There you go Sincere.
First question, which version will you be buying?
FIFA18 SBC's: https://www.futhead.com/18/squad-bui...filter=expired
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There you go Sincere.
First question, which version will you be buying?
FIFA18 SBC's: https://www.futhead.com/18/squad-bui...filter=expired
Not sure yet may not bother.
I usually just buy the regular version however ill review the options and see what comes with the bundles.
any new features or game modes? Penalty shootout mode would be good.
They have stuff like headers and volleys, long range (outside the box goals count for double) and no rules which are quite fun when you've got friends round.
They've also got the Champions League licence this time.
Also shooting, well low driven shots, are hard as fuck.
Crossing and corners are OP as fuck.
Low driven's being nerfed is good news.
Driven passes have also been nerfed, again probably for the best.
The passing stats in 18 were the most useless by a country mile, so I welcome that too.
Passing was too easy. Also
I hope they've changed things so that only acrobats can do acrobatic shit.
In the beta anyone and everyone could do bicycle kicks/mental shit. Was a bit strange seeing someone like Phil Jones clear the ball with a bicycle kick every single time.
I often wonder what the philosophy is behind FIFA. Like, the actual football theory. I think they want some kind of fantasy football where you can pull off cool shit with anyone so Phil 'Spectacular' Jones might still be in effect.
Promes in a proper league? Sweet lord get him, Ben Yedder and Dembele for the front line of OP dreams.
Anyone found a good deal for the physical version anywhere?
Remember the year supermarkets all did it for £20. Was amazing.
Is £70 the going rate for this? I don't think I have ever paid more than £40 for a game.
Standard games are £50 now if you buy them on or close to release day. Games like FIFA wont drop in price until May or June either as they know people will pay it.
£50 for the standard version, £70 for the Champions Edition, £90 for the Ultimate Edition.
I think I’m going to go for the super ultimate edition. Ultimate + 12k of FIFA points.
I think I might just do the same.
Where are you getting it from?
Amazon are doing the Ultimate for £85.49 right now.
I can't fathom spending that much on a game. More power to you, I guess.
Digital only, correct?
Yeah, they send you the code at midnight release date.
Pre-ordered Ultimate with the EA access and early bird discounts a few months back, £80 I think direct to console.Yeh, it's a lot, and I'll also plough in £50 in week 1 and a further £50 at Futmas but this accounts for >75% of my gaming these days, so as a total outlay I'd imagine it's quite relative. I'll probably only buy Red Dead of this years other releases as I have the likes of Halo 5, the newest Deus Ex and Tomb Raiders and the last LOTR game all completely unplayed downloaded on my Xbox.
The pick up and play, whilst still having depth and longevity elements of FUT have null and voided all those other gaming exploits of the past.
I always buy the standard version. I should buy the versions with 12k FIFA points as im a coin collector, but I never do.
The digital download does seem tempting.
They have just added Giggs and Ballack in FIFA 19.
Giggs :drool:
Here are some nice looking Icons they posted today:
Best is also returning.
Socrates is about 6'10. Still no sign of Recoba, Davids and some bad player like Chilavert
He's a big lad, yeah.
And his card stats look brilliant.
Which icons from 18 are we losing?
Scholes looks disappointing. I suspect the long shots will be scorching though.
i hope I get Georgie Best this go 'round though I think the best player I've literally ever had in FUT was an in form Mario Gotze in '14 or '15 (world cup mode notwithstanding)
Socrates
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmT-uKBUcAAmo4R.png:large
Gattuso
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmUMeW0VsAADXPZ.png:large
Figo
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmUaM0bUUAAr2EL.png:large
Ballack
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmUn79qVsAEG0Hq.png:large
Lehmann
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmU1qhMUYAA2IPW.png:large
Best
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmVDZZkUwAATiyl.png:large
Vieri
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmVRI3CU0AA28Mc.png:large
Stoichkov
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmVe31JU0AEvK-4.png:large
Giggs
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmVsmPDVAAACLi1.png:large
Scholes
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmV6U3EU8AAJI5r.png:large
Zola
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmWIEDMV4AAD0Cn?format=png
Rivaldo, Cruyff, Eusebio, Gerrard, Lampard
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmWKVp6U...pg&name=medium https://www.easports.com/fifa/ultima...-icons/ratings
Butragueno
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmWVzHlU...ng&name=medium
Keane
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmWjhagV...ng&name=medium
Ive never heard of Butragueno in my life.
Giggs, Keane, Scholes and Best.
That's what I'm aiming for, I need it. If they add Ruud too :drool:
Nedved:
Schmeichel
?
Rio
Blanc
?
Best
Keane
Scholes
Giggs
Larsson
Owen
Van Nistelrooy now :drool:
#AnnouncePaulParker
It's basically all of the legends in FIFA17 then?
Every Icon from 18 is back, plus the new/returning ones they've announced
Klose the next one
need more full-backs.
Look at the alleged 74 icons. I can count about 3 fullbacks in Roberto Carlos, Zanetti and Puyol.
Maldini and Petit have lower cards that are LB but really there should be a couple more
We should have a nice collection of fullbacks. Look how many central players we have in midfield.
Van Nistelrooy
https://twitter.com/easportsfifa/sta...379572736?s=21
Klose
https://twitter.com/easportsfifa/sta...860325376?s=21
Baresi
https://twitter.com/easportsfifa/sta...149891584?s=21
Hierro
https://twitter.com/easportsfifa/sta...649915906?s=21
Lineker
https://twitter.com/easportsfifa/sta...728324608?s=21
Moore
https://twitter.com/easportsfifa/sta...790877184?s=21
Trezeguet
https://twitter.com/easportsfifa/sta...337588224?s=21
Campbell
https://twitter.com/easportsfifa/sta...484320257?s=21
Nakata
https://twitter.com/easportsfifa/sta...977938944?s=21
Veron
https://twitter.com/easportsfifa/sta...808664576?s=21
The 85 Campbell looks good. The Klose cards are disappointing but he wasn't that quick in real life. Hopefully, he has99 heading and jumping. When do we get a full reveal of the stats?
Veron :drool:
The stats on all icons are complete nonsense, aren't they?
EA releasing the list of highest rated players. 81-100
https://www.easports.com/fifa/rating...=1536239108610
That Allison and VVD strong link looks solid. Robben and Vidal getting done on their pace
They've nerfed pace on base cards it seems.
Vidal at 57 pace is a mega downgrade. Kimmich with that low defensive workrate now.
Lineker is back in.
The 89 rated cards looks like he can smell funny
Can’t wait for this. With a slight tweak to how they’re used in SBC’s having that many icons will be the nuts.
The FIFA ads during youtube videos, still has Ronaldo in a Real Madrid shirt
Why is there three of everyone?
To signify the various stages of their career.
To sell more stuff.
Can you have a back three of old baresi flanked by young baresi and middle baresi?
:D
I think you can only use one version at a time.
The lowest version of sol cambell looks very useable.
The leak I found wrong FWIW. Higuain is down at 88. 40-31
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dmp4BivW0AM3pML.jpg
That makes more sense.
Coutinho being wide is a let down.
How is Dybala higher rated than any of those?! Pure hype player who doesn't really do much.
Back to being annoyed at Salahs rating again. Like fuck was he only as good as Coutinho last season.
Isn't there some international reputation element in the rating? Can't imagine that's too kind on Salah.
If i want to get the game early, what version do I need to buy?
They have treated Kane dirty.
Could be a fun card early on
https://i.redd.it/wy11vayjtll11.jpg
Demo out on Thursday. I'll look at it for curiosity's sake.
In theory I'd like to hammer the demo for the next two weeks to hit the ground running (for Squad Battles at least), but if last year's anything to go by the demo was nothing like the build that came with the game at launch.
First time in at least five years that Ronaldo and Messi haven't been wingers.
I hear Promes’ card has been leaked. Any screenshots?
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...d_for_fifa_19/
Promes @Yevrah
5* skills and 4* WF according to that
Cheers Danny.
Demo out yet?
Yep. Came out at 3.
Is it different? It better be....
Can't see it on Xbox store yet.
Had to do it via the website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8QxgOfb8QU
Haven't watched yet, but sounds interesting.
That’s Neps vid right? He just waffles on for 20 mins going though each one.
Yeah, it's not one of his best. He should have just whacked them into a spreadsheet to compare.
Played one game on Legendary as Juve against Dortmund and lost 2-1.
I wouldn't say passing has been nerfed, more that the opposition were much better organised and harder to break down.
It played ok though, but it's a demo, so that'll probably be that.
I managed to download it but didn't get a chance to play a game. The tactics do look more customizable though which looks good but will the players actual implement your tactics.hopefully they do.
Please tell me you can now select who you want to take throw-ins?
While you can see it (menus etc.) a lot of the new functionality (if not all of it) didn't seem to be available in the demo.
The tactics stuff is sufficiently nerdy that it looks like it's gonna be fun. Being able to set different formations/roles etc. per mentality seems like going for a highly flexible squad could lead to some really interesting lineup shifts.
Ive played four games now with two wins and two draws on legendary. I like it.
* you can now position edit individual players likeyou could in the old pro evo games. You can play one player at LM, and the other player at RW. I haven't noticed if they actually do play those positions but i suspect they do
* the pressing settings on this version is for real. I always wanted my player to press like the AI and now they do if instructed too
Coupe things i dont like
* crossing and heading is super strong
* centre-backs at free kicks and corners still do not always go forward and are on the edge of the area like idiots
Other things ive noticed
* trying to get the ball to my CAM is now increasingly difficult.
* using a CDM in possession is ridiculously useful.
* Juventus using the default settings fee absolutely perfect for my play style
What's this like as a stand-alone soccer game to play with real teams vs the CPU these days? I was hugely disappointed with the last PES but that was normally the more realistic one over the years and FIFA was all physics defying tricks and 8-8 draws. Has it changed much?
Not including Ultimate Team? If so, I think Wullie plays it that way so he'd be a better judge than I, but my gut would be not very good.
Looking at this as the team to get once I've raped the catalogue and done all the early doors objectives etc.
https://s8.postimg.cc/d6ljg5jbp/FIFA19.jpg
Really undecided about whether to get the FIFA points or not. It's the fun of opening the packs vs. the graft and I really enjoy both.
This was posted in the FIFA subreddit, actually looks like it could be fun
Toggle Spoiler
Any news on when the web app is up?
It usually goes live not long after the demo comes out so I'd reckon Wednesday or Thursday.
I'd missed Paulinho popping off back to China. What a strange last couple of years he's had.
That team looks like decent fun, Yev, but the chemistry could be a lot better. Put Kondogbia where Partey is and get Banega in on the right.
The midfield is definitely the bit that needs tweaking, but never been a fan of Banega.
FIFA has been the better game since the first iterations released on the PS3. Prior to that Pro Evo was miles ahead, but they made a real arse of that first version on the new console generation and haven't ever caught up.
Some interesting stuff in this feed (scroll back a bit): https://twitter.com/Fifanomicsnet/media
I don't think that's the case, to be honest. I think they're close to each other but the small differences feel massive if you're going from one to the other. I kinda like how the demo feels. Just had the one game on amateur just to get a feel for it. Let the AI play itself on Legendary and it looked a little fast-forward. Fry said years ago that when you turn FIFA AI up, it gets better at FIFA, rather than trying to be smarter at football. As a result, there's a lot of playing in dangerous areas, one-twos that are unnecessary but get away with it. It's showboaty which is kinda how EA like to represent the sport.
Maybe, just maybe, this is the year I get back into it. In like .... March next year when they don't sell it for £60.
The choose a player packs (if available enough) could be facking sweet.
They use them a lot in Madden's Ultimate Team and they're great.
Makes me all the more determined to go for the grind and not use points.
My early doors XI looks similar to yours, @Yevrah
https://image.ibb.co/iYns9z/Screen_S...t_22_51_36.png
A couple faves from the early days of 18 in there with Semedo, Gameiro and a few of whom I really enjoyed the later upgrades of - Pavard, Roussilon, Wass.
Pre-ordered the Ultimate edition and it's downloading now.
Didn't realise you get an 80-83 rated Champions League player pick with it.
How is it letting you download it now? I've also pre-ordered the Ultimate.
I won't be able to play it until the early access goes live, but it's obviously gone gold, pending numerous patches.
EDIT: I posted it not to gloat btw, more to let anyone know who was thinking of getting it and playing it at launch that they can download it now and save a bit of time. It's 39.8 GB.
No luck with my Amazon pre-order.
I'll have to download when it releases.
EA have confirmed that pack probabilities will be in FUT this year. They include the following in the announcement, which is patronising in the extreme and makes me think Miles Jacobsen is running their PR team.
It also suggests that they'll be gaming their own system as much as possible. I'd lay down significant money that they're rounding everything up and that the chances of getting a special card, if advertised as 1%, is actually 0.1%.Quote:
Any probability percentages that you see are on a pack-by-pack basis and are not cumulative. That means that each pack opening is an independent event; opening multiple packs does not change the likelihood of being awarded an item from a specific category. If you flip a coin three times and get heads each time, you still have a 50% chance of getting heads if you flip the coin again.
The article; https://www.easports.com/fifa/news/2...-probabilities
Its about time I pre-order this. I will probably go with the Champions Edition so I can play it early. My pack luck is awful so the different between 20 and 40 is light.
I just saw this article. The probabilities they've given are so vague but working off what they've given, the chance of packing an 84+ rated player is apparently 4.5%.
If we give EA the benefit of the doubt and assume all players have the same chance of appearing, then the chance of packing one specific player is 4.5% divided by the number of players (around 140 non icon players rated 84+).
That gives a best case scenario of pulling one specific player of 0.03% from each pack you buy, and an expected number of packs until you get him being 1/0.0003= 3333 packs or around (150*3333 = 500000 FIFA Points). Buying points at 12000 for £79.99 puts that at £3333.
If you want to pull a rare player like Ronaldo then the odds are going to be substantially higher - you'd assume that each rating point makes the player rarer as well as rarity being inconsistent within rating as well. I'm sure in practice higher pace/more desired players appear less often than slow centrebacks. You could easily spend well over £10k and not pull him which is pretty grim.
Yep, the weights are awful, which is nothing we didn’t know anyway, but at a 4.5% chance for an 84+ rated player there’s essentiallly no point opening Premium Gold Packs.
At £1.20 pet pack it’s essentiallly the best part of £30 spent before you should get an 84 rated player and we all know that’ll be Bernardo Silver anyway.
Is this game released on Thursday to customers who have purchased a certain edition or has my friend got it wrong? He was fairly sure he is getting access to the full game this Thursday?
All in here Boom-Boom:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...on_app_latest/
After playing GT Sport, I thought having match creation every 15 minutes was a stupid idea. After playing it for a month though. It is actually brilliant. It stops people from backing out of games when higher ranks are matched up and also improves connectivity as everyone is searching for a game at exactly the same time. It would be good if FIFA did something like this.
Imagine if every 20 minutes, match creation opens and everyone is searching for a game at exactly the same time. If you back out, that's it. You have to wait another 20 minutes to match up with players again. It sounds like it could work...
Info about Weekend League. Its now 30 games
https://www.easports.com/fifa/news/2...weekend-league
The new 'form' factor sounds good.
Xbox man. The game is available to download right now it appears.
Won't be activated until the release date though. They did the same thing last year, presumably to get a few extra quid out of those who otherwise wouldn't download it because their internet connection isn't fast enough to get it on release day.
If you have EA access you can play it now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen..._live_on_xbox/
That’s tonight sorted then. Will open the starter packs on the game and do all the team management on the web app to maximise game time on the squad battles rewards.
Ryan Fraser there looks like an early monster. Beside being three feet tall, I suppose. No back post headers for him.
I'd prefer Pepe. Bit of a meh team all round though.
All of the Prime Icons are apparently available in packs at launch.
Not sure I like that idea.
Web app is live.
Had some free packs, best I got was a Koscielny.
Do we expect player prices to rise after the full release?
Players don't seem too badly priced at the moment. I must have got about 25,000 worth of players from free packs.
Got a load of bobbins in my free packs, but have almost ended up with a full gold squad full of ragtag rejects. Danny Ings and Sanabria up front :drool:
TOTW Yarmalenko in my welcome back packs.
Also got a nice bunch of prem players from my backs. Not sure what my first team will be but the game is pushing me that way
My mate who always has stupid pack luck as been telling me all summer how this is the version he grinds it properly.
He's put £15 on today and got Ronaldo in his 2nd pack. He can get to fuck.
I'm still at work (don't ask), but I'm more determined than ever to grind this one.
We'll see how long that lasts.
Early access not working for me on Xbox one. Grrr.
EDIT: Had to go through the EA Access hub.
Lost my first Squad Battle on Legendary 6-1. :moop:
In the demo on legendary, I didn't find it too difficult. I suspect it will be once I play the real game in FUT.
How you lot finding the new shooting mechanic?
I turned it off as I wanted to rack up as many squad battle points as possible. Obviously that's going well.....
Oh and the interface and pack opening animations look so dated.
I don't think I will use Squad Battles as my default game mode this FIFA. Given there is a monumental change in the shooting dynamic. I think I may dive into the weekend league and tournaments. Im thinking, you cant turn off the shooting dynamic in online game modes?
Not sure as I haven't tried yet. Got a reasonably decent team from my starter packs and objective rewards (Fred, Plea and a few other decent players, I'll whack it up later) and am now sat at 10k of coins and about 100 players in the club.
Have 7 hours of the trial left, so I think I'm going to rinse all of the catalogue loan players I can and spend the time getting as many wins on Squad Battles as possible.
https://i.postimg.cc/L4LR7Zjh/4321.jpg
My first team. It's shit, but it's mine, wank chemistry and all.
Didn’t they remove legacy defending from Squad Battles?
Yeah in kick off and that it will be but I am 99% sure it’s gone in SBs as of this year
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen..._defending_in/
Legacy defending can definitely no longer be used in squad battles.
EDIT: Which is good news actually, because were it still there, I'd use it.
I like the choice of rewards for Division Rivals. Finishing in the third tier in D6 via a single 6-0 win gave me a choice of 1. 1 Megapack and a rare consumables 2. 2 x Megapack, 2 x rare consumables but both untradeable and 3. 27k coins.
I took (2) to buffer out my card pool, can see myself taking others depending on what I’m after at the time in future. I’ve gone up to D5 and have double the points needed for top tier with about 3.5 hours left now.
Started a FUT League for some lads in our supporter's group so I'm gonna be going hard on it this year.
Literally any suggestions or advice greatly appreciated. I used to just throw a random $20 at it every few weeks because "it's not like I've bought any other games" hoping for a decent player but usually fail.
At any rate, I have EA Access so I'll likely start up tomorrow night after work on my grind.
