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If they re-upload it with changed requirements people will riot I'd imagine.
6-8 now.
Battered someone 3-0 in 30 minutes, then faced two people in a row who did the same to me (quitting both within 30 minute as I'll easily hit rank 1 in rivals this week) and lost the last game 3-2.
Sane is a right fucker.
Got back on and have had two shit games where I felt like I was powerless in attack and defence before a 3-0 win gets me back on track. 5-3.
IF Robertson in for Mendy at LB.
RTTF Sanchez in for Bailly
Valencia in for UCL Aurier.
Picked up RTTF Sanchez for 165k, Telles for 95k and Tagliafico for 15k.
Listed Mbappe up for 392k.
I'll call Futchamps a night for today now and hope my -2 form gives me favourable matchmaking in the morning.
I'd say Robertson is the best LB I've used, but I've not tried the big 3 yet.
Did they really fuck up on another SBC?
Yeah, they listed Sancho as a LM rather than a RM that he should have been.
Why it's taken this long to fix that and what happens to those who already have him as a LM, I don't know.
It's a tough one. If you've done him planning to use him as a LW and he gets changed I imagine you'd not be very happy.
If it was removed solely for the position fuck up (and I'm sceptical it was just for that reason) they should have left as was and re-leased two more SBC's. One with him as a RM that you got by doing the same objectives as the LM one and one with him as a RM that you got by trading his LM card in.
FUT Swap Deal Update
You should currently have I believe 5 in the club, if you have kept up. 1 more is in Squad Battles to be handed out on Monday. 3 more have dropped via weekly objectives.
> Play 3 online singles matches this week
> Score 2 goals in 7 separate wins this week
> Play 10 games in online game modes this week
Hazard or Salah?
I have Salah and enjoy him but I am thinking of upgrading to Hazard. I would be playing him as striker (LF on 7 chem) alongside Lukaku.
If you're using him as a striker I'm not sure Hazard would be an upgrade on Salah. The latter is stronger and a much better finisher. If you have the coins switch to 4321 and get both in as LF and RF either side of Lukaku.
Playing them as a striker is a bit of a waste. They're not quite physical enough to be right up against the centre backs. You'll find Salah is the more reliable finisher on his left foot.
Hazard however has a 4* weak foot and is a much better passer and dribbler. You want these guys facing towards the goal with the ball at all times. I view Hazard as the perfect CAM. If you could I'd concoct something with him switching to a CAM in game, with someone like Salah on the right and bring in a left winger, like Sane or Mane, playing behind someone big and strong(John mentions Lukaku who is perfect)
I've also made a start on FUT Champs. Again it's a 5-0 start. Though it has been harder this time with one extra time appearance. Game 5 saw me come up against the best team I've seen yet.
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His Makelele and Kante combo was frustrating as all hell. Combine that with Courtois in god mode it was tough. What swung it was bringing on regular Depay for Willian. He scored 2 and set up Aubameyang for the 3rd and killer goal to take it 3-1.
Speaking of Aubameyang. He has played 5 games. He's scored 12(twelve) and set up a further 3. If this form carries on I've tough choices to make.
Two losses to start the day to take me to 6-10.
The first I cannot believe I lost and the second I couldn't get the ball of the guy I was playing.
So frustrating.
6-11. 5 losses in a row now I believe.
I'm doing so badly I may as well stream this.
https://mixer.com/Chemical_Locust
Unbelievably won 2 in a row to get Silver 2 and go 8-11.
Three wins from 11 needed to get Silver 1.
FUTSWAP TRACKER
Everyone has 5 right?
1. Freebie - Expired
2. SBC - Expired
3. SBC - Expired
4. Weekly Obj (win 10 by 2+) - Expired
5. Weekly Obj (Score 20 in Rivals) - Expired
6. Squad Battle Reward (finish in silver or above) - Expires Sunday
7. Play 3 online singles matches this week - Expires Friday
8. Score 2 goals in 7 separate wins this week - Expires Friday
9. Play 10 games in online game modes this week - Expires Friday
Combined list. Thanks fox for the last three.
I am 1 away from number 8 and 3 away from number 7.
Decent spell this morning and I am now 11-7 and into silver 1.
Might push into gold for that extra pick pack.
Finished the day on 8-13.
Sorely tempted to do Aubameyang and build that premier league team as prices are falling.
Some of the big names are falling. Pogba and Kante havent been this cheap for a while.
If you do, the extra push to Gold 2 for more to pick from is well worth it.
I’m 14-9, not a great weekend by recent standards, and struggling against deep or gegenpress defending. I’ve also missed 6 pens scattered throughout those defeats, whilst winning 2 matches on pens. Go figure. I also fucked myself by twice accidentally playing with my B team used for fitness in Div Rivals. Not pleasant games.
Also just spent my 300k on SBC investments (for Black Friday, despite the likely situation that I’ll likely struggle to do many of them whilst on holiday), and on Telles for my next weekend league in a fortnight or so, with Immobile, Skriniar, Matuidi and Handanovic also joining my B Team alongside the UCL Live Milinkovic Savic and Douglas Costa that I had ready to go with Alex Sandro dropping down providing Telles works out.
