Did you use coins or points with the drafts?
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Did you use coins or points with the drafts?
Started with points, won a few and made massive profit. Then just used coins. To be honest I've had really good pack luck so far.
Think I've packed Bailly, Koscielny, Isco, Salah, Courtois, DDG, and a few IFs so far. To be fair I've probably opened more packs than most after playing drafts constantly but still that luck has seen me rake in the coins.
I'd advise anyone to do drafts at the moment whilst players are so dear it makes sense to open as many packs as possible. Once they begin to come down in price in the next couple of weeks I'll move on to seasons and WL only.
Ayy just got Dele Alli in my rare mega pack for finishing the hybrid leagues. Not a huge boost but still good enough, those sbc's are guaranteed profit. Can now try him out and decide if I want to sell or replace Herrera with him.
He's class, much better than Herrera who is limited going forward.
Tips on who to invest 50k in?
Should I?
Edit: nah too risky
Edit: nah too risky
First game with my new la Liga squad
Bakambu is a tank!
Great team. I always thought BBVA squads were underrated. Bakambu is such a good finisher and he's so hard to push off the ball. If you can afford Varane I defo recommend him at the back.
I took the risk after playing a drafts and selling the players (didn't pack anyone decent), made up to 25k selling other players. Best player was a CB from Real Betis, fair to say I won't be putting money into promo packs again.Should I?
Edit: nah too risky
I done it twice first I got Alli then I got alcantara
Sorry to be yet another person to ask, which players do you guys think I could buy cheap and sell for a nice profit? I don't mind if it's going to be a long grind
My current side. Haven't fully got to grips with the game to full exploit it yet but it plays well. Lukaku at LB is a bargain. Carrasco and Dembele strength is shocking so gonna change their chem style. The CB pairing need upgrading and I I want Griezman for ST. Opened up five 2 player packs last night and got reus so I often switch to 352 in game and put Reus and Icardi up front, Icardi is lethal for those doing Calcio A.
Game needs patching though. Defenders responses are horrendous. Considering playing with smaller CBS with greater agility to combat the likes of Olivier fecking Giroud waltzing around my defence like he's Messi.
Picked up Radja for 180K which was a steal on ps4, only other players bought are Koke, Asensio, Carvajal and Lukaku.
First game with my new la Liga squad
Bakambu is a tank!
How are Isco and Saul for you? I'm not taken with Koke.
Think Manolas is much better. I have Benatia and I'm not impressed. Gets skinned far too easy.
I'm thinking of buying FIFA for the UT, but I hate playing against computer when I need to rest my team. How much additional money would I have to pay to get enough coins for 2 decent teams straight away? Not Ronaldos and Hazards, more like Herreras and Smallings.
Why do people have two teams? Using squad fitness cards seems to be by far the best way to do it, at least for me. I’ve played more than 70 games already, and I haven’t even bought one of those yet. I constantly get them in packs and the bronze ones are always found in the daily challenge rewards if I’m not mistaken
You’re fecked if you play 2 games in a row in weekend league and one of them goes to extra time. I find having only one team kind of boring too.
Two games, no. Three games perhaps. I always play two games before using squad fitness in the WL. Players will be tired in extra time regardless of whether they start the game with 100% fitness or 92% fitness.
Yep. I'm gonna build a second team around Reus and Icardi as they don't fit my other squad. I have Cuadrado, Bellerabi and OTW Kellise (sp?) From Milan id like to use more.
The games just come out so the players are really expensive, you’d probably need hundreds of thousands to get two teams with players like Smalling and Herrera in though other leagues may be cheaper with similarly good players.
If you start a single player league on UT and choose the lowest difficulty you can literally stand still with the ball and let the game play out, they won’t tackle you. If you have the 1,000 match bonus from the catalogue you’ll earn 1,400 coins every 12minutes for doing nothing and all your first team players will be fit if they’re on the bench.
I sell those cards, extra good income.
How much does that cost you? 20-30k? If it’s the difference between getting Elite or not then it’s probably worth it but for me it wouldn’t be.
~16k. I’m aiming for Elite 1 or top 100. If I had two equally good teams instead of one very good team I’d be aiming for maybe Elite 2 instead. Huge difference, definitely worth 16k
Thanks for the info.
Yeah I'll be saving for him it was a choice between Varane and Isco and I didn't like any other midfielders whilst I already had Laporte in my club.
I rate him on this. Purposefully bought him over Kopke as he's been much better for me when I've used him. Kovacic is another I forgot about, but he's useful aswell.
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@Macern I use two sides to stop boredom and also so that I can sell all my squad fitness cards once WL starts. I've got 70 of them at the moment so selling them means I can buy Varane.
Yeah you can earn on it short term, though I definitely wouldn’t do as good as I’m currently doing if I chopped my team in half. Like I said it makes a difference in how well I do in weekend league not only because I play with a team that’s twice as expensive, but also because I get very drilled with using the players and I don’t have to adapt to another team every game. I do understand the argument for having two teams because it’s probably more fun for many, but all I care about these days is doing as well as possible in WL and having one team is advantageous in that regard. Also I probably earn more because I finish higher in WL and the difference in rewards between I.E elite 2 and 1 is quite big
Get bored of using the same team, also I hovef between gold 1/2 regardless. Also these squad fitnesses and injury cards will be going for like 1500 each come the weekend league and i have like 30 in my transfer pile. Would much rather make the extra coinage then spend ~20k on them every weekend.
