think I’ll do him.
Actually, he’s M/M so scrap that.
Is it me or is this game completely dead so far this year?
EDIT: And it actually is dead for me now, I can't even get in the bloody thing.
IF Ndidi from my squad battle rewards. Lovely.
Got back in and played one Squad Battles game, before being booted after the next won. Glad I didn't win it.
Sold Sissoko for 38,500 and have put De Gea and Christensen in the team, the latter at CB for chem reasons.
does any one play on PC? Is it worth it?
Another day, another day of no new content at all.
No league SBC's yet and no UCL cards. It's all a bit bizarre.
If the Icon Swap objectives are a tedious shitfest (score 18 goals in separate rivals wins with a bronze Bulgarian goalkeeper for one token, for example) or massively overpriced (submit an 85 rated squad for one token) I may be back to Fallout 4 by the weekend.
Some have speculated that this isn't by design, that EA want to put more out but are holding back because all the stuff they've put out lately has been bugged to fuck.
Such as the Promes SBC saying completed for a lot of people, the chip shot objective in Gold not registering properly etc etc.
I've seen that but I'm not buying it.
If SBC's were wholesale broken then we wouldn't have had (m)any of them and the objectives don't work because they're presumably written ambiguously by one twat and coded in without checking what the creator actually meant by another twat.
Friday is a big day.
I've seen the EA guys getting a beating on Twitter over the weekend over content and fixes.
Last year did start off similarly if I remember right, before we got towards Christmas and you had a new SBC every day.
It's the lack of league SBC's (think we had 3 or 4, but certainly at least 2 by this stage last year) and UCL cards that's been a bit odd.
The objectives are also varying degrees of horsewank and the XP on offer makes little sense in terms of how much you get for each one. The Week 2 Gold objectives give far more XP than the week 1 ones? Why? And to cap it all no one has any idea how many of them you need to do to hit the max level 30. Which probably won't matter as by the time anyone does the rewards won't be that appealing. There's only one, Tolisso, that would tangibly improve my (first owner) team already and there are still 30 days of the 'season' to run.
The idea behind objectives and milestones was great, but it's been executed quite badly so far and if they muff Icons up come Friday I think a lot of people will be resigned to it not looking that promising. Not that that's an excuse to hurl abuse at Corey and whoever the other chaps are on Twitter mind, as it's hardly their fault.
my two packs brought me some random 78's and William Carvalho for the 30th time. :dirk:
Have they made any mention to career mode fixes yet?
Been hammering some trading and was up to 470k until I upgraded my Mahrez to his IF (imagine that will rise a bit out of packs) and brought in D Silva to be my playmaker.
Also got in on some 88s at around 20k last night. Last year around now there was a spike and I think it was from the Prem POTM which, I think, was Hazard. If Aubemeyang wins it they should rise nicely.
Sarabia didn’t get an IF :face: should have sold in the mid 30s. No loss though as he was pack pulled.
https://i.redd.it/0mdcizavuir31.png
Why put them in the game if you aren’t going to upgrade them?
It's almost as if the finance people have taken over the game.
I'm genuinely intrigued to see what Friday brings. My prediction is a bag of spunk.
I would love to pack that Bergwijn card mind.
Liverpool and Juventus players flying, especially the latter.
Had to buy a Pie guy for 8k but got Neuer from the Rare gold.
Had enough in the club to do that Juve/Liverpool SBC - got Jesus and IF Dunk plus a few other decent 82/3/4 cards so happy with that.
Accidentally bought a silver Pieman for 4.5k but sold him on fairly sharpish for 7k.
He can't even be used in the SBC.
Finished all of the gameplay based Week 2 Gold Objectives in 3 Rivals games and with it 2 untradeable Mega Packs for tomorrow morning. Division 9 is a joy. Need to watch my ranking though as I'm only 2 wins off Division 8 now which simply won't do. Some nice non-win based Icon objectives on Friday would be just the job.
The Week 1 Gold heading objectives are still laughing at me mind, my players are all allergic to heading.
Up to level 20 and 47,792 XP now, which really should be a high enough run rate to get level 30.
Quite enjoying the passing with double-tap X. Means the ball comes off the ground a little and makes for some slightly more varied finishes
Absolutely nothing from that SBC set released tonight. :moop:
What's this Futbin credits thing to use their import feature all about?
You need to help them update prices to earn coins to import.
They want to try and get more accurate prices, it doesn't take long but it is slightly annoying to have to do it.
Apparently I have 1.7m worth of players in my club.
Its a bit of a ballache with it being free before but I just rattled up 12 of them in a few mins.
Game reckons I have 1.2m in the club.
Did a couple of good upgrades for shits and giggles. Out popped Telles, David Luiz and Alcacer. Now to figure out to get Telles in. Not sure I want to use Luiz.
Seems like this will be right up your street Yev.
https://www.ea.com/games/fifa/fifa-2...ner-objectives
I haven't managed to do the Juve and Liverpool SBCs yet, no players in the club and I'm not spending 30k+ just bringing those players in.
Yeah, I should be well set for that.
Felipe, Fekir and Canales from my Rivals rewards and Casillas, which is my first duplicate untradeable card I can't do much with.
Tempted to see if I can stick him into PotM Martinez if his price drops once Walcott is done. His base card on 5 chemistry is absolutely brilliant as it is, so that 86 should be properly schweet. In fact, given my starting wide men are a bit wank anyway, my midfield is a wall of chemistry and I have Nani First Owner, I could actually get him into the team on 10 chemistry.
Just worked it up in a new squad and through replacing a couple of shit players through subbing them off I can get Promes and Martinez on 10 chem and the whole team on 100. :drool:
Pedro the best player in my Rivals reward :moop:
Took the untradeable rewards with an eye towards the potential First Owner objectives - Hamez Rodriguez was the best of an average bunch.
Mexico playing Bermuda and Panama this international break so Lozano has a great chance at some goals if he plays.
Potm Martinez in.
Just packed Eder Militao and Nacho. Sweet.
Took the coins for my Rivals rewards so nothing to report there, but I did the Marquee Matchups and pulled Wijnaldum and Davinson Sanchez from those, as well as Odriozola who went for 10k the moment I listed him. Is there a lucrative objective or SBC I've missed?
Making bank from bronze pack method on this week's Marquee Matchups. Crap bronzes in specified leagues can go for silly money.
Buying a few bronze packs in work on the app and it's definitely easy money right now.
I can't decide whether to sink all my coins into the Flashback Piszczek SBC. He probably will remain one of, if not the best, right back for the Bundesliga, which is where I am focusing my main squad right now.
Did Piss Check which really boosts my right side as he links with Brandt.
Pulled Felipe Anderson from a pack which helps get some cash back.
How much was he to complete?
I'm quite looking forward to this, hopefully there are some imaginative objectives to complete. I've enjoyed this year so far, I haven't been glued to it, and I've been able to enjoy the gameplay a lot more.
I had most of it in my club, I spent about 50k I think.
Oh and I'm guessing that all 24 tokens will be needed for the high end ones. If you can get a high end + one other for 24 then that could be sweet.
Thinking of buying Lucas Hernandez OTW.
Card looks great and if he gets an IF he should be mega.
He got special cards in 18 and 19.
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/n2...sL-1024-80.jpg
Still leaning towards Drogba I think.
For various reasons I'd probably take: Drogba, Ballack, Gerrard, Ferdinand, Nesta, Zanetti, Roberto Carlos, Rui Costa, Kluivert or Crespo.
So if I can get any two of those that's probably what I'll do.
Opening Bronze packs is paying out obscenely well at the moment. I've been opening them for about an hour now and my coin balance still hasn't gone down.
Help a brother out. Which bronzes sell good?
At this moment in time: Seemingly all Spanish bronzes, some Norwegian, most Italian, some Danish, some Swiss and Greek.
Loads of others will too, if they're in a Futbin solution.
Has anyone entered the hell that is Weekend League yet?
No.
Too busy at weekends right now.
Hmmmm.
Unless I've gone blind nothing for Icon Swaps. There is however a roflcopter priced Aubameyang.
Well if this is legit, first bit of disappointing news:
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I was hoping you'd be able to get all 24 asap if you banged it out but it lasted until December if you wanted to take your time.
Bit crap that.
