Did the two challenges and got IF Fraser in one. Not bad at all
Did the two challenges and got IF Fraser in one. Not bad at all
Up shit creek without a paddle here.
According to FUTBIN, the pieces I can tick off Ballack already in the club, will have the cost down to 950k. I only have 750k left.
I've just opened my last upgrade packs and got Fraser IF(fucking troll) from the EPL one and then Isco from a 2 player upgrade pack. That'll take me down to to just under 900k needed.
I'm down to 3 options now really.
1. Keep Keane in the team. Use the entire 750k remaining on rinsing through the upgrade packs.
2. Keep Keane in the team. Do POTM Van Dijk. Spend remaining coins on upgrade packs.
3. Gamble and do the 3 highest rated parts of Ballack along with submitting the Icon. 2 x 100k pack an ultimate and rare mega back with needing to get about 150k from it.
I know Neymar had a high starting rating but it doesn't feel right having with an overall that high. He's the 12th Man yet only a handful are better than him in the team.
Yev how are you rinsing your club? Bronze into Silver > Silver into gold > gold into upgrades?
I'd say he is.
He's also going to be very particular about tomorrow. Expect lots of backing out to fill up other packs and so on.
If I had half his club planning ability I'd be fucking unstoppable on this.
I want to do it with what I have but it sounds like a right ballache.
Yeah I couldn't do it.
I'm doing loads of La Liga/Prem packs but shifting everything is some effort.
That Vrsaljko will be mine
Need him on the right, want to pick up Alex Sandro for LB and then Chiellini in the middle. That'd leave me clear to work towards Florenzi/Cancelo
I've now cleared all untradeable gold's lower that 83 in my club.
All rare gold's under 82 are also gone.
All non rares gone now too.
Still have 481 players though so must have loads of silvers.
Brought in TOTY Varane as Campbell was suspended and I wanted to give him a go. He’s fucking awesome. I may sell the non-playing players in the club to fund TOTY Mbappe - I think it’ll just about make it, and I’d likely sit on my first team for months then. It’ll take an age and a half to sell up mind.
55 league specific packs (about 30 the shit ones) and only 2 walkouts.
Balls.
I have fuck all coins left now but here's the squad:
Scholes is at CAM to get Kondogbia on full chem but I'll switch with KDB in game.
Some club sacrifices had to be made. My 90 Thiago Silva, gone. Almost all of my FUT Champs reds, gone. However that Isco I packed before was vital. Means I went from not being able to do it, to I've just done Ballack with 25k left in the bank.
Sod all from all but the final ultimate pack which contained Handanovic. That was the only walkout from both sets, Keane and Ballack.
So I've taken all the resulting 82 and below rated cards and I got 8 La Liga packs and a few gold upgrades. Managed to get a decent walkout in one of them though:
Your pack luck has been outrageous this year Fox. Gg’s I think is the term.
As for how I did the packs, hit the stream tomorrow and I’ll talk through it. Dusted off the Kinect today, there’s a scratch on the lens but it works.
Some positive save Maria style community thinking and we’ll pack our second TTH blue.
What time will you be streaming tomorrow Yev?
Personally I have about 20 packs from SBCs, but around 8-900 players in the club that can be put into squad SBCs or the upgrade packs. That'll be my main aim tomorrow late evening and Sunday. Glad I didn't go for the FUT Champions qualification last night now, as my time is even more limited this weekend.
Insane pull GF, and you too Merse. Twice pulling the same icon is pretty nuts.
Probably from early afternoon. Might even do it earlier while I’m finishing the packs off. I’ll post in the morning advising of the time.
Changed things up a bit to counter the torrid time I was having, opting to emply drop deep in my balanced tactics, to counter my quick build up. I've also made my attacking formation more aggressive, bringing up the full backs when needed, and that's helped too, especially with Marcelo as one of them.
TOTY Varane has improved things, he just doesn't get turned like Sol does, and Courtois back in for Casillas has seen me go from conceding 16 in 6 to 16 in 11.
Back at a positive record finally, winning 5 of my last 6 and the sole defeat coming on pens against someone who completely fluked his two equalisers out of nowhere. Feeling a little less humiliated now.
Cavani remains a beast. 17 games, 17 goals, 11 assists.
Cheers guys, only just about stopped buzzing.
I don't know what's gone on this year but that's a TOTY to add to CR7 and Messi from packs now. I now have an untradeable 91 Ramos that I've nothing to do with.
That leaves the team like this:
My only problem now is that Ballack SBC has knocked me right down to 70k in the club. There's not a great deal I can do with that, but I need a new CAM/RAM. Right now I'm having to have Raul out on the left and whilst it's okay, he's so much better in the middle. Aubameyang grates on me a little these days as well.
I also redeemed my entry to the WL out of habit so I'll have to play some tomorrow.
I could whack that last 70k on upgrade packs, try and find a use for that 91 Ramos or just hold now and try to rebuild coins.
Nepenthez packed Varane tonight.
