In this episode of FUT IN REVIEW, the hosts discuss various aspects of FUT, including highlights and low points from the week, community feedback on evolutions, and the new Total Rush promo. They delve into the Player of the Month SBC, share humorous banter, and analyze the impact of new SBC's on the game. The conversation also covers team building strategies, chemistry, and the experiences of a new player in the Rivals mode.
Additionally, they discuss the controversial six at the back formations and highlight a community team of the week. The episode concludes with a fun game segment and a discussion on the recent sprint boost nerf. Join the Discord Server for Free! https://discord.gg/rzAjWezwr3 Questions: futinreview@gmail.com https://youtube.com/futinreview https://www.futinreview.com https://patreon.com/futinreview
[00:00:01] Hello, foodies, and welcome back to FUT IN REVIEW episode 629. Call it trail breakers, call it total rush. Tomato, tomato, we are in week four and we get a packed promo team already.
[00:00:17] Of course, we'll discuss our week in FUT, we talk about the release content, a stuffed mailbag, EA is actually bringing jokes into the content, and we bring you the Community Theme of the Week.
[00:00:31] And of course, it is the long awaited FC25 debut of an infamous host. We talk about so much, we tried to squeeze in another I haven't jota a clue quiz to see if Yngwie can close the gap with myself.
[00:00:44] And also, what is the real deal with six at the back formations and is the sprint boost broken now?
[00:00:53] My name's John, and I'm joined by the man from Norway, our legendary skipper, the FUT database himself is none other than Yngwie.
[00:01:05] Hello, hello.
[00:01:06] Hello, my friend. You alright?
[00:01:08] Yep, all good.
[00:01:09] Oh good. It's gonna be a packed show, so let's jump in.
[00:01:13] Introducing our last house of tonight. Normally we say Friday is Chris and Yngwie, but Chris is actually moving houses, so he can't be here.
[00:01:21] So last, but not least, to join us, sim racer extraordinaire, FC25 newbie, but fast climbing the ranks and mastering the game.
[00:01:31] It's the man that has the best hair also in this business is none other than James Hazel.
[00:01:37] Hey, James.
[00:01:38] How do? How are you doing?
[00:01:40] Hello, my friend. It's good to have you on.
[00:01:42] Yeah.
[00:01:43] Best time on the Friday show or whatever. Yeah, it's fun to be here.
[00:01:47] Yeah. There's 7,000 people on live chat, so there's no stress.
[00:01:51] No pressure.
[00:01:55] No pressure.
[00:01:56] It's a big shoes to fill.
[00:01:58] Impossible shoes to fill with Chris not being here, but...
[00:02:02] You'll be alright, my friend. You'll be alright. It's good to have you on.
[00:02:04] For people that don't know you, can you do like a 30 seconds introduction for people that have missed the Newbie Chronicles last year?
[00:02:12] I can make it even shorter than 30 seconds. I'm an FC newbie.
[00:02:17] No, I... Yeah, so I started playing FC towards the end of FC24.
[00:02:23] John and I do a little Formula One podcast together.
[00:02:27] So here I am playing FC and now on this show as well, apparently.
[00:02:32] And now hooked.
[00:02:34] And a new host.
[00:02:34] Yeah, yeah.
[00:02:36] Oh, we always start the Friday show with a topic I quite liked the last time, but we had a lot of community feedback about it.
[00:02:46] So we go ahead and try it once again.
[00:02:48] It is time for...
[00:02:49] This week in Football Ultimate Team.
[00:02:52] In that section, we all give us either our highlights or our worst nightmare moments from this week.
[00:02:59] Let's start with you, James. What's been your highlight or worst nightmare moment of this week in Football Ultimate Team?
[00:03:07] For me, it's just a highlight. And that is playing Rush with three other people.
[00:03:12] Absolutely amazing fun. Good laughs. No sweat. Love it. Absolutely love it.
[00:03:17] And that's cool though.
[00:03:19] Is it as good as playing drop-ins?
[00:03:24] I've purposefully avoided drop-ins because of all the bad reviews of that.
[00:03:31] But yeah, playing it with mates is a lot of fun.
[00:03:35] Yeah, some of the best fun I've had in gaming in quite a while actually.
[00:03:38] I don't do a lot of multiplayer gaming anymore.
[00:03:41] Well, other than sim racing, but you don't really chat to people when you're doing that.
[00:03:44] You're just driving.
[00:03:46] No, if you get a message there, it's probably not good.
[00:03:48] Yeah, it's probably why did you wipe me out in the first corner.
[00:03:51] But yeah, at FC, well, apparently you get messages in FC, but I've got that turned off.
[00:03:55] I don't want to hear what anyone's got to say about my gameplay.
[00:03:59] I think that's a smart move.
[00:04:02] But yeah, it's a lot of fun with friends.
[00:04:04] Yeah, my worst experience this week has been in Rush as well,
[00:04:07] where I thought I just need like 6,000 points left to get the objectives done
[00:04:11] or a 70k pack thingy or anything called.
[00:04:14] And I was like, ah, it's just one or two matches.
[00:04:16] I'll be there.
[00:04:17] So I started the game.
[00:04:18] All my three teammates went AFK, like just walked out of bounds, straight from kickoff.
[00:04:23] I'm like, this is going to be a lonely seven minutes.
[00:04:25] And after two minutes, my, I just gave up.
[00:04:28] I caved.
[00:04:29] I never get tilted.
[00:04:30] I got tilted by this.
[00:04:32] I still find it excruciating that this can happen.
[00:04:38] Um, more we have to talk about it, but I'm glad the four versus four when you have four
[00:04:43] made together is working for you and you're enjoying that.
[00:04:46] Yeah.
[00:04:47] Very much.
[00:04:47] Invy up to you, mate.
[00:04:48] What's going on in your food highlights or food masterclass, disaster class even this
[00:04:53] week.
[00:04:53] I think disaster class is probably the right one.
[00:04:56] Uh, well, I, I'm not liking the direction that the evolutions are going.
[00:05:01] It looked really promising the first, uh, first week.
[00:05:04] And then, uh, after that, it's pretty much gone downhill.
[00:05:09] Uh, suddenly lots of the restrictions and it seemed like before the game came out, we could
[00:05:15] kind of do a lot of evolution, but they couldn't be maxed out if they had, uh, already the stats
[00:05:22] at maximum.
[00:05:24] So even though they normally wouldn't be eligible last year, they would be this year, but now
[00:05:29] EA has changed it again.
[00:05:32] It seems so there's lots of restriction.
[00:05:34] You can't use, uh, there's an evolution where you can't only use rare cards.
[00:05:38] You can't use non-rare, which would have made it much more fun and lots of other options.
[00:05:43] And now it's like getting smaller and smaller pool of, uh, possible players to do evos for.
[00:05:49] And, uh, well, that's killing a lot of the bus I had for evolution early on.
[00:05:56] Yeah.
[00:05:56] I can't say I disagree with you there.
[00:05:58] I'm not a fan of, a big fan of evolution.
[00:06:01] Like I think it's, it's just, it's there.
[00:06:03] It's fine for people.
[00:06:04] So what if you can chain it could be cool.
[00:06:06] Right.
[00:06:06] And I liked the fact that give that option.
[00:06:08] I said on yesterday's show as well, though it was a short one, I think I spent three
[00:06:12] minutes of those 15 minutes doing a little rant about exactly the same.
[00:06:16] Why they have to put in a rare, um, what I got requirement for the, uh, for the SPS for
[00:06:24] the objectives from yesterday, for example, and just, yeah.
[00:06:26] And it was paid the one yesterday as well.
[00:06:29] Yeah.
[00:06:30] But even if it wasn't paid, I still found it.
[00:06:32] Yeah, of course.
[00:06:33] Yeah.
[00:06:33] Of course.
[00:06:34] Of course.
[00:06:34] Uh, yeah, it started so far.
[00:06:35] I have two really good cards in Gravenberg and, uh, and Joe Gomez really fun cards because
[00:06:42] you could chain them and make them quite unique, but, uh, doesn't seem like we're going to have
[00:06:47] that possibility anytime soon now by the looks of it.
[00:06:51] So, uh, hopefully EA will change it around again soon.
[00:06:56] If not, it's going to kind of die out.
[00:06:58] I think.
[00:06:59] Yeah.
[00:07:00] 100% agree.
[00:07:01] Yeah.
[00:07:02] Uh, let's hope things change.
[00:07:05] We have at least gave, gave our feedback on that.
[00:07:08] Um, content.
[00:07:10] We got so much to go to when we said we only could do the show for 45 minutes.
[00:07:14] So it is going to be an hour long show.
[00:07:16] I know already.
[00:07:16] So I just want to put the first one out there.
[00:07:19] Let's talk content.
[00:07:20] Now have a certain topic in mind, which I think James wants to discuss as well, which
[00:07:25] isn't even in the script for today.
[00:07:26] So take it away.
[00:07:28] In V what's going on with total rush or should we call it a different promo?
[00:07:33] Cause it looks familiar.
[00:07:35] I think you're thinking about the trailblazer promo, but a total rush.
[00:07:39] It's all about kind of using players for five a side.
[00:07:44] So they kind of have to be a little bit versatile and EA boosted some stats a little bit more than
[00:07:49] they maybe normally would.
