FIFA 18

[9 to 5]

Jesus Christ.

[Adam]

Bloody hell. It's no wonder they neglect the development of every other aspect of the game.

[Baddar]

Yeah, UT is toxic. It is their best mode, but they make millions off that alone every year.

[FestiveJack]

1 hour ago, 9 to 5 said:

Jesus Christ.

That's not even approaching the likes of popular YouTubers and streamers who don't have the special accounts from EA. Tens of thousands is probably not an understatement for some of them.

[9 to 5]

Either way, spending that much on the hope of improving a team on a game could be or perhaps should be classed as an addiction problem imo.

[Gazz]

15 minutes ago, MadJack said:

That's not even approaching the likes of popular YouTubers and streamers who don't have the special accounts from EA. Tens of thousands is probably not an understatement for some of them.

A guy I watch on Twitch called Castro loaded up just over 400,000 FIFA points, which I reckon is worth roughly £2700. Of course, he's a popular streamer and it's his job, so he can write that off as a business expense, but still. He'll probably do this four or five times a year too when the big promotions are on.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

I really hate Castro as a streamer/YouTuber, but yeah, he basically lives for it. I honestly don't think I've ever seen him play a game, he just constantly opens packs.

[Adam]

It's all madness to me, I'm so old school. I buy on release day every year yet I don't even play online 

 

[Baddar]

They removed guest play from UT seasons and I'm a bit gutted. Me and my nephew play this way every year. Seems they've catered to the Youtubers who don't like it. Thing is, plenty enjoy playing as a two, and if you see somebody has a guest active in the squad screen, you can back out if you wish. There's loads of complaints over on their forums about this, but I can't see it being brought back, they'll just call it a new feature in 2019.

[Chris2K]

I played one game after my download became active at midnight and managed to lose 2-1 to the FUT Team of the Week.

Then I spent an hour on a Spurs career buying the usual array of young talent to develop. The cut scene negotiations are fun to begin with but soon become fairly repetitive.

[Gazz]

Standing tackles, don't tap the button, hold it and after a second, you'll do a much stronger tackle. Seems to stop that thing where you tackle someone and the ball bounces straight back to the same player.

[MDK]

8 minutes ago, Gazz said:

Standing tackles, don't tap the button, hold it and after a second, you'll do a much stronger tackle. Seems to stop that thing where you tackle someone and the ball bounces straight back to the same player.

All of my tackles are always strong.

[Baddar]

32 minutes ago, Gazz said:

Standing tackles, don't tap the button, hold it and after a second, you'll do a much stronger tackle. Seems to stop that thing where you tackle someone and the ball bounces straight back to the same player.

After about 20 games, I'm still on the fence about this. It's all well and good powering up the tackle, but with the ping pong nature of players online and the AI on legendary difficulty, you don't always get the time to do it.

[Adam]

I often will hold the standing tackle button as on previous games it meant jockeying and battling the ball carrier man-to-man, but now my player often lunges into a tackle instead. Have they put the jockeying on another button or are both functions mapped to Circle/B now?

[Baddar]

Jockey is L2/LT

[Gazz]

Anyone know if there's a button for AI pressure in Pro clubs? We've lost 6-1 and 5-1 in the first two games, AI defence is just letting them waltz through, no pressure, no tackles, no tracking, jogging back when countered, leaving like 4 attackers versus 2 defenders.

[Adam]

What have I been doing then? There's something to do with Circle that I usually do to face them up or something that is now just lunging into a one-foot tackle at the worst times.

[Baddar]

7 minutes ago, Gazz said:

Anyone know if there's a button for AI pressure in Pro clubs? We've lost 6-1 and 5-1 in the first two games, AI defence is just letting them waltz through, no pressure, no tackles, no tracking, jogging back when countered, leaving like 4 attackers versus 2 defenders.

I was watching one of the Youtubers doing a stream earlier this week, and they've made defending a lot more manual, it seems. If you don't control the defender and step into the right position and make the challenge, they'll just stand there like lemons.

I'm actually disappointed at how the games are constantly focused on attacking play. I thought there was too many high scores in previous games, but now if you play against anyone half decent online, I can see a lot of crazy scorelines coming on. Case in point was the top EA TV video, or whatever they're calling it. A 5-5 draw between players and then on to pens. 

[King Ellis]

16 minutes ago, Gazz said:

Anyone know if there's a button for AI pressure in Pro clubs? We've lost 6-1 and 5-1 in the first two games, AI defence is just letting them waltz through, no pressure, no tackles, no tracking, jogging back when countered, leaving like 4 attackers versus 2 defenders.

This is what happens when you let Myke back in, he does have the worst winning percentage in Dragons history.

[Baddar]

Come watch me try to get Cultural Leonesa to La Liga for the first time since the 50's!

Brought in a couple of loanees, and managed to sign Reiss Nelson from Arsenal for a mil.