Assuming Merse didn't make a typo on that 27k, looks like divisions is your best bet. Playing as many games as possible and completing profitable SBCs will net you coins.
I'd avoid spending any in-game coins on packs. Buy players, try them, see if they suit you. Sell the ones that don't, keep the ones that do.
Downloading it now as I have EA Access. Decided to go onto the app to sort out all the welcome packs and starter squad, and managed to pull Keylor Navas in an All Players Pack. Decent.
No typo. In the top tier I’m in now (dunno yet if being in D5 makes any difference, think it just affects the number of weekend league qualification points you amass per win), I’m currently on track for 39k coins or 2 Rare Players packs & consumables. Great rewards for midweek but understandable since it’s replaced not just seasons but also the DKO.
Could also be less rewarding than seasons if you’re the type to go through five or six D1/2 seasons every week
Got my code from Amazon but I can't play for another 3 days and 8 hours, ugh.
Is there a reliable way to extend this EA access trial? I'm really enjoying it, have the weekend free, but am down to my last 3/4 hours now.
Fuck me, Fred goes for 19k. So tempting to sell.
Isnt here a non-rare card? I would have sold that if he is.
I preordered the digital version for £90.
He's rare, but he's getting a Champions League version soon, so I doubt his price will hold as a result.
EDIT: He's gone, for 19,750.
This EA access trial, is this for PS4 also?
Just PC and Xbox as far as I know Sincere.
They've disabled daily gifts on the web app, I assume because it was handing out PL Premium Gold Packs like confetti.
I did, but it didn't work and the irony of wasting some of my trial on trying to extend the trial (and failing) wasn't lost on me.
It’s just a visual effect of making it look like your on the full version. For all those claiming it works, there are a heap of others stating ‘it worked for x hours’ (basically the rest of their allotted 10 hours).
There was a thing last year where you could use a second account to get another EA Access subscription and therefore another 10 hours.
Not sure that works this year though.
Bought a fuckload of cheap 84s and 83s and no risk players and now have over 150 in the club. Speculated on Wednesday's marquee matchups with a few of them too.
Will buying them game from this place allow me to play EA Access (if I sign up to the EA Access) - https://www.cdkeys.com/xbox-live/gam...box-one-cd-key
Wondering if I won't get the code until Tuesday?
This works to extend the trial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNpAFQwHAPY
Have to pay another £3.99, but it does.
Ultimate Edition + EA Access purchased.
I played my first five division rival games and ended up being placed into division 5 (won 3, lost 2). I currently have 17,000 with the following team,
Gray Sturridge
Ramsey
Rashford Pedro
Gueye
Delph Jones Keane Kiko Femenia
Mignolet
I am not sure what to do next. I am tempted to sell Rashford and purchase Jesus who is going for around 55K.
I've all but secured Elite 2 in Squad Battles now, but probably need somewhere in the region of 7,000 points from my last four games to get Elite 1. Which is probably a step to far at this stage (Legendary is so much harder this year), but might be possible if I get a three shit teams in my last update.
Sat on 15k in the bank and a Russian/German hybrid for my first team and a back up PL team. Probably got well over 100k in the club now if I liquidated everything.
I've never played any of the Ultimate Team stuff before but might try it out this year. Is there a good guide to it all for beginners anywhere? Or does anyone want to give me a basic rundown of how it works? I don't understand half of what you lot are talking about in here.
You start your very own club, basically collecting cards like you would have in your Panini sticker books. Only when you own the card, you can then use the player in-game. You then build your cards into a team and play matches with them. You can also collect Kits, Balls, Badges and Stadia to use for yourself too.
When you build your team you need what they call Chemistry. You gain it by linking players of the same league, nation or club. The aim being to get it as close to 100% as possible. Your players will gain small boosts to their in game stats for good chemistry and if it gets low enough, perform worse than their stats.
After 7 games for a fresh player they'll need a contract to play for you again, but these are quite cheap. However players will also lose fitness through playing and feel worse or more tired, each game. Fitness cards are available but expensive. If you make a 2nd team and put the players from team 1 on the bench and reserve spots, they'll gain fitness back so long as they don't come on to play.
There are 4 tiers of players, bronze, silver, gold and Icons. The best players are your top golds. Lower league and younger players go down the scale. Forget Icons for now as they are usually end game players.
When you start you will be given a jumbo pack of mostly bronze and maybe some gold or silver players who are pretty crap, but have 99 game contracts. The idea is to build that team into a team of superstars or your favourite players.
You have things to help you gain in-game coins to do this, such as 1000 coin boosts found in the catalogue and the ability to do Squad Builder Challenges(SBCs).
For SBCs you have to submit a team of cards that meet a certain criteria. For example the squad must be rated 82 and have 60 chemistry. Some will give you packs back, which could have anything in you could sell on. Others reward you with a special version of a player. They vary greatly in price. A special player who is very good will be expensive.
Usually these are available for a limited time. For example every month the Premier League has a player of the month. In-game the player who wins will get a boosted version of their card. This will then be ready for 1 week and after it has gone, it's gone for good. This is usually expensive and if it's a top player already, be prepared to break the bank. These cards are not tradeable either.
Each week there's a team of the week. Featuring players who played well in real life. Say for example Naby Keita bangs in a hattrick, he's getting in it. The cards here will be upgraded versions of a players standard card. The best part is if someone gets in multiple times, the card stacks the boost on top of the previous boost.
Mo Salah last season had 12 special cards. So you can imagine just how much better the last one is than his original. He started rated 83 and finished at 98.
You then have Icons who are as stated, Icons of the game. From R9 Ronaldo to Pele to Van Der Sar. Most you can think of will be there. These cards are obscenely expensive though and will only really be there at the end game.
Solid playing from release day might still take until January to get one, dependant on pack luck.
My tip is to start offline. Make sure you have your 1k coin boosts on and play games. Get a feel for the game and stack some coins. Wait until you have 10k-20k and then build yourself a cheap gold team. This can be done on the first night.
From there look into doing some of the starter SBCs. They'll teach you how to do them and you'll break even on them. Small chance of a big profit too.
After that take your team into divisions. Make coins and keep building the team. Don't waste money on expensive SBC players unless you know you'll get your worth.
For example if Hazard gets a POTM card, there's no point spending a potential 500k on it, only to move to a La Liga team next week.
If you feel like you are playing well and you qualify through divisions, give the weekend league a go. If offline is your thing, squad battles is a good coin maker.
Pretty much just keep making coins.
Nice essay, B+.
Noticed that the story mode has you playing at Highfield Road, if that's available outside that mode I'll put up with all the career mode bollocks they refuse to change.
Wait so you can play Ultimate Team offline? I thought it was only an online thing.
Yeah, you can indeed.
I've packed some beauts from the SBC's, welcome packs and so on to date. With 10 hours gaming and a few days trading behind me I'll be rocking up to face Divisions Rivals again on Tuesday with the below sides, which I'm quite happy with:
Wass, Shaw, Kepa, Kondogbia, Bailly and Sanchez all packed :drool:
http://oi63.tinypic.com/2sbr0ue.jpg
Largely bought in, with the Serie A defence influenced by packing Cancelo. Donnarumma also packed so will take over once Handanovic's loan ends, and I'd like to add Manolas or |IF Koulibaly, but first and foremost Hulk is needed at RF, but has been extinct since Friday.
http://oi65.tinypic.com/21kl20l.jpg
Finished Elite 2 to get 15k of coins, 2 Mega Packs and 1 Premium Gold Players Pack. The Mega Packs were rubbish (as they always are), but the Premium had 84 Lopes in it, who probably goes for buttons now, but will be worth 6-7k in the long run.
Up to just under 40k of coins so I'll complete today's squad battles with the remaining time from the second EA Access trial and look to invest most of that in players who I think will rise when the full game comes out or offer some short to medium term gain.
I couldn't trade on the web app. It was too much work. I've got about 7k from the intro packs. FIFA 19 has been downloaded on the PS with a countdown timer attached to it. 14 hours left or something.
Got another Bailey and a Lemar in an SBC pack that cost me 9k to complete. Lemar could fit perfectly into my La Liga EPL hybrid but I’ll provably just sell both for 35k today, use it to finish off the hybrid leagues SBC with 25k+ to spare and keep pulling players instead as Guedes better as a LF for me and a permanent replacement for his loan version will cost less than 5k.
Ive done the Bundesliga FUT for the past 1.5 games now. Im thinking of building a team around Liga Nos, but it looks terrible. Ligue 1 looks ok though.
I was thinking of doing Ligue 1 but I think it looks crap right now.
I get the game 3 days early so ill play and see what is going on from then. I want to play 3 defenders for some reason. I like the look of the new 3142 with the one DM.
I have probably traded for 30k ish profit and bought a few players into my team for the start to pad out my welcome packs. Once I have the game I’ll look at SBC’s
The best way to go for bang for buck was always Serie A.
Though now Ronaldo is there, that could all well change now.
Is the Ultimate edition available from midnight tonight?
Apparently so...
Would be nice to get a half hour or so in.
Are you on this evening? I might do some streaming Boyd if that’d help you get to grips with it.
Press R2+L2 to cancel a run didnt work in FIFA 18 for me.
Anderson Talisca and Ben Yedder (hello @Yevrah ) rumoured for TOTW, both of whom might warrant purchases.
Ben Yedder's an interesting one this year. With the Hunter Chem style being nerfed I am veering towards Inaki Williams now he's a striker.
Williams positioning and finishing look a bit low for me, though his physical and pace are obviously pretty damn special. If Ben Yedder gets a nice physical and wee pace boost I may go after him and his 5* WF, but on base cards I think Gameiro still looks the best of the 3 cheap La Liga contenders.
LT+RT seems better this year.
Apparnetly low driven shot is hold LB then RB then shoot (I never use it just going off what my boys are telling me).
I have to tell you lads I've gone all-in and spent like 80$ in fucking packs already. All this got me was Chucky Lozano, who I moved for 35k, Ribery (who is fucking useless), and a couple other random TOTW's I never really heard of.
I have 110k in coins and around 380 fucking players otherwise. I think I'm in decent shape once I start grinding it all out.
I've been trying the bronze/silver thing where you just throw them on the transfer market and hope someone bites for an SBC or otherwise. I've only sold like a dozen or so but i'll take that over 30 coins on quick sale.
Also the EA Access trick where you keep loading the game until FIFA19 comes up does work but it takes a lot of patience.
My boy has put in like 20 hours doing it. I used it a couple times and it's def saved me a few hours.
Thankfully I'll have enough hours to go home tonight and play and then run it at midnight :drool:
Again, any tricks or tips welcome cause I'm trying to do good in that league I'm starting :)
"There are coin boosts in the EA Catalogue. Buy the most expensive ones first as they give more coins! You can also buys all balls, kits etc. and sell them on the market!"
I stupidly thought that by clicking through them all (coin boosts) that I would get them bundled together. Instead it looks like I am going to work through them, starting with the lowest valued ones first. Such a shame because I imagine player prices are going to rise considerably over the next few weeks.
They've patched that second trial glitch.
Oh well, just seen you can do the Hybrid Nations SBC for 27k, which is an absolute bargain, so I'll do that on the web app.
EDIT: Scrap that, Futbin is well out of date.
apparently Fred and Davinson Sanchez are "extinct" so hold them if you have them? Just passing along the word.
I sold Fred for 20k, so I'm hoping he isn't available at 50k when his price range gets changed.
That said, if I've invested the funds wisely it'll have been worth it.
I did Hybrid Nations and Hybrid Leagues for less than that, and just need to use the loyalty glitch on the last set of players in League and Nations Hybrids to finish that off too. Definitely worth it.
Just use the patterns in Futbin but with players in the club and going cheap, often the ones on Futbin move skyward once everyone latches on.
If you do the glitch Merse do you lose any coin boost bonus you had?
EDIT: EA Access glitch works again now.
Breaking down the opposition is so much harder than it was. The AI cut off the passing lanes so well and your players don't seem to make anywhere near as many probing runs.
I can count on one hand the number of through ball goals I've scored in 30 odd matches now.
But fuck me, when you get a timed finish right, it's outstanding.
Yeah, when I was playing the beta I was fucking terrible at them but I connected with one that looked like an absolutely perfect finish.
The downward headers didn't seem to work though which is how I scored most of my goals.
I got Dembele from my Champions League player pick pack. :cool:
That's accelerated the need to get Promes.
Sniped Promes for 20k and Ben Yedder for 5k.
I got Lozano from mine.
https://i.imgur.com/bS9xxAE.jpg
Allez les shitheads.
2-0 loss in my first match (although with no instructions/custom tactics) on Legendary against Lingard's team.
Had troubles breaking down the defence through the middle and every header I had I put wide :\
How did you get Pogba on loan?
Gone with this for now.
https://i.postimg.cc/h42RLjNt/New_Team.jpg
Down to 15k, but with a shitload in the club. Forgot to say I packed that TotW Lazio keeper in my Jumbo Premium packs.
Just had a quick look at the custom tactics and knocked up some crude stuff.
It's so fucking detailed now which is brilliant but not something I want to be constantly pissing about with at 1 in the morning.
My finishing is hilariously bad right now.
And I've won my first game 5-4. Mbappe was unstoppable with a hattrick and he grabbed 2 assists, I also scored my first timed finish to win it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nb0fvRCog4
The pass by Amalfitano in the build up is so good.
2-1 win on Legendary in my first game with the new team.
I can finish, but I can't create for shit. My players just refuse to make sensible, forward thinking runs. I'm going to fuck around with the tactics and see what that brings.
That video is a prime example of my issue Mahow, I just don't get in those positions with a man spare to thread a ball through to - the opposition are so compact and deep sitting, no matter the score.
Nice goal btw.
I do think that the tactics helped as I also struggled with having that extra man.
Need to tweak them more as I was all over the place defensively.
This might just be the most frustrating game ever. Every team I play parks the bus in a way Mourinho could never dream of then somehow finds away to turn a switch and counter attack in a quite ridiculously effective fashion. Meanwhile, my players refuse to run towards the goal and are often to be seen running straight into each other or away from the net when it's actually harder to do so.
This post is sponsored by having just lost 4-1, despite being 1-0 up at half time and having 70% possession. Mandzukic scored a header from the edge of the 18 yard box ffs.
Played the full game last night. From the intro packs and various basic SBC I did, I managed to pack Martial and Arnautovic. My team is currently 79 rated on 80 chemistry. I had two games of SB on legendary last night and the first game I won 1-0 with a last minute martial goal and the second game I won on penalties after 1-1 in extra time. It does not feel to difficulty at this point. Feels very similar to FIFA 18, but it is early.
One thing I always did on FIFA 18 was never drag my central players out of position to defend the wide area. I've notice on FIFA 19 you can get edit the tactics so the central midfield players can 'cover wing' or 'cover central'. by Default the CDM are set to cover wing but i have changed that. However, ive noticed crossing and heading is super strong and the AI are created chance after chance by thoriwjng balls into my box. My GK is making some super saves. May have to amend my style of play and try and actual stop crosses.
Ive also noticed first touches have been nerfed and your player is not always going to control the ball correctly. It just bounces of them at times.
WFH today as I was feeling like shite. Just so happens to coincide with FIFA 19 release day :cool:
Was reading this thread earlier and like the "squad fitness" idea, so picked up a few to stash and re-list at a later point.
Decided to go with Leverkusen in Career Mode as they've got some cracking players (Bailey/Havertz/Brandt behind Volland and then a great back four of promising youngsters). Plus they have a pretty cool kit.
If you can get squad fitness for cheap it's a great coin maker.
As soon as the weekend league hits they are in massive demand. People don't want to waste time playing a fitness game as there's already 40 games to play over a weekend.
Its 30 games now which is still a lot. Im going to play more weekend league though this time around given its a new learning curve.
Also not that it makes much difference, the pack opening animation if awful. It looks like FIFA 14 which I never played.
30 games is much better. You can split that to 10 per day, which is not too unmanageable.
It might promote people to rage quit less too. Not as much need to rush into the next game to fill your quota. I feel like 25 is the sweet spot for it.
I did do about 2 or 3 months of playing the full 40 games back in '17. Your entire weekend has to be based around it. Even then you needed to hope for some rage quits and be prepared to do it yourself.
If you could make it higher end of Gold 1 or to Elite 3 it was so worth playing those extra games, but I'd constantly choke good starts. I once needed 4 wins from 8 games to get into Elite 3. I won 2 and then lost 5 on the bounce. Choked it.
Sums it up for me as well. I hit a nice routine of around 20 games, post-Xmas last year, once they reduced the wins needed to qualify for the following week to 11. It took the pressure off and kept me at a >70% win ratio as I wasn't burning out. I'd lament not playing more ads I was in an Elite 2 ratio most of the time, but I knew I'd have dropped to Gold 2 or 1 as the games wore on.
Got Hulk for 11.5k :)
Also, I need Skriniar for my Serie A / CSL team. Looks a beast.
81 Sturridge in my champions league player pack :/
Fuck all from my two jumbo gold packs as well. Determined not to spend a penny more on this game.
When’s the weekly cut off point for the division rivals rewards? I’ve played all my squad battles games so thought I’d turn my hand to that.
1 day and 13 hours.
I am currently set for 44,000 coins or 2 mega packs and 2 rare players packs (untradeable). Not bad considering I have played around 7 games.
The amount of blocking of passes and shots is mental
Timed finishes are a load of wank so far. Think I've maybe had a couple actually go in. The rest just get spazzed over the bar.
Skill rating of 1410 for division rivals puts me in D5.
Closing down always pressure is the way gorward on this. There are no negatives to it. All my games involve me trying to string togethe 3 passes and the AI or online opp winning the ball back in their attacking third. Ive even tried using the long ball to 3 target men up front once i win possession. Don't work...
Timed finishing is super sticky too
The constant pressure helps you tackle as it teleports your player to the man in possession
Just got Isco from an 83+ loan pack.
This shit is hard as fuck for me tbh. The timed finishing thing is goofy as shit. Had a goal last night that was a red finish and looked awful, but then I watch the replay (squad battles) and it made it look like a perfectly placed finish in the corner lmao
My suspicion is that they'll make the game a tad easier when the first update rolls round.
The gameplay on this is fucking abysmal at the moment, and feels completely different from the really rather good demo.
Seriously considering just binning it until about three patches in.
Its not that bad. It has a big learning curve which Im OK with.
I'm getting slightly better when doing the timed finishes but the easiest way to do it is by looking at the shooters foot which is unnatural for me. I tend to look at the goal to see where to place it.
I use the co-op camera settings so I cant even see the shooters foot.
I'm alright with timed finishing, I just can't break down defences often enough. It veers from being really satisfying when I do and score to be absolutely bloody infuriating.
I got the perfectly timed finished trophy with with Martial cutting in from the left in true henry like :drool:
Ben Yedder is in TotW. :drool:
Let's see how far my marquee matchup stockpile takes me to him.
marquee matchup hasn't come out yet. Day move?