It’s on for tomorrow gents. It’s on.
GF, that's fucking brilliant. Well deserved.
Is he tradable?
Did some Ligue 1 players packs. From three, I landed Verratti, Lopes, Glik and Strootman, which is all decent SBC fodder at least.
Ive got rare gold tradeabke cards. Lots of them. Should i be putting them through upgrades? What is most efficient ?
Did probably about 15 upgrade packs yesterday by just rinse and repeat. Best I got was Lukaku and Firmino.
I'm looking at my team options to try and shuffle it about a bit and create some funds. I also packed a Saul in my rewards which is apparently near 20k and I've Di Maria who is pretty much extinct at 10k BIN and I can't figure out why.
This has me just over 100k now.
I'm toying with the idea of selling Neymar for a couple of weeks. I've still the 86 red Willian from an age back that would tide me over for a few weeks.
I want to pair Ramos with Van Dijk(either POTM or TOTY) and can then bring De Gea/Marcelo in, with the eventual upgrade to their TOTY cards. I also want that Zlatan.
The other option is sell Neymar and dump the entire lot into these upgrade packs.
do Maria is due to the Ibra requirement for a PSG player. I sold a Verratti for 35k yesterday as a result.
Come on Yev, get on with this pack opening. I am interested to see the results.
87 Mahrez really is a joy to play with, I wish I could find someone similar (with a 5* w/f - right footed) to use on the left hand side. FUTMas Coutinho looks like the closest thing but obviously that isn't an option.
I currently use UCL Live Sanchez who is good but doesn't feel as smooth. I am tempted to go for Hazard 92 IF but it's a lot of money for a small upgrade on his NIF.
Sorry Boom.
I'll be on from 4 I'd say - back on building the packs now.
In the meantime and for a bit of fun, from 250 packs (or so - an estimate from starting with 200 or so and recycling), how many of the following do you think I'll pack:
TOTY (1 point for a 0 answer if correct, 5 for a correct one otherwise)
Icons (1 point for a 0 answer if correct, 3 for a correct one otherwise)
IF Walkouts (3 points for a correct guess, 2 points for whoever is the closest otherwise)
Walkouts (3 points for a correct guess, 2 points for whoever is the closest otherwise)
IFs (3 points for a correct guess, 2 points for whoever is the closest otherwise)
Boards (3 points for a correct guess, 2 points for whoever is the closest otherwise)
Kagawas (3 points for a correct guess, 2 points for whoever is the closest otherwise)
Kagawa's count in both the Kagawa section and the Boards section.
4,600 FIFA Points to whoever gets the most points.
Last edited by Yevrah; 12-01-2019 at 01:47 PM.
Changed the points structure slightly.
And I need to go high to low when doing these packs as I've come so close to losing Futmas De Bruyne on more than one occasion now.
TOTY - 3
Icons - 0
IF Walkouts - 10
Walkouts - 15
IFs - 25
Boards - 60
Kagawas - 25
I've gone for 3 TOTY as you deserve it for all the work put in to get to this opening.
I don't have too many big packs (best I think are Rare Megas and Megas) so it really will be a test of how well the grind (and luck obviously) works.
Cleared the club of standard golds and am now opening the common upgrade packs from silvers on the web app.
EDIT: Cheers Fox. And fucking hell, I've got a duplicate after opening 5 of the three commons.
Last edited by Yevrah; 12-01-2019 at 02:24 PM.
TOTY - 0
Icons - 2
IF Walkouts - 4
Walkouts - 27
IFs - 32
Boards - 101
Kagawas - 20
Just came across the TOTY Mbappe.
Mbappe was already the player I struggle to defend against the most as the ball sticks to his lightning fast feet. The TOTY year was bonkers and it took me most of the match to really get inside the head of my opponent when he was attacking with him.
Lost 5-4 to the sweaty troll but really I was lucky to get 4.
I really can't wait to finish this, pac...buy and use him.
I think most of your pulls and boards will come from the upgrade packs.
Are you focusing on one league or are you splitting between the 3?
TOTY - 1
Icons - 0
IF Walkouts - 6
Walkouts - 19
IFs - 38
Boards - 108
Kagawas - 12
Funny you mention that Mahow, Huge Gorilla who if you don't know him, regularly makes the latter stages of these pro tournaments, reckons Mbappe is replacing R9 in teams.
Mbappe is about 2.7m cheaper and is better than everything except the 5* weak foot.
Bah, done 10 or some upgrades today. David Luiz at best.
The one to look out for is that 87 Asenjo item. If you don't pack a TOTS that card is a very handy one to send into some SBCs. 84 Arthur is very handy too.
Yeah, I've kept any card I had 83 or above, so will be looking to complete some of the SBC's as we go through with anything I get.
I probably wouldn't do Ibra otherwise, but on that basis I'm happy to.
I'd also suggest picking out an Icon. Say Shevchenko for example. I'd imagine you'd be able to chalk off a fair few of his SBCs on the fly too. More packs back and more players too.