Official FIFA 23 Thread

Problem for me is I've got kind of suckered in / addicted, as FUT is pretty new to me it's still quite fresh but for sure it is a timesink, like some of these squad foundations objectives where you had to play 20 matches with 6 players from a given league/nation, basically grinding out games.
Then there's online matches where I'm massively outclassed, lets say I'm 3 or 4 down after 20mins, it's kind of a waste having to play the remaining 70mins when we both know who is going to win, but I don't want to forfeit as it won't count as a game played towards objectives.
I'm basically checking every evening on the phone app to see what content has been released, I think this is where they've been really smart just keep churning out SBCs/Objectives/Moments to freshen things up. FIFA22 I didn't start until June and basically put it down when they stopped updating the content a couple of months later.

Few usability improvements I'd like to see:
  • Ability to filter out loans from squad searches. Really annoying doing SBCs on console, like the entire first page of Gold Rare players sorted high to low is loans. For some reason on the App, they are filtered out.
  • App does have buggy search though, it's like if you have too many players it doesn't list them all, so you have to tighten up filters (e.g. by position) to get some players to appear
  • App doesn't let you see the SBC reward if it needs more than 1 squad submitted. Really sucky, I have to look it up online.
  • Ability to search by player rating in addition to Quality (especially on the Transfer Market - it's kind of annoying saying "ok I need an 84 player for an SBC, now I need to lookup online what the cheapest 84 rated players are likely to be, and search them individually by name one-by-one")
  • Ability to Send to Transfer List when viewing tradeable unassigned items on console. On the App you can do this, on console you have to actually list them on the transfer market
  • Ability to make search criteria 'stick' better. I keep finding filters getting randomly reset. Like you search transfer market then next time it remembers some filters like league/nation but forgets position.
  • Ability to start every match with predefined kit selection instead of having to manually specify it every single time. Basically I want to press start on squad screen and go straight to the match without the next screen getting in the way.
  • A way to easily view unassigned items from the SBC screens, i.e. without having to exit and go into Store and click 52391 buttons and then come back and realise you only remember 4 of the 5 duplicates you have. My phone is full of dupe photos :/
  • More fine tuning on squad builder e.g. low-to-high rating sort and ignore position, so you can quickly fill up a squad with your lowest rated silver common players or whatever, instead of having to manually search each individual position
  • Make Draft team selection more consistent with normal squad selection, i.e. when you scroll right a couple of times normally you can see Weak Foot ratings so you know which side to put players on. For some reason it's hidden in draft so you have to manually go into the details of every player. And because it's a draft you are often dealing with players you've never used before so you don't implicitly know which players have the better weak foot.
 
my issue is if I don't score within the first 10 mins of the game and I look like I'm dominating it, people just quit especially if they have a poor squad. toxic as ever this game.
 
I have been doing well with 4-2-3-1, Mudryk, Kaka and WC Alowairan at CAM has been immense TBH, 3 CAM's feels a lot better than right and left mids
 
No, the only way to do that is on first boot of the new title it asks if you want to move points over. Shoot.net is the cheapest place for Fifa Points
 
my issue is if I don't score within the first 10 mins of the game and I look like I'm dominating it, people just quit especially if they have a poor squad. toxic as ever this game.

I've got a certain amount of sympathy for this situation - I know I'm not the best player and for the most part I'll try and soldier on but even if I've not conceded but I can't get out of my own half in the first 30 mins I will quit simply because its not fun!

There are just some games where I know the other guy is better and so I may as well move on to another game where I have a chance! I don't see this as being toxic!?!?

*edit* and for me the team has very little bearing - I'd say in 95% of occasions the oppositions team is waaaaaay better than mine!
 
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Bit annoyed with the Gordon objective, I got the 86 variant but to get 88 you had to play 12 rounds in FUT champs finals.
I did qualify for the finals the weekend before but it was very late, I was literally playing at like 2am and with work the next day I couldn't grind out more matches, I got the 5 games for one of the objectives but the final objective would mean playing another 7 rounds which would take I guess about 2hrs.
Then in fut champs playoffs for the week just got I got to the dreaded 19pts again, so no finals, back round again through rivals qualifying, into the playoffs but again last night it was just late, I stopped playing a few games inot the playoffs because I knew even if I qualified I wouldn't have time to play yet another 7 matches.

The most annoying thing is the timing element, a few weeks back I qualifeid for Finals but hadn't even unlocked the 86 Gordon at that point, so it was like a double-whammy - on the one hand I had no 86 rated to use to unlock the 88, and on the other hand because I was in the finals, I wasn't playing the Playoffs, which you needed to do to unlock the 86! Catch-22 situation.

Lost count of the number of hours I sunk into Rivals/FC Playoffs to try and get the Gordon upgrades, probably one of the most annoying objectives, most of them even if quite grindy you can at least sit down and do it every day - like if I need to play 20x Squad Battles or Rivals with X players in my lineup, at least I can do that. Whereas the opportunities to play the specific variant of FUT Champs needed to unlock the different Gordon variants were quite limited.

It frustrates me in terms of FOMO more than it should, because the reality is I'd probably only use Gordon in a handful of games for specific objectives anyway, he wouldn't be in the main squad.
 
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Fair play to you guys that play through the objectives. I refuse to do any of them that aren't just part of my natural cycle of playing division rivals and fut champs.

I tend to pick and choose which objectives I go for - if it's goals/assists with specific leagues/positions I tend to do them in co-op with a mate of mine on squad battles - I'm simply not good enough to do specifics in Rivals!
 
