Gaming FIFA 18 Ultimate Team

Same here. Was going to give it a good go this weekend, shame. And yeah I play with 41212 and found myself playing much better once I'd told the fullbacks to get forward. It means there's always a pass on and you can up the tempo a lot more. Attacks can fizzle out if you don't have that, and you just hang onto the ball for too long and get tackled.

Exactly! Your passing lanes get congested and you’re either left trying to attempt a dribble (ball rolls or whatever, risky) in the middle of the park to create the angle or going backwards.
 
Exactly! Your passing lanes get congested and you’re either left trying to attempt a dribble (ball rolls or whatever, risky) in the middle of the park to create the angle or going backwards.

I find setting them just to balanced works perfectly. The full back on the side you have possession goes forward whilst the other one stays back, always leaves 3 at the back, whereas with get forward they are always in line with the striker as soon as you get the ball and are so vulnerable to the counter
 
I hate chemistry. The whole thing is dumb, you'd think UT is a chance to go wild with players from all different teams and leagues.

I know right! frustrating.. but I guess if it definitely affects gameplay, just need to suck it up and get on board.

Thanks for all the explanations guys, my first ever season at this.. so abit out of my depth!
 
Two first matches, leading by a goal in the 90th, conceding at the death. Proceed to either lose in ET or on penalties.

If this is any indication of how it's going to go, I might eat a gun before the weekend's over.
 
I find setting them just to balanced works perfectly. The full back on the side you have possession goes forward whilst the other one stays back, always leaves 3 at the back, whereas with get forward they are always in line with the striker as soon as you get the ball and are so vulnerable to the counter

You can definitely get caught out, but my 3 midfielders are of a particular profile (Decent pace and physical, good in the tackle (or boosted with chem card if not, I got powerhouse on kovacic)) so they usually cover well. I personally find the fullbacks helpful when they stay around the line of the ball and have them on catalyst chem so they’re involved in the buildup. Only ever run ahead of the line of the ball when there’s a gap to exploit.

They even score the odd goal when play is lop-sided and they make a late run in to the box!
 
Was looking at his purple card last night as it happens. If only. Might have to save up for his normal card and use Barkley in the meantime.

Gueye is a good option in the mean time. Covers alot of ground, decent shot on him and is hard to knock off the ball. Can pick him up pretty cheap aswell, 2.5k when i picked him up.
 
My controller has finally given up so I'm going to have to fork out £45 for a new one to finish silver in WL. FFS.
 
Gueye is a good option in the mean time. Covers alot of ground, decent shot on him and is hard to knock off the ball. Can pick him up pretty cheap aswell, 2.5k when i picked him up.
His passing and shooting put me off, since Dembele found himself in a shooting position a fair bit and ballooned them over every time. Nothing to lose though, I'll give him a shot. Thanks.
 
TOTGS Ben Yedder looks filth. Loved his IF last year. He’ll slot nicely with my CAM’s in my 4-2-3-1 narrow.

Don’t know who to drop though. Mbappe or IF Fekir. Griezmann is untouchable.
 
TOTGS Ben Yedder looks filth. Loved his IF last year. He’ll slot nicely with my CAM’s in my 4-2-3-1 narrow.

Don’t know who to drop though. Mbappe or IF Fekir. Griezmann is untouchable.

Aye exact same problem, love Mbappe, might move IF Fekir back into CM, I’ve never found he plays quite as good as his stats would make you think.
 
Just packed Alves from my weekend rewards and it wasn’t TOTGS anyone any idea why?

Can’t complain got Handanovic, Reus and Carrasco in the 2 jumbo rare players packs which is about 100k
Imagine it’s like TOTW where they don’t get released until 6pm.
 
Some tulip paid 5k for my 60+ 1 player fitness card I was selling for 150. Either someone had a mare, or some coin selling crowd bought the wrong item :lol:
 
Selling Kante, Bakayoko is much better and even though his shooting is terrible, Kantes is not much better. Allows me to add De Bruyne and drop Martial to the bench. Griezmann will be on 7 chem but hoping it doesn’t affect him too much.
 
Some tulip paid 5k for my 60+ 1 player fitness card I was selling for 150. Either someone had a mare, or some coin selling crowd bought the wrong item :lol:

I can confirm this crap happens. Accidentally did a BIN on a random silver... 10k gone! Fair to say I have been a little more careful since that incident.
 
His passing and shooting put me off, since Dembele found himself in a shooting position a fair bit and ballooned them over every time. Nothing to lose though, I'll give him a shot. Thanks.

I have him as a CDM alongside Herrera which lets me push Alli and my widemen forward more because they are both god at covering the ground. Good luck with it. If you do find any alternative options, let me know as I am looking to change up because my team has become a bit stale.
 
Just got absolutely destroyed by Robert Pires, basically the perfect striker in this game.
 
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It’s getting better
 
Can someone tell me why the market has dropped so much over the past few hours? You could literally build a decent side with about 20 thousand coins now

Sterling, Draxler, Dougles Costa, Salah, Vardy etc all going for under three thousand coins
 
Some big hitters been released for TOTGS. People probably selling in the hope of buying packs an getting one.

Ronaldo for example is going for 4.5 mill.
 