[00:07:51] So, uh, so they would fit playing in a five a side team.
[00:07:56] Uh, so that's kind of the, the base of, of this, uh, promo.
[00:08:02] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[00:08:09] So, uh, yeah, that's, well, of course, uh, some well-known players and the boosts are okay ish.
[00:08:16] Uh, some of them doesn't seem that good like Arnold, but the, the in-game stats have been boosted
[00:08:23] more than the card rating should suggest, which is okay, I guess.
[00:08:28] Um, some fun cards, of course, but the, the, the good ones are pretty much out of, uh, reach for many.
[00:08:38] And the cheap ones are really cheap and I'm kind of guessing that they won't be as good as, as the good ones, uh, of course.
[00:08:45] But it's just 7.7 million.
[00:08:47] What were we talking about?
[00:08:48] Yeah.
[00:08:49] We have Cristiano Ronaldo 2.2 something and Griezmann 1 point something.
[00:08:54] So, uh, we can talk about the team afterwards.
[00:08:57] Uh, so it's like more well-rounded players in this promo.
[00:09:00] So you should be able to use them in the rush mode.
[00:09:02] Uh, we got an objectives player, uh, Daniel Parejo.
[00:09:06] He is also well-known, uh, to the foot community.
[00:09:09] Uh, been lots of promos, uh, during the last five, six, seven years, I guess.
[00:09:14] Uh, got some nice pace boost this time.
[00:09:18] Uh, center mid, got plus 25 acceleration to a plus 27 sprint speed, uh, which he kind of needed.
[00:09:30] Uh, card is solid.
[00:09:32] I don't think he's going to get in many teams.
[00:09:34] 85 rated.
[00:09:35] Uh, you need to win six matches, uh, with at least four players from La Liga.
[00:09:42] Uh, in your starting eleven, it's squad battles, minimum semi-pro or in rivals.
[00:09:48] Uh, fair enough.
[00:09:50] Not difficult at least.
[00:09:52] Uh, you need to play ten matches while having at least four players.
[00:09:57] And you need to score ten goals using a player from La Liga.
[00:10:02] And you need to assist five goals with three balls in squad battles or rivals.
[00:10:09] That can be done with any type of player.
[00:10:11] Also that's just by playing, I guess.
[00:10:13] So it's not difficult, uh, but the card is not gonna, yeah.
[00:10:19] I find this extremely disappointed because of one thing.
[00:10:23] And that is?
[00:10:25] Parejo, in my honest opinion, as long as I played FIFA, he's an 86 rated card.
[00:10:30] Yeah.
[00:10:30] This card should be an 86 rated card.
[00:10:32] Yeah.
[00:10:32] It's like, kind of, you packed the walkout.
[00:10:34] It's just, if I packed this one, I was like, this isn't the real one.
[00:10:37] Yeah.
[00:10:38] No.
[00:10:40] He's been Mr. 86 for a while, yeah.
[00:10:43] Why not give his, like, if EA is making jokes anyways, make his promo card in 86.
[00:10:48] Yeah.
[00:10:49] So that's, uh, yeah, fair enough.
[00:10:52] Dead ball plus is nice, of course.
[00:10:53] So if he kicks should be nice, long ball, normal tiki taka and ping pass or good passing.
[00:10:58] Press proven is also nice.
[00:10:59] So you can probably use him in Russia as well, of course.
[00:11:02] Uh, but still there's so many other good cheap players around.
[00:11:06] So, um, but save him for an evolution later.
[00:11:09] We might get something fun.
[00:11:11] Hopefully.
[00:11:12] True.
[00:11:13] True.
[00:11:14] Uh, you for you, James or me?
[00:11:18] Uh, he doesn't really fit my team.
[00:11:20] So he's a name from me.
[00:11:22] If only it was ID six rated.
[00:11:24] Yeah.
[00:11:24] Maybe that would change it.
[00:11:29] Yeah.
[00:11:29] And yeah, we were talking a little bit about banter.
[00:11:31] We got a player of the month.
[00:11:33] SPC today.
[00:11:34] Uh, kind of expected, uh, Cole Palmer had a great month for Chelsea.
[00:11:39] So, uh, he got an 87 rated, uh, pre-after month card plus one from his uniform.
[00:11:47] He did get dead ball plus play, uh, play style plus, uh, but his free kick accuracy is
[00:11:55] 80.
[00:11:56] So, uh, well, I think EA could have boosted that a little bit more.
[00:12:01] Didn't actually see that still.
[00:12:03] We should saw that before.
[00:12:04] Yes.
[00:12:05] Yeah.
[00:12:07] It helps with the place that of course, but I still think it should be much higher to
[00:12:12] be honest.
[00:12:13] Yeah.
[00:12:13] Maybe you can boost it.
[00:12:15] Yeah.
[00:12:15] You can of course boost it with a plan with a chemistry card or something, but, uh, yeah,
[00:12:21] it's, uh, yeah, they could have given him, uh, at least an 84 or 85, 86 easily without
[00:12:29] breaking anything.
[00:12:31] Uh, but, uh, yeah, uh, catalyst or my story.
[00:12:34] It does the job can also, uh, yeah.
[00:12:38] One of these should do it for the free kicks, a pretty cool card, but let's explain what's
[00:12:44] with the banter.
[00:12:45] What's going on here?
[00:12:46] Yeah.
[00:12:46] I remember when the, before the launch of, uh, when EA presented the player ratings, uh,
[00:12:51] for the Chelsea players, uh, Cole Palmer and a few of those guys were talking about it,
[00:12:57] uh, and then, uh, they were talking about Cucurella's card and it's like, uh, he's, he's a known,
[00:13:04] he's not a rare card.
[00:13:04] He's a non, non rare card.
[00:13:06] And then Cole Palmer said, ah, I've discarded him five times already.
[00:13:09] And, uh, Cucurella, he gave him a really, really strange, uh, quite angry, annoyed look.
[00:13:16] And, uh, there's a section in the, uh, SPC to unlock all bomber.
[00:13:21] We put some bronze players and you get the Cucurella card, which is fine.
[00:13:27] We find quite funny though.
[00:13:29] Uh, it's a good banter from, for me.
[00:13:31] I think, uh, it's nice.
[00:13:33] Yeah.
[00:13:33] This one I found funny as well.
[00:13:35] You put in one bronze player.
[00:13:36] Uh, it has to be a rare player.
[00:13:38] I think.
[00:13:39] Or non rare player or something like that.
[00:13:41] Yeah.
[00:13:41] It says specifically, I quite like this and you get a Cucurella card in exchange.
[00:13:45] It's like, make zero sense.
[00:13:47] If you don't know, know the joke, but I thought this was a pretty fun one.
[00:13:51] Yeah.
[00:13:52] It's really nice.
[00:13:53] Uh, I like those, those small things, uh, spice things up a little bit.
[00:13:57] It makes, uh, makes us smile a little bit, which is nice.
[00:14:02] Yeah.
[00:14:02] James, you, you, you've used original bomber.
[00:14:04] I think your team, what do you think?
[00:14:06] Yeah.
[00:14:06] He's been in my team twice now.
[00:14:08] Uh, I had the gold card in, in like week, uh, like halfway through the first week or
[00:14:14] like the pre order week.
[00:14:16] Uh, and I didn't like him at all in my team.
[00:14:19] Uh, he's back in again and I really like him now.
[00:14:22] Uh, changed a few tactics around a little bit and I, yeah, I'm getting on with him as a
[00:14:26] card really, really well.
[00:14:26] So I am quite tempted to do this just even for a small upgrade.
[00:14:29] If I can do it cheaply enough.
[00:14:32] Uh, it's around 70 K to do the SBC.
[00:14:34] So it's not.
[00:14:35] Yeah.
[00:14:35] And if I can, if I can bring that price down with, you know, obviously whatever I've got
[00:14:41] lingering around in my squad, then yeah, I'll probably do it just for the upgrade.
[00:14:45] Don't know whether I'll be using him for any free kicks, but you should know.
[00:14:50] Yeah.
[00:14:51] Yeah.
[00:14:51] That was my highlight of the week.
[00:14:53] Uh, playing a friendly to versus James, by the way, Yngwie.
[00:14:56] Yeah.
[00:14:57] Uh, I kicked, I, I sort of missed time to tackle.
[00:15:00] Let's put it mildly.
[00:15:01] He got a free kick and he's like, I don't even know how to take free kicks.
[00:15:04] And then he scored the free kick.
[00:15:07] Nice.
[00:15:08] Alexander Arnold was doing work for me that night.
[00:15:10] Yeah.
[00:15:11] So he's not taking any free kicks with Paulman.
[00:15:13] No, he's not.
[00:15:14] No, no, no, no.
[00:15:15] Oh, well.
[00:15:18] Um, it's a pretty interesting, interesting card, isn't it?
[00:15:20] I think we.
[00:15:23] Well, I have the inform, so it's not that interesting for me, but he's different from the informer.
[00:15:28] That's why I find him an interesting card.
[00:15:30] It's not that different.
[00:15:32] Uh, he's a little bit faster, uh, plus four free kick accuracy other than that is plus one,
[00:15:40] plus two.
[00:15:42] So for me, it's not nothing special.
