Gameplay trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUqkibPzW3s
From what I can see, it looks like some unlockable traits in Ultimate Team (kinda RPG-ish). Otherwise it's new engine and animations ahoy
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Gameplay trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUqkibPzW3s
From what I can see, it looks like some unlockable traits in Ultimate Team (kinda RPG-ish). Otherwise it's new engine and animations ahoy
Being able to manually force a player to go for a header is so unbelievably overdue.
Until we end up with hundreds of heading objectives :cry:
It actually looks pretty good :\
I don't want to buy it though.
It's a small and stupid thing but calling it FC made me think it was the new UFC game.
They should have called it SOCCER 24.
Even something as simple as keepers having 5 ways to go on a penalty now instead of 3, is a good improvement to see.
It's nice that they're going to accurately mirror some move Haaland did one time, but it'd also be nice if you could start a simple one on one match without going through five menus and having it completely erase all your saved control settings.
Will they track stats better in UT? If i submit my Haaland into an SBC or sell him on the market after 300 appearances. There isnt any evidence of him ever been at the club.
Ultimate Team deep dive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Zxl8EL5ag
Caught a bit of that and my first thought was evolutions will be dead before they've started if the highest upgrade you can initially make to a card is to raise it to 80 Overall.
I'd guess it's locked by season or something? So S1 = up to 80, S2 = up to 84 etc. They will probably only worth it if you pack Mbappe etc., rather than trying to get Tom Heaton to be Buffon's regen
There are requirements that have to be met before you can evolve a player so they're not going to let you evolve anything but shitters until we're well into the game cycle. An 80 on launch is borderline unusable, even worse if it takes 2/3 weeks to get them there as it's time barred.
Got a beta code and for once it's actually for UT.
Fuck me, so have I. :jayjay:
Have you tried this yet Mahow? My email specifically said I had Ultimate Team access but I'm buggered if I can find it in game.
Done some Redditing and apparently UT is not available until 6pm tonight.
Forgot to download it before I went out today.
It has many, many, many hours to go and it seems to be getting slower.
Played a couple of SB games and I think it's pretty decent. Although I assume the first patch will break it as always.
The quick menu in UT via L2 is huge.
Got the beta code today. Like last year I wont be buying this at launch so I wont be bothering with it.
Lots of new stuff on the game today. The evolution stuff looks like it might be fun.
If I am reading it right you can take someone like Mainoo from a 62 to 78 in 3 games and then get him into the 80 with the next evo.
Seems like a nice way to get peoples fav cards into the game even if they are off meta
Web App out today. I've just packed an IF guy from the BundesLiga :cool:
Does everyone have their bags packed and ready for the trip to New Zealand today?
Half of the EA FC reddit do, thats for sure.
Just packed a German women's player whose name is Minge :D
Completely ignored 23, but I can feel myself getting the itch for this year's edition. Went back and read through some of the old FIFA threads and while it is the source of incredible irritation, I do love that UT grind.
Diop looking like one of the better evolutions choices too :nodd:
Apparently you can mix men and women in ultimate team now? Heard people are putting a one armed woman in nets?
Think they're awesome for fans of smaller teams who don't normally get promo love. I'm tempted to do a Utd squad. Lucia Garcia looks pretty decent for an early card.
Yeah you can mix it up. No idea about the one-armed keeper though :D
They've done that on purpose, of course :D
I've packed some decent players so far:
- Griezmann
- Cancelo
- Ter Stegen
- Ederson
- Popp
- Diani
Team is already 85-rated, which for day 2 (?) is pretty decent going.
EDIT: Bruno Fernandes and Leao out of the 83x10 :cool:
Very tempted to pick up a Series S with the game bundled in. Still running my ancient Xbox One which takes an age to load anything and sounds like a jet at take-off.
What's the gameplay like so far? No doubt they'll patch it a few weeks in anyway...
Have seen a lot of people say the playstyles are really impactful and a great addition but that finesse/trivelas are broken (again), defending is very hard (always is at the start while people learn) and keepers are shit (they look embarrassingly bad).
Evolutions are getting raved about though.
Pretty much what Danny said - it's very much last year's game but with a bit of a twist, rather than anything radical. Lots of QoL changes too. I'm enjoying, and I think if you liked previous versions you will.
I really think the Evo stuff could be cool, especially if you support a team who don't get many specials. You can build more a team that is specific to you.
Well as I missed out last year, I've bit the bullet and gone for it, complete with the new Series S. Looking forward to jumping on on Friday and starting the grind again. Now to plan what Fulham players to evolve...
Diop is prime for the CB one
Otherwise options are currently limited. Iwobi onto welcome into glow up 2 maybe
Diop looks like he'll be a beast. I'm also looking forward to upgrading one of our bronzes. I'm going to have to get my head around the new chemistry too, didn't play or watch any videos at all from last year so it's going to be all new for me.
1. Can you upgrade maguire?
2. Do you get the win, when your opponent quits?
Yes
No
Ive requested something like that before. Take a player o your choice from start game, and make him 99 by game end IF ,you meet all the criteria.
Not a bad start - in my first pack (a bog standard Silver Pack, no less), earned for doing some menial objective for chemistry, I've packed an IF - 80 Taylor from the MLS. Looks like a great early game card.
Went through a ton of Squad Battles yesterday to work on the Evolutions players and get up to speed with the game. I was able to get up to Gold 2 and in my tradeable rewards this morning I've packed Sandro Tonali (96k) and a bloody Hero card, Diego Milito (65k). I debated keeping Milito but the funds will be really helpful and I can always buy him back if I fancy trying him out. I've got a good chunk of coins to work through some of the player SBCs now. :drool:
I keep packing decent players on this. Benzema the latest. Will probably nab Kante to get him into the team. Courtois appeared too.
Also: Squid Battles rewards blessed me with a tradeable Diani, so I'm up to 200k now. Need to start turning it into investments
84 RTTK Reyna is in the club. Also completed Boniface for buttons, but he's not been particularly good in the few Squad Battles I've used him in so far.
I decided to go a bit left-field for my Founders Evolution choice. Rather than go for a meta player like Danjuma, Fati or Nunez, I went for 83 Laura Freigang for a bit of fun - her regular card has been great to use.
That's a good plan, some decent rewards for finishing those off. I should be free most of this week. Nearly done with the Turkish League milestones in Squad Battles, I'm yet to touch Rivals but the squad is looking strong enough to maybe venture in soon.
Early Beckham SBC :uhoh:
Pricey?
“Coming soon” apparently. His card is like 400k
If they release evolutions he could go in :drool:
SBC right around 400k too.
EA killing the nice rewards for the bronze/silver segments. Classic mongrel behaviour
Massive win for the Giroud GK IF.
Bought a few of the United silvers ahead of the new evos. Amad and Pellistri flying up.
Defending on this online is absolutely shit. Fucking nightmare to keep any semblance of control of defenders and they fly out of position so easily :moop:
50k for that evo is madness.
Hero SBC is out. I got Ljungberg :moop:
Mind you, I did get Van Dijk earlier, so can't complain too much
Son and Leao coming to trailblazers right after getting POTM cards :lol:
It's because it's a form-based promo (it's meant for the players who've started the season well) but still, you'd be seething if you'd just rinsed your club for a card that's out of date within about 48 hours :D
Prime Gaming pack out. Got a load of dreck in mine :moop:
I was about to start on the Kubo POTM SBC and I also saw he's expected to be in the Team 2 of the promo. Saved me some coins/untradeables at least if so.
Should new Evo's coming today and next promo is centurions and theres already leaks/concepts on the evos for that.
Evolutions are genuinely the best thing about this game, really loving working towards them and then having some different players in the squad.
I've also been helped this year by some nice pack luck...
https://i.ibb.co/Wz9cc2K/messi.png
https://i.ibb.co/0tsH9sV/modric.png
That Modric is tradeable too - not sure what to do with him yet. I've also got van Dijk AND Varane untradeable in the club, the former is an absolute beast at the back.
Modric is surely gonna get upgrades so you might as well keep hold of him. He'll be good until TOTS.
I've got a similar amount of pack luck - not many specials but a load of top golds (Rashford, Van Dijk, Benz, Ronaldo etc.). Currently working towards Blanc as I really liked his card in the previous games.
That Blanc with his play style is going to be nuts
Alright, chaps.
Playing FIFA for the first time in years. What methods are best for generating a decent amount of coins. I’ve found a niche little trading method that’s got me around 50,000 in coins over the last week or so but it’s very labour intensive. Are SBCs actually worth doing? I’m a bit out of the loop on Ultimate Team strategy these days.
Buy low, sell high...
- SBC solution trading - buying players who are listed on Futbin solutions and selling at a markup
- Chem style trading - buying popular players with good chem styles and selling at a markup
- Fodder investment
- Icon flipping
That latest Evo is a bit of a joke. 75k and they have to start at a 78 (ending up at 85).
Theres barely a page of gold cards on futbin the cost more than 75k. Would it hurt to have let people get an 88 or 89?
Or just make the requirements a bit less arduous. They're limiting it to players that are pretty obscure (woo, an 84 Malacia). If the audience for it is just "players which are crap that you can make mildly less crap" its going to sink
That too.
Torn between Malacia or Regulion.
If the CDM one allowed CM I would have done Hannibal 100%. Now I just don’t see a point.
It does allow Big Donny tho :cool:
I packed Kubo who is 50k. The exact amount to do the Diallo evo. I feel like I have to
Had a go at this and the press from the opps is insane. You cant breathe. However, laughing long balls forward with Kimmich with thet long ball playstle is amazing. Can only imagine how Beckham feels
They are probably using the broken/OP 71 depth thing.
I played a few of those. A couple of big switches and away down the line.
Finished Blanc and got TB Ward-Prowse and Haaland tradeable out of one of the packs :drool:
I burned all of my fodder and had to spend 70k to do the max 87 icon sbc and got Petit.
I've been pretty good at avoiding shite SBCs. Only done Banini, Rodrigo and Blanc, I think. Club is rinsed but I now have 300k to trade with.
EA have been really tight with decent fodder this year. I'm drowning in 83s but have almost zero high-rated fodder
The TOTW SBC is worth lobbing those into imo
Loaded up on Diallo at around 1.5k. If he is eligible for this weeks evos he will fly
The striker Evo being a 75 max and excluding Hojlund (76) is annoying.
As is them skipping a cam evo and not making me lots of coins this week
Frustrating that there's no real option for a Fulham player on either of those new evolutions.
Still working on Harrison Reed currently for the 75k CDM. :D I had 300k so thought fuck it, why not. I also packed IF Wilson last week untradeable, perfect addition to the Fulham squad that is slowly taking shape.
You mean you dont want an 81 rated Ream?
Kongolo if you could somehow get him (apparently has a Fulham card) through the full back and then CB one looks fun.
https://www.fut.gg/players/203485-te...lo/evolutions/
I didn’t. Skipped golds. Should have known we were due a LW. I’ll hold them until we get. RW or CAM one.
Really due RW or GK.
My Mainoo is one too strong for the box to box. Ugh.
I bought a Garnacho for 700 coins the other day based on your post :hat: I also still have my Founders Evo so I can get him up to 86 and he looks bang tidy
I’ll be doing him in that one. Just going to see if I get him first owner
Yeah I was waiting and hoping I'd pack him but he's not appeared for me. Thought I'd rather get cracking on the objectives ASAP so just used the one I'd bought. I think they should become 1st Owner when you Evo them though, weird they didn't do it that way
Untradeable Garnacho in a shit pack this morning. Perfect timing.
Enjoying this edition overall, on PS5 for the first time and shelling out for the game rather than just EA accessing during TOTS for the first time since 2021.
Feel pretty shit at the game mind, went 7-13 in Champs, which might be my worst ever weekend. But I’m trying not to obsess too much on this one.
Popped this together pretty quickly. Founder EVO Havertz was a bit of a star at CAM for me for a while, added Cunha during my Weekend League run and now Odegaard with some of the rewards having finished off his SBCs.
Thinking of doing the Box to Box EVO on Llorente, he looks pretty savage with the upgrades.
https://i.ibb.co/9HsbXQR/IMG-3946.jpg
There was a "leak" for evos today that saw a bunch of CAM's spike. Sold Cherki as he was up at 9k but held onto the rest I have as they had moved a bit but not a lot.
I should have sold my Diallo's though. He was up at 6k. I got greedy. Though I know for him the coins are there.
IF Palhinha :drool:
So is this any good?
I've seen no coverage of it at all, but my guesses are:
The evos are behind the power curve
The evos take far too long to upgrade
The pack drop weight is worse than ever
The menu grind is almost non-existent, but...
...The store is full of packs
How did I do?
I'm personally really enjoying it. Taking it easy, playing with Fulham players (using most of my Evos on them). I did play Champs this weekend and it was very sweaty so I might just limit that this year and stick to the Fulham boys.
With regards to your guesses:
- In general, yes. Still some very meta evos you can get.
- Yes (I don't personally mind it as I like a gameplay grind)
- Probably the same as previous editions
- Yes (although they did bring out some upgrades and objectives tied to it so it might be ramping up soon)
- Yes, a thousand times yes.
Nailed all of it. Atleast squad battles are 4 min halves.
Some of the evo cards end up filth but majority end up meh.
But they gave Beckham a SBC, so they are ok for me for a while.
I saw SB was 4 minute halves before I tapped out of FIFA23. They've just adjusted the number of games required to compensate though, right?
For the regular weekly stuff its been about the same. Some of the evos get a bit wild but others are as you would expect
The two very good ones out for centurions are 40 each over about 4 weeks.
The last promo ones were sub 20 iirc, over a few weeks.
4 min half SBs have made the evos and objectives grind so much more bearable.
Combining objectives with evos is nice and easy, and can happily score a few in a couple of mins then let the cpu play out the game while I work. Dead controllers no longer mattering in SB is great too.
The grind is all SBs now tbf.
@thommo
Fulham player in season pass alert
This evo thing is probably the best feature in this game. It is great. Could be better if it let you do multiple at the same time and some of the objectives for it, would come naturally such as passes completed, tackles, etc. Played around 100 games now, and this is the squad. Pack luck has been great. All untradeable.
https://i.ibb.co/dPRk5wr/Screenshot-20231102-125626.png
Two in 24 hours, EA have spoiled me! He looks pretty good too. Just a shame we didn't have any full-backs eligible for the Evos in the last few weeks, the squad is coming on a treat.
No level 40 Cunha? Hwang is also a really good choice for the sharpshooter Evo, can get him up to an 86 I think.
I didnt take Cunha but the packs. I saw the neto and hwang. Been trying to snipe neto all week for 10k but he is a dinosaur. May have to settle on Hwang.
I took Cunha and used him up top this weekend. He was good but definitely feels better suited as a CAM than a striker. I have an untradeable Son so Hwang as an Evo is also tempting for me, especially as Fulham have no-one suitable.
Regret not taking him now, and also not doing the other two evo's as wolves players. I picked these two idiots.
https://www.futbin.com/24/player/293855/rico-lewis
https://www.futbin.com/24/player/487292/ramy-bensebaini
I did that Bensebaini too to be fair. Again, no Fulham players were available for it, and he has such well-rounded stats, not to mention he can play at CB. He's been great for me so far since fully evolving him.
I've used him and he is good, but given I have Kilman now and i now and fully emotionally invested in Wolves players. He dont get in.
Pedro Neto. Now 20k and still a dinosaur.
Neto seems to be a little more available today.
Seems like a CB evo is coming, so check your clubs.
Yep, passing boost is a madness.
I should put untradeable Gvardiol in but I am 100% upgrading the Iceman :cool:
https://www.futbin.com/24/player/103...ictor-lindelof
Not sure if that links correctly but his passing is going to be nuts for an 85 CB
:thbup:
Need to figure out how to repeat this, one guy in the comments said it happened to him
https://youtu.be/TTpTWKjBYuI?si=yi8bIsFwitXPzWzH
Well Nep has a full vid on it.
It worked. I was two away from finishing one so I did it to check
Bamba was extinct a few days ago as he was a prime option for that Sharpshooter evo - managed to nab him for 550 coins the other day. He looks like he'll be incredible fully evolved.
That new CB evo is perfect for Issa Diop to go round again too.
The market is mad for some of the evos.
Garnacho was the same as Bamba. I packed him in squad bottles rewards yesterday, and thought I was about to make a ton of coins. Sold him for like 1k.
In the interested of making the game enjoyable. Im playing with inverted fullbacks and offensively, it is fantastic. In previous FIFAs, they never really worked. They ended up running into the LF and RF areas but on this game. They sit very close to the lone CDM. It allows the two players in CM to go forward past the lone ST.
If you lose the ball, you are fucked though and are open to counter attacks. Ive played the full-backs on conservative interceptions in the hope they sprint back to their positions, quick time.
Team Check. All untradeable.
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Mine right now.
I am working on Lindelof evolution but I doubt he gets in the team right now.
Did that 100 play SBC for shits and giggles.
Got Modric and Kimmich as the main cards so came out ahead
Female Bundesliga objectives out. Of course Minge is the group reward :D
Did that too - got Bernardo Silva and Odegaard plus a heap of 84s and 83s. Considering the market has bounced quite a bit, I'm happy with that as I'm working on Pirlo at the moment. Not so happy that I forgot about a van Dijk that I discarded over a week ago.... :moop:
I've also spunked 50k on the striker Evo to upgrade Rodrigo Muniz from a 69 to an 80. :D
My team at the moment:
GK: Courtois
RB: Bellerin RTTK
CB: Blanc
CB: VVD
LB: Acuna RTTK
CM: Tchouameni
CM: Llorente (will Evo soon)
CM: Griezmann
ST: Garnacho (86 Evo)
ST: Rashford
ST: Rodrigo SBC
Am also Evo-ing Lindelof and Felix (flashback to his SBC card a few years ago that was immense)
Felix? And not Tony M? Sell out :D
I say that like Alessandrini isn’t tempting me
Fair!
