Official FIFA 23 Thread

Well Rivals is fun.

2 games, first was a real back and forth and my complete inability to defend meant that I conceded 6 goals from 6 shots - got to be some sort of record with me having had 15+ shots!

After the other team equalised in the 91st minute to make it 5-5 I lost the will to live and thought I'd just keep hold of the ball and settle for a draw....little did I know that the FIFA Gods had other ideas and a ridiculously simple pass to my left back trickled straight to their striker for an easy goal. :D
 
pretty much only played the weekend league on this for the last 2 months. My team is ok, and any upgrade now costs silly coins which realistically isn’t achievable without some mega pulls and that hasn’t been a thing all year. Gameplay is boring and then when there is no progression it’s very dull.
 
getting to the same stage now, rewards are pointless, just end up getting fodda to plough into icon sbc's that dish out crap.

Also seems I buy better players but my WL performance stays the same or servers are so bad it just feels like I'm playing with gold players anyway.
Everyone seems to have Mbappe, Owairan , and x number of tots cards and 70% haven't got a clue what to do with them lol
 
Quinnaay said:
pretty much only played the weekend league on this for the last 2 months. My team is ok, and any upgrade now costs silly coins which realistically isn’t achievable without some mega pulls and that hasn’t been a thing all year. Gameplay is boring and then when there is no progression it’s very dull.
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Same here. You can make a pretty hefty amount of coins hitting 51/60 points each week but like you said I don’t think I can better my team now without some ridiculous pack luck. The reds are pretty much none usable every week. EA really do need to mix it up massively in 24, it’s so stale, rivals is horrible and the rewards are terrible. I need a football fix as much as a FPS so I’ll always play it but they need new ideas.
 
Andybtsn said:
Same here. You can make a pretty hefty amount of coins hitting 51/60 points each week but like you said I don’t think I can better my team now without some ridiculous pack luck. The reds are pretty much none usable every week. EA really do need to mix it up massively in 24, it’s so stale, rivals is horrible and the rewards are terrible. I need a football fix as much as a FPS so I’ll always play it but they need new ideas.
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What if PES / E-football 2024 is good?
 
jonneymendoza said:
What if PES / E-football 2024 is good?
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No chance, Coinami are just as ridiculous with micro transactions. They release legends but in “packs” of 150 and there are only 3 legends in that set of 150 players. It’s a couple of quid a spin so unless you’re loaded you can never get all the players you want. Not just that, the gameplay is absolutely tragic.
 
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Need some guidance on Chemistry as googling always turns up general chemistry articles not the specific scenarios I'm interested in:
  1. If I play a player out of preferred position, is that the same as a player in position with 0 chem, or worse? (e.g. if I play a RW at RB do they get normal stats same as if I played a RB at RB with 0 chem?)
  2. When you make subs, I understand the sub coming on has 0 chem. But what about his teammates, are they impacted at all from a chem perspective? e.g. if the player subbed off was giving chem to player X, does player X chem drop? Does the player coming on add to player X's chem if playing in preferred position?
To make this scenario less hypothetical using an example, I have Bale 93 RW but because he is Welsh MLS it's very rare I'm playing other players that link to him so usually he's not in my team. His defending is not bad so there are times I'm considering playing him at fullback, especially as a sub if I'm losing as he will offer more of a threat going forward.
 
HangTime said:
Need some guidance on Chemistry as googling always turns up general chemistry articles not the specific scenarios I'm interested in:
  1. If I play a player out of preferred position, is that the same as a player in position with 0 chem, or worse? (e.g. if I play a RW at RB do they get normal stats same as if I played a RB at RB with 0 chem?)
  2. When you make subs, I understand the sub coming on has 0 chem. But what about his teammates, are they impacted at all from a chem perspective? e.g. if the player subbed off was giving chem to player X, does player X chem drop? Does the player coming on add to player X's chem if playing in preferred position?
To make this scenario less hypothetical using an example, I have Bale 93 RW but because he is Welsh MLS it's very rare I'm playing other players that link to him so usually he's not in my team. His defending is not bad so there are times I'm considering playing him at fullback, especially as a sub if I'm losing as he will offer more of a threat going forward.
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I don't fully understand the chemistry mechanics myself and so can't help with your first question but my understanding in respect of bring on subs is that the team chemistry is unchanged irrespective of who you bring on as a sub - pretty sure I read this somewhere but can't remember where!
 
Yeah I'm kind of wondering if with subs it's basically irrelevant what the players preferred position is, if they have identical stats in whatever position you put them in, and there is no impact on teammates. In which case I shouldn't worry about bringing on CMs to replace CMs for example, if it's no worse to replace a CM with a CDM or CAM or LB or whatever. Inference being I should have a bench full of high rated players regardless of their position, nationality or club (although obviously some level of coverage across defensive and attacking attributes rather than eg 7 forwards).
 
