I just saw that on FUTBIN. Is it even in game?
I just saw that on FUTBIN. Is it even in game?
He was in concepts but is now not so no idea what's happening there.
Also lol at the latest fuck up. They've upgraded RTTF cards but not Brandt. They instead upgraded his UCL card to 88 by accident causing it to go mad and extinct.
Is he in game? I can only see him on Futbin.
It's gone up a bit actually.
Kroos disappearing again is an odd one. I'm assuming they forgot or something and he'll drop tomorrow at 6 instead. He actually looks quite usable too. I'd say he may be an objective but with those stats I doubt we'd get him for no coins.
Nep was saying the 3 silver player bronze upgrades and the 4 gold player silver upgrades are back in the code.
Finished off the Bundesliga today and my Jumbo Rares had IF Coates as the best player
Only decent player hiding behind it was a dupe untradeable Acuna and I currently have no SBCs that I actually want to put him in.
Built out my Italy and Spain squads for the inevitable games. Spain looks pretty tasty and I don’t even have enough players for a Italian side. This should be fun.
That's Cuc done, looking forward to using him in the Spain squad.
Weekend league has been fun, lots of open games. Lost my first three in the bounce, possibly my worst ever start, in large due to playing during conference calls in which I was an active participant. Probably not a good idea to then follow that up by playing with about 10 IPAs in me this evening/morning, but nonetheless I’ve pulled it back to 8-5, which is nice.
This weeks frustrations:
Fucking backline pressing, I give away goals on a platter
Joe Gomez.
Tackling Wayne Rooney 5 times en route to his kick off goals
Being ‘msgd’ ‘u pay 2 win’... haven’t spent ought this year, like
Joe Gomez.
Also... accidentally going into FUT champs with your 82 chem, 77 rated Managerial Masterpiece squad on +4 form and winning 8-6 is fucking boss.
Right, built a team to triple up on the dutch league player objectives, Fofana and Reinier.
https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust
I just realised I must have redeemed entry on auto pilot on Thursday. So the slog must be on. I might as well aim for the 18 wins token to boot.
I think I've decided to do Deco and the 3 packs below him. Deco should take over the Aouar role in my team and if you compare the two they're actually not dissimilar, though lol at the IGS total compared to the rating difference. Deco loses out on Pace but wins out by having much better dribbling and passing.
Also benefit of this is if there are Moments Icon SBCs coming and they require an Icon(moments?) to put in, he's one for minimal effort.
It's official, Jesus.
Zinchenko looks great, the requirements do not...
Looks like a very good card. Probably not worth it for me over Traore though.
Going to compare Hermann to Bellerabi and then probably not do the SBC.
I was going to do Zinchenko but I have an untradeable TOTYHM Robertson.
I will do Hermann though.
High defensive workrate puts me off but might work for people playing 3-5-2
He's a nice card and would be wonderful with a +2. He looks very similar to Acuna, scarily so if you imagine what the +2 would look like.
However unlike Acuna, he has a tough nationality to link. You're essentially locked to boxing him in with Icons or EPL players. It's a tough sell for me considering you're likely looking over 300k on him too.
Futbin has him at 321k right now
Ligue Un win and goals done but need to sit through a few assist games giving away the wins. Thinking I will do about one/half of one obj a day while people are on the GG thing (although I have had a couple wait for the second goal so far)
Zinchenko looks good but fuck spending 'a Messi' or 'half a Neymar' on a very hard to link LB at this stage in the game. Even assuming he'll get the upgrade as City will give those Germans a fisting. If you need a good one just get Cole in Swaps
I'm tempted by the Herrmann on the off chance that Gladbach springs a (very unlikely) surprise.
His cost isn't too bad, and I need a RM to challenge Bellarabi for my German/Bundesliga side. I'm pretty light on that side in general throughout the club so would be nice to get another option in.
I feel like as well as the Prem tax for Zinchenko, they saw they gave Acuna out too cheaply. Hence the price rise.
Raoul has it though. At the end of the day he is a full back. If you want a good one take Cole. I'm sure Prime Cole is great, but most people in this have their full backs either at CB or on stay back anyway.
I'm alright for LB's.
I don't even use any of them in my first team. I start Neymar at LWB with Klostermann going to LB in game.
My WL goes okay so far. I decided to try out a 5-3-2 and the first game matches me up with someone with 3 TOTY cards along with Neymar IF and RB Mbappe. He knew how to dribble very well too so this was hell. It's not often I lose my first game. I also came very close to falling to 0-2 but for a 90th minute equaliser. Luckily extra time saw me take over and I went on a run after that. I thought I'd play until I lose and I now find myself 8-2.
I'd happily only go to 11 wins this weekend but there's 2 incentives to go to 18. The swap token and 2 extra player picks. I do have the Sunday night to play though so there's no rush.
