Fantasy FC: Extinct Edition with Steve!

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[00:00:25] You get a range of benefits including exclusive merchandise, coaching discounts and much, legend Mr FC 24 database the foreign master himself and I promised him a crowd to welcome him is no longer then in vain thank you thank you I promise is a promise how you doing my friend I'm doing in Crete? We have someone with the sign walking around saying clap or silence or shit. Yeah. How has live been treating you and for people that don't know you, Steve? Give us a little introduction, shall we? Yeah. So I am a former football caster who just now sort of casually plays weekend league

[00:03:01] every week.

[00:03:02] So I don't really get a lot of time to play for it because I've got a little one. That's what you get when you get kids, my friend. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You either have to lock up your gear or lock up your kids. I'll leave that one to you. Angry. Let's kick this show off, shall we? Because Fantasy Week 1, I have to be honest, it has been a promo with players that are either extinct, players that can be upgraded but are injured.

[00:04:23] But we did have a cup which everyone enjoyed, but as you know,

[00:04:26] I don't play too many cups. Yeah. I'm just going to quickly bring up my team here. And the best player I used in that cup, I think, was... her name is... She definitely made an impression. She said this difficult name, sorry.

[00:05:41] Kundanangi.

[00:05:42] Yeah.

[00:05:43] Yeah.

[00:05:44] She's a huge star, yeah?

[00:05:47] Yeah. I played one match and I was like, I can't take this anymore. Yeah. They need to fix the way that they do it. Like if they're going to do stuff like that, they need to do it. Like you need to have a friendly rating or something because you can't like you can't

[00:07:00] have just like dormant beasts lying in like the six and stuff.

[00:07:04] So now Tuesday show was all about that.

[00:07:07] Yeah. No one diagnosed, no one based, no showers. Lots of part of the delis, this was good stuff. So yeah, I think the general consensus is like this, right? So half my team, I didn't realise actually, I'd been using up until like team of the year. So it wasn't that far from like players have been using quite a lot. So like spin as I spin as Ola.

[00:08:20] I think that card is really good.

[00:08:21] Like it's one of the most underrated cards in the game,

[00:08:23] that card.

[00:08:24] And I did a evolution's dumb freeze as well,

[00:08:27] which was really nice. If you're desperate, he's good, he's not useful. Yeah, I do think they gave away free winner this week, because in Div 2 or 1, I'm now 1, I think 95% of teams have faced even have an R9 or a winner, which is a great combination to face as well. And something really stood out in rivals for me.

[00:09:40] Yeah, I faced a lot of R9s suddenly,

[00:09:42] the last few days for some reason,

[00:09:44] and pretty much every second match, I see the R94.

[00:10:46] So then the five-star skill moves, if I could use that, he would probably be much more effective, of course, but he gets bumped off the ball so easily. Even Baja bumps him off the ball. So,

[00:10:55] yeah. Salomar Baja.

[00:10:57] I don't know. So what I've tossed in the Spotify polls, would you use them, that Werner to me a ham. Oh, no, this one is it. This is the last one we sent and everyone tagged me in. It's a new Jago Ospas card. 32k versus 95 R9. He's already left and he's 4 star 4 star. Mostly explosive against R9, right?

[00:12:24] And he's like, oh, look at this difference.

[00:12:26] Like I'm going to this.

[00:12:28] No, it's Levokusni you should be able to get at least two three upgrades if he plays I'm not sure I haven't checked out though but I think that's a nice objective you don't have to do anything super special

[00:13:41] it just play matches and score and assist goals to to unlocking which is

[00:13:44] nice so you probably unlock him by accident anyways plus the XP which is I just looked up and he played like the last four games with Dortmund and he scored a couple of goals So he might you know He might come good. He just needs to score or assist one goal and then The team will probably if he appears in three matches The team will just do the rest for him. I guess so

[00:15:05] Yeah, he would be good father. Maybe a 90 rated card. You never know and that's great

[00:16:20] To what's an SPC we got released today as well best seasons ever honestly. I've seen him play international this year and I've seen him play unfortunately too much. I hope he has an off day this Sunday versus final but I'm afraid he won't have it. He has become one of those strikers which just scores no matter where he plays and I think fancy but just hat-trick left, hat-trick right, yeah easy. If the SP go unbeaten

[00:17:40] do you think they'll get like related special cards, I don't know. But it's a little bit annoying that he's lower rated and

[00:18:46] I think they have for boosting the player so that doesn't make any sense to me and trying to understand and it's yeah It's it's just a mess for me, but I don't think they've got rules

[00:18:52] They have to have something but I well there are players with three four

[00:18:57] Same rated cards just with small differences. So I don't know why they can't

[00:19:02] kind of boost them more so

[00:19:06] Yeah, it's untradeable. But let's be honest, the reason he costs so much is because of lack of demand. It's like all the other cards. The reason that the other cards are more expensive this year isn't because they're better cards, in comparison to the curve, it's because there's just less of them. Because EA is fighting the pack weight. Oh, I'm not going to say that. I'll set it

[00:20:26] now. It's too late. I don't want ice cream anymore. I've moved on. It's winter season. I want fondue. I still have it's good ice cream though, mate. This is very good ice cream. But there are so many people sitting on high rated fodder and complain there's no big SPCs

[00:21:41] to do now.

