FIFA 20 Ultimate Team

Calvin · 27-03-2020 10:37pm

Beat a fella in champs that had a 6-7m squad with the likes of TOTY Trent, Kante, Alisson, POTM Neymar, FB Luiz & Sandro etc

Was 4-0 up at HT and finished 5-2 in the end. FFS Osimhen with 4 goals, love that card.

Hogey007 · 27-03-2020 11:13pm

Weekend league extended by 24 hours if it changes anyone’s mind about signing up

Calvin · 27-03-2020 11:46pm

Moments Ramos completed with all fodder from club! Still a handful of high rated left and a good few 83-85s... not too bad.

Btw anyone else having issues with connection tonight? Whenever I back out of the FUT champs menu, I’m not able to get back in as I’ve lost connection to FUT servers, but I’m still able to do SBCs, access market etc. Have to restart my PS4 to play again.

Hogey007 · 27-03-2020 11:58pm

Hogey007 wrote: »

Halfway through my 140 packs, including 2x 125k packs 2 x 100k packs and 15 55k packs and best thing I’ve got so far is a hunter chemistry item.......Jesus wept!!!!

Pack luck went a little differently in second half

Got an untradeable oblak.....nice, will save 90k or so on an sbc.

Then............Neymar!! Thank feck he’s tradeable.....sell him for 630k.

Very happy at this point but then this happens

Blazer · 28-03-2020 12:25am

Damn nice

Hogey007 · 28-03-2020 12:32am

Blazer wrote: »

Damn nice

Thanks man. I wasn’t even sure who was in the team so when I seen the French flag and that it was a fut birthday card I was going “oh please be sissoko”

Blazer · 28-03-2020 12:34am

Hogey007 wrote: »

Thanks man. I wasn’t even sure who was in the team so when I seen the French flag and that it was a fit birthday card I was going “oh please be sissoko”

is he tradeable or non- He's going for 3.5m on xbox or was earlier. thats only 500k less than this toty card which is nuts.

Hogey007 · 28-03-2020 12:44am

Blazer wrote: »

is he tradeable or non- He's going for 3.5m on xbox or was earlier. thats only 500k less than this toty card which is nuts.

Untradeable, I sold the toty version for 5.4 mil.
His fut birthday is 5 mil on ps4, the difference in key stats with finisher chem is very minimal and his fut birthday has the 5 star wf versus 4 star on toty.

I need to decide what to do with this unexpected windfall now

Calvin · 28-03-2020 12:45am

Hogey007 wrote: »

Untradeable, I sold the toty version for 5.4 mil.
His fut birthday is 5 mil on ps4, the difference in key stats with finisher chem is very minimal and his fut birthday has the 5 star wf versus 4 star on toty.

I need to decide what to do with this unexpected windfall now

Jesus, fair play. He looks unreal and card design is nice. Let us know how he plays!

Mr Moon · 28-03-2020 4:24am

Hogey007 wrote: »

I need to decide what to do with this unexpected windfall now

Will you touch me and pass on the luck, I’ve gone through 90% of my 60 odd packs and have had 1 walkout and 3 boards. Cavani, Banega, Burki & Borja Iglesias. Have the full prem SBC to submit tomorrow, hopefully my luck changes, is it too much to ask for some birthday cake?

WL was going well 4-0 and then game crashed as I scored a header, from a cross (I know, a header, I was shocked too as must’ve been the game) load the game back up and get the loss and the DNF message, currently at 5-1.

Hogey007 · 28-03-2020 11:34am

Mr Moon wrote: »

Will you touch me and pass on the luck, I’ve gone through 90% of my 60 odd packs and have had 1 walkout and 3 boards. Cavani, Banega, Burki & Borja Iglesias. Have the full prem SBC to submit tomorrow, hopefully my luck changes, is it too much to ask for some birthday cake?

WL was going well 4-0 and then game crashed as I scored a header, from a cross (I know, a header, I was shocked too as must’ve been the game) load the game back up and get the loss and the DNF message, currently at 5-1.

Oh I know the feeling, the first 120 packs I opened gave me nothing of note, an 84 as highest from a 125k, an 83 from next 125k, then an 82 from a 100k.
It was demoralizing but thankfully the last 20 packs I had gave me the big win, I never got a card worth over a million before from packs (outside of tots guaranteed) so couldn’t believe it

Frisbee · 28-03-2020 11:34am

Ended up with 171 packs saved. Opened 71 last night because I'm a sucker for a nice round number. Best pull was Fernandinho followed by UCL Akanji

Mr Moon · 28-03-2020 12:39pm

They should rename those Mega packs to sucky packs! Nothing but a load of useless sh!te in them.