Oh, was it not always Wednesday at 6pm?
MM was always Tuesday and TOTW on a Wed
This is a bit self indulgent, but if I stream a squad battles game would someone mind taking a look at it and let me know if they can spot anything I'm fundamentally doing wrong when it comes to creating chances?
Here's the link.
https://mixer.com/Chemical_Locust
Starting in a couple of mins.
I used that one too. You get a bigger view of where people are on the pitch.
Ben Yedder starting at 120k.
I wouldn't mind Meunier, Hernandez and Ben Yedder there.
Tele broadcast > *
Anything like last year and Meunier is almost endgame already :drool:
So through all of my pack spending and selling and what have you I'm around 350k in coins.
Problem is now I'm shit scared to buy anything substantial because a better TOTW/Special card will come out of that player and then what the fuck will I do but be mad.
There's only really two options. Firstly just don't give a shit about it or you're going to have to be a trader. With that you're always going to have to anticipate and get in/out at the right time or lose a lot.
I prefer option 1.
For instance I bought TOTY Kane last year for 1.6 IIRC and he ended the game at about 400k or so. No fucks given though because he was worth it to me completely.
What rewards is everyone planning to receive from Division Rivals?
I can't decide between the 44,000 coins or the packs.
Coins all day
I haven't done rivals but I'll be taking packs every time.
I like the gamble.
Don't even have the game but been pissing about on the app, using the bronze method. Fucking hell that shit works like mental if you're patient.
Haven't touched FUT yet as I've been enjoying Career Mode. Got a sweet little team coming together with Leverkusen and I'm pretty sure my scout just found a wonderkid Newgen
Think I'm going to give career mode a serious go this year and I'm eyeing up Lyon, Paris FC or Fiorentina.
Lyon is the easiest as their whole team seems to be wonderkids and they have money.
Paris will take the longest to really get going and be harder.
Fiorentina I like due to my favourite ever FM save.
Leaning towards one of the latter two, I might even end up doing both.
Went for Fiorentina, thus far I've bought the following:
Tahith Chong - £700k
Angel Gomes - £1.15m
Sandro Tonali - £1.3m
Phil Foden - £7.4m
Ethan Ampadu - £740k
Jann-Fiete Arp - £2.3m
Boubacar Kamara - £4m
Gian-Luca Itter - £1.2m
Trent Alexander-Arnold - £17m
David Neres - £24.9m
I wanted to buy Mathias De Ligt but bastard Eibar got in when I was waiting for more money to come in.
The 'dribbles completed' stat seems a little broken. It seems to credit a player with a dribble every time they receive possession, so I've just had CL Arthur complete 28 dribbles in a squad battle.
That's not far off half what Leroy Sane completed in the whole of last season.
My copy has been shipped and will arrive tomorrow or Friday. I can't wait.
Any tips on where I should start this time around? I'm very much of the Yev school of putting no money in and building it up.
Between loyalty packs and the coin bonuses in the store you can have a nifty little side put together after about five games so I don't get why people hammer two hundred quid in at the start.
I haven't played Fifa since '16, how do you get the icon players? Is it just gold packs or some other way?
You have to get stupidly lucky in packs.
They did also bring out an SBC for each one about 2/3rds of the way through last years game.
Ben Yedder is down to 90k now, which I'll have with one more win ahead of the division rivals rewards tonight.
Think I'll leave until Squad Battles rewards come out on Sunday and try and snipe one for a bargain then.
I will always take the coins as my pack luck is awful. I have however packed 83 Martial and 82 Arnautovic so far in the 20 or so packs ive opened in FIFA 19 which is a decent start. My team currently looks like this
GK - Joe Hart
RB - Coleman
CB - Matip
CB - Christenson
LB - Moreno
CDM - Wanyama
CDM - Torreria
CAM - Neves
RW - Tahanbakish
LW - Martial
ST - Arnautovic
Only Tahanbakish and Torreia have been purchased. Everyone else has been packed. Martial will be sold next week just before weekend league opens.
Is there a guide somewhere for getting started on UT? Haven't played for a couple of versions but should I be working towards finishing all of the SBCs to start with? The gold ones look like a fairly large commitment.
Really enjoying the gameplay so far, have they nerfed pace this time? Glenn Murray was one of my first gold players and it feels like slower players can actually compete this year. Got torn apart by Giroud earlier also, he didn't score but spent the whole game knocking my defence off the ball and laying it off to teammates.
Youtube videos are probably a good start. I would try and do the welcome challenges.
Took the 53k and bought IF Anderson Talisca for 47k. Selling his NIF for another 3k will mean I have 30k in the bank, with plenty of high rated and IF players in the club. Left contemplating whether to bring in IF Ben Yedder over Gameiro and whether Telles-Miranda or Dalbert-Manolas looks a better combo in my serie A/CSL team.
Shit, have the rewards already come out? I thought they were later and I had time to do the game or two I needed.
EDIT: Should have read your response properly Merse. Missed out on 27k there by not playing the game or two I needed to last night. Damn it.
Blew basically all of my coins on a Serie A team
GK - Perin
RB - Joao Cancelo TOTW
CB - De Vrji
CB - Skriniar
LB - Alex Sandro
CM - Hamsik
CM - Naingolan
CM - Milinkovic-Savic
LW - Insigne
ST - Mertens
RW - Jose Callejon
I figure i can use this team to just grind grind grind grind and then try and snag a Cristiano somehow eventually to put up top.
My dream is to find a George Best to play at RW and Cristiano to play at ST :drool:
MM are out but the rewards are shit so I'll be cashing in where I can...
Decided to do them after all as they were so cheap. Bronze pack method ftw.
Could someone offer me a quick primer on the bronze pack method? It can't be a simple as just buying bronze packs and selling the shit, surely.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...e_pack_method/
still tryin to understand it all myself
Yeah, sure. It is, pretty much, but:
Buy the 400 coin packs (I suspect the 750 ones work too, so I'll be testing that this year when I have a decent coin balance).
Players: Sell those that you can get decent wedge for immediately (my benchmark is usually 500-700 coins+) and club the rest, only quick selling players when your trade pile gets too full with other stuff you'd prefer to keep. The ones you've club'd will come in handy for general SBC's (I've just chucked a load of CSL ones into the MM's) and specific ones that need players from that league or club. The latter is the motherload and can lead to getting 4-5k per player, but only gets into real full swing when the league SBC's come out.
Kits and Badges - You can make decent money from some of these (I've just got 2,500 coins from a silver Hearts Badge), but the vast majority need to be binned.
Contracts - Keep them all and apply them to players via the web app (you can hammer left click and apply shitloads in seconds) and you'll never need to buy contracts again.
Fitness - Both the squad and player cards sell, albeit I'll be keeping some of these this year as I want to run with one team.
Attribute cards - Bin the GK ones and keep and use the rest. Some of the player ones sell.
Managers - Some sell, particularly this time of year. The shiny ones give you +1% to contracts.
Physios and Coaches - I keep them for the boosts.
Healing Cards - Same as fitness cards and contracts in that you don't need to ever buy these again.
Balls and Stadiums - Bin them.
Upgrade Packs - If you open enough packs you can recycle the players that don't sell via the bronze, silver and gold upgrades and at one stage last year, if you had about 3,000 bronzes you could recycle them all the way up to an Icon.
It's a grind and takes a fair bit of management to keep on top of, particularly when you have hundreds of the bronze players, but I love that aspect of the game and if I don't buy any points this year I'll be all over it. If Ben Yedder hadn't been released I'd have opened hundreds of the fuckers this weekend.
Mahow - get Frenkie De Jong from Ajax in Career Mode. He's amazing.
Zaha seems to be incredibly good at this stage of the game. I am finding him to be so much better than Lacazette.
iSmff85 on the PS4 if anyone fancies a few games soon.
Any chance someone can post helpful links etc for FUT? I'm behind the times but I plan on sinking a fair whack in when released.
Thus far from my youth lot, Ampadu is seriously good despite his low overall.
I play a lot of my games but I also sim some and he's constantly got an up arrow for form.
RE: bronze method, this is from a geezer on rllmuk that I've been following:
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Buy the normal Bronze pack for 400 coins.
List up the players you get. Most you'll list for 200 coins. But check the prices, as some will go for more.
List up the managers.
List up any squad fitness cards (rare, but you will get them).
Store everything else in your club.
Quick sell the duplicates.
Rinse and repeat.
It's the most solid and consistent way to make coins, and works throughout the year, mainly thanks to SBCs which can inflate the prices of some bronze cards to ridiculous levels.
Not every player will sell. But those that don't, you store in your club until there's an SBC that they're useful for.
Plus you'll never run out of contract or fitness cards.
While consistent, it can be a slow method, hence a lot of players go for other trading methods once they get a few coins under their belt.
If you can do it for 10 minutes a day, especially at the beginning of the game's lifespan, you'll see your coin total rise very quickly.
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Made 8k today from five packs, opened ten more and got five players worth 1k through to 3.5k. Shit is legit.
Basically I love the trading game in Fifa, I hate the fucking gameplay.
Just packed these two beautiful bastards in one pack now:
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/152...rdo%20Almeida/
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/138...20van%20Dijck/
:drool:
The amount of 25 yard headers that are scored and blocks/interceptions are annoying me.
Is that against the CPU Sincere?
AI and online.
Just got a wonderkid in my career.
17 year old CAM who is currently 68 rated but with a potential of 89-94. Currently valued at £1.7m too.
Yep. The most important thing to have in your side right now is a midfielder who can ping them from upwards of twenty yards.
I reckon Loftus Cheek will be a terrific bargain player for anyone cobbling a Premiership side together. I got him in a pack, threw him in and he's just picked up MOTM with a goal and an assist online, but his low rating should mean he's cheap.
Yep. Available on PS BIN for 800 coins. Bargain.
My copy arrived today. Might not get much time in until Friday night, but ready to go.
Just finished Hybrid Nations and pulled Werner and Alli from the packs. If I sell that'll push me above 100k for the first time. Think I'll cash in now as don't want to risk the promos tomorrow pushing their prices down.
Bought the Ultimate Edition, I'll be up and running in an hour. :cool:
I'm probably going Premier League unless something special pops up in the packs I plan on grabbing. £100?
Is the Futbin app reliable?
Mostly. What specifically are you looking to rely on it for?
Yes, but beware doing SBCs through it.
People will see a vital player posted in the cheapest SBC combination and buy him up and make his price extortionate.
Yeah, the prices are generally alright, but like Fox says, beware the SBC ones.
Don't think I bought anyone in January (can't see and I don't remember)
And here are the players I bought in the Summer:
Abdoulaye Dabo - £1.55m
Alessandro Bastoni - £4.1m
Timothy Weah :cool: - £5.1m
Vinicius Junior - £32.2m (dickhead broke his tibia in his 3rd or 4th game though)
Houssem Aouar - £25m
Riqui Puig
Willem Geubbels
Last two were sorted out before the window opened and I can't see the prices, no more than £1.5m though IIRC.
I also brought in a freebie I found in the free agents that might be a Zlatan regen. Not as tall as Zlatan but he looks like he could be great, also has a 5* WF, if it's not Zlatan then I have no idea whose regen he is. Also showing great potential.
Just had a few friendly games whilst it installs. I can't tackle for love nor money. Last version I just stole the ball with O. This doesn't even get me close.
The timed shots work sometimes and others, you can just use the old method of shooting.
I want to practice my shots in skill games, but you can't remove the trainer from the screen.
It's annoying. There isn't a skill game that I could find that allows you to practice timed shots without the ball being launched in the air at you or without some obstacle in the way.
Haven’t been able to play the game yet. Currently in England for a few days in my way home from India.
Have done some trading on the app and should be up to 50k once the next lot sell. I also have a couple of others in the club who I am happy to use if they don’t spike for POTM.
Current team
Pickford (thinking I’ll try him then Kepa)
Lichtsteiner
Lascelles
Jones
Davies
Seri
N’Didi
Pogba (loan)
Deulofeu
Tosun
IF Fraser
Iwobi, Van Ginkel, Loftus Cheek, Lallana, Foster and Vestergaard on the bench.
I KO'd last night whilst full game installed. This morning I wake to 26 jumbo gold packs with both Ronaldo and Neymar on loan. Very first pack? I pull Lacazette.
Then an IF Zieler and a Lukaku. I'm not going to need to splash so grind?
Cheers @Yevrah @bruhnaldo and @Dark Soldier
I bought five Bronze packs last night and made a profit of 600 coins with five players still to sell. Small potatoes now but I'll go big on that over the weekend. Lovely.
I'm hoping it's a glitch and I've netted all the packs that come with the Ultimate Edition in just one hit. I thought you only got one or the other with Neymar and Ronaldo.
Finished League and Nations basics and pulled Lacazette too. He was one of the players I was looking at the replace Tosun with so into the side he goes.
Chucked 10k at Batshuayi and Moutinho in anticipation of them being in the OTW team. If they're not I won't lose much and they'll inevitably go higher than the 900-1000 coins I paid for them at some stage anyway.
Got 110k in the bank now (which will be 130k+ easily by Sunday night) and I'm somewhat torn as to what to do with it. Options are:
Buy IF Ben Yedder and IF Muenier and use them.
Buy as many Muenier's as I can and flip them for a decent profit when he's out of packs
Buy a shitload of fitness cards ahead of the first weekend league
Open 200+ Bronze packs.
Decisions, decisions.
Meunier looks basically the same as the one I was still using at the end of the last game. Every other position was 90+ but he was just so good I didn't even consider replacing him. If I could afford him right now I'd be buying him.
Im looking to buy between 6 pm and 8 pm Uk time today. Everyone will be playing, opening packs and there should be tons of cards avilable to buy meaning you probably will get better deals.
He's about 60k at the moment and Ben Yedder's 75k, but I don't think the latter is definitely enough of an upgrade on his 81 to make the cost worthwhile, so I'm definitely favouring the Belgian.
If I can snipe Meunier for 40k or so on Sunday (might be unrealistic) then I'll probably do it and keep him.
So I've been doing fairly well in single player seasons and squad battles but I'm struggling online. Not sure if it's because I'm being paired with Japanese given my location or if I've just not played this game for a few years but I feel out of my depth already. Doesn't help that everyone I've faced so far online has had at least one icon and I'm trying to defend with Phil Jagielka.
He should probably be better in this than the last one too, with pace apparently having been rendered irrelevant.
The best player ive played with so far is Torreria. He feels so agile on the ball in possession and he intercepts really well. I play with my defensive line super high online and offline and conceded possession. I havent felt exposed by pace yet..
How many bicycle kicks have been attempted by your own and opponents players? My Matip attempted three in one game last night. One of them while defending in his own box.
Meunier is down at just over 50k on the PS right now. Might have to have a look tonight.
Started opening bronze packs with about 112k of coins, ploughed through a fair few and listed loads of players. This chap sold for 6,500.
https://i.postimg.cc/NMzkM3Wv/28-09-2018_10-11-38.jpg
And now up to 118k with a shedload more to sell through and loads of players saved for future SBC's.
It's a goldmine.
I've got to £40K so far with one full trade list.
Prem team from packs is:
Begovic
Gomez
Kabasele
Schindler
Diego Rico
Dembele
Andre Herrera
Shaqiri
Felipe Anderson
Lacazette
Lukaku
Needless to say defence needs sorting and a better midfield. I'm unsure what formation to go, both single player modes for the objectives have been 442.
I couldn't resist and just got the 12,000 points too. Is there a good time to open or just go for it given it's the start?
Wait until OTW cards. Likely tonight at 6. Market Values of a lot of items will drop for bit but should trend back up.
Yev, what's been your method to get that many coins so quickly?
Also, does anyone know when we get these jumbo packs each week? I bought the champions edition so should be getting 20 packs.
Broadly breaks down as the below:
100,000 - 60 games (with 1,000 per game coin unlock)
30,000 - Bronze Pack Profit (estimate, but probably there or there abouts)
30,000 - Packs from Ultimate edition and SBC's
27,000 - Packed Alli from Hybrid Nations SBC
22,000 - Packed Werner from Hybrid Nations SBC
20,000 - Packed Fred from I forget where
15,000 - Squad Battles Rewards
6,000 - Online Divisions and Offline seasons rewards
20,000 - Flipping Kovacic (Buy on open bid for 9-10k, sell for 11-12k)
30,000 - Flipping Fred (buy on open bid for 19-21, sell for 22-24k)
So about 300k in total I'd say - the balance to the 120k I have now is in the investments I've made - I've got two IF's, one 85, four 84s, sixteen 83s and somewhere in the region of 100-200 gold players in the club, many of which I've bought for discard.
The special edition packs are given to players each Sunday/Monday at midnight, not sure when the first ones should/will land though for Champions edition players - I've already had my first batch from the Ultimate edition and I didn't have to wait until Sunday.
Oh and I frigged the EA Access trial to get 20 hours on it, so I've effectively been playing the game for over week now.
Lukaku is shit.
What formations you doing, Yev? I'm trying for 41212 but pace doesn't seem up to much. I'm shit.
Despite being ok on last year's version (at least offline), I feel horrible at this one.
I've mainly switched between 442 and 4321, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend either as both suffer from my players either all being far to far up the pitch in the first place, or simply refusing to make runs in behind the opposition defence.
If I buy Meunier I might have a go at the 41212 and bomb the full backs on.
If anyone can remember my play style, I always prefered to use the big target men who can hold the ball up in FIFA 18. I never really relied on the pace that much. Giroud with the Finisher chem style with target man as an instructions is a monster.
I want to play with 3 defenders on this version so I'm going to experiment over the weekend and see if I can find a balance.
Quite intrigued to see what lands at 6pm....
OTW and CL SBCs according to reddit
There must be an icon SBC or two, surely?
Just booted up the app and went from 2k coins to 8400 listing shite overnight. Invested in another 10 packs.
Ronaldo OTW incoming.
the OTW apparently dropping at 1pm here so if I recall that's 6pm for you guys (unless daylight savings has fucked that up somehow, sorry).
6,000 points to blow on it. Ronaldo please.
I hope you do Smiff, but the odds are probably lottery-esque.
Well Castro packed 93 Gullit the other day and that only cost him $4,000 worth of points. You can do it Smiff!
Am I missing something with the UEFA Compeition SBC? Seems incredibly easy?
EDIT: They have updated the Aubameyang to a loan. It was originally showing as a standard card.
Sightly underwhelming SBC's there and it's a shambles that I can't see who is in the OTW squad in the actual game.
Got a TotW Smolov for 13,750, which seemed like a bargain so I did it almost involuntarily....
And a Golovin for 10,750.
Nastasic and Ghoulam in my UCL pack. Eurgh.
