***** The Official Fifa 12 Thread *****

Stewy said:
Serie A defence is monstrous, what formation to you play? I find them a bit boring in midfield / up front tbh.
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i wish i could afford them, Silva and Ibra is are 100K each, which is going to take me 3 months of solid play to save up for both i would imagine and both are essential in any decent Serie A team.
 
That sounds fantastic, love the idea of having an EPL defence behind that, my only concern is that I never really build more than one squad at a time and when I inevitably get an injury I won't have much quality on the bench if I go with an African nation as the base for my team. Definitely staying along the lines of a Serie A squad, I just need to figure out which formation and which players. Probably going to have 200,000 - 250,000 to use, depending on if all of my players sell today.
 
Guys a little help please, i've just started UT, won the bronze cup already with an all german team, and finding it way to easy, what am i meant to do next?!
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
That sounds fantastic, love the idea of having an EPL defence behind that, my only concern is that I never really build more than one squad at a time and when I inevitably get an injury I won't have much quality on the bench if I go with an African nation as the base for my team. Definitely staying along the lines of a Serie A squad, I just need to figure out which formation and which players. Probably going to have 200,000 - 250,000 to use, depending on if all of my players sell today.
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Ibrahimovic -- Pato

Giovinco -- Di Natale

Cambiasso -- Vidal

Taiwo -- Chiellini -- Silva -- Maicon

Stek


you should be invincible with that team
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Ibrahimovic -- Pato

Giovinco -- Di Natale

Cambiasso -- Vidal

Taiwo -- Chiellini -- Silva -- Maicon

Stek


you should be invincible with that team
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So is 4-2-2-2 a decent formation? Does it use much wing play and do the CDM's stay back and defend or do they get forward a bit? When I used 4-2-3-1 my CDM's were always on the halfway line or higher which was annoying as they never used to protect the back four even when I set them to defensive mode.

Psycho Sonny said:
are you playing online against other people or playing offline against the cpu?
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I was just about to ask him that. :p
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
So is 4-2-2-2 a decent formation? Does it use much wing play and do the CDM's stay back and defend or do they get forward a bit? When I used 4-2-3-1 my CDM's were always on the halfway line or higher which was annoying as they never used to protect the back four even when I set them to defensive mode.



I was just about to ask him that. :p
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the 2 CAM's are basically wingers, Giovinco is weak, you could put Robhino in there, but he is equally as weak, both Giovinco and Robhino are 5 star skills, Giovinco is faster, Robhino is the better passer/shooter.

Giovinco is cheap as chips (less than 2K i think) and Robhino is like 20K ish

the CDM will always move forward if your whole team presses forward, but should run back when you lose possession, if you go defensive, they wont push forward and stay back, but i find defensive in this game kills your attack. i normally switch to attacking now and just go for it, if i lose i lose, at least i went for it.
 
Belloni said:
Only ever online Kill :P I can't stand playing the CPU.
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You have two options:
  • Use real money, buy some packs to start you off
  • Grind until you have enough coins to trade players

Personally I always choose the first option, it's stupid the amount of money that I've spent on packs, it's only £10 here and there, but I could probably have bought about 4 copies of the game by now. I'd recommend just spending a tenner to begin with, you'll probably get someone worth a few thousand coins at least and then you can crack on with trading other players hopefully for profit.

The only other way really is to begin with a bronze team, grind the offline trophies to get some coins, when your players run out of contracts you can discard them for a fixed amount of coins, then try buying some online that are equal to, or less than the amount that you can discard for. Not sure if you can actually do this with bronze cards as the minimum you'll get a player for is 150 coins and I think you only get about 60 coins for discarding a bronze, though I may be wrong about that.

Essentially, it's all going to revolve around luck to begin with, you'll have to be looking at the right auctions at the right time, then you'll need to sell at the right price, at the right time. It's quite tough to begin with and depends on how good you are at trading and how much patience you have. I'm absolutely terrible at the trading aspect, I can never seem to make a profit because I don't have much patience and I've rather use the easy mode of just putting a bit of money into packs here and there.
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
You have two options:
  • Use real money, buy some packs to start you off
  • Grind until you have enough coins to trade players

Personally I always choose the first option, it's stupid the amount of money that I've spent on packs, it's only £10 here and there, but I could probably have bought about 4 copies of the game by now. I'd recommend just spending a tenner to begin with, you'll probably get someone worth a few thousand coins at least and then you can crack on with trading other players hopefully for profit.