I am just begging for something to put Hojlund in
Yeah, same.
Did the RTTK SBC and got De Paul who looks pretty good. Decent shot at the upgrades as well so he'll do for a bit.
Di Maria and Benfica are tragic
Accidentally took the 83 x 3 from the season pass over the 80x10.
Worked out as it had Kane and Lewa in it :cool:
I think I'd have taken that anyway. Could imagine there'd be loads of 80x10's that don't have anything better than an 82 in them.
Probably the better shout but I usually go for the larger pack.
Collecting some big fodder I am not using now and not much of interest SBC wise. All I care about is the evolutions.
I really don't want to pick this up, but I must say the Evolutions are tempting me. Do they expire or are all the ones from day 1 still there?
They expire. Usually a couple of weeks to a month for the objective
Thank God for that.
Dalot or Obi Wan for the RB Evo, Danny?
My initial thought was AWB for the play styles but Dalot is so much better on the ball. Need to side by side them
Decided on AWB with all those play styles.
Also been able to glich it out and I now have three EVOs on the go.
Garner might have been a shout. I put him in the silver right back one.
Put him in box to box and then this and you can get this card
https://www.futbin.com/24/player/1081582/james-garner
Stream up for XP/Packs
League SBC are BACK (and only 10 chem)
Do you have the link for the Stream?
https://www.twitch.tv/easportsfc
Today and tomorrow I believe
Packed Marcos Llorente from an 84+ Player Pack. All of a sudden I'm torn - do I use him for the Box to Box evo, or stick with the plan of throwing 150k at Pajaziti, the Fulham bronze I've evo'd up to an 84?
Finished Pirlo off as well so he's in the team along with the newly upgraded 93 Modric. Feels like an end-game style midfield already!
I did Llorente as I had him untradeable and no one worth it fit from a United side. I also have Modric and Hero Mascherano so use Llorente anyway
Attacking evo coming today. 50k
+ 3 OVR
+ 5 Pace
+ 5 Shooting
+ 2 Passing
+ 5 Dribbling
TRAITS: Power shot, technical & press proven
Requirements mean I don’t think there is a good United option. Again
Max Overall 84
PAC: Max 83
SHO: Max 83
DRI: Max 84
DEF: Max 65
PHY: Max 85
Ljungberg from the hero SBC. I should have known better.
Smolarek for me. Looks alright but 3/3 probably isn't going to be my jam. He'll do off the bench.
Also picked up Militao in some other pack. Not sure he really can fit in my team unless I move Blanc to midfield and bench Griezmann.
@thommo
Wilson IF into that new Evo? :nodd:
That's a fair shout. 150k on Pajaziti it is.
Possibly! Or...
https://i.ibb.co/9ZfJLmM/rm.png
I've caved. :eyemouth:
https://media4.giphy.com/media/Ae7SI...giphy.gif&ct=g
I reckon you'll love it to be honest.
If I can have the willpower to resist the FOMO nonsense then I think so too. It's going to be weird not packing a TOTY this time round, but I hope to God I'm done with that. My arse has run out of grapes on that score.
I think part of the reason I'm enjoying it more this year is I've come in with the mindset of not having to do everything. I'm picking and choosing weekends to enter Champs, I'll give it a rest if I'm not feeling it. I didn't even end up doing an objective card (Bowen) because I didn't want to cram in the games to finish him off.
They've even had those daily cup competitions in friendlies running through the promos - I haven't bothered with a single one yet as I don't fancy facing the try-hards.
Yeah, that's exactly the attitude I want to approach this year with. As my nephew point out, everyone ends up with just as good players as each other come July so there really is little point grinding the shit out of things.
Hopefully I only play for stuff I actually want and only do the SBC's that at least offer a faint whiff of value.
I'm in.
Where does one find the evolution stuff and why are my objectives insistent on me having stuff to claim when I can't find what? Wasn't there supposed to be a claim all button.
Evos are under "Club" but are also a high level menu option under where you hold L2.
There is a claim all button, sort of. You can clam all for an objective.
So if you complete Madisson but dont claim any of it you can L3 that group the claim them all for that, but not like "All Seasonal"
I would recommend getting the King loans. Rattling through Madisson and doing Neville so you can do the triple threat objectives.
Cheers Danny. Nice to see some of these Evo's appear to be free.
Welcome Yev.
There's loads of shitty menu bugs in this, not least the notifications being intermittently borked.
I might do her card just to griddy on some chumps online to generate maximum seethe. :D
Great idea
I am definitely doing it. I packed Kirby from the current special team and I love her. Like Messi's newgen....
Anyone tried the French LWB lady? Boras was using her and her crossing looked legit
@thommo
Willian promo card coming for this EA Pro thing.
They're treating me!
Only thing I'm really missing is full-backs - no-one was eligible for the first wing-back evolution and now the latest evo will only move Castagne from a 77 to an 80. Gwinn looks the best option for my German/Frauen team.
Apparently LW and RW evo will be coming.
Praying to make money off Diallo but also bought a single Pellistri as he will probably be eligible for both.
Had some dupes blocking a bunch of packs last night so I did the Hero pack and got Sneider.
Few decent walkout too. Kimmich, Kobel, Ederson, MATS and Osimhen ready to go when we get a decent SBC.
Apparently Schmeichel is coming today.
Just got Tevez from the base hero upgrade SBC.
Very nice! I haven’t given Sneijder a go yet as it will be a pain to juggle.
Thinking I will take Klassen from the season pass though to go with him, the objective Darmian and IF Mkhi
Suker out of the Icon pack. Meh
Trying to decide if I should just do Schmeichel rather than risk it
Can you bring your Evo off the bench and it all counts?
If it says "use them in game" then yeah.
Prime Gaming pack out.
Just under 4m for Mbappe. Time for some BPM to get him completed ASAP :nodd:
Nice pack in moments store for 4 tokens.
New promo has some bananas cards. Completed De Jong and also packed Lukaku and Bernard O'Silva, who are both cheap but look like beasts
Bernardo fits into the new Evo too
ASM SBC is here for 24 hrs and cheap
Kante too. Fodder or more useable Kante is the question
I got the Thunderstruck Bernardo, not the gold.
Yeah Kante looks boss. I had one previously but sold him at fodder price a little while back. If I had him FO I'd have put him in, but as it is I've just stuck Amrabat in there, who is still bobbins, even after the upgrade :moop:
Did ASM as well. It's basically obligatory at that price.
I figured you had the better one. More meant for the fodder. I’m going to hold on and decide later.
Yeah I’ll be doing ASM for the same reason. Though I am trying to churn through the 83x10s more than anything.
That De Jong is up for 2/3 Barca games so going to wait on if I feel like doing it.
Has to be said, this is the best version they've released in years. League SBC's being absolute shit still makes me sad, but everything else bar that is pretty good.
De Jong is tidy in game. Silky movement
Always a top card. Shame they shat the bed today.
Bruno being down at 130k makes it a tempter. Unlikely to get both upgrades though
New Evo out for ST. While I want something for Hojlund I am 100% throwing in the already evo'd Martial.
Got UCL Haaland out of a 85+ pick :|
Guess ill be doing the Bernado evo unless I pack him in the next few days
Hero Evo coming
Park already doubled
Had a bunch of dupes so I did the icon pack. Xavi.
Got Riise from the UCL Hero pack. Pretty meh
I did a Max 89 Base Icon last week - Makelele. Not a bad pull, and he is unreal in the CDM spot, intercepts everything.
Been evolving my Fulham players - unfortunately this week's offerings don't really fit any Fulham players but the squad is looking good so far. Just need to pick up the 86 IF Robinson for left-back, and get a goalie evolution for Leno (or use VDS as a past player).
Do you still get +1 chem foe 10 games played?
Nope. Not since the 3 chem system.
Still refuse to get the game but this had to be done:
https://i.imgur.com/WzRJqip.png
:cool:
:cool:
Packed a tradeable TOTW Garnacho. Thinking I will hold on. Hes a little worse in front of goal but the card is much better over all. Evo has the trivela playstyle but I dont think that adds too much for him as he is usually cutting in on his right anyway.
https://www.futbin.com/24/compare/20262/656113
The Evo is kinda shit. The 5* WF is nice but his dribbling is absolutely crap
I use him with a finisher and yeah its not great, which is weird when you look at it on the face of it.
Got Popp from the mixed campaign bag. Nice 90 rated.
I'm currently sat on 4 85+ dupes from player picks just waiting for Griezmann POTM. Reckon he could be tidy
They games objective refreshed again for the day so I AFKd some while I worked.
TOTW VVD from one of the packs :drool: Goes very well with the two Liverpool trailblazers I picked up this week (Robertson and Salah)
Griez is out and looks reasonably priced.
Edit: ok maybe not. I saw the ratings and though it was ok compared to his trailblazer but his TOTW is like half price
And TOTW Trent from the next pack. Games taking the piss :lol:
My Mainoo has dribbling one too high for the new Evo
So Ill put Amrabat into it and then the toughen up I think. Not that fussed about getting 90 rated Silva or 88 Kante.
https://www.fut.gg/players/224158-so...at/evolutions/
Did a Hero pick and got Ji-Sung Park so might upgrade him. Looks a beast and was a cracking player
What kind of auto-defending bullshit is 71 depth? No wonder people I come up against seem to tackle me and intercept the ball so easily. You are at such a disadvantage if you don't use it. Here is me trying to slow the game down and break down my oppoenet. Trying to score silky goals. They just run down the line and Cut Back FC.
The only reason I have been tempted to do one of them. I have Ljungberg but dont care to pay to upgrade him
For 71 depth teams if you switch back and forth across the back it should eventually open up a massive amount of space on one side. Not much to do about cut back rats though.
This is probably the worst fifa ive played for auto AI. It is shocking. Ive got my opponents Van Dijk pressing my central defenders. There isnt any space at all. The worst thing is, i win a tackle and then my opponent just instantly wins it back as they can recover within a blink of an eye
I bring you, the best looking card ive come across so far.
https://www.futbin.com/24/player/1755/Vanessa%20Fürst
Slight nerf to auto defending.
https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/ea-sp...=1701795872532
Much needed patch.
New Evo out for no position limit but quite low ability limits. Leaves me with a couple of options.
Donny VdB - I could put him in toughen up and then detail orientated to get him here
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Amrabat - I already put him Radioactive Maestro. If run him through toughen up I get this
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Pellistri - I am halfway through the second free Evo for Pellistri.
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if I stop here he can go into the new one and would end up like this
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Prime Icon AWB coming my way, I think. I've already got him at an 83 so he'll go up to an 87 and looks immense for a stay back RB
I do have him as an option but he is so shit going forward I was thinking those upgrades would be a waste :D
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Triple threat attacker into detail orientated. Already done the first one.
I mean he'll just be sat there tackling people, but that feeling when you unleash some mad Trickster flick when winning 5-0 :drool:
It's shite there's been very few SM/WF upgrades. Nep's complaint about Evo's being able to turn crap players into average and average into ok is bang on
Hes absolutely right. They have been so scared to just unleash a beastly one.
They'll fuck up one day and create a monster. Arguably Llorente is kinda bananas. Fati was pretty OP at the start too.
Maguire coming apparently.
Guess I’ll use the marauder to get some fodder as I don’t think United have another option
When will he likely drop in game?
https://www.reddit.com/r/EASportsFC/..._he_loses_his/
Apparently this is a thing. Do them in the right order and he keeps the chem too…
New Evo coming tomorrow. Apparently for 85 rated LM. Rashford is now extinct.
@thommo
Adama has been added and has a moments SBC
He's an insta-complete for sure. Been on the game less this week but still building up the Fulham squad. Castagne up to an 86 at RB and Reed will soon be an 87 (albeit with pretty weak stats).
Actually looks quite good
Rashford doesnt fit in the evo. I would say leakers mudded but you know they robbed everyone blind by buying Rashfords
My evo'd Garnacho does fit so I had a decision to make as the TOTW I have is tradeable. Guess who I just got in a TOTW upgrade? :cool:
Free 100k pack for opening the web app
Had anyone used trailblazers Kane? He sidefoots his shots. Its really weird. His shooting animation is strange
I haven’t but he does have a unique body type so it’s possible he has some animations too
Its as if, i have to do power shots to get him to put his foot through the ball. He does have power shot+.
I had his gold at the start and can't remember it doing that
That new evo is a joke. It should be rare/common if they don’t want people stacking Evo or putting promo cards in.
Also saw a tweet saying a 92 Zidane is coming via SBC
And he is here. Looks like 1.5m cost and 2 month to do it.
I've started him. He's always a bit magic and I've got shitloads of fodder, plus TOTY will be here soon
Very tempting. I have the fodder to do most of the big sections right now. It’s that or see what they do when Mbappe retains POTM.
Haaland milestones. 50 games is a lot but can just chip away at it over the next month or so
Yeah, I already had about 1/3 of the squads without sacrificing anyone I particularly care about (including the 89) so will just chip away at it over the next few weeks.
I keep doing the TOTW pack for the fodder and it keeps giving me quite nice cards
VVD, Dybala, Kvara, Coman, Karachaoui, Goretzka and Doku over the past week or so.
Yeah same. Have Renard, Dybala, Bellingham, Grimaldo, Frimpong and Upamecano who are all fairly serviceable, plus some random shitters.
After packing Hansen out of something the other day I just got Putellas out of an 83x10 :cool:
Wish I'd bought IF Robinson when we he was in packs and only 35k, he's up to 80-85k now and I can't see that dropping any time soon.
Mbappe won POTM again apparently.
Just signed in and saw Zidane. I dont think ive ever had him unless in draft so i will do him. Ive got quite a lot of fudda so i think i may only have to buy one of the 88+
Apparently Kane is coming as an SBC/Objective for TOTGS.
Packed his gold dupe untradeable today. So that going to block packs for a little. I have a Lewa I need to save from the gulag tomorrow too.
Club is begging for a massive SBC but I am not fully set on Zidane.
For my playstyle, Trailblazers Kane should be mega for me. I like big Strikers with excellent passing but he just isnt it. Some cards have secret stats. Gold Haaland makes some crazy runs against the defenders. Its like he has a playstyle called "tries to beat the offside trap". He can't pass though.
Kane can pass but he does not make those defense-splitting runs. If Kane comes, ill get him and try him again and try agian
The new Tesco Value Haaland is pretty much better than his gold card. Just crushes defenders
Ahha. Maybe ill try him on conservative interceptions. I use that on balance fullbacks so they run back into position once they are forward. Not sure if it works that way though.
Ronaldo spiking, seems like there might an EVO he fits in coming.
Its been "confirmed" a max 84 evo for any position is coming too.
Shoretire and Bennett (United Bronzes) finally made it into packs. If I had known that I wouldn’t have wasted marauder on Martinez from Barcelona (to make fodder) :face:
Invested in Shoretire, Pellistri and Diallo for this new Evo.
First two are practically extinct. I should have trusted my gut and bought more than 30 of them. Total that is unfortunately
Winter Wildcards going to be crazy
Is Zidane any good? His stats look suspect for a 92 rated card but I’m now overburdened with fodder and need to do something with it.
I haven't had a chance to use him all that much but he's been good so far. Other option you have is either Eusebio or wait for the new POTM Mbappe.
Eusebio looks the opposite really, amazing stats but suspect playstyles. Have you used him?
Unless I go BD in FIFA Points or no life it (I don't want to do either), I doubt I'll have the fodder for Mbappe v2.
Nah, not tried him. There's a loan (for both actually) if you want try before you buy
Same here fodder wise. Large amounts of big fodder but no middle of the road.
Sitting on a large stack of packs behind dupes too.
@thommo do you have Wilson IF? Looks solid through the TOTW upgrade followed by midfield dynasty
I put him into another upgrade already unfortunately. :face:
I haven't been on to see the requirements, is it any IF?
New season is just hella 83s and some shit players. Cheers Geoff
Yep, that SBC roadmap looked lame as fuck as well. All hinges on how good/expensive they make Gullit and I'm going for a bit shit and overpriced.
Yeah, some absolute shitters there. They go out of their way to make sure you can't get any decent strikers. It's always a load of CMs or CBs.
https://www.fut.gg/evolutions/
Rarity: Team of the Week
Overall: Max. 86
Pace : Max. 84
Physicality : Max. 86
Playstyles : Max. 8
New evo coming:
All positions, all ratings
Max. Pace = 80
Max. Shooting = 75
Max. Dribbling = 91
Max. Physicality = 80
Max. Defending = 80
Max. Playstyles = 9
Will either lead to a quick triple chain of Hannibal or get added to the stack for Shoretire.
lol at that Mbappe price. If Gullit is shit tomorrow I’ll probably crack on with Zidane.
That Hannibal triple evo (like a rock, detail orientated and growth spurt) is going to be nuts
The list and buy objective is broken.
Complete it one by doing 50 of each. Then it takes one of each to complete the refresh.
I bought a bunch of silvers to do it
8 to go on Mbappe and packed Cantona along the way.
Huge! I used Cantona and Mbappe a few years ago and they were fun
This "Pep's Legacy" Evo is a bit nuts. Can get Shaw/Malacia up to a decent level or even Gold Cancelo into a 5/5 beast. Not sure which to go for
Mbappe done, but having just gone into the Winter Wilcard cup I don't know why I bothered - I've never been worse as a FIFA game than this one.