Flipped the Smolov for a 500 coin profit as I realised with a bit of patience you can pick them up for 10k each. Got three now and a Meunier for 42k, which I should make 5k on.
Yev is like a pig in shit
Do you make any actual money out of it or is it FIFA money that saves you spending actual money?
It's in game currency, which you can sell to certain websites for actual cash, but it'll likely get you banned.
English central players going for a fortune.
Barkley 5.5 to 6k
Burnley CB's 3,500
You can snipe for under 1,000 coins and flip. I'll have Ben Yedder and Meunier tonight and as many coins as I started the day with at this rate.
I wondered what EA would do for rarer items but OTW odds are only listed as "less than 1%".
Also, has anyone else had the "play more games to unlock transfer market access" on the web app? Thought it would have unlocked by now but it's annoying as I have loads of Bronze shit lying around to sell
United came in with a big offer for my oldest (and best CB) and I decided to accept because I have a few good youth already.
Didn't really need to buy anyone so I decided to just buy Tielemans for £36.7m as I needed someone quality (and crazy slow ofc) next to Aouar.
https://youtu.be/URJjfGWH7uc
Hugo Lloris drunk again
The deluge of SBCs has served me well. Pulled Mane, IF Gundogan and IF Czech having spent about 5k doing the pollster of the month, intro and ECL ones.
Looking forward to Moura with Fred behind and Jesus up front in place of Gameiro, Allessandrini and Doucoure as a result of selling Gundogan :drool:
Snapping up high rated players at the moment with the returns from earlier.
Some of the IFs and 84s to 87s are absolute steals.
I picked up over 10 De Rossi's for 700 to 850 coins earlier as well.
Promes OTW about 110k, Yev...
I am tempted Mahow, but I'm not really a fan of OTW players, as I don't like the gamble. That said, presumably his OTW will drop in price as his regular card rises over the next few days, which might make it worthwhile.
In fact, he'd only cost about 70k net now.
You can make coin from OTW cards by purchasing the card a few hours afer they play in real life (if they have a shit game) and then selling them the next week before their next game
Yeah, but if I bought Promes, I'd be keeping him.
He's bound to get some special cards this season.
I think the only gamble is whether or not he gets injured but that's the same for everyone.
The only OTW I'm thinking of buying right now is Moussa Dembele.
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/169...%C3%A9l%C3%A9/
Cheap, would fit into my French/Ligue 1 side and he looks well rounded. Especially if he gets an IF or two. WF is troubling though.
That weak foot will drive you mad.
Yeah, I remember trying out Salah's OTW (pre any IF's) last year and his WF bugged the hell out of me.
Am I missing something with the bronze pack method? I bought three 400 packs and got absolutely fucking garbage and only a handful have sold for 150.
I have gone from 9K to 35K via sniping Ben Mee / Danny Drinkwater for about an hour. It's the first time I have ever tried it.
Very addictive.
Did Hybrid Leagues and pulled Mane and IF Traore. The former goes for over 100k, which was a very pleasant surprise.
So I've just sunk 15k into this single player draft mode. Is this too good to be true? You only need four wins in a row on any difficulty to get some potentially nice rewards.
You're unlikely to get rewards that'll make the 15k worthwhile, but the start of the game is the best chance you have.
My squad. It's quite horrible. Having no pack luck at all so far. Have 20k in coins. Aubaymeng ofcourse is on loan. Could've swear when I opened the SBC it wasn't shown as a loan.
https://www.futbin.com/19/squad/230859
Won my first four set in squad battles
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Team im currently using. I'm not too concerned about getting any players at the moment. I'm still feeling out the gameplay. Target man does not really work with two strikers ive noticed. The High/High workrate of full backs is nice to have. Coleman is rock solid.
Https://www.futbin.com//19/squad/231520
Surely I'm not the only one who experiances bicycle after bicycle after bicycle. Its funny.
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50k for that Lucas seems decent. Might give the loan a try when I get home and on.
Great stuff Sincere.
I've dropped it down to World Class and am slowly getting to grips with it. It seems to get my players to make runs, I need to be almost as deep as possible whilst simultaneously pressing the ball to buggery and telling my players to move it quickly.
Suarez and Rog in my UCL pack. What a waste.
I'll be on for a couple of hours for those who haven't a clue what's going on.
https://mixer.com/Chemical_Locust
One of the things that really pissed me off last year (and was a function of buying packs) was the amount of shit I had left at all times of the game.
Definitely keeping on top of that this year, albeit the contracts can wait until the weekend league next week.
Another 3 SB wins from 4, with a horrible defeat in the final one. I fucking hate the teams that simultaneously sit deep, press the fuck out of you, but then counter like a Guardiola side.
Still, up to 25k of points now and 3,500 from Elite 1, which might actually be on. 30k of coins and two Rare Mega Packs tomorrow night would be pretty sweet.
Not sure where im ranked but I don't think I will have enough points for elite 3 this weekend. I was considering staying at home and not going to the Wolves game. Ive commited to the game now but my mindset now is just stay in and FIFA19.
Currently got about 400K after a round of sales. 400 more to go then I'll build something I reckon. Maybe something so I can use the loan trio of Neymar, Ronaldo and James.
I never ever use my loan players. I really should especially the elite loans.
I made 10k off some random I got in a bronze pack the other day. What a time to be alive :drool:
Yeah, I might give this a miss. The AI's ability to play from the back and ping passes and triangles about just doesn't look like football to me.
Is that from my stream Shinners?
Aye. I'm sure it's alright to play and the framing of Ultimate Team adds a lot of weight to it, but I prefer football to be a little less fantasy.
How does PES handle the AI?
The problem FIFA has is that if the AI doesn't keep the ball (or stick 11 men behind the ball), it's a piece of piss to beat it.
Sneaked into Elite 1 and while I won't be there come the 5PM update, it's very much game on.
Think I'll have a go at Division Rivals now.
I haven't ran into that. Well, I've seen one weird bit of indecisiveness. I'll stream some later on and put the AI through it's paces. The problem with stuff like that is, if you can't recreate it, you can't patch against it. From watching The True Brits, he moans about low crosses being spammed by the AI but even that's not a universal sentiment. I'm wondering if that's format specific with him being on PC. Even so, Konami are getting a patch together for the end of October so there must be something they can tweak.
I don't know much about the OTW market, but is Promes' price not going down because Sevilla are playing later?
Usually they slowly build in price up til team news. If Promes plays his price will rise as people gamble. If he scores one, or especially two he'll rocket up in the hype.
I finished that draft mode 4-0 and got two jumbo gold packs. Opened the first and pulled a Neymar. I'M RICH LADS.
I'm sitting here laughing out loud. I feel like I've won the fucking lottery.
Upgraded both sides in goal, with Lloris also putting me in a good place to bring in Umtiti and Hernandez in place of Bailly and Shaw in time for the weekend league, if I can offload IF Gundogan for 70k and make another 20k through coin boosted matches. Eventually, I'll want Varane alongside Umtiti, as he looks like 2016 era Boateng. That'll mean a change in midfield and right back too though, which at the moment, so I'll need plenty more than just the 160k for Varane himself to do that. Pretty confident I'm close to my full pre-Xmas team though which will allow me to sit back and cherry pick SBC's whilst picking up coins to save my way to Mbappe and Prime Henry and a single squad club eventually.
Team 1:
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Team 2:
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Earned enough from selling Zaha, Gundogan and a few other bits and bobs to bring in Hernandez, Umtiti and Alex Sandro. Aside from maybe bringing in Dele Alli for Fred, who’s knocking about for 5k more, depending on how I get on with the latter, I think that’s me set.
Pickup up OTW Promes for 94k, he'll no doubt drop in price now, but I sold the original I had for 37k, so I'll take that.
Also decided to do the Lucas SBC, but trying to be quite thrifty about it.
Down to 87k already. :D
EDIT: 80k now. He'll be cheaper than his standard card at this rate.
Yev, do icon prices fluctuate much? I'm going to get one for certain but I'll wait if the prices are due to come down in time.
Got Lucas. Nice touch to have the SBC's walk out.
When is Promes next game? If he still has a chance to play a league game this week, he will go back up again. Best time to sell OTW players is during the game. They go back down once the game finishes. If they play well, and there is a chance for them to get into TOTW, they go back up again on Monday and Tuesday.
Last year I was buying OTW James before his Bayern games and selling him during the game after he got an assist or goal. You can make 20k a card on the higher ranked players.
You don't really want to buy OTW cards and hold them unless your planning on using them for the long run.
Looking at last nights goals. Mandzukic scored two goals in a win vs Napoli. Im going to stock his gold card as there is a high chance he gets an IF. His gold card should increase if he gets an IF
With the AI debate on PES, I've started streaming so you guys can judge for yourselves.
www.twitch.tv/shindigpsc
Talking of AI in FIFA, the more and more I play Squad Battles on this the more pointless doing anything else other than creating space on the edge of the box and going for a timed finesse becomes.
It is, but it'll get very boring, very quickly.
They've essentially muffed the engine if one has to resort to that.
I do have a question though. In FIFA 18 if you went All out Attack a centre back would join the strikers. Now All Out Attack has gone in FIFA 19, can you still make that happen?
I found it to be a very effective tactic against the AI in 18 and I'm missing it somewhat.
if you press down on the d-pad there is an option for sending a CB as an ST. I think there option ks there. There is definitely an option to make the ST drop back on defence.
Cheers, I'll give that a go.
There's an extra striker option, however that doesn't seem to move a centre back up there. However, it looks like you can do it in the actual player instructions page.
Who's this years Bakayoko?
Doesn't do anything either. :moop:
Kondogbia is so much more than a new Bakayoko. He’s closer to baby Vieira. Very much recommended and the links to Guedes and Wass are very nice too. An in form or two and they’ll be long term bets.
Have you used Rabiot Merse? Or anyone else for that matter.
Not yet. Has a nice card and he’s on the list as someone who can work Mbappe into almost side. Nice card this year, looks great with anchor, hawk or engine.
Amazes me how many people don’t check the value of their pack pullls. I’ve made 20k on a trip from Bristol back to London just sniping near discard value Mamadou Sakho’s and selling for 1800-1900
Friday was unreal for that. No idea how much I made from Loftus-Cheek, Barkley, Mee and Tarkowski, but it was a lot.
It'll be interesting how much I can get IF Ben Yedder and IF Meunier for tonight once the Squad Battles rewards are out.
Spent all day trying to boost my level for squad battles and managed to get it to Elite 3. Going to see what I get in the packs and make a decision on which icon to buy.
Which mode offers most in way of returns? I'm assed on single player and prefer online but want to do SBC's.
Depends almost entirely how good you are.
Online definitely offers bigger rewards, but you need to be a reasonable standard to get any of them.
You can do SBC's whatever mode you play.
Did a bit of silver trading just now and it seems almost impossible not to make coins on it.
I tried the draft a few times. I only won one game but entry alone seems to be worth two gold packs and a jumbo silver.
I got division 5 for the rivals league too.
Stamina is a joke in this, especially in the career mode.
Everyone seems to have sub 60 stamina and there's only one training drill that increases it (a dribbling one which does barely anything), it's seriously pissing me off.
I won the offline draft and one of the packs contained IF Witsel. I'm trying to sell the entire club off now then I want to focus on rivals.
I've decided that I'm going to move to Serie A. Looks like a lot of nice budget guys in the league.
https://i.imgur.com/KNc7eEu.png
I quite the look of that.
Watching the timer countdown on Squad Battles, 300 points in it now.
What's the Promes thing about? Was he better than he should have been last year? Only time I ever heard of him in real life was when he was hockeying his Mrs.
Somehow I managed to get elite 2 in SB rewards with only about 15 games played. I imagine because not many people played the game mode and there is a new learning curve. I got Hamsik 87 as my best player from the packs. Going to hold until Wednesday and then sell him with the rest of my team. Still dont know what type league(s) to go down with UT.
I think im going to have to stick to a defence in the premier league as the lack of high defences work rates in the full-back areas in other leagues is embarrassing.
Ben Yedder and Meunier are now rising in price not falling, so I may need to re-evaluate that idea.
Anyone used Diego Costa?
A challenge for the furtherest kick from a bicycle. Its mental :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAiwWBQ9ACo
buddy picked up the game, decided to open his first pack
the little fucker packed Mbappe first try.
then, to rub salt in the wound, proceeded to pack Asensio and Isco.
meanwhile, I've spent like $125 on fifa points and have packed Ozil at best.
Gonna go die now kthnx.
Best I've packed so far is Pepe Reina & Nacho both 83. Almost impossible to get a board player.
Brazilian 11
Gomes
Leo Matos
David Luiz
Marquinhos
Bernado
Fred
Luiz Gustavo
Allan
Neymar
Gabrial Jesus
Lucas
=
Decent. I can upgrade in a few places.
England 11
Kepa
Trippier
Alderweireld
Stones
Shaw
Oxlade
Dier
Lingard
Alli
Rondon
Wilson.
I reckon by tomorrow I'll have sold everyone other than the above then I can start upgrading.
Thoughts?
Love the idea of player pick League SBC's.
Who are the options for the two available leagues?
Curtis Davies or Fernando Forestieri and Mauro Zarate / Christian Pavon.
Pavon looks just swell. Up there with last years Promes.
Quite excited for the La Liga/EPL ones now. I’m already buying up the likes of Sergio Busquets and Iniesta for Icon SBCs too.
Is this game broke? Why is everyone the same pace and why is it so arcade-like?
Last years engine should be kept forever.
Pace has seemingly been rendered redundant and I agree, last year's version was so much more fun than this one so far.
It'll change hugely when the patch comes out no doubt.
Sniped IF Ben Yedder for 55k and sold his standard gold card for 4,800. Now for Meunier....
GK kicking though is improved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBXgoSp-9dc
That counter :drool:
I’ve played three games and I’m bored out my mind. This isn’t fun at all. Don’t get me started on the shooting. It’s kike stats don’t matter.
Nepenthez was doing that play all last year Mahow.
Nice goal mind.
Fucking hell, trying to snipe Meunier is giving me RSI. He BINs for 58k, I'm going for sub 52k. Thought I'd hit the jackpot early doors with one for 50k, but upon buying him realised he wasn't a clean card so threw him back. Nothing doing since.
Settee down mate.
That was the go to move last year when someone went all out attack.
With those SBC's as repeatable and no silvers in any pack other than silver ones, Silver Pack Method might soon become a thing.
Done the deals, new team is:
https://i.postimg.cc/02DJJx98/New_Team.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/Bv66NGfP/Subs.jpg
Given the game's only be out a week or so I'm well happy with that.
Down to my last 30k of liquid coins, but have the following investments in the club and a few for marquee matchups this week, but need to add more.
OtW - 4
IF - 7
87 - 2
86 - 4
85 - 11
84 - 12
83 - 33
And not a penny spent on packs so far.
Has anyone else registered for the Continental Cup qualifiers?
I believe my best pull by rating has been an 84 (a few now) and for coins Rashford.
Not great thus far.
Don't think I've puled greater than an 85 yet, might even be 84 too.
Had 3 IFs though.
I've had two at discard level.
Seems the first big meta arrived today. Like the second half of last year, it's 41212, but this time wider and more high risk. Basically, wingers and CAMs are in, in a big way.
Getting massively outnumbered every time the opposition attack and have slipped 270 skill points threatening relegation to D6, having been holding a 66% odd record in D5. Looking ominous for this weekend, for which I'll only have some of Friday to play anyway.
Will probably need to re-evaluate formation next week.
I think somebody just misclicked, this card is going for 300:
https://i.gyazo.com/644ddb3afdebe098...4191fa81f1.png
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Yeah, I've already had about 4 of them this year.
I have no idea how it happens so much.
Could well be someone buying coins too.
They put cheap shit up for max BIN and the buying site goes off the time you give them.
I bought points in 16 but never again.
I believe Sincere bought some the other year too.
Been playing more and more division rivals and just had my best game yet, winning 4-3 in the 90th minute having been 2-0 and 3-1 down. IF Ben Yedder with the winner.
Have secured rank 3 in division 6 so 27,500 coins coming my way on Thursday, which will take the balance to 40k. Picked up Busquets earlier for 18k and it's tempting to go for Kroos next. Get to use him for a bit and his 52k current value is bound to increase.
Squad Battles still suck.
Played two games online so far. Both draws 1-1 & 3-3. First I got so outplayed but managed a counter attack in the 82nd to euqalise. 2nd match I had a 3-2 lead having everything completely under controll. Then Schmeichel (god i fucking hate him in this game) saves a shot but refuses to pick it up even though the ball is right in front of him. I press square in desperation to just clear the ball but then a fucking defender tackles someone and he gets a penalty kick. Piece of shit.
I bought nearly £100 worth and it's as shit as ever but I'll do it again next week just until I have a squad I'm happy with.
On a side note, I can't use the transfer list on the app despite playing more than 50 games. Any ideas? Currently I'm in work so I actually video called the Mrs and directed her on how to list them. :cool:
If only she knew how to play.
Finally able to boot up the game. Got Aurier in my CL pick pack. Not the worst.
First game on professional was too easy.
So last night I decided to sink my 50k coins into various packs seeing as my friend got lucky with Mbappe.
I pulled fuck all and now I'm depressed.
Actually that's a lie, I did pull Kondogbia and some random 75 OTW ST from France(?).
Do you guys think I should try and move Kondogbia now while the value is there or do you think him being apparently OP as fuck is worth holding onto?
I would wait for a couple of days, he should go up as people gear up for the first Weekend League.
I have packed Bailly and Isco today while working through the Lucas SBC :drool:
I probably spent like 35k on players for it. I had just one who fit into a Brazil solution from futbin(lazy I know) had half a prem squad and had two spurs players been prebought (not that they went up much)
Obviously I came out ahead with my pack results but I figured 50k wasn’t that bad. I traded up to that over the last week on just the web app.
Yep, this is just completely unplayable for me at the moment. Attributes don't seem to have any discernible affect on what you see on the pitch. I'm out until it's patched.
You need to play the mode with no offside and no fouls. It is super fun.
Did two set of the untradeable CL players and pulled Sane :drool:
Had three Ulreich's in the club, bought for 650 each, sold for 6k+ each. :drool:
How can you have 3? Doesn't it make you immediately dispose of duplicates?
Stick them on the transfer list
Had two of them on the trade pile.
I'm annoyed in a way because I should have had a shitload more Bayern players due to the potential marquee matchups game with Mochengladbach, but I hadn't got round to buying them.
Still, with those and some random Dutch league players I'm up to 40k now so should be able to get Toni Kroos tonight.
Saw Kroos was going for 47k ish, so discarded a 77 In form to make up the balance and sniped a clean one for 43k.
Need a German Bundesliga left back to fit him into the team on 10 chem (and I think they are all bobbins), but facking sweet nonetheless.
