Mine hasn't landed yet. I should get the Ultimate one as I hammered the EA Access, but I've had a few weekends away since release so it depends how many days one can miss.
Mine hasn't landed yet. I should get the Ultimate one as I hammered the EA Access, but I've had a few weekends away since release so it depends how many days one can miss.
Haven't got my pack as of yet. Sold a ton of Germans on for 1-2k tonight thanks to the Demirbay objective.
At least the kit is nice...
Also, the pertinent question is what is defined as a "session day"? My gut would be just whacking the game on and playing a match or two wouldn't be enough.
I got the ultimate and I know for a fact I haven’t played every day.
Apparently it's just logging into the game, Web App or Companion app. No need to play a game.
Makes sense then. I am a sucker for checking the webapp atleast once a day.
Got my pack - a Rare Mega Pack in the end. Absolute rubbish though, just one 83 in Bruno Fernandes. All untradeable as well, but I guess it's a freebie so can't complain too much.
I got the Ultimate Pack. Would have been pissed had I not given I've basically lived on his game this year, but I'm pretty sure I'll have missed more than 6 days.
Khedira, Lacazette, Neto, William Carvalho and Glik. I'd have spunked my load over that had it been a pack only account.
Rare mega only ffs. I pre-ordered a digital copy so got the game early and I've been on the web app every day.
Kramaric in there to take double the piss too.
K. Navas, Alba, Thiago, Barzagli and Leno in my Ultimate.
My pack only shit team is progressing nicely and now have a first team with 90 chemistry.
Finished my 5 division rivals qualifying games and with 3 losses, 1 draw and 1 win it put me in division 6. Still haven't won a game in that yet, a couple of draws and 3/4 defeats, so I'll probably be in division 7 soon and fuck only knows what resides there.
On the plus side I have all but secured rank 3 in division 6, so that'll be 2 untradeable mega-packs come Thursday morning. Think I'll play to Gold 1 in Squad Battles, which will be 3 more packs and 11,000 coins. IF Bats is in my sights from the Futswap Deals as well.
Other than that hammering bronze packs and now have over 200 players in the club (about 40 of them gold).
Playing the game as you are Yev reminds me of the opening few weeks of Ultimate Team, and finding those hidden gem players out of starter packs that perform way above their level. Whilst I really do enjoy getting all of the special cards, and playing with a really amazing team, I think the start is my most enjoyable phase of the game.
And whilst I have, like everyone else, knocked EA for some of the decisions they make throughout the lifespan of each game, I have actually enjoyed a few of the last weekly objectives, no matter how much of a grind they have been. I've been able to find some cheaper gems and play with teams I would never really use in FUT Champions. A couple of weeks ago it was Memphis Depay who was tearing it up up front; this week, in the extremely budget German squad I've compiled to get the Demirbay card, it's been Kevin Volland who has been great to use. Kehrer and Tah have made for a formidable centre-back pairing too.
I managed 4 wins and 2 draws last night in Division 5, so just another 4 to go for the objective.
Yep, the more I do this the more I think it's the way forward. I'm actually looking forward to getting Batshuayi from Futswaps as he'll genuinely improve my team. And the Demirbay example is another great one. Had I been doing this from the start I'd have had a German team to give that a crack with.
Providing EA don't change things fundamentally for FIFA20 (leaving a similar number of packs available from division rivals, for example) I'll definitely start the game this way next year.
I think I had more fun earlier on when I was sticking to themes - Ligue 1/Bundesliga etc. Breaking the bank for that one star player in your league/country feels better and you end up using players you wouldn't otherwise.
Not sure if I have the coin to do it this year but I quite fancy the idea of doing a full England team. Shearer and Owen up front and Lampard, Gerrard and Scholes in midfield. I imagine we will see a flashback Ashley Cole at some point too.
Hopefully Beckham cans his deal with PES soon also, he's high on my list of wanted icons.
A few big hitters in the TOTW this time around.
I don't understand how Ronaldo got one considering they drew.
Someone is going to get that Red CR7 tomorrow who finished Silver 1, whilst I'm going to be lucky to get Joshua King.
I seem to be doing better at scoring in this new patch.
I always get a lot of one on one chances but would miss a lot but I'm now utilising the low driven shot and it's working great.
I would be scoring bucket loads if I could cross with this mechanic though, I find a defender/goalkeeper about 9 out of 10 times.
New SBC out, to "celebrate Hamsik's legacy with his club". 91 rated, he looks pretty insane but wouldn't fit in my squad.
Two squads needed, 85 and 86 rated each with 2 TOTWs.
Looks really good. FUTBIN reckons 350k so far.
Napoli have just cancelled the sale.
Great TOTW, active promo & MOTM in packs is making an Icon SBC attractive right now. Nesta looks like he needs doing.
Meh, couple of MOTM (Piatek and some other discard), Buffon, Khedira and some 83/84s. Not awful, but probably puts me at somewhere around 300k spend for Nesta. Still, that's now 5 Icons. No more until the Elites come into play for me.
I love the low driven shot to counter the dickheads who move their keeper.
I've just done it in two rivals matches with my opponent covering the far post whilst I buried it into the wide open near post.
Edit: And again, it's so satisfying.
