FIFA 21: Featuring the FUT 100

[Gray Fox]

The trailer any of us really cared about. Some new things to do!

New Stuff

FUT Co-op seems to be the big new thing. You can play with 1 other player online by the looks of it, to earn rewards for both of your clubs. You can play against other duos or play 2v1.

You can also co-op with someone against the AI in Squad Battles.

Customisation - Your stadium will start off as a small ground, but as your club grows you will unlock more tiers to it, more ways to customise, those tifo things and pyro etc. Eventually you'll have your own thing that looks stupidly big.

Training items and fitness items are gone. Praise the fucking lord.

Team events. There will be events where you will be asked to split into a team and work towards goals. The example they gave was Team Joao Felix or Team Haaland.

The FUT 100.


We're now up to 100 Icons and these are your new names.

Last thing I can think to mention for now is Meaningful Moments. They state they realise that their upgrading of cards e.g. Team of the week, isn't the best process. However now a specific stat will get the boost. The example they give is if Trent smashes in a free kick, they'll bump up his free kick stat.

Full FIFA 21 pitch notes here.


I'll also look to get everyones gamertag and console in this OP so we can co-op together etc in FIFA 21.

There will be "dual entitlement" of FIFA 21. So if you buy it on Xbox One you get it automatically for Series X. Buy it on PS4, get it automatically for PS5.

[SincereTheRebel]

The game will probably be just as bad as the last FIFAs. We need to get good leaderboards and a proper breakdown of mine and my friends list WL stats. I want to see what team you have used, how many goals you have scored etc. Give me an average ranking of your WL finish that I can check my click your profile. Make it super stat driven. I no longer want to see that De Gea in 400 games, has scored 0 goals. Show me how many interceptions Kante has made per game.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, I'm out for this one.

The game just isn't good enough to be worth the time invested it takes to get the things on offer.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

A shame Vidic can't head the ball.

[SincereTheRebel]

Ive got over 70 platinum trophies on my ps4 but ive only added 5 over the past three years. Fifa, GT and COD has taken all my gaming time. For PS5, i want to go back and play all types of games. Fifa 21 will get cut off.

[Ian]

Can confirm that my dalliance with FIFA 20 has 100% confirmed I do not want FIFA 21.

Although a Cantona that's as fast as Usain Bolt would be fun.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Also, I read that they've taken out the shushing and Dele Alli A-Ok (never seen anyone do it to me or understand why it's toxic) celebrations as they're seen as toxic yet are keeping the dab and Mbappe's crying celebration...

[SincereTheRebel]

Im surprised they haven't figured out by now that celebrations are the real microtransaction. They will out the Shushing back in, zoom into the player's face and make it unskippable. All for a fee, of course.

[Yevrah]

Ive got over 70 platinum trophies on my ps4 but ive only added 5 over the past three years. Fifa, GT and COD has taken all my gaming time. For PS5, i want to go back and play all types of games. Fifa 21 will get cut off.

Exactly my thinking. To get the good things either takes one or a combination of:

Chucking money at the game (haven't done that at all this year and it feels like I've won, see point three for why I've actually lost)
Being very good at the playing side of it (pretty clear to all now I'm sure that I'm not)
Playing the game (EDIT: Grinding the fuck out of the menus) for ludicrous lengths of time.

I've done the latter and bar a special Mbappe and a couple of top level icons I've pretty much got all one could want, but if I buy FIFA21 they're now all useless to me and even if I carry on playing FIFA20 for years it simply isn't worth the time invested in the first place to get them as there's a) not that much to do with them and b) the football side of the game itself isn't very good.

Playing this thing for the last 3/4 years has almost been all encompassing and my time is just better spent playing other games or doing other things entirely.

[Yevrah]

And finally, the stuff they've announced for FIFA21 so far is dog shit.

[Gray Fox]

The customisation and 'off-field' stuff in the game now is about where it should have been 2-3 versions ago.

Yev has the problem with UT nailed there though. You either have to pay up, or be very good at the game. If you're doing neither you have to play for a long time. Then comes the problem of how short the cycle is.

The cycle this year will be what? October to September next year. The game usually dies off in May after TOTS too. Ploughing loads of time into a version to get a team of ridiculousness, only to then give it up and start again I can't really do. Hence why you've seen me go hard on one version only to take the next year off.

[The Merse]

I’m tempted, as I’ve really enjoyed the last 3 months on this one, but ultimately I know I’ve enjoyed because I quickly assembled a load of TOTS via 2 weeks of BPM’ing on the app and then had fun with all of the mega content, and didn’t have to grind Weekend Leagues for Gold 1-2 every weekend in the first few months just to keep up.

I’ll do the same again and wait for it to land on EA Access.

[Shindig]

It's all good saying the players are more intelligent but the players need to see and feel that. The dribbling is dumb but, at this point, I'd rather FIFA just went full fucking game.

[Yevrah]

At the moment forward runs are infuriatingly dumb at times, but change that and then you have the problem FM does with too many one on ones and it's next stop hello superkeepers.