[00:15:47] Same pretty much the roles and, uh, and play styles besides the dead ball plus, which
[00:15:53] I don't need that anyway.
[00:15:55] So, uh, no, I get what you're saying, but I quite liked it.
[00:15:59] And if they gave him a special card, at least that's what I've been complaining about.
[00:16:02] So now they have done it.
[00:16:03] I have to admit that I quite like it that if they boost the card, that's already got
[00:16:07] a small boost to this game so far, they should do something with him.
[00:16:12] Yeah.
[00:16:12] And if it's something small, like giving it that populous, I think that's a pretty cool
[00:16:17] feature just to give one.
[00:16:19] Yeah.
[00:16:19] It helps, but they could have given a plus two because he's probably going to get an
[00:16:23] inform soon.
[00:16:24] And then that inform is going to be 87 rated and maybe it's pretty much the same minus the,
[00:16:31] uh, dead ball plus thing.
[00:16:33] But, uh, if they had given him a plus two, he would be kind of, uh, more viable a little
[00:16:39] bit longer, but now we can maybe a week or two, then he's going to get a new card.
[00:16:43] So yeah, and it's probably going to be cheaper than this one anyways.
[00:16:47] That could be true looking at his 86 rated card.
[00:16:50] James just get his 86 rated cards, what Yngwie is saying here to you.
[00:16:54] Okay.
[00:16:55] I'll tell you a word on it.
[00:16:58] So yeah, but, uh, EA thanks for the banter.
[00:17:02] Yeah.
[00:17:04] Something to, something to build on with that, making them more special.
[00:17:07] I like that.
[00:17:09] Yeah.
[00:17:09] But don't ever give me a Ruth Van Nistelrooy goalkeeper or a Mark van Bosch.
[00:17:13] No, no, no.
[00:17:14] We don't do that.
[00:17:14] Never again.
[00:17:15] That's no banter.
[00:17:15] That's just disrespect.
[00:17:16] Just saying, just saying.
[00:17:18] That's different story.
[00:17:19] Yep.
[00:17:20] What else did we get or you want to discuss?
[00:17:23] Uh, we got some, uh, SBCs, which I've kind of like, uh, we did get, uh, Mallory Swanson
[00:17:33] Rush SBC, 89 rated card.
[00:17:35] That's a plus two, which is nice.
[00:17:38] The prices went up twice as well.
[00:17:40] Uh, that these two SBCs have affected the lots of American, uh, players and, uh, the, uh,
[00:17:48] women's, uh, NWSL players, uh, Sophia Smith, et cetera.
[00:17:54] Inform, uh, Rotman has kind of gone up extinct as well.
[00:17:59] Uh, the Swanson card is 250,000 K to do.
[00:18:02] Uh, she's forced us kids five star weak foot, which is really nice.
[00:18:06] Her non-inform was really good.
[00:18:08] I tried her earlier in the game.
[00:18:11] Uh, got some really good stats as well.
[00:18:15] I think, um, she can play left mid, right wing striker and left wing, which is really
[00:18:22] nice for team building inside forward plus and winger plus plus only on the left mid.
[00:18:30] Yes.
[00:18:30] That's a little bit annoying.
[00:18:32] Not a little bit annoying.
[00:18:33] That's just damn frustrating.
[00:18:35] Yeah.
[00:18:36] The left wing one could at least had the, uh, maybe the right plus or something.
[00:18:41] Yeah.
[00:18:42] A right wing.
[00:18:42] Well, maybe the left wing since she starts left mid, but the right could also put it
[00:18:46] on right.
[00:18:47] But that's probably going to be in some card later on.
[00:18:49] How can you have a left midfielder with winger plus plus, but not have a left winger?
[00:18:54] Yeah.
[00:18:55] That sounds a bit weird, right?
[00:18:56] You have a left midfielder that can attack extra good, but if you put her already on top,
[00:19:00] she can't do it anymore.
[00:19:01] Yeah.
[00:19:02] Yeah.
[00:19:03] It's a, yeah, it's a bit strange.
[00:19:05] Uh, she has the normal finesse shot, which is nice.
[00:19:07] First touch flair, technical and quick step.
[00:19:11] So she's really good on the ball.
[00:19:12] She's quite quick as well.
[00:19:14] So, uh, that's, um, it's a good card.
[00:19:18] It's a fun card, but, uh, yeah, a little bit strange with the roles.
[00:19:21] Uh, I agree.
[00:19:23] Ah, James is something you're like, hmm.
[00:19:26] Or the price or is like a totally out of the price range and weird league to use.
[00:19:31] Out of my price range.
[00:19:33] Too difficult to fit into a team for me.
[00:19:36] So not something that I would be looking to do at all.
[00:19:42] I think there's an extraordinary card, but I'm the same with James.
[00:19:45] Like two on, it's a lot of, we got some pretty expensive SBCs this last week.
[00:19:50] Yeah.
[00:19:51] Yeah.
[00:19:51] Some of them have been really overpriced.
[00:19:53] Uh, but next one I think is kind of not too bad because, uh, she's a legend of the female
[00:20:01] game as well.
[00:20:02] And, uh, the inspiration behind, uh, James's t-shirt, I guess, uh, that she brought the tea
[00:20:10] celebration, uh, drinking tea when she scored against England, which, uh, many found amusing,
[00:20:16] but I guess the British didn't at least not the English fan.
[00:20:19] Quite unknown.
[00:20:21] So that's Alex Morgan, uh, really good on FC 24 as well.
[00:20:26] She got an SBC end of an era.
[00:20:29] She has, uh, retired, comes in around 325,000 coins to do.
[00:20:35] She has four star skill, five star weak foot and some pretty, pretty good stats here.
[00:20:42] Uh, for a striker as well.
[00:20:46] She wasn't in the game originally, uh, from the start.
[00:20:50] You could search the name, but her card is not.
[00:20:53] Yeah.
[00:20:54] So I'm kind of glad they added this one might get, uh, David the Heyer card later on as well.
[00:21:00] Yeah.
[00:21:00] Wasn't that because originally the season hasn't started yet?
[00:21:04] No.
[00:21:05] The new season.
[00:21:06] Uh, the Heyer had signed before the kind of cutoff date.
[00:21:09] So in theory, he should have been in.
[00:21:12] So yeah.
[00:21:12] Uh, but Morgan.
[00:21:14] I was going to miss 78 goalkeeper by the way.
[00:21:16] Nevermind.
[00:21:16] No, but he, he should have had an informal.
[00:21:19] Yeah.
[00:21:19] Fair enough.
[00:21:20] Uh, Alex Morgan striker, roll target for plus and poacher plus plus, which is really nice.
[00:21:26] Uh, that's a fitting for her card and play style.
[00:21:30] Uh, finish shot plus, which is really, really nice.
[00:21:33] Uh, first touch normal flare normal aerial normal and trivala.
[00:21:38] So I think that's some really good, uh, attacking, uh, play styles as well.
[00:21:41] So I think this card could be really good in game.
[00:21:44] And of course you can link her with, uh, if you're lucky enough to, uh, like Sophia Smith or some roadman card or something.
[00:21:51] And, uh, you have the Swanson SPC as well, but of course it's going to be expensive link up, but it's a, it's a really good, uh, good looking card.
[00:22:01] I like it.
[00:22:01] And, uh, yeah.
[00:22:04] We got a lot of questions sent in about chemistry.
[00:22:06] Uh, I'll come back to that later.
[00:22:08] Cause I, I think this card without any boost, especially since we're just in week four, still perfectly fine.
[00:22:17] Even if you put her in tier one cam.
[00:22:21] Yeah, it's a really good, uh, that's a 96 finishing on the main stat card is extremely high at this stage of the game.
[00:22:28] Yeah.
[00:22:29] That's, uh, some will say she's too slow, but I don't think so with those other stats, uh, 84 pace and 84 acceleration and 85 sprint speed is fine now as well.
[00:22:40] And you can, of course boost it with, uh, hunt to chem style if you really need.
[00:22:45] And then, uh, yeah, if you put a hunter, she's 97 attacking position, 99 finishing with 93 shot power, 99 penalties and 92 volleys.
[00:22:57] So, uh, with 92 composure, I think she will score a lot of goals.
[00:23:01] So, uh, uh, it's a fair, fair, fair price.
[00:23:06] Uh, I think for that card, but of course you might struggle a little bit to fitter.
[00:23:14] No, we might have lost in V there.
[00:23:18] It happens.
[00:23:19] It happens when he comes back.
[00:23:21] We'll just, uh, continue the conversation about that though.
[00:23:24] But Alex Morgan, James, I know it does.
[00:23:27] She doesn't really fit your team, but something you're saying like, let's try to do it.
[00:23:33] Um, if I have the coins, uh, if I can, yeah, if I can do it, I would.
[00:23:38] Cause like envy was just saying like the finishing, that's, that's pretty impressive.
[00:23:44] And that the stats there, I think she's a probably a phenomenal striker.
[00:23:51] Uh, like you said, even without much chemistry, still very good.
[00:23:55] So yeah, I think you, anyone, if they could, would, would probably want to slot that into a, into a team at this stage of the game.
[00:24:03] And plus that end of the era card design is just absolutely gorgeous.
[00:24:10] Talking about gorgeous.
