Gaming FIFA 18 Ultimate Team

A newbie PMed me and asked about the market and if/when prices are going down? He’s doing the last step in the Costa SBC and doesn’t want to finish off while the prices are so high. I don’t really pay attention to the market. Anyone here who can help him?
The market was just way down because of TOTY and is back up now with it being done. Pretty sure there won't be any significant crash from here on in until TOTS starts coming. Just slow gradual drops.
 
Jesus is absolutely broken. In fact, many of the PL players are. Jesus, Martial, Bakayoko and Valencia off the top of my head

Yep, have all 4 apart from Valencia. I swear some of Jesus's long shots are glitches or something. 40 yards out and he's thumping them in the top corner.
 
Planning to sell my team and get lots of packs. I totally suck at it.

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Decided to qualify for the WL again this week, hopefully this time it actually works. Or maybe I should hope it doesn't to keep me from the stress. Either way, I just want to give myself a little boost in coins before the OTW cards come out so I can hopefully try and get Sanchez. Can see him costing well over 1mil to start though because of the hype, even Lukaku was fecking over 1mil in October and now he's 440k :lol:
Actually yeah I doubt I'll be able to afford OTW Sanchez because of the hype even if I sell my 2nd team and De Gea and some randoms. Could put me at over 1mil and probably still not enough. Should be a 89 card but any in form would put him to 92 because he already has 2 with Arsenal.

Anyone know when his actual transferred to United card comes out? Might as well just get that instead.
 
Decided to qualify for the WL again this week, hopefully this time it actually works. Or maybe I should hope it doesn't to keep me from the stress. Either way, I just want to give myself a little boost in coins before the OTW cards come out so I can hopefully try and get Sanchez. Can see him costing well over 1mil to start though because of the hype, even Lukaku was fecking over 1mil in October and now he's 440k :lol:
Actually yeah I doubt I'll be able to afford OTW Sanchez because of the hype even if I sell my 2nd team and De Gea and some randoms. Could put me at over 1mil and probably still not enough. Should be a 89 card but any in form would put him to 92 because he already has 2 with Arsenal.

Anyone know when his actual transferred to United card comes out? Might as well just get that instead
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Don't know, but why would you buy that? It's going to cost way more than his identical (in tems of stats) Arsenal card.
 
Don't know, but why would you buy that? It's going to cost way more than his identical (in tems of stats) Arsenal card.
Shouldn't be that much more.. Coutinho's Barca card is only 3k more then his Liverpool card. Obviously will be like 150k for the first few days but it'll go down pretty quickly IMO. Probably only about 10k more then his Arsenal card. Little things like getting his United card over Arsenal card are probably worth it for me, especially if I move away from an almost full United team (another reason to get his United card) to only a few players, then he'd have a full link with any United players I keep.
 
Shouldn't be that much more.. Coutinho's Barca card is only 3k more then his Liverpool card. Obviously will be like 150k for the first few days but it'll go down pretty quickly IMO. Probably only about 10k more then his Arsenal card. Little things like getting his United card over Arsenal card are probably worth it for me, especially if I move away from an almost full United team (another reason to get his United card) to only a few players, then he'd have a full link with any United players I keep.

sanchez man utd card will stay 30-50k more than the arsenal one. No-one gives a feck about arsenal.
 
So hyped to finally get 90 Gullit.

I've never been more excited to use a player.
Yeah he should be pretty broken. Though I don't think he'll be a one man team as he doesn't play in attack and people will be extremely eager to close him down at all times. But still, it's fecking 90 Gullit. Enjoy him man.
 
How does this play now? Not really played in a good 3 or so months.
 
Just switched to IF Perin and my god he’s good. He’s definitely better than regular De Gea. I’m even playing him on 7 chem, but he’s unreal. I switched from Fährmann to him and the difference is huge.

There’s a guy on Youtube who reviews basically every goalkeeper, and he said that Perin was notably better on glove than any other chemistry style so make sure to use him on glove if anyone here want to try him out. (He got a 9.5/10 in that review fwiw)
 
@Macern I take a month break and you're still banging on about Perin :lol:

Barzagli, Benatia and Perin are so good. Probably the best defensive trio I’ve ever had which is quite insane considering that they cost me 17.100 in total. Significantly better than Bailly, Van Dijk and De Gea who I paid so much more for.

I often find goalkeeper stats to be misleading. I've tested both Perin and De Gea for >40 games and Perin is honestly better. He's absolutely insane. I use him with the glove chem style. Chemistry styles tend to effect goalkeepers a lot i.e a keeper can go from shit to great with a change of chemistry style.

