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Fifa 22 Ultimate Team discussion thread

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭BrentMused


    First time playing Champs qualifying in weeks and since the change in structure.

    Went 7-3. The 3 losses to much better players and the 7 wins all very comfortable, there was nothing in between.

    I won't get to play WL this weekend and wouldn't have bothered anyway as TOTW is horrific aside from the Kante that no-one will get, but thought it would be handy to have the token to redeem whenever suits.

    On another note, I see Nick (RunTheFUTMarket) got hacked earlier. He's the latest of about 10-15 top traders at this stage but the most well known by a mile. As soon as he revealed it, some major media places started to report on it which finally kicked EA into a response after weeks of radio silence.

    I'm sure the big content creators will get sorted but sadly there's probably hundreds of thousands of regular Joe Soaps who have had the same happen to them without recourse.




  • Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭doc holliday


    Swapped in giggs for ginola for a few rivals games tonight.

    First free kick, noticed giggs has 99 curve so he took it. Top corner 😄. Won the match handy with a giggs assist to add to his goal.

    Ginola who? 🤣



  • Administrators Posts: 54,175 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    It's been a while folks, and I don't want the message to be forgotten or get lost, so I'm going to repeat it:

    F**k Kimpembe.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,468 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    I love Kimpembe.

    in the last match I played he fell over as the guy was about to take a shot at goals from 10 yards out. It’s a certain goal but somehow while falling Kimpembe stuck his leg up and blocked the ball.

    lol it was hilarious 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭mutley18


    No free wins for Kimpembe users! The worst are the ones who can afford Mbappe, Pele, Neymar etc and still have 5k Kimpembe in the team.



  • Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭doc holliday


    Ah I can overlook my kimpembe dislike when it comes to free wins. Everyone gets a free win if I'm quitting, even a team with the kimpembe, benzema and fekir combo.

    Kimpembe being OP is on EA

    Deliberately quitting without giving the win away is on you.



  • Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭doc holliday


    I am also a bit salty on this topic right now as the first 2 games in champs today the lads went to pretend to score an OG and then acted the complete clown and kicked it out.

    😠



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Lads im guessing it wont, but will the coutinho winter wildcard switch to villa now?



  • Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭doc holliday


    Nope, they will update the clubs for all new cards at different stages but all cards already live will remain at the original club



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,329 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Do any of ye lads have Alisson as your keeper, and have ye noticed a change in him since last weekend, he has been rubbish, dive over the ball, dive under the ball, crouch and tap the ball to strikers for tap ins, now last night came a new low, long ball up field, i have Van Dijk, in control so i headed the ball back to Alisson and instead of catching it, the ai decided he was gonna head it away, so he did, to my opponent for a goal



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Just like to add, my opponent scored an og after that goal, thankfully there is some decent players left in the community



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭BrentMused


    Love playing Rivals during the afternoons when the schools are back.

    Servers are great 90% of the time and I always seem to play far better (or the standard of my opponent is far worse more likely! 😂).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,984 ✭✭✭✭Osmosis Jones


    Matchmaking times this year are a nightmare, genuinely takes on average 5 minutes to find a game



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Payet SBC, iv'e actually lost count how many french players have special cards now



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭mutley18


    What console? I have never had an issue on PS5, its pretty quick.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭dmigsy


    Never have to wait more than 10 seconds on Xbox series s.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,611 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Rank six rewards.



    Yes, I'm trying something new with keeping track of opening the rewards. 😂



  • Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭doc holliday


    Xbox one is really quick too, I get a rivals game within 10 seconds 95% of the time. And that's playing late at night 11pm onwards.



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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 5,175 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr Moon


    Servers are awful tonight.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭Jim Gazebo


    I played a draft game on a pitch with green lines earlier?! Wtf like. I really struggled for first few minutes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Nothing more frustrating then losing games where you know you are far better then your opponent and you know the game is just mucking you over, followed then by your opponent messaging you to tell you what you already know



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Avon8


    Had some clown in champs pass it around from the 60th minute and then message me immediately after with a mountain of emojis and "take the L" etc. I called him a pathetic case and a few 4 letter words. 20 mins later I'm 3 nil up in another game and PSN logs me out, get a message to tell me I'm banned off chat. I actually don't care about the chat ban, will stop reptiles from messaging me at least but the loss when coasting was headwrecking 😅

    On 11 wins now with 4 to play so odds on it'll end up costing me rank 4



  • Administrators Posts: 54,175 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Love the look of that HL Barella.

    I have the coins to buy him today but I'm going to hold off until Sunday as he will inevitably drop by 60-70k in price I reckon. Once I buy him, this will be me in-game for the next while, only need a new keeper and I'll be rid of all my golds.

    Bought WW Spinazzola and really enjoying him.

    Packing that HL VVD has changed this game for me.




  • Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭doc holliday


    Logging you out mid game is a pain in the hole but you probably knew yourself when you sent the message something could happen 🤣.

    I've found that the inability to curse through an xbox message for fear of tye inevitable ban has led to some very creative alternatives.


    Ironically enough given your username the latest message I received was simply 'your ma sells avon' 🤣



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  • Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭doc holliday



    There are few greater pleasures in ultimate team than watching the other guy manually move his keeper out of the way you were going to shoot anyway. This was in champs against a lad with the whole shebang -

    Kimpembe, THAT fekir card, THAT benzema card, corner glitch and manually moving keepers. I was 2 nil down when I scored this and went on to have him rage quit at 5-2.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8 Davidjamson


    I am also waiting to watch FIFA 2022.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭dmigsy


    Decided to try out HL Laborde. For <50k he's brilliant. 20 goals in 10 games. Better than Prime Torres who I tried out for a few days. He scores all types of goals but the biggest difference he makes is heading. I've started just lumping crosses in towards him and he's beating so many top-tier CBs to the ball to score headers. He's banging them in from corners too.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭BrentMused


    Anyone have any tips for scoring headers?