I suppose it depends how much they cost. If you can get one for 8 tokens then that might not be so bad. That said, there's no way they're giving out 3 icons, so I reckon the cheapest will be more than 12, you'll only be able to get one and it's up to you how many tokens you can be arsed to grind for and which one player you get as a result.
https://i.redd.it/2184zqkr3yr31.jpg
Silver player objectives perhaps? If so silvers will go through the roof.
Auba coming in at 150k over his NIF. Surprised they kept it that close.
Going to hold all my various 85+cards for now. Sold most of my 84s for a decent profit though
And I've bought OTW Lucas Hernandez, 126k.
https://www.futbin.com/20/player/428...Hern%C3%A1ndez
Already looks beastly with an Anchor.
Only players in my 11 with sub 10 chemistry and Leno (will replace with Ederson or Lloris sometime) and Pukki (would love to bring in Sonaldo but realistically I'll probably just use Drogba).
Not happening
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...ld_objectives/
lol at the state of that skiller one.
I'll do those because of being in Division 9, but fucking hell, they're royally fucking this.
https://www.futbin.com/20/players?pa...position=CF,ST
Just bought a handful of Allan Sousa.
Edit: Also got some Carlinhos and Brandon Thomas all for 500 or less.
Also, imagine what the Icon Swap objectives will be like. :sick:
Icon swaps are out.
The online ones are a bitch.
Have to play Fut Champs :(
Schmeichel the cheapest at 6 with Drogba the most at 23.
Hmmmm.
I like what they've done, but this may make first owner a bit problematic.
Does "in your squad" include the bench?
Just heard Nep say that the cards you use have to have gold in the description to count if required.
Which means I can't use OTW Promes for the Dutch obective or potm Martinez for the MLS ones.
EDIT: Scrap that last bit as it only applies when they've specified gold players.
The squad battles ones mean making your entire starting first 11 from the specified league, which for a first owner account is going to be a right ball ache.
Perversely (thank you Division 9) the Rivals ones may well be easier.
Got my first icon swap card by completing the MLS based Squad Battles objective. Kept things first owner which is nice, but I had to start with a bronze keeper and silver left back so couldn't do the 83 max gold team simultaneously as a result.
Potm Martinez is a don and Pavon and Nani were quite fun to use too.
Lozano scored 1 and got 2 assists. His price has risen slightly.
A great follow up against Panama would be lovely.
I was trying to buy one to watch Lucas hernandez and I've accidentally bought some weird 'champions league rare 'card which I don't think is meant to be on the game. It wont let me list it on the market either. Wtf is going on?
Yeah those are broken
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...list_ucl_card/
Onto the Dutch Squad Battles icon objective and Pukki is back into the team off the bench and nets a hat-trick to bring him to 100 goals.
Having not used him for 10 or so games I forgot how good he was. :hail:
https://i.redd.it/f60jb7re34s31.jpg
Breaks it down nicely. Still thinking Rio since he isnt too stupid of a grind and is very good
Current thinking is Roberto Carlos and A.N.Other, but I suspect season 2 might contain some more Fut Champs objectives, which is a problem qualifying for in division 9, so I may not cash the 11 tokens in until season 2 objectives are announced.
That's the dutch league and golden battles done to take me to 3 tokens.
Realised while doing it that I much prefer full backs with a higher attacking work rate than their defensive one so may cash in on Kyle Walker as a result.
Nope, just not rising for some reason.
Perhaps most people le haven't hit Gold requirements yet, they have some in the club or they just can't be fucked.
Sold Walker for 63.5k, which takes me up to 370k.
Time to invest I think.
Packed Alba and TOTW Defoe from the "Born Legends" SBC earlier :thbup:
Cracking Squad Battles and Free Pack rewards.
Sane, IF Hradecky, Vidal and Deulofeu.
Ousmane Dembele from pre-ordered pack and Sirigu from my SB rewards which isn't too bad.
Also, I think I'm going for Nesta and Carlos in swaps.
Oh and I got a silver who seems to go for 8k or so.
He went almost instantly for 7.4k.
I'm still not completely sure on who I will go for with Icon Swaps. I'm very tempted by Zanetti as it would be RB sorted for the rest of FIFA, that's an end game card. Only problem is that would restrict me to only Schmeichel with the remaining swaps.
I'm still holding off on Flashback Piszczek because of the potential Zanetti but I've only got until 6pm to make the decision.
Sold the two OTW Lozanos that I bought for 46.5k for 68.5k each.
Probably aided by that POTM Vela being released today. 83 rated squad, 1 MLS player and 1 IF, that's not too bad. I might pick him up for a super-sub option.
I only nabbed the one of those but might cash in I myself
7 tokens done now and I'm flip flopping a bit between who to aim for.
Oh and Sane is a beast.
Reached level 23 and packed Koulibaly and Wijnaldum in the Rare Electrum reward pack.
Sweet.
I can't get along with Sane at all. Wijnaldum is lovely though, he's such a great all rounder.
Yeah, he looks the nuts.
Also soft links to Promes so that'll do nicely too.
8 tokens done now and chalked off the gold objectives with some silver Frenchies at the same time.
Okocha actually looks half decent.
Williams and Morales up front together is the only thing I can’t defend against on this game. It’s a fucking cheat code.
I’m using a Bundesliga squad atm, Havertz up front is so much fun.
Got absolute bollocks in my packs today but sold Jordi Alba for about 75k.
I've been playing a 4-1-2-1-2 but tempted to switch out my wingers for a 4-2-3-1. There's a dearth of decent/affordable Premiership left-wingers. Martial is overpriced and Sane is way too expensive. Might bring in Eriksen who looks perfect.
Also - another random thing: I packed Sweinsteiger and he's a CB :cab: Is that right?
Haha I noticed that too. I presume it is but it has me staring at my screen for a good while.
Think he has been playing some sort libero role
Up to 6 Icon swaps now.
1 game from the CSL one (fuck that's been tough for me as there are so many holes in that team that 3 subs does little) and 1 from the all gold solo battle one.
I am away from the house until Wednesday but I’ll be hammering though some of the easier ones this week.
Felipe Anderson is immense. Not sure how he'd do coming from the slightly deeper starting position that a 41212 requires but as a LW in a 433(2) I've yet to encounter a right back he doesn't put to bed with no supper.
Vardy remains an obscenity on this edition. Closing in on two hundred goals already, and including assists he's contributing over two goals a game.
Decided to buy Roberto Firminho to leave my first team looking like this:
https://i.imgur.com/NIPhQ3k.png
Was using OTW Ndombele at that LCAM role and he just wasn't cutting it.
Angelino is much better than Mendy, unless that low defensive work rate is important to you. I've tried every other left back in the league, Andy Robertson included, and the only one who comes close is Lucas Digne. He isn't even one of those cards who outperforms his stats. He just has the best left back stats in the league, but for some reason has wound up a 79.
Yeah, I wouldn’t say Sane is a particularly good winger if people are trying to play him there, but as a striker he’s a beast.
In other news, I’m incorporating the fake pass stop into my game more and more and it’s absolutely deadly.
Massive update, on PC now and consoles shortly.
https://fifaforums.easports.com/en/d...title-update-4
Player's were not being properly impacted by their Fitness level when playing a match.
Fitness cards to rise in price.
I’ve kept all mine but the market will be flooded with them I’d have thought, so might be a good time to buy in the short term.
Also that offside thing will be handy.
I've been done by that multiple times. I'll take a corner which gets headed out to the side but well clear of the corner taker and he's flagged for offside.
Should have decided this sooner but I am very tempted to get that Martínez before he expires
He’s very good.
Up to 8 Icon Swaps now.
I think I'll push to do Carlos first as opposed to Nesta as Carlos would be a bigger upgrade for my team.
So just 3 Rivals wins with 7 First Owned La Liga players, 3 with 7 Ligue 1 players and 3 with 7 Serie A players for me.
I'll probably do the FUT Champs ones at some point (assuming they don't expire) but not for at least 3 weeks.
They expire when Season 1 expires, in around 23 days.
Didn’t end up doing Martínez. Would have been nice to have now they drop this Basti (88 rated CM) :moop:
That Schweinsteger SBC smells of rip off.
The card looks great but that SBC is way too much.
Schweinsteiger looks quite absurd.
Futbin has it coming in at 260k on Xbox.
Rofl.