Anyway, the youtube channel Hitman89 has great gk reviews.

Perin is a million times better than Reina. Use him with the glove chem style if you buy him :)

Nope. Perin is relatively small but one of the best GKs this year. Vitor Baia was also one of the best GKs last year and he was only 6 feet / 184cm tall.

Tried the team above for 18 games and it didn't work out at all. 4-2-3-1 really disappointed me. It's probably a good formation and it must be said that it's probably the best formation defensively I've tried so far, but I just didn't create nearly as many chances as I do with the 4-3-2-1. So I made some alterations to my team and I'm now using this:

It has worked wonders so far. I've tried it out for a few games and won every game comfortably in div 1. As some of you may recall I have praised Perin a lot before, saying he's as good as De Gea, and then he suddenly got rubbish for me in the end of my last 4-3-2-1 spell. Gave him a second chance now since IF Handanovic was awful and played him for a while with the cat chemistry style. He was better but not anything special. Put a wall chemistry style on him not long ago and he's back to the level he was for me before. What a fecking goalkeeper he is. Having someone between the posts you can trust actually affects how you defend. That defense plus him (and Ronaldo) makes me feel invincible at the moment, can't wait for the weekend.

TL;DR:
1. Buy Perin. If he doesn't fit in your team then change it
2. Put a wall chemistry style on him
3. ???
4. Profit

Perin is better and he costs less than 1k. Spending more than 1/3 of what you have on one player is mental (unless it’s Ronaldo), let alone on a goalkeeper!

Edit: watch this

Are you using him on wall chemistry style? I’m guessing you don’t, try him on that!

Edit: And there are no perfect goalkeepers in the game. I’m just saying Schmeichel isn’t any good and nowhere near worth the coins. They all have their weaknesses. De Gea has slightly better handling than Perin but he’s way more inconsistent and is clumsy at times. Neuer is worse than Perin in everything apart from being tall, catching crosses and distribution.

Manolas instead of Bonucci perhaps? And definitely Perin instead of Buffon

How is Perin? Put wall on him if you’re not 100% happy :)

I agree. He’s exactly like that for me too. I initially thought he was a top class keeper on the same level as DDG and Perin, but after testing him for a while I’m really annoyed with his inconsistency. He’s just clumsy in some games. I’ll try to play around with chemistry styles to see if he improves.

Switched from Scream Forster to Courtois and there's a big difference. Forsters inconsistency cost me too many games. Courtois is really really good, and one of the so far three keepers this year that I actually like. He's a small tier below Perin and De Gea on the line, but he comes out to catch every cross, and he throws and kicks really far which is very useful.

Yeah no shit, I’ve been saying that for months now! Most people don’t realize that there isn’t necessarily a big correlation between goalkeeper ratings and how good they are. Fine, De Gea is arguably the best goalkeeper in the game and one of the highest rated too, but someone like Perin who is rated 83 and costs almost nothing is among the top 3 goalkeepers in the game.

I don’t think so. Prime Schmeichel really is worse than many cheap keepers like Perin. I could do a blind test and draw the same conclusion. Fifa has been like that for as long as I can remember. Everyone used Butland last year since he was one of the best goalkeepers in the game despite his 82 rating

85-rated IF Perin. Oh yes
 
Bought TOTY Ronaldo last weekend. He's like regular Ronaldo on PCP. Just mental.

Best card I've ever used by a massive margin.
 
Been thinking about ways to improve my La Liga team and came up with:



Switching to a 41212 in-game. Market has gone up enormously though, don’t know if I should wait it out to try save some coins or just go and buy the players now (Bale has gone up like 75k from 10 days ago iirc) now for weekend league.

Probably will work on LCM and Striker position next in the EPL team (Jesus will play where Martial is temporarily :



After a couple weeks away from the game, hoping to actually enjoy some Fifa this weekend.
 
Just switched to IF Perin and my god he’s good. He’s definitely better than regular De Gea. I’m even playing him on 7 chem, but he’s unreal. I switched from Fährmann to him and the difference is huge.

There’s a guy on Youtube who reviews basically every goalkeeper, and he said that Perin was notably better on glove than any other chemistry style so make sure to use him on glove if anyone here want to try him out. (He got a 9.5/10 in that review fwiw)

He is bot that great. Tried him on glove too for around 20 games, was good but not as good as De Gea. He is good on 1 vs 1 and pulls off some nice saves, but he doesnt save much from middle range and finesse shots. But GKs are different sometimes for different people, i had VDS and he was average for me. Played 2 times against him recently and he was a world beater. Got a rating of 9.5 and 9.2 and saved so many good shots
 
I'm convinced there's no logic with how keepers perform. I loved Perin early on, bought him again a couple weeks ago and he was dog shit. Swear he'd shrunk a couple inches too.

