Marc Andre Ter Stegen.
95 rated fodder.
Marc Andre Ter Stegen.
95 rated fodder.
Marc-Andre ter Stegen.
Thanks gents.
What a sweaty run today. Resumed on 8-2 and it was time to board the struggle bus. Connection was very slow(I really need a new ethernet cable) but of the 10 games, 7 of them were extremely tight. The three that werent had a 9-1 win and two losses by over 5 goals. The run started with a penalty shootout loss, with me in disbelief at some of the saves Ter Stegen made. That was the continuing theme as there were two other shootout losses. The last being when 12-6 to end all hopes of 14 wins. It doesn't make a difference to the picks but you do lose the 94+ x3 pack. I actually dropped out Frimpong in the run in as he kept getting abused in the slow gameplay. Put in the 95 Clauss and he feels better defensively but less good going forwards obviously.
Nunez ends with 20 games played, 45 goals and 7 assists. Warra card.
Got my lad over to open the picks and packs for me. Nothing but fodder in the packs, with there being a Reijnders in one of the picks. He did get me a decent red pick though:
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Very nice. Sounds like you need Drogba upfront with him for some crosses.
Or Tierney at left back for long throws.
Maybe I'll start scoring from corners again. Nunez is good in the air but no Aerial+ no party.
I'm about 200xp off that Bernardo Silva unlock so he'll likely be in the team with Salah dropping out. I was running Nunez and Diaz with him and you can really feel that lack of 5* WF at times.
Rooney and Cafu SBCs coming apparently
Any idea what the non-icon players in packs will be next week? I'd love a best of for the fodder.
All I have seen so far is Icons and Heros.
I reckon we get a best of. Maybe something around best of Copa/Euros cards not at the tournaments.
Stuff in packs looks mega but so does that. Gomez obj probably but I would love it to be Shearer
As a wannabe 'keeper growing up Casillas was always my favourite. Yes please to that SBC.
A 96 Shearer? Hold me.
Unless Casilias is cheap I will probably stick to the too many top keepers I have.
New evo to take cards from 74 to 95.
It has a weird set up. Last step gives 2 PS+, 11 overall and 10 Shooting/Passing.
Genuinely might be worth doing the first few stages but not completing that. I mean look at this Hannibal.... 78 rated FFS.
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Casillas is immediate club captain material.
I wonder if many Liverpool lads fit this new Evo. EDIT: Nope. A 90 Connor Bradley but he still looks meh beyond being fast.
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This is another Evo that Bisseck fits perfectly into btw...
What happens to Bradley if you skip the last? Evo to hold onto maybe
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New evo to take cards from 74 to 95.
It has a weird set up. Last step gives 2 PS+, 11 overall and 10 Shooting/Passing.
Genuinely might be worth doing the first few stages but not completing that. I mean look at this Hannibal.... 78 rated FFS.
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Elite Quartet level 1, into the new one for three levels. 81 rated and ready to go for another evo. Not sure I will spend 300k on it though.
How long would you have to wait as a minimum before you can evo him again after he hits that?
I think like 28 days. Need to check the timings. Makes it pointless at this stage of the game. Just fun to game it.
Got that evo objective ticked off. 15 games was a bit of a slog but got it done through the day.
Opened all of the packs as well as the daily log in one. Could have saved them, but then there is apparently a Konate and a Trent in packs so I had to try. Zero specials in anything until I got to the 87+ ones. Cadiz and Suazo as two Copas in one, then the x3 gave me a dupe MATS as well as Broja and gold Haaland. When Broja was the 94 face card I thought I was in with a chance of a big one, but alas no Trent or Konate for me. I also don't believe in saving packs when there's a current promo on. The exception to this rule is pre-TOTY. The power curve ramps up after that.
This means the club is now back full of glorious gold fodder. Which will now go into completing Szoboszlai. I think Weah is also a good unlock as well as Bonucci. The rest of the players look a little meh. but I could do with crafting both of the big picks that are available.