I also need to decide on whether or not to complete either of Jones or El Shaarawy. The latter is for fun and nostalgia and he could go straight in once I have Deco. The former however I have faced a few times this weekend so far and he's an absolute bastard. He's bloody well everywhere. The only issue is it would be tough to link him into the starting 11.
Tempted by Zinchenko to bring in Jones at LM. I for one don’t have my full backs set to stay back, and they’re a big part of my attack. Thing is, Dest is a fucking amazing off chem LB. only thing is that means I’m stuck with Fati, who remains decent, but is noe falling behind the power curve a bit.
https://www.futbin.com/21/compare/28...&schem=100,100
That's Dest on 7 chem v Zinchenko on 10 with both having sentinel. You'll be losing some pace but the rest is pretty similar.
That's without the potential +2 though
True but the +2 isn't guaranteed, even though it is likely.
The WL grind has moved onto 13-5. Games a lot closer today. I'll aim for 5 more wins from my remaining 12 games but I really don't care if I have to quit to get the obvious losses out of the way faster. If it turns disastrous I'll just bin it off and go on to one league.
The team looks like this in game and it works quite well tbf:
It can be quite predictable though.
Back on:
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Some bronze/silver upgrades then I'll do that Icon Mid/Prime SBC.
Shame it's only 4 days for the Mid/Prime but I'll do it even if I have to buy some players.
Blitzed through the Squad Battles Icon Swaps tokens today...christ that was a chore. Easy enough to just score a few in the first half and then put the pad down for the second. The AI rarely scores more than a couple.
I got Prime Roy Keane.
No quick sell recoveries left either so I'm stuck with him blocking me opening other packs until something else comes along too.
I had forgotten that you did his SBC too, fuck.
And so ends the WL run and the 5-3-2 experiment. I went from 13-5 to 17-13. 4 wins and 8 losses in the session. In said session I lost a 2 and even 3-0 lead 5 times. This is the first time I've ever felt like there is some kind of adaptive difficulty in the game because these people were not good and I was easily going 2 or 3 goals up. Yet suddenly every pass stops working and I can't score.
The last 2 games summed it up for me. I had 2 to get the 18th win for the token. In the first game I was 2-0 up and cruising. Thought I had it and then the comeback began and was completed with this:
The game stayed 2-2 for a while and he won late on.
Then in the final game I could tell in the first 10 mins I was in trouble. The guy was too good at keeping the ball away from me. Still things like this handing him the game can fuck off:
It's the first time that it's felt as if the game were screwing me over. I was planning on taking a break from WL for a bit, this not helping at all, but now I need to enter for another stupid token.
Managed to get through 9 of the la liga games (giving away a win for every win I got) before I got banned.
Also pushed me onto 17 starts for Cucurella.
People are getting banned? What for?
If you play too many games in a short space of time, you get soft-banned. It was happening in the first batch of Icon Swaps with people leaving for golden goal. Apparently it was brought in originally to stop bots from coin farming.
It's too many quits, I think. Apparently you can get around it by just running through a friendly/SB game from start to finish on beginner and just let it play out.
So my WL went on late into the night, and I ended up calling it at 14-9 at around 4am. It was basically split into 3 sections; I started off 6-1, had a pretty awful middle section of games where I went 3-7, before finishing off 5-1 late in the night with some really nice comeback victories.
The middle period (3-7) definitely had me questioning whether I wanted to continue, and mainly because of the following 3 game run that I came into 9-5:
- Game 1 - An 8-6 extra time loss, after I'd pulled it back from 6-4 down with 9 men, AND saved an 86th minute penalty. I was always on the back foot after the red cards but it was pretty demoralising to pull it back and still get beaten in extra time.
- Game 2 - A 3-0 loss, where I left after 30 minutes. My opponent was just miles better than me, and this would have been an utter spanking had I stuck with it.
- Game 3 - A 7-6 extra time loss, against one of those opponents that loves to have possession for possession's sake. Back and forth all game long, complete with pointless ball rolls. I always felt like I had the better of him, but I ballsed up in possession and let him equalise with virtually the last kick of the game. I took the lead in extra time... only to lose the game in the 116th minute thanks to Alex Teixeira somehow breaking through 2 great block tackles to score.
Thankfully, I kept going and rounded out the session well, getting my 14th win with a really nice comeback from 2-0 down to winning 4-2, all in the last 25 minutes.
Dybala and Owen were lethal throughout, with 30 and 26 goals respectively in the 23 matches played. I also managed to score 10 in a game twice this weekend.
I meant to add, I opened my red pick for hitting 10 wins last night, who would it be.... That's right! ANOTHER Marcos Llorente! My third this week.
I also did just one of the 82-88 upgrades for starters and out walked Handanovic. If I work on it, could grind my way to that Icon pack before it goes.