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My favourite thing if 1v1, is to do the fake shot stop. (B and then A with no left stick input) you'll stop dead on the spot facing the centre of the goal.
Because you can see the other player powering a shot up you'll find they move to one side in a gamble. Simply pop it in the other side.
As for Icons I'll be doing Nakata to put into Rijkaard tomorrow after rewards. He's a needed physical upgrade in the midfield. That'll put me in a nice spot for a future big time Icon. I'd happily trade in Ballack and Rijkaard for a Viera or a Gullit.
I'd also let Raul and one of the others go in order to go into R9, Ronaldinho or Eusebio.
I'd love to pack something big and look into getting Best, as he expires in 2 days, however the only way I can see myself doing that is by selling CR7 and for obvious reasons I'd really like to keep him.
If pack weights were not dropped during these promos I'd be extremely tempted(I still am really). He sells for 1.7m with best costing 1.48m according to FUTBIN. Along with discard value of my rewards, i'd have about 300k left, if I didn't pack anything with Bests packs either.
4 in 4 and this is my favourite of them:
Oh and I totally meant this:
Did Huntelaar and bought the new Ziyech. Used a lot of players from the club and then pulled Fabinho and a shadow so it didnt cost me too much.
Need to get my hands on the 400k De Ligt to get the remainder of the OP Ajax players. I just dont have that coin to spend on "fun" because I really dont play enough anymore
Got IF Camapana, Thauvin, Luis Gustavo, Anderson Talisca, Herrera, Joao Cancelo, Oscar, Clyne and Fellaini (amongst others) and some useful consumables from my Division Rivals untradeable rewards for my pack only account.
Loving this.
Picks were King, who looks useable, and 85 Kagawa. Not bad.
Chose tradeable packs for rank 1 rewards so had a fair few packs to add to the Gold 2 haul. IF Fabregas, Varane, and a single pack containing K Navas, M Asenjo and Verratti came up.
Good morning, and combined with what was packed already yesterday, I’m probably back where I was before doing Nesta. Can’t wait for the Gullit SBC.
Struggled a bit last night in the hunt for Demirbay, only getting 1 win overall. Kept getting pegged back late in games and drew a lot, but it did mean I comfortably reached Rank 2 in Division 5. I'm quite tempted to take the untradeable rewards later on, as I'm thinking of completing the Headliners Carvajal SBC. I currently use a Red 86 Carvajal, so it would be a natural upgrade at RB.
Sold a fair bit throughout the day and am up to 8k coins, so could either open another Premium Gold Pack now or hammer on tonight and go for a Premium Gold Jumbo.
Opening packs playing the game this way is somehow even better than normal, it's going to be immense when I get my first walkout.
I have decided to sell Aouar and Crespo.
It pains me but I want Rashford and I don't know yet for the other position.
89 Higuain and 87 Donnarumma in my reds which is pretty fantastic to be fair. The former looks like my kind of poacher, but his speed and 70 stamina is a bit off-putting. He's making the bench for sure though. This also makes the 3rd time I've seen a red Donnarumma. The game really wants me to have him.
TOTW Kagawa and then another low rated one in my 100k packs and then Ozil from my untradeable rival rewards. Not the greatest of earners to be fair, but should see me with enough to do Nakata and then look at Rijkaard.
Flashback Torres is out.
I have just cashed in on nearly a hundred Cesc Fabregas Monaco cards. Purchased for 4K and sold for 8.8K, I knew he would rise but I wasn't expecting to make that much.
Fingers crossed for a POTM Rashford tomorrow.
I think with bronze players I can do two of those Marquee Matchup SBC's.
Who would you plug in? I have about 2.5m to spend. That final spot can either play at ST, CAM (with Raul at ST) or CM (Raul ST, KDB CAM) and has to be an icon.
I'm thinking middle Eusebio, prime Henry, prime Stoichkov, prime Matthaus, prime Ronaldinho, prime Ballack or prime Socrates.
Why does it have to be an icon?
Headliner Pogba would work.
Because I didn't think of that ffs.
I can't make up my mind now.
With you having Kondogbia and Keane I figured you wouldn’t want another defensive minded player.
I'm getting absolutely humped online with this team. Another defeat, this time 6-0, drops my skill rating to 744 and 44 points off division 7. On the plus side I'm now 5% of the way to qualifying for the weekend league.
Sold my 86 Felipe Anderson and Hazard to take my tally up to 420k. Did Nakata and had about 75k left, so he cost about 350k. Pulled Marcelo from the packs to cut that cost down even further.
I also swapped him for my one and now have an almost complete First Owner squad. I then turned in the remaining 3 parts of Rijkaard and pulled Headliner Zapata. One of the lower tier ones, but got me another 90k back.
This leaves me with this, and about 130k in the bank:
That Flashback Torres is a killer for me as it's a massive temptation, however as you can see I don't have a LM. I also don't quite have the funds to get either Anderson or Hazard back.
As of now the plan is to pick up the best version of Sane I can get. The other option is to sell CR7 and buy TOTY Marcelo, Neymar and then maybe do something like complete Flashback Torres.
Bought Headliners Pogba.
With Solskjaer leading the train there's no limit to how many IFs he'll get. Clean for 1.67m.
January POTM will be between him and Rashford as well, so he could get his first bump soon if they count too.