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HangTime said:
Need some guidance on Chemistry as googling always turns up general chemistry articles not the specific scenarios I'm interested in:
  1. If I play a player out of preferred position, is that the same as a player in position with 0 chem, or worse? (e.g. if I play a RW at RB do they get normal stats same as if I played a RB at RB with 0 chem?)
  2. When you make subs, I understand the sub coming on has 0 chem. But what about his teammates, are they impacted at all from a chem perspective? e.g. if the player subbed off was giving chem to player X, does player X chem drop? Does the player coming on add to player X's chem if playing in preferred position?
To make this scenario less hypothetical using an example, I have Bale 93 RW but because he is Welsh MLS it's very rare I'm playing other players that link to him so usually he's not in my team. His defending is not bad so there are times I'm considering playing him at fullback, especially as a sub if I'm losing as he will offer more of a threat going forward.
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On point 1. I think the issue is that the other players could lose chemistry when that player is out of position as they don't benefit from league or country from the player out of position too.

The player when out of position would still have his base stats..
 
tough work this weekend in champs got to 15 wins lost one to a pc hacker and the other 4 got out played fair and square. I would turn off crossplay but on Xbox doesn’t seem to be easy finding games on rivals or fut champs which is odd…. I’ve recently picked up a ps5 again so going to start from fresh and turn crossplay off was quicker finding a game on rivals on a quick test. Going to be some grind getting to the squad I had on Xbox not one to buy fifa points think I’ll start with that lineker sbc
 
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y2w2003 said:
On point 1. I think the issue is that the other players could lose chemistry when that player is out of position as they don't benefit from league or country from the player out of position too.

The player when out of position would still have his base stats..
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I'm not bothered about the other players, I know they won't get any chem from the OOP player but in this case I'm looking at playing a Welsh MLS player there, who won't be giving any chem in most of my squads anyway, plus if they all have 3 chem anyway that doesn't matter, it can't go any higher. I've been struggling a bit to fill the RB slot, I don't have any icons/heroes there, I have Vanderson but it's basically impossible to get a Brazillian manager, I also have Atal but his nationality doesn't help. I've ended up going with Tavernier and giving him chem from a bench of other Englishmen plus manager, so have 33 chem now but obviously he's letting me down rating wise.

I remembered the other chem question I needed to ask, when you are playing Max Chemistry mode, does that give max chem to every player regardless of whether they are in position or not? i.e. can I just put all my best players in a team and not worry about what position they are in? Or do only players in position get max chem?

rchads89 said:
think I’ll start with that lineker sbc
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Lineker SBC seemed very cheap to me, it's kinda weird how they decide what cards you need to submit. 81 squad and 84 squad (plus the standard bronze/silver rares) is cheaper than some of the naff random ~87 player of the match or whatever SBCs they've been churning out lately where they want multiple squads including 86 rated etc. I basically ignore any icons that need more than 6 squads because getting that much fodder including 88+ rated squads is like weeks of work for my skill level (plus the opportunity cost of not using the fodder on some of the better short-term SBCs) so these sort of ones are good.
 
HangTime said:
Lineker SBC seemed very cheap to me, it's kinda weird how they decide what cards you need to submit. 81 squad and 84 squad (plus the standard bronze/silver rares) is cheaper than some of the naff random ~87 player of the match or whatever SBCs they've been churning out lately where they want multiple squads including 86 rated etc. I basically ignore any icons that need more than 6 squads because getting that much fodder including 88+ rated squads is like weeks of work for my skill level (plus the opportunity cost of not using the fodder on some of the better short-term SBCs) so these sort of ones are good.
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I do a lot of sbcs although I did on Xbox kept grinding out rivals and fut champs didn’t really get anyone decent out of my picks or packs but just kept saving the fodder to put into the sbcs they have been very good ones tbh. I’m only doing the lineker one because he’s cheap and starting fresh again on ps I need to start building strong to compete in fut champs. Rivals isn’t too much of a issue at the moment as I’ve started in div 10 and with common gold players got myself to div 8 without a loss or a problem hopefully get some fodder on Thursday to try my luck in a sbc again.

I would play abit of squad battles for objectives but tbh just can’t do it so boring :( I’ll stick it out abit but this late on might be too much of a grind to get something decent going squad wise unless I get super lucky in a preview pack ( doubtful ) won’t buy fifa points!
 
Can anyone recommend a decent Icon/Hero/WC Hero striker without spending silly money?

My highest rated squad is a BPL team with the 90-rated Richarlison as my striker - I've tried the 92-rated Lineker but he isn't overly quick so would welcome any suggestions for a decent ST for under 400k coins!
 
I seriously don't know why I bother with this game! :(

I've never professed to be the best at it but when the game simply passes straight to the opposition roughly 50% of the time when under no pressure whatsoever, I think it's time to take up knitting!

I don't think I could pass straight to my opponent if I tried but somehow the game knows exactly when to do it to annoy me the most, there it is! :mad::mad::mad:
 
StevieP said:
Can anyone recommend a decent Icon/Hero/WC Hero striker without spending silly money?

My highest rated squad is a BPL team with the 90-rated Richarlison as my striker - I've tried the 92-rated Lineker but he isn't overly quick so would welcome any suggestions for a decent ST for under 400k coins!
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Lineker atm cheap and decent card use his strengths though he’s not good at everything!
 
Am I right in saying that the Showdown Elliott card is/will be classed as silver for the purposes of future objectives, since his base card is silver?
 
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