My pack luck this year :nono: UCL upgrade. 76 Dembele & 76 Bikacic :wall:
I got Muslera and Ranocchia.
I'm hoping the 3 pack from the UCL MM gives out something better.
I am an after eventing cunt
Had to use Hysaj from my first team (I'll buy him back for buttons in a couple of days) but I only needed to buy Sven Ulreich and I had a few extras that I sold.
Got some decent stuff in the packs (will make about 20k or so) and from the UCL:
Akinfeev, Rojo and Junior Moraes. Balls.
Probably not the wisest but I'm thinking of going balls deep in the repeatable one in the hopes of a Ronaldo.
So this is shite then? How did they fuck it up so much when last year's was so good?
Did the Marquee SBCs out of the club with Wagner, Lovren and a couple of Napolitans already on the transfer list now making me coins. :drool:
Will probs do a few rounds of the repeatable one too. With the player pool being being so skewed towards usable teams and high rated players, it should be worth it.
Fuck it:
First pack - Cervi and THE HUNTER
Second pack - Gameiro and Clyne
Third pack - Soares and Gagliardini
Fourth pack - Walker and Rog
Fifth pack - Salvio and Spinazzola.
And I'm out of rare golds. Crap bar Walker.
The vocal ‘community’ and high tier/‘pro’ players hated it. It feels like a knee jerk reaction to many of the complaints about the dominance of ping pong passing and narrow formations. It’s addressed some of that, but needs some work to bring a bit more flair and pace back in. Just a touch.
Oof. I’d be happy with that just for Walker providing you fed in your shite @Sir Andy Mahowry
Yeah, I didn't do any rares higher than 80 and checked player prices.
Walker is good but I'm going for Serie A this year so meh for me.
Has anyone tried the new 4-2-4 formation?
Current side is the following (4-3-2-1):
Pickford
CL Aurier
Bailly
Stones
Davies
Seri
NDidi
Pogba (Loan)
Lucas
Lacazette
CL Sane
Thinking I might try the 4-2-4 when Pogba's loan is up with the Loan Aubameyang as his partner.
I've switched to it late on in games I'm losing in career.
It's pretty lethal.
Sold Origi for 10k :harold:
Yep, all Liverpool players are going for at least 10k.
Did the Bayern side of it and was hoping for a cheap quick and easy Liverpool player.
Packed Fabinho.
Edit. Jesus was in the pack too :drool:
Made 65k all in all from those SBCs with consumables and duplicates sales and selling up 7 Napoli players for 5k each and Lovren for 10k. Good night. Packed Subasic from the tradeables and Brahimi untradeable to add to the 84s and 86s set aside for Icon SBCs. May do some more tomorrow as have plenty of lower league golds which won’t be off much value at any time other than as SBC fodder.
Fekir from finishing the UCL SBC. None on the market and his price is capped at 60k. Might hold him for a little to see if the increase his max
Did the Bayern side of the sbc for 4K plus what I had in the club, which meant sacrificing 84 Martinez. Good news is that I packed Willian, so 27k right there.
Have the Napoli players needed, but not paying 20k for the Liverpool ones, so I’ll leave that until tomorrow.
I know a few people got buyers remorse last year on the untradeable SBC cards, but for me, the 10k (plus 35k of players I already had but could have sold) was worth it. As much as anything, I will use him solidly for a couple of months I should think, during which time comparable players picked up for coins will have depreciated. I'll have a supersub after that, as Promes and POTM Salah became for me later on in the game, and eventually he'll become an 86-rated SBC fodder, as those cards did last year. Win-win all around if you're able to use the card.
I’ve only got Lucas as a super sub and he hasn’t done much for me so far, but given how cheap he and the packs back I’d say the SBC is worth doing. If you’re running a Prem team it’s almost a no brainier.
What are the ranges of the cards you can get in that 3 UCL sbc player pack?
Ederson
Danilo
David Luiz
Marquinhos
Luis Felope
Fred
IF Lucas Leiva
Allan
Vinicious Jr
Gabrial Jesus
Lucas
So Neymar expired, both full backs and goalkeeper improved and an IF added to the middle. I'm looking for both Thiago Silva and Fabinho next. Jesus is really pleasing to play with.
You need to be quick when if they increase his max price range if you want to maximize your coins. A few hours after it has been increasing, you get everyone listing the same card and undercutting and then you will probably get less than the original 60k if you sold him.
I really suck at this game. Lost 3/3 games today online. One player was just sick. Knew every trick there is. How the hell do you do keepy ups? He juggled that ball like 5-6 times. Still only ended 2-0. Got into Division 6 in Rivals. Do I need to keep playing or do I still get some reward?
You get rewards based on the rank in the division you’ve achieved.
For example, I’m rank 3 in division 6 and can claim 27,500 coins (or some packs instead), tomorrow morning as a result.
Cheers, bit of a risk then. Guess it depends how cheaply I can get the two Liverpool players I need.
I may splurge at some point, but this is so much more enjoyable when you haven’t whacked any FIFA points in. Feels like I’ve really earned every coin I have and am much less prone to knee jerk market decisions as a result.
Last year I’d have just bitten the bullet and spent the 20k last night to get them and moved on.
The market will calm down fully when the UCL sbcs have ended.
Yay finally won an online match.
I'm down to just one squad of players. For all the cash I ploughed into it and the bonus of having all the pregame packs that came with the Ultimate Edition, I currently have the Brazilian squad above and that's it. Maybe 5,000 coins left.
I'm definitely doing something wrong as I feel I should have a lot more than I do. Feels like a hole in the club and the players are leaking out.
This is fucking horseshit. I'm down 1-0 and he/she quits and still gets the win. Fuck off!
Co-op.
Right, we'll start with shooting. There's an obvious glitch at the moment that makes you do a weak little side foot nonsense shot when you're trying for a power shot in certain situations, so regardless how good your striker is it's impossible to properly judge a finish.
That's if your striker gets in position in the first place. I've tested this one, and Aguero with his 92 positioning will make exactly the same runs, at the same time, as Lys Mousset with his 65. Even when forcing a run they'll often do mental things like charge straight towards a defender when there's space for them to move into.
The passing system itself is fine, but again, it seems like a player's ability doesn't have much to do with the success of an individual pass. Jose Holebas will ping seventy yard passes crossfield all day, but introduce a bit of traffic and suddenly Jorginho with his nigh on 90 passing is indistinguishable from Etienne Capoue.
I could probably moan for another hour but I'm on my phone.
Got web app access granted today so slogged through the Lucas SBC in a couple hours at work. Pulled Busquets from one of the packs which let me build a decent starting team:
https://i.imgur.com/ga1yhD1.jpg
Also pulled UCL Taison and UCL Rafinha so in the process of making a national squad.
Finding games tough this year but I do enjoy the gameplay. Passing seems much more intuitive (last I played was 17) but I'm so shit at finishing.
Finally got to play someone much worse than me. Won 5-0.
That CL untradeable upgrade got me good last night. I chucked a shit ton of players into it and ended up getting Jonas, Alex Telles, and Cuardado as the best pulls.
Cuardado will actually be pretty useful for me as I can bring him off the bench to slot in at RF in my Serie A laden first team so I was pleased with the result overall.
Looking at these two for my next upgrades for my team:
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/719...m=10&schem=100
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/804...m=10&schem=100
They look mega.
Sold a shit ton of Napoli, Bayern, and Ajax players yesterday for a nice bit of coin... as well as an Adam Lallana yesterday for 10k. Even the 77's were going for 1500-2000.
I'm trying to chuck every silver player I have into the market to see if the Silver Pack Method is going to be a thing. So far, only sold one for a nominal fee.
That Koulibaly card has me especially intrigued. I might pull the trigger on that today. I already have Bonucchi and Skriniar(spl) (along with De Vrij and Barzaghi).
That Manolas card looks tasty af with that pace # but in fairness I haven't necessarily felt beat for speed at any point so far (though I haven't exactly strayed too far from squad battles).
Hallelujah! I agree with the rest of your post, but this point is so bang on the money I had to single it out because I've barely heard it mentioned anywhere.
The number of times I'll be on a break or just moving forwards and my striker will either check his run and inexplicably start running horizontally, or worse, run back towards me, is an absolute shambles.
This isn't as noticeable in online play, but in squad battles, due to the way the defenders are so compact, it makes it pointless even trying in favour of just rinsing a timed finesses instead.
The side foot thing is also infuriating.
TotW De Marcos and Stark would fit right into my teams.
Could cash in on Meunier by using the former too, assuming he'll be cheaper.
John, try a different camera angles. I went for feel broadcast I think. Makes a huge difference if passing etc is on assisted. Also, take off times shooting. It's shit. I found I won a lot more.
Settled for spending 12k to get the two Liverpool players in the end, which sickened me, but hey ho.
Got a Jumbo Silver Pack from the buy a player objective reward and it makes me even more convinced that Silver Pack method might just work this year.
My silvers haven't really moved but I'm also listing them for like 500 so that's probably it
I reckon maybe i don't understand the 'pack method' bit as well as i should, but so far no real loss.
Just gonna keep relisting and maybe they'll slowly trickle out
Finally packed something worthy. Did the under the light SBC, gave up the 2 shit UCL cards i got yesterday and got Koulibaly and Kondogbia. Shame it wasn't the CL Koulibaly card.
Shocking pack luck tonight.
Binmen from my UCL pack, the Jumbo Premium Gold one, the Rare Electrum one and 3 UCL upgrade packs.
I am thinking they may do another Champions League SBC based around Man United vs Juventus so I am tempted to stock up on cheap United gold players.
Just bought 87 Pique for 13k and (another) 86 Muller for 6k. Madness.
If the values increase as they did last year I'm probably sat on upwards of 600k worth of players now once the SBC's kick in.
Also it's time to try Diego Costa.
The pairing of Fred and IF Leiva is way better than it should be. I've gone for Paulinho as an upgrade on Gustavo but I haven't tried him yet.
Slowly getting the most out of Vinicious Jr and the other Lucas. Key was editing tactic to get in behind, Gabriel Jesus as a CF. I think makes me 4-1-2-3 which is the best thus far for me.
I've quit for the week, I'm not going to qualify for the weekend league but have done enough for division 5 rank 3 rewards. I could pull an all nighter and go for rank 2 however I don't think have it in me.
Tomorrow we get the rewards, right? If so, what day do you get the packs for the Ultimate Edition? I'm curious if I get them again even though I seem to have had them all at the very beginning.
You shouldn't have had them all at the beginning, but if you've somehow struck lucky you'll get another two on Sunday at midnight.
Here's hoping. As is, all I actually did is create a PSN ID with a new email to download the Ultimate Edition, I even formatted the PS4 prior to it.
Hopefully tomorrow's rewards are decent because I'm qualifying for next weekend's league whether I have to throw a sicky or two.
FUCK
Just bid 9.9k for Julian fucking Weigl after mis-clicking whilst investing for next week's possible UCL Matchups.
http://oi67.tinypic.com/1p9v7l.jpg
What kind of dickhead list players for 9.9k/10k BIN simply to catch people out?
Presumably people hoping a MM boosts the price and aren't willing to take less.
What kind of dickhead doesn't look where they're clicking? Does the web app not have click conformation when you're bidding?
Do you have to use timed finishing in online games?
I saw Smiffy's point about turning it off and I'm tempted to.
Took the two mega packs and two consumable packs. Got Bruno Fernandes 83 at best. Atleast I got a bunch of rares to use in SBCs.
Not sure what to do. Got T1 D5 so options are -
1. 58k
2. 2 x Premium Gold Jumbo, 1 Rare Player Packs, 1 x Mega Packs
3. Double the above but all untradeable.
3 seems like a huge pull should be in order with plenty of bits to help me with SBCs, but untradeables are also a pain, obviously, whilst the 58k isn’t hugely important to me right now as I’m not really chasing any particular players.
I went for option 1. A couple of Prem players but nothing special. I'm going to grind like a bitch this week.
Sold em and bought the last premium pack I could...
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Maybe 50-70k worth of pack?
Hybrid Nations complete. Got Matuidi as best. Actually been eyeing him since yesterday. Trying to build a PL/Serie A team.
What I've got at the moment. Not sure who to fill the empty spots with. Sandro would be sweet at LB but probably damn expensive.
https://www.futbin.com/19/squad/429279
Packed Guedes from the puzzler sbc. Guedes on the LW linking with Kondogbia. Also got Ousmane Dembele although he's RW maybe he could play LW then he links with Lacazette
Went for Koulibaly CL last night at around 80k. His IF was like 120k at the time so I didn't figure +1 physical was worth 40k. Pretty beastly so far.
Think Manolas is next for me. Would also like to get Matuidi, if anything but to be a nice rotational/off the bench mid to spell my current starters Radja, Hamsik, and SMS.
The upgrades on the UCL players just aren't worth the increase in cost, but they do look very nice and shiny so I indulged myself last night and brought in Renato Sanches' card for 5k.
What icons we all looking at this year then? Of all the new ones I really want Keane and Giggs. Will have to be Prime Giggs since I now have untradeable UCL Sane on the left.
RVN is probably a beast so might be worth a look.
Think I've prepared for the Marquee Matchups perfectly. More luck than judgement obviously, but I'll take that.
EDIT: But the rewards are shit so it won't matter.
I need Keane, Scholes and Ruud.
I won't bother with them. I used a couple last year but the very fact of the Icon card means it costs about six times what a current player with the same stats would so none of them lasted for me. What I would very much like is another fifteen versions of Son.
I bought X7 Kompanys for around the 7000 - 8000 mark in the hope of an Eden Hazard POTM card.
Hoping it pays off.
I really want George Best personally.
OTW Salif Sane goes for 11k BIN, closer to 10k on open
Pretty much risk free investment. Either he gets an IF and goes up or he goes up when the OTW are eventually needed in an SBC
Just salty that the King of Kings is the SPL’s sole representative (discounting Keane)?
Gattuso?
Just pulled OTW Alisson for doing the Champions Will Rise SBC. Could keep him, sell on for 59k now, or actually use him in my Prem team.
I landed OTW Witsel, an IF De Marcos and IF Ricardo Horta.
Best was actually an on loan pack that gave me Douglas Costa for 7 games. Looking forward to him and Vinicious Jr battling it out for a spot.
I'm looking at Fabinho next for a purchase.
Packed Kondogbia from that CL sbc and sold a bronze bin man for 5k and back up to over 50k now. It’s so easy to generate coins on this.
As for icons, I want one in my team who’ll play 1,000 games for me. Doesn’t necessarily matter which.
Finally finished Hybrid Leagues and packed Handanovic and Fekir to come out well ahead overall. Once they sell and the IF Meunier I have goes I will be closing in on 400k coins.
Pulled Bale and Martial from the Hybrid Leagues SBC last night so I'm sitting on nearly 500K coins.
Genuinely no idea what to do with it now.
I might bin IF Meunier off for IF De Marcos and bank the 40k coin take.
When are the OTW's out of packs?
Gameplay's doing my head in on this now. At some point during every game, the opposition will start 20 seconds of pixel-perfect one touch passing that I will never see in a million years of watching League One football, and if they get it out wide you're conceding, doesn't matter how.
It's frustrating Wullie. On Legendary there are times when as soon as the AI ratchet up the pressure you know you're going to concede.
Aiming for a bit of a pack spree tonight, with the 5 packs from MM, 3 that I have left from League and Hybrid Nations to do, 3-5 UCL upgrade packs I need to build (I think they'll prove to be very valuable for SBC's) and whatever the 6pm slot might bring.
How effective will a player be on 6 chemistry?
There's a lack of left sided players in Ligue 1 apart from Neymar so I was looking at something like the below:
http://i.imgur.com/WYOxj0U.jpg
Should be looking at a profit on Anderson regardless so if he won't play well I can get rid.
Is Legendary the top difficulty? I think I'm on the one below still, I remember on an older game I had the same frustration early but bumped it to top difficulty and it suddenly played a proper game of football. May have been patched too though
I just made the plunge and took Liverpool trio Firmino, Fabinho and VVD. I'm off today so hopefully will have sealed qualification by the end.
iSmff85 is gamertag if anyone fancies a few games soon.
Are you on Xbox Smiffy?
Yeah, career. Might give it a bump and see if it feels a little less predetermined, or alternatively puts me off the game for a few weeks.
Figured I would do one last UCL pack with them expiring today. 85 Bernardo Silva. Will rotate in nicely for Lucas.
I will say this is by far the most annoying thing about this game even in years passed. This year's edition seems even worse for it.
Last night I was finishing up my squad battles, up 2-0, sure enough I'm greeted by peak Barca,m8 and what else is there.
Another thing that's killing me that you mentioned is my inability to clear headers whipped in. I'll always think ok good, I have good position, I have a 6'2 CB, surely I can out jump this... oh no I've conceded once again.
Hasn't cost me a win just yet but I'm sure this weekend will be different.
Any early view on what the 6PM SBC's will be? Too soon for incons?
You can get him on a 20 game loan relatively easily too.
Yev, where you get info like that from? I haven't a clue what's up and coming so hard to prepare.
Additional items in concepts. Possibly FUT Swap
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...s_for_tonight/
I suppose it’s a bit of a balancing act as unless they do it differently to last year it’ll hugely inflate the market for 83+ rated cards.
Icons that is.
Serie A at the moment, I'm running the 4-3-3 with the ST and LF/RF flanking them and just going with Insigne, Mertens, and Icardi.
I have Mertens at ST to keep his chem at 10 along with Insigne. If I play Icardi up top then him and Mertens go to like a 6 or some kinda shit. Now, only Icardi is at a 7 and everyone else is a 10. I'd prefer to play Mertens out wide as he has a better passing stat than Icardi, but with the way I play this year so far (I basically score every goal from inside the box from a passing play rather than crossing) it hasn't stopped me much so far.
I do have Jose Callejon (who would provide perfect Napoli/RF chem but is only an 84 overall) and Cuardado (CL-85) whom I've made into RF's. Cuardado I'm using as a sub for now, hoping that his ridiculous pace will run teams off the park. Callejon I'm holding onto for now. If I decide to move Mertens or Icardi he'll make a nice stop-gap until a replacement comes in if needed.
No idea what the fuck you guys are talking about re: Futswap
Last year you could earn the pink card (via objectives, SBC etc to trade for the blue cards.
They have redone it this year so there are going to do more of them, I imagine it will be SBC related.
Oh ya I basically fucked off last year altogether so sorry for my ignorance on that one.
It’s all good. Last year was my first full one in about 5. There was a lot of redditing to keep up.
Snuck in three UCL upgrade packs before the SBC expired and I'll open those later. Marquee Matchups are to do, so that's another 5 to come.
