Gaming FIFA 17

Just qualified for the next weekend league it's my first one, thought I'd give it a go.

Qualifying was easy won all my games comfortably. Hopefully I'll go far in it and it's worth it.

My team is amazing and so much fun to use makes playing FIFA UT fun again.
 
Feck this game. I've lost 11 out of my last 12 games and some of them have been infuriating, now it feels like my players are twice slower, cannot string three passes together. Final straw was Iniesta winning a header against Bonucci - WHAT
 
I've just changed to a 352 and I love it. Aguero and Sturridge up top together is unbelievable. Currently struggling to decide whether to have Rooney or Silva behind them but so far it's worked perfectly and won 10 on the bounce. Need to qualify for the weekend league now to try it out against top opposition this weekend
 
P-Nut0712 said:
I've just changed to a 352 and I love it. Aguero and Sturridge up top together is unbelievable. Currently struggling to decide whether to have Rooney or Silva behind them but so far it's worked perfectly and won 10 on the bounce. Need to qualify for the weekend league now to try it out against top opposition this weekend
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Just started FUT a few weeks ago, entered my first WL last week, got to gold 2, auto qualified for this weekend just gone WL, was so shit but still made gold 3. In fairness I'm using this as my first team squad. :lol:

https://www.futbin.com/17/squad/660301
 
DatIrishFella said:
Just started FUT a few weeks ago, entered my first WL last week, got to gold 2, auto qualified for this weekend just gone WL, was so shit but still made gold 3. In fairness I'm using this as my first team squad. :lol:

https://www.futbin.com/17/squad/660301
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Yeah that squad is mad. I can't be bothered making a graphic but my squad at the minute is.

Butland
Smalling Bailly Alderweireld
Kante Herrera
Willian Rooney Martial
Aguero Sturridge

I'm loving it at the minute but can see me struggling against the better players
 
I injured Lukaku in career with a bad tackle. You could actually see his ankle bend really badly in the replay. I'd bid on him to use as a backup striker and received an email from Everton saying he was out with a broken ankle for 3 months. Thought that was pretty good.
 
@DatIrishFella @P-Nut0712

How exactly does weekend league work? As I said it'll be my first one this weekend. I played the daily knockout this morning to qualify and it was actually quite easy to win those games. Also how many wins do you need to get those red/silver FUT cards as a reward, they look really nice.

Do you get the rewards after each weekend or at the end of the month. How far do you think I could go in it too considering I'm a div 2/3 standard player?
 
dannyrhinos89 said:
@DatIrishFella @P-Nut0712

How exactly does weekend league work? As I said it'll be my first one this weekend. I played the daily knockout this morning to qualify and it was actually quite easy to win those games. Also how many wins do you need to get those red/silver FUT cards as a reward, they look really nice.

Do you get the rewards after each weekend or at the end of the month. How far do you think I could go in it too considering I'm a div 2/3 standard player?
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You have to play at least 5 games over the weekend to get the rewards and they are usually available around Wednesday night UK. You can play up to 40 games and the more you win the better your rewards. If you type weekend league rewards into Google there is a site that gives a full breakdown into what each level gets.

I don't know what division I would be on this one as I haven't bothered working my way up them yet but I usually stay in div 1 winning it every so often on the previous fifa's. I normally finish in gold 1 but haven't made it to elite yet :mad:
 
P-Nut0712 said:
You have to play at least 5 games over the weekend to get the rewards and they are usually available around Wednesday night UK. You can play up to 40 games and the more you win the better your rewards. If you type weekend league rewards into Google there is a site that gives a full breakdown into what each level gets.

I don't know what division I would be on this one as I haven't bothered working my way up them yet but I usually stay in div 1 winning it every so often on the previous fifa's. I normally finish in gold 1 but haven't made it to elite yet :mad:
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Ok thanks just checked out the site, Im going to aim for gold 3 I think this time round, so there's 40 games then to get as far as possible up the ranks, I should (hopefully) be able to win 50% of my games at the very least.

Also which rank do you have to get to to unlock those silver/red special cards? Just looking at the monthly rewards and there's 200 possible games to play who on earth could do that? I've not even played 200 games since FIFA 17 was realeased :rolleyes:
 
dannyrhinos89 said:
Ok thanks just checked out the site, Im going to aim for gold 3 I think this time round, so there's 40 games then to get as far as possible up the ranks, I should (hopefully) be able to win 50% of my games at the very least.

Also which rank do you have to get to to unlock those silver/red special cards? Just looking at the monthly rewards and there's 200 possible games to play who on earth could do that? I've not even played 200 games since FIFA 17 was realeased :rolleyes:
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They normally come in the monthly rewards and you only need to hit gold 3 to get 3 of them.
 