Blazer · 28-03-2020 3:07pm

Changed my team around again. Using some new tactics allowed me to be a lot more fluid in front of goals but my weak cams were allowing my opponents to get back into the the game.
Brought in CR7 and totw Nainggollan and dropped Ruud and Ziyech.
Its hard on Ruud..he has 18 goals in 10 games with the new tactics but the CAMs behind him was allowing my opponents to take the ball of them and attack.
Will see how it goes.
Also I really need someone like Ballack to replace Essien or Gattuso. Both are excellent at what they do, but I have Essien on balanced and he's been in a load of positions to score goals that Ballack would easily convert and its costing me games also.

Gyan84 · 28-03-2020 3:20pm

6-2 now. First loss was on penalties after we both scored 4 and the game decided to let mbabu take my fifth instead of players like litmanen, barnes and toty trent :rolleyes:

Second loss was a guy playing one depth 4-2-3-1 with icons and a red Ronaldo. He pauses the game 3 times for the full duration and watches every cutscene. He scores and watches everything.

I equalize in the second half and what do I do ? Pass the ball between my defenders for the rest of the match and quit at 90 at 1-1 so he doesn't get the win. Pettiest thing I've ever done but it felt great to get back at time wasters in some small way :pac:

I'd never do it to someone playing normally but his pausing and refusal to bring one man forward for the 40 mins my center backs had the ball was insane.

Osmosis Jones · 28-03-2020 3:44pm

Had a shootout go past 10 last week and found out they've removed keepers from the penalty shootout rotation, how boring.

Osmosis Jones · 28-03-2020 4:13pm

Just checked through futbin and only 1 of the top 50 most expensive Icons in the game has been available this year through Icon Swaps, and it was the 50th most expensive at that, Base Zidane.

Calvin · 28-03-2020 5:29pm

Just came up against a real-life pro player! Stephen Sama, plays in the Eredivisie. Won 3-2 in champs.. had a nice conversation afterwards :pac: he was playing a 352 as well, actually a decent player too.

Mr Moon · 28-03-2020 7:57pm

Don’t feel too bad now, I packed Muniain earlier. Sold him for 214000.

Calvin · 28-03-2020 8:02pm

Just an FYI: if you score from a cross, it crashes the game. No idea why, and it doesn’t count as a win... lots have it on Twitter :pac:

Hogey007 · 28-03-2020 8:56pm

Calvin Leong wrote: »

Just an FYI: if you score from a cross, it crashes the game. No idea why, and it doesn’t count as a win... lots have it on Twitter :pac:

Can they do anything right!! I scored from a Werner cross and it didn’t crash the game but also didn’t count the cross on bellarabi objective.
It was a header so no disputing it was a cross and it showed the assist for Werner at the end of game.

But yeah seen about the crashing the game too, think it’s random and not every single time.

Mr Moon · 28-03-2020 8:57pm

Calvin Leong wrote: »

Just an FYI: if you score from a cross, it crashes the game. No idea why, and it doesn’t count as a win... lots have it on Twitter :pac:

That’s what happened my WL game last night.

Calvin · 28-03-2020 9:01pm

Mr Moon wrote: »

That’s what happened my WL game last night.

I’m afraid to play mine now :pac: currently 7-4 after a 0-3 start yesterday morning.

Ferris_Bueller · 28-03-2020 9:25pm

What are the best icon/PL right wing options? Currently changing between gold Salah and FS Daniel James but could probably upgrade. Problem is that a lot of icon wingers like mid Best seem like a fairly minor upgrade stats wise for what they cost. Has anyone used Figo/Best/Garrincha and able to compare them to Salah/James? Another option is to ditch the wingers altogether and go with a different formation.

Hogey007 · 28-03-2020 10:14pm

Calvin Leong wrote: »

Jesus, fair play. He looks unreal and card design is nice. Let us know how he plays!

Having used him in 20 matches today he’s as good as you’d expect. 26 goals and 12 assists.

I don’t really notice the minimal drop in stats from his toty version and for me, the 5 Star weak foot is more important.
His fut birthday version is actually slightly dearer now on ps4 than the toty card.

Blazer · 28-03-2020 10:17pm

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

What are the best icon/PL right wing options? Currently changing between gold Salah and FS Daniel James but could probably upgrade. Problem is that a lot of icon wingers like mid Best seem like a fairly minor upgrade stats wise for what they cost. Has anyone used Figo/Best/Garrincha and able to compare them to Salah/James? Another option is to ditch the wingers altogether and go with a different formation.