My B team has really struggled in Div Rivals of late, particularly Saul in midfield and Scream Koke at LW (great CM super sub mind), and I wanted a more Hulk-esque striker in place of Gabriel Jesus, so hopefully this sorts it.
If he continues banging the goals in like he is, I'd love to do the Aubameyang one, but it's stuck at 560k on xbox for most of the time it has been out. Salah has lost 30k overnight too. I guess it mainly depends how I finish on the weekend. I don't have much time to play until Sunday night really and given my struggles on that day, it could mean anything.
Aiming to leave myself between 15-20 games for Sunday night. If I can hit Gold 1, it could make Aubameyang manageable without having to pull anything, but I don't want to be sat frantically panicking on Friday needing 1 final part of the SBC with no coins left.
12-9 for me so far. I dont want to play anymore.
Nepenthez has been saying it’s his toughest weekend league and seems to be echoed in Reddit and here. No idea why that might be, maybe the novelty of weekend league qualification being easier this year has worn off for the noobs I was battering in previous weekends (17-5 and 17-6 respectively). Maybe it’s that they’ve caught up tactically and are employing either 0 pressure or 100, both being very effective.
I was watching Nepenthez on stream last night and he was getting properly triggered.
He's 3-0 down in a game now and he's close again I think.
https://www.twitch.tv/nepenthez
Either way, reflects my experience. Will finish off my games tomorrow and take Gold 2 again I should think, but had hoped for an Elite 3 run since I had Monday off and therefore plenty of time Sunday night to make sure I get all 30 games. Still an outside bet of Gold 1, broth room for one defeat, but I doubt it.
13-2 through my first 15 matches. If I could take penalties it'd just be the one loss. I'd say 15 games in FUT Champs is enough to judge the players though. There's a couple of weak areas in the team.
Bailly is starting to get exposed. As is Fernandinho. Both are decent options on a budget, but the latter is quite slow and isn't strong either. I also wouldn't mind upgrading Willian to a more lethal finisher.
Speaking of lethal finisher. Loan POTM Aubameyang has 29 goals in these 15 games...
I’ll be jealous if you do get him. He looks great when he tears me apart, but I just can’t work him in and am too stubborn to change up the whole team, especially to work in more BPL as I fecking hate BPL sides.
EA are having a shambles this weekend. Matchmaking disabled again.
That's the choice facing me. His nationality makes him very hard to hybrid. I hate EPL sides myself, but unfortunately I'm getting close to that stage where the top players from other leagues are the only way to improve it drastically.
If I do his SBC I'm locked into having an EPL team for the next several weeks or months. That's if rewards are kind and I can afford him.
Matchmaking being disabled could be a good thing for me, but being this late in the weekend I doubt there'll be an extension.
I was going to try for the 3 wins I need from 9 games to get Silver one this afternoon.
Will they give me the 2,000 qualification points as they did last time?
EA do not do themselves any favours. The lack of communication regarding issues relating to the game is dreadful.
I am not a big moaner and understand that things can go wrong but it's the lack of communication that has got me here. When they base the entire game on FUT and specifically the 'weekend league' they must know that people plan their weekends around completing the 30 games. They haven't even acknowledged the problem and it has been over 3 hours now.
Andrew Wilson's (EA's CEO) pissed a few people off by suggesting FUT suffers from the innovations they made in the other areas. Like err ...
I'm not really arsed about getting Silver 1 for the rewards, but I would like the 2,000 qualification points, so I hope it stays down for as long as it takes for them to just give me those as I'd really rather not play the remaining games.
Which is the problem they have, because while that suits me, it doesn't suit people like Sincere.
This isn't to excuse them as I think they're a scummy, scummy company, who've released a bad game this year. Watching Nepenthez's live streams really hammer this home - the amount of goals he scores from timed finesses and concedes due to tackles not working is laughable.
John had it right in sitting the whole thing out from the start.
It's strange as the Madden team are so much more upfront about shit.
They fucked up a set (equivalent of a SBC) and they admit something is wrong and that they need to fix it.
This is the frustration. There are a couple of decent community managers at EA, but it feels like the loop between them and the product owners is a lot more frictionful. I can understand it as a PO myself and working with customer engagement folk - PO’s want to spend their time with Dev’s and realising their product visions and roadmaps, and not dealing with every little thing comms managers bring up. But if you don’t get the lines of communication (both ways) right, it ends up being a detriment to the product itself.
And they charged you an extra tenner for it.
Are SB rewards worse than last year?
I’ve put a little time into SB this week and should be in Gold 1 but the 11k and poultry packs look worse than I recall, or am I misremembering since the last time I had a run was about the same time last year?
They're worse.
Ach. Oh well, still means my late night pack opening will be fun. 4 packs with the pre-order ones there as well (think they’re still coming for another week or so) 11k coins to stop me feeling too skint.
Apparently RM Sancho is in concepts.
Hector, the German IF is at 31k now, when he was as high as 45-50k on Friday.
So tempting to clear my trade pile and buy 100 of him.