It might just be my imagination, but Division 6 last night was fucking awful - opponents either pressuring me all the time, or dropping deep with the central midfielders intercepting everything, and first XIs with icons, Neymar, Mbappe, etc. primed to counter very quickly. Feels like some of the higher division players have deliberately dropped down for the objectives, but it just meant I was getting battered game in, game out.
Sold my Lozano when the TOTW leaks didn’t have him on it. Already down 10k and still falling. Probably nab him again in a bit once he is closer to the 40 I paid the first time. Also no one in TOTW is quicker than 80 pace.....
https://i.redd.it/ushp1ybbtws31.jpg
Where's everyone now on the Season 1 rank and objectives?
Just hit level 24 myself and not much left to do that's currently available.
That's the Bundesliga online one done and 9 tokens down as a result.
Lookman was the surprise package and Lewandowski's loan card was phenomenal, just finishes everything and makes me want to do his potm card, which I could. If I could guarantee reaching level 30 in Season 1 and be able to get Tolisso that'd probbly push me over the edge into doing it.
Just done the Ligue 1 ones despite massive lag (hotel wifi was really good yesterday not sure what was up with it tonight) and I cam across a guy in division 8 who seemed to have an amazing corner tactic.
He scored the first 2 of his 4 corners in the game and when I tried his tactic I scored with my second.
Seems to aim it more centrally right by the player who is standing close to the keeper. If it beats the man just in front then no one else will jump for it and it results in an easy goal as you can't miss the target.
La Liga and Serie A to go for Carlos. The problem with both is that I've got 4 holes to fix with subs. Could really do with some strong CM/CDM/CAM's from both leagues in Rivals reward packs.
Reach 100 Squad Battles wins tonight and got Muller from the Rare Players Pack reward.
I know he's normally crap in FIFA, but as First Owner beggars can't be choosers and he opens up Potm Lewa possibilities. :drool:
How good is he Mahow?
Oh and I can't buy him to play him sadly, but if I could I'd be all over this card.
https://www.futbin.com/20/player/429...s%20Acu%C3%B1a
Finally back on this today. Prem and rivals gold down. Also did a couple of the MLS objectives.
I have a decent La Liga side stacked up from various pack pulls so I’ll probably do that one (also to push onto 20 first owner goals) and call it quits at 9.
I'm currently halfway to Level 21, but I do have some outstanding objectives to complete. I think I might be a little off from getting to Level 30 however.
I don't know what's happened the past two nights, but it genuinely feels like a lot of higher division players have dropped down. Before this week, my Rivals record was 18-8-11, not stellar but fairly middling. I've since gone 0-1-6, and dropped from 980 rank to approximately 810 in Division 6. I've only completed the Premier League online objective so far.
People are definitely relegating themselves to make it easier to accomplish the Icon Swap objectives thommo.
I still batter most people in Division 9 but I came up against a couple of people last night who could do a shit load of skill moves and knew when best to use them.
EA’s shitty system needs to change really, but not sure what to.
I really hadn't had an issue till this week. Some of the teams I've come up against have been insane too. 7 first owned players, then 4 icons, plus they'd make 3 subs to bring on players such as Neymar, Ronaldo, Hazard, etc. I think I might just take a break from the online stuff and churn through the Squad Battles objectives. I have a CSL team already made up (1 win done so far), and I also have POTM Vela to help with the MLS one.
Hmm, looked at his card vs. his standard gold and it really isn't much of an upgrade.
If I wasn't doing First Owner I'd probably be less cautious but as doing him would wipe my coin balance out I think I'll pass.
For fuck's sake, was just doing some trading on the app and I've accidentally bought a Fabian Delph for 10k. :facepalm:
Lol.
13k? Will be fun off the bench for that.
https://www.futbin.com/20/player/42972/Victor%20Osimhen
Sniper and somehow 10 chem on him and he's pretty spesh.
And Carlos is done.
Also banged out week 3 gold with some super sub silvers during the final 4 Rivals matches (1 Serie A and 3 La Liga).
Let us know how you get on with him?
Won't be able to play much over the weekend I'd imagine though which is why I pushed for him today.
I don't know what they've done to Legendary difficulty on squad battles, but reading the patch notes I was expecting it to be harder. All the teams you face seem to be much more attacking now which makes it fr easier than it used to be.
3 of the online icon swaps down. Two more first owner goals needed and then I’ll move onto the offline stuff.
I think I have a decent first owner Serie A side so I might push through with that one too.
Chiellini and Verratti in my MMs
Just doing them now, had some decent pulls so far this version so expecting my luck to run out sooner or later.
IF Cheryshev my best.
Worst set of rewards this year from MM.
Massively trolled there.
Delaney was my best pull until the last pack, when it was a board or a walkout. Korean flag, it can't be, it has to be, it's... IF Kim Shin Wook. :moop: I suppose at least I have an IF striker who is first owner should an objective call for it.
Oh and Daniel Braaten, but this isn't FM nor 2003 anymore.
Finally got round to doing the Born Legends SBC today. Rewards from the packs were pretty ropey until the last Rare Electrum Players pack, where I got IF Digne. A lot of nice stats across the board, so he can either slot straight into my Prem side, or I can cash in for about 80k.
Certainly makes up for the Delph blunder yesterday!
That POTM Harit needing an 85 rated squad :lol:
Never mind, I've just seen the POTM card is a CAM. I thought he would have followed his IF and been a left sided midfielder or winger. Not doing him is an even easier choice now with the glut of good Bundesliga central midfielders.
He's not a great card either.
Poor shooting, 3* WF, terrible stamina etc.
Yep, that card is shit.
Evening of FIFA for me. I'll finish the 11th Icon Swap token and maybe cash them in before making a push for Elite 1 in Squad Battles this week.
Hopefully some nice 6pm content will land too.
Scream team tonight
Sweet. Grindable card and SBC, or both would be luverly.
Agreed. I quite like this promo. Interested to see what the twist is this year.
Ibra!
I have 4 Swedish bronze managers on my trade pile.
EDIT: Just bought another 20 for 200 coins each. Might be a waste, but I'll take the 4k loss if so.
Scream Milner (86) and Navas (85) plus a couple of other small SBC. Milner a rip off
Half this week half next is an interesting idea to drag out the packs
That Milner SBC. :D
I've got 15 IF Oyarzabal's I bought for 13k each, hopefully that Navas (who looks reasonably priced) pushes their value up.
https://i.redd.it/y8ay3e5y0ct31.jpg
Ibra looks obscene. Not much I am interested in outside that (well Aguero but he is going to be stupid coin)
Edit: Otamendi too. That pace is nice.
Dezeko in objectives. Decent pace now and with that 5 star weak foot he could be cracking.
That Milner SBC is one of the worst they've ever done.
The card ratings are permanent. No shifting.
Edit: right on Milner. Outrageous when 86s are selling for 15k. Not like he is meta.
One less thing for them to fuck up/forget about I suppose.
I prefer it too, in the incredibly unlikely event I pack any of them.
What counts as a forward?
I think it would be wingers, RF, LF, ST and CF.
They come up as attackers on the filter.
Cheers, I'll give that a crack.
Absolute shitfest of a team I've pulled together to do these Dezko objectives.
That's the 11th Icon Swap token done and 3 of the Dzeko objectives. The squad battles, shitty survival mode and all four of the crosses one left to do. Gonna have to build a new formation I think to do that, maybe a 4-2-4 with the full backs pushing on.
You can use lofted through balls for the crosses inside the box.
Cheers Mahow.
Another one down. The survival one. Only took one match.
That lofted through ball thing doesn't work. :moop:
Scoring a goal from an actual cross doesn't seem to work either. What a piece of shit.
Yeah, but do they count as crosses for objective purposes? The one I scored before didn't but that was from inside the area.
Finally got one to count but it was a cross from outside the box.
I'm sure it did for me in previous weeks. Although it might have just been for the 'Score A/X Headers' one though.
The only way to score actual crosses I've found is on counters when you've broken past the defence and can whip them in for those unmarked in the box which doesn't happen all that often.
Yep, it's a right ballache.
That Scream Muller is very tempting.
If he had 4* skills I think I'd bite.
Edit: 400k right now and I'm can't decide if I should buy Kante to step in for OTW Rodri or Reus to step in for OTW Brandt.
I think Kante would be the bigger improvement of those options.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...ver_objective/ :moop:
I found that out the hard way too
I fluked that by scoring exactly 4 goals in a game after I'd unlocked it. I'd have no doubt done the same as everyone else if I hadn't.