Played against Donnarumma and Begovic before and they both just refused to be beaten. Tried them out myself and they were solid enough but prone to huge errors. I think all keepers are much of a muchness. They all have the same weak spots.
 
I'm convinced there's no logic with how keepers perform. I loved Perin early on, bought him again a couple weeks ago and he was dog shit. Swear he'd shrunk a couple inches too.

Played against Donnarumma and Begovic before and they both just refused to be beaten. Tried them out myself and they were solid enough but prone to huge errors. I think all keepers are much of a muchness. They all have the same weak spots.

Yeah, i try to find a very good keeper for me for decent money and stick with him, hoping he doesnt become shit over time. Udually he does at some point, rinse repeat
 
I think there are a few that are definitely better even though their stats are average, Ederson, Perin and Fahrman are all top notch imo. Particularly Fahrman for me.

Then you have the mid range like of IF Handanovic, Mandana, Lloris etc that you would think would improve but I don’t think they’re at all worth it, many seem worse.

Of the upper bracket I’ve only used De Gea and Neuer, I do think they are better than your Perins and Fahrmans across a whack of games but when you compare that to the price difference it’s negligible.

When I look at a new Midfielder or something I always think, I can sell the keeper for 200k, buy Fahrman for 5k and get the better outfield player! I don’t think they make 200ks worth of difference for most players even in the WL.

Also I think expectation is a thing, when De Gea lets one in its 100 times more annoying than Perin because you expect him to be Godly, on the other hand when Perin makes a double save for 3k you can’t help but be pleased.

I’m tryin out IF Horn atm, he’s been well reviewed and is around 30k.
 
I think Fahrmann is the best I’ve used. He makes lots of one on one saves that keepers without the foot save trait don’t get near.

IMO Once you get to about 82 rating the only things that make a considerable difference are height and the foot save trait.

I had Schmeichel for ages and the only time he seemed to play well was when I was getting dominated.

Currently using Donnarumma who is great. If Perin was dogshit for me after his NIF being very good.
 
I strongly advice people to play around with chemistry styles for goalkeepers. They do make a huge difference. One style might work for me but not for someone else. If a goalie doesn't perform the way he should then try and switch chem style.
 
2-0 so far in the weekend league. First game was against a cheapish standard 41212 PL side with all the broken players. I literally hit the post 7 or 8 times during the match. Won 3-2 with a late goal from CR7. It was a proper struggle but I was so happy to win that.

In the second game I came up against a team with no less that 9 icons, TOTY Bonucci and SCB Meunier (lol). He was somehow shit haha. I won 6-1. Can't believe these people who aren't pros but have teams like that. He could sell his account and buy a car ffs. Either he's had beyond extreme pack luck or he has spent shit tonnes of money. Or both, yeah probably both.
 
Here's my team
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It's the first time I've been genuinely happy with my team since probably october.
 
Not enough pace:lol:
The irony is that Boateng's pace is one of the weaknesses in the team imo :lol:

I play really aggressive and with a very high line, so my center backs often have to match the speed of the attackers I face. I dream of playing Manolas together with 85 Ferdinand.
 
Here's my team
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It's the first time I've been genuinely happy with my team since probably october.

So hard to look past those Vidal/Radja triangles.

I just reluctantly swapped out the Italian right hand side for FUTMAS Herrera, Baily and Tony V to free up funds with Ander being unreadable and I’d say just a little worse than Radja.

Also it allows for the future inclusion of Uniteds second ever Chilean player. :drool:
 
The irony is that Boateng's pace is one of the weaknesses in the team imo :lol:

I play really aggressive and with a very high line, so my center backs often have to match the speed of the attackers I face. I dream of playing Manolas together with 85 Ferdinand.

Trying to get rid of Boateng? You have some first world problems my friend.
 
I packed 88 Ferdinand a few months ago, his price is back up to 750+k after dipping to around 640k during TOTY. Think it's worth selling as I only play sb and he seems to get outpaced and is poor in the air more often than not?
 
I packed 88 Ferdinand a few months ago, his price is back up to 750+k after dipping to around 640k during TOTY. Think it's worth selling as I only play sb and he seems to get outpaced and is poor in the air more often than not?
Yeah I found him slow as shit (a mate has him). Manolas has the same pace but catches everyone.