[00:24:11] He's back.
[00:24:12] Welcome back.
[00:24:13] How back to the segues.
[00:24:15] I went a little bit incognito mode here, I guess.
[00:24:18] Uh, yeah, it's really nice.
[00:24:19] Uh, it's really nice.
[00:24:20] The Alex Morgan, uh, card.
[00:24:21] Uh, that's, um, I like it.
[00:24:24] Yeah, definitely.
[00:24:25] I, I mean that I got one striker in my team.
[00:24:29] Uh, Haaland.
[00:24:31] And I was like, ah, I don't know about Haaland, but he's now 78 matches in with 89 goals.
[00:24:37] And that's all in rivals and gems.
[00:24:40] Like it does score a lot though.
[00:24:43] Hmm.
[00:24:44] So I'm in doubt of spending.
[00:24:46] I was even thinking about, do I sell him?
[00:24:49] Do I not sell him?
[00:24:50] And I got recommended to put a evolution on him just to make him untradable.
[00:24:54] So I don't even have an option to sell anymore.
[00:24:57] So that might be something I'll do after this podcast.
[00:25:00] Let us know though, in the comments, I've seen a lot of comments on Spotify and, uh, this
[00:25:05] week, and I appreciate that also on YouTube.
[00:25:07] Like if you packed something or you didn't agree with what we say about the player or you
[00:25:13] use the player, drop it in the comments.
[00:25:15] If I'll pick, try to pick out, I'll read them all.
[00:25:17] I can't respond on everyone, but I'll read them all.
[00:25:20] If there's something that is outstanding, like someone that said just now on Spotify,
[00:25:24] Hey, I packed Joe Cole from the, uh, SBC from the icon SBC.
[00:25:29] That's pretty already here.
[00:25:30] See, that's pretty cool.
[00:25:31] Just drop your comments.
[00:25:32] I'd like to know.
[00:25:32] Also, I'd like to know if you want to do Morgan and or Swanson, if you do both, that's
[00:25:38] actually pretty nice fit, but expensive.
[00:25:40] So anyone else you want to discuss?
[00:25:44] Uh, we got a total rush Aito where you need around 140,000 rush points to unlock and you
[00:25:50] get lots of player picks on the way as well.
[00:25:53] So, uh, if you play rush, you're probably going to suddenly see him pop up.
[00:25:56] So, uh, that's an issue.
[00:25:59] Sorry, James, you just lost.
[00:26:00] Oh no, I lost my crown.
[00:26:04] So yeah, it's, uh, it's easy to do.
[00:26:07] And, uh, the card isn't anything super special.
[00:26:11] Uh, he plays in the, uh, just solid four stars, skill moves, four star weak foot.
[00:26:18] It's probably fun card.
[00:26:20] Just, uh, I don't think it's going to kind of, uh, carry you in the weekend league or in
[00:26:25] rivals.
[00:26:25] I think just normal plus for, uh, right.
[00:26:29] Mid has the winger plus and inside four plus to the right winger has winger plus role.
[00:26:36] So that's nice.
[00:26:37] At least I got that one, right?
[00:26:39] Yeah.
[00:26:39] And there's something about these cards, which I forgot to mention this week when I did the
[00:26:43] content shows.
[00:26:44] Yeah.
[00:26:45] You have a lot of rush objectives where you need a player from a country.
[00:26:48] You might not have the players available for you, but if you have untradable players in
[00:26:52] your club from certain countries might make it a lot easier down the road.
[00:26:57] Uh, like we need an Argentina player and James has a top Argentina striker in his team.
[00:27:02] Uh, Mexico.
[00:27:03] When, since we did Jimenez, I've had the Mexico objectives like 10 times already.
[00:27:08] Yeah.
[00:27:09] Uh, having maybe Ito in the team and you get a Japanese one.
[00:27:12] It's pretty cool.
[00:27:13] Yeah.
[00:27:13] That's, that's what kind of why you should keep him.
[00:27:16] Uh, but I don't think he's going to make money.
[00:27:18] I mean, I think it's faster.
[00:27:22] Yeah.
[00:27:23] In a few months, he's going to fit an evolution and could make him really unique and fun.
[00:27:27] So, uh, just, uh, leave him in your club.
[00:27:30] Uh, it's not something super difficult to, uh, to unlock, which is nice of course.
[00:27:35] So, um, yeah, that's, uh, just, um, the ones I think for, uh, objectives and SBCs.
[00:27:45] So, uh, and EA kind of leaked themselves.
[00:27:48] Uh, I'm guessing either SBC or, uh, objective or team two, uh, on information pages.
[00:27:54] So, uh, the playmaker, because he's not in any, any site we can see now at least.
[00:28:00] Um, so if people want to check that out on the news pages from EA, they'll see, uh, a certain player from.
[00:28:09] You can name it though.
[00:28:10] These days we can just talk about it.
[00:28:12] Yeah.
[00:28:12] It's, uh, Syrah Emery from, uh, PSG, uh, midfielder, the playmaker.
[00:28:17] Yeah.
[00:28:18] So that's, uh, that's more common in at least.
[00:28:21] That's good though.
[00:28:22] Yeah.
[00:28:22] He's, uh, he's a good.
[00:28:23] Do you want to talk about the team itself though?
[00:28:25] Cause quite expensive team, but quite insane players.
[00:28:29] But do we actually need to highlight most of them?
[00:28:31] Cause who of course the young and Mbappe are great, but yeah.
[00:28:37] The young got decent upgrades, even though it's just a plus one rating, but the end games are good.
[00:28:43] But of course he's extinct.
[00:28:44] Uh, the same with Lauren James is extinct around 950 K I think maximum.
[00:28:50] So I'm guessing that'll be more expensive, uh, quite soon.
[00:28:54] Uh, I used the non-inform, uh, Lauren James and she's, uh, really good, uh, with the trickster plus as well.
[00:29:01] So she can do those, uh, quick, fancy fake shot turns as well.
[00:29:05] If you like to do some dribbling around the pitch.
[00:29:08] So yeah, I had it in my team until two hours ago as well.
[00:29:11] So, so yeah.
[00:29:13] Yeah.
[00:29:13] And then Joe and Palmer came, which just fit in perfectly as Chelsea players will.
[00:29:18] So yeah.
[00:29:19] And that Trent of course is, I think that's a really good rush card.
[00:29:25] Well rounded.
[00:29:27] And, uh, so Anakin's of course, uh, play CDM.
[00:29:32] If you use them in your main team, uh, cause he's been playing a little bit inverted for Liverpool.
[00:29:39] I wish he was a little, maybe a little bit faster, but, uh, as if you play him centrally
[00:29:44] in midfield, he should be fine with those stats.
[00:29:47] Uh, he does have a false back plus plus, which does represent him though.
[00:29:52] Yeah.
[00:29:52] It presented really well.
[00:29:54] And he's got the whip pass plus, which I really like as well.
[00:29:57] Uh, it's an awesome play style.
[00:29:59] So, uh, and apparently he's good at taking free kicks.
[00:30:04] Uh, yep.
[00:30:05] So, uh, double four star as well.
[00:30:08] So that's, that's really nice.
[00:30:11] Uh, he also has the, uh, attacking wing back plus on the right back, which fits him really
[00:30:17] well.
[00:30:18] Uh, CDM position has the center half role.
[00:30:21] So that's nice.
[00:30:23] So that's nice.
[00:30:23] Normal dead ball incisive pass, long pass.
[00:30:25] Really nice.
[00:30:27] Uh, with past plus he has anticipate normal and relentless.
[00:30:31] So these are really good stats to have for both a midfielder and a wide wing back, I guess.
[00:30:38] Uh, all these cards are good, mate, but they're so expensive.
[00:30:43] Yeah.
[00:30:44] Trent is 400 K now.
[00:30:45] I think he's going to drop a little bit, but yeah, but for a right back, it's a lot money
[00:30:49] though.
[00:30:50] It's week four, right?
[00:30:51] Yep.
[00:30:52] James, are you anyone near 400 K for a right back?
[00:30:54] No way.
[00:30:55] No.
[00:30:57] I don't think I'm near 400 K for a whole team.
[00:31:01] So yeah.
[00:31:02] And the cheap ones are like discard price, 10,000 and 12,000 coins.
[00:31:08] Uh, there's a Williams.
[00:31:11] One.
[00:31:13] I don't think there's any from Serie A is there?
[00:31:16] No.
[00:31:17] This is strange, I think.
[00:31:19] Yeah.
[00:31:20] Also true.
[00:31:21] Maybe we're going to have some objective players, uh, or they're going to be lots in
[00:31:25] team two.
[00:31:25] We don't know.
[00:31:26] Uh, but there's a lot of copy paste players and Bappe, Cristiano Ronaldo, Griezmann,
[00:31:32] De Bruyne, uh, the young, I don't know, Arkenius, Schaumann.
[00:31:37] I mean, I know they do, but still, yeah, it's going to be, it's going to be the same type.
[00:31:44] If we see every, there are some new ones, but they are not kind of up there, uh, boosted
[00:31:49] enough to kind of go into teams.
[00:31:52] That's what I'm hoping for because we face the same players a lot.
[00:31:56] If there's a rich person playing you, you will see the best players, of course, and they're
[00:32:03] going to be the same, same type.