Finished off all of Dzeko apart from 3 goals from crosses in 3 separate rivals games. That'll have to wait until Sunday now probably.
Pukki, after 125 goals and 91 assists in 112 games is coming to the end of his useful life I fear, so need to work out how to get potm Martinez back in the starting line up or do Lewandowski. Can't shake the temptation on that one.
Anyone tried Insigne? Is he that much worse than Mertens to justify the 70k difference between them?
I haven't in this version, but never got on with him that well previously. Always too small and weak.
I'm an idiot.
Played a Rivals game and scored from a cross inside the box which didn't count. I then scored 3 in one game from crosses outside the box and none counted.
I then realised the scorer has to be Serie A not the crosser...
Also, I bought Kante today and he's incredible. I loved Rodri but his pace would hurt a lot, Kante just destroys and is everywhere.
Bobby Carlos is always quality.
I don't think the crosses in the box count anyway, pretty sure you have to be outside.
Finished the 3 cross scoring rivals games and got Dzeko this morning. Was a pain in the arse but he looks good so worth the grind.
3 Week 4 gold objectives left to do as well which will bring me up to level 27 in Season 1 and the league specific Prime Player pack.
Bale from the Zombie sbc. That's about 170k. I'll take that.
/edit. Got 174k which takes me up to 320k. Can afford all three of Mertens, Insigne & Allan. What a Serie A team I can form.
Bugged for me. Did it with Gervinho (he meets the goals one too) and it didnt count.
Up to 7 swaps now with just CSL SB's to go. Might push on with the Serie A one and then if I have enough points play some FUT Champs next weekend.
Up to level 23 and about to hit 24. Am I the only one auto discarding the tifos? What a shit addition.
Sommer and Akanji from my SBC packs, not too bad.
Sancho and Rakitic (was hoping for Modric)
Lewandowski is completely pointless while Yussuf Poulsen remains so vastly overpowered. I started with a loan Lewa in my attempt to do the first owned Bundesliga Icon Swap objective and lost both games, with Lewandowski doing nothing and being replaced for the last ten minutes by Poulsen, who scored in both. So he started the next three and I've completed the objective, with his stats sitting at seventeen goals in five games.
I now have over 2,500 players in the club, mostly bronze.
Bring on FUT Future Stars.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...ser_objective/
They need to have someone who can write put these objectives in game.
That worked a treat. Did it with Deulofeu and subbed him straight off.
More disappointingly that put me to level 27 and I chose the Premier League pack, which had Kepa in it and fuck all else.
Are you planning to do all the tokens now then?
Probably. Though I am still not sure what I want from it.
I could pack it in now and already be more than half way to Rio who was my original plan.
This is the squad now:
https://i.postimg.cc/yNr9WcVk/Team-20102019.jpg
All first owner still.
And the stats:
https://i.postimg.cc/B64WLLMf/Stats-201019.jpg
No great suprises in there. Have moved Pukki to CAM latterly to take advantage of Deulofeu's pace up top which is working nicely. Would be nice to pack someone who can mix things up a bit tonight though.
Who are you going to Icon wise then? Drogba to sort you our upfront long term?
Like you I'm struggling to decide.
I was going to go Roberto Carlos and A.N Other, but I've since looked at Gerrard and then Drogba and there isn't an obvious choice. Drogba's great stats wise, but I'm not a fan of H/H workrates. I think I'll sit on it the 11 tokens I have and see what the Season 2 objectives involve.
Just packed Rodri now from one of the advanced SBC's, he may get a look in.
Carlos is tempting but I am not sure I want to commit that many tokens to a left back when I could get Rio and one more. That and my untradeable Telles will do just fine for a while.
I hated Gerrard's moments card last year when I had the loan. Felt very clunky.
Banega, Javi Martinez, Luis Alberto, Draxler Mahrez and Jordi Alba from pre-order/SB rewards.
Huge.
Just missed out on Elite 1 on SB. Had 4 games left but was too damn tired to finish them.
IF Acuna (looks sick), IF McGinn and Isco the best pulls.
Didn't get anything over 82 in my SB rewards. Bit gutting as I was on the cusp of Elite, and I didn't finish the last game until about 1:02am. At the end of the game, it announces there was a problem communicating with the UT servers and kicks me out. Not only do I not get the SB points to tick into Elite, I also lose 1 win towards the Eredivisie SB Icon Swaps objective. :moop:
Ter Stegen, Rashford, Gimemez and a couple of awful Spanish boards.
Good result I guess, but nothing that will improve the team. Rashford is surely too highly priced to keep.
I might do that Jesus Navas. Looks quite good and I'm a sucker for an SBC player. I think he'd work well in a 3-5-2, and I've still got to compile a La Liga squad for the Icon Swap objectives too.
I’m tempted by him too, with the Rashford monies.
No way Rashford holds his value. Low rated metas are already dying.
Yep. I wouldn't mind using him, but will be cashing in now for that very reason.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...t_zahatolisso/
Someone did the objectives math.
I am at 70k and haven’t completed everything. I have been pretty good on the weeklies but those silver ones can gtfo.
I was expecting that to come. At less than 20,000 XP needed I assumed I'd be on point, but it's nice to see nonetheless.
No idea who I'll take though. I can make a case for any of the three or none of them.
I'm on 55k at the moment, but I have both Week 3 and 4 Gold objective to complete, so that would take me up to around 66k I believe. Hopefully they will release enough for me to get to the end - that Tolisso would slot in so well at CM. It would allow me to then play OTW Hernandez at CB and then play IF Digne at LB with the two French links.
The Hulk card is nice but those requirements...
Two 83s shouldnt be bad, esp as IF prices are in the toilet.
FUTBIN has it at 150k. Not the worst. I won’t be doing it mind
I had 85 Dzekos (bought for around 2.4k). Rise you bastard, rise!
Will be trying out this team. Geting so sick of Lukaku.
https://www.futbin.com/20/squad/9888340
That's Rashford gone for 48k, so up to 330k, with 13 IF Oyarzabal's and a load of other shit in the club in hand.
Seriously tempted by Hulk as I need someone to go on that right side and can do this to get him in:
https://i.postimg.cc/d1BtnDq8/Hulk.jpg
EDIT: Bring Bobby Carlos in and everyone's on 10 chem bar whoever gets subbed in for the Norwich shitehawk, probably Vidal, and De Gea, but I could bin him and play ter Stegen instead who'd be on 10.
I packed Sergio Ramos over the weekend, given it's not an IF should I just cash out immediately or use him in a La Liga team?
I also packed Benz and over the course of the game packed enough players to pull start an 85 rated La Liga squad at the moment along with about 300k in coins.
I was starting to think maybe I should abandon my Dutch-centric team and focus on building my La Liga team up as it seems there may be better chance of in-forms that actually slot in (as well as already having a Frenkie IF already).
I'm not really sure though. I love how my Dutch team plays, but if I stay stuck in and save up and get say Hazard + Griez I'd probably be looking really tasty with my La Liga squad.
Yev, wouldn’t Ter Stegen sort the chem out there for Militao anyway? Any noticeable different between him and DDG?
Might be time to replace Pukki
Bruh, if you have the basis of it why not? I actually quite enjoyed the la Liga side I had for the challenge.
Militao's on 10 chem in my normal team, posted upthread, I'd just have to bring some Brazilian's in to accomodate Hulk and then it's a case of Militao having 10 chem or Nacho and De Marcos having 10 chem.
Thought the same about Pukki, but I've shunted him to CAM and he's pretty good there. Has ludicrous vision and short passing for some reason.
I really need to go through my bronzes. Just sold a complete random for 2,500 coins as I realised he was going for that while trying to put him in an SBC.
I've been through the obvious ones, but there's clearly a goldmine sat there with all these SBC's live currently if I could be arsed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8X3NpQxbBE
One step closer to Dzeko with a lovely goal.
You sick fuck how did u even manage that
L2 when shooting and a lot of luck.
Zapata has missed from about 150 crosses and that was only his 3rd of 4 needed though.
What division are you in now Mahow? I pity anyone trying to do this objectives in a division that matches their actual skill level.
Oh and first rule of objectives (for me) is never use Zapata, he's complete arse.
Eight. Whenever I get promoted to 7 I self-relegate to 9 though.