[00:21:42] They got one.

[00:21:43] I would prefer, of course, if I would consider him or the 93 best, the 93 best looks more enticing because it feels newer.

[00:23:03] Not necessarily because it's a better card, but it's like, ones doing it. So, but I wouldn't do it just to put him on the bench. I would do him if he would start in my team and I think he would. So, but if you, if you're going to do to put him on the bench, maybe put the red evolution on him just for a little bit of flex, then there's better things to do.

[00:24:25] I can see people do that as well.

[00:25:25] Yeah, I think the red cards are a bit naff, and people do enjoy it, so it's fine. But, man, I just think it's a bit naff.

[00:25:30] That's also because most of the cards designed here have been really good.

[00:25:35] Yeah, that's where all their money has gone. All that pack money that people spend has gone on like designers to make nice cards to draw you in.

[00:25:43] Well, I'm not going to, that Ramirez is probably the best card, probably one of the best midfielders in the game, if not the best. They changed his work rate as well, which is awesome. He has a medium attacking and high defensive work rates as well,

[00:28:21] which is very nice. He just, he looks like, I? He's like, what did you guys do? Yeah. Yeah. Do that in the top nails. Yeah. He's surprised. They gave another bomb pass to her left back card.

[00:29:40] Now for the skill moves for the weak foot, high high workers.

[00:29:43] And she got the whipped pass plus, which I'm a huge fan of.

[00:30:45] And she's not extinct, 1.175. It's insane when we're happy and 1.175 left back is still in the market.

[00:30:51] And left back when there's been like, how many good left backs have there been as we saw?

[00:30:56] A few, yeah.

[00:30:59] Yeah, it's a very good, very good card. But no disrespect for content. No, contest frustrating. He wins the ball and then just come past the ball two meters and it's like, Oh, come on. So yeah. MacManaman card. Another one is probably not going to be in many teams.

[00:32:23] I think chips shot plus and technical plus play style. And I'm getting the Champions League one and just tossing it into an SPC because we already did Zala and a couple of more of them. It's just a shame that there's so many extinctions, so expensive as well. And it's kind of, well, not all, there's only one extinct in the main normal team.

[00:33:44] That's interesting. Well, it's almost the same card. If you look at the total stats and totally in-game stats, if you compare them with team of the Air Van Dyck, it's not a huge difference, John. Steve, I think it's time we go into our ad break. We'll be right back after this. Because seriously, though, we couldn't make this show without our

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[00:36:17] support foundation because if EA is not giving back, we certainly will. make it look good. I'm like finally they get a card and it's like... Yeah, it's a good card though but she should probably get a few upgrades as well at least two. Two. So she'll be 91 rated. Both the cards look good but at least problem for the Arsenal play she's injured so... Yeah, she's been injured all year that's

[00:37:43] unfortunate. Yeah and she got injured again who's really good. No, I think he's recovered now, honestly. I think he's back from injury. It's a very good card, but I still think 3.4 million. He has five star schemas for the weak foot, but still 80 crossing.

[00:39:03] It's not too good for a winger And I think this might be one of them. This promo could have been perfect for Nkunku. It's like playing Santiago from Liverpool. That's so much injured. I feel really sorry for the players because they're really good players in real life and they struggle with the injuries. So it, I, the thing is, yeah, I do agree. Connor Bradley should have been a future star. There's like no reason why he wasn't, but I would say like, I reckon the price of this Diaz, people are thinking he's going to get all four. And I think he's probably the most likely player out of the whole set that's going to get all four because he does

[00:41:43] have contributed a lot of goals. Liverpool, 25% of the free twos in the Premier League. Yeah, but Steve Ingvie is one of those fans which is afraid to be too positive because he's afraid if they lose his fault for being too positive. I'm a finer fan. I have 35 years of pain having the same feelings, but I've learned that you've got to be confident.

[00:43:02] This week we're playing basefay.

[00:43:04] They haven't lost the match yet.