[00:32:05] Yeah.
[00:32:05] That Mbappe doesn't look fun, honestly, to face.
[00:32:09] No, but I'm pretty sure we won't see him often.
[00:32:12] Maybe once.
[00:32:14] Maybe somebody got the loan if they're lucky.
[00:32:17] Uh, in draft maybe, yeah, but I don't think you're going to face him many times in rivals
[00:32:21] or in, uh, foot champs at the moment.
[00:32:24] No, fair enough.
[00:32:26] Uh, general, um, one to 10 rating for this team and promo so far, Yngwie?
[00:32:33] The content has been quite good.
[00:32:35] I say so I'll, I'll give it a seven because, uh, there's lots of things to do.
[00:32:39] There's lots of players and some cool SBCs as well, even though expensive, but I like them.
[00:32:45] And, uh, yeah, that's a, it's a good start, but the evolution should be better.
[00:32:51] James?
[00:32:53] Uh, yeah, I'm gonna probably go with the seven as well, to be fair.
[00:32:58] I like, uh, like the live milestone stuff where you just, you get stuff for playing and
[00:33:06] you get a card for playing or whatever.
[00:33:07] I like that sort of thing.
[00:33:09] Um, these, these players that we're looking at on screen now, they're, you know, they all
[00:33:13] look fantastic.
[00:33:15] I could probably make any one of them fit into my team, but the chance of me ever, or
[00:33:20] seeing one in my team many times sooner, basically nil.
[00:33:22] So that side of it, I'm not, not too fussed about to be honest, but, uh, well, unless
[00:33:29] I'm a super, super lucky, but yeah.
[00:33:31] Um, yeah, I just like the milestone stuff.
[00:33:34] I think, I think that was, that was pretty good.
[00:33:35] The SBCs look pretty good.
[00:33:40] I don't know yet.
[00:33:43] I think, um, I expected more rush objectives necessarily.
[00:33:48] They are there, but, um, there's going to be flash objectives.
[00:33:52] Yeah.
[00:33:53] Yeah.
[00:33:53] Every treat race.
[00:33:55] So, uh, there's going to come lots of things.
[00:33:57] Uh, but I'm going to look, I'm, I'm going to be mindful for my score for those.
[00:34:00] So I, I'm going to agree with a seven.
[00:34:02] Now it could even be higher if those things hit.
[00:34:05] Cause I think if they get the most out of the rush mode, this promo could be really
[00:34:09] cool.
[00:34:09] So, so yeah, I wanted to talk about if that's okay with you and we closing off this promo
[00:34:15] talk.
[00:34:16] I want to talk a little bit about James's first week experiences because last week James,
[00:34:22] you started all the way down in the then I think when you started the game for the first
[00:34:26] time, uh, was it different?
[00:34:29] No, it was div eight.
[00:34:30] I think it was.
[00:34:31] Div eight.
[00:34:32] This year means you start the game at div.
[00:34:36] I know this year, this year I started.
[00:34:38] Sorry.
[00:34:39] No, last year's game.
[00:34:40] Yeah.
[00:34:40] Started right at the bottom division.
[00:34:41] Yeah.
[00:34:42] So now division eight start, uh, you've played many, many games and we know our racing games
[00:34:48] is letters, our ladder systems as well.
[00:34:51] And you have a certain opinion about the rifle ladder system in FC from a new B flash outside
[00:34:59] perspective, which you wanted to get on the table.
[00:35:02] And this discussion could lead take up all the podcast.
[00:35:06] So I have to cut it off somewhere.
[00:35:07] Yeah.
[00:35:08] We will be doing a separate show about it soon.
[00:35:10] I think so put it on the table, let people think, know your thoughts and we'll see how
[00:35:15] far we get.
[00:35:16] I think it's garbage.
[00:35:17] I think the division system is garbage.
[00:35:20] I understand why they're doing it because football, football has divisions, you know,
[00:35:25] all the rest of it.
[00:35:26] But, um, the problem in my opinion is that they've basically made it like a top score system.
[00:35:34] So you hit, you hit a point and you cannot drop back down from it.
[00:35:38] So if you push all the way up to division three or division four or whatever you, it's
[00:35:43] like your absolute peak, you can push all the way up to that, but then you're stuck there.
[00:35:48] And if the landscape of the game changes over the next, however many weeks for the season
[00:35:53] before there's the relegation stuff and you kind of start over, um, you then have your
[00:36:00] weekly objectives and your weekly objectives are tied against your top score system.
[00:36:04] And that just doesn't work in my opinion, this idea of having to score 45 points for the maximum
[00:36:11] rewards from rivals.
[00:36:13] If you end up in a division that you're maybe on a really, really good day, you can, you
[00:36:22] can play at that level, but day to day generally maybe can't.
[00:36:26] I think it's, I think it's a bad system.
[00:36:28] I think you should, these, these like hard locks of hitting a pip or hitting a division and then
[00:36:33] not being able to drop back down.
[00:36:35] I think we're just, just pretty, pretty rubbish really makes me scared to, to push too high
[00:36:43] up the divisions when I'm playing.
[00:36:45] I mean, I'm, it's not a problem that I'm having right now too much, although I did have a
[00:36:48] nice little three game win streak earlier on today, but.
[00:36:51] And you did some call with me, which might accidentally promoted you as well.
[00:36:55] Yeah.
[00:36:55] Some call with you got me up to, yeah, playing, playing in division three with you got me
[00:36:59] promoted up to division six.
[00:37:03] I was scared about that.
[00:37:04] And in my first couple of games, I thought, oh no, but then I, yeah, I, I didn't do too
[00:37:08] bad later on, but I just, I don't, I don't think it's a good system.
[00:37:12] I think if you're playing badly or not even that you're playing badly or poorly, but you,
[00:37:16] you're having a battle and a run of luck.
[00:37:20] Then the game should recognize that and somewhat sympathize with you and throw you an easy win
[00:37:27] to keep you playing the game.
[00:37:30] If you go on a losing streak of five or six or however many games, I think there's a problem there.
[00:37:38] Um, cause ideally I think the way it's, it seems like it should be at least is that when you hit the level
[00:37:47] that you're actually at, you should be winning 50% of your games.
[00:37:52] But if you get, if you know, if you end up in division, you know, whatever division, and then you're losing
[00:38:00] like 80% of games, you probably shouldn't be in that division.
[00:38:03] Even if you made it up to that division at some point, you probably want to drop back down and then work your way back up again.
[00:38:11] And, and people shouldn't be worried about, about the division.
[00:38:16] Like the, like the whole top score thing, maybe that works for like an end of season reward.
[00:38:22] Like well done.
[00:38:22] You made it all the way up to division three or all the way to be able to division two.
[00:38:26] Uh, great.
[00:38:27] That gets you some sort of reward for the season.
[00:38:31] But once you've hit that, if you end up dropping back down all the way to division four, it doesn't matter.
[00:38:36] Okay.
[00:38:36] It affects your weekly rewards, but it doesn't affect your season rewards.
[00:38:41] How does it compare to say, for example, iRacing, which is a hardcore simulation racing game?
[00:38:48] Well, iRacing has got a point system.
[00:38:50] You gain points when you win, you lose points when you lose.
[00:38:54] And the idea there is that you average out your points over however many races you do.
[00:39:00] Uh, and that, that helps you find your level.
[00:39:03] And then it puts you in, uh, lobbies racing other people that are broadly the same level as you.
[00:39:11] You might be say within, I don't know, the, the, the point system is hard to describe, but you're within a certain range of the other players or the other players in your lobby.
[00:39:23] So you might be at the bottom end of that range.
[00:39:26] And that probably looking at it, you think you've got a very limited chance of a win, but your chances of a win anyway, when you're in a lobby with 20 other people are already quite slim.
[00:39:37] Um, but then if you do really well, when you're at the bottom end of the scale, you get more points and that bumps you up.
[00:39:43] And then when you go into your next race, you're in another lobby, which will be slightly higher amount of points.
[00:39:49] So then it just sees how you do basically.
[00:39:52] Um, and maybe it needs a system like that.
[00:39:55] And maybe I can find a way of hiding those numbers behind these division numbers that fits with football.
[00:40:03] Um, but the other systems I think of, like I've played a lot of fighting games, um, played an ungodly amount of Street Fighter V.
[00:40:12] Um, and that works on a similar system.
[00:40:15] Yeah.
[00:40:15] That works on a similar system.
[00:40:16] You don't see the numbers, but you get, you get graded and you're a lot of games do this.
[00:40:21] You're like rookie one to three or one to five, and then you're bronze, whatever range, silver, whatever range, gold, whatever range.
[00:40:30] But once you hit a peak, you can't, it doesn't make it impossible for you to drop back down.
[00:40:35] You can then drop back down.
[00:40:38] Um, so yeah, if you have a run of luck, uh, it doesn't then lock you into that luck.
[00:40:44] If you, you know, if you do really well, you just play one day and you win 10 games in a row or whatever,
[00:40:51] you pump up a bunch of ranks, however that ranking system works.
[00:40:55] It doesn't then say, right, just because of that one day when you did really well, this is now your rank forever.
[00:41:01] Um, and that's what FC seems to do certainly on a seasonal basis.
