Danny Ings is in
Danny Ings is in
Went for all the Bundesliga and Prem options I could.
The 18th? What do you reckon that does to the timeline?
I'm gonna hit 1,000 packs easily if the full team isn't in packs until the weekend of the 23rd, let alone the 30th.
Apparently you can vote spam, so I assume this gives license to EA to put who the hell they like in.
I think they need a future stars promo to shift up the meta a little. There's only currently 7 defenders you'd want in your back line if you don't have an icon for example.
The upgrading is complete for me this week. I forgot I'd have coin from selling Jota and Carrasco back too, so I had more then enough.
The team:
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I still have 115k to hand. The plan to get Klaiber on 10 chem is to earn Virgil next week. I'd love to have gone Giminez and that RTTF Oblak, but the latter has since gone extinct on Playstation.
I also still have Robben to do, but with rewards and such I should just about have enough to get him done in the 8 days left. Assuming nothing else comes up between now and then.
Saudi league has dropped
And the EPL and Ligue 1.
You'll be able to grind everything now from just grinding bronze packs and bronze upgrades, with buying a few players here and there...
Got my draft token pack thing and entered an online one. Won it and got TOTW Akanji in the packs. 27k more added into the pot.
Rewards weren't particularly good today - 81 Leibold as my red pick, and no boards from either (!) of my 50k packs for Rivals. I was able to recycle the untradeable duplicates into the upgrades though, which gave me 2 82+ packs, from which I packed Keylor Navas and Luis Suarez. Not too shabby, and perfect for the multitude of player SBCs that I want to do.
I was working on the upgrades earlier in the week, and it allowed me to complete SMS for the cost of Arthur (8k). I tried him out in Rivals and he seems pretty good - he has the body type where he seems to win every challenge he goes in for, and he was a beast from corners.
The upgrades paid out quite well, and I still a number of high-rated players to chuck into the Eredivisie SBCs, including IF Casemiro, Muller, Werner, Icardi, Donnarumma, etc. Now just need to finish off Cunha tonight and get cracking on the new league SBC grind.
The ratings required are uber low again, so if you've been saving all silvers and bronzes for the leagues, you're golden.
The quest to 1,000 packs continues and I'd better do some of those player SBC's tonight too...
https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust
I feel like with enough crap in the club and those upgrade packs you could do craft most if not all of those current SBCs.
Haaland included, though Bruno may be a step too far. I did see Nick28T(who has a ridiculous club similar to Yevs but with a red CR7) was planning on grinding the last 4 days of it to try and get him first owner for almost nothing.
I may have to whisper this, but now we have a fair few league SBC's I think they might actually be better than they were last year.
Oh and in more things people don't want to hear, this will be the first and only year objectives will be in a friendly mode.
100%
They will be pissed with the way it went but where do they go from here. People thought they took it out of rivals because it’s what they wanted. I think they took it out so you couldn’t get rewards while earning these players.
I remember when they had a special card locked behind a tournament win. You only got so many attempts to try to win it or else tough luck.
There's hints of that in the one nation challenge, but that 60 game limit is very generous. Or they could change all of the challenges to "Do X and win" and golden goal would disappear.
Paraphrasing a post on Reddit: if the main problem is people are trying to minimise their playtime of your game, maybe the problem is the game
This is useful if you want to see good value SBCs: https://www.futbin.com/stc/challenges (based on reward value vs. cost)
Concalo Guedes objective, Mahrez Headliner SBC, Headliners team 2 looks decent. 84+ player pick sbc too.
Up to 204 packs now (4.6m coin value) which isn't too shabby but obviously looks like shit compared to Yev.
I wont be doing Champs this week or next as I want to get some objectives done as well as hammer some more SBC's and clear transfer list space as I'm at 99 right now.
Took my Ultimate packs from the Icon Swaps and ended up with Headliners Rafinha as the only notable thing, the rest went into Robben. He actually looks like if he gets an upgrade or two more he'd be a great card to have.
I've also moved into Champs. I sit 5-2 and will be done for the night. The gameplay has been so horrible in most of these games my players have acted thick as fuck. As such it's hard to really judge the new guys fully. However I can tell Klaiber is great even on 7 chem. Varane also gets stupid blocks in from outer space distances away from opponents.