Also for last year, it worked perfectly because of untradables. Getting 1 team or 2 teams didnt change too much quality wise since I already had Pogba otw untradable.
Boredom causes stupid mistakes in WL though. If I'm interested constantly I'll back myself to finish higher than if I'm just grinding with the same team.
Also now that I've changed to 2 different leagues the quality doesn't really drop off. In fact the rating of my 2nd team is higher than my first.
http://www.futhead.com/news/fifa-18/946/fut-18-patch-update-notes-summary/
Update 1 is live on PC and is set to be launched soon on xbox and ps4. Here are some key updates
«-- Tuned goalkeeper reactions in certain situations.»
«-- Reduced shot accuracy and slightly increased goalkeeper reaction times in certain in-game situations.»
«-- Improvements to the goal net animations.»
Update 1 is live on PC and is set to be launched soon on xbox and ps4. Here are some key updates
«-- Tuned goalkeeper reactions in certain situations.»
«-- Reduced shot accuracy and slightly increased goalkeeper reaction times in certain in-game situations.»
«-- Improvements to the goal net animations.»
I hope they aren’t launching it before the weekend league. Will need time to adapt since they’re nerfing finesse longshots.
Getting a bit bored of my Serie A team. If I sell them all I'll have around 250k coins - any recommendations? Everyone I play seems to have a Prem team but I'm thinking if I can't beat them then I should join them??
One way of making some coins is buy IF players on or around the last day they are in packs. So now with promo packs out etc. Buy a few IF Ghoulams for example. Clearly the best LB in Italy, apart from Sandro at over 70k I think it is. Buy him now, next week sell him for a profit, and then put that in yet another IF whose about to go out of packs
German. Apparently Werner and Goretzka are really good on this one. The IF Aranguiz card is also very good for such a low price
Thanks mate, I'll look into it!
Division 6 is kicking my arse at the moment. Everyone seems to be faster than my guys, with or without the ball, and i just cannot get through the final third
Sounds like the needed updates to be fair. Should reduce the scorelines a bit. I've lost count of the amount of times I've shot straight at the keeper only for him to palm it into his own net.
My pack luck from SBC's has been immense. From Pogba to Martial to OTW Yaromelenko.
Built a solid team. Saving up for Griezmann now.
Excuse the layout, on phone. 4-3-2-1 -
Donnaruma
Lichsteiner
Barzagli
Bailly
Shaw
Marchisio
Joao Mario
Pogba
Martial
Cuadrado
Icardi
Ideally id like to replace Icardi with Antoine G and Cuadrado with O.Dembele.
Built a solid team. Saving up for Griezmann now.
Excuse the layout, on phone. 4-3-2-1 -
Donnaruma
Lichsteiner
Barzagli
Bailly
Shaw
Marchisio
Joao Mario
Pogba
Martial
Cuadrado
Icardi
Ideally id like to replace Icardi with Antoine G and Cuadrado with O.Dembele.
So i went from struggling in d6 to promoted in d6, changing only 1 thing (which might be am investment opportunity once people realise how OP this is).
I changed the chem style on all of my outfield players to 'engine'. Comes with a 2 chevron pace boost, a 2 chevron passing boost and most importantly 2 chevron dribbling (whicj affects balance and agility, which apparently are far more important in this game than simple pace)
These can be picked up for around 800 coins, but if they become popular that will obviously increase. Anyone doubting the power of the engine should try it on their attackers at least and see how easy it is to breeze through a defence
I changed the chem style on all of my outfield players to 'engine'. Comes with a 2 chevron pace boost, a 2 chevron passing boost and most importantly 2 chevron dribbling (whicj affects balance and agility, which apparently are far more important in this game than simple pace)
These can be picked up for around 800 coins, but if they become popular that will obviously increase. Anyone doubting the power of the engine should try it on their attackers at least and see how easy it is to breeze through a defence
Really getting into squad battles right now. I've tried 8 games on legendary winning 6 and losing 2. Defo should be pushing for Elite 1 come end of the week.
Feck the AI on Legendary, honestly. I have no problem putting three or four behind them in every game, but even when I feel like I'll comfortably shut them out they pop up with a shite goal out of nowhere. Lost my clean sheet bonus on all four Squad Battle games today to some of the jammiest fecking goals I've ever seen.
It honestly feels like it cheats sometimes.
It honestly feels like it cheats sometimes.
I have this feeling too. Not that it cheats exactly but the computer decides 'feck it I've had enough' and suddenly every second ball and deflection and shoulder barge goes for them. I'm convinced there's a hidden microphone which hears me being happy and then the game decides, that's enough pal.
I just won 8-2 on legendary but their 2 goals were top corner screamers from 25 yards