P-Nut0712 said:
They normally come in the monthly rewards and you only need to hit gold 3 to get 3 of them.
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So 70+ wins from 200 games according to the site. Sounds fairly achievable actually but I've already missed a weekend this month so I'll have see where I get the month and start fresh December
 
I am starting to believe the momentum conspiracy. Literally NOTHING happening for me online - I don't get a penalty even if my player is killed, opposition get penalty for every touch, my defenders part when the striker comes, Mahrez feels 20kg overweight and Vardy is slower than Mertesacker. What a load of shite. I have lost maybe 18 of the last 20 games after doing very well previously.
 
Sarni said:
I am starting to believe the momentum conspiracy. Literally NOTHING happening for me online - I don't get a penalty even if my player is killed, opposition get penalty for every touch, my defenders part when the striker comes, Mahrez feels 20kg overweight and Vardy is slower than Mertesacker. What a load of shite. I have lost maybe 18 of the last 20 games after doing very well previously.
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Momentum swings both ways so I highly doubt you had bad momentum for those 20 games. We have to accept this is part of FIFA so you have to manage this when momentum is against you.

For instance if you go 2-0 up EA will try and feck you over and swing momentum against you especially at the 45 min or 90 min mark. You have to defend for your lives around this time and keep the ball.

Try bronze benching to keep your team rating lower or if you're on a losing streak just have a break for a few hours and come back fresh. Playing with wingers has really helped me open up defences.
 
SSSSnake said:
Momentum swings both ways so I highly doubt you had bad momentum for those 20 games. We have to accept this is part of FIFA so you have to manage this when momentum is against you.

For instance if you go 2-0 up EA will try and feck you over and swing momentum against you especially at the 45 min or 90 min mark. You have to defend for your lives around this time and keep the ball.

Try bronze benching to keep your team rating lower or if you're on a losing streak just have a break for a few hours and come back fresh. Playing with wingers has really helped me open up defences.
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Whenever commentators says 2-0 is a dangerous lead during a real football match, I roll my eyes but feck, does it ever apply to Fifa.

If they manage to pull one back, you're pretty much up shit creek.
 
Tony Martial is bloody rapid down the left wing. Shame his finishing seems to brutal (possibly mine though...)
 
Division 1 in FUT.

raw
 
SSSSnake said:
Momentum swings both ways so I highly doubt you had bad momentum for those 20 games. We have to accept this is part of FIFA so you have to manage this when momentum is against you.

For instance if you go 2-0 up EA will try and feck you over and swing momentum against you especially at the 45 min or 90 min mark. You have to defend for your lives around this time and keep the ball.

Try bronze benching to keep your team rating lower or if you're on a losing streak just have a break for a few hours and come back fresh. Playing with wingers has really helped me open up defences.
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I don't think this works. I just tried a full silver (74 rated) 100 chem team for a laugh and it matched me with an 85 rated EPL team with POTM Hazard and POTM Costa.
 
Sarni said:
Feck this game. I've lost 11 out of my last 12 games and some of them have been infuriating, now it feels like my players are twice slower, cannot string three passes together. Final straw was Iniesta winning a header against Bonucci - WHAT
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I'm sure the actual game decides you're going to go on a bad run during Ultimate team, like you great players seem to turn to shite and can't string a pass together. I think the game decides for you, it doesn't matter how many efforts you have, the team it want's to win, will win.

Maybe it's to encourage you to buy more packs.
 
Devil81 said:
I'm sure the actual game decides you're going to go on a bad run during Ultimate team, like you great players seem to turn to shite and can't string a pass together. I think the game decides for you, it doesn't matter how many efforts you have, the team it want's to win, will win.

Maybe it's to encourage you to buy more packs.
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But I'm not even playing Ultimate Team. Got better recently and am W2 L3 now in Division 5 but it's still crap.
 
Devil81 said:
I'm sure the actual game decides you're going to go on a bad run during Ultimate team, like you great players seem to turn to shite and can't string a pass together. I think the game decides for you, it doesn't matter how many efforts you have, the team it want's to win, will win.

Maybe it's to encourage you to buy more packs.
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100%.

My Vardy with nearly 70% energy left got left for dead by my opponents Vardy with barely 20% energy yesterday and his Vardy was dribbling with the ball. Mental.
 
Finally some good run, three wins in a row and 3 goals scored in each of them. I like Leicester, usually paired against average teams (played against Feyenoord, Fenerbahce and Olympiakos in my last three) where the opposition is not able to just fluke a win by giving the ball to 91-rated superstar who is a semi-automatic weapon. Good bench too with Musa and Amartey. Need 4 points in my final two games to get back to Division 4.

I love how everytime I take 4.5-star team there is a 50% chance I play United, City or PSG who are all five stars, but whenever I take United it's Bayern, Real Madrid or Barcelona by default.
 
TOTGS Gundogan in a Prime Players Pack from a really cheap Marquee Matchup SBC :D
 
@P-Nut0712

So I did my first weekend league, got to gold 2 but my God....the matches are all try hard as hell I swear I was getting matched up against some top 100 players as I couldn't get near some of them. I started 13-3 all was great then something changed and after that I ended up 23-17 :(

Not sure I can do it every weekend
 
dannyrhinos89 said:
@P-Nut0712

So I did my first weekend league, got to gold 2 but my God....the matches are all try hard as hell I swear I was getting matched up against some top 100 players as I couldn't get near some of them. I started 13-3 all was great then something changed and after that I ended up 23-17 :(

Not sure I can do it every weekend
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I missed it this weekend and only managed to play 6 games but won 5 of them.