4 losses and 1 solitary win, which was a game I should have lost. My players all congregate in the centre of the pitch no matter what I do with the width setting so I have no space to work in, they make utterly retarded runs, offer no passing options whatsoever and lose the ball if they so much brush against an opposition player. As for my opponent, they seem to be all over the pitch at once, have acres of space and are impossible to get the ball from. It's like I'm playing a different version of the same game.
Any tips welcome.
If you have TOTW Alaba he becomes and absolute monster through the TOTW evo
I can’t help too much as I haven’t bothered to play online unless required for evos. Everyone is probably still using the 71 depth thing, it got nerfed but not enough from what I saw.
Would day maybe check out Hashtag Harry or Boras to see what they play?
Adeyemi gold price is up. No concrete leaks of an evo but I am buying Shoretire and Pellistri since they play LW.
Getting them for like 200 and 500 coins. Fuck all to lose.
Apparently that Year in Review player pick has all base icons in the pool and it's an 84 and 85 squad to do.
Yeah, it's definitely got all of the base icons in it....
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Dinho a little better than my Xabi Alonso :moop:
The 4-3-2-1 from last year still works a treat.
Whenever the cups come out, the first day or so is a nightmare because you've got all the hyper-sweaty fuckers in there until they get their wins and then it evens out a bit.
Mbappe + Ronaldinho in the space of a couple of days is some top work.
Just got Alaba from the TOTW player pick. :drool:
That double evo :drool:
Indeed. Aim is to get a team of players that will do me until TOTS as soon as possible, so with Mbappe, Dinho and Alaba that's 3 spots sorted.
How do you guys go about creating space in the box? Mbappe is obviously mustard, but as my furthest player forward he's constantly marked so hard that when he does get the ball in the box the option I have 9/10 is to take a shot that will inevitably get blocked.
SB Legendary or people who can actually defend in rivals is where this is most apparent.
Against human left stick dribbling with no pace button being held is often enough to wriggle enough space.
The AI fall for the bait less often, especially on legendary. So its mostly about moving the ball across the box until a space opens up.
Ta. I think I'm getting a bit better now. One thing I cannot get down at all though is player switching. What in the fuck is up with this? The left bumper doesn't pick who you want and the right stick, well, I've no idea what that's meant to be doing.
Never is this more present than at corners, where by the time I've fumbled control to my tallest player their tallest player has twatted it into the net. :moop:
The "Buy 50" objective is glitched, if you haven't seen it.
1. Buy 50 bronzes and list them to complete the objective
2. Claim all
3. Open picks
4. Buy another bronze and list it
5. Claim all
Etc.
I got WW Dybala out of one, who's pretty tidy
Yeah, it's mad. I've finished SB this week, played about 10 games in rivals and cheesed Alaba to a 93 and I'm still bennefitting from the match coin unlocks.
That's the cup finally done. Don't get the benefit of my super team in it so was quite pleased to close it out with three wins tonight. Feels like it's made me a better player over the course of the week, albeit at the cost of several burst blood vessels. I think I had about two easy games from however many I've played to get the 10 wins. Everyone else was either disgusting at left stick dribbling (why isn't this just dribbling?), pressing, countering, or all three combined.
Have you/anyone used Eusebio? I'm torn between doing him or Gullit
He's on the list, but got 7 squads left on Zidane to do first and I'm wavering as I suspect TOTY cards will leave his 18 squads looking seriously overpriced.
If it helps, Gullit is good but he's going to be behind the power curve within weeks. Cards with mid 80s for everything are ten a penny these days, compared to when Gullit was first in the game, albeit he does have good playstyles.
Oh and on Eusebio, I also packed Butragueno from the centurions Icon pick SBC which has cooled me on him somewhat.
Does anyone else dread opening an untradeable Jumbo Rare Players Pack for all the dupes and no decent cards it will inevitably bring? Mad when you consider how sought after they once were.
Cheers - yeah, Gullit is the one I'm least interested in. I need a striker but would prefer a 5* skiller really. But I have a dupe Lewi sitting in my trade pile that needs to go somewhere. I'll use Eusebio's loan in the cup and see how he plays
It's mad how the new promo team is insta-fodder apart from about three cards. At least there's a bunch of SBCs to chuck shitters into (to get other shitters)
First foray into weekend league and it's the playoffs.
Game 1 - Lost 5-4
Gutted to lose this one as we were ahead for most of it but he brought on a 99 loan game Haaland who absolutely destroyed me. I've no idea how you defend against him, my players just bounce off him and if I try and show him onto his right foot it seems to make little difference.
Game 2 - Lost 3-1
Never in this one and 3-1 was a fair reflection.
Game 3 - Lost 4-2
2-0 up at half time and with a host of chances wasted he changed to move his team up the pitch in the second half and we couldn't cope with it.
0-3 after three games and while we should have won two of them this is a bit brutal. With a team like this in previous versions I'd have got 6 wins comfortably, are shit people just not playing weekend league any more?
Game 4 - 1-0 Win
Not sure what happened here, he wasn't actively trying to give me the win I don't think but I scored a goal where he moved his keeper in a really retarded manner after about 20 minutes and he just quit.
1-3.
Game 5 - Won 6-1
After responding like Gareth Southgate in game 3 I noticed my strikers were a bit isolated in this one so upped the depth and asked one to drop back. Worked a treat and we had space and passing options all over the shop.
2-3 game on, maybe.
Game 6 - Lost 5-3
Really struggled to defend against this chap, made adjustments to contain his wingers but to no avail.
2-4. 2 wins from 4 needed.
What formation are you using? I'm still using the 4-2-3-1 from last year
I'm on 3-5-2, which I've used every year for god knows how long now. I've never got on with the 4-2-3-1, but what instructions are you using?
Game 7 - Lost 4-2
Was 2-1 up at half time and I can only assume my opponent gave his controller to a mate for the second half as I barely touched the ball.
2-5.
Game 8 - Lost 7-2
I'd assumed at 2-5 elo I'd get an easier game, how wrong I was. :D Key takeaway from this one was I simply cannot cope with a team that presses me with a high line. It should leave loads of space behind but somehow my opponent simultaneously manages to press the shit out of me and have enough back to take care of any attacks I might get the chance to make and when the latter happens I get so fucked on the counter as he has the ball with 6 players ahead of him to choose from.
Think I'll try the last two games tomorrow as playing in shit connection when 6pm content rolls round will be arse. I wasn't expecting to qualify so I guess two wins from 8 (while clearly objectively dogshit) is not that bad. On the whole I enjoyed the games, but I think the hardest thing about this game is there's absolutely no indication as to what I should be doing differently to be better, which now I think about it is unlike any other game I've ever played.
Futbin is all over the place with evo but fut.gg is much better. Also easysbc has some useful features. The meta rating is excellent.
fut gg is the way to go for evos. You can add what you have done too.
Another thumbs up for 4231.
4-2-3-1 or 4-3-2-1? :D
Ffs :lol: missed Raouls correction.
4231 for me. Treat the wide CAMs like wingers, free roam the central one and have at it.
Just finished off Weekend League qualifying.
Game 9 - Lost 4-3
Going into this at 2-6 I was hoping for someone with no hands, instead I got a player with a team as good as mine and with a red Mbappe up top. I'd decided before this game to move to tele cam from co-op to hopefully help with dribbling and I felt it made a difference. We came back from 2-0 and 3-2 down but just didn't have enough in the tank to get over the line. How do I run a player who has qualified for weekend league multiple times this close but am now 2-7 myself?
Game 10 - Lost 2-1
One of those annoyingly good defenders who we only managed to break down once, he scored his two goals from corners, where I'm still fumbling to select Gullit as the ball sails into the net.
2-8 overall. I think my worst ever stab at qualifying.
Time of qualifying also makes a big difference.
Unless things have changed since I played last, the only people qualifying on weekends are those like yourself, looking to dip a toe in, or those who have finished their 20 games and want to get next weeks qualifying done. I guarantee if you try again on say, Thursday, you'll have a much easier time.
WL also tends to open your eyes to what is the meta and what isn't. Did every single team have the same say left back that you dont have? Did they all use a similar method to score goals? As an example, in FIFA 19, I thought I was doing alright, then I went into WL and found out that the green timed finesse finishes from anywhere inside 20 yards would fly in. I was very underprepared for this and got slapped about. Very much opened my eyes to it going forward though.
New LB and RB Evo. One for each.
Alaba fits into the LB one and then Peps Legacy for a slightly downgraded version of the TOTW one. However, Shawberto Carlos also goes into them. Going to delay as long as possible.
Cheers Fox. I'll give it another go on Thursday then. The switch to tele cam does seem to have made a huge difference, I find it much easier to dribble more effectively and open up passing options. Principle problems I have are as follows though.
Defending dribblers
Dealing with the high press. I get that I have a numerical advantage with the keeper and that if I go wider I have more space to work in, but I'm fucked if I can get any of these things to deal with a high pressing shitmuncher.
Corners. I lose 90% of headers I contest and concede far too many goals as a result. Admittedly I've been too feckless to Google how to deal with this. One for the to do list.
Despite the above I'm storming up the Division Rivals rankings and am now two wins off Division 6 and genuinely enjoying it. As a testament to the latter I've played 114 games since I unlocked Mbappe.
So to make the game interesting again. Ive been grinding my Wolves Evo team over the past several weeks and this is where it is at now. I can get 11 wins in WL with the team at best.
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Sasa has 99 jumping and 99 heading while being 6'7. He wins everything in the air. His body type is very skinny though. He does have lots of playstyles. I have deliberately avoided getting a + playstyle for him, in the hope I can do an evo that gives him power header+ or some type of extra strength. He isn't great to play with at all but I hope to have enough evos to have him end game for extra lol.
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I'd forgotten Zidane played for Wolves
:D
Evos are the best thing about this game.
In honour of him leaving I am evo'ing Donny through high vis and dribbling sensation.
Ive been playing around with tactics abd using inverted full backs are decent. They work very well. However im taking things to another level now. Route One FC. Standard 442. All players besides the wide men will be large brutes. Get it down, get it wide. Send into target man. Watch this...
You'd often see Zidane smashing in screamers at the golden palace.
Just had a delightful game in rivals while trying to evo Jobe Bellingham. Playing a guy who is dominating me but has only scored once as we head to half time. We finally launch a counter from one of his million corners in first half injury time and the ball lands in the box at the feet of 63 bronze Jobe. He turns and lashes one into the net with his two star weak foot. Guy makes me sit through all the half time cut scenes and gives it the full length pause three times as we resume. He finally kicks off, we win the ball and Mbappe breaks through and lashes one into the net. I take my turn to pause it and he quits immediately. :cool:
Those are the best victories. I was 4-1 down in champs to mbappe and eusebio. Getting destroyed. This guy was cutting through me, trying to walk the ball in the net. Taking the piss. I pulled it back to 4-4 in the last minute. 5-5 into extra time and won on penalties. He message me saying 'lucky' :lol: he could have scored 10 goals if it wasnt for showboating.
https://www.fut.gg/players/235883-ry...on/evolutions/
Holy shit, flashbacks to that champ card he had years ago.
Predictably I've got somewhat bored of the FIFA points spam account so I may well do him on the other no FIFA point account I have running.
EDIT: Although I've just realised I have Bompastor's UEFA Hero on that account.
EDIT EDIT: Although I've also just realised I have David Alaba's TOTW on that account too. :cool:
:D
The 80+ pick is a fodder printer. I have so much fodder in the club but no clue what to do with it.
Logging into this account I couldn't believe how much fodder I have, what seems like almost every gold 85 rated and over (bar the big ones obvs), although I do recall moaning about what to do with it before deciding to chuck some money at Mbappe on the other account. Lots of choice now, but it makes you realise how bad Winter Wildcards was as a promo as very little of it actually improves this team, which IIRC I spent about two weeks building.
Back on the 'main' account and I've been going through the skills moves trying to pick off the low hanging fruit and I can't believe some of the stuff hidden amongst the hard 4 and 5 star moves. Discovered the change direction by pushing back on the right stick twice and my mind is blown. The level of the guides on this game is generally awful, like I've not even heard of momentum being discussed and it clearly exists, by which I don't mean DDA or anything like that but more that if you're chaining skill moves and passes together quickly I swear blind your players become better, with passes faster and crisper.
Ball roll + driven pass is a big combo. Ball rolls generally "reset" player movement and allow for near-perfect control. Ball roll + scoop turn is also tidy.
The change direction by pressing back you mention is a bit easy to read, but can be good to combine with a skill cancel. The version with a long-press on the right-stick in the opposite direction is a better move I think.
Two RW evos leaked.
Pellistri and Diallo to the moon
That Patrick/DM one is great for Lisandro. No PlayStyle+ on it means he'll probably be able to get into something else at some point
Im hoping having a player with 8 playstles (none are +) will still allow me to do Evo's with him.
I have Talisca 86. Him through this new evo looks nuts.
Roberto Carlos to go with Ronnie from that store pack.
Nice pull that.
I feel like Maldinin should be an instant complete but I just cant bring myself to start the 89 squad. I have 4 88s and a Benz sitting dupe untradeable too.
Two play styles!
He causes so much rage. All kinds of messages. "long ball cunt" "stoke fc" :lol:
All i do is throw it up to him in a 4141 formation. He either heads it down to one of the CMs who make runs off him or he holds it up and brings others into play. He is surprisingly agile and he has a small burst away from defenders with a finisher. Only thing that lets him down is the shot power and aggression. I should probably use the power shot which he has.
:D
Hopefully you can get some pace/agility into him soon.
Another RW evo coming today. If I can triple evo Diallo :drool:
Well, no triple but I’ll be doing this one on him instead
Finally finished Eusebio this evening. Seems great from when I used his loan card. Next thing I need is a top-tier left back. Maybe will Evo Cancelo or someone up
He does look good through Crossing Crusader and Pep's legacy.
Him, Alaba and Shawberto (my choice)
Double evo on Antony looks good too
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Yeah, will be taking that Antony card for sure
Icon evo coming apparently. Probably another shit one like the hero upgrade though.
OVR MAX 89
PAC MAX 86
SHO MIN 78
PAS MAX 91
PHY MAX 87
Gains PS: Tiki Taka & First Touch
Rarity: Icon
+2 OVR
+3 PAC
+4 SHO
+3 PAS
+3 DRI
+2 DEF
+3 PHY
Beckham missing out by one passing ffs.
Real shame couldn't have got Blanc into that
Back on WL qualifying, this time on the no FIFA point account and it's another disaster. 0-4 after four games.
First I played yesterday was a close loss, first today was against a guy who was an incredible defender, third was in awful delay and I just go into the fourth and see I'm up against someone with a red PotM Mbappe, at 0-3 form. 2-0 down after 5 minutes and it's my first quit on this account.
It gets worse...
Games 5
We're 2-0 up after 20 minutes and comfortable, opponent goes high press (and I suspect gives his controller to a mate) and we lose 10-3. I don't even...
Game 6
7-2 loss.
0-6
:D
Finished 3-7 in the end, but it didn't go down to the last game. At least there's hope for next time. Just need to avoid certified weekend league players when on a -3 or -4 form.
Sounds kinda brutal. I've not played Champs this version but Rivals and the cups are a sweat-fest. Although saying that, this latest cup is full of shitters.
New promo is dead. What is the point of these shit new Evos that don't fit anyone?
The last I saw of FIFA, the strain of every mode being competitive was taking its toll on people. They even put objectives behind friendlies so you couldn't even escape to there most times.
If you want to, like Yev might have, play the game without using the meta, then tough. You lose(or lose more often).
Agree with you on the fire and ice cup RD, on the first day I won 4 of my 5 games on the ice tournament so no idea what happened there. Every other mode is full of people who, for me at least, are genuinely competent at the game as a minimum and they all play in the same way - press you like fuck and then cut inside from the wings.
My team on the no FP account is pretty dogshit Fox, but other than the rush you get from completing ludicrous SBC's I prefer every other aspect of it, particularly the grind.
The evo calculator on FUT gg got the physical wrong on my Hojlund so he can’t go into stop right there :face:
Granted I should have checked it but it’s still annoying
Up to 50-odd packs saved for TOTY now. Not exactly Yev, but they're stacking up slowly but surely. I'm going to try and save everything until the full team is in packs I think
Oh and I packed Messi's gold card on the shit account. I swear it's better than any other card I've used on either account.
Back on attempting to qualify for weekend league and the latest thing I've realised is never play in shit connectivity. I always pass more than my opponents even when I get humped and it just does not work when the connection is shit. Anyway, first three games down:
Game 1 - 3-1 win.
Nice this one. Opponent went 1-0 up but a silly red card for him put us back in it and we romped to a 3-1 win.
1-0
Game 2 2-6 Loss
We went 2-0 up fairly early on but he was clearly the better player and as soon as he switched to the high press that was it. No time on the ball, no space and no passing options. I simply do not know how to deal with this and it's clearly the single biggest point of failure in my attempts to qualify.
1-1
Game 3 - 4-7 Loss
Took a 2-0 lead again but this time it felt very much deserved, however a switch to high press by my opponent and a suspicion of him handing his controller to a mate and it was game over again.
1-2
At least I've secured the three packs already.
What is your team right now? This is the RTG account?
I played a bit of Rivals earlier and absolutely wrecked some dweebs in Div 8 :groove:
Yeah, I'm on the shit account at least until I get the desire to spunk some cash and pack a TOTY. Team is:
https://i.postimg.cc/Pxgk8PLF/team.jpg
Game 4 - 3-4 Loss
High pressing fuck again, but we dealt with it a bit better this time, taking it to extra time.
1-3
Should add, if we play a team with a physical beast up front Moore swaps with Thuram. Think I'm gonna set up a 4-2-4 to try and find an outlet against the high press.