[00:43:05] Yes, half our team is injured as well or suspended.

[00:44:05] Stuttgart as well. They always fail to captify on what's happening in the real world, which is a bit strange. And maybe it does say like, you know what John says, it takes a while

[00:44:10] to schedule these things. But it don't take that long that they couldn't think like, oh

[00:44:16] yeah, Olly Watkins is one of the most favourite players in the world, like in Premier League

[00:44:21] at the moment, let's give him a card. If it's his or her assists, ohbele. Actually, that's three. There's the Gaze, Gaze, I think that's how you say her name. Yeah, Gaze, yeah. Yeah, she's really good. She's basically, she looks like she might, and if she gets upgraded as well, she'll be really, really, really, really good. She's got a lot of stats, basically. So, she's got 99 agility off the bat without any upgrades.

[00:45:43] She's got like 94 physical, good finishing, good pace.

[00:45:47] She's gonna be really good, You think like who the hell are that team? But they're second in their league and he's like 14k. But if he gets like three or four upgrades, 14k for a couple of 90 rated ain't bad. Very good point. Quick talk about Andrej Hado. Just to mention that he has the PowerShot Plus Playstyle.

[00:47:03] One of the playstyles he's got.

[00:47:05] That's a really good play He's got 90 passing as well to go with that with 90 vision. So if they are sitting back, you also have to thread the ball through to Good Striker if there's no shot on. Combined up with 5 star weakfoot, I'm going to buy a couple of country.

[00:48:23] I'm just going to put him over team.

[00:48:25] She down? Who's she down? Live listeners are buying them from the market now That's another perk of listening in life. Yeah live trading Good shots to get it. We got some question to go into though guys. Yep This one is interesting. It's from Nathan. Of course the scout He says what should he I do to boost this game? There seems to be a full a law sorry law in social media and in gameplay

[00:49:42] Folks are complaining about the game even rival seems to be played like friendlies where it's a race to rage quit

[00:50:47] accessible from September when it's released to June, July when they're selling the next one. The way that they've done it, this is the most accessible FIFA if you wanted to

[00:50:54] do, if you wanted to start, if you went and got the game now for like 20 quid off of a

[00:50:58] like website or something, you could still get a good old McTeame in like three or four

[00:51:02] weeks quite easily from playing the game. And, I've to need five German players in his quad That's it. They should do it like in but also there's no competitive edge anymore in wickedly wickedly kiss

[00:52:20] I know this is sounding like a heretic, but we could leak is the casual mode, right?

[00:53:22] because everyone wants to meta and there are 11, there's 14 pairs to pick from of 11 of the best are,

[00:53:27] and that's it.

[00:53:28] And I prefer this way and think that like,

[00:53:31] someone that doesn't spend a lot of money

[00:53:33] can actually be really good and get like 16 wins

[00:53:36] in weekend league and get quite high in my apples

[00:53:39] quite easily.

[00:53:41] Sorry, Nathan.

[00:53:45] Now when I get the general idea, the same type of players, then it's, I can definitely see the loss of enjoyment in that factor. Oh yeah, but I'm not gonna do it so I can't really get angry at that. No, I know. Whoops. Sorry. If you have anything to add on Nathan's question and Steve's input?

[00:55:00] No, I think so.

[00:55:02] Then I got second question for you, but the second question is really quick, so I'll skip

[00:55:05] the third question for you as well. of, uh, and also I think there is a fantasy card that's actually very cheap and fits this mode. Um, and surprised me actually, I was going to kind of use an SPC, but, uh, I didn't.

[00:56:20] And that is, I think it's bill or something like that.

[00:56:24] The by Biermann Biernik, uh, left Wimby asks, is there such thing as a good card that is too good? I'd argue that for a different type of gold card still being so elite, heading into March suggests that they build it too strongly. Steve, what are your thoughts? So...

[00:57:42] The thing is, I've not encountered... I've encountered these cards, like, I've played some of them

[00:57:45] with Cristiano Ronaldo Team of the Year's go up in increments so that they go up, they're always above the power curve a bit because we're gonna get to a point now at Team of the Season when they're crap, like people haven't realized this, but they're gonna have two-page styles and everything else is gonna have three-page styles.

[00:59:00] They're gonna have likes in the stats.

[00:59:02] They're gonna be obsolete.

[00:59:03] So the window for Team of the month that you're giving him like 95 page or something no they shouldn't it's all right it's quite all right uh we lost Envy so we can't say um goodbye to Envy but Steve it's been a pleasure having you all my friend it's good seeing you again and good here as well

[01:00:20] uh you coming back yeah i'll be back um i'm happy to come back i'll do a