Don't know whether I want Gelson Martins OTW, but I like the packs and I have more than enough 83+ players in the club to do him. Loan Ronaldo will come in very handy for the OTW Verdie weekly objective. Definitely don't want him for the team, but won't say no as a free reward.
Do we expect the prices of players like Savic, Adan and Gimenez to rise due to this SBC?
Should do. I spam bought a few right at 1 and flipped them for a few k each already
I spent 100K on them but the prices have stayed exactly the same. Reckon sell now or wait it out?
The requirements aren't going to make it a very popular SBC.
Really? I would look at making small profit on lazy buyers. With just a bit over tax cover.
I was in it like 20 seconds after 1 spamming. I didn’t get many though.
When I saw the 83 and 85 requirements I thought the time was now to make a fair bit on the higher rated players I've been hoarding, but the more I think about it the more I think the community will reject the SBC and bar the Atletico and Sporting players we won't see much of a rise, which will no doubt drop back down in time anyway.
What I might do as a plan B is sack off the Gelson SBC, sell the players I would have used instead and raise enough to get OTW Goretzka, who could be an absolute steal at circa 130k.
Those silver player packs in the store look tasty at 5k a pop too. Only need to raise 500 coins per player to break even.
Prices not going up on the likes of Costa and Luis for this SBC is disappointing - I’m halfway through my La LIGA SBC squad hoarding so have an 85 rated Atletic starting XI with a bunch of extras (always keep extras when stocking up on a club ao I can use those in SBCs without depleting those meant for the league SBC), so I hoped to cash in and then buy them back next week, but it’d barely cover the 5% tax on doing so right now. Guessing no one is bothering as the requirements are so mental.
Only got a few hours on weekend league before having to head off for the weekend, so I’m Silver 3 this week. One thing that’s quite handy is that you get 400 divisions rivals points per game played, so it keeps that effort going as well.
I have lost out badly on the SBC. Jumped in without really thinking about it, just rushed out and bought loads of Savic, Adan and Gimenez cards. They have dropped 50% and I spent around 100K.
Gutted, spent a long time trading to earn those coins. I am guessing if I hold on to them long enough I will be able to claw back what I spent but god knows when that will be.
That SBC is a shambles all round really. With pace nerfed, the reward is a dreadful card, with far too high requirements to earn. I'm also not even sure I can be arsed to go for the Verdi card either as it means playing at least 5 games (more than likely 10) with a team I won't enjoy, for a reward I won't use.
Out of interest, why have you gone for La Liga hoarding first?
My plan is La Liga, Bundesliga and Ligue 1, but only because I'm rocking a hybrid from those leagues, so hopefully the players will be able to slot straight into my team.
And why are Lille players so cheap still? Surely they'll be needed for Hazard's incoming PotM card.
People clocked onto the former club thing and were making too much coin.
Fair play to EA for changing that.
Nearly finished the League and Nations Hybrid, just need to grind out the chemistry on the players I've bought to finish the 'Tough' SBC.
Should have 50k after that, so I think I'll do MM and then open all the packs and the 10 silver players ones in the store too.
Bumped up to Ultimate and it feels much better. I've only played a handful of games so far so it's early days but any goal I've conceded has actually felt like I was responsible, and on the other side of it I've actually been able to keep a clean sheet or two for the first time.
Ultimate's actually easier then?
Yes and no. The opposition are harder to break down but so far it feels like playing against an actual football team rather than magical pinball wizards so it's more challenging but also clicks much more.
It did take me a while for Legendary to fuck me right off though so there's plenty of time for Ultimate to do me in too.
Almost nothing in my 11 packs opened. Onto the silvers and I get Ince in the second pack who goes for over 8k. :cool:
EDIT: And an Argie in the third that looks like he goes for similar too.
Did all 10.
Cost 50k. Sold players pulled for 20k so far, have another 40k on the trade pile (all lowest BINs) and about 80 players sent to the club, loads of which are from leagues that will have SBCs later on.
Very worth it I'd say and I think only available until tomorrow.
Yep, exactly that.
The 9k Argentina player sold overnight and a few others, so I've now sold 45k's worth of players for an initial outlay of 50k.
I'd say it's probably impossible not to make coins from it medium to long term and unlikely not to make coins from it short term.
More convinced than ever Silver Pack Method will be a thing this year once more league SBC's are out.
Trying to do the more tricky SBC without using futbin is a nightmare
Just use Futbin.
Replace players that fit the same criteria and avoid using the cheapest solutions listed would be my tip.
I applied that logic to the advanced sbc’s and wasn’t fleeced.
Hybrid leagues done and I pack Tolisso for the 4th time. Also got IF Finnbogasson.
What is this bullshit I did the tough sbc on Hybrid league & nation and got no reward. Suppose to get a megapack FFS.
What is the verdict on POTM Lucas?
I am thinking of doing the SBC and playing him at ST in place of Adama (who is somehow keeping Zaha and Lacazette out of my team).
He’s great. More productive for me than POTM Sterling was at the beginning of last year for me which is going some.
Probably not strong enough for striker though, Gabriel Jesus has been great for as a strong link to Lucas though.
The FIFA 19 soundtrack is really good. A few of my favourites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY_b04GQ-zU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiZxDEXwxUA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgM5n7qU3ds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s03pxYidcI
They're such good value, which ironically is partly driven by very few people realising they are.
Up to Elite 1 in Squad Battles again this morning, but it's going to be hard to play the games I need to to stay there whilst also making a dent in getting Rank 3 in division rivals again. Just not enough time this weekend.
I did the Lucas SBC and pulled over 70K from the packs (included 85 Sterling who I already had). I also did it very cheaply by sniping the players (FUTBin stated 46K and it cost me 37K).
Great result.
I forgot to mention the packs make it worth it. Was almost break even for me as I got a Koke in the club worth 15-20k and sold Bailly for 18k amongst plenty of other players to buffer out the stock.
Hoping for a Pereirra in form after his goal for Leicester. :drool:
I wish I had known this earlier - https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...reddit-android
FUT Swap SBC's have been added.
I will be all over that Lallana card - 5 star w/f and 85 stamina.
So after a week of shit sleep and kids stopping me playing, I'm starting later tonight.
These are the perfect enticement for me. El Shaarawy and Lallana look quality. Hopefully they're almost free like last years were.
I'll be going for that Lallana too.
First token available in the Daily Objectives today for winning three Division Rivals matches.
Wish El Sharawaay was a CAM.
Assuming these card me carry over I might claim as many as I can and keep my powder dry and hope to double down on something better.
Three of them wouldn’t fit and Lallana doesn’t interest me much.
Just lost 9-0 online to someone who was pressing in a way I haven't seen in this version. His players had such forward momentum that even when I tackled him the ball would just bounce back to his player.
Seriously, what custom tactics are these fuckers using?
Came up against another guy doing the same thing in the next game, went 2-0 down and thought "fuck that", went more defensive instead and picked him off on the counter with a 3-2 win.
I'm 25% of the way to qualifying for the weekend league now, which I never thought I'd say.
Apparently the tokens are use them or lose them.
I've just seen Lallana's stamina. :sick:
EDIT: Strength I meant, but his stamina is shit as well.
I scored a few mad goals today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v9Bo4koUho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9kskfGS5k4
Fair point. Misread that.
This defensive approach (chiefly driven by the strikers dropping back to defend) is amazing. 3 wins in a row now and Futswap secured. The last game I was dominant from start to finish, winning 3-0. The opposition can close you down as much as they like, but there's still two lines to get past when they do.
You get a Dortmund Burnic as the Futswap card.
Getting very sick of Squad Battles now. The ridiculously deep and compact defence of the AI makes it so tedious to play against any teams bar the wank bronze/silver polluted ones, no matter which difficulty you play on.
I've invested too much time to play to anything other than Elite 1 this week, but might only play to Elite 2 from next week onwards and do online more.
Going through all my reward and loyalty packs etc.
It's given me a champions league player pick pack. I know little to nothing about this, but it seems to be a permanent player and not a loan. What's the deal here?
I only ask as I've been given Nastasic, Rugani(both meh) but then Witsel, Lozano and Florenzi. The choice between the latter 2 is the decision for me. Lozano was an ever present super sub last year, with Florenzi being probably my favourite RB.
I am guessing you picked one by now since its been over half an hour but yep, they are yours to keep. I got Aurier in mine, he will be in the team for a while.
Market prices of their CL cards:
Florenzi 78k
Witsel 37k
Lozano 10k
I went and checked prices. Saw Lozano already has a better card out and I doubt I'll go Bundesliga yet so I went for Florenzi as he's by far the highest cost.
Just over 13k worth of shite in my loyalty packs. One I buy a stadium and sort my kits out I'll have 10k or so. Then I need to work on getting the FUT swap item and the OTW card.
Free stuff is good to collect.
Played a couple games to get me up close to 20k. I know I'm playing as a low chem bronze team against full chem gold teams in Squad Battles, but the passing feels atrocious. Auto-switching on defence also leaves a lot to be desired. Hopefully a gameplay patch can sort that out soon.
Players do seem oddly priced in this so far, but I reckon I'm not far off being able to whack together something playable.
Fancy a game at some point Fox?
Did you make coins from doing the following SBC's,
- League and Nation Hybrid
- Hybrid Nations
- Hybrid Leagues
It's impossible not to I'd say, but yes, I pulled Mane from one of them which paid for the cost of all.
Been out all day and pleasantly surprised to get home to find I'm still in Elite 1 on Squad Battles.
4 more games should secure it and one of those is against a bad side, which will actually be enjoyable as a result.
Cheers lads.
I played my 5 placement games in Division Rivals to see if I could win the 3 games for that swap card. Won all 5 placement games with a pretty shit team. Got placed in Div 4. Won my 1st game 1-0. Then proceeded to relatively dominate the next 2, but lost 5-1 and 3-0. They kept having shots from the edge of the D and they'd all fly in.
Meanwhile I have 1 on 1s that see my just knock it lightly into the goalkeeper. I need to work on my finishing. Whenever I try a low driven it balloons over the bar or past the post.
My passing also needs a lot of work. It's either slow and ponderous which sees me keep the ball, or it's fast and direct(how I like to play) but then every 4th or 5th pass is errant and gives the ball away. It's also pretty clear you cant really knock it round the corner anymore.
The shooting is bugged in that your players will occasionally do a piss weak side foot effort no matter how much power you put on it. The shots that are flying in against you are presumably timed finesse shots which are massively overpowered.
Just spent another 30k on 83s and 84s and 12k on a Japanese Liga Nos week 2 IF who looks the bollocks. Shouldn't have missed him really.
I'm getting the low driven shots down. They're not as OP as last year but they're still damn effective (unless your player decides to do an outside of the foot toe poke) in certain situations.
Fucking Mahrez. I would have made a killing on his OTW.
IF Auba or Lacazette must be a sure thing. Both could be outrageously OP for this time of year.
Why are Lokomotiv players going for so much? Howedes 4K, Smolov 7k.
Elite 1 for me. Pickford and Martinez (the Atlanta beast) the best of two questionable Rare Mega Packs
IF Pellegrini in my weekly pack.
I got sanchez 87 from my SB rewards. I already have Martial playing in that postion but will test Sanchez out this week.
I really want to try Diego Costa. I can build a hybrid between Serie A, and the Prem league at the moment. Need to fit Costa into that system.
I bought a Meuier 84 last night for 66k ehich seem cheap. At the momement, the same card on BIN is 73k so a nice profit on that one.
A good way to make coins is OTW flipping. Buy the card this week before a players game on the weekend and then sell BEFORE the teams are annoucned . Thats a an official way to make 5k-10k a card.
Got Elite 1 SB and Rakitic and Kompany from my rewards. I’ll keep both until they go up in value.
Tried another game of DR last night. I'm going to have to watch some videos on this timed shooting. I can't have my strikers sidefooting it all the time. Passing is still awful.
https://i.gyazo.com/c91bce2084715585...07463584a6.png
I know my team isn't amazing but I expected some competency. It's destroying my ability to play fast. Up to 10k in the bank again and it's tempting to move on and try something else, but having the two cards on my right for free makes me want to try and stick with it.
For timed shooting turn the trainer on. You can have it showing just that and the movement arrow. The latter is annoying but worth it for the former. It’s actually quite easy once you get to grips with it.
Oh and back up to 100k of coins now and a fuckton of cards in the club, but have no desire to improve the current team in any way.
What I might do is just invest and plan for a mass sell off when prices rise so I can buy one marquee player to use for the rest of the game. Maybe Messi or an Icon.
Patrico, Coleman and Torreria are really good. They have not put a foot wrong. Coleman is super strong in the tackle and Torreria is really good at intercepting tackles. Im trying to get the right system out of the front three. At the moment, the LF and RF are set to target men and drift wide which works well. The ST, is a tricky one. Ive tried all variations of tactics but still havent found something I like yet. GIroud as a target man is a beast but is a little too slow.
https://i.imgur.com/kRzS9vu.jpg
Clearing out your squad is a massive headache but it needs to be done. Trying to do it every week and keep on top of it all. Does anyone ever use the training items? They are long to apply and dont really sell if you list.
I’ll use the bronze ones from time to time, but can’t say I notice much difference.
Im going to start using them. Its a headache to apply them in game. Using the web app is much quicker.
How long is the featured squad battle that gives you the futswap token available for?
All week, need to finish gold 3 or something. According to Reddit.
Loyalty required in SBC's is a right pain, I am on the last challenge and it seemingly can't be done without having 10 players with the loyalty chemistry bonus.
I now have to play 10 games with a shit squad to complete the whole SBC. Very frustrating.
Holy crap. Opening my Squad Battles packs - first one and out comes Aubameyang :chief: Sells for 270k+...
Loyalty glitch...
https://www.twingalaxies.com/feed_de...xtra-chemistry
It's still a pain and sort of time consuming but a hell of a lot better than actually playing 10 games.
So it turns out I was wrong in what I thought timed finishing was. I've actually been after the low driven command which is apparently RB + LB + B. Explains some of my struggles.
The timed finishing thing is better for first time shots from a ball being fed in, or volleyed/headed etc.
Timed finess shots from the edge of the box are broken. OP broken that is
Nepenthez’s rant on the latest futswap token was brilliant.
I wouldn't say this is a glitch. If just normal expected behaviour. If you disconnect from the game, it counts as a loss and the game played for each player as by one. I have used it twice already for SBC requirements.
Link vid or die...
It's a glitch because doing it that way doesn't count as a loss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19df0POsMYU
I've just seen the Lucas Moura POTM SBC is only 45k to do. I have 2 days to potentially raise the coins for it, which could just about be done.
Should I?
If you are going Prem and its not going to ruin your coins I would. He will be good for a while. Joint second best right sided player in the Prem for less than half the coins of the cards he is joint with (UCL Mahrez and Sterling)
I finished it the other day after asking the same thing - he's very good and well worth it imo. Once better cards come out, he'll still be a decent super-sub, and you can always chuck him in an SBC later in the season.
I also managed to pack a Son in the reward packs, so I've actually made money on the SBC overall.
I'd say yes too.
Don't have a PL team, but he's a very good sub.
Only just noticed earlier that on the pre-match bit when the players are shaking hands you can hear them say 'good game/all the best/you're getting fucked up/have a good one'
Has that always been there?
Haven’t heard it myself. I’m now 4 wins in a row online, so tomorrow I’m going for the Verdi otw card.
https://mobile.twitter.com/EASPORTSF...23167698251776
That Laca is going to be mega money. Want him anyway. Bought a few of him to sell while he is out of packs.
Quite a lot of optch there.
De Ligt, Sabitzer, Barkley and Immobile all look good.
Hulk as a striker with Hunter would be a hell of an upgrade on Bakambu, same pace as a Hawk Bakambu, far superior shooting and physicals... and allow me to bring in Willian at RF. But the price tag currently hovering around 320k is fucking mental for an 84 rated card.
I have 260K and have no idea on how to spend it on my Premiership side.
Kepa
Trippier Bailly Stones Mendy
Ndidi
Sterling Sanchez
Jesus
Rashford Lucas (POTM)
Considering Kane, Sanchez and Fabinho. No player in my team stands out as a weakness and when I tried loan Eriksen, Salah and Sane none of them stood out for me. Ndidi is truly a beast for me.
I have NDidi and Seri either side of Sigurdsson in the 4321. I love them both.
+1 for Lloris, he's an absolute shit to score against.
Kante all the way. Was probably the best player in the game for me, Clive
The first update. Does this change any gameplay?
Just the laced/sidefoot shot issue I think. In the notes they've specifically called out they'll be making very limited changes to gameplay.
Took the 44k for Tier 2 D5. Looking forward to Fut Champs rewards tonight, although it'll just be Silver 3 since I didn't get more than a few hours of Friday to give it a go. Interested to see if my Fut Champs Qualification points from Div Rivals and Fut Champs will carry over since I'm already qualified for this weekend.
When i click the import to FUTBIN button, nothing happens anymore. Ive tried every browser and enabled flash. Annoying.
27k
1x Rare Consumable Pack and 1x Mega Pack
2x Rare Consumable Pack and 2x Mega Pack (untradeable)
Think I’ll be taking the coins there
I have a club full of crap right now, both consumables and players :lol:
So Lacazette is down to 230k on PS4, I will 100% get him if he touches 200k.
Also I am currently market banned (lol) I was buying and flipping a Prem midfielder last night for 250ish profit on each. Easy money mass bidding on the web app. This morning thanks to rivals rewards his price has halved (I wouldn’t look much as my mass bidding only left me with a few over night) so I have been piling in this morning. Now I can’t bid on anything.
Clearing out your club is a nightmare but I need to keep on top of it. Yevrah is doing the same thing. When is the best time to clear it out? Im thinking Sunday sometime
Monday - Squad battle rewards
Tuesday - Europa/champ league marquee matchups
Wednesday - TOTW
Thursday - Division rival rewards
Thursday - marquee matchups
Thursday - Weekend league rewards
Is that correct for the weekly schedule?
I’ve kept on top of consumables and club items, but I have over a thousand bronze players now. 🤮
Those I am not too fussed about. They will likely have a time where it’s worth it (marquee matchups/various sbcs) its the 2000 contracts and position modifiers I end up with that bothers me.
I’m so shit at this. I’ve never been so bad at a FIFA like I have been with this.
25-15 on FUT. fucking hell
Got De Ligt in my silver player pick, and Fabinho in my rewards packs :drool:
How did you get him in a silver player pick pack? Thought they'd stopped mixing golds, silvers and bronzes this year.
Hazard 93 POTM is out at about 600k.
https://d2hyfonqrnwe2r.cloudfront.ne....png?_src=lvis
Diego Costa up to 19k BIN, as an example.
This might be time to cash in.
My investments are going to be meh and that Hazard is probably out of reach right now. Not sure I can justify the clear out/bending over for this when I have untradeable UCL Sane.
That is an end game card though.