[00:41:06] And I think that's what's frustrating a lot of players.
[00:41:09] There's, there's a lot of people seem to be getting very frustrated with, uh, their games, the division they're in.
[00:41:17] And I think part of the problem is that the landscape of the game, no one kind of, there was, there was a better time.
[00:41:25] I don't know, you know, FIFA games generally for the most part are like incremental small changes between games.
[00:41:33] Um, maybe this game, there's more changes than some in the past, potentially.
[00:41:38] I don't know. I certainly like the rules seem to be a big thing.
[00:41:42] Um, but if somebody week zero pre-order week goes flying in, rushes through the game, plays loads of games, rushes all the way up to division wherever.
[00:41:55] Then everyone else starts playing and then the spread happens because at the start of the game, obviously everyone's compressed down.
[00:42:01] You might find that this division you've rushed into is actually not your division and then you're stuck there.
[00:42:08] Um, and now I'm just rambling on about it.
[00:42:10] So I want to say, no, please.
[00:42:12] I think definitely true.
[00:42:13] I think, uh, you can relegate from division two upwards.
[00:42:17] Yeah.
[00:42:18] So you can drop from two to three, but why you can't drop from three to four or four to five.
[00:42:23] And you can't drop from elite to division one either.
[00:42:26] No, but that one I sort of catch.
[00:42:28] Like if you're elite, that's your level, right?
[00:42:30] That you don't accidentally.
[00:42:32] You can, you can accidentally, if you co-op with a good person, you can suddenly.
[00:42:37] Yeah.
[00:42:37] But I think definitely the scaling and looking where the points are, the safeguards are in division one.
[00:42:44] Now you have to get streaks actually get to elite.
[00:42:47] You don't accidentally.
[00:42:48] It's not, it's not as easy as it was.
[00:42:50] Exactly.
[00:42:50] So I think.
[00:42:52] And then you're, then you're fully aware where you're going into.
[00:42:55] I put like this.
[00:42:55] I don't think that elite is like the exception, but I agree.
[00:43:00] Like even when we play pretty high level snap, James, I think, uh, it's the same.
[00:43:05] You level up, but you can always drop back down all the way back to all the way down.
[00:43:10] If you're actually.
[00:43:11] Yeah.
[00:43:11] I mean snaps.
[00:43:12] Another example.
[00:43:13] Yeah, absolutely.
[00:43:14] Yeah.
[00:43:14] Yeah.
[00:43:15] Yeah.
[00:43:16] You know, it doesn't matter because it's kind of, you're not playing for anything.
[00:43:20] You're in the elite division then, and it doesn't matter.
[00:43:22] Yeah.
[00:43:23] Yeah.
[00:43:23] But I've been having a horrible time in a division three rivals winning like one in 18 matches or something.
[00:43:32] Uh, had something like that.
[00:43:35] And it's, uh, yeah, it's, uh, I do know someone who might be able to help though, but that's
[00:43:41] exciting.
[00:43:42] Yeah.
[00:43:43] We have some good coaching as well.
[00:43:45] Uh, uh, hopefully that, uh, would help.
[00:43:48] Uh, should think so.
[00:43:49] But if you don't have that possibility, if you don't afford to have that possibility, then
[00:43:55] I understand that a lot of people just say, okay, I'm quitting.
[00:44:00] I don't, I'm, this is not for me anymore.
[00:44:03] It's not fun.
[00:44:03] I hate it.
[00:44:04] It makes me feel bad.
[00:44:06] So, um, they should put back the relegation.
[00:44:11] We had it a few years ago, but then EA put objectives only in those modes and people
[00:44:17] relegated.
[00:44:17] I know why it is.
[00:44:18] I know 100% why it is because we get rewards based on the vision we are in.
[00:44:25] Yep.
[00:44:25] And what happened in the previous years, not last year, but what happened when we played
[00:44:29] seasons or when we actually had a different ladder system is people would relegate themselves
[00:44:35] all the way to an easy division, get those 45 points, so to speak.
[00:44:39] Right.
[00:44:39] And then jump back into getting as high as they can, uh, and within division like three
[00:44:45] or two, get those rewards first day of the week, drop all the way back, get some easy
[00:44:50] wins and Sunday evening, then jump way back.
[00:44:52] But at least you have your 45 points, no pressure.
[00:44:54] And even if you then make it to week three division three that week, not a biggie, but
[00:44:58] those 45 points were breeze.
[00:44:59] And you make the life of people that were struggling in those divisions lower, pretty miserable
[00:45:04] as well.
[00:45:05] So that's why they stopped that.
[00:45:07] I also get that perspective.
[00:45:09] And that's why I said, I totally get English point of, and he's not having a great time
[00:45:14] currently.
[00:45:14] I totally get James point saying, Hey, this system is objectively bad because they don't
[00:45:19] do it everywhere else.
[00:45:20] But it's also because of weekly rewards, it's 100% getting misused or abused.
[00:45:28] I should say.
[00:45:29] Hence why they don't want anyone at not division two and above relegating.
[00:45:36] I think that's why it is.
[00:45:37] But there's many issues that they are communicating why they blocked it there.
[00:45:43] That's also the reason.
[00:45:44] But it's, there are many people that got into a division and they don't even get the five
[00:45:48] wins to get any rewards and they can't qualify for, for champs.
[00:45:52] So they get on get any rewards there either.
[00:45:55] And then they get a fear of missing out, uh, makes them feel bad because they're not as
[00:46:01] good as they thought they would be or could be.
[00:46:03] And seeing everybody else, well, everybody else is getting rewards and that.
[00:46:09] Like I agree with you.
[00:46:11] I definitely agree with you, but the fact I'm playing a kickoff match or a rush match
[00:46:15] with three players going AFK right from the start.
[00:46:18] Yeah.
[00:46:19] Means EA can't really say, Hey, there's just a couple of bad acts in here.
[00:46:24] And I think that's, that sort of shows why they wanted to do this.
[00:46:27] So it, that's why I'm like, I'm not against it or I'm just trying to highlight both sides
[00:46:33] of the story.
[00:46:34] Like, I get that as well.
[00:46:36] People do that in any game where you can be relegated or drop down.
[00:46:41] People will purposefully, I can't remember the term for it.
[00:46:44] It's not smurfing.
[00:46:44] Smurfing is like starting a new account.
[00:46:46] Yeah.
[00:46:47] But yeah.
[00:46:48] Purposefully drop their rank just for easy wins and just to, just to, just to play easier
[00:46:55] competition.
[00:46:57] Um, people do it in snap, did it in snap as well.
[00:47:00] Yeah.
[00:47:00] I do it.
[00:47:01] You got infinite.
[00:47:01] You lose your life.
[00:47:02] You just give away your final 30 games on the day before reset.
[00:47:07] So your matchmaking will be easier when the season starts.
[00:47:10] Yeah.
[00:47:10] People do it.
[00:47:11] People do it.
[00:47:12] I racing people do it in league legends.
[00:47:15] People do it in street fire or whatever, whatever game, you know, that happens.
[00:47:20] Um, how, how are you, how you prevent that?
[00:47:25] I don't know because I just, I just think this system doesn't work particularly well for
[00:47:33] the, for the examples that we've already discussed.
[00:47:35] Uh, maybe just allow one relegation then.
[00:47:39] So if you've, if you've hit division three as your peak, you're allowed to be relegated
[00:47:45] down to division four, but you can never drop down.
[00:47:47] Once a week maybe.
[00:47:48] Yeah.
[00:47:49] Yeah.
[00:47:50] Yeah.
[00:47:51] That would be fair.
[00:47:52] I think.
[00:47:53] And it couldn't be.
[00:47:54] That's through the other way.
[00:47:55] That much.
[00:47:56] We've got the solution here.
[00:47:57] You can only promote like two divisions every week.
[00:48:02] No, I don't think promotion's the problem.
[00:48:05] I think the, the drop in is the problem.
[00:48:07] I think English actually nailed it.
[00:48:10] Uh, and that's, that's the fix is one, one drop allowed per week.
[00:48:14] And then if you are accidentally too high, yeah, you're going to suffer for a couple
[00:48:17] of weeks, but you'll eventually might be less than that.
[00:48:19] I don't know, but you will find yourself.
[00:48:23] Okay.
[00:48:24] I think the community is agreeing with you guys.
[00:48:26] Yeah.
[00:48:27] But you can, but then the person who wants to drop all the way down to division 10 or
[00:48:32] whatever for their easy wins.
[00:48:33] Well, good luck wait in 10 weeks.
[00:48:35] Yeah.
[00:48:36] Yeah.
[00:48:36] Fair point.
[00:48:37] Fair point.
[00:48:37] All right.
[00:48:38] I gotta leave it there because we're 15 minutes in almost guys.
[00:48:40] And we don't have that much time.
[00:48:42] Uh, so quickly, I want to talk about six back formations.
[00:48:46] People were saying, Hey, there's six backs formation.
[00:48:48] Now they're playing six backs and people sent so many messages this week to me guys about
[00:48:53] six weeks.
[00:48:54] Even in V sent me picture when a six back, and it is a six back formation.
[00:49:00] When you have possession, when you don't have possession, it's just a five back, a regular
[00:49:05] five back, which you can say a lot of things about, but it's not that bad.