You should give the 4-3-2-1 a bash. Seems to be the most the meta and you pretty much have the players for it
Game 5 0-2 loss and quit
Super team. Red Mbappe. Fuck that.
1-4
Game 6 - 2-3 Loss
Really should have won this one, clean through with Dembele but from an angle in the 89th minute, I thought he'd bring his keeper out and he didn't. He goes down the other end and scores.
1-5
Game 7 - 0-3 and quit
Much better player, his team had acres of space and when I did get the ball couldn't get close to getting through.
1-6
Game 8 - 2-0 down inside 15 minutes and quit
Much better player again and the dream is over once more.
Game 9 5-5 and 4-2 win on pens.
Another 2-0 lead spunked here, but we made it over the line.
2-7
Game 10 - 2-0 loss
2-0 down in 8 minutes and out. If that guy had -5 form (or whatever the max is in WL qualifying then I'm good at this game).
2-8
Are you doing first owner only? Or using whatever resources you get? I would suggest Maguire needs to go. Even gold Varane has to be better.
Surprising lack of Evo's too. Walker should be better than Frankowski and there are some stupid forward/winger options available right now. I say that because I have never got on with Auba.
Yeah, I've kept it first owner for the time being as I want all resources going into getting a TOTY. I have Butragueono as an alternative to Auba, but I felt I was getting bullied with two midgets up front. Interestingly just watching Nep and it looks as though match making is borked, consistent with my complaints. He's talking about weekend league itself, but assume the same principles would apply to qualifying. From the two attempts I've had it my 'form' seems to make little difference in who I draw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy5M0WDQyqM
He gets a guy who is 7-1 when he's 5-4 and then gets a pro player at 5-5. :D
I did see a tweet of his talking about that. Makes no sense if thats who you are getting.
Fair enough on first owner. Maybe Welbeck instead :D
Picked up both Telles cards. He seems prime for an evo in the near future.
I've hit the 30 saved pack mark now and the web app is not my friend.
These are ther type of goals, im scoring with him every game. It is just rinse and repeat. If I get the ability to add Header+, and more balance...
:drool:
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Proper target man things :nodd:
Sincere, what type of pass is that at 1:21 in your vid?
Looks like a normal driven pass to me.
TOTY squad leaked. No real surprises other than at RB, but I've no idea if he's actually good or not.
Zico and Cafu SBCs coming during TOTY too apparently.
Might do Cafu
He would certainly be better than that Ligue 1 shitter I have at right back. :D
Icon evolution out. Bit shit for 200k mind.
Up to 77 packs now, but I have no fodder to do any of the new SBCs :moop:
I need a LB but will pick up Havertz if no decent ones materialise on Friday
Seems like this new casino SBC are either broken or an absolute scam. GK's all round
Yet another striker EVO and apparently a CDM Evo coming during TOTY. I have Martinez 88, Mainoo 83, Amrabat 85, Donny 81 abd McSauce 82 TOTW waiting for it.
Patrick who is still an option so could produce something nice
I've spent shitloads on bronze packs trying to get those Utd ones. Not a sniff :moop:
I've not played FIFA for years, but ultimate teams looks even more fucking horrendous than I remembered.
But the West Brom evos :drool:
Bruno Flashback coming for TOTS I am still using and liking his RTTK card so this is an instant complete for me. His passing is great.
Kante the other big SBC by the looks of it. Shame about the dead league.
Ronaldo, Valverde and Trent in the 12th man 'vote'. We all know who thats going to be
Looks nuts for an 89 rated
Hit the 100 saved pack mark today :cool:
Cafu out for a cheap price. Will be in everyone's team
Best TOTY icon SBC coming too.
Some insane cards coming. Feels like we're almost at end game and it's January :cab:
I'm assuming TOTS will have 3 ps+ but stats-wise we're almost there
EA servers in the mud
That new exchange tab in SBC's will make the grind so much fun.
First one of those 89 exchanges done and it has a Rodri in it. That's 50 players for literally nothing. :D
I ripped about 1/4 of my packs, but didn't get anything exciting. Did get CR7 who would have been the 12th man :moop:
Made a start on Bruno with the pack fodder. Card looks great but I wish he wasn't wearing a Sporting top
Blue hair Mbappe. Scenes :drool:
I have also started Bruno. Two duplicate KDBs driving it. The change to long ball from incisive has annoyed me. I feel like his current + is very useful but the card looks like a genuine box to box monster
Right, plan for the shit account is to save anything 84+ (and 83+x20), with everything 83x10 and under opened on a daily basis. My club is stacked with high rated golds (have 15 89+ cards) so any and all dupes go into the exchange tab until we get to the full team + HM in packs where everything gets opened and we pick an SBC to do.
Hoping to have about 100+ packs saved that fit the above description by the time HM's comes round. Think I'm on about 60 odd now.
Just checked and i have over 700 players in ny club. What is the SBC method to get rid of the players and thrown them into SBCs.?
There might be some bronze and silver upgrades coming tonight Sincere so I’d see what’s there before chucking everything in.
There are indeed. :drool:
Sincere -
Do the daily bronze, silver and gold upgrades with all of your bronze and silvers first.
Remaining bronze and silvers into league SBC's where applicable and then into the Premium bronze and silver upgrades.
Golds 80 rated and below into league SBC's, with any off league ones into the 81+ double upgrade, or where you absolutely have to the standard gold upgrade.
Save 81's for the 82 rated TOTW upgrade segment.
Do the 83x10 upgrades first (as they give you more bang for your buck if you need to open one) then the 84x5
Dupe high rated cards into the exchange upgrade or whatever player SBC you're doing.
First TOTY special packed.
https://i.postimg.cc/DybTrpkv/Icon.jpg
Quite unbelievably from the 11 gold players daily upgrade pack.
Nice. Shame it's not an outfielder, but a blue's a blue. GK sorted for the rest of the game cycle, any way.
Other thing to bear in mind with rinsing fodder is that there's league upgrades coming soon, so keep your major league cards
Hmm, I thought they had some minimum x from the league thing. But I'll defer to the SBC-grind sensei
Haha, they do sometimes (for other events) but never have during TOTY. What they did do last year was shrink the size of the pack you got back for submitting 11 rares, which was a bit scummy.
What I am curious about is how they'll handle the MLS (given the lack of rare golds) and maybe to a lesser extent the Women's leagues, so that may cause a change this year.
Saw this on Reddit: Swiss and American managers are going for max BIN
Oooh, cheers RD. Any idea why?
They are indeed. Easiest 15k I'll ever make.
That Japan midfielder (sawa icon) is coming as an SBC? I may have to complete it. Her icon card i had on loan was sensational
Yeah she’s confirmed to be coming.
Packed Sol from SB rewards. Opened on my phone, probably a good thing as seeing icon and it being him vs one of the new ones would have been annoying :D
Sweet jesus
Is that real?
Apparently. Have to pray they dont fix it in time but looks like it could be done
Where it says, keep level 2 unclaimed.Does that mean you do the first level and you do the second level, but you don't advanced to level 3?
Keep up is 2 levels.
Complete Level 1 objectives. Claim it
Complete Level 2 objectives. Ignore it - do not claim at all.
Once that expires (next week) then start Fast Forward. 4 levels
Complete Level 1,2 and 3 objectives. Claim it
Complete Level 4 objectives. Ignore it - do not claim at all.
When that expires (in Feb so a few weeks out) start TOTY Unsung Hero.
Finish that one, claim the lot.
Another.
I am doing it right now with Shoretire.
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I didnt claim the last bit so he sits at a 78
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I have him in two evo's at once. I plan on claiming the skill moves on to put him in TOTY Striker. Which I then wont claim as he will have good attributes but questionable play styles.
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Nice. I tried yo buy the players mentioned but they are dinosaurs.
It’s unlikely but you never know. I’ve been keeping a keen eye on the pack odds in store to try and marry those against what I’m holding and for comparison the chances of packing a TOTY while attackers were in packs was less than 1% from an 85+ x7. Now it’ll be better than once the full team are in packs but there’s genuinely no amount of packs that guarantees anything.
I opened thousands in 2022 and I got 14 TOTY’s but not a single midfielder or attacker in that. Nick28t opened over 2,000 in FIFA23 and got nothing. A mate of my nephew (who barely played the game) opened an 81+ double from a single bronze card and out came Messi.
What I would say and this is only anecdotal (from about 10,000 packs over the last 3/4 years), you have a better chance of packing one the earlier in the week it is (of the full team being in packs) and the later into the evening/earlier in the day it is. 2am to 2pm seems much better than 2pm to 2am. Of course you could just open them when you want, get lucky and pack one anyway. Many people will.
You just have to hope for the best. There are double the amount of TOTYs now with the womens game. Still a slim chance compared to the whole player base.
I was thinking to myself how they actually structure these promos. I'm assuming they have something like a proportional # of each card which can be active in the game at one time (like only 10,000 TOTY Mbappe) and then you have to think how they structure the handouts in regards to packs. It says it's a flat percent chance, but like you say it feels like there's an easier shot earlier in the promo for some reason, even though proportionally there are more packs are being opened. I wonder if that then goes back to the # active cards at that point.
Similarly I think they rotate through slots in things like Icon SBCs with a chance for different players from the pool.
Would be super interesting to find out but it's likely impossible to know unless someone spills the beans, and then they'll get lawyered to death.
I thought it was only 4 rares, but it's 11 players with 4 rares. Absolutely banging.
https://i.postimg.cc/QdTSFGWD/TOTY.jpg
Pulled the above together, which is rares by category broken down. It'll need updating for the 12th player (well, at least the Woman's one) and the HM. Some observations:
Once the 12th player and HM's are in there might not be that many 89 players left, which will make the exchange and higher rated player SBC squads quite hard to do.
If you want to pack one the EPL is definitely the way to go, but chances are you're going to get a keeper or Bright.
La Liga looks best for fodder, but good luck packing one of the midfielders or forwards.
Decisions, decisions.
Checking, the winter wildcard crafting upgrade. 11 commons for 3 rares. Is that good value? It expires in 2 days and i can do it another 148 times.
Very good value.
Forgot that was there as I've finished them all, but had I remembered I'd have put it in the list above.
Every year, TOTY is when I get the regret of not starting and prepping so I could get involved. This year is no different.
Latest prime pack is out
Also in concepts if a player moves clubs, it does not give you the matching player from concepts.
Once Sawa comes out, ill throw stuff at her and then open packs on friday morning.
What I did realise last night which was a bit of a kicker (cannot believe it took me so long) is that rather than type a list out of dupes on your tradepile or take photos of it you can just open the web app, leave it on the tradepile page and browse through it at your leisure when you're back in the game.
Gamechanger. I didnt know.
Indeed. I was kicking myself big time that I hadn't realised sooner you could do it. Pissed through 50 duplicate bronzes into the daily gold upgrades last night.
It really isn't too late to start either. There's a wealth of packs available on a new account. I'd deliberately left the foundation SBC's until TOTY and did them last night, which gives such a decent haul of packs for sod all investment. Pack an 89 from any of them and that's another 51 players to keep the grind going from the exchange SBC's.
I haven't even been trying to save packs and I have 225 ready to open. That's from basically just playing the game here and there and chipping away at some of the easy objectives and SBCs.
I'd genuinely put this up the top in terms of UT - been very enjoyable so far.
When is The Day? Is it Friday when all the team is in packs?
Thursday will have the full team and I reckon Friday the 12th Man and HM's. Not sure what they'll do with icons.
Hopefully all back in for a mad week.
Free CB evo out. Looks like another boost to Lindelof. Going to have 92 passing and 91 defending.
It looks like Thursday
I accidentally removed from Bruno Jordao Evo from Fut.gg that I'm leaving unclaimed in Growth Spurt 2. Now I cant find the card with the matching stats to add him back in.
Got one.
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Lovely stuff. Which pack was she in?
83x 10
I have been opening one a day to provide the fodder for two completions. Maybe I will save them now since I got one.
Not sure how to get her in the team. Shes probably better but Maldini and TOTW VVD are had to displace.
She was the double walkout behind Hegerberg so atleast I didnt get baited into thinking it was Theo
Become a 5ATB rat :naughty:
:D Wash your mouth out!
Maybe once we see what Kante costs ill revisit. Kante, Zidane and Bruno in the middle would make chem easier for her. Would be sad to drop RTTK Modric.
Not sure what’s going on but in the space of 3 packs I have got Litmanen and Cahill from league SBC grind to use dupes :cab:
Not sure what’s going on but in the space of 3 packs I have got Litmanen and Cahill from league SBC grind to use dupes :cab:
Working on the Antony evo and I love that you can do his retarded spin :lol:
No. via Fut.GG you can add your current evo cards. The trick currently is to not claim players at certain levels, so you can throw them into the next evo. I currently have Bruno Jordao CM card, that is at level 3 of Growth Spurt 2. 75-79-85-85-63-82 are his stats. I now cant see, this card anywhere on fut.cc or futbin, futwiz, etc.
When doing SBCs with multipe high segments. Is it always best to complete the highest-rated sections first?
Where possible, yeah, but I don't think it makes too much difference.
I feel like mentally, if you start with the big shit you are committed and it feels easier from there.
Icon evo is a disgrace.
200k for an 89-rated Gattuso with 77 pace :drool:
Dreadful. We are all waiting to Evo our Centurion Sharpshooter and Box2Box midfield cards.
Out of interest, how many Evos actually make your best team?
I only have Szloboszai (who'll get replaced by Bruno soon) and Martinez/Wan Bissaka on the bench. That's it
91 Shaw at LB. Dropped TB Robertson for him. He could go if I do Cafu and move TB Cancelo over.
88 Garnacho LW. Still enjoying the card even though I could probably do better.
I reckon full Evo's Antony might actually get in over TB Salah for me too.
87 Llorente and 87 Hannibal sit on the bench.
Oh yeah, forgot about Llorente. He's keeping AWB out.
I have Garnacho as well but his card it just too generic.
Yeah thats quite fair. Just hasnt let me down and I dont really have anyone special I would replace him with
Lucky if you get one. Llorente and Cancelo and Walker. now Malen i see in peoples teams often.
Hit the 100 mark of semi-decent packs.
https://i.postimg.cc/MG5YX1cj/TOTY-Packs.jpg
Should be able to add to that tomorrow with the SBC upgrade refreshes but may need to open a few to do so. What I also have in the yeet locker are the following golds and specials cards:
89 x15
88 x14
87 x15
86 x19
85 x27
There were some difficult conversations, Peter Schmeichel took it particularly hard given he was in the team last week, but they all know that it's the right decision and want to play a part in generating a further 542 rare and 1,284 common golds for the PROJECT and they really had no argument left when I explained that with recycling that equated to 134 Premium League Upgrade Packs and 201 2 Rare player packs.
We start in earnest late evening on Friday. :drool:
Oh and the only thing left to decide is what packs to focus on, current ponderings:
League SBC's have to be the focus where possible, at least until such time where my brain can no longer cope with shoe horning 11 different clubs into each squad. Pound for pound the pack weight of the Premium League upgrades has historically been the worst going. I genuinely think it's something like 1 in a thousand/0.1% odds. There are more rares this year, but (as they've done with every other pack) they'll just make the odds worse to compensate for what looks like a better deal.
The Rare Gold Provisions pack in store is worth keeping an eye on. 55k coins for 55 players, which includes Lib players, so pack a couple of those and you're pushing the average cost of rares down to the 900 coin each mark. The streamers seem to think Rare Gold cards won't boom and Lib cards will come down, but given how so much is untradeable and the sheer amout of players that are going to be yeeted into SBC's I'm not convinced.
Still not sure what leagues I'll focus on when it does come to doing the Premium upgrade packs. The odds are so shit that brute forcing it with sheer volume doesn't help much, you just have to be lucky, so I might spread it about a bit this year. Maybe 35% Prem, 35% La Liga, 20% Ligue 1 and 10% MLS. The Honourable Mentions may help to decide which way to go, but the odds of getting the better ones of those are also dogshit.
2 Player Rare Gold Upgrades vs. 1 Rare League upgrades will yet again be a dilemma. The former gives you Lib cards which could be big, more golds to create the premium packs from and a shot at Ronaldo (lol), but the league packs always feel like the ones I should be doing.
I have 400k coins on hand, plus a tradeable standard Messi and Salah. Have held on to both in the hope they spike when they're out of packs (if Salah indeed is through getting an HM). I'd normally stock up on rare golds at this point to have a WARCHEST of the fuckers at the ready, but if I'm going to focus on League SBC's where possible I think I'd rather keep the coins on hand for now. 400k could be burnt through pretty easily to keep things going.
Oh and all this made me realise what I'd like to do next year if I'm in it from the start. Evo team up until TOTY - I'll just pick a random club, save all packs of the quality in the list above, yeet everything else into random roulette wheel SBC's in the hope of packing a monster and then burn through everything I've saved for TOTY and use that haul for the 2nd half of the game cycle with guest appearances from the Evo's I've grown attached to.
That is a lot of grind :cool:
I have just over 100 packs, but about 10% are bronze and silver.. I haven't opened packs over the past month so every pack in the objectives is being opened over the next few days.
Because I'm a degenerate I've been watching some streamers open packs and it really seems they've got you to a method of essentially unlimited packs as long as you have a decent amount saved.
Yeah, if you avoid player SBC's and chuck everything into the new exchange ones it's basically an unlimited grind. There's a chance you'll end the week with nothing, a pretty big chance I'd say, but that's only worth thinking about when you're drinking from a brown paper bag and scouring bins a week on Friday.
They've got the whole of both teams out, but they've lowered the pack weight. I hope you're ready to grind, lads.
Fuck it, let's get going.
https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust
Don't want to open any of the good saved packs until tomorrow, but think there's a grind I can do for now which will involve a bit of web app.