Damn. I'm only about 580k short too!
Torn on this one. I could do most of it from what’s in the club, have 97 items on the transfer pile and it looks stunning, but would also require me to go and fundamentally change my squads to accommodate.
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/17068/Eden%20Hazard/
Have a read of the in-game stats and decide. He looks amazing, but then depends if you think he's worth double his standard card, which would also be able to be sold on.
I’m going to do the loan, if he is that much better than Sane I could do it but I really should spend the money on players like Kante/Pogba to improve the midfield. Especially never having used the former.
Adnan Januzaj is extinct on PS4. List if you can
Special Juan Fran card. Fingers crossed I can make my money back (and maybe more) on the Gimenez / Savic / Adan cards I bought last week.
Didnt release that Varane is worth 200k. He does not fit on my team so i may sell him. What you lot think?
Edit: spelling release and realise always fucks me
If he genuinely doesnt fit and you can spend the money on someone to improve those who do, why not? If you can get him in the team though I am sure its worth it.
Investments + random shit in the club going for sbcs + hammering trading over the last few days sees me with over 400k coins and about 300k of other investements/sellable cards.
If you can get 200k for a player you don't use/want to use, you should do it without thinking :P
I ended up not having as much time as I thought so missed out on Lucas. Only got myself back to about 18k. I might muddle along and see how I can do with my shitty team. Could do with some decent rewards at some point.
I'm not sure if to make another team on a budget and build up both, or if to spend it all on the Serie A team to improve it.
Sold my Muller's, Pepe's and Rakitic yesterday plus a few other players and I'm now up to 327k of coins, with a shitload more still in the club.
Coins in the club are wasted coins though, so need to be doing something with them. Was thinking of an icon as we can't be a million miles from the first sbc, but annoyingly their prices seem to have held really well.
Something is badly wrong. 5-1 loss, followed by a 4-1 and 4-0.
I'm struggling to get any clean shot at goal. I'm also coming up against teams far better than my own. Each game is close until about the 70th minute. They bring on subs and that's it done.
What tactics are you using?
Was using the flat 4-3-3, no custom tactics yet.
I swapped to a 4-3-3(4) and swapped out Can for Gomez in the CAM position. It seems to have improved things slightly. Still have the same problem though, a clean sight of goal is hard to come by.
Next 3 games, a 2-0 loss having conceded 2 in the first 5 mins to finesse shots, couldn't be fucked carrying on. Then a 1-0 loss having had control of the whole game. He scored in the 77th. Then a 1-0 win having again dominated.
My tactics are pretty much balanced. im doing ok. Im division 5 of rivals rank 1. Im moved up 4 ranks this week. Im not really getting slugthered which ks noce. I come across a guy who is clearly better than me and its a low scoring game, even though he dominates and should win by ten.
Ok so i got my shit pushed in against a Red Hulk. Ball to feet. Turn. Shoot. Goal.
Any idea on how they calculate your squad value because it annoying me. It says mine is valued at 17million. If I quick sell everything at the current market price, im not going to get 17 million back. Im 100% sure of that
Switched again to 4-4-2 and something clicked. Suddenly scored 4 in a game, then 3 then 5. 3 wins on the bounce and I'm not Rank 3 of Div 4. Apparently this will net me 32k should I stay there(I'm assuming the scores needed are dynamic).
Rank 2 would get that up to 50k, but I'm not sure I can push to that one this week.
How many Futswap items have there been so far? Is it 6 including the Squad Battles one?
I'm not the most clinical either, but one thing that helped me loads was tightening up my defence. I watched a video by that Nepenthes(?) guy Yev posted and he was saying you should never switch players to your centrebacks. I've been just selecting a midfield player and using them to cut off passing angles and leaving the AI to control my defenders for the most part. Seems to help out a bit, you just have to keep in mind that they can score finesse shots if you back off them too much.
How is everyone getting on in the weekend league? I am currently 6-8,hoping to get the 14 wins. Firmino at CAM has been a delight for me. 9 goals in 7 (weekend league games).
What are the 'special player picks' (weekend league reward) all about? Do they give you a selection of TOTW players and you get to choose?
This has been my new problem. Last year I backed way off all the time and forced people into crosses or long shots as I could defend either of those much easier. Finesse shots OP right now.
You get a selection of 3 players from TOTW. That's not any player you want. All 3 are randomly generated so expect 3 rated 81/82. Be happy if you get better.
Finally started going through my bronzes. Already sold a couple of binmen for 4-5k a pop and have another 10 listed for 1k+ overnight.
Closing in on 400k of coins now. I won't, but so tempting to buy Mbappe.
There really needs to be a way to sort duplicates. I want to use the bronzes on my trade pile in the bronze upgrade sbc, but it takes far longer than it should do as there's no way in the game to draw them straight from the trade pile into the sbc.
They've also done some stealth update to Squad Battles that's made it even more insufferable. My players now have no space whatsoever.
Sold Fabinho as he wasn’t the super sub I was expecting as a CDM. Invested another 50k in high rated players like three Zlatans for less than 5k each, and have now got 14+ players for every La Liga squad apart from Real Madrid. 1300 in the club in all now, 97 on the list and I’m well invested for the next Marquee Matchups and UCL matchups. Have 30k left over and 13-8 in FUT Champs so should finish Gold 2 or Gold 1, whilst Rivals should again be top tier in D5 so I’m expecting to be on 200k by next weekend and able to start building towards a single team by December once I have 150+ games worth of squad and player fitness cards.
I thought that was just me imagining things. Been flitting between World Class and Legendary, scoring fairly comfortably most games, and then all of a sudden, had a run of games where I couldn't break down the AI no matter what I tried. Even widening my attack in the custom tactics seemed to do nothing.
EA seem hell bent on making that mode as dull as is humanly possible. Post the update it improved a bit as players seemed to make more runs, but it's worse than ever now. I've got another 3-4 games to secure Elite 1 (which I'm only so close to this week because I wasn't sure what the threshold would be to get the Futswap player) and that's it for 40 or so games of that wank a week. I'll play the games against the bilge teams and enough to get me to Elite 3, but that'll be that.
Given it's a self contained mode, with rewards that are the same overall no matter how many points the average is, I've got no idea what they're playing at.
On the flipside, I'm loving online at the moment. Got to grips with taking out the high pressing cunts and it's such a joy. Can't wait for my first rage quite fuelled hate message.
Bit of streaming.
https://mixer.com/Chemical_Locust
16-8 now. I’m at a bit of a crossroads. I’d like to stop at 17 securing Gold 2 and enjoy the evening, but it’s tempting to push for 4-2 from my remaining games to secure gold 1. Seems the monthly rewards are now gone and the difference from Gold 2 to Gold 1 isn’t that stark so may just quit on the next win.
The 400 DR points per Weekend League game is annoying. Hardly any cunt is rage quitting as you’re still being rewarded for seeing out a loss so getting the games in is taking longer than in previous years.
Are you watching the stream Sincere?
EDIT: If you are this game is a very bad example. I'm totally muffing it.
Picked this up for the Switch on Friday. Enjoyable so far with the gameplay but the market seems really slow, used to play a few years ago on the Xbox and trading was faster and more enjoyable.
The squad building challenges are fun.
Is smashing through online seasons the best way to make coins outside of buying and selling?
Playing some Rivals and Squad Battles are good ways to earn packs and then, hopefully from those, coins.
Was up over 600k this morning. Still have 2 Mahrez to OTW’s to shift, peferably when he scores a goal. Bought IF Lacazette as he was down at the lowest I have seen him since rivals rewards drop. I am going to keep an eye on it when SB rewards drop and hopefully pick up a bargain to sell when he goes out of packs.
Basically play the dullest football possible for the first 70 minutes, keeping things compact and hitting them on the counter. If you're playing simple passes you won't give up much and unless the opponent is actually good at the shithouse tactics they employ you should create something in that time.
After 70 I bring some fresh legs on for when their players do start to tire for the last 10 minutes, at which point you have loads of space to exploit and you can run riot.
Last two games I played I won 2-1 against a super team (doing exactly the above) and then drew the last one 1-1, nearly winning it in the last minute but the ball was scrambled off the line.
What has complicated things somewhat is the introduction of hard interceptions (or whatever it is) which is frustrating, because at best you get a free kick, which are useless and leave you horribly exposed at the back.
Should I sell the following players, who're more or less extinct, or will I get more for them when their prices are increased and another SBC comes along:
Busquets 88 - 40,000
Pique 87 - 35,000
Navas 87 - 24,000
Iniesta 87 - 24,000
Parejo 86 - 22,000
Verratti 86 - 14,000
Can't be certain, but I'm sure those rated players went for more in FIFA 18 once the SBC's were in full swing.
In the same boat with all but Navas. I only wish I’d bought more Busquets and Iniestas.
I’ve also got duplicate Gimenez and Diego Costa on the list that I’ll probably sell tonight. I’m a horrific hoarder though.
Is Mixer the new Twitch then? Just put it on to see you doing BPM, but wouldn't mind checking out your games from before.
It's Microsoft's twitch. Yev has an Xbox.
Has anyone tried Moussa Dembele (Spurs)
https://www.futbin.com/19/compare/524/3952/1418
I have N'Didi and Seri and looking at that I am not sure he is really worth the upgrade. I have always heard good things about him though and being a physical beast seems to be in this year.
Yeah I know he does. We played a few games on 18. Will give him more on 19 when my team isn't a travesty.
He's got a 2 star weak foot, no chance is he worth spunking 30k on.
As for Mixer, yeah, it's something Microsoft have pushed through Xbox. Just gonna grab a drink then I'll play some more games, but unfortunately most will be squad battles as I need to see that out.
My team at the moment. Barely played anything this week.
https://www.futbin.com/19/squad/429279
Yeah I might give it a shot, tax loss if I am underwhelmed is manageable!
Here is my current squad. 350k to spend after Laca buy. Thinking I might try get up to 600k again and get Pogba so I have money to play with still.
https://www.futbin.com/19/squad/783882
I dont have a replacement forward for Laca right now (just keep topping off his fitness). I have Hazard as Sane back up. Sold Fraser as his price doubled from when I bought him. Will probably pick him up as backup later on.
What a sack of fucking shit that game was. I can only apologise to those watching.
I might have to turn off all the hub. I love how that looks on your screen.
Edit: and of course I missed the Ben Yedder goal posting that.
What's on your hub that I don't have?
Player names, stamina bar, all that nonsense. Just looks clean without it.
That bloke was so much better than me and that was a perfect example of a game I'd have been humped in last year. I could have even won it with Lucas at the end.
Ready for my annual bumming whenever you are Fox.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...ng_moving_the/
Need to practise this.
Ive got 3000 SB points this week (silver 3) I want one of those swap coins to try and get lallana and it looks llook you need gold 3 (9000 points) to get another swap card. Can it be done with five games left in SB?
That would be a close one.
What a game. I'm exhausted.
I've never had a shootout where you couldn't use the arrow. :moop:
Yeah, good games.
What tactics are you using that allow you to press me all over the park for 90 mins, but still keep your shape?
Are they likely to increase Verratti's maximum BIN anytime soon?
Disappointing not to see any new SBC's tonight.
It is and they’ll increase the ranges today.
There's another FUT swap player to be obtained via squad battles apparently.
For this upcoming week? I am up to 6 with the one from the comps just ended. Perisic in my packs. Not bad
Not quite sure how well you have to finish to get it.
Gold 3 or higher again.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen..._sergio_gomez/
Just opened my pre-order pack and got Casemiro. That's a 60k sale and triples the amount of coins I have.
Now it's just what to do with it!
They’re really keen to pile on the misery with those squad battles, eh?
My two Jumbo Premiums and two rare Mega Packs were genuinely so bad that there was nothing in there close to the Bolton badge I picked up from a silver reward pack via the companion app.
Scored a few screamers last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLHFyCqV2c8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c26Jf4kyKk
What buttons are you gents pushing when you move? It looks so much more fluid than when I do.
Try getting used to holding RB and moving about. With your better dribblers you can get yourself in and out of a pinch with that. Fake shots are also a great way of turning suddenly.
Im using the right stick for skill move step-overs. I hold L1 when dribbling with good dribblers. That sounds like RB that Gray Fox mentioned. The person I was playing completely folded in the second half. It may have been a different player at the sticks.
Okay game changer, I've just learned you get 400 division rivals points for every WL game completed. Win, lose or draw. I need in ASAP.
I also think it's time to just accept it and buy an EPL team. But I'll see what my 100k can get. I'm off on a sick day today, so pumping up that DR ranking is needed.
Any idea what scores I may be looking at to finish Rank 3?
Why cant you check what rank your freinds list are in rivals :evil:
Hadn’t consciously realised what 400 Division Rivals points per WL game meant until I read your post Fox.
Need to break the shackles of squad battles and get in that bad boy ASAP. Need another 1,000 points to qualify, so probably looking at next weekend rather than this one. Hopefully the form mechanic means I don’t get too brutalised on the first try.
If I've done the maths right, you'd get 12,000 Division Rivals points just for your 30 WL games. That'd have me in Rank 2 as it stands now without playing a single game through the week.
For me that'd be a bonus 50,000 coins for almost free. If you were to play squad battles through the week, then WL, you'd be getting 3 sets of rewards.
Yep. Maths are right and it’s an absolute no brainier.
Transitioning from offline to online gameplay on this is rough. It's really difficult to adjust too.
I’ve no idea why, but relative to how shit I am, I’m finding online easier than offline this year.
Fox humped me 7-0 or something when we played last year and I lost on pens and 2-0 to him so far this.
I was nailing offline last year, even featuring in the top 100 for squad battles by the end, I’m light years away from that in this version.
Lost a couple of very irritating games simply through having the worse team. One was a 4-3 that I dragged from 3-0 to 3-3, then lost on a counter at the end. The next was even more annoying. 2-0 up and El Sha and Zaza spooned 3 or 4 chances at the 3rd. He made a change to go for it and got it back to 2-2, then I perfectly slide block a cross he had right at the end, only for Hazard to fall over my man and get him a penalty.
After that I decided to YOLO and put in the loan Dries Mertens. Good lord does he feel good compared to my other players. No wonder people with these teams cut me open. I need this goodness. I can only imagine what the likes of Salah feel like.
I'm sat on about 600 WL points myself, so I don't think I'll be making it this week. I get 80 points per win, so I'd need 15 wins plus DR prize, by Thursday night to make it this weekend.
Is there a way I can practice skill moves and the like unchallenged by the AI but using a normal camera angle and not the absolutely pointless one in the arena?
More recently I’ve also done it in squad battles on lowest difficulty as the cpu doesn’t even challenge. Score 5 goals in 5 in game minutes as well and walk away with 650 odd SB points.
https://i.gyazo.com/a1b912604a605020...6818ef0f47.png
I've knocked this up. Seems to be the best I can do for a full new team with my 100k. Though I am looking to see what I can get from the EPL/Bundesliga for about the same cost.
I'm not sure I like that midfield.
Got Tah and one of the Benders (RB one) in my packs. Nothing of use.
What are Fekir’s work rates like Fox?
As much as I love Kondogbia (I have him in the middle) I really want a destroyer (with a modicum of pace) who just sits there and brutalises people.
In fact, I’ll whack the team up tonight and look at options.
Prime Icon Pick Pack SBC with ridiculous requirements.
Rip cheap icons
Good news for those investors of 84+ cards.
Verratti's price has increased. Easiest 150K I have ever made.
Sitting on 350K at the moment with another 90K coming on Thursday (rewards). I have never known it be so easy to collect coins.
Icon SBC's. Interesting.
Requirements are a joke. Wish I'd bought an Icon though, would have made 150k clean overnight.
EDIT: Make that 200k. Rookie mistake, rookie.
Why would anyone do that SBC to get Okocha for example, when you can just buy a tradeable version of him for less anyway.
It's insanity and EA are huge twats, because if this is the way we're going now then you can also no longer grind towards SBCs as they're only available for a month.
I mean, they have the data, so what do I know, but I can't believe this will work for them as to open enough packs to afford one of those icons you'd need to plough hundreds of pounds in.
On the plus side, when Keylor Navas sells I'll have over 800k. Big ticket players have all gone as I thought I'd cash in, but the 83s to 85s will definitely go for more when actual worthwhile icons get released, so I've kept most of those (bar the obvious exceptions like Koke).
I guess maybe they think the time pressure will force people into it?
The investment in Busquets, Iniesta and Muller amongst others worked out then. Well over 200k profit after tax and I’m well on my way to van Dijk and Varane to anchor my two teams.
Finished the night on 821k and still have Kroos, IFs, OTW's and loads of 83s to 85s in the club and another 39k to come on Thursday morning.
Only played two games, both online, winning the first 4-1 and losing the second 2-0. The latter was a deserved loss, albeit I was annoyed not to score one, but the pressing was something else. In a 3-5-2, he was swamping me everywhere and it was impossible to play out at times.
I think I've got an idea of what I want the d-pad tactics to be now, I just need to write them all down and map them out. One will be to leave a striker forward at all times when facing that shit. Teams doing it definitely tire after 70 minutes as it's happening in every game I play against these arse holes, but you have to still be in the game to have a chance and I need an outlet to take the pressure off. I'll be sacrificing some defensive solidity, but if I can switch it on the fly then that might just work.
Reached 1,029 Fut Champs points now, so over halfway there, which is nice. No hateful Squad Battles games played either tonight and I've enjoyed my time on the game much more as a result.
Oh and a note for some players in the side. Fahrmann becomes the first player in the club to reach 200 games and Dembele is looking likely to be first to make 100 goals, sitting as top scorer at the moment with 91 from 175 games. Both OTW Promes (77 in 130) and IF Ben Yedder (80 in 114) have better strike rates, but Ousmane should still get there first.
I'm now putting out these sides, having sold the aforementioned desirables...
http://oi67.tinypic.com/z7407.jpg
Team 2
http://oi63.tinypic.com/244wtv8.jpg
I'd like to add IF Hulk and Willian in place of NIF Hulk / Bakambu, which will be in reach on Thursday through rewards coin, but I'm open to being swayed by new TOTW or an Icon too.
Is David Alaba any good? His stats look as though he is, but you never hear of anyone bothering with him.
I think he has a low defensive workrate on this version.
H/M
Is Squad Battles easier (and infinitely more fun) on Legendary than World Class or Professional? Just played against a 180 (reduced a bit by bronze benching), had loads more space, actually enjoyed it and won 2-1.
I find Legendary to be completely hit and miss. Some games are enjoyable, with the AI feeling smooth and tough to play against but offering space and chances throughout, and then I'll play a game against a 75 rated side with 60 chem and just get blown away and be 3 down in 20 minutes.
I need to really put SB to one side and focus more on the online side of things.