He really is. I have the 84 IF version of him untradeable so thought it would be easy but he's crap. Runs away from crosses, gets bullied in the air, if he gets onto it his headers/volleys are shit etc etc.
I've actually draw and lost a handful over the last two times purely because I've become so one dimensional in my attacks trying to feed the ball to a crosser to try and get a goal with Zapata.
I didn't realize season one was ending soonish (within next couple weeks if i recall?), I really gotta try and get some of these objectives I think I'm only level 12 ffs
Forgot that I packed Lukaku.
Used him and I got a goal from a cross in the first game.
Took me about 20 games to get 3 with Zapata.
Decided against Hulk and Navas for now. I don't need to be adding a 2 star weak foot player to the team nor sinking 160-170k worth of coins into one with a 3 star foot who plays in a dodgy league.
Div 5 for me :moop:
I suspect this will be the last version they make us do this shit in Rivals. The system is completely broken and I'm coming up against more and more people who have no right being in Division 9. I know I don't either, but it's a sign that there are so many people at it.
Talking of Rivals I can't play again until Friday so ploughed on tonight to secure Rank 1 in Div 9, which if I go untradeable nets me 2 Prime Mixed Players packs and 6 Jumbo Premium Gold Packs. Just one half decent usable player out of that lot will do me.
I've secured rank 1 (for the first time) in division 8 and I've also just got promoted back to division 7 which is where I'll stay for when it ends this week so I can get slightly better rewards next week.
https://i.imgur.com/GPWleOg.png
Went to check how much his price is and I put max BIN at 140k (my bank balance) and there was nothing, upped it to 150k and some guy had just put him on for 130k.
Next cheapest is 165k so not too shabby.
Decided I'd buy him as OTW Brandt is good but really needs an upgrade, I was trying Scream Sabitzer today but he's just a bit too slow and I'd have to purge the club a bit for Reus or Scream Muller.
Also, I was checking some bronzes in my club and spotted that CB James Wilson was listed for 5k minimum bar one at 200. Bought him and stuck mine both up for 3k/4.2k. Hopefully they sell overnight.
https://i.imgur.com/2mEVj70.png
Current team. Everyone except Telles starts on 10 chem (he is on 8). I have 700k and a good selection of 84+ players, 12 tradeable IF's (including those three in team) and 9 OTW's (5 tradeable). Rio in for Lindleof is likely. Then the next moves are maybe Kante for Rodri and someone else to be the engine over Lo Celso. Thats where mid Gerrard is tempting.
Played three rivals games and drew all three with my Bundesliga team :face:
I completed the Jesus Navas SBC in the end, sniped a few players and managed to get it done for around 35-40k overall. He will be a nice supersub to the main team, and play on the right for the first owner La Liga team.
However, I'm still playing people well above my skill level and I'm now in the rank bottom end of Division 6. Ever since these Icon Swaps objectives came out, it has been absolute hell. I've gone 2-2-10 in my past 14 online game for fucks sake, and my Rivals rank is 720, down from 950. Last night I played 5 games, and could only manage 1 draw, and 2 low driven goals - no progress for Icon Swaps and minimal progress for Dzeko. It's a fucking pisstake when I have limited time to play the game and I keep coming up against better players.
Presumably you'll get relegated soon anyway and things will become easier?
The system is so so broken.
Looking at all this Run the FUT Market stuff about 'dodging chat rooms' for weekend league the whole thing is so lol.
Hopefully so. One more loss will put me below 700 and I think that'd be Division 7. Ideally I can just get some more competitive matches, at least ones that let me have a chance of winning/completing objectives.
Yeah that seems a complete shitshow. The whole FIFA community really is embarrassing, including the majority of content creators/pro players.
Buddy of mine yesterday packed Cristiano and then accidentally listed him because of "muscle memory".
Won't be forgotten soon, surely.
Listed him on open bid? Should still do well from it
Hoping for some UCL Marquee Matchups this evening that include the Bayern game. Picked up 50 Bayern golds for 900 each so could see some good profit if that pays off.
I've had this for a week now. The gameplay is much better than FIFA 19, but it feels like im getting crazy delay from game to game. it is horrific at times.
In another completely pointless discussion, what kits are everyone using? I packed Valencia home and Ajax away early on so have been using those. I normally go Ajax home and away.
Djurgården home & away and the Djurgården badge.
UCL cards are now in packs.
Militao from the MMs. Will consider the “moments” bit later on
Orlando Pirates home
https://www.futwiz.com/assets/img/fi...way_110930.png
Atlas away
https://www.futwiz.com/assets/img/fi...way_101114.png
I been looking for something new but haven't managed to so far.
Sold my OTW Hernandez for 97.5k.
Really like him but there are fears he's done his ACL and I fear the crash (which has slightly happened as he was over 110k yesterday).
Another Bayern ACL? Oof.
Those packs this afternoon bombed the market. I was flipping the Dzeko’s up the page for 3.4k yesterday. Today I was getting him on open bid for 2k. Need to stock back up.
Apparently it's only an ankle injury and he'll be back in a couple of weeks.
Did UCL MM.
I got Martial in the first who goes for around 30k so I was happy. Nothing in the next pack but in my last:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHhJRmdX...name=4096x4096
:)
Goes for about 210k.
A keeper and shitty La Liga striker in the UCL pack from rivals. Chucking them both into the SBC rather than the rivals challenge. Also finally done with Bundesliga after way too many draws.
10 tokens down. Will see if I have the will to go for Ligue 1 at some point.
I’m away with work this week so I’m missing out on all the UCL stuff. On the plus side a break from the game is nice.
Bit frustrating that it wasn't Bayern in the UCL MMs. Prices have dropped to 600 coins so I've got half a trade pile taken up until they release an SBC requiring a Bayern player.
Managed to finish off the Eredivisie Squad Battles last night which means just 5 MLS wins to go. I need to get cracking on the Dzeko objectives so it's the Serie A squad in Rivals for the rest of the week.
As for the kits, I use Sampdoria away as my home kit, and Rangers away for the away kit.
Watching Nepenthez talk about trying to complete that week 3 objective where you have to score two goals with silver players and win made me lol quite hard.
He's a weird character. It's been discussed on the FIFA subreddit, but he complains constantly about wanting to grind the game, and then moans that the objectives require too much work or are too tough to complete legitimately. Sometimes I really enjoy a video or two from him, other times he just moans and whinges.
Completely agree.
Also not a fan of him constantly banging on about how shit the game is and then using every single exploit he can to win.
He is a bit odd a times.
The reality is that it also doesn't matter how much content EA chuck at the game he'll always be able to finish it because he's on it for 12 hours a day.
My biggest gripe with him is his crusade for a casual mode, which EA have now given him in friendlies, but that's not really what he wants. What he actually wants is a competitive mode with no ranked matchmaking where he can just hammer people who're much worse at the game than him and still enjoy reward benefits. Which is a fair enough request, but don't paint it as anything else.
What video is this?
@thommo, I only ended up with 12 of them so not too much space taken up. Hopefully they are picked on the next round of games.
Looking at the stats, Bayern came in the first MM matchups for the champions league.
Bought 89 Shearer for 480k.
Has good stats based on that reddit post about strikers and I've heard a lot more praise compared to last year.
That Reddit post was fundamentally wrong though.
That said, I’d love a usable Shearer.
They've added Bundesliga SBC.
Guy ran around like mental when Coman scored like he had just won the eWorld Cup or something.
7 of 10 online survival goals in 1 match is nice.
Bayern golds are back up to 2300 BIN! :drool: Easy 65k profit, and I'm going to start picking up some top league silvers too.
Should double my money on those. Granted I only picked up 14 but will take me over the 900k mark.
so pick up Norwich defenders?
I posted about it last month.
Cheapest right now is 800 with the most expensive at about 3k.
I've got a few Tettey's (wont be worth as much as defenders but still), McLean's and Hanley's.
I did not LOAD up though which is a bit annoying.
Sam Byram at 800 looks like he could be good right now though. 800ish coins and he's one of two RB's in the club with the other going for about 1.8k.
Edit: Futbin hasn't updated, Byram is at 3.5k :moop:
Are they repeatable? And what are the rewards like?
I’ve been stocking up on bronzes and turning duplicates into silvers so happy days.
I was losing 3-2 in a Survival match right at the end and I only needed 2 goals to complete the objective. I then decided to start scoring own goals to be kind and help my opponent should they be playing for Dzeko (why else would anyone play these nonsense modes?) and I got booted at 7-2 for scoring too many own goals.