Kante looks like a bit of a bust.
CM evo (75 rated) and LW 85 coming
Cannot use “in progress evo” cards apparently. Seems like they can’t fix it
Right, done for the night and fuck me, the pack weight is atrocious.
Kept all of my decent packs, but was doing the following grind with coins and submitting the odd high rated gold (I already had) to keep things going.
Mixed League Upgrade
Premium Mixed League Upgrade
2 Rare Gold Players Pack
Premium League Upgrade Pack
Obviously no TOTY packed, but that wasn't really the issue. The problem was that even 85+ cards were hard to pack and anything over 87 non-existant. Think I got two 87 golds, Lauren James In form (also 87) and a couple of 85's in five hours grinding. Only positive was did about 9 TOTW player picks, but had to dip into my stockpile of 85s even to do that.
Hopefully the better saved packs will change things tomorrow night.
I didnt get chance to open. It will probably be Saturday Morning now when i start. Jude will do me nice
I'm gonna hoover up whatever objectives come at six and then get cracking.
I think I am waiting until Sunday, though I have a lot less to open.
The 83x10 being gone is sad and that 86+ upgrade might be the worst value thing they've ever released.
Is this the best grind now?
Premium Mixed League Upgrade
2 Rare Gold Players Pack
Premium League Upgrade Pack
@Yevrah
Also has the Evo thing been patched?
Depends what coins, packs and fodder you're sat on Sincere and how far you're prepared to go. What have you got?
No icons in packs either sucks a bit, makes me tempted to wait now. Goddammit.
I've been watching Nick for a bit and he's been ranting on about how they've cut down massively on the grind.
Just watched Nep open viewer packs for 40 minutes and not only were there no TOTY's packed there were no Honourable Mentions either. Pack weight in the mud.
They must have seen the amount of people stacking packs and turned that dial all the way down.
I saw RTFM complaining that the % chance of a TOTY is now lower, with 22 potential players, than it was during any of the single defender, midfielder, or attacker stages.
Yeah, think this will be the best grind if you're solely focusing on getting a TOTY:
Mixed League SBC's
Premium League SBC's
2 Player Gold Updgrade Pack/League Upgrade
Premium League SBC
Do the 82 x 20, 85 x3 and 80+ gold player picks until they're all gone (86+ as well if you want but it's horrific value unless it's been juiced). 81s to 85s into the TOTW pack if you need in forms and 85s and higher into the exchange.
EDIT: That's what I'll be doing tonight and saving the bigger packs I have until tomorrow now when hopefully the icons come, if they don't I'm cracking them anyway.
Thanks. Ill do this method. When you mention bigger packs. What are those? On the web app, it seems to list the packs in a particular order. I have two Ultimate Packs and I have to scroll all the way to the bottom to open them and then the Small Prime Gold Players Pack. Do they show in the web app from worst to best?
No idea what dictates the order in the web app, by big packs I meant anything 84+ or 83 x (at least) 10.
We go again.
https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust
Started on the 84+'s and it's the first HM. Sadly another keeper in Ederson.
Ive got 10 objectives i didnt claim last season and it appears, i cant claim them.
Jordao card is currently 82 but if I claim him, he turns into a 87.
https://i.ibb.co/zhYZcRS/ghgfh.png
Yeah, final level of growth spurt will do that. You just dont claim it, keep him 82 and wait for another good evo for him.
My Shoretire was the same on this post:
I still havent claimed him but put him in "skill moves training" in between. Now on the web app he looks like this:
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In game he looks like a normal "finished" card thats 81 rated. Just waiting for the leaked LW evo to come to see my next move. That or TOTY Striker.
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Opened all packs and got Ederson who went straight into the SBCl. Looking at last seasons objectives, ive got 31 i didnt claim. Everything from level 5 to 18. Stupid. It seems like they can never be claimed now.
Didnt realise Finisher Evo expires today so ive just started it with Malen TOTW.
2nd HM. Diani.
2nd HM. The Korean Defender.
4.7k = 3x77 rare gold players
5.7k = 2x81 rare gold players
2.6k = 1 of 3 80+ rare gold players
@Yevrah Which one is best value?
The 3x77 is the crafting upgrade and you get packs back for every 10.
Do all of player picks as there are only 10 then do all of the 3x77 upgrades.
Er lads….
At least one of us hot a TOTY. My prediction is Ronaldo.
Always when you least expect it... Opened the pack by accident as I thought I was sitting on a dupe (was saving the 83x10s for the icons tonight) and out pops this don.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybCAYLDWvcM
:cool:
Nice, looks a beast.
I'm down to my last 20 packs and am waiting to see what comes out tonight before I get stuck in. These are all the big ones so it's the final shot :uhoh:
Pack weight is horrid. I have been ripping packs since friday and i still have an 87 section of Kante to do
Min Jae Kim is horrible. For my playstyle. This kid cannot pass at all. 62 vision and 39 curve. You really feel it.
That’s the only reason I would do Kante too, aside from the obvious reason of packing Ronaldo, rest just seem a bit meh.
Lovely @Yevrah looks quality as always.
New Hero pick says 87 on the header but 86 on the description.
Opened one to clear some duplicates and got Park. Compensation incoming.
Got Ederson from first 80+ of the day
KDB with a 93rd minute winner in my 2nd cup game. :drool:
Need to get enough fodder to finish the two segments I have left of Bruno Fernandes and then it's everything into getting another TOTY.
Third HM. Musiala
That was my only win in 5 cup games. Still cannot deal with being pressed like fuck.
Got Trent HM. Basically got an insta-semi when the blue lights came up and a Brazil flag appeared only for Casemiro's cheeky little grin to ruin it all. Bastard
Lib/Sud cards down to reasonable prices now.
Genuinely can't pack anything over an 84 at the moment. :D
Yeah I opened a couple of 83 x 10s with not much above an 84 coming out. Nothing to put low rated shit in either.
Indeed. Just opened what will now be my last pack of the night an 83x10 where only 1 card wasn't a dupe, which was an 84, with one solitary 85 coming out. Fucked if I'm dealing with those 9 dupes now.
Picked up Bernado from one of them just now. Why the fuck can he play left back :D
Accidentally opened an 84 x 10 (was trying to open the 85 x 3 midfielder pack) and got another Bernado and dupe Neymar.
I'm giving serious consideration to saving my 83x20s and the 84x10 I have. I'm not sure I can face putting that many 83s and 84s into league upgrade packs.
Kane from the 30 coin pack.
I was thinking of doing the same but fodder/packs are so abundant these days I am thinking about just sending it over the week. Doing Cafu and going from there
I'm currently thinking of sticking all my cash into 84s. They've never been cheaper and a bump up to 2.5k ish would see me double my coins
Best investment you can make is fodder during TOTY.
Sometimes its the 86s/87s that are they way to go, as you can get lucky with a good SBC coming out right after or for Future Stars and they boom in price. 84s always pay off though.
TOTY pack weight has been so dead that a lot of that fodder is max bin.
Saw reports of the player pick being broken and handing out TOTY.
Got Alisson
I didn't get there quick enough, Messi like confetti apparently.
Only solution is everyone gets Messi :nod:
New evo out that gives double PS+ it low rating.
Solid Wolves option in Bellagarde for Sincere
Found a really fucking annoying bug with one of the evos.
Stuck a 59 rated Fulham CB into the Patrick Who evo - plan was to take him to 63 then I could stick him into Fast Forward to make him an 88. But it seems like there's a bug where you can't evolve a player who has been through the Patrick Who? evo any further. So now I've wasted the evo and have a 63 rated CB who is stuck there.
I can buy a new regular bronze card but then I'm spending 75k to just make him an 84 after Fast Forward. Just irritating all round.
I think I saw something on that. Have you tried the various apps? Web/companion?
Yeah - tried the web and phone app and it just logs me out when I try and put him in. I've only got a couple of days left and it appears other people have encountered the same issue - nothing has been done of course. Might have to suck it up and stick the regular 59 in.
He actually works if I put him in Fast Forward, then the TOTY CB Prospect - makes him an 88.
Of course, I can't have another Evo version of him so I'm going to have to instantly discard the 63 rated Evo that I just completed. :D
Saw some madlad who'd managed to get Mainoo up to a 93 with 4 PS+s :D
I use FUT.gg mostly
Futwiz also
I think FUTWIZ allows helps work out custom ones but I do it manually
If all goes to plan I should end up with a beefy Shoretire.
My twitter timeline has brought my attention to the free Messi situation. Genuinely don't know how EA get out of this one. The only 2 'fair' solutions are never going to happen so they may have just borked the cycle.
Yep. You can’t take him away but like fuck they are giving him to everyone. Unless they do some sort of massive loan situation.
Did the hero pick to use dupes, normal McManaman, blue Berbatov and normal Pele. First two are dirt cheap so I took Pele even though he doesn’t get a sniff (not that many of them do)
Really want to get started on the TOTY Icon Best - he's the ultimate for a Fulham P&P. It's a huge commitment though and if I do it, it might be better to start crafting after TOTY is out of packs so the pack weight goes back to normal.
Either that or I just jump into Cafu and get him done instead.
I think they did the worst thing possible in taking the SBC away. You could have just left it and what will be will be. Now you've admitted there was a problem and problems require resolution.
Sure they could chuck out a 99 game loan version for everyone, but then those that got in, in time, still have Messi until the game is done.
If only i was online at 6pm. I rarely do these days.
I was working and I jumped on the mobile app at 18:20 assuming it would have been removed by then. As it wasn't I assumed they'd just leave it so I planned to do it when I got home. :face:
Packed "normal" Ashely Cole. Skipped it as I thought it was a silver :D
England full backs the order of the day as I got Trent too.
Down to just a couple of big packs. So many inform picks with nothing to shout about.
I decided to start on Cafu. I'm just not going to get round to doing 16 squads for Best.
Had some fun last night going onto Rivals to Evo my 80 rated Carlos Vinicius. Absolutely demolishing sides with TOTYs, Eusebio, Zidane, Best - all with a big lump up top and 88 POTM Wirtz providing all the assists. :drool:
Cafu is mustard. So elegant on the ball.
I also fully endorse the Brazilian Conor Bradley.
Cafu is an auto tackle monster.
He'll struggle to get in the team ahead of 91 Timothy Castagne, but I'll see what I can do. :D
One segment from finishing Cafu too.
ST Hero evolution coming apparently. I have Berba, Francescoli and Cahill so somewhat interested.
If that's the case, I might need to snap up a Berbatov. I imagine it'll be one of the Evos priced at 100k+ though.
McManaman and Giuly from hero picks this morning.
Pele popped with McMananan but I have him and Keßler normal with Giuly but he was more expensive. Her UCL one looks very expensive
Right, one final push, presumably during the worst TOTY pack weight ever.
https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust
What happened to that squad screen where it shows all your cards at the bottom and you can scroll through them from left to ride. It has has filters above them? Let me try and grab a screenshot. I dont think ive seen it in this version.
It's in the transfer list Sincere.
Thats it. Thanks
Bernardo Silva. Quite intrigued to try him at left back and a nice chem boost for Bruno.
This game has descended into absolute farce in the last month or so.
Lovely stuff. How is he?
Felt good in a few games last night. I don’t think I would pay 3m for him though.
So it seems EA have said they aren't doing anything about the Messi situation. There will be no compensation for anyone because apparently only 0.7% of people got one.
I'm surprised they even said that. Funny that they're happy to disclose percentages of "less than 1%" more specifically when it works in their favour and you can bet your arse that 0.7% will be 0.7% of all people who've bought EAFC, whether they've played ultimate team or not. The actual % of active Ultimate Team users must have been 10%+.
Still gutted I didn't do the SBC when I had it on the web app.
Yeah, seething I didn't do it. Instead I ate dinner and watched Scrubs.
Not really sure I can be arsed playing the game much right now. New promo will be shit and every other team will have Messi up-front
Cafu is done. Alex Morgan might be the next SBC to do - I've heard good things about her card.
Still 200 packs sitting in my store. Recycling is a ballache.
Decided to do the icon pick as none of the other SBCs really interest me.
Thunder Struck Nesta
Base Cantona
Base Gerrard.
The price of the first two is a lot closer than I thought but I had to take Cantona.
In 4 qualifiers last night I didn’t see a single Messi. Only playing champs as I need to get a red evo to cheat the system otherwise I would be avoid the WL cesspit. I imagine I will start to run into him in the real thing.
I did it last night and got Puyol, VDS and another keeper. As I have Ederson and Cech I effectively swapped 33 reasonably rated cards for an 89.
And talking of bad calls, I have 491k coins on hand on the RTG and with a KDB already packed do I go BD in one of the store packs in the hope of getting a buzzer beater?
So the reason for the SBC for Messi being borked was that the game selects a league before the player in said league. The game is obviously coded in such a way as to more commonly give you a shitter. Problem is in the Saudi and MLS leagues there was only one card rated 86+. So if the game chose one of them for you, it was a guaranteed TOTY.
Kimmich looks pretty good value seeing as Bayern are against Lazio who are shite. Would expect them to come through that. Card looks alright as well.
Hero evo is a bit shit really.
Francescoli looks like he ends up nice but I doubt I use him so no point spending 100k on it.
Played 10 games today. TOTY Messi 3 times.
Just packed Ansu Fati from an 84+ x5. I am now a Brighton fan.
:D
The price on some of these cards is insane. Looks like people really arent opening packs.
I packed Sorloth's inform untradeable and decided to throw him into my team on one chemistry. 6 foot 5 inches. 195cm. Stocky body type. 99 rated for everything involved with strength and heading with the traits. He has 29 goals in just 10 games in a 442. Long ball FC is working wonders.
Not sure what to do on the game now. The players i want to evo, you cant evo as they are all high rated and dont qualify.
Yeah it’s quite annoying. I get not wanting to push too many players above / beyond the power curve but keep them close ffs.
Though the lack of “normal” evos this weekend makes it look like they don’t know how to fix all the broken shit with chained evos. Same as not having a keeper one yet.
The next evo is a RTTK one limited to 88 rated cards.
Apparently it’s Tevez birthday today and we are getting his UCL card as an SBC
The other annoying thing about Evos is that it's so hard to pack the lower-rated cards First Owner. I've opened a million bronze packs to get Mainoo but can't hit him for shit
Right. I finally packed Hannibal the other week. Bit late now. Though I should be able to "merge" them to make that one also FO if I wanted to
Need to get some Minge in there to even things out
https://i.ibb.co/7RWVKkR/image.png
Someone went a different way.
Lots of "Dick"
Ok it’s free but how shit is that Evo
And why always radioactive ‘shell’ its hideous
What does the green fut champs thing to for evo?
The FUT champs Evo just turns them red like the IFs from previous years.
I played the last two weekends to unlock one as it should help bypass the “in progress” evo thing.
Best of a shitty evo imo. Not too much better than the radioactive evo version that came out ages ago.
Worth it if you have him but I wouldn’t be sniping him at max bin.
I’ll do Darmian since it’s free
Neto is in the next promo @SincereTheRebel
I’ll be trying to pack Garnacho :nodd:
Will be interesting to see how they handle the ‘academy’ stuff they do every year. Maybe a bunch of chain able evos
Ive seen a new version of bellegarde with the chained evo floating around but he isnt much better than my current one. Cunha with a decent IF and Neto in the next Promo might see half decent cards.
The blatant pack weight turn up after toty is disgusting. I started davies and ive been doing the daily brzone and silver upgrade method since toty has been out of packs. Ive got one 87 section left. I couldnt get a sniff of bernardo silva during toty. Now, i have thrown him into every sbc
I haven’t opened a single pack this week. I have 4 large dupes with nowhere to put them.
Positive of that is I have all the bronze / silver upgrades ready for future stars.
Sounds like the academy stuff is going to be through evos for sure
They seem to have nailed down the formula this year to take it back to how it was when UT was only a few years old. Back then it was almost impossible to get the top players unless you sank the money in. In recent years, just grinding could take you a lot of the way there but you were reliant on some luck along the way.
This year they seem to have got it to the point of giving out mostly untradeable packs. Then turn the weight all the way down for TOTY and keep up the flow of untradeable upgrades. You could have basically unlimited packs, but the rate it so low you could be going for days without hitting one. You might get lucky and get one, or really lucky and hit on more, but almost assuredly they're all untradeable.
This has left the market disappointed as almost nobody has a TOTY to sell. Even if they do, why would you when they are so far ahead of the curve for the most part. It's now back to how it was. All of your coin might now buy you one of the outfield players, but that's likely it. Other than the two keepers, the cheapest outfield player in the womens team is just under 1m. Mens team? 3m.
Now you add in the TOTY Messi debacle. Most of your competitive players would have been online for that SBC and most will have got him. If you're more casual, you're now so far behind the power curve after this years TOTY that you either face a bad time when you try to play a ranked mode, or you just get frustrated with it and stop playing.
They obviously didn't intend for the Messi situation, but they have it how they want it. The top players are not quite unobtainable, but they are for most people.
Red Evo workaround being patched apparently. It will no longer work for turning an in progress evo into a finished one.
Sounds like the ones already acquired will be fine but new wont work. Operation Shoretire is still a go.
Ffs. They really are trying to stop the fun
Some of the evos look quite nice.
https://www.fut.gg/evolutions/fs-aca...ckers/players/
Not sure who I will do.
Gotta be Malard for the Utd team. I'm Evo-ing Parris now.
Also: EA seem to be giving out the (shit) FS players quite a bit. I've got three of the blighters so far
Thought about that. Incredibly unlikely to use any of them either way.
Guessing we get a defender and midfielder set of evos and some of these cards look like they could work well in those too. Dina Embibe could be very nice with the right defensive boost
Is it safe to assume, all new evos. Will have the not in progress part
Yeah looks that way so far
Couple of solid options in today’s picks. That Burney right back looking solid.