That was my plan, but they've put another fucking Futswap reward in the Squad Battles rankings, which naturally pushes the points needed up and draws me back in further as a result.
I've only played three games so far in this week's cycle, but I haven't technically missed any yet and have also pretty much secured rank two in division rivals already (and am miles away from rank 1) so I know I'm going to play more SB, at least until Thursday.
Was looking at some of the TOP players in my career to see if any had contracts expiring and it just so happens a 23 year old Mbappe is not signing with PSG.
He took a 60k a week pay cut and has agreed to join my Fiorentina team :drool:
My wingers are now batshit. I have an 88 rated Neres, 89 rated Vinicius Junior, 89 rated newgen (that I poached from PSG) and in the Summer I will have Mbappe.
I was fitting the three in by having two play on the wing and the third either as a striker or an auxiliary CM. Fuck knows what I will do when Mbappe comes in.
Play one at full back and get them to overlap the fuck out of it.
Finally getting to grips with Legendary. 7 wins out of 8 and a clean sweep in my last 4.
https://i.postimg.cc/hjj5Q4K3/17-10-2018-02-36-34.jpg
On the downside, I'll be playing to Elite 1 again this week no doubt. Sigh.
Another win on Legendary this morning. Not scoring enough goals is the only problem now.
Picked up IF Sabitzer and IF De Ligt for 31k and 14k respectively.
I'm getting sucked back in to completing all the SB games again. Something about leaving those points up for grabs means I just waste my time playing 3 or 4 of those a night, and missing out Rivals games, which seem to be more enjoyable on the whole.
Bailly, VVD and Lukaku in TOTW
https://mobile.twitter.com/easportsf...184056832?s=21
Arnautovic looks very good, already using his NIF so will probably pick him up. Tempted to bring in Mitro too and move to 2 up front.
None of those interest me, but nice to see Al Soma.
And how the hell did Sterling not get one?
Ah, fair point, but that never means they get one the following week does it.
Just lost a Squad Battle on Legendary where I had 70% possession and the shithouse AI sat back all game bar the last 5 minutes when I gave a sloppy goal away and they went full tiki-taka mental and scored from an unstoppable corner header in the last minute.
Good in a way I guess as I need to release the shackles of this absolutely awful mode (and this sort of shit makes me more inclined to) and I'm still in Elite 1 on 19,000 points with one game left tonight, so should have to play minimal games to get to Elite 3 from here on in.
Just lost 7-2 in a game I dominated to just nudge me back into Rank 3. I can't be doing with this team for much longer. At least I hope it's the team. My finishing is still shite. Hopefully that's the players.
Problem is I've just taken 3 close losses and then that pumping back to back. Skill rating now lowered to the point of me really needing to consider if I want to play another game. I probably need to, in order to keep Rank 3 safe though.
Finally pulled an IF from a bronze pack. Genuinely didn’t think it was possible.
After going into DR wanting to sure it up, I've managed to go on about an 8 game streak without a win. I'm just lost.
Case in point was my last match. The guy put his controller down every time I was on attack and I couldn't get anything going. Everything was auto blocked or intercepted. He smashed in a 30 yarder with Mane, then crossed one in for Firmino to bicycle kick in from the edge of the area.
My record is now 16-2-22 and I feel shite at this game.
The reality is it’s that it’s a bad game engine.
Looking forward to the player pick later. Bailey, VDV and Lukaku probably the only ones who’d fit in, fully anticipating Malinowski and Pandev being the best for me to choose from.
Most of my games are following this script. I have 55-60% of the ball, usually stuck just outside the edge of their box with it, passing it about pointlessly hoping for a gap. Finally get chance to shoot and it gets blocked or my player scuffs it. They then counter me and either smash one in from outside the box or race past to the byline for the cutback.
Nah I hear you. Space is hard to come by, lately if I take a step and just try and rip a high powered finesse shot I've found I can sometimes beat the defender that way when used to I'd never score that way.
Maybe it's just me I'm not sure.
I'm going to look up some custom tactics and watch some gameplay to see what I can do.
In the meantime I've claimed my 34k coins and duly been relegated to Div 5(my skill rating dropped from 1650 or so to 1400 during my horrific run). Hopefully things are easier there.
I've turned that into building a premier league team. I have this:
https://i.gyazo.com/e1b6a27ed6c49075...a8167522cc.png
70k left in my pocket and 3 options. 1. Spend it all on one special player(maybe Son or save a little for Frimino/Mane). 2. Pick up a Jesus or Lacazette for up top and then look to someone like Martial on the left. 3. I cheap out and just buy a LW, then use the rest to bump up my Serie A squad.
84 Bailly from my weekend league rewards, very happy with that.
Welcome to the club.
First time I've ever managed to get a 100k+ player in my red card pile, and he'll fit perfectly in alongside Valencia in one of my teams, in place of Davinson Sanchez (who replaced his NIF card an age ago).
http://oi65.tinypic.com/2z5omlu.jpg
The Marquee Matchup packs are quite poor this week, but on the plus side you can do almost all of three of the sbc's with bronze players. :cool:
Yeh, I just spunked League of Ireland bronzes on them. Packed Mendy and IF Al Somma, so I was pretty happy.
David Silva from MM's this week. Not bad at all.
How the fuck have you pulled players like that from a Gold Pack, a Gold Players Pack and Electrum Pack?
Not that I'm bitter.
That was in the gold players pack, I got nothing in the rest. Not that I can complain.
Sold a panic bought OTW Mahrez (while he was taking the penalty) for a small profit today. I have another one ready for the weekend. City have Burnely at home....could be shoeing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...am_team_video/
Interesting concept on the scream cards.
Had a lapse of judgement last night and sunk about 200K into packs. Ended up with absolutely fuck all.
Not sure if the odds change for SBC packs but I did one of the marquee matchups this morning and pulled IF James Rodriguez. He's 'only' worth about 180K it seems due to being a slowish RM, but that should see me break even at least with all of the other shit in my club. I'll keep him for a while, probably depending how cheap those scream cards end up being.
Had a go at silver pack method last night, opening 10 of them. Didn’t make a profit and haven’t got much left that will increase in value, but it wasn’t a disaster.
Should definitely be a goer once more league sbcs are rolled out, providing everyone doesn’t jump on it.
Oh and Five Time, EA definitely manipulate pack odds.
Just to make you all aware, if you are on PS4. Damm near all of the Matt Doherty cards for sale, are owned by me.
https://i.imgur.com/rq2eXFN.jpg
Pretty happy with that. Obvious upgrades are Lewandowski and Alaba but I'm not sure they really make sense for the price.
Howedes is actually decent despite having -1 pace. Never loses 50/50s with wingers.
Ive heard good things about that formation @five time. I havent used it as the central areas looks really weak but i hear it is really good. All you players are always in straight lines to pass.
Yeah I struggled finding a formation I liked. This is probably a bit weaker defensively but you have enough numbers in midfield to keep the ball well and there always seems to be someone in space.
I'd recommend getting CAMs with a bit of pace as they end up drifting wide and swapping with your wingers a lot of the time.
Threw loan Sane and Mahrez into my team to give it a temporary bump and also try out potential future purchases. Good lord, Sane is the truth.
I did buy Lacazette and Martial, however I don't like the former. He just doesn't offer too much of anything other than if the ball falls to him around the box. I'll be selling him back and then I'll have about 65k. I may put Zaha back in and improve other areas.
Has anyone used Alisson or Ederson? I'm wondering if they're worth spending the 25k on. I'd probably look to bring in Sterling or Willian on the right and then put money into either the back line or midfield after that.
I havent tried any of the high rarted goalkeepers but playing against them. They come flying out of goal in proper sweeper keeper fashion which is good. Holding triangle to bring out your keeper isn't that clean on this one. They are slow to react and when they get to the ball, half the time they dont even react as the ball goes passed them.
I have been using Leno with no real complaints. Keepers are always dodgy on this game. I would say spend the money on the rest of the side and upgrade the keeper later.
I've got OTW Ederson, he's been very good actually, solid shot stopper and saves a fair few chances that I would expect to go in. However, before that I used Kepa and he was only marginally worse, and I think you can pick him up for around 2k. Don't know how good he is in comparison to Leno.
I bought Fahrmann early doors, he's now played 218 games for me and no complaints.
Does Zaha offer more in the play than Laca or are you just using that as a stopgap? I like Laca but I am sure I could spend that 270k somewhere else.
I tried Arnautovic for a few games last night, probably a poor sample size but I did not get on with him. He was anonymous. At least when Laca is anonymous I can trust him to turn up in the box to put a chance away.
It's the same reason everyone has come out with fuck all for pace/stamina now. We still have 3 months of playing even until TOTY. 7 months until TOTS.
I like Zaha as he has the pace to get in behind but is better on the ball, which is much better for a quick turn out of trouble. Doesn't quite have the physicals though. Jesus seems to be a compromise between the two so I might give him a go.
Bottom line is they make money hand over fist with the current strategy, so why would they change it?
Reus POTM is out for the bundesliga. 88 rated card and you need 10+ dortmund players for the SBC
They must be going for a fortune.
I put two into an SBC yesterday. :moop:
Only 82 rated with two IFs for that SBC. So they shouldn’t move too much. They have 7 base golds 80+ that aren’t Reus.
After taking the advice I didn't spunk on a goalkeeper. Instead bringing in Sterling and Mkhitaryan. The latter addition seemed to help me a lot in the final 3rd. Big improvement over Wijnaldum who was a very square peg in a round hole. Sterling is also very fun, especially on the counter.
The team now looks like this:
https://i.gyazo.com/379d637e8d0dd8d3...dab515e50e.png
I have about 30k to upgrade this and I'm not exactly sure where to go. I might sell Mendy too. All of the counters I concede tend to come down his side to someone with pace.
Miki seems to always be in the right place right time against me. I’ve been destroyed by him plenty a time.
Don't think I'm interested in any of those Scream cards.
https://out.reddit.com/t3_9pm5xf?url...ame=reddit.com
A couple free through SBCs and one via objectives. They aren’t great but not bad for free (objective one that is)
Isn’t the objective one a loan? It was Balotelli when I looked earlier.
Scream promo is terrible. No player is scorching besides mandukic
I've just seen that loan Balotelli too. Maybe there's another one coming?
I've just under 10k DR points to my name so far. Considering in Div 4 the cut off for Rank 2 finished at about 12k, I'm in good stead. I just don't know what kind of figures I'm looking at for Rank 1.
Anyone get 1,050 free FIFA points?
No idea why I got them.
Decided to open a pack with coins....
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Spent my 1,050 on 1 Prime Gold players and 1 Gold players premium.
A couple of 81s was the best :moop:
https://www.futbin.com/19/squad/978581
So thats my current first team. If I sell Varane I will have over 1m in the bank. I am not sure what to do though. I am kind of interested in a couple of players:
Pogba - 500k
Kante - 400k
86 Keane - 500k (96 CDM with powerhouse)
Sorry it was 95
https://www.futbin.com/19/player/131...m=10&schem=100
This is the current team:
https://i.postimg.cc/5t8pdhNy/New-Squad.jpg
With the numbers:
https://i.postimg.cc/XJ5dRdjb/Stats.jpg
In terms of upgrades, looking at Alaba at left back and maybe a revamp of the triangle on the right, but not sure who with yet.
What is your plan with your team, do you not have over 800K in the bank? I am surprised you're rocking such a low rated side.
Yeah, 845k now.
I don't know really. Given the crash that will happen on Black Friday I'm hesitant to splurge big now and I do really like the players I have.
I'd love to get one marquee player in the team, Messi or an icon would be nice.
Just battered a super team (UCL Ronaldo, Shevchenko) 4-1. He rage quit when Lucas coming on as a sub chipped his onrushing keeper from 40 yards.
So satisfying.
Packed Firmino today.
Are there any value packs hidden in those league SBCs?
I had a quick look earlier and it didn't seem so.
I need some more of that pack luck!
Mine’s been shit lately too. Nothing for a good 2/3 weeks.
60% of the way to the futswap player from the weekly objectives and the one from squad battles is secured too. Lallana will be a useful sub to bring on for Rabiot whose left foot and 3 star right foot is a pain.
I was looking at Firmino last night. Costs 1/3rd of the IF Lacazette I have upfront.
https://www.futbin.com/19/compare/464/17055
If you could use that money spent elsewhere, I'd say go for it. But I am very biased towards Bobby for obvious reasons.
I posted my team on the other page but here is what I have right now. Just sold my OTW Mahrez into the hype of a 4th goal in a 5-0 win (As if he is getting an IF) to leave me with 936k in coins and Varane in limbo sitting on the tradepile while I decide what to do.
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That would cost me 500k. Doing the Laca/Firmino swap would leave me with just shy of 700k to play with.
The final option, which would bankrupt me, is Kante, Pogba and 86 Keane in midfield :drool:
How much did you sell OTW Mahrez for?
126k. I had bought him for 105k (overpaid) when he was about to take the penalty. He went down to high 80's after that game so i just held on in hope.
2 new SBCs
Guess Lincoln players will be expensive as fuck. And Plymouth. Had none from them.
Lincoln and America flew up to 10k in a second. I have neither. Had Orlando players so I did that and pulled nothing
Swap deals player in daily objectives. Win two games by two goals.
I was just going to 2 goals in a game challenge and I unlocked him
Jesus, bronze pack method ftw.
I've got loads of these players.
50k made in seconds and three more on the trade pile to go.
The packs on offer are pretty shit as well.
I just scored an accidental chip when trying to low driven on rivals. The other lad quit :drool:
All sold, up to 920k now.
Might rinse the club tonight to push for the million.
How do you get around the issue when your transfer list is full and you have players sat unassigned which you cannot send to club because they are duplicates and therefore you cannot open any new packs?
I currently have 100 players on my transfer list (all investments which I plan to sell when their prices rise) but I have now just spent 30 minutes sniping Kasper Schmeichels for 1.6K, I have picked up 20 of him but as my transfer list is full I have to leave him unassigned which means I am unable to open any new packs.
Is there a way around this or is it just the way it is?
It's the way it is and it's your choice as to what you do.
I can't be arsed with the unassigned rigmarole so generally I keep 50 players on the transfer list as investments and leave the other 50 as space for general trading.
People are paying 10k each for these Orlando Pirates players for the SBC when the reward is a 15k pack. :face:
These morons :drool:
Made 45k from my 5 players across Lincoln and Orlando. The former I bought specifically for this promo - had actually meant to grab some Plymouth too as they also featured last year.
I'm debating whether or not it's worth sinking the time into getting Rank 1 for the week. 58k coins as compared to 44k for Rank 2.
I'm not usually the one for taking the pack rewards, but I'm starting to see the problem with not doing so. There's no potential for a big pull. I get my coins and then that's it until next week.
Up to 1600 Fut Champs points, but seeing the standards there makes me almost not want to play. I'd have to get to 11 wins to gain automatic re-qualification but I'm not sure if I'd get there.
Out of interest, Fox what times are you playing Rivals? After 12 is a FUT Champs tyke sweat fest.
Speaking of which, Friday should be avoided in FUT Champs. I’ve always said it, but now we also have the science as to why - the form system means everyone’s Elo is pretty equal until people are on 15+ wins, especially with the abbreviated format now. I’ve been having meteoric Sundays for the past year, and it all makes sense now. Sat on 6-3 Themis weekend, hoping to add another 8 wins as quickly as possible tomorrow to sit in Gold 3 and consider the push to 2/1.
I found the WL surprisingly OK. I went 14-11 in my first attempt last weekend and the good thing about it is you get 400 rival points for each game played so it's win-win.
Last week I played around 10 division rivals games in division 5 and 25 WL games and I ended up in rank 1 (rivals). That meant I got the following,
58,000
30,000
2 Mega Pack
1 Rare Players Pack
2 TOTW Player Picks (I pulled 84 Bailly from one of them)
Add late Sunday night/Monday morning to this. People cramming games in leads to ultimate dickishness. You'll get people going 1-0 up and keeping the ball all game etc. Lots more 5 at the back.
So far I've been playing DR in the evenings when I can. I've not tried during the day at weekends, the traditional FUT Champs times.
I have heard there's a problem with people self-relegating though. The reward for being in the top 3 divisions is not all too much better than 4 or 5 and it's harder to get a game. Then when you do it's harder still.
Now see this really makes me want to play it! What Div are you in and whats your skill rating at?
Also, I'm very tempted to get the loan POTM Hazard for when I do play WL. I'd love to get him proper, but no chance I can afford that without a monster pull.
For the 5k he costs, 100% worth it to get him in for WL.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...ng_99_jumping/
Massive amounts of :face: and :lol:
Best chem for a gk?
On a more regular note, the referee getting in the way drives me nuts.
This makes me feel a hell of a lot better. I'm also now in Division 5 having dropped down in my rut last week. My skill rating bops between 1500 and 1400 too. Record is 25-6-26.
I feel like my play is a bit predictable in the more defensive 4-2-3-1, but I don't have the players to play the way I want to yet. So it'll do.
I've just earned 1900 points, so even without playing again I can enter next week. I've also noticed there's an option to view previous weeks rankings in DR.
It was on Xbox, 26k points to get into Rank 1. 18k for Rank 2. With me being on 13k right now I'm not sure how much I'll play on. I'm not sure if me being in a higher division then affects anything, but I'm not completely sure I'll play the full amount to hit Rank 1.
Team wise not much has changed, although if I sell Martial now I can afford Son. I can also afford Sanchez for defence. I still haven't tried Jesus either.
Did the Chelsea SBC from the Hazard PotM and pulled Pique.
Only goes for 37,500 but more than made my money back as a result.
It gives a +10 boost to every stat, so it's what I go with too. Goalkeepers are odd though really, in that I think (within reason) you may as well ignore their stats.
Oh and on the pro side there's been a bit of a meltdown. Some dude called Kurt has been banned from competition for two months - he says for just criticising the game, EA say for being abusive - and Faze Tass (who is very hard to like) claims it's the worst version of FIFA ever.
Given the issues there are with the engine I sympathise to a degree. Playing this game for a living must put you in a constant state of stress.
Yep. In their grand final.
Bit of afternoon streaming if anyone fancies it. Predominately Squad Battles as I'm looking to secure Elite 2, but might be a bit of bronze packing as well.
https://mixer.com/Chemical_Locust
How many bronze players are in the game btw?
Bought a Mings in anticipation of an SBC needing them. Might give him a run out too for shits and giggles. 90 pace and passing and low 80's defending with a sentinel. Worth a run out in my rotation SB side.
How much was he?
So I have watched you for all of 5 mins but I would say there is one simple move you can get into your game that would help you. The dragback turn. I find it creates so much space when I use it. You dont just have to go backwards with it either. Just point the stick in whatever direction you want to exit after you drag back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORDn5Hu7zJU
That was a lovely worked goal for Promes :nod: