Neuer, Szczesny, Chiellini, Veratti and Mertens.
Came out about even from the pack value.
I did get IF Messi Lingard from a PP though
Neuer, Szczesny, Chiellini, Veratti and Mertens.
Came out about even from the pack value.
I did get IF Messi Lingard from a PP though
Came up against a guy with a Bundesliga side so I thought I'd be kind. I move my keeper to let him score an outside of the box goal.
What does he do?
Pauses me ofc.
I carry on and he's sweating so hard to stop me from scoring outside the box (he also makes it 3-0 and pauses me again) but thankfully Sancho smashes one in. He ends up making it 6-2 as I'm on constant pressure trying to win and he pauses again whilst also doing that shit half macarena celebration.
He also spent ages time wasting after I scored my outside of the box goal as he was scared I'd batter him.
Seething.
Really wish I hadn't given that cunt an outside of the box goal.
Did a few 81+PP and got CL Pogba, Lloris and some other mooks. Very tempted to just spooge all my coins into these
8-4 start to the weekend, decent enough as I was content only to just make sure to score in 14 games as it’ll land my milestones ultimate pack this weekend. Two games to go...
I ended up with the TOTW cards Lingard, Muriel, Daka and Pereira from them earlier. Not bad at all.
No dupe in my Prime/PIM pack but it was brutal.
Prime Michael Laudrup who goes for 160k. That's a lot of time and effort wasted for fuck all.
At least my first owner Icon squad has another option off the bench.
Lille won 2-0 so WI Weah is getting upgraded
85 Chiellini from the Ultimate Pack. Not even any 84s. Seething.
I've decided to punish myself today and am working towards the Championship and St Paddys objectives at once.
In the unlikely event anyone hasnt done these the "Advancing Attack" SBC under the "Let's move forward" foundation SBC gives a guaranteed TOTW. Its 82 Dolberg but certainly worth it.
Dzeko and Neres showdowns too
They both like good cards.
That Neres looks like I'm going to see him come the 65th minute of every WL game.
He is a tempting temping one. I do love an Eredivise card
Launching Caputo into Dzeko is tempting too. 5* WF. Unreal finishing and ridiculous dribbling with an engine.
Only 3* skills though, and he's lanky so won't be very good, despite the stats.
I’ll be doing that Neres to replace Robben with his link to Klaiber. Perfect for me. I’ve been playing Diatta and De Sciglio in place of Klaiber-Robben this weekend and they’re both very good, but Klaiber is pretty perfect.
I feel we've suffered with SBC prices since Klaiber came out. He was made far too cheap. Luckily he was the first to break that meta back line by challenging Walker. He also has the Physical to make him outstanding at CB too.
I was feeling like I wanted to do Zambrotta as he looks very good, but this Klaiber talk made me look and just for RBs I already have Klaiber, Tav, Mbabu, Bender and De Sciglio. Seems a bit foolish now looking at that.
Just imagine how ridiculous Klaiber would have been if Ajax had won
The flip side is that this year, more than any other year, the SBC ‘price’ isn’t what most are paying - the currency is time, not coins. I’m so much as that this version is shitting high rated cards and big packs in exchange for grinding SBCs and games, and more packs from SBCs are untradeable than ever. That’s helped keep top players expensive for those that need them for SBCs, but I would imagine anyone with the time to grind is getting these guys with largely untradeable grind players.
Got as far as 10-5 without feeling drained this weekend. Since then, just constant narrow 41212 slog where there’s 3 stay back mids and they attack with the front 3 on the counter. 12-7 now, feeling the slog.
I'm still on 1-0 and I don't think I can be bothered.
100%
I mean Yev takes this to extreme. He has pretty much has his choice of any SBC since November without spending actual coins on maybe 1 or 2 players in it for chemistry reasons. He has it to an art form now.
However even someone like me. I'd say up until the end of last year I had always been a bit daft with my club. All the big SBCs I wanted were done from coins and I always took coins in my rewards and turned my nose up at upgrade packs.
Now in the last week or so I've completed Vidal, Sanches and Reus. That's about 1.7m worth of SBC players give or take on PlayStation. Yes I've put some Objective players in but I've spent less than 100k and have also pretty much gained most of it back through the packs back.
The only thing my squad misses right now is a proper keeper. Maybe some Brazilian forward type too...
Started on the Weekend League using the squad below with 2 changes. Gold Burki in goal, he's my only full chem keeper in the club and I've put Bender in over Boateng.
Boateng did start the first 4 games, but I kept facing those who quickly ping the passes between a front 2/3, he suffers with his low acceleration.
Early thoughts. That midfield pairing is just unfair. I tend to play 4-4-2 with Sanches LM and Aouar RM with Deco in the centre but in every game pretty much, Deco has gone off at half time and Sanches has moved to the middle. I also decided to stump up 315k on a fresh Neymar as his price was crashing. He's been the one coming on to play LM. He has 8 and in 4 in his 7 games.
I've been scoring for fun with this. 4+ in all but 1 game. The goals seem to be spreading nicely around now after Messi was finished hogging them all. I find myself 7-1. The defeat was a 4-3 loss in which I just kept hitting the woodwork. I'm still unsure how I actually lost.
I don't like the full backs at all. I have mine set to get forward and neither have an assist or goal yet. Quite disappointing, but currently I need them for chemistry.
Moments Pirlo, Campbell and Drogba SBCs out and they're full on taking the piss with the price of the latter 2.
All of those new Icon SBCs are shit. Just release some decent players people actually want, FFS
Drogba with an engine looks immense. The requirements are horseshit though.
He'll just be like Lewandoski/Kluivert etc - all the stats in place but shite in game apart from finishing
On the Merse/Fox discussion it's absolutely true that you can do all of these SBC's with time, but the wall I've hit is do I really want to be putting that much time in and do they actually make my team that much better? The answers sadly are no and no.
I'm excited for a no transfer market play through, as that will end the never-ending and horrifically time consuming League SBC/Player Pick grind, should make objective players relevant and make it special when I can stretch the club enough to get someone like a Renato Sanches/Messi in, but I'm not sure I can be arsed to start that now.
This where I am and it likely explains why I'm having a great time with the game at the moment. I feel like my playing the game way has paid off and these players are a joy to use.
Unfortunately for you, with how stacked your club has come to be there's little in the way of upgrades on offer to you until either A) We get the Icons we actually want to see in SBCs or B) TOTS hits.
Back to the Icons. It's a shame we didn't get Pirlo like this in say December. I'd have loved to get him in, even for a sentimental start as I loved him as a player(save for May of 2007). As it is now, I imagine him coming up against my midfield of Vidal and Sanches to not end well for him.
There's a balance to be struck, the question for me is less about how they improve your team as much as whether they fulfil what you're looking for from the game. If you wanna horde cards, or play with multiple line ups and have the perfect big players to drop into MM games for any given requirement, then that's fulfilling in itself.
Either way, I like what EA have done, albeit as usual the community at large seems to view it negatively, U aV GIveN uS 2 maNy GaMEs 2 PlaY! EA do play a part in this though, as they trade off of FOMO.
For me, I'll not be in much for a while. Hit a bad place over the past week in terms of my mental wellbeing, in a way I haven't for perhaps a decade, and FIFA grinding isn't a good place for me with that in mind, particularly as I play mostly late at night and one of the things I'm really struggling with is my sleep.
On a positive, I'm exiting with this, with no Fifa pts spent and 2 spells of playing for about 8 weeks each, with a bloody great gap in the middle:
On 100 chem, with Camavinga, Diatta and de Sciglio on 8 chem. Alternatively, Klaiber at RB on. 10, and Robben at LM on 10.