The result was listed but because of the boot the two goals did not count towards Dzeko :moop:
Also, I've only played with Shearer in said shit games so I can't properly judge him but his shot power is insane. I hit a green timed power shot which went just wide but the ball could have killed a man.
Are UCL cards just in all packs now and if so, for how long?
Finished Dzeko with a 21 goal thriller against a random who was happy to trade goals we then stood still for 20 mins while the game ran out. God those assist and cross objs were a pain though
The icon swaps. As drogba medium is included. Does that mean that no other version of drogba will come as any future icon swap or any other promo? The only way to get the other drogba's is to buy him?
It does indeed mean that.
Safe. Looking at them. Zanetti looks like good value.
Accidentally took untradeable rewards this morning. Ter Stegen, IF Alonso and Bonucci in the packs.
Going to be a struggle to get the former into the team.
I think the choice to make is do you go with a couple of icons now that would improve the team in two places and allow other chemistry options or stick to one (preferably end game) card. Sadly not many of these fall into the latter category so I may well end up going for the two.
Did a gold upgrade pack with some of the untradeable shit from those packs.....
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I've got 8 packs coming when I log back on and that has inspired me to go untradeable.
I I could get Ben Yedder. :drool:
Ben Yedder is the most expense player I have packed this year and I can’t even sell the bastard :lol:
I think I'm going Zanetti too. I can't see that card being surpassed by any RB in the future, and I generally play 4 at the back so he will get used in every squad I create. Unfortunately it does mean the remaining tokens can only get me Schmeichel. He would be my first choice keeper as things stand, but it's very easy to pack or pick up a better keeper in the coming weeks, so I'm not sure how I feel about that.
If Zanetti could shoot I'd be all over him.
Took tradeable and got another Scream Bernard.
Casemiro from the SBCs today and not too much else.
Edit: that was just MM.
Ramsey, Lecompte, UCL Vazquez and UCL Christensen from the Ibra SBC and nothing from the moments
Dave Luiz and Ndombele my best although I didn't check the silvers.
Scream Romagnoli.
Absolutely nothing from my rivals rewards. Nothing.
Put some duplicates into gold upgrade packs and got IF Mina, but that was it from 11 packs opened.
Finally a good pull tonight. Lenglet from one of the MM packs.
Looks like he goes for over 90k and he's nothing special so he'll be off.
EDIT: And IF Ruffier too. Not that 86 in forms sell for anything.
Tempted to do Hulk with the Lenglet monies. Anyone tried him?
Chucked my duplicate non rare golds into an upgrade... Lloris. Two big keeper packed untradeable today.
Raked in 60k from selling Bundesliga bronzes I'd packed. Absolute goldmine.
Just tipped over 500k on hand now.
Did 6 of the Bundesliga SBC's as I had most of the players in the club and a fair few were untradeable.
Pulled Keita who I might try out and just now joined Danny in the Casemiro club who I'll also whack in.
Does anyone play survival? Ive going at it all day and I've lost one game. I've scored 7 goals on two occasions and have often hit 4 before the person quit. Matchmaking is nice :lol:
I did it for one game due to objectives. Didn't think it was terrible.
Give me this matchmaking in WL, please.
Im diving into WL and if I dont get elite 3. I may retire forever.
The gameplay is better because it doesn't count in the stats so people don't care and will actually play.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...rently_leaked/
Can’t be right.
If true I'd like that Militao.
Club Brugge leaked a player who isn’t in that leak. Has to be nonsense.
And it was BS
https://i.redd.it/8i01k5gnxpu31.jpg
Ozil gets another screamer in objectives
That Firmino in midfield is going to be obscene
I really liked his regular card at LCAM in a 4222 but I've got Pukki there now.
Draxler SBC :lol:
That Traore will be impossible to defend against.
Packed 87 Giggs.
Im 16-1 lads. If i dont finish elite from here...
GK - Leno
LB - Digne
CB - Sokratis
CB - Joe Gomez
RB - IF Doherty
CDM - Wijnaldum
CDM - IF Jorhingo
CAM - F. Anderson
CAM - B. Silva
ST - Vardy
ST - Jesus
16-1 is a seriously good record.
Weren't you scraping 18 wins max last year?
Cavani and Aranguiz from the SBC packs today.
I am one win away from qualifying for WL. Might finish that tonight and try get those 9 wins for the token.
Will probably end up doing Özii too. My main team are Prem and Eriksen and Mahrez will count for the assists, German goals might be a pain.
Medel's shooting stats are lol.
Bought 88 litmanen lol
Really happy with my team so far.
https://www.futbin.com/20/squad/9888340
That looks like a really fun team though I didnt get on with Pjanic when using Serie A. I did enjoy Gomez (obviously no way you can fit him in) and SMS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sytDWBdAMQ
Pukki :drool:
Also, I took the Giggs money sold some stuff in my club (mainly Bundesliga bronzes) and bought base Campbell who is brilliant.
I did Hulk in the end and really not getting on that well with him. :moop:
My shitty OTW Pulisic from the preorder should be getting an upgrade then
Are you peeps using timed finishing still this year?
I am, but I read that it’s a lot less effective than last.
I had a huge session yesterday on my day off working through all manner of objectives, and managed to earn enough points to qualify for FUT Champions. Decided to enter this weekend just for more rewards so I've got to grind out 11 wins tonight and tomorrow.
Worked on Scream Dzeko during the day yesterday and managed to just finish him off in time. The joy felt when Hakan Calhanoglu drilled in a cross which was mullered home by Martinez in the middle was incredible. Fist pumps and out of my seat, because that cross objective was the bane of my life. I'm already 8/10 on German goals, 9/10 for SB through ball assists, and 2/3 on the assists in wins by a certain stat player, so Ozil isn't far away.
Up to 81k XP and Level 27 too. Shouldn't be long before I'm maxed out. I'll be taking Tolisso for sure.
Ouch. Up at 70k right now.
@Yevrah, I am not using timed finishing with any reliability, if I remember I use it but I really don't. Its not something ingrained in my game.
Currently 3-1 in WL chasing this Icon Swap. I havent played any rivals for Ozil. Will probably finish Ligue 1 before I do that.
I am at level 27 with just under 81k. Only gold left from this weeks objectives.
I use it but it's nowhere near as effective as last year. A green timed was pretty much guaranteed last year, not so this.
7-2 and likely calling it a day at this point. Not sure what I am going to aim for after I get to the 9 wins for the token. Looking at this maybe 11?
https://www.dexerto.com/fifa/fifa-20...ewards-1100741
Those are wrong, no?
11 gets you 2000 WL points unless they changed it at the start of this year but I've heard nothing.
I saw someone on Reddit say they had but I can’t be sure.
https://www.futbin.com/champions/reward-tiers
FUTBIN agrees with you.
Bought Scream Trippier last night, and first impressions are that he's an absolute bargain for the 68k he set me back. Nelson Semedo had been doing a terrific job in that position anyway, but Marcelo is an utter liability on the other side and I somehow forgot Jordi Alba existed so the plan was to get Trippier then replace Marcelo with IF Semedo. Anyone here used either of those?
My new plan involves both but the Trippier card scares me cause it appears his scream is currently set on his pace and I fear that falling off a cliff?
Am up to about 1mil coins, need about 1.7 to get the team I'm really aiming for
Hoping to get OTW Griez and OTW Hazard and then just build around them. I'd like to imagine they'll get IF's throughout the year and by the end of the year could really be something special.
I thought about just picking one or the other and using the base or regular IF for the one I don't get but I feel like since I'm already up here around 1mil I might as well keep grinding for it.
Scream boosts are permanent this year so no worries there.
You could do it that way first though and see if you get on with them? Switch out as soon as you have the coins. Shit at this rate Hazard won’t be getting one :lol:
At this rate Hazard will be at PSG with another OTW in January. Same with Jovic.
Griezmann looks crap this year, and in the two hundred and odd games I've played so far I can't remember him scoring against me. Depay, Ben Yedder, Vardy, Rashford, and Rodrigo are my bogey players so far this year. I played about a hundred and fifty games with Vardy so I should be able to defend against the cunt, but in the hands of even a competent player he bullies my entire defence on his own and scores a hat trick.