    With Cantona in open play and De Ligt on corners, I have the ideal targets.

    However, despite them winning almost every 50/50 in the air, the ball always seems to fly over the bar despite me aiming downwards.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Yeah heading seems to have been nerfed in the last few weeks, i had Trent on corners and Konate and Virgil scoring loads of headers there for a while, now Trent is way off target and they cant win a header at all



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭dmigsy


    Most of the ones I score direct from corners are near post headers across the keeper. Just point the stick in the direction of the far post. Haven't noticed them being nerfed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Avon8


    Scraped rank 4. Got Salah from an ultimate pack! All's well that ends well

    First proper pull so far but can't complain anymore



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,611 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    With corners, I never press the shoot button. I always use the pass button (A on Xbox) and find it's way, way more accurate. I find I can score 1 in 5 corners with the pass button.


    For me, I tend to whip it towards the far side of the box, where my center backs usually are, and then "pass" the ball back towards the near post. Sometimes, the player defending the post will save, but for whatever reason, goalkeepers really struggle to save them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭mutley18


    That free headliners Zakaria will go lovely with Winter Wildcards Sow 😍



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭Tenks


    Any suggestions on freshening up my team? Usually rotate between Gundy and Rice so would be looking to probably upgrade that position first.


    Toying with the idea of selling Gomez since he’s 300k and replacing with a cheaper alternative and using the remainder to get someone like RB Foden.



  • Administrators Posts: 54,175 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    I think r1 + l1 + shoot is a powered downward header.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,611 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Doing the "Preformance is Key" SBC on the web app.


    Click submit.


    Open pack.


    "Huh, white and gold confetti. Oooh, headliners, swe.....wait, that's not the right colours. OMG, ICON!!!!!


    Oh, Prime Kluivert 😂 Prime Icon, but 250k.


    Oh, he's untradeable too.


    Alrighty."


    Only the second Icon I've ever actually packed outside of guarantees. Okocha during the David Luiz flashback SBC a few years back being the other. Not sure I'll ever use him, but I'll add him to the Icon squad for now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Winning 2-1, last minute, cruising through the game, im controlling Kante, have my opponent covered, he passes it through to his striker, Van Dijk who is ai controlled at this point, has it covered until he bloody LIFTS HIS RIGHT LEG UP in to the air and allows the ball through to his striker who obviously scores, i manage to win 5-2 in extra time but jesus, what is going on with this EA, is it so hard to make a game that resembles football



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    There is no incentive to control the players either. I always mark the ball and will switch multiple times around my box if needs be. Sometimes I get manually into the passing lanes over and over in one attack and the ball passes your player at 5mph.. over, under, through.

    You would think manually controlling the player would mean more chance of intercepting but it's probably less if anything(thinking of my wing backs, they NEVER intercept the line ball when I try to cut it off but I'm routinely intercepted by the AI controlled full backs far more).

    The game won't improve on this engine. It has the same flaws that carry year on year.

    If they churn out 2023 on this engine again I'll be passing on it next year, it's just very boring most of the time between 80% of your shots hitting a player while the opponent gets simple counter attacks with equal or extra players since the AI is so bad.

    The AI is no better than 10 years ago, they're lazy as they have no competition so why would they innovate.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    24 shots 16 on target, 88 Maignan 14 saves

    5 shots 3 on target

    I lose 2-1, f+×$ this nonsense



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭Liamalone


    Oh, thought I'd fire up the last hour of my 10hr trial tonight. To to my surprise, I now have 10hrs left on my trial. Not complaining like but ... Eh?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    4 free packs in my account this morning, anybody else get them?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,468 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    Yep got them as well: they’re for packs that you opened last Friday when one of the Headliners was missing from packs. They had to give the exact same packs back they were opened during that 5 hour window I think it was.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Ah right, i bet they wont contain the level of players i got last week, i expect plenty of duplicates



  • Administrators Posts: 54,175 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Servers are a joke this morning :(



  • Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭doc holliday


    Rank 4 finish again, thanks to a gifted win for my last match. My faith in the community is restored!

    Rewards were bad though. 86 was the magic number

    Top red pick, best from TOTW and ultimate pack were all 86 rated.

    Have been saving up for mid cruyff for ages but since I've just finished ibrahimovic's autobiography last week decided to go all in for the WW ibra today, not used him yet though but the reviews are savage.

    Anyone here used him?



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭Bunny Colvin


    Got my 85x10 winter wildcard pack from Ea, along with three rare gold packs and a mega pack. Hadn't a clue I was due them but they showed up this morning.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Van Basten has decided since friday, he doesnt want to score anymore goals, just refuses, finesse and power shots directed to corners, goes down the middle to the keepers, so replaced him with POTM Bobby, giving me all green chem, Bobby now has 6 in 4 with 7 assists



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭Jim Gazebo


    I don't understand here. My team's absolutely knackered after 60 mins now. I've changed nothing. Other teams seem fine. Weird.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    1 up against a player with 7 icons, he equalizes and quits, it still amazes me after all these years that they will not punish players who quit, although i shouldnt be considering the state of the game year after year after year

    Edit: 2 in a row, this time a team with 6 icons, quits before kick off

    Edit: its a Hattrick, but he scored an og before he left, bronze team, no icons 😁



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