I've brought Robben on off the bench once and that was in my last game. It was 1-1 and my opponent was one of those who sits everyone back, controls the CDM and tells 4 players to stay forwards. Robben won me a penalty(his dribbling is sexual) and then pumped in one of his trademark finesse shots from outside the box to seal the game. Top quality card.
Bamba and Salah feel very similar, though the sluggish gameplay doesn't really help that at all.
I have just four non-rare golds in my club right now.
Robben done. I had to buy Bernardo Silva and Matip to make chem work rest was from my club.
You've at least got Kaka to put your stuff into now @Yevrah. Owen looks okay too and he's there. Keane not so much I think.
Yeah, just clocked that Fox.
Makes me more confident there'll be stuff to do after all.
Decided to use my tokens for ultimate packs today as I needed to pad out the club to work through some of these SBC's both of those produced crappy TOTW's and a couple of boards.
Did the TOTW upgrade and got Ben Mee but I did the 84+ pick pack and got Oblak. I can now sell my tradeable Ter Stegen
Just got Varane from a 5k pack
Got some Portuguese rotter from the TOTW pack.
Got HL Raphina out of some Objective pack (untradeable). Looks meh but perhaps has a decent shout at getting an upgrade if Pochettino can get PSG back to crushing FC Camembert etc. regularly
Got Rodri from my 84+ Player Pick.
Need to finish Cunha and start Weekend League tonight. Not to mention continuous grinding of these upgrades to do Malen/Robben (with Klaiber already in the club).
My 84+ player pick was a choice between 4 84's
Went for Partey.
They are rancid, aren't they.
I got two 85's and two 84's. Took Luis Alberto.
I only did it because I had a stack of 83s I was never going to use.
Closing in on the 50 games with 7 TOTW and the 300 silver goals just buy using them in SB's and the silver stars stuff
It will leave me 139 and 184 games away from the next two objectives. Thats going to be a while before I get there!
Managed to get 16 players off my transfer list which will help when the packs can be opened. Most of the ones remaining are likely league SBC players who have no SBC yet.
Although I've noticed that a lot are J1 players and EA didn't release a J-League SBC last year...
I did upgrades which got me an 82 Akanji so in he went to the 84+ pick and Laporte was my pick. I've rinsed everything gold common or below through the upgrades and ended up with a load of 82s and 83s now and not really anything that isn't a gold rare in the club.
Probably not a good idea with TOTY potential league upgrade packs incoming but what can you do? I'm 8-3 in Champs now and tbh I don't really feel like playing on right now as I'm not in the mood.
900.
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What are you working on in particular now, league SBCs?
Yeah, did the Bundesliga, Prem, Saudi, French, EFL, Serie A and MLS all again over the last couple of days and have just spent the last 4 hours opening all of the silver or 1 rare gold only packs and recycling dupes in the web app to replenish the club for another round.
It's getting quite tedious now and I think I've played one actual game this week, but now only 98 away from the 1,000.
Got a shit load of three common gold upgrades to build now from all the silvers from the leagues with no SBC's (either current or expected). Might do some 81-87's with the off league golds too.
Actually, it'll end up being more than 1,000 packs as I'm gonna keep going until I've hit all three targets in that spreadsheet.
Will have to be careful to keep track soon though as I think the counter in the store page in game stops at 999.
I see Nepenthez has changed tack on his approach to stacking TOTY packs again.
It would be easier if he said he just can't be arsed. He'll probably pack one anyway no matter what he has as he always does.
EDIT: Watching his video now, he's discarding stuff he could be putting into upgrade packs if he waited for TOTY. Moronic.
I've given up watching Nep. Too irritating. The only recent thing I've agreed with him was his whole outlook on Icon Swaps and the 'golden goal' community debacle. Otherwise I've not watched him in months.
Yeah, agreed with him on that too.
I still like him, but Nick28t is far better.
Up to 11-6 now. Just faced 3 straight guys using 4-2-2-2 who just sit with 2 CDMs in front of the defence and ping it up for the quick through ball. When one of those is Kante that's a really tough time for me.
I watch Nep for new content but skip anything else he does. The rest of it is just annoying watching him contradict and back track on everything.
I can’t stand Nick so don’t watch him.