Damn man that's not exactly comforting lol. I just started gravitating toward La Liga as idk if I posted here but I ended up packing Sergio Ramos + Pique so while already having Frenkie in midfield from my Eredivisie team I thought it would work out nicely.
Also sorta tempted to sell basically everything I can and just buy a new XI entirely.
Back the drawing board, probably.
That's Ozil done and I'm now about 2,000 XP away from level 30.
I wasn't going to get Zaha, but I came up against his normal card in loads of games today and the guy was a nightmare to play against. My defenders bounced off him, he seemed to be in the right place all the time etc.
Has anyone used him?
I have played against Griezmann a few times but I hadnt really noticed him until yesterday when a lad who was good with skills roasted me with him. I wouldnt have him as my central striker but as a free role cam or winger maybe.
https://i.imgur.com/1AJ9JC1.jpg
Really liking Shearer so far.
He's not great at making space for himself but when he is in space he's absolutely clinical.
11-5. Icon swap done. Silver one complete. I am done.
This is the team now.
https://i.postimg.cc/wjNX52Df/Team-28102019.jpg
4-1-2-1-2 (2) in game, with Sane and Vazquez up front in and Pukki in behind. The Finn is still the nuts, I genuinely haven't packed anyone yet who can displace him.
And on that note, haven't packed anything beyond shit 83 boards for ages now, so a good pull tonight would be appreciated EA. Elite 3 and pre order packs to get it from.
Pizzi and Lopes. Meh.
Gundogan and Walker.
Scream Aspas for me. Other than that no boards.
I snuck into Elite 3 with all the SB I was playing for the various objectives. Nothing special though - Saul and Morata the only boards I got.
Well boys I finally took the plunge and after being shook af from our discussion yesterday went with the following:
ST - Ben Yedder OTW
LW - Griezmann IF
CF - Benzema base
RW - Ousmane Dembele (UCL, it was only 2k more so i splurged)
CM - Frenkie De Jong IF
CM - Vidal
LB - Nelson Semedo IF
CB - Pique
CB - Sergio Ramos
RB - Trippier (scream)
GK - Oblak
Bold are new. I have about 170k left, which I'm hoping I'll focus into trying to flip and multiply my coins and make small-ish upgrades going down the line.
I also have Rakitic's base card but Vidal's DEF stats seemed to be much better suited considering I have Benzema in a CF role and only De Jong oppo.
Any ideas and suggestions always appreciated. I wrapped this up at about 2am so I havne't actually got a chance to play yet.
I realize it's ridiculous to spend 2k more just because a card is blue and more aesthetically pleasing.
Eder Militao is an absolute monster. Might be a better option than Pique until Varane is in range other than that I can’t see where you could improve in La Liga without spending (even more) outrageous coin.
Maybe scream Kroos or James for the attacking midfield role.
I may think about getting the Benzema IF as my next upgrade but I wanted to see how I got on with him in the new lineup to see if I want to keep rolling with a CF or move to a more CAM suited player.
I thought, given the French connections, I might be able to target Pogba but I'm not sure I'd be able to get the chem right overall.
Militao is dirt cheap now. Also made an edit above, the couple of scream options are the main upgrades at this point.
Think you will struggle to get Pogba in on chem.
You can get Pogba in at LCM if you take Mendy at LB, and then any one of Umtiti, Lenglet or eventually Varane at LCB.
Aspas sold for 119k which takes me up to 447k. No idea what to do with it. Guess I'll try to buy some of the potential league sbcs.
Giovinco SBC landed. Looks reasonably priced at about 40k. Crap packs back though.
Not to go on too much about the guy/topic but Nepenthez is now lamenting the fact that we don't have any season objectives or milestones based around using scream cards. The irony being if we did get them, he'd whine once more about how it's too hard to complete and not fun.
I'll probably do the Giovinco just because it isn't too expensive and another special card.
Bit of shit SBC but nudging the 84s up a bit so I should be able to move my latest set of Dzekos. Also bought a bunch of random 83-86 the other day when they were very low. Will sell Ibra today and buy him again when this is over and he sinks
Most of his moans do hit the mark, but the biggest problem he has is that he's moaning from the perspective of playing the game more than any of us could possibly ever achieve and therefore ends up covering stuff that most of would never get close to doing even if it were in the game.
His complaints about some of the Dzeko tasks and silver card objectives being in Division Rivals were bang on, for example. I love a grind as much as the next man, but if you're doing those things legitimately, in the division that matches your actual skill level they move well beyond grind to actual torture.
Apparently people like Giovinco. All my Dzekos gone and I am 6k from 1m in the bank.
Bought Sane and Werner to rattle through the Ozil stuff. One assist game away and one chip away.
I haven't encountered Nepenthez outside this thread, and didn't do Dzeko, but I've done other Rivals objectives that needed silvers and if anything I'd make the requirements more stringent. It's a special player with pretty heavily boosted stats, it should be hard to get.
Got to 100k XP last night and took the Storyline Vazquez, dubious that he could replace Dembele in my side but with each choice having the same rating it made sense to take the one I could potentially use. He's fucking sensational.
Amen to that. Got him in my team up front next to Sane with a sniper on him.
He’s rapid and finishes everything.
Makes doing Hulk a complete waste for now, but the coin balance is moving back up towards 500k so meh.
I've put a Catalyst on him because I'm using him wide and his finishing has still been terrific. With a Sniper he must have about 92 as an in game striker rating. He'd piss on most strikers if you could change his position.
Oh and on Dezeko, I used him a fair bit over the weekend but just couldn’t get on with him.
Really? I haven’t got round to using him yet. His agility and balance do look worrying though.
I think I am going to go with Zaha, card looks fun and I can’t get the others onto my team.
I watched a “review” on the icon 86 Carlos last night. He looks insane. However I am seriously considering buying Gerrard and trying him. The tax loss would be around 20/30k if I buy well and box to box is one place I think I could do with an upgrade
Carlos is great, but annoyingly I haven't been able to get him into goal scoring positions much yet, which I love my full backs to bomb on and do.
My build up play is probably too quick, which probably also explains struggling with Dzeko.
Oh and Ozil is really good. Can actually detect a difference with his passes and his finish on his left foot is great too.
He's rock solid at the back too though.
I've finally sorted out my full tactics and 424 on full out attacking is amazing and mental if I'm down. So much pressure and Carlos really comes into his element then.
What settings have you got on that 4-2-4?
Yerry Mina up at 5k on PS for literally no reason. I don’t have one but if you do I would sell
Has he died?
:lol: I would hope not. However he has an IF and is out of packs. Someone probably put him in a Futbin solution
I just need 3 more assists in Mystery Ball and 2 chip shot goals to unlock Ozil. I've started this FIFA with tons of specials from various leagues and nations. It might mean I have more variation in the teams I use for Rivals and Weekend League. Last year I settled on the La Liga side (and Eusebio) for about 7-8 months.
Reddit, not sad enough to figure it out myself. Thankfully.
That or FUTBIN but I am finding it very hit and miss this year.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EID9cAhX...name=4096x4096
Wingers on cut inside, aggressive interceptions and get behind, Strikers on aggressive interceptions and get behind with all other player instructions on default.
No gym tonight so get the chance to rattle off a load of Squad Battles games to get Elite 1 again.
Also need to get back into the bronze packs. Goldmine is awaiting given the league SBC's are back.
Oh and forza Pukki!
I could swing to a 4-2-4 and just move Benzema up to a ST to go with Ben Yedder hmm.
I wanna try something different cause I feel like my wide players still aren't getting involved at all.
Cheers for the tactics Mahow. I really need to set all mine up now that I've settled on my team.
Bronze player are going to go nuts with those SBC's.
Goretzka from one of the SBC's. Makes things interesting in terms of fitting him in. :sherlock:
How good is he for those of you that have used him?
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Comment nailed it fucking Tifo’s. What a shower of shit.
I used him on my Bundesliga side and thought he was decent. Didn’t stand out too much but no one did in that side.
I bet a fair number of people do that.
Taison IF best pull from the SBC packs.
Sterling & Skriniar in the same pack.
That pic I posted above was from Reddit. He actually said “little rat badge from a little rat company” :lol:
It was a cracking video.
The market is completely fucked, isn't it? I doubt the value from opening packs has ever been lower. There must be about 8 players who sell for a worthwhile amount.
What chem style are you guys using on Ozil? I was thinking Marksman or Engine.
