Gaming FIFA 22

£70 bloody quid. Anybody else remember the good old days when the English supermarkets would compete on price and you could pick FIFA up for £25?
 
Garethw said:
£70 bloody quid. Anybody else remember the good old days when the English supermarkets would compete on price and you could pick FIFA up for £25?
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I remember when freddos were 5p
 
I was losing my mind with contextual dribbling being built-in until a pro finally told me the way to disable it.

The game is somewhat playable for me now since I'm not at the mercy of the AI dribbling for me.
 
For those that opened their OTW packs, a new one will be given in the coming days based on the EA website.

Was playing around with a few different formations, struggling to find one that worked. Finally seemed to have found one with the 451 (2dm 3cam) Fernandes, Foden & Havertz are linking so well with good passing and pace. Lukaku uptop has been quality too.
 
They've now disabled you opening OTW packs until 6pm tonight. Wise decision :lol:
 
How many OTW cards are there? Is there a chance I pull somebody that a danish side (for example) has signed?
 
Is this worth it for someone who's a PES player and hasn't bought a FIFA game in about 6 years?
 
bosnian_red said:
Considering the state of efootball... if you want a football game them yes
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Yeah I figured as much. I pretty much go for PES every year since I mostly play offline singleplayer and I don't like FIFA's scripting (don't care for ultimate team, its a glorified gambling simulator IMO). But looking at how bad ePES is I figured I'd give FIFA another go.
 
Got to say it was nice on the first day of the trial but now insane how quickly almost everybody has got an absolutely insane team. Haaland, Lukaku etc in almost every team I'm coming up against and even seeing legends like Eusebio ffs. Granted I haven't spent all of my 4600 pre-order points but it would be lovely to face teams similar to mine this early.

Teams not even bad in fairness but it's more cheap good players rather than expensive quality like most seem to have.
 
Kaos said:
Yeah I figured as much. I pretty much go for PES every year since I mostly play offline singleplayer and I don't like FIFA's scripting (don't care for ultimate team, its a glorified gambling simulator IMO). But looking at how bad ePES is I figured I'd give FIFA another go.
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Thing is, I genuinely enjoy FUT at the start of every year when you have a mediocre team and everyone is starting out. 1-2 months in it becomes dumb though with all the ridiculous cards and everyone getting really high rated teams. The offline gameplay most years isn't too bad either once you adjust the sliders (there's this one forum that always tries to find a good balance of sliders and they do a good job with it). The problem is usually the off the pitch mechanics in modes like career mode are usually so bad and lack depth to them. Not sure what it's like this year as it just came out today for me but @Solius seems to not be a fan, which is a shame.

The most fun for me has always been if you have people you can play it with regularly offline, as it's the user base more than the game itself which causes it to be annoying as feck by always trying to exploit things IMO.
 
Paxi said:
That’s good to be fair. Thanks.
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It's ridiculous that you were even able to open it without OTW players being out. But yeah, fair play to them for seeing their mistake and rectifying it
 
sewey89 said:
It's ridiculous that you were even able to open it without OTW players being out. But yeah, fair play to them for seeing their mistake and rectifying it
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Yeah I was half expecting them to just say touch fecking shit and move on.
 
bosnian_red said:
Thing is, I genuinely enjoy FUT at the start of every year when you have a mediocre team and everyone is starting out. 1-2 months in it becomes dumb though with all the ridiculous cards and everyone getting really high rated teams. The offline gameplay most years isn't too bad either once you adjust the sliders (there's this one forum that always tries to find a good balance of sliders and they do a good job with it). The problem is usually the off the pitch mechanics in modes like career mode are usually so bad and lack depth to them. Not sure what it's like this year as it just came out today for me but @Solius seems to not be a fan, which is a shame.

The most fun for me has always been if you have people you can play it with regularly offline, as it's the user base more than the game itself which causes it to be annoying as feck by always trying to exploit things IMO.
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I just get angry at the lack of basic fixes for things. If you don’t care for small details and can change the sliders i’m sure it can be enjoyable.
 
The gameplay when it works is actually quite good this year really. There’s still frustrating issues like poor player switching, silly blocks and things like that but I like the focus on passing more and it’s definitely no longer ridiculously easy to move up the field. You can’t get through on goal with two passes every single time which is much much better. I’ve also scored some quite unique goals and some really satisfying ones. They need to fix gk saves at close range and the long distance shooting (too easy) but it’s close!
 
Some very satisfying games against PSG (who I've played in 70% of my games regardless of my team choice)

Note the absolute jammy opening goal for PSG guy, and also then a wonderful move to eventually win it in the last minutes!





And then this one, went down to ten men and still thrashed him :lol: Very happy with the fourth goal.

 
Up to Div 6 now.

I feel like my team is holding me back though but I refuse to pay stupid prices for cards that'll plummet soon enough.
 
Switched back to FIFA, after trying the Efootball game. Only played one kick off because my PS5 is telling me that it’s going to take 9 hours to download the final 23GB. I’m more than happy with the gameplay for now, though I seem to remember the short passing being harder on semi controller settings last time I played FIFA. The only thing I need to get used to is the crossing/long passing which seems much harder than PES to get the distance.
 
Got Grealish in ones to watch. 3.6 röntgen.
 



So satisfying :drool: especially after the cnut tried to foul me.
 
Going to open mine shortly. Hoping for Ronaldo/Varane.

Predicting Berghuis.
 
unplayable said:
Got Alaba. Not really happy, but could be worse I guess.
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Alaba isn’t bad either. Season is still young. Who knows where they’ll end up. Imagine getting ronaldo though?
 
All your pulls are better than my Locatelli. Only good thing is he should auto upgrade when Juve eventually start winning games.
 
Looks like I beat you all.....I got fecking malen think he's the lowest rated one.

Absolutely no interest in him at all.
 
Got Alaba, probably one of the one's I wanted the least.

Then spent the 4600 points and the best card I got was Sule. Got to laugh, sums up why I'll never spend a penny on points in this game.
 
dannyrhinos89 said:
Looks like I beat you all.....I got fecking malen think he's the lowest rated one.

Absolutely no interest in him at all.
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He could turn out alright, he would most likely get a featured totw, if he ever got one giving him a massive boost. He'd then be insanely quick and a top finisher. Useful just to leave around the club. Locatelli on the other hand is never going to be useful for anything.
 
I've got everything double because of ea play and I pulled Dumfries twice. Had to discard one, beat that.
 
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