It's a tough ask making a football game, basketball, for example is much easier to model, but you then look at things like heading this year and you can't help but come to the conclusion that they want each version to be at least slightly shit to give people more reason to buy the following one.

[Shindig]

That's definitely something that happens.

[Raoul Duke]

I'm sure I've played against people who were playing 2 vs 1 against me already, so not sure why this is different?

If the rumoured Career Mode changes are any good I might just go back to playing that again for a few months then do the catch-up thing Merse did. Suspect the stadium building thing will end up in that somehow.

[Gray Fox]

I'm sure I've played against people who were playing 2 vs 1 against me already, so not sure why this is different?.

They’ll have been 2 people playing in the same room. You can now for example join online with me, we play someone else 2v1 and win and both our clubs get the rewards for it.

[Shindig]

I've just remembered the rewind function. I'm not saying it's an unwelcome feature but that's going to be abused.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's only in "kick-off" mode/games.

[Shindig]

I know. I still think it's daft. Imagine cheesing it for achievements.

[The Merse]

It's all good saying the players are more intelligent but the players need to see and feel that. The dribbling is dumb but, at this point, I'd rather FIFA just went full fucking game.

This. Especially FUT. The best ones were the ping pong arcadey ones, do mad shit, see mad shit happen to you, feel good footie. 09 through to 15 I’d say.

The infuriating thing is they’ve absolutely nailed content, and a lot of the gameplay additions have actually been great, but the complexity of the gameplay design now means that it feels like there’s a load of sliders being dialled you and down in FUT to make allowances for the way folks play the game.

Watch AI vs AI on top setting and it’s a damn realistic representation of football.

[The Merse]

I'm sure I've played against people who were playing 2 vs 1 against me already, so not sure why this is different?

If the rumoured Career Mode changes are any good I might just go back to playing that again for a few months then do the catch-up thing Merse did. Suspect the stadium building thing will end up in that somehow.

Highly recommend it, but suggest it’s best waiting until TOTS for it, as then the base cards are so low in price it’s easy to get going with the League SBCs, and during that phase you can actually land a good few via the SBCs easily enough. I still needed to rinse the squad battles and coin boosts to get going for a week or two, but once I had 100k it was all systems go from there.

[The Merse]

Interestingly they’re removing player fitness.

Could seriously damage BPM, that.

[Gray Fox]

I've been calling for it for a few years. Just seems unnecessary to limit play in some way.

I also forgot to put in, injury cards are done as well for the most part. You have 1 gold injury card, 1 silver. None of the specific knee or arm injury stuff.

[Pleb]

Have they fixed Career Mode?

[Raoul Duke]

Have they fixed Career Mode?

Meant to be announced soon - heard it's actually had some attention, after being the weird ginger step-child of the family for ages

[SincereTheRebel]

Questions ive asked Ea about FIFA 21

1) if my opponent losses connection, regardless of the score and the time. I should get the win

2) if i click someones name in WL on the leaderboard, does it show me their team and overall WL stats

3) does GK stats show saves per game, etc instead of goals scored

[Shindig]

I don't think anyone does the keeper stats. Actually, PES might do saves at half time. Clean sheets and maybe a diagram of where they tend to be beaten would be nice.

[SincereTheRebel]

Something like that. Anything, just give me some historical stats besides goals and assists

[John Arne]

Who is the blonde guy supposed to be on the screen grab above?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Torres.

[John Arne]

Torres.

Ah. Kinda see it now.

[Raoul Duke]

Korea Mode looks pretty cool. Definitely nicking a bunch of things from FM:

[Danny]

BETA codes are coming out. Might be worth checking your emails.

[Gray Fox]

Errr, okay.

[Danny]

"We saw you didnt play much this year, please come back"

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nothing so far for me.

"We see you've already pre-ordered the game, the hooks are in deep"

[Gray Fox]

Only entitles me to VOLTA and Kick Off.

A bit disappointing, last year or the year before when they chucked everyone packs of TOTS cards in the UT Beta was great.

[Raoul Duke]

New dribbling looks good

[Shindig]

I'm more concerned with none of the defenders closing him down.

[Danny]

Its a friendly, probably offline and on the lowest level. I wouldnt be too worried about the pressing.

The dribbling on the other hand is bullshit.

[Yevrah]

That clip.

I will enjoy watching this shitshow from afar.

[Ian]

I wouldn't worry, people will still pay full price for it anyway because idiocy.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah what morons

[Ian]

I mean if you don't want it to ever improve then "fuck it I'll buy it anyway" is sound policy.

[Raoul Duke]

Ratings are out: https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/commen...gs_megathread/

[Danny]

Some of the ratings are embarrassing.

[Raoul Duke]

Bayern seem to have been fisted the most. Apparently because they did a deal with PES

[Danny]

Right. They have done them seriously dirty.

[Danny]

Sanchos pace is just gone. Pretty sure Fabinho got a +2 and they barely touched his stats.

They are all over the place