That change you talk about happens to me every time. I think it might be to do with playing the level of player you are predicted to end up in. So when your record indicates say elite 2 you play others that are indicated to finish around there.

It's either that or scripting for me as it happens every single week without fail.
 
P-Nut0712 said:
I missed it this weekend and only managed to play 6 games but won 5 of them.

That change you talk about happens to me every time. I think it might be to do with playing the level of player you are predicted to end up in. So when your record indicates say elite 2 you play others that are indicated to finish around there.

It's either that or scripting for me as it happens every single week without fail.
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Well I was predicted gold 1 through most of it so if it does match you up against similar quality then I was punching way above my weight as I was struggling big time.

Video games are meant to be fun but that was anything but fun it felt like a chore.
 
dannyrhinos89 said:
Well I was predicted gold 1 through most of it so if it does match you up against similar quality then I was punching way above my weight as I was struggling big time.

Video games are meant to be fun but that was anything but fun it felt like a chore.
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Yeah it's an absolute slog to get through it. I normally manage to get predicted to elite 2 and then slowly drop down step by step as I lose more and more the further I go on.
 
Quite amazing that after that horrid run I got back to back promotions from Division 5 to 3, and have 3 games to win 2 points to confirm Division 4 title now (5-2-0). Been playing with Spurs a lot lately, really good and balanced team. I think I have 13 wins in my last 17 and got from a very negative win ratio to 56-33-52.
 
Managed gold 1 this weekend but again what a slog. After December I'm definitely taking a break. 40 games is too much. So tired of breaking down park the bus and counter attack teams. People are such pussies.
 
So I started keeping a record of my games because I was pissed off with how many late points dropped.

The last 24 games I've played I've dropped points in the 88th minute onwards 18 times. I've won 2 out of 24 games. This game isn't fun anymore.
 
Pexbo said:
So I started keeping a record of my games because I was pissed off with how many late points dropped.

The last 24 games I've played I've dropped points in the 88th minute onwards 18 times. I've won 2 out of 24 games. This game isn't fun anymore.
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I went through similar rough patch where I lost 80% of my games and could not stop conceding. Now I'm going through a patch where I cannot concede and I win 80% of my games.
 
Kraftwerker said:
Do you mess around the defensive/offensive settings much?
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I've tried it all. Put two fresh centre backs and a defensive midfielder on and parked the bus, put Lukaku on and tried to hold the ball up with him. Had them cover, had them high pressure and tried possession.

So many times my player has made a sloppy 5 yard pass or inexplicably put it out for a throw in before they have some sort of force field stopping me getting close enough to tackle or stepping out to leave a 2vs1 situation with my GK.

The annoying thing is I can feel it happen and say to myself... "here it comes...yep".
 
Pexbo said:
I've tried it all. Put two fresh centre backs and a defensive midfielder on and parked the bus, put Lukaku on and tried to hold the ball up with him. Had them cover, had them high pressure and tried possession.

So many times my player has made a sloppy 5 yard pass or inexplicably put it out for a throw in before they have some sort of force field stopping me getting close enough to tackle or stepping out to leave a 2vs1 situation with my GK.

The annoying thing is I can feel it happen and say to myself... "here it comes...yep".
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I used to have this problem (it's mostly a mental thing, alongside 90th minute being the longest minute, etc.) but the more I played the less it happened. I do tend to play a pretty scummy brand of FIFA, using park the bus etc. but it usually works. Keep getting used to passing around the back and keeping composure. It is very easy to run down the clock in this game when you have the ball. Switching from LB -> RB, 1-touch passing in the midfield are very difficult to get the ball back from. If your opponent is pressing you high, long through balls usually help you get in behind them quite easily. If they are standing off you, just keep making simple passes until they start to press.
 
Pexbo said:
So I started keeping a record of my games because I was pissed off with how many late points dropped.

The last 24 games I've played I've dropped points in the 88th minute onwards 18 times. I've won 2 out of 24 games. This game isn't fun anymore.
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I´ve played close to 100 games online and have only lost 5 matches it´s something like 74 - 21 - 5..
I won my first 50 but after that came a patch where I didn´t win a game lost 5 in a row an drew 20 or something. but after that I´ve won 20 plus and drew one..
It´s a strange game this Fifa..
 
arthurka said:
I´ve played close to 100 games online and have only lost 5 matches it´s something like 74 - 21 - 5..
I won my first 50 but after that came a patch where I didn´t win a game lost 5 in a row an drew 20 or something. but after that I´ve won 20 plus and drew one..
It´s a strange game this Fifa..
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That seems mental. What's your ranking?

What mode do you play?
 
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