Wright is a great one touch finisher, albeit his passing lets him down. Mbappe is just perfect, a provider with his great passing for Wright and still more lethal as well. Took me a while to get going with him but he's up from 10 goals in 15 to 93 in 62 now.
Stacked bench too, FB Lucas normally comes on at RM, with Dest at LB and Klaiber at RB on 60 mins as my full backs get a proper workout.
Last edited by The Merse; 12-04-2021 at 10:22 AM.
Moments Saul (85 and 86) with a 24 (!) pace boost.
They have made him a RM.
He's pretty perfect for a 3-5-2 RM/RB kinda role if you stick an Anchor on him. I'm out of fodder, otherwise I'd definitely consider him.
Neymar's abysmal finishing ruining my chance of an upgraded Kehrer
@Merse everything okay mate?
I never did do a WL post mortem so here goes. I ended up 14-3. The midfield and attack pretty much is perfect for me, but the defence is... off. De Sciglio is just not a full back. He has no presence going forwards. Gunter is a bit better but he's not quite got the dribbling. I also paid out 315k to put Neymar on my bench. Oh boy is he fun. The plan was to sell him back. I bought him Sunday evening as I expected that to be his cheapest point. Turns out I was wrong. He's been down as low as 285k since.
I was going to sell to do Kehrer before he expired at 6, but the 35k loss of coins put me off. Looks like by the PSG game the right call was made.
I'm hoping to sell if he gets near 320k again and crossing my fingers that my rewards allow me to do Neres. He doesn't have the 5* WF but looks great value otherwise. I don't expect an upgrade here but he looks great even without it. If rewards are crap I'll likely just keep Neymar. I do however need a better keeper.
I've since dropped into Rivals and now find myself hanging around 21xx skill rating quite comfortably. I've also switched back to out swinging corners this weekend and I've scored a fair few goals from them. Not just the conventional way either. Here's my two finest efforts:
Yeh it’s on the up. There’ve been a few moments I’ve been noticeably down since Xmas really, but it turned into full on melancholia over the past couple of weeks. The missus has been working her arse off this year after her industry (Film) shutdown for much of 2020 and its left me on my lonesome a heck of a lot - she’s out 12-15 hours a day, obviously that’s like many, and usually I’m cool with (I’m an only child, I need the space much of the time) but I think the combo of that and feeling really very much caged in and work being utter toss tipped me over. Which then I feel guilty about being in so much better a situation than most. Had a bit of reflection over the weekend and spent time Sunday/Monday talking to the missus and the (very supportive) boss and got myself in a more positive state as it is.
But, as I say when struggling with sleep and purpose, Fifa for me isn’t a positive thing, the grind/fomo becomes pernicious.
Oh and also @Gray Fox, I get what you mean about De Sciglio. Klaiber, Dest and Davies all wipe the floor with him in attack, which is a shame as he's very decent defensively. The work rate and attacking positioning I think is the issue.But, he did let me field Diatta, who is beastly.
Playing these rivals games for icon swaps has seen me get back up to Div 2. I really need to throw some games. Rewards were terrible. IF Paredes and 5k coin unlock the best.
Nep’s video on today’s content summing up everyone’s thoughts.
Decided to see how rewards went as I had one eye on that Icon SBC. From my 2 x Ultimate packs, 4 Megas and the 50k pack I got 1 x 85 and that was fucking it.
I even struggled to do Neres with what it gave out('mon Ajax). Quite the buzzkill after last week.
You could well be right. The crap positioning combined with odd workrates for a RB kills it for me. He is however a very good CB.
+1 for Dzeko and Neres. Everyone’s a winner.
A shame as Ajax were on top for a lot of that.
Boras putting Base R9 into the Prime Icon upgrade is sickening.
EA gods punished him for it by giving him the Prime Zola.
The passing and Stamina boost on Neres looks lovely. I did have a finisher on him but I’m not sure that isn’t a waste looking at him there.
A great shame Roma scored. He’d have been 90+ in everything important.