The city full back into the attacker one looks good too
Madrid woman and City kid for me I think.
New Evo coming today called "power up". No clue on who/what.
Doing Gomez 100% but I need to have a look at the rest. Obviously not making the team so maybe I will just pick up some fun players like the Leverkusen pair and then one other forward.
Doesnt help I have 100+ packs (a lot of bronze/silver upgrades in there) waiting behind 4 big dupes. Cant even open the academy packs....
I packed Lukeba who is surprisingly good. He is short at 6 foot with good agility and balance for a CB. Makes him very nimble. Dropped VVD for him. Brought back in Kim and now running two teams. Wolves Evo and a Bundesliga Long Ball FC.
You eyeing up any of the Bundesliga academy options?
Midfielder set coming soon too.
:D
Hes one I am thinking about doing.
Dalot into this Evo but he's still bobbins :moop:
I heard a rumour Mainoo might be coming in the midfielder set.
I see these "loyalty packs" have gone down well.
I saw something about the big pack and people complaining. I had 4 in there including the 10 and 30 coin packs.
I've not Evo'd him yet so I just have his base card. Will put him in this to start it off.
I got four packs. 250k one seems scamtastic.
Very much so. Will be avoiding the big two
Opened a chunk of the lower tier packs last night and packed 6 FS. Unfortunately it was 2 each of Elliott, Le Mouel and Girma
Treivela nerf patch is out. Let's go
Crespo, Bissek and Girma in a single 84x5 pack
I haven't played post patch but it better not affect Long Ball FC. Trent playing RM with that whipped pass. Causing Havoc
Team 2 Update. Every on max chem except Sorloth who is on 2. Wide players on stay wide and balanced. CMs on get forward and free role. Everyone else on stay back.
https://www.futbin.com//24/squad/1476180
You need FS Boniface up top. Would fit it to a tee
FIFA Romania (reliable for leaks) just tweeted "Hello United Fans"
Seems like Mainoo then.
Edit: Nvm 90 rated Hojlund.
Beckham coming to FS too.
I would like to get him into my team. Right midfield. Whip that ball in lad.
Ive also come across this card. He has 50 heading for whatever reason, but im going to test him out. At 6"6 with aireal+ Using him to link up the play, sounds like my type of guy.
https://www.futbin.com/24/player/20675/thibaut-courtois
I packed that Courtois. Played 1 game. Haven’t used him since. Can’t head the ball :face:
The new Beckham looks unreal. Confirmed to have 90 pace, 80 defending and whipped pass +. Rest is a minimal upgrade of +2
I need that card.
Courtois is that bad:lol:
A new player has arrived. 6"4 with aerial+
https://www.futbin.com/24/player/21643/joshua-zirkzee
I didn’t enjoy him but I also hate the GK outfield thing so he was never gonna last.
I have that Zirkzees 85 I think.
New evo is meh.
Looks like a wicked card. I want him Also. 1.9m extinct.
Ffs. The Evos are shit
Lads.......
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Completed it.
Excellent stuff.
Tell you what though, there are zero decent SBCs out right now. Even the casino ones are shite
Thats why I did that.
88 rated dupe with nothing to do. I still have some big packs I can never get to with nothing to put fodder in.
In same boat. May just do Frank Rijkaaard to get rid of my duplicates. What other SBCs are coming or leaked?
Udogie and Cannavaro
I did the 85+ and got Kiwior and some FS German guy. Meh
Packed him twice already and he was in my first one that I ignored :face:
From a basic two player pack
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The Pace and dribbling boost they gave makes him look useable
Almost to the point of making decisions on Shortire
In game looks like this with three evos to claim
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If I claimed them all I would have this
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I am thinking about waiting and only claiming one that gives him Rapid +. It would give a +3 to Pace and Physical and no Ovr change. I think single playstyle cards might get an evo soon enough.
Yeah, he is decent. Got nothing to do now. I dont want to play again until i can upgrade my current Wolves Evo players.
Yeah, feeling that. I haven’t started on any of the academy stuff. Decided “who” but really not that fussed about them.
I made a start on Athenea. CBA with the midfielders and it's already a load of games. Real shame you can't work on multiple at the same time
Yeah its getting to the stage of the game where that needs to change.
Been doing that Dina Ebimbe card. Looking at the midfielder one today and its 25 games easy. Absolutely fuck that. Might do Gomez next week in defender and sack the rest off. Even then he depends on Udogie today. Could be pointless.
Feel like even with the Evo Udogie isn't all that
He comes out quite nice compared to the Evo Shaw I have. So I am thinking about it. If Davies could have for chem for me I would have done his FB
Did the Udogie card just to burn some dupes.
I already have Davies. He's great but his passing is shite.
The FS Evo LBs look decent (City guy and Real girl)
Decent free pace boosting Evo out today. Supposed to be a different LW Evo coming Sunday, think it’s free too.
If my numbers are right the waste man Sancho will go into both and may end up useable.
Werner is expensive but he is usually pretty broken in game and you imagine he gets a +3 minimum.
That new Alex Scott card looks ok for 250k. Pair her with that Hemp card and they look for decent for under a million worth of fodder. Anybody done Hemp. Her dribbling and whipped pass are tempting for Long Ball FC
Annoyingly, a lot of the recent Evo offerings have just missed out Fulham players due to the rating/stat restrictions.
Still really satisfying to go into Rivals and tonk someone using a god squad with the full Fulham team though. :D
Did you do Best in the end?
I am in the process of building a team of midget ladies for the same reason. Slapping people in Rivals to annoy them
I didn't - I knew I wouldn't have enough fodder to do it all, especially considering I'm playing the game a healthier amount (a lot less) than previous years.
I might get started on the Academy Evos this week though. Some of those players look insane fully upgraded.
Solid pack day grinding the 83x10, picks and TOTW.
FS Acuna, Rio Costa and Andre. Then IF Bellingham (87) from the TOTW pick, WW Grimaldo and finished Werner
New Evo seems a bit shit for the price. Tevez and Sneijder the stand outs for me. Do have Berba, Forlan and Park who can go in but I might pass
Ginola SBC tomorrow. The triple threat one rather than the normal hero.
Might be decent but I couldn't get on with his previous cards when I used them. I already have Zidane so not sure I need another clunky Frenchman.
The lack of serious top tier cards to grind towards is tedious
I packed his normal hero at relatively decent times last couple of years and put a stupid amount of games on both. Will probably do the SBC assuming it isnt a bonkers price for that reason. Somewhere to dump high fodder. I did Werner this week to burn fodder.
Supposed to have an icon SBC coming (EA said it is part of the weeks content) but no leaker seems to know who it is.
Brilliant. Gives me a bit more time to spread the games out rather than rushing.
We've all voted for Muniz for POTM I hope? :D
Pft. Hojlund.
It will be Saka though I think.
People seem to think the icon SBC will be Cruyff (who I think we had last year as well?)
That Ginola price :D
I've resisted stating such as I was fully prepared to give it a chance and really trying to, but this game has been a bag of wank since TOTY and I'm pretty convinced will remain as such until TOTS. There's simply no point playing it or grinding it in that time (unless you really enjoying doing those things in and of themselves) as the rewards are pointless.
6 to 8 weeks I spent on the free to play account and I haven't seen a single thing that would upgrade my team since just after TOTY, bar a handful of utterly unpackable cards.
They've completely fucked the power curve, there's no turning back and I think the only way forward from this point in future versions to avoid it happening again is to get rid of TOTY, which is obviously never going to happen.
When icons players used to get SBCs. The price of the SBC would be between 50%-70% of the cards value which would drop the price of the card on the market and all other cards around the same value. Now they release the SBC at the same price and everything still remains sky high.
Werner scores and Spurs win.
@Raoul Duke
RB evo. Pretty sure your Dalot goes into it, mines too high rated but AWB will go in
I just have his gold card right now. Haven't really been keeping on top of these Evos all that much
Fair. I thought you did the last RB one.
I maybe forgot...
:D
Tradeable?
I hope so. Stupid price. Insta sell imo
Rolfo today. Should get all the upgrades too. I don’t really fuss over the women cards but that might be a must do assuming they don’t make it obscene
Yeah, sadly untradeable. Not even sure he's a 500k card on closer inspection, let alone 3m.
The traits are mustard mind.
Rolfo I'll do. I seem to be building up a Barca Women RTG without planning to
Not the worst price. Will wait till closer to the end I think. See if she even plays
Fuck me this cup is sweaty. And why do EA insist on me using a shit team with cards I don't want to play with? I used to think it was aimed at people that have crap teams/aren't very good at the game, but given I've won one game in about 50 minutes I think about 3 people worse than me are playing it.
I think playing now you are likely catching sweaty people doing their "play 3" for the day. Probably try harding it to get through.
Ive been running RM blue special diaby ad i found him in my club as an untradable. He is a wizard on the ball but cant pass or shoot. Then i checked his foot and he isnt left footed. this card has him listed as a right. :cab:
Sheriff reckons Hojlund won POTM
She's good in-game as well.
Eric Dier's Bayern also getting me a Kimmich upgrade. Top Lad
Well, that’s a disappointing Hojlund.
Granted it’s better WR than the future stars that passing difference is huge. Also aerial ps + for someone who didn’t score a header
The FS is only 100k and will be fodder price soon. I've done this one though as I wanted a decent card of his.
I’ll do it purely because I have the fodder to do so. I also bought the FS card as it bombed. Will try them both and see.
Werner and Porro flying towards 4 upgrades
Rolfo played and Barca scored 7 :lol:
I skipped Werner because...Spurs. Might be a bad one miss. I have Porro and Rolfo though, so alright
Did an icon pack. Got base Pirlo :moop:
I need to decide what to do with fodder so I can atleast get burned by that SBC once :D
HM Kane, KDB, Haaland and Dias dups preventing me opening packs right now but no big card really interests me.
The fuck are those prices :face:
Was ready to sink the dupes into a somewhat reasonable Felix since he is usually broken (I have never got on with Depay in game)
They’ve run mad (again).
Especially a gamble because both those teams are unreliable as shit
I see there is some patch, which is going to nerf alot of playstyles included Route One FC. Aerial+ and Header+
https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-f...-spring-update
Holy shit - you can filter out loans when browsing players for SBCs now. Unbelievable scenes
Only took how many years?
If they were smart they'd have saved that for 25 and listed it as a new feature.
Still nothing to throw my evo Wolves players who are 85 - 88 into
Couple of new Evos which fit Varane and Rashford. They're still behind the power curve, but useable
Going to wait a few days before picking. Apparently another one coming so want to see how that looks.
Quite a few options for me in these. The two you said, 82 IF McSauce, 83 Mainoo, 85 Amrabat.
Barca women 4-0 up with Rolfo scoring. Keep a clean sheet and she is guaranteed a 92 this week.
SBC expires in 4 hrs.
They took her off in the 62nd minute. She had to play 60 for it to count. Barca Manager plays FIFA confirmed.
Shame Carlos is 2m he would be instant complete otherwise.
Not sure you need Carlos when we have Rolfo :drool:
Plus he's 4/4, which isn't gonna cut it for me. Could be cool to stick him in midfield perhaps?
I did her SBC cause FOMO if she plays I reckons it’s in midfield tbh
Probably won’t bother with Carlos
I'm chock-full of CMs. Was considering doing So Crates but already have Zidane and I'm not sure he's much better
Right.
I am well set there but thinking of trying her over UCL Modric when she gets the upgrades
So much content and so many players in packs. Well done EA (although you could fix the daily play challenge for top marks).
I'm trying to come up with a formation which allows me to shift her to RB. Probably swap with Kimmich who's a bit too slow to play there.
The main issue is that the genuinely great players are unpackable, so everyone ends up with the mid-level teams all about the same rating.
On the second point, check out the pack in store. Sadly I don't have the coins, but monster icons popping like mad.
I can afford it and am kinda tempted. Might see how my Lees-Melou investment turns out and then take a spin at the casino
Barella from an 84x5.
Did the big dog 750k pack (with coins).
Icon: Bergkamp (5* skills) - looks pretty great tbf, but obviously you're hoping for one of the mega beasts. Other than that a load of fodder really, don't think there was anyone else who makes the cut. Bergkamp's one of my favourite all-time players so happy to try him out
Upgrades are out. Rolfo :drool:
Lovely set of Evo's out today. Gold Ronaldo goes into one of them. I accidentally put him into a SBC a while ago annoying
I did however buy both Telles cards when they were cheap and his LB goes into the full back one (Sorry Malacia). I am going to partially evo AWB in the down the right side, skip the final level and put him in the new RB one.
I've still got a gold Ronaldo I kept just for this reason. Dalot can go into the RB one too
Also: check this out 6'9" 5*/5* :cool:
Get Sincere on that one immediately.
A few new evos have appeared which means i can throw a few more wolves players into the mix. 300k for this guy
https://www.fut.gg/players/254120-to...le/evolutions/
Unless you have someone seriously good (like an icon you made red) that new evo is a joke
I just got Fred's TOTW in a pick (turned down 87 Barella for it) and he fits in the evo. I take back everything I said.
Pretty much the only way I would ever do it, doing that with AWB and “down the right side” right now so he goes into the other one. Dead ball is a bit pointless for most players, never mind ones like Fred with his 81 FK stat.
Rolfo starts. Full upgrade incoming :cool:
Hagi looks very tidy as well
Varane into that new Evo :nodd:
I'd already put him into the 5* WF one but he looks about the same
Fair. Minimal stat diff and prob slightly better PS on that. I put Amrabat in it
@thommo, pick up Muniz. He should fit in this.
Damn, I've already put Muniz into an evolution chain, he's up to 86 for me currently. Shame as I would like the 5 star skills just for the hell of it.
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And big bro Berbatov. Was hoping for him.
Both great pulls. I got the gimp versions of Berba and Francesoli or whatever his name is. Cheers Jeff.
Gonna do Marquez and stick him in the Evo, looks tidy
Cant decide if I should do that or pop Crouch in there.
New Evo is a W imo. Now to decide if I go full Meta and use someone like TOTW Goretzka/Thunderstruck Can or 82 TOTW McSauce :cool:
There's some solid-looking beasts there. Kessie, Danilo P could be interesting.
Still contemplating spending ~200k on Van Persie and Berbatov
Tough choice to make on that new Evo.
86 Goretzka, 86 Kessie or 85 Tameze (IF upgraded through an Evo) - All look utterly insane. Goretzka would probably play the most for me as I have RTTF Kimmich and some Bayern women too.
I forgot that I have Kimmich, Bryan, every Kane and the Musiala but it’s still going to be McSauce :cool:
Now to hope for something I can stack it with.
Pulled Okocha from an 85+ just now. Looks tidy, although going for buttons on the market
@Danny - you see Becks is in the Icon SBC section? Very cheap, going straight into my club :nodd: I think you packed him, right?
EDIT: EA shit the bed and made the SBC tradeable :D
I got him in something like and 81+ pick! Hasn’t left my team since. He already had an icon SBC so I didn’t expect this one to get one too
Really should have flown through it when people pointed out it was tradeable, probably get all the fodder back as they have yanked the SBC
I got like 70% of the way though it before it got yanked :moop: I'd better get my fodder back. Cretins
Compo :drool:
Run it back!
I went for Semenyo just to spite Thommo.
Cantona Golazo SBC coming apparently. Hopefully not a little bro one
Cantona pretty expensive but I’ll dump fodder there for the sake of it.
Max 88 Evo out. No other restrictions
Started Cantona and bought RvP. Shame there's no decent Utd LB/RB options really
I can see there are a few new evos i can fit into my Wolves team. Nothing that makes them meta but ill be doing a few regardless.
Got big daddy Desailly from an 83x10. Looks like the guy who will finally replace gold Van Dijk.
Also 93 Vialli from an 87x4 who's going straight into Cantona.
Dinho SBC coming. Seems like its base. While it good he has had two promo cards.
EA has decided it wants me to have new CBs. Just got baby Vidic out of a pack
Tasty little freevo for the Golazo players. Vidic fits but it seems a bit of a waste on him.
If I didn't have Desailly I'd put Alonso into it, he looks great. But big Marcel would be even more of a monster with a bit of extra pace, so I think he'll get it for me
Booooooooooooo.
Boooooniz
Showdown SBC. Alex Sandro being given out for completing the segment labelled Capouto. Costs an 85 rated squad instead of the 87 it should be.
Get it done quick :)
Nice one
They fixed it but now I can’t do the Caputo SBC :lol:
New IF Evo out. 91 max rating. Will prob throw VVD in it.
Muniz out and he fits into the 88 Evo. Tasty with an engine
Zambrotta gets his yearly SBC. Think I need him though
Just got a load of cards back from doing the Beckham SBC :cool: I thought they were just giving us the progress. Idiots
I know it’s TOTS but the Havertz card coming today is going to be absolutely nuts
Is this live thing replacing the community team and are we still getting 'normal' TOTS?
Yes and yes.Prem is first up next week.
Not sure how it’s going to work with women’s players. Hopefully doubling up like TOTY.
Rio is stupid expensive but there for 60 days so he will cost fuck all once TOTS gets going.
Managed to get Merino and Costa from a few shit packs and a few picks.
Big win for Arsenal and I might start Havertz
Season pass Mainoo :drool:
Not using the def mid evo on Mainoo is going to let me do this
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Going to turn like a truck but thats an unreal card imo.
Ripped my saved packs and pulled a few TOTS, nobody amazing though:
Alisson x3 !
Malard
Mac Allister
Gabriel
Dest
Keating (City Women keeper) x3 !