Figo would be the worst and not really an upgrade over James.
Best and Garrincha are far ahead of him. Which is a joke really. These players should really tell EA to sod off if theyr'e going to make a mockery of their cards.

Osmosis Jones · 28-03-2020 10:22pm

I used Base Garrincha for ages earlier in the year and loved him, but his in-game model has two legs of identical length so he's basically unusable.

Osmosis Jones · 28-03-2020 10:23pm

Blazer wrote: »

Figo would be the worst and not really an upgrade over James.
Best and Garrincha are far ahead of him. Which is a joke really. These players should really tell EA to sod off if theyr'e going to make a mockery of their cards.

Some players just really don't fit the meta certain years, pretty hilarious that one of the biggest new Icons this year is Drogba, in a year where heading and physicality and complete non-factors.

Blazer · 28-03-2020 10:25pm

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Some players just really don't fit the meta certain years, pretty hilarious that one of the biggest new Icons this year is Drogba, in a year where heading and physicality and complete non-factors.

yep have to laugh at it..last year my potm Hazard was beating Van Dijk for far post headers lol.

Gyan84 · 28-03-2020 10:26pm

Finished up 8-2 which is pretty good considering I've never finished above gold 2.

Oddly enough I couldn't score from a cross to save my life :pac: Had 3 perfect crosses from toty trent result in wonder saves or rattled posts.

At the point now where the lower tier icons I have are the weakest part of my team which is annoying. Found base Rijkaard far too clunky so using the shapeshifter Acuna as my dm instead.

Wish there was some sort of upgrade sbc where you could submit an icon you got from the first/second swaps batch plus some high rated squads and get his prime.

Blazer · 28-03-2020 10:29pm

I submitted a lot of my higher rated cards like shapeshifter Acuna as he didnt 'suit my team's style of play into the mid icon and got Essien which I was happy with.
But now with my new tactics I actually need Acuna who's shooting skills are higher than Essiens.
Oh the irony of it

Osmosis Jones · 28-03-2020 10:31pm

Really hope we get a good SBC soon or I'll be submitting that KdB into another Mid Icon pack, so far the two Birthday SBCs have been so dull.

Blazer · 28-03-2020 11:02pm

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Really hope we get a good SBC soon or I'll be submitting that KdB into another Mid Icon pack, so far the two Birthday SBCs have been so dull.

sobs quietly into my hands

Osmosis Jones · 28-03-2020 11:06pm

What ever happened to End of Era cards? We've only gotten 2 all year (Villa, Schweinsteiger) despite massive players like Casillas and De Rossi also announcing their retirements.

Blazer · 28-03-2020 11:08pm

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

What ever happened to End of Era cards? We've only gotten 2 all year (Villa, Schweinsteiger) despite massive players like Casillas and De Rossi also announcing their retirements.

i thought they were released last year. for fifa 19? No it was a flasback card for Rossi.

Osmosis Jones · 28-03-2020 11:10pm

Blazer wrote: »

i thought they were released last year. for fifa 19?

Just checked, they both got Flashbacks last year and De Rossi got an EoE in 18 for leaving Roma.

Blazer · 28-03-2020 11:11pm

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Just checked, they both got Flashbacks last year and De Rossi got an EoE in 18 for leaving Roma.

ah fifa 18...wish they just released that again...**** the upgrades.

Calvin · 28-03-2020 11:12pm

According to the FUT birthday article that EA posted, we’re supposedly getting a “flashback” FUT birthday card to a previous fan favourite.

Osmosis Jones · 28-03-2020 11:15pm

Calvin Leong wrote: »

According to the FUT birthday article that EA posted, we’re supposedly getting a “flashback” FUT birthday card to a previous fan favourite.

Going by the theme of 5* Skills and WF for this promo maybe someone like Nani or Taarabt?

Blazer · 28-03-2020 11:17pm

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Going by the theme of 5* Skills and WF for this promo maybe someone like Nani or Taarabt?

awesome..another SBC i can ignore.
I'm betting Martial....

Osmosis Jones · 28-03-2020 11:23pm

Also speaking of EoE cards I really feel like they should be permanent SBCs, I mean this is often literally the last time these players will be in FIFA, you should be given more than 3 days to do their SBCs.

Calvin · 29-03-2020 12:32am

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Going by the theme of 5* Skills and WF for this promo maybe someone like Nani or Taarabt?