Played a shit load of games over the last couple of days and have now done everything available bar 4 games with a full Brazil squad and 6 wins in that cup. Also need 1 win in Rivals to get Div 6 rank 1 rewards. Decided to save packs for the next promo as the mid/good cards are unpackable and I've no interest in any of the SBC rando players that are there.
Really enjoying it and for me it plays the best game of football they've released since I got back into it 8/9 years ago.
Dupe MATS and a gulag Golazo Berba went into that new pick.
Adams, Neves and Kokcu. What the fuck is that Adams card. Guess I am doing Weah
Very much agree with this. The base gameplay is very good. I think the playstyles need tuning though. Once you get into the high form weekend league or Elite rivals and everyone has 95+ rated cards with all meta PS+ players in each position you feel how overpowered some of them are.
I mentioned it previously but things like not winning the ball despite perfectly timing a tackle, because the player you used doesn't have the correct PS+. Players auto intercepting your pass despite your opponent not controlling them. It can get properly silly.
At this time of year, as all the players have stamina maxed out. You can get away with putting your team on aggressive interceptions and 100 depth. It is autotackle on steroids. I used that timed with R1+ Slide tackle for extra combativeness.
Sincere, I wish I could give you this Haaland to try. 6"5 with Aerial+ makes him a menace.
Productive morning so far. Took all of the fodder from last night as well as all of the commons that have been ran through 82+ PPs. This has completed me two sections of Szoboszlai to complete him, Bonucci, Weah, Onana and Eustaquio. Didn't use a TOTS either. Ran the smaller cards through the TOTW pick and kept getting 88s and 89s.
By-product of all this SBC business is that I'm pretty much dry of all golds beyond a couple of 88s and some 84s. I should be somewhat replenished tomorrow with Rivals rewards, but in the meantime it might be time to run the 88s I have through the exchange grind to see if I can start to build back up. I do want to do the two picks though.
Reus is still there and is tempting from a personal point of view. I don't think any of the other players left available are worth doing(maybe Pacho, but he'd need to upgrade).
We should also see the WL challenge tonight. Portugal is the expected nation of choice but I really hope it is a bait and switch. Unless you can snipe their 85 TOTW Costa, the best goalkeeper options are 82 golds.
The sheer amount of USA male/female SBCs and Evos we've had lately really suggests to me an American objective of some kind is coming.
Saw a leak of Rui Patricio coming. I think it said objective
Check random nations bronze managers. Random COPA shit going for 5k.
Thank god for Paletools letting me check
Paletools?
Also, the Copa/Euro evo objectives needing to be done with unevolved or FULLY evolved cards is a pain.
Paletools is a script that makes the web app (in phone browser or computer browser) MUCH easier to use. You can check prices of anything. Set up templates for SBCs etc.
https://pale.tools/fifa/paletools.html
Open the webapp, click the link and boom. The features we all need.
Any chance of being banned for using it?
I have been doing it for almost a year with no issue. Pretty sure people like Nep have been doing it forever.
I dont use it to auto snipe but I have used it to manually snipe. Using keystrokes to move in and out of the buy screen/change price etc.
It does warn that the auto snipe thing could be trouble iirc
Put me down as another who had no idea of Paletools.
Hoping to maybe see some Xabi Alonso or Torres in the Icons coming. I feel I'm going to have to take Gerrard from the tracker too. I'm just going to assume Dalglish aint happening.
This threa, whether you look at the method or not, shows a lot of features
Seems we just dont get a WL objective this time then?
Also that Montiel would have been really useful this time last week...
Very weird. Apparently Gabriel is in concepts as objectives.
I imagine Port WL with Rui P at 6 and Gabriel at 12.
Apparently Rui is play 6 games, not win. That would make it a lot more tempting. No idea what kind of Portugal team I have mind you.