Hanko (Guaranteed TOTS :moop:)
Wubben Moy (Prime Gaming)
Estupinian (moments)
Banza
Completed Zambrotta and half of Havertz.
I have a hunch of packs left but so far
2 x Malard (one tradeable so I sold instantly)
Greenwood
Wubbeb Moy
Dreyer
White
Muslera
Dewsbury Hall
Russo
Estupinan
MacAlister
Charles
Lots of fodder. Just give me Garnacho.
TOTY R9 from that new pick :|
Fuck me. Is he like 15m coins?
Doesn't compare, but Heung Min Son from a 77+ BPLSBB and EWSLSBW pack.
9.5 right now. If he was tradable I would sell in a instant :lol:
Getting into my bigger packs and doing decent today. Son, Palmer and Alisson (have his TOTY)
For what it’s worth dupes suckered me into another go and I got FS Smith. Fodder
It’s also EA making up for not letting me evo Hannibal any further. I’ll post a screenshot of what I should be able to do when I get on my laptop
Decent striker. Shame, because I know you'd have preferred Garnacho
It’s a close one :D
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Game is bugged out so I cant do this :(
Spider-Wan Flashback SBC
CB as position makes him pretty interesting. My fodder is absolutely rinsed right now though
I have done most of Rio so I am not too hot myself. Skipped the Arsenal love in though so it’s doable.
Got Garnacho from the guaranteed TOTS pack
I would have done Havertz if AWB didn’t come out.
EFL picks are quite nice. Gray looks very nice
Luis Diaz from the Prem TOTS pack. Shocked his price is so high considering Son exists
White from mine :moop:
I now have Gabriel, Havertz and him
This is coming to PS+ in 5 days. It might be time.
I'll probably spend more time downloading it than play it but still fancy giving it a look. Life without a proper PES is grim.
I forgot I had the 10 hour trial still so I've started on it today.
Only done some SBCs and Squad Battles thus far. No big pulls as of yet.
Servers are the pits, even in the menus.
I just completed a SB game and won on pens, insta kicked and the game counts as a loss.
Got my first bait.
French
Striker
PSG
Katoto...
Wubben fucking Moy from my SB red two weeks in a row. Can’t even go into the red evo. Fuck me :face:
I got Adeyemi, who's not bad.
Also just got Balotelli out of some random pack. Assume he'll be fodder price but seems to be about 300k right now :cab:
So I'll be installing this Tuesday when it comes to PS+ unless I can also get that trial now. I've 3 main questions really.
1. Is this still like previous years, where the PS5 version looks nicer but plays worse?
2. Does any particular YouTuber have a video on Evos/Playstyles that I can use as a catch up?
3. How have the women players affected the meta? I should imagine though they may not be the best to have at CB, they make for great use in wide/forward areas.
For Evos I would suggest just going to FUT.gg, clicking evos and then going into each and seeing who you like. Nep usually has a look at them but I don’t know anyone specific content wise.
What's the best way to grind?
I need coins.
I've been grinding for a couple hours and I've noticed the TOTS rate seems quite low. I'm using the Nep method so it may not quite be the most efficient, but it seems to be.
I thought I'd have seen a few moments cards.
Seen a few people saying the Bundes weight has been lower than prem. I have opened a lot less packs than I did for Prem/Live but I have struggled to get anything from the mens team and only a couple from the womens.
I've gotten 4 Frohms TOTS in about 45 minutes or so.
Today has been a better day. Adeyemi, Tah and Kyle Walker Peters
Got a hearty collection on 84s now through grinding. Managed a TOTS Davis and Pavlovic so far, but I'm really surprised given the prices I'm seeing on FUTBIN that I'm not getting more of the shitters like that.
Dipped my toe into Rivals and I've won all 5 of my games so far but it definitely feels strange. Going to have to get used to the movements and try and fix the camera angle.
Upamecano from the Bundesliga TOTS guarantee. Not bad.
If someone has that play style its mad how they glide
EA done fucked up like they did with TOTY Messi. Everyone getting red Mbappe and Dembele.
EDIT: People are doing Golden Goal in weekend league to try and get to the rewards before they fix it :D
I just saw on twitter. Wtf.
People seem to think most of the players aren't registering as available for the pick. For example no Marquinhos in anyones pick. This is making it so basically you're getting one of the big star PSG players almost guaranteed.
I've never seen streamers so stressed.
Fixed it at 3 in the morning UK time.
A lot of unhappy people.
It was such a strange experience flipping between all the bigger streamers. Started with NickRTFM who was doing shareplays and saw a large amount of Zaire-Emery, Dembele and Mbappe. He'd already started on his 2nd account so gave away loads of wins as he didn't care for most of this TOTS. He got Zaire-Emery then Mbappe. Switched to his main and the struggle was real. Everything went to shit. Golden goal in WL, people rubber banding after 2-0 down instead of quitting. People passing around the back.
Those reds made Zwe start a speedrun too. Switched over to Nep and Fuji and the same for all. Fuji was 14-2 in his run and his chat were screaming at him to gift the wins but he got all stressed and pissy(proper man baby shit) about it. Got to 16-3 and then went into a game and quit without gifting. Still got Hernandez and Zaire-Emery.
I didn't go back to Nep but I know that Zwe was in game for his 11th win when they patched it out.
I assume there'll now be a tweet saying how that only 0.7% of people got a red Mbappe item.
Nep got done in time and got Dembele and Zaire-Emery.
At that point they should have just left it and let people have at it.
Yeah this is where I always circle back to why they feel the need to "game" the player so much. I understand that if everyone has good odds of getting the top cards each week in this case, your average player loses the will to grind/pay more money for packs, but they've tuned it to the point of insanity.
I tend to buy on odd years. The grind on 17, 19 and I think for me 22? These were all great fun, a mix for me of having to play the game well and manage my club well. I'm no Yev but I could get it done alright.
This is what stops me buying. I haven't bought since '22 and I don't think I can see myself paying again until they fix this need to screw the playerbase over.
I've installed this. After my 'let's see how you do' game, it's put me against Legendary AI. Quite how you get that from a 5-2 win over Sunderland, I'll never know.
Also, after years of getting misty-eyed over EA's presentation, it's a bit shit. Each team has one chant that just gets repeated ad nauseum and the atmosphere is a little flat. I can only hear Blaydon Races so much before getting sick of it.
Speaking of flat, I still can't believe nobody outside the NBA 2K games has commentary sounding right. It feels alright to control but, as a solo lad, it'll rest on whether the AI is interesting to play against.
Well, Legendary is not my level and it still has the feel of the AI playing the same way regardless of the team you're up against. No big long ball hoofs, everyone's tight control with the ball is decent, etc.
Goalkeepers really don't do anything in this game huh.
Same as it ever was
They made them good at one point, to much crying.
Apparently we have a Leverkusen TOTS pack coming.
I'd been using Trapp as a starter keeper while I menu grind the team better. The only things he saves just kind of hit him. Just pinged TOTS Donarumma from a pick though so that's the keeper taken care of.
Been slowly building a hodge podge of TOTS lads to fill the team out as a 'for now' solution. Got Xhaka from a guarantee pack and Bentaleb in a few picks. Got Golovin from one. Standard 91 Putellas is great off the bench too.
I've now got a placeholder everywhere bar the two wing positions. Strangely I've not had a blue winger, nor actually have I got any of the female TOTS yet.
Defending's my bother. Mainly trying to get back and I'm still in PES mode when it comes to that stuff. PES has pressure/contain and standing tackles on the same button.
Defending has always been my downfall.
Tere Abelleira from the FREE TOTS pack.
I bet Raoul gets Valverde.
Those Barcelona women cards look absolute filth no matter which one you(dont) get.
There's a lot of filth on the mens team too, but there's an inevitable glimpse of what you'll actually get on the FUTBIN page:
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I got that woman striker, the 92 an then Dovbyk from the next pack.
Well, this is now deleted. I'm never clicking with this. Especially with the way defending is handled. As soon as someone gets a yard on me, it's a lost cause.
Holy shit.
Just got my best pack luck from a tradeable bronze players pack.
TOTS Moments Jobe Bellingham. 400k :)
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Edit: Didn't realise he was new so his price obviously tanked. Sold him for 178k.
I've got bugger all decent TOTS so far. Alisson, Hincapie, Mac Allister and Malard are the only ones with any gameplay value
Gameplay is starting to twig with me a bit now. I noticed I was losing the possession battle in almost every game and it was starting to get quite 60-40 at times too. That was my warning to go and get some custom tactics sorted. I also found at times just holding possession for the sake of it can help.
Defending is where I'm currently less happy. As Shinners says, if you give any of these top attackers a yard, they're gone. For now being ultra aggressive and playing a Spurs high line is working. My biggest issue with this is when you win the ball back deep in your own half. You get so penned in. Add in that sometimes the game just passes to who it wants, you can end up providing a belter of an assist to the other team by trying to play out.
I few more decent TOTS in, including Donarumma, Medina and Nkunku. So it does look like a French/Ligue 1 theme is developing. To that end, Sissoko and Lacazette look like players I should be bringing in. I have no idea how you go about crafting these days as I've not done it for near 2 years, but I don't think I can do both in the time without learning.
I haven't touched it for weeks, but still watch the occasional Nep video. Get on the 77+5 TOTS objective grind and you should be able to do a load of squads from that.
After I saw your post went to youtube and it was front and centre recommended.
I'm up to 99 completions.
It's taking some time but you get so much out of it.
Can't open most of them because it's a dupe every single pack for me.
The Jude troll (Jobe) from an 83x10. Ugh
Been plugging away at this and now up to Div 5. Confident enough now to stick gold Rafa in the team to go for objectives and it was still working.
Got Athenea from a TOTS pack and Aleix Garcia from the La Liga one for doing dailys. Got about 50 in on the crafting path too but my last one was one of the Williams(LW one) brothers.
I have done Ederson showdown as even now it's a good card and it's cheap enough to justify. If somehow Atalanta do Leverkusen over it'll be a mental card. I'm waiting for rewards in the morning to fully commit to any of the other SBC players.
Atalanta :cool:
I did Hoffmann :(
Imagine doubting Atalanta.
Reckon we get a Lookman SBC?
They might do something for him during Serie A next week?
I hope so. He'd go well with my new shiny Ederson. Might even be reasonably cheap considering Nigeria will be harder to link. Though I see people have twigged that his TOTW card fits one of the Evos to get him to a 93 rated 5/5* said TOTW is now extinct, so it may be worth trying to do the TOTW picks on the very rare chance he shows up.
I haven't yet even looked at Evos myself yet so my question is can you run multiple cards through the same Evo, or are the Evos a one use only kind of deal?
One and done.
It’s a bit of pain to restart on a card (should you want to). But if you did gold lookman you can evo IF Lookman with no issue for example.
Free one are worth it right now for fodder atleast. ESP as they don’t have to start
Been looking through now to try and see who I might have that would fit the free ones. I literally just used an 86 Terrier which would have been a pretty decent one for Ligue 1. Would have come out as a pretty good winger.
At present I'm thinking Raphinha for La Liga, though the playstyles more seem to suit a CAM type. Double 5* too so it's maybe worth getting him done. Militao also looks like he comes out of it a monster. Playstyles a bit unsuited though.
The non-free Evos being 100k coins seems lol to me. Very steep to in most parts just get a +1.
TOTS Moments Camavinga from an 81+ PP.
Good fodder
Renato flashback supposed to be coming this week. I dont do many SBCs these days so I will probably end up doing that.
The Putellas pull means I probably wont do Sissoko now. Between her and Ederson I have two great midfielders already. Linking them all in is the next issue. I'll see what Italians this new TOTS brings.
I should probably now do both of the Barcelona women SBCs that are out. By the price EA reckon they're winning so that CB could be nuts. The RB only being 5"5 is a bother considering the price. Belter of a card otherwise.
Kounde another option for those club links.
Got a Moments Cancelo today.
81+ PP's have been fire the last couple of days.
You've likely done it but the Bundesliga TOTS Evo expires tomorrow. It's free and you can turn 85 Goretzka or Coman into 93 rateds. The playstyles suit Coman more, though he only has the 77 stamina. Goretzka looks very good with it, though the Technical+ does seem a bit of a waste.
I did Goretzka simply because I had him.
Lookman out, 93 rated.
Renato out and 94 rated. Cheap considering who it is and how he is usually broken in game
Well I'm glad I waited.
Serie A always delivers.
Moments Rabiot from a PP already.
20 PPs and nothing but fodder for Renato.
Did Lookman straight away and went into the friendly lounge. It ticked off a load of rewards including an 85+ pick in which I got Osimhen. Managed to get Sommer, Tavernier, Bonucci and Herrera too.
Sanches seems like a must-do, but linking Putellas is going to need one of her Barca friends now almost certainly.
That Putellas must be outrageous. I love her gold card
She is. I'm running a 4-3-2-1 for now and have her as the left sided CM. 7 goals and 5 assists in 9 games with her so far.
3 from the main leagues packed so far. 3x of that Williams card :face:
Lookman is great. I have him off the right and Osimhen in the middle. Worked my way into Div 3 now and Lookman is getting two goals per game. Osimhen feels a little stiff but it's nice having a taller ST up there to bounce the play off. He's on Engine but only 2 chem for now. Finishes everything that comes his way.
Anyone who has known how I've played this over the years will know I have always preferred the dainty technically gifted type, over big and strong. I feel like bar Osimhen I'm collecting super midgets again.
Kobbie juiced MOTM card please.
Mkhitaryan SBC and then Serie A Evo that seems primed for a full back. I have Theo but I guess I wait to see if I pack him (lol)
Finally got someone other than Williams but she wont leave. Another one of her but atleast I got Ferguson, the women CDM and Gorden.
Nice fodder.
Queen Alexia keeping up my perfect record on showdowns. Only remembered about 30 mins before kick off that I hadn't done it.
I guess I kind of have to do Batlle now...
Di Marco TOTS packed, looks nice.
Icon pick suckered me in again. Birthday VDS but I have him so FS Petit was taken. Sanchez was the other pick.
Evo is a decent one. Spits out some nice cards. Not a whole lot for me and United though.
Maybe end up doing IF Coman but I anticipate packing his TOTS at somepoint when the game gets to silly season and I wont use him now...
FIFA signing up with 2k to kill the entire concept of people calling your game FIFA forever.
The NBA people making a football game? 200GB download guaranteed.
Their GM seasons thing starting in 1992 (when football began) :drool:
Been bashing the draft for the objectives and getting some stupid teams out of it. I just can't win one though. I keep getting to the final then getting torched. Last one was frustrating. Very even game in open play, but he had TOTY Haaland. He scored 4 goals from corners. I just had no way to stop it.
Some of the football you can play with these top tier cards is silly. I would love to see a future instalment with a game mode banning skill moves though.
Been sticking the fodder into Sanches, Joselu and Mkhi. I'll have to give WL a go at some point. Previous years I could get 14-16 wins a week, though I'd be happy to get better than 10-10 with how I feel on this years version.
Will i be able to scan my head into the game?
Took a foray into WL qualy. Wanted to see how badly things went. A 3-0 start gave encouragement but then immediately the cunts who you cant get the ball off turned up. That drew me back to 3-3. I then won a few easily on the bounce and up to 6-3. The last game didnt matter for any rewards but I played it out to see. I think I lost 6-2 in the end.
I just dont know what to do against these people. If I play how I want and hunt the ball down, they wriggle around the pressing players and have easy balls in behind. If I back off they manufacture a cut back in the box. So far I've either won convincingly or lost convincingly. In previous versions I always used to be able to steal a few wins per weekend to help me up there, but I don't think that would be happening here.
Giroud from a daily upgrade. Why is he that fast? :lol:
My WL venture was not pleasant. I will say I didn't play a first game until near midnight Tuesday. Going into it tired also not my best choice. Romped out to a 3-0 lead inside 15 mins of my first game cue the pause and me being happy to pick up an easy first win. Wrong. He made 3 subs and changed his tactic and I could no longer do anything at all. Spent the rest of the match trying and failing to stop him running up the score. Lost 5-3 in the end.
I then just came up against people who either bullied past my defence or dribbled through it. I felt useless. Several times I had at least a 2 goal lead and lost the game.
The playstyle system added to the game is nice, but it does raise some annoyances. You wanted to win the ball with that challenge? Sorry, your chosen CB doesn't have the correct PS+ to come out of the challenge with the ball. Wanted to win that header? Sorry, the opposing forward has aerial+ so you can't. I don't know what magic Drogba possesses, but he seems damn good against me.
Ended up at 3-6 and threw the towel in. Wasn't enjoying it.
Got a dupe Di Lorenzo from rewards and so was looking for a place to put him. Serie A guarantee looked alright for the TOTS requirement, so in he went. it spat out the Italian CB so I was getting ready to deal with my 4th Calafiori when the Inter badge showed up. Always nice to pull a 1m card. I'm looking into custom tactics before giving WL another bash. If I can't defend with Bastoni I'm lost.
Drogba is just broken.
You nailed it on PS+. Nice add, and it does give players some "feel" but now we are at end game with everyone having three and people looking to milk it even more than they did early on.
I think the way the game is designed. The meta players, especially the forwards. Even if you tackle them, they stumble and still come out with the ball. I think that is what they want to happen with the meta players.
Just played my first Rivals game and it was against one of those pointless skillers who seem more interested in trying to beat a defender as many times as possible rather than shooting.
61% possession for him with 5 total shots and an xG of 1.6 (I slid in and gave away a first half penalty before I realised he wasn't that interested in shooting), lost count the amount of times he had free space then turned back away from goal to do another skill move.
I was using a version of a 4-3-2-1. I'll have to look how mine differs. I definitely have press after possession loss on.