Potentially... or maybe a return of Alessandrini :pac:

Blazer · 29-03-2020 1:34am

I’m liking that moments Nainggolan card with hunter. 6 goals in 2 games. That extra bit of strength is exactly what I needed in the cam role. CR7 felt like a lumbering idiot so I had seen one guy comment that sniper made a world of difference. Didn’t have a sniper but threw artist on him and by god it made a difference to him for the next game. With the extra passing himself and Nain just split defences.
Will try him out for a few more games and see.

Osmosis Jones · 29-03-2020 2:26am

Blazer wrote: »

I’m liking that moments Nainggolan card with hunter. 6 goals in 2 games. That extra bit of strength is exactly what I needed in the cam role. CR7 felt like a lumbering idiot so I had seen one guy comment that sniper made a world of difference. Didn’t have a sniper but threw artist on him and by god it made a difference to him for the next game. With the extra passing himself and Nain just split defences.
Will try him out for a few more games and see.

I use Engine on Ronaldo, it's the only chem style that gives a +10 to Balance which is his one bad stat.

Calvin · 29-03-2020 2:55am

Finished the night 10-5 from a 0-4 start Friday morning... not too bad. Went on a 10 game win streak and foiled just now by an elite 3 player. Absolutely dominated with Prime Henry and IF Ronaldo... just the 4 wins left to get tomorrow, hopefully won’t be too hard!

Osmosis Jones · 29-03-2020 2:58am

Eusebio's a joke

Blazer · 29-03-2020 11:08am

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

I use Engine on Ronaldo, it's the only chem style that gives a +10 to Balance which is his one bad stat.

Yeah I’ve always used engine on him but the increase in agility seems to give him a better boost. I must try it out for another few games and see.

Frisbee · 29-03-2020 12:00pm

Frisbee wrote: »

Ended up with 171 packs saved. Opened 71 last night because I'm a sucker for a nice round number. Best pull was Fernandinho followed by UCL Akanji

Up to 120 packs opened now with only Benzema & Thiago to add to this. Every time I do this it just reinforces to me how idiotic it would be to buy packs.

Unless you are Osmosis of course who would prob get FUT Birthday Mbappe and Sissoko from a Jumbo Gold Pack.

Blazer · 29-03-2020 12:10pm

Frisbee wrote: »

Up to 120 packs opened now with only Benzema & Thiago to add to this. Every time I do this it just reinforces to me how idiotic it would be to buy packs.

Unless you are Osmosis of course who would prob get FUT Birthday Mbappe and Sissoko from a Jumbo Gold Pack.

Do you buy packs? I do at least once a month bigger fool me.
I bet Osmosis doesnt'. The theory is EA have a weighting for each user when opening packs (this is easily done in a sql/oracle databases) and people who haven't spent money on the game have a higher weighting thus leading to better rewards in the hope it entices them to spend money to get better rewards.
And those that spend money regularly get a lower rating as they're basically sucked into the game anyway and EA know they will buy fifa points anyway.
And this could be a dynamic setting based on how often users spend money. Its a simple setup and basic maths. I've done far more complicated stuff in databases with maths and users spending so again no hassle for EA.

No one has ever proved it..but users who have jumped to another platform for fifa all get higher rewards. I jumped to PC last year and got crazy rewards last year. In 10 years of playing fifa not one icon. But jump to pc last year got me 3.
Same if I skip a month for fifa points....the packs I then open get higher rewards.

Calvin · 29-03-2020 12:52pm

Blazer wrote: »

Do you buy packs? I do at least once a month bigger fool me.
I bet Osmosis doesnt'. The theory is EA have a weighting for each user when opening packs (this is easily done in a sql/oracle databases) and people who haven't spent money on the game have a higher weighting thus leading to better rewards in the hope it entices them to spend money to get better rewards.
And those that spend money regularly get a lower rating as they're basically sucked into the game anyway and EA know they will buy fifa points anyway.
And this could be a dynamic setting based on how often users spend money. Its a simple setup and basic maths. I've done far more complicated stuff in databases with maths and users spending so again no hassle for EA.

No one has ever proved it..but users who have jumped to another platform for fifa all get higher rewards. I jumped to PC last year and got crazy rewards last year. In 10 years of playing fifa not one icon. But jump to pc last year got me 3.
Same if I skip a month for fifa points....the packs I then open get higher rewards.

100% think this is true. Played PES for 3 weeks/a month and came back to FIFA, opened MM packs from that week and got 3 back to back walkouts 88+.

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