Mines showing now. Rui is play 6 games in any Champs mode, so qualy counts. Gabriel is your standard 12 wins.
That Rui will go into my Wolves P&P nicely.
For a play I would be tempted to just unlock him and sack it all off.
Edit: In Qualis too apparently. Easy decision.
Just saw Fox said. Brain on delay,
I'm fucking sick of these bullshit MYM cards, unless it's a proper name or someone with FIFA pedigree I couldn't give a rat's arse about any of the players at the COPA America or third rate nations at the Euro's.
This week has been a bit dead hasnt it
I get it though. The player selection for some has been strange. Ter Stegen when he has no hope of starting for Germany? Konate too. Then we have all of the Copa ones being so common that all but one card is worthless and the Euro ones, most are worth nothing, then the rest are 600k+. You can guess which ones people are packing too.
A big fat nope on my Portugal lads. 3 special cards and the rest silvers. My Brazil lads could also really use that Gabriel too.
On the plus side I now have 7 84x10s stored and will have 10 before the promo even kicks off.
Rivals done, 2 more wins in the cup and 2 more tedious SB games with Brazil. 4 more wins in the cup tomorrow night and 2 SB Brazil wins and that's everything done.
Alisson as my TOTS pick player. The game knows what I wanted. Beyond that not a single special card in my packs. My 3x TOTS pack gave me De Jong, Veerman and Golovin. Turned that into the Team 2 MYM pick. Saw blue flare so was immediately disappointed. Dupe Suazo. Put him and the other two TOTS into the MYM pick. Was presented with dupe Danso, Johnston and Dragusin. Took Dragusin in the end.
Turned all of the low rateds into some 20odd PPs and got a dupe MYM Broja back. The only possible thing to currently put him in is the Icon pick which I'm unsure on. He's 94 rated so too high to just dump into the exchange.
I think that about ends the Trent/Konate pursuit, unless I want to endlessly grind PPs in the hope of getting ridiculous luck.
Finished the COPA Euro Obj and got Suazo from the pick. Looks like he could be a great CM. Not that I will ever use him
Took Bernardo into my rivals run today to play with his mate Erling. I also put Gomez to RB and then Bonucci at CB to test them all out.
Silva is good. Strangely despite 99 dribbling, he does not feel the best player on the ball I've used. That used to be Foden but is now Guler. What is stupid is he has the racoon playstyle so he barges into challenges and takes the ball off people more than Theo fucking Hernandez does.
Gomez is probably the best stay back RB in the game, but if you want them getting forwards he isnt your guy. I swapped Bonucci for Dragusin after about 3 games because it was not working.
Dragusin about bang average too. Just feels like he missed something I cant put my finger on.
As for Haaland I just cant get on with something about him. Maybe I need to play 4-4-2, but those times where you have to wiggle in and around the box, he just lets me down. Amazing to have from corners though.
After a little bit I swapped in Broja for Haaland, Gomez to the bench for Frimpong and then put in a Stanisic that I had in the club. I actually prefer the feel of Broja over Haaland. He seems to move about much better. Stanisic actually feels pretty damn good at CB tbf. Would recommend.
I have him sat in the club bit didnt look at him too closely considering Croatia's results. Might have to revist.
Thanks EA for the Mexico obj after I finish the first two levels of Lozano
Just got Broja out of the MYM pack. Not sure I need him really, I have a bunch of Big Lads already.
@Danny - have you done Casemiro and Slabhead?
Case yes, Maguire is chosen but not started. Got a bit of time on him so chipping away at the others first
Euro Attack - Olise and Sterling
Euro Mid - Madisson and ? (Thinking Hernandez as PS+ look decent for LB)
Euro Def - Slabhead and Todibo if we sign him in the next few weeks
Copa Attack - Richy and Lozano
Copa Mid - Alcaraz and Cuadrado
Copa Def - Casemiro and either Foyth or Dest (likely Foyth since Dest has a TOTS)
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