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Fair play to you guys that play through the objectives. I refuse to do any of them that aren't just part of my natural cycle of playing division rivals and fut champs.
I enjoy it in general because it keeps things a bit fresher having to change up my team, figure out how to build a squad that can complete multiple objectives at once (yesterday for example I played with 6x Ligue 1 players, 3x La Liga, then a Premiership striker (needed 15 goals) and Bundesliga RM (needed 15 assists) with reasonable chem etc. I just don't like that sometimes the objectives are constrained too much so they can't even attempt them without jumping through a thousand hoops first and then having very tight time constraints like the future stars ones.
With FIFA 22 I got bored very quickly when they stopped releasing new objectives.
I'm kind of in that dopemine cycle though of just wanting to accumulate more stuff, it's not necessarily a healthy way to play, there are times I wish I didn't feel so 'pressured' in terms of 'having to' complete all these objectives within a certain timeframe.

I tend to pick and choose which objectives I go for - if it's goals/assists with specific leagues/positions I tend to do them in co-op with a mate of mine on squad battles - I'm simply not good enough to do specifics in Rivals!
Look for the ones that just need you to play X matches regardless of result, they are good ones to tick off in Rivals. Also basic cumulative tasks like scoring or assisting, you can usually clock up some of those even if you are losing. What you want to avoid is any objective needing you to win, like "score with a MLS player in a Win", those are the ones you want to be doing in Squad Battles
 
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Could I get a little help please guys

I got Fantasy Hazard who is an absolutely ridiculously good card. Scores so many for me when I bring him on as he suits my style of play so well, and his dribbling is insane.

Trouble is, if I start him, he gets no chem so I’m at 30/33. Should I just take that hit and start him or keep using him as a super sub?

I think I sometimes get a bit precious about having full chemistry but everywhere I read talks about how important it is, so just always make sure it’s maxed

I guess I could get a Belgian manager for at least 1 chem on him.
 
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Could I get a little help please guys

I got Fantasy Hazard who is an absolutely ridiculously good card. Scores so many for me when I bring him on as he suits my style of play so well, and his dribbling is insane.

Trouble is, if I start him, he gets no chem so I’m at 30/33. Should I just take that hit and start him or keep using him as a super sub?

I think I sometimes get a bit precious about having full chemistry but everywhere I read talks about how important it is, so just always make sure it’s maxed

I guess I could get a Belgian manager for at least 1 chem on him.
What formations do you play? Any tradable players in the squad?
 
It's hard to offer help without knowing what other cards you have with links to Hazard, e.g. if you have a high rated KDB card then maybe look at getting him in the team along with Hazard.;

But to address the subquestion directly, personally I'd probably keep using him as sub (this is what I do with Bale for example).

I'm assuming if you put him in the team it's in place of Cole, does ditching him cause any of your Prem players to drop Chem? If not then it might be worth considering with the Belgium manager converted to PL.
 
What formations do you play? Any tradable players in the squad?

It's hard to offer help without knowing what other cards you have with links to Hazard, e.g. if you have a high rated KDB card then maybe look at getting him in the team along with Hazard.;

But to address the subquestion directly, personally I'd probably keep using him as sub (this is what I do with Bale for example).

I'm assuming if you put him in the team it's in place of Cole, does ditching him cause any of your Prem players to drop Chem? If not then it might be worth considering with the Belgium manager converted to PL.

Sorry guys, I didn't see these! Wasn't being rude

In terms of formation, I normally stick with the above or 442 with two CDM's.

Tradeable players...Haaland, Joe Cold, gold Van Dijk, WC TOTT Dalot. The rest is untradeable :(

Messed around with it a bit, got Lahm from the Icon SBC so trying him over Dalot...which meant I lost some Premier League links so had to put Elanga and Cole back in. I'm terrible at squad building I swear :D

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Only option really is to buy some RM players to link, maybe Vini Jr. and Eder Militao
 
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Quick FUT question......has EA released ANY "Events" for FIFA 23??

In the objectives part on the far left tab it says events and says something along the lines of "come back soon to see our exciting events" - only I've never actually seen anything in this?
 
bit boring that ballers promo but have started it and up to date with me just starting on ps5 got some good fodder together now and a half decent squad had another good run on fut champs. Still got to play massive catch up from what squad I had on Xbox though but it’s getting there!
 
Ballers promo is OK for me although it seems to just be Premier League players. I quite like the upgrade mechanic in the sense that it's not really an upgrade but rather giving you another higher rated version of the card, meaning you can use the original versions as fodder. Kulusevski objective is kind of annoying because you need to assist with crosses in 5 separate matches using a him (3* left footed RW). I don't mind inverted wingers in general but it does make effective crossing harder if using less than a 4*WF and crosses tend to naturally come from running down the RW and hitting with right foot. A lot harder than simply scoring in 4 matches (Bamford) or scoring Finesse shots in 5 matches (Diaz). So I've had some 'wasted' matches where he's not managed to assist from a cross.

Timing on the Relegation Scrap objective was deffo too short considering you needed to play many matches with 6x players from various leagues (and hence couldn't do them in parallel), I didn't even realise it was expiring so missed out on some rewards :/

One thing I've noticed is that TOTW drop rate seems to be higher than it was a couple of months back. I have quite a lot of TOTW cards now, there was a time when I had to buy them off the market in order to do SBCs as it was so rare to get them in packs.
 
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