Managed the red versions of Banza and Malard from the Rivals/Champs packs for the week. The free Champs upgrade expires in a day and I'll not be getting another red by then, so it would make sense to put Malard in. Actually looks a decent card.
In the meantime I'm ticking off the player SBCs slowly but surely. I was going to do Cech and Zambrotta too. Might be spreading myself too thin there though.
Blitzed that TOTS friendly mode as people are playing golden goal. Got Calhanoglu and two shitters. I have almost got to the end of the season rewards. Got all but level 40. For now I haven't opened those top packs as it's Ultimate TOTS tomorrow. Still tempted to open them before that but we'll see.
The big question is for the Level 40 reward, are people taking Carlos Alberto or the 85+ x 20? I'm like 500xp away from making that decision. He has a strange card. He's like a defensive jack of all trades, master of none. I'm also fully aware the likelihood of that pack being blue after 6pm tomorrow is low.
Only got a couple of game into the cup but no GG's in my games. Annoyingly.
I am going to take the pack for Ultimate tomorrow. I probably wouldnt use Alberto and probably wont pack anything but rather take the gamble. Im sure I will get Alberto later on.
New Evo is nuts. Can make anyone from a 70 rated up to a TOTS level.
Yeah thats a fun one. Hannibal is perfect for it but I have an 87 and had glitches with that one. So worried about sending that one into an SBC to try again and being stuck with none. Also very difficult to get him off the market
I do think I will be doing Hannibal.
Nick Powell is another decent United P&P option.
Got one :cool:
Thank you Paletools. Now to see if it works.
Took the 85+ x 20. Got Golovin as the OG walkout which I went meh... then I realised the other walkout has to be higher rated. And my eyes opened...
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...f42d9775cb8e7&
Much better than Alberto.
From the pack dump I got Debinha and then Bacha as TOTS as well as a lot of fodder. I saved the x20 pack for last as I knew it would clog the club up. That Golovin is a dupe and there was another Debinha in there too, as well as a few 88's/89's.
I did Felipe Anderson soon as he came out so I've to figure somewhere else to put the fodder.
Unfortunately it seems no Liverpool players come out of that Evo right. It can make some absolutely nuts cards though. This is the type of thing we need though. Now anyone can essentially make (almost)any silver card they want a cracked TOTS card. I guarantee most will have a different card to each other. I've got my eye on Jony from Lazio for now. Andrey Santos and Encisco also look nuts. United fans might want Alvaro Fernandez? If you get the right one that is.
I went to find to see if I could find JP and steal some tactics. His have almost always aligned with how I like to play the game and do well for him too. He's had a few 20-0s on this. He's spat out a 4-5-1(the one with 2 CAMS) and it's done wonders for me today. From barely winning a game in Div 3, to a win streak all the way up to Div 2.
I have to say Bastoni and Theo are massive upgrades on what I had before. Paredes is good, but does get bullied by your meta players. Ona Batlle has been surprising with how good she is. Little terrier at the back. She was my get forwards RB but not now for obvious reasons. Sommer needs replacing. After not getting on with Osimhen too well I swapped in Joselu. Even on 2 chem he's doing better. Bring on the +2 tomorrow.
Turned the fodder previously mentioned into the TOTS pick, from which there were 2 shit dupes and a Salvio that I managed to avoid til now. Brought him on for my final game of the day and he feels decent. Great bench option. Have loads of useless TOTS in the club now though and could probably get Thiago Silva done. It would give me a great excuse to go and buy Alisson, but it may well mess up the clubs chemistry.
All in all I've done really well considering I have yet to buy a single player off the market.
Joselu is great. If he gets a decent upgrade he could be phenomenal.
I dont think that Fernandez card is actually in the game for United. Sadly. I still have a Reguilón United card waiting for the boost to make him good!
Real EOAE coming today (I think) and its Nacho not Kroos. Apparently a Martial card is coming. Will be all over that.
A good time to check your clubs for 70 odd rated silvers from the big 5 leagues. A lot are going for max BIN due to the Evo.
Nacho is disappointing over Kroos, but his base card can play all along the back line so if that keeps up it could be a great 3rd CB option or CDM switching with someone else in game. Or even just a defensive fullback.
I'm hoping for a Reus, but I doubt we get the two tonight.
Reus is coming but when I am not sure of
I'll probably pick up Nacho as I have Joselu and Isco already.
Nice evo. Do I do a 3rd Rashford :face:
Might just use it to work on Pellistri
It looks like the PS+ don’t kick in until the last level that means you could do the first two levels, Skip that one and then come out with a card who can be easily ego’s again in a could of week
I used an IF Garnacho a few days ago in an SBC :(
His moments in fun and only going to tumble in price. I think for skill moves and PS moments is probably still the one.
That Reus is a bit spenny isn't he. Impressed he's a 96.
No idea what I've in the club for the new Evo yet.
I'm considering putting the Ultimate TOTS Glowup on this kid from Milan who I have. Strength and Finishing aside he's pretty bananas.
EDIT: Joselu upgraded already and he is bananas
Most of the cards put in the glowup do have some holes, but he does indeed look nuts. You pretty much can't get the top ones now. No fucker is opening any tradeable silver packs and listing.
At the worst a great supersub. Though I've just seen it also makes them a TOTS+ so who knows.
Reus looks nuts, but in no way fits my team. I feel I have to do it, but am worried if it's not done by the end of ultimate TOTS the fodder to finish him will be a lot harder to come by.
Tony M SBC today.
Only now im using Sorloth SBC and Joselu in a 442. Long Ball FC works like a dream. Bacha TOTS crossing i though was a bit shit and i only noticed after 20 games with her, she does not have whipped pass+
Got into a WL Qualy run with new tactics and renewed hope. Found myself 7-1, was then presented with a mickey mouse and then got my shit pushed in the final game. Tactic spoilered below.
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I'd hope to be able to at least break even this weekend with a 10-10, but last weekend has taught me to go in with super low expectations.
His base is medium low :lol:
New Evo is nice. I have a lot of options who could get a nice little boost.
United is insta complete for me.
Ginola promo card in that new evo :|
Amrabat (United Version)
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Lindelof
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Antony
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Dalot
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I do have some other cards I could use in there but I dont think any are worth it.
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Leaning towards Antony I think. Lindelof and Amrabat need more pace and then Amrabat and Dalot need more of a defensive boost. Either way I am going to wait and see what shows up for the others.
Any decent United cards that haven't been upgraded already?
Also, Joselu is absolutely mustard. Almost didn't do him as I have Sorloth and I didn't want Madrid to win but I'm glad I relented.
Florenzi with this Incisive Pass Master Evo is loco: https://www.futbin.com/24/player/320...andro-florenzi 1 point short of Gullit Gang status
This is where not having played for the months before comes back to bite. I don't have too much in the club that fits.
I don't know what's gone on since Tuesday, but I tapped out at 3-6 then. I've delved into WL again today and sit 11-5. All I wanted to know is that I could still hang and I can. Eyes are shot for now. I'd have to win 3 of the next 4 to get to the next rank, which I don't think will happen without some mickey mouses. Though if I do get there I get the PL red pick as well. On balance I probably deserve to be 12-4, but one game the post was my enemy. I have lost a game 11-1 and 9-2 in this run too.
I'll pick it up tomorrow evening. In reality one more win gets me the Ligue 1 pick. That's where my aim is. These likely all have shit in them for me after my recent luck but it's worth a go. I think I've currently 4 red picks and with one more win it will be 5.
I was going to post earlier that last weekend was probably just playing against people with a year of learning the bullshit vs 2(?) weeks for you and that you would figure it out.
I don’t think I have bothered with WL in months. I just can’t be bothered sweating my bollocks off for shit rewards :lol:
Though the picks did look nice on Neps video.
I haven't played a single WL this entire game cycle
I have no doubt the rewards will be shit. There's always that chance though.
On the whole it hasn't been too bad. I did however face one guy who went 2-0 up and tried to keep throwing it up to his CB to head back to his keeper over and over. He made a mistake and let the ball go out and enabled me to get on the constant pressure. Ended up winning it 4-2. Another guy went 1-0 up, hit the griddy and paused for me. I equalised almost immediately and he quit. Other than that, it's been normal.
That is normal tbf :D
I played a couple of WLs in a row early in the cycle to get a red pick to glitch the evos. Other than that I havent bothered.
Thiago Alcantara EOAE card coming for... reasons. I assume it comes with Muscle Fatigue+ and will be permanently fixed to your bench.
I was just going to post about that one. Liverpool legend
Not sure when you plan to finish WL but might be worth factoring in the Evos in your picks. Especially on ones you aren’t that fussed about the options
He's a hell of a midfielder, but his body could not keep up with the changing nature of the game. Depending on his card I might have to do him. Justice for Matip who is an actual Liverpool legend though.
I'll play those last 4 games later today after the kids sleep. Any from the picks I should be looking out for? I'm expecting fully intended rewards from the league specific picks and hoping to avoid the Debinha/Stanway/Ferguson I think is waiting for me in the 94+.
Theres a load of cards that go into all 3.
https://www.fut.gg/evolutions/all/?e...combinations=1
Not sure if the filters stick when I send this but Bisseck stands out as very good and also somewhat packable. Thats obviously ignoring cards like Camavinga and Rodrygo who are nuts but I suspect harder to pack.
Cheers. Already have that Malard so already got something I can throw in. Bisseck would be amazing for the link to Bastoni and maybe getting Reus in. I've seen peoples red picks though. Mostly it's nothing until you get to the 94+ and then you need luck to not see the worst possible.
:yn:
I don’t have many options as I got scammed the first couple of weeks with two Wubben Moys.
I put Zakaria though the first one but I am going to see what I get this weekend before I do the rest.
Oh go on then.
https://youtu.be/4UJXDdEYfhw?si=VU0uhypwwB8WZjV0
He does look good.
EA were like this is the EOAE midfielder you all wanted, right?
Got Di Maria out of one of the 85+ PPs so that's a guarantee on him being in both picks now.
The 83 10s are pointless.
Hopped back in and very narrowly lost game 1. It was a very even and he literally poked a rebound home at the death to win it. Very back and forth game after with me pulling two goals away twice, before taking it 5-4 from a late corner. The next two games saw RQs before HT and were probably some of the easiest of the weekend run.
Ended up with a 14-6 finish. That last win bagged me the PL pick, an extra selection in my two picks and a 3x TOTS pack(untradeable).
Of the reds I got Kobel, Thiago Santos, Bremer and Nkunku from the league specific ones. They were the obvious choices in each pick unfortunately. Though I believe the latter two can go through all 3 segments of the Evo.
Onto the big picks and the first set of 4 was Koulibaly, Bacha, Frimpong and Stanway. He's basically the best RB on the game isn't he? The second set of 4 was the exact same, in the same order, but for Debinha in place of Frimpong. I chose Stanway as she's by far got the best card of those 4 and could be useful off the bench.
Frimpong obviously massively saving the day there. Nothing of note in the gold packs and then came the 3xTOTS. Schlotterbeck as the face card had me go oh ffs, but luckily Salah came out to push him off the stage and make me mark out. 3rd player there was about my 4th Salvio.
God knows how I'm getting chemistry out of all of this lot now. Nice problem to have though.
You suck.
Lovely work. Nkunku or Stanway (only 2 for her I think) for the evos if you are thinking about using her. I would end up doing Nkunku
Thinking about it don’t you have a decent Spanish lot? Thiago linking them into Salah is a tasty one.
Finding Frimpong chem might be rough. Do the Bundes pack and pray for Grimaldo :lol:
My bunch of first owner heroes:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...27&height=1365
Salah being Egyptian means I need a Liverpool player. Perfect excuse for Thiago. Also should really do all of the league specific guarantees(bar Ligue 1). Even an Alisson/Mac Allister shitter pull would help.
From a team review point of view, the two wingers are good but not great. I do play a 4-5-1 in game so it's not quite as fair to them, but by feel, they are about what you'd expect. Putellas is top tier. Double 5* is so handy to have and she's big enough to go and hunt the ball down too.
Sanches is an amazing box-to-box. I have him anchoring down the midfield but he doesn't really fit that role as well. I give Ederson more room to wander forwards and he does. He's not as good as a Putellas but he's good enough.
Ona Batlle is a terrier in defence. Pretty decent going forwards too. I feel bad she's just been usurped. Bastoni and Theo are both end game cards. If you can get them, get them. Paredes is good, but in a meta that has brought in Sorloth and Joselu, she's a little lost. Sommer is very inconsistent. Some god tier saves yet lets in very frustrating shots.
I'd definitely like to find a CB that works. I fear Sommer may have to keep his place to link in Bastoni but we'll see.
You're right, Stanway can go to 96 or Nkunku to 95. Annoyingly I missed a previous red evo that could have let me get a 96 Nkunku too. Fuji has him and he looks very good.
Nkunku is the current plan but there is one more shot before it expires with the Rivals red. It likely wont be good but it's worth waiting in case.
I have near 300k in coins now so the paid evos are also open. I have gold Neymar so he might be a good fit for the incisive pass one.
Slightly unrelated (that team is incredible for a few weeks of work) but Fuji is a whiny little cunt. Can't stand his face.
100%
Used to be one I'd watch regularly, but he's absolutely one of those who is "good reds = games great, bad reds = game is shit" types. During the "unintended rewards" Friday he was on 14 wins and his chat were screaming at him to gift the final games to get to his reds before they patched it. He was getting proper pissy and sulky that people didn't want him to play his games. He ended up getting to 16 but then had a loss which meant he couldn't get the next rank. Said he'd gift the win but instead booted the ball out of play before quitting. Rat behaviour.
Your team is better than my team and I started playing at early release :moop:
The Crash is here :drool:
Reddit saying they fixed some price ranges and prices BOMBED (to what they should have been)
Yeah take Debinha for example. She was 300k min price and there were pages and pages full. Now we see just how common she was.
Di Maria was 1m a week ago. Lautaro was 1m, 4 days ago etc. If the latter keeps dropping I'm going to have to buy him. I also can't believe how cheap Valverde is.
Debinha going to make SBC dirt cheap.
I've already packed her 3 times and have one in the quick sell recovery. Can't get rid of her.
Chawinga in a pack.
She was the second walkout so I saw dreads and thought I had packed Camavinga ffs
Got Vivian'd in the La Liga guarantee and then Vardy as the best from the TOTS pick. Fair to say the pack luck may have ended.
I'm still waiting for Fred and Park to drop to buttons. Berba is at 50k and coming down still too
I was holding IF Fred for a while so looking forward to getting that card. Will pair him with my 91 McSauce for a few games for sure.
Thiago feels exactly as expected. Very silked on the ball and sublime passing. Won't do you much in defence though. Just a bit to skinny to push people off the ball.
Salah just moves differently to any other player I have. Even on 1 chemistry.
TOTS Declan Rice from an 83+ x10.
I'll take that.
Rudiger out of the La Liga TOTS :cool:
That season reward track looks great, but fuck them for making me choose between 97 Kroos and 96 Gerrard.
Yeah that’s annoying. Need to compare the two Kroos cards to see if it’s worth taking that one over Gerrard
Also <insert annual "Gerrard for you Yev" joke>.
Though this one might actually be filth.
Gerrard also with the potential for an upgrade or two. Good to see we have the "Gerrard Gang" now.
9gollan Gang for life
Got Hemp from the Ultimate TOTS.
Card looks great but she's surprisingly cheap.
Bonmati for me. I was considering maybe benching Putellas to get the Nkunku evo on the way and try and work Frimpong in, but now I don't know what to do.
Evos work off the bench if that helps
Might be worth trying to climb in divisions. If you can get to 3 and above, you get a 92+ x 3 TOTS pack. It's any TOTS so it's almost guaranteed you'll get 3 moments cards rated 92, but great fodder.
I played a bit of Champs qualifiers the other week in a bid to complete some of the Evos. I ended up going 5-5 and actually sealing qualification to the real thing. With Ultimate TOTS being out for this past weekend, I decided to give it a go; what's the worst that could happen?
Considering I hadn't entered a WL for about 6 months, it went pretty well. 95 Joselu and 96 TOTS Giroud were pretty dominant up top and the 92 TOTS Al Dawsari was a menace as a supersub. With the extra players picks being handed out in objectives, I thought I'd play to win as many as I could. I ended up getting to 11-7, but Game 19 saw my opponent quit at full time with the score 3-3, and my eventual last two games I was up against better players that would eventually beat me. 11-9 meant two Ultimate TOTS red picks, in addition to a Bundesliga and Serie A PP from the objectives.
Bundesliga yielded Tah and Serie A gave me Ferguson. Not the worst by any means. The first Ultimate TOTS pick offered me Grimaldo, Ferguson and Lewandowski. Grimaldo looks incredible at LB, only surpassed by Theo Hernandez. so into the club he came.
Final Ultimate TOTS red pick...
Ferguson again. Rafael Leao. Haaland.
:rave:
:moop:
My pack luck remains absolutely terrible, despite that one incredible red pick. Anyone would have been better than a duplicate Golovin.
Haaland is a player I very rarely face, but whenever I do he scores at least 2-3. Bastoni can deal with him, but when using Paredes he just lols her off and scores anyway.
Ran through the last of the guaranteed TOTS upgrades. As mentioned, Bonmati from the ultimate. Ended up with Xhaka from Bundesliga, Vivian from La Liga, Berardi from Serie A and Cold Palmer from EPL.
Last two seem good usable cards. Palmer would help a lot with Nkunku. Now in that position where I've so many players I want to use and can't chemistry them all in.
Does chem really matter now though?
Well that Luis Diaz certainly will help with chemistry.
TOTS almost immediately irrelevant. :p
Instantly obsolete.
The evos. We better fucking sign Olise