Played two games with 89 Gerrard and I quite like him. Not sure he is an 850k upgrade on Lo Celso but his passing was nice very nice, he didnt feel as clunky as I expected on the ball and once I told him to get forward he got involved and created quite a lot. I might be swayed towards taking him over Rio at this point.
I've been using a Maestro on him. Works nicely so far.
Another thing about him when it comes to finishing is that his weak foot feels much better than 2 star.
Lucas Vazquez is the star performer for me of any player to date. 16 games, 25 goals and 13 assists. The man is awesome and H/L workrates in attackers are immense.
All this talk about Vazquez is almost making me want to take him, but after completing the Scream Jesus Navas, he just wouldn't fit for me. Tolisso is still my choice, only 8k short now on XP so shouldn't be long.
I struggled over Weekend League but managed to scrape 11 wins, ending 11-10 using the team below.
https://i.ibb.co/z5CXZ1k/WL-Squad.png
Osimhen was amazing, getting over 20 goals and 10 assists, and Rodrigo and Sarabia also hit double figures. I had a lot of high scoring matches, in part due to all of the back 4 having a high attacking work rate. Sanson was also unbelievably good. For a regular 79 non-rare gold, his stats are so well rounded and he has 4 star skills and 4 star weak foot. I thought I'd be subbing him off early for Ndombele or Florenzi in most of my games, but he had a big impact and I would only take him off later on for fresh legs.
Damn you guys are gonna hit the max levels? that's impressive. I really ought to play more.
To be fair, 5 weeks of weekly objectives has probably netted close to 60k. The rest comes from just doing other shit.
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No Vardy which is a shame. Would have been a great red to get.
IF Mitrovic though, a first Fulham special card.
Icardi not getting one to fuck OTW investors against and Pulisic dropping quickly
Servers down on PS4?
Chinese leauge added. Haven't been investing in that one at all.
CSL league SBC has come out.
I will be hitting it hard for packs as I must have loads of CSL players now.
I've got a shitload of CSL bronzes. I'm going to be rich.
New objectives out for “storyline” players. Nice packs back there for you @Yevrah
I am about 9k away so it might be a grind for me next week.
Just checked Danny and they've nailed that. Cracking stuff.
EA are slowly but surely salvaging this game from the brink.
Giving XP out for those objectives makes no sense whatsoever though...
Either they are idiots or it carries over. Not sure which is more likely
Got an IF from a bronze pack.
I still haven't manged that and I've opened hundreds, possibly more than 1,000 of them.
Opened a gold upgrade. IF.... Mbappe Mbappe :yn:
Ugh Gabriel that 81 Brazil keeper
I cannot even do one CSL team with what I have :(
12th Icon token acquired by beating someone with the little rat badge.
Bought and sold Gerrard yesterday for a profit. Bought him again today and will likely sell him again overnight or early morning (ahead of WL) for profit. Going to keep doing this over the next week or so while I really decide if I want him or Rio.
Just played 2 SB games on legendary with Shearer scoring 5 in both matches.
Up to 39 goals and 3 assists in 25 matches.
Scream Pique and Scream Chong!
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100% doing that as a united fan.
Pique looks phenomenal and slots into my team perfectly so will be all over that.
I waited until 6pm to open all Rivals, Weekend League and previous MM packs on the slim hope of packing a Scream card. Took 83 Vida as my red pick (who actually looks like a really good CB, shame about his league/nation), and then packed a big load of nothing, a few mediocre 83s like Diego Costa, Borja Iglesias, Kruse.
Until my last pack, where out walks Scream Dele Alli. Untradeable but he looks great, well rounded, and is worth 215k so I'm chuffed with that. After that pull, I'm leaning towards running a Prem side for this weekend.
Packed Scream Aspas again. Also a duplicate of Nelson Semedo, never knew he was 40k.
UCL Depay and Tah from my cheap SBC packs.
I've done Chong and I will do Pique at some point before he expires. He wont get into my team but he's currently the 6th cheapest 90 (4th if you exclude UCL cards) and from a good league/nation. With the potential for more first owner objectives it's hard to say no, plus two decent packs back.
Just did 15 Gold Upgrades and best was Gundogan and IF Vela.
Did Pique so a few changes to my team. Ter Stegen, Pique and Semedo in. Handanovic, Romagnoli & Malcuit bench/reserves.
IF Chilwell, Falcao, Blind, Brandt, Leno, Ozil and Sarabia as boards in my MM packs.
I got Chilwell from one of the smalls, Falcao from another, then Blind from the rare mixed or the electrum and then Brandt (who popped as the board) along with Leno, Ozil and Sarabia in the premium gold players pack.
Edit: Actually, I think Falcao and Blind might have been from the same pack.
Ayoze was my red this morning :moop: Packed Muller from the rewards and then Rashford from tonights SBC's
Hit level 30 and I've chosen Tolisso as I can start him as opposed to the others.
Ruffier, Lukaku and Sterling from my MM packs.
Didn't realise how good the reward packs were so I'll get back in my box Mahow.
IF Yazici in there as well.
Fucking hell, Sterling goes for over 120k.
He looks awesome, but having just taken Vazquez, I could get rid of him. Risky approach in a first owner game though.
Every week you fuckers seem to pack something with value. I've had 3 great pulls so far this year (all specials) but no regular gold pull worth over 12k (Verratti my best).
Finished Ozil off last night with 2 chips in 2 games. Scream Alli ran the show in both games, he is a perfect box-to-box midfielder.
IF Yazici is a really useful pull it seems. Good player and strong links to Osimhen, so that's the Ligue 1 based objectives sorted for the rest of FIFA20.
Just bought 5 Ayoze Perez's for 10.5k/10.75k.
Same. IF at that price is literally a no less investment but not sure how deep to get into it right now.
That Serie A objective :|
Score three goals with players from each club in rivals. Jesus
Fuck that shit.
Flashback Mascherano looks quite good, especially with an anchor.
Going to be tough to get into a side though, imo
I just packed Hazard...
Untradeable from a two player pack sadly.
450k coins I can't have.
That Milestone thing is brilliant.
I've not yet been tempted by this years offering but I've been following along and from what I hear, it is slowly devolving back to the state of last years park the bus, quick counters style.
Though I paid more attention given the recent scandal against some of the streamers. Turns out you have Discords set up purely in aid of the top players avoiding each other(I'd long since thought such a thing existed, though it may have increased in popularity this year. The number of 30-0s has risen from 5-10 per week to dozens this year).
However there are other channels in said Discord dedicated to "stream sniping." It was uncovered over the past week or two and what they were doing was waiting for a streamer they thought was unworthy to search for a game, then have everyone willing try to match up with them to beat them. This is mainly to keep said streamer out of the top 100. There was even a pro player in there encouraging it.
It just makes a mockery of the whole thing really.
Oh and they've waited for that Kurt to qualify for their tournaments, only to come out and ban him for life. Now I think he's a bit of a dick, even just for the sake of it a lot of the time, but he does say some things that need to be said. Though banning him for life? Seems very harsh.
The new patch has apparently reduced the effectiveness of park the bus but I haven't played online (especially in Champs) since it was released.
I highly doubt it's changed much though.
Kurt was basically Harold. You'd get some good stuff in there now and again, but for the rest of the time it was just a slew of bilge that you'd spend forever cleaning up.
I'd have banned him too were I EA.
Fut Champs is a joke though, an absolute joke.
Did the Marquee Matchups last night and got absolutely fuck all of value. My best player was Jovic, who is not only a duplicate, but worth peanuts anyway.
I got Mario Fernandes and Iker Muniain twice each from those five packs, which makes thirteen times total for the former, and eighteen for the latter so far this year. I feel like I pull one of them in every other pack I open.
600 points from Zaha but 4+ games away from completing any objective. Will get on and get him after the refresh.
Sold a variety of 84 - 86 yesterday as they are all up for Pique. I imagine they will drop again after Sunday so I made notes of where I bought them and what I sold them for. Not huge profit since I am only buying one of each most of the time but its worth it over all. Sitting on almost 1m after picking up Scream Dele the other day.
Pique cost me much more than I would have liked as I left it so late but he’s in now. Sold a load of CSL bronzes that go for silly money given the packs on offer and am now back up to nearly 400k.
Only decision at the moment is whether to keep Sterling or not. Vazquez is genuinely better and that’s 120k ish right there.