Can someone tell me why the market has dropped so much over the past few hours? You could literally build a decent side with about 20 thousand coins now

Sterling, Draxler, Dougles Costa, Salah, Vardy etc all going for under three thousand coins
Promo packs were released with the Team of the Group Stage. Loads of new players on the market forces the prices down.
 
Decided to give up on WL this weekend. Moved the xbox upstairs and the tv is so much smaller that I can’t see feck all. No chance of me playing like that.
 
Decided to give up on WL this weekend. Moved the xbox upstairs and the tv is so much smaller that I can’t see feck all. No chance of me playing like that.
First the internet and now this! Is it the mrs who commanded you to move it upstairs? :P
 
Can someone tell me why the market has dropped so much over the past few hours? You could literally build a decent side with about 20 thousand coins now

Sterling, Draxler, Dougles Costa, Salah, Vardy etc all going for under three thousand coins
That happens every year. Players become cheaper and cheaper because there are more and more players on the market because people open packs, and there are so many new cards released that the demand for regular cards go down.
 
The prices for the packs are crazy. To get the Ultimate pack for 2,500 fifa points you’d need to buy 2,200 for £15.99 and 500 for £3.99 :lol:
 
Just rage quit before even playing then. I’ve lost 8 games in a row and I’m matched against a team with 7 icons, Ronaldo and Bale? As soon as he paused it before kick off I left. Feck that and feck this game.
 
Just rage quit before even playing then. I’ve lost 8 games in a row and I’m matched against a team with 7 icons, Ronaldo and Bale? As soon as he paused it before kick off I left. Feck that and feck this game.

You should stop playing for some days then return again when you calm down. There's no point keeping playing if you're on a losing strike, because you become more and more angry that you start doing more mistakes and things become worse. I know this because I had this problem before too.

If you lose 2 games in a row stop playing immediately and go do something else to calm down.
 
Just rage quit before even playing then. I’ve lost 8 games in a row and I’m matched against a team with 7 icons, Ronaldo and Bale? As soon as he paused it before kick off I left. Feck that and feck this game.
Often those Credit Card FC guys are shit players. I've lost count of the amount of teams worth millions I've faced that I've spanked all over the park. Of course, he could be some insane beast player that gets top 100 every week and uses the reward coins to buy endless amounts of icons, but that's rarely the case.
 
Often those Credit Card FC guys are shit players. I've lost count of the amount of teams worth millions I've faced that I've spanked all over the park. Of course, he could be some insane beast player that gets top 100 every week and uses the reward coins to buy endless amounts of icons, but that's rarely the case.

TOTALLY agree. The ones who've bought their ritzy team are often shit. Stats won't win you games if you're tactically weak.
 
Is it actually beneficial to apply the chem style cards? Because although it boosts stats in some areas does it not then make others weaker as a result?
 
Is it actually beneficial to apply the chem style cards? Because although it boosts stats in some areas does it not then make others weaker as a result?
Do you really need your strikers to be able to defend, or defenders to be able to dribble and shoot? It’s a waste to have the stats allocated all over, when you can narrow them down to the areas you actually need.
 
Do you really need your strikers to be able to defend, or defenders to be able to dribble and shoot? It’s a waste to have the stats allocated all over, when you can narrow them down to the areas you actually need.

It's not as straight forward as that though is it? For instance, my Morata has the Marksman card applied. Granted this increases his finishing but his pace and passing suffer as a result.

I've been finding him to be a bit shit to use. Wondering if this is why.

(I'm a FUT rookie btw)
 
First the internet and now this! Is it the mrs who commanded you to move it upstairs? :P

No I said when we moved in that I'd be having it upstairs cause I have turned one of the spare bedrooms into a sort of man cave. Problem is its just got an old tv in there at the moment and I'm used to playing on the 60" down stairs. It feels like I'm playing it on my phone or something :lol:
 
No I said when we moved in that I'd be having it upstairs cause I have turned one of the spare bedrooms into a sort of man cave. Problem is its just got an old tv in there at the moment and I'm used to playing on the 60" down stairs. It feels like I'm playing it on my phone or something :lol:

Ah the man cave. I'm making that move soon and can't wait. Bought a TV for it in the black Friday sales. Only 32" but it's only a small room. Just need to kick my child out of it now and move her into the spare room.
 
Ah the man cave. I'm making that move soon and can't wait. Bought a TV for it in the black Friday sales. Only 32" but it's only a small room. Just need to kick my child out of it now and move her into the spare room.

To be fair this is probably a 32" but it's old so the screen size is quite a lot less and I'm sat maybe slightly further away than I am from the TV downstairs. It all adds up to me struggling like feck :lol:
 
TOTGS Ben Yedder has been banging it in for me. He finishes everything. Five star weak foot and 4 star skills. Everything you want in a CAM. He’ll probs come down in price too so very good value.

Currently 7-1. I WILL be getting Elite 3 this week!!
 
TOTGS Ben Yedder has been banging it in for me. He finishes everything. Five star weak foot and 4 star skills. Everything you want in a CAM. He’ll probs come down in price too so very good value.

Currently 7-1. I WILL be getting Elite 3 this week!!

I've been considering getting him to replace Martial and leave Griezmann at CAM bit can't decide at all.
 
They're taking the piss now with all these multi coloured cards. Remember when it was literally team of the week, and that was it until team of the year? Now there's a different coloured card every few days. EA's greed knows no bounds.