[00:49:09] A properly four to three, one with CDM is coming back in previous years was far more compact
[00:49:15] than the five back currently is.
[00:49:17] That's my take, but at least just trust me that six back picture you seen coming around
[00:49:21] or people saying this formation is super is only six at the back when you have the ball.
[00:49:27] And that makes zero sense because you don't have an out.
[00:49:30] So don't let people tilt you by showing you a picture.
[00:49:34] That's something I just want to get off my chest.
[00:49:39] We can't go into anything.
[00:49:40] So I'm afraid James, although you would have taken the honors today.
[00:49:43] We have to drop.
[00:49:44] I haven't joked that clue because that will take too much time for today.
[00:49:48] Okay. Yeah.
[00:49:49] We will have the community team of the week.
[00:49:52] And what is that all about?
[00:49:54] What is the community team of the week?
[00:49:56] And I think I actually have a nice one for this community team of the week.
[00:50:05] Thank you, Daniel.
[00:50:07] Community team of the week is in V where people send in their teams on the discord.
[00:50:11] They can use that same system to catalog their weekly upgrades and show their team from week one,
[00:50:18] and all the way to the end of FC 25.
[00:50:20] It is free to join our discord and it is free to just post your team there.
[00:50:24] And if you posted a good team,
[00:50:26] and we will pick it out or an interesting team or a creative team or just a funky team,
[00:50:32] which you like, I like the colors of this one.
[00:50:34] And if you will pick a team and he will tell us which one deserves a highlight on the show.
[00:50:40] And who have you picked this week?
[00:50:43] I've picked John TalkingFood's team.
[00:50:46] It was really interesting.
[00:50:47] It's very different from a kind of standard one.
[00:50:52] Some interesting player choices as well that we haven't seen much.
[00:50:56] And of course, there's two, well, three well-known ones as well.
[00:51:00] So it's a good mix, a little bit of everything.
[00:51:04] It has Neuring goal, which is fine, of course, for Bundesliga.
[00:51:08] Kyle Walker right back.
[00:51:10] He has Micky van der Wijn as center back next to Koch.
[00:51:15] I think his name was called.
[00:51:17] Koch, well done, my friend.
[00:51:18] Yeah, road to the knockouts.
[00:51:21] And Lizarazu left back.
[00:51:24] De Binia right mid and then center mid,
[00:51:28] consisting of the new Turam and of course Hero Marchesio.
[00:51:34] So, Informa DiEMIA on the left mid.
[00:51:37] Up top at Watts next to Sofia Smith.
[00:51:41] So, speedy, speedy, speedy, speedy, speedy team.
[00:51:47] There's not many slow players in that team.
[00:51:50] Some interesting colors, fun players, some well-known ones.
[00:51:56] Meta as well.
[00:51:57] So, a couple of things stands out for me in this team, Yngwie.
[00:52:01] Yeah.
[00:52:03] One, not everyone's on full camp.
[00:52:06] We got questions in about that, which we'll take out shortly.
[00:52:09] And two, John had had a time you guys just described where he thinks he's not having a great,
[00:52:18] or at least he's not having a great time.
[00:52:20] I'm saying he doesn't think so, but he's not having a great time grinding the ladder currently.
[00:52:25] Right?
[00:52:26] But this team actually is pretty phenomenal.
[00:52:30] It's a great team.
[00:52:31] That's without the super rewards.
[00:52:34] Right?
[00:52:35] Yeah, it's a really good team.
[00:52:36] James, you're about in the same division.
[00:52:38] Does your team look anything close to this?
[00:52:41] No.
[00:52:44] You're not a bad team, but this is...
[00:52:47] Good players.
[00:52:49] First owner players as well, so yeah.
[00:52:51] I mean, the Smith striker, she looks amazing.
[00:52:56] That's a great pull for him in that team.
[00:53:02] I focus very heavily on chemistry, so my team would never end up looking like this.
[00:53:11] I'm curious about the roles as well, because there's a lot of plus-plus roles there.
[00:53:15] Yeah, there's like three plus-plus roles there.
[00:53:17] I don't know what they are on these cards, but I'm curious to know what the roles are.
[00:53:22] I'm going to be honest, I don't know that either.
[00:53:25] We do have a question, Sandy, about chemistry, and I'll put it on screen for you.
[00:53:28] Mario sends in, now with player rules, why is EA still making...
[00:53:33] Well, sorry.
[00:53:35] Now with player rules, why EA is still bonded with chemistry team making our life difficult?
[00:53:42] Like in this team, players are on one, two, and three chemistry.
[00:53:45] It's all over the place.
[00:53:46] I don't necessarily think it's an issue.
[00:53:48] What do you guys think?
[00:53:49] Like James, you're heavily focused on chemistry.
[00:53:51] I know Invy's as well.
[00:53:52] Can you guys explain why or why?
[00:53:55] It doesn't matter.
[00:53:57] I like it because it makes the game outside of the actual gameplay like a strategy game for me.
[00:54:09] Anyone who's on the Discord, and I'll do the Chris plug here since I'm feeling issues, it's free to join.
[00:54:15] No reason not to get on there.
[00:54:18] Great community.
[00:54:18] Lots of advice, lots of banter, lots of chatting.
[00:54:21] You can get in and do a rush with the group as well.
[00:54:24] It's brilliant.
[00:54:27] But yeah, I like it.
[00:54:29] I didn't even pay you for that.
[00:54:31] Sorry?
[00:54:32] I don't even pay you for that.
[00:54:34] No.
[00:54:36] But anyone who's on the Discord might have seen the fact that I change my team very, very frequently.
[00:54:44] I'm constantly tweaking it.
[00:54:47] I'm constantly looking for players that might be a better fit.
[00:54:50] And I like that.
[00:54:51] And I like the challenge of finding a player that is a good fit for the team gameplay wise, whilst being restricted by the chemistry and now having these player roles this year.
[00:55:05] I think that's just another layer of depth to your club and your actual squad building.
[00:55:16] I just, I really enjoy it.
[00:55:18] And it makes you, it gives you more opportunity in my opinion to make your team be your team.
[00:55:23] And I really like that.
[00:55:25] And now I'd like to know what Ingvi thinks.
[00:55:28] I agree with James there.
[00:55:30] It's like the puzzles, the challenge by finding the right pieces for that puzzle.
[00:55:36] And it might look complete on the table.
[00:55:41] But when you go into the game, sometimes, oh, this is not working.
[00:55:44] And then you try to say, okay, maybe I should fit a different type of role system for my type of build up play.
[00:55:52] And then, okay, find a new puzzle pieces to put in there.
[00:55:56] And then suddenly it clicks and that's when things are fun.
[00:55:59] And you feel that extra reward for the time extra spent trying to get the team full cam with the right roles and everything.
[00:56:08] That's fun for me.
[00:56:10] Yeah, I'm going to answer this question along with another question that's sent in.
[00:56:14] Unfortunately, this question was sent in on Discord and he's now on stream mode.
[00:56:19] So I can only see the first letter.
[00:56:21] So, Mr. B, dot, dot, dot, with the Manchester United logo.
[00:56:24] Thank you for sending these questions.
[00:56:26] His question is, what do you guys look to do when creating a tactic, looking to take advantage of a mechanic or making it fun, just like football?
[00:56:35] Why I want to combine this question is when I build a team, I think about a system.
[00:56:40] I find players that fit in that system.
[00:56:43] There's where the rules come in.
[00:56:44] For example, I could have a right fullback that wants to cover the inside.
[00:56:49] I want a right fullback like Arnold that has the falls back plus or the falls back plus plus even, right?
[00:56:56] I build my team like that.
[00:56:57] And if I can then make the chemistry as high as possible, great.
[00:57:02] If not, I prefer in this current version of the game, but we have now, I prefer to have an off cam player that does the role he or she is fit for.
[00:57:14] So, in this situation, I would rather put in a one chemistry center defense midfielder on holding plus plus if he has the option than putting a better stat wise defender on that position that doesn't fulfill the roles.
[00:57:31] So, that's maybe what John's done with his team then.
[00:57:33] Yeah, so that's also why I quite like it.
[00:57:37] Yeah.
[00:57:38] Or these are just the best players he has and puts them in this place and don't care about chemistry.
[00:57:42] Also fine.
[00:57:43] And I got this question sent in a couple of times last week as well on the Discord itself.
[00:57:47] So, just to make sure everyone understands, maybe I'm just repeating myself or it's just very obvious here.
[00:57:53] Chemistry doesn't do anything else than boost the individual player.
[00:57:58] So, if you apply a chemistry card on a player, you look, does he have one, two or three dots on him, on her?
[00:58:06] And then you get a stat boost applied on that player.
[00:58:11] Right?
[00:58:11] You get more chemistry on the player by combining players and clubs, etc.
[00:58:17] But it does not influence the stats negatively.
[00:58:21] So, a player on zero chem will be the player with the stats there.
[00:58:26] And if you apply a chemistry card on the player, it just doesn't get any boosts.
[00:58:31] That's it.
[00:58:32] We talked about, I forgot her name, the tea-drinking lady, which, oh, Alex Morgan, sorry.
[00:58:38] Alex Morgan tonight.
[00:58:40] She has such amazing finishing stats that if you put her, if you want to poach a plus plus, she fits that role.