The only other way really is to begin with a bronze team, grind the offline trophies to get some coins, when your players run out of contracts you can discard them for a fixed amount of coins, then try buying some online that are equal to, or less than the amount that you can discard for. Not sure if you can actually do this with bronze cards as the minimum you'll get a player for is 150 coins and I think you only get about 60 coins for discarding a bronze, though I may be wrong about that.

Essentially, it's all going to revolve around luck to begin with, you'll have to be looking at the right auctions at the right time, then you'll need to sell at the right price, at the right time. It's quite tough to begin with and depends on how good you are at trading and how much patience you have. I'm absolutely terrible at the trading aspect, I can never seem to make a profit because I don't have much patience and I've rather use the easy mode of just putting a bit of money into packs here and there.
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the discard method only works with gold players who are non shiny rated 75/76, buy them for 300, use them for 3 games then discard for 300, buy again for 300, use for 7 games then discard them for 300, meaning you essentially used the player for free. all coins from games played go straight into your bank and dont need to be spent on contracts, etc.

it essentially means your team will be absolute pants though. if your really good at the game, you should be able to give most players a good game, if your not though, you will lose a lot.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
the 2 CAM's are basically wingers, Giovinco is weak, you could put Robhino in there, but he is equally as weak, both Giovinco and Robhino are 5 star skills, Giovinco is faster, Robhino is the better passer/shooter.

Giovinco is cheap as chips (less than 2K i think) and Robhino is like 20K ish

the CDM will always move forward if your whole team presses forward, but should run back when you lose possession, if you go defensive, they wont push forward and stay back, but i find defensive in this game kills your attack. i normally switch to attacking now and just go for it, if i lose i lose, at least i went for it.
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Sounds pretty interesting, I might stop going into defense mode at the beginning of games then, it does seem to stop the attackers from going forward or making as many runs, whereas in 11 I only noticed it making the defenders stay in position, without altering the way the attackers made runs. Maybe they changed it.

I don't think I'll be able to afford the team you put up, I'll have to choose between Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, I'm more inclined to go for Silva as he's such a monstrous defender and I don't imagine I'll have problems scoring goals, I can usually put 4 or 5 past a player unless he's top notch and then I start struggling. Probably end up sticking Pato and Di Natale up front, I wanna try Jovetic for the 5* skills as well. :p
 
I hated 4-2-2-2 :p

4-2-3-1 seems pretty good, on

Reina (about to go, he's pony :/)

Johnson
Kompany
Ferdinand
Evra

Song
Fletcher

Nasri
RVP
Silva

Hernandez

at the moment, gonna go for Aguero up top I think and maybe Essien / Yaya over Fletch.
 
Looks good Stewy. 4-2-2-2 looks basically the same as 4-2-3-1 but instead of the CF he gets move forward to become an ST. On paper that doesn't look particularly good as it's defense/defensive midfielder, wingers, strikers. There's nothing in between to help moves build up through the middle, it will all be wing play and that's not really how I play. I like lots of central players so I might have to look at a different formation.

EDIT: 4-3-1-2 looks alright, could be a bit narrow though...
 
I'm really enjoying 4-2-3-1 atm, I play quite narrow and having RVP / Nasri / Silva in the middle is sexeh with Hernandez making amazing runs (he has ridiculous attacking positioning for some reason).
 
Ahh the old grind! I don't intend to use real money on it just yet. I've got 3,000 coins now from winning the bronze tournament. I guess i'll keep grinding that till how many coins recommended??

I've got 8 golds, including Diarra and at 82 which i guess is ok? Not enough for a full team obviously. 9 Silvers too i've just checked my full squad, so i guess save enough coins to make a semi-decent gold team so imma need a lot of coins it seems!
 
Stewy said:
I'm really enjoying 4-2-3-1 atm, I play quite narrow and having RVP / Nasri / Silva in the middle is sexeh with Hernandez making amazing runs (he has ridiculous attacking positioning for some reason).
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Sounds like a good combination, are you using RVP as a centre forward with Hernandez at ST? I'm considering 3-4-1-2 now... 3 at the back but who cares when the three are probably going to be Thiago Silva, Chiellini and Lucio/Maicon. :D

Belloni said:
Ahh the old grind! I don't intend to use real money on it just yet. I've got 3,000 coins now from winning the bronze tournament. I guess i'll keep grinding that till how many coins recommended??

I've got 8 golds, including Diarra and at 82 which i guess is ok? Not enough for a full team obviously. 9 Silvers too i've just checked my full squad, so i guess save enough coins to make a semi-decent gold team so imma need a lot of coins it seems!
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I think about 10,000, should be able to buy a player who you can make a profit on, don't ask me who though because like I said I'm rubbish at trading, I cheat and use real money which is why my trade profit is so disastrously low. :p
 
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