[00:58:48] And even without a chemistry boost, it could very much be that Morgan works better for you and your team than another striker.
[00:58:56] And if you can combine it and up her stats even more by upgrading the chemistry, nice.
[00:59:01] But if you have to put in a player that brings out the rest of your team, that doesn't fit your team on the way you like to play, but will boost the individual chemistry, I think that's rather pointless.
[00:59:14] So, that's how I build my team.
[00:59:15] So, hopefully, I get what Mario says, why do I make it difficult?
[00:59:20] I think it adds that extra layer of puzzle and sort of thinking.
[00:59:24] And it's the same as we see in real life football where, hey, I got a good number six player that can't really press high and I got a good number eight player that's a good pressure but can't really defend.
[00:59:34] What do I need for my style of play?
[00:59:36] Instead of just looking at face stats.
[00:59:38] I think this works really well.
[00:59:41] And the fact, how do I build my tactics answering B double double double.
[00:59:46] The question is, I look at what style do I want to play?
[00:59:50] Which players fit those roles?
[00:59:52] What roles do I need?
[00:59:53] Find the right players with that.
[00:59:54] And if this is all working well together, nice.
[00:59:58] It could also be a reason why I add a player later on that fits that role and is a better chemistry link.
[01:00:04] Like I had with Palmer today, like, oh, it actually fits.
[01:00:06] Hmm.
[01:00:07] Up some chemistry on other players as well.
[01:00:09] Nice win-win, right?
[01:00:11] And even though the individual stats might be a little bit lower, I think that's a generally boost for the team.
[01:00:15] And I quite like that also.
[01:00:17] Hopefully that helps a bit.
[01:00:20] Last sent in question.
[01:00:21] We are going along today, but Homer sends in a question and he asks,
[01:00:28] With people wrongly thinking the speed boost is totally nerfed rather than the bug fixed, do you think we will see less try to abuse it?
[01:00:35] And Yngwie, we haven't talked about the sprint boot nerf.
[01:00:39] Can you like quickly highlight what happened there?
[01:00:41] We got a live tuning update from EA during a few days ago, popping up in game.
[01:00:47] They did some adjustment to some through ball, long balls and speed boost was a little bit too unrealistic and effective maybe.
[01:00:59] So instead of putting out a big patch with lots of other stuff as well, they just put out a live tuning upgrade, made you restart the game to apply it.
[01:01:08] And then you're ready to go with the change, which is nice.
[01:01:12] You don't have to wait for kind of critical quick fixes.
[01:01:16] So that's a nice thing that they could do that.
[01:01:20] I haven't seen as many players trying to do the speed boost after that update came out, but I've seen someone use speed boost and it's still quite effective if done rightly.
[01:01:32] So if you're really good at it, I would still try it because you will get past players still, maybe not as quickly, but it's still quite effective with the right type of players.
[01:01:43] So here, this shows how good we actually read these notes.
[01:01:49] Same with the fact we have to explain the rules and stuff so often, and that's perfectly fine.
[01:01:54] I gladly do it, but there was a bug in the sprint boost that if you trigger the sprint boost and it's fairly easy to do, you hold L1, you start walking.
[01:02:02] And the moment you release L1, you hit the sprint boost like you do instantly.
[01:02:06] It takes a little bit of practice, but it player shoots away.
[01:02:09] There was a glitch in the game that made sometimes this player really launch itself like super speed, right?
[01:02:18] Not always intended speed.
[01:02:19] And if that player already was very fast, you just couldn't catch up.
[01:02:23] So you could have Mbappe, you could try it three times and the third time, he might just launch himself like he was like the flash, right?
[01:02:32] And that's the only thing they removed. The skill, the move itself still works just like it was last year.
[01:02:39] It's not even a new move, but the bug is squashed where the extra launch was applied sometimes.
[01:02:45] It's a little bit more realistic acceleration-wise.
[01:02:49] Yeah, it's still, it's very, I think it still works very well.
[01:02:52] James, we've been playing last night, still worked.
[01:02:55] We could still beat people with it, but it's not that I just going to try this a couple of times and when it works,
[01:03:02] I'm true. No, you just have to think about it now.
[01:03:05] This is perfectly fine.
[01:03:06] This is the way it was intended and actually the way it was during the beta as well.
[01:03:10] So this just snuck in somewhere.
[01:03:12] If someone found out and it got squashed, perfect.
[01:03:15] And doing that over live tuning, two thumbs up for me, ideal way to tune this game now.
[01:03:22] But maybe try to explain a little bit better what happened because now people think they completely destroyed the move,
[01:03:27] but that's not the case.
[01:03:29] Like they do pretty good pitch notes with those images, with those examples.
[01:03:33] They should just, when you do live tuning, put out one page with this and it's all good.
[01:03:39] Yep.
[01:03:39] Agreed.
[01:03:40] Do we think people are going to use it less?
[01:03:43] Yes.
[01:03:44] Because I saw a couple of players like layout dropping in price tremendously because it was nerfed to death,
[01:03:51] but it's actually not nerfed to death.
[01:03:52] But he's gone up again though.
[01:03:54] Yeah, because now people found out that's actually not destroyed.
[01:03:58] Panic buying back and he was down like to 390,000 coins I think at the lowest yesterday, something around there.
[01:04:08] I don't know how much he is back at now, but I think he went almost 100k up again as well.
[01:04:15] Yeah, so it's pretty much.
[01:04:18] So if you were watching the prices, you could have made some really nice trades if you had that amount of coins, of course.
[01:04:24] That's a lot of coins to have, but he's now 440,000 coins.
[01:04:28] So yeah, turn around.
[01:04:32] I'm going to take four more minutes and we all have four minutes, James, for I haven't Jota a clue.
[01:04:38] In this, because I just want to get everything off the list now as well.
[01:04:41] Okay.
[01:04:42] You prepared this.
[01:04:43] So in this section, we, Yngwie, can ask three questions.
[01:04:48] I can ask three questions.
[01:04:49] You have picked a player we don't know about and well, we can narrow it down and try to guess which player it is.
[01:04:56] I think the player has to be 85 or above.
[01:04:58] Something like that was the rule?
[01:04:59] It was 87 or above.
[01:05:03] 87 or above.
[01:05:03] Yep.
[01:05:04] That was the only restriction you had to picking a player.
[01:05:07] Currently, I'm leaning 2-0 and if you are in our Discord, just drop a message to James in this situation.
[01:05:14] Sure, yeah.
[01:05:15] If you want, if you think you know this, you can win it as well.
[01:05:19] And if you win it, you can choose the next one.
[01:05:23] And hopefully, Yngwie and I can took it out and I can score my 3-0.
[01:05:28] Can we do this quick rapid fire questions, Yngwie?
[01:05:31] Yeah, sure.
[01:05:31] Then you can start.
[01:05:34] Does the player play in the Premier League?
[01:05:38] They do.
[01:05:40] Oh!
[01:05:42] The one rule is you can't ask if he's a male or a female in the first week.
[01:05:48] So I'm just putting that out.
[01:05:50] So I'm not asking that though.
[01:05:53] But the Premier League already says that's a male probably.
[01:05:58] Yeah, that kind of gets around that.
[01:06:02] Well done, Yngwie.
[01:06:03] That's the question actually, yeah.
[01:06:04] We've got a loophole.
[01:06:07] Sorry.
[01:06:08] I thought about that.
[01:06:09] Sorry, not sorry.
[01:06:10] We actually knew this already.
[01:06:12] Is the player born in Europe?
[01:06:17] Yes.
[01:06:21] I thought very good.
[01:06:27] Is the player a midfielder?
[01:06:31] No.
[01:06:38] Is the player born in Western Europe?
[01:06:45] Yes.
[01:06:48] Do you want to take a guess, Yngwie or do you want to...
[01:06:53] Is it Holland?
[01:06:55] Yes!
[01:06:56] Whoa!
[01:06:58] I was thinking you had to go first but...
[01:07:02] I was like, I've got to pick the player.
[01:07:05] So I'm going to pick somebody from Norway and somebody with a ponytail.
[01:07:10] I was going to ask the ponytail next but...
[01:07:15] If you had said yes, then I would say Holland straight away but yeah.
[01:07:19] That's awesome.
[01:07:20] Congratulations.
[01:07:22] For my advantage but well done, Yngwie, well done.
[01:07:25] Hopefully next week I can start again.
[01:07:27] Thanks for that, James.
[01:07:29] Thanks for that.
[01:07:30] Awesome.
[01:07:30] You're welcome.
[01:07:31] That means if someone in the community has an idea of which player to pick, just send a message.
[01:07:36] We'll see.
[01:07:37] Don't send it to us.
[01:07:38] Send it to James and or Chris, of course.
[01:07:40] This might get more exciting actually than I first imagined it.
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[01:08:51] Leave us with one thing left for us to do.
[01:08:53] And that is to drop it.
[01:08:55] Drop it.
[01:08:56] Drop it.
[01:08:57] F-U-T.
[01:09:02] F-U-T.
[01:09:03] F-F-F-U-T.
[01:09:06] F-F-F-U-T.
[01:09:07] F-U-T.
[01:09:08] T.
[01:09:10] In a view.
[01:09:10] F-U-T.