Official FIFA 23 Thread

StevieP said:
Got excited when I managed to pack a Trophy Titans Icon......but then not so much when it ended up being 86-rated Torres who is worth about 30k! :(

On the upside I did get 89-rated Ljungberg in my free 85+ pack!
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I got shafted by the TT Icon as well - Untradeable 86 Torres when I already have 91 Torres for several months who has higher stats for everything so it's useless :mad:
I really don't get the point in this, the 91 Torres SBC was reasonable value so I imagine a lot of people did it and that was ages ago, why bring out a terrible variant like this rated 5 lower months later. If you could somehow upgrade it via objectives or something then it would be OK, heck even if they had given it 5* WF/SM, or more Traits or something, at least then there would be a possible reason to use it. Or if you do bring it out, make it a cheap SBC for newcomers to the game who might not already have a better Torres or something, don't dish it out in packs.
Literally a Fodder card in my case, at the same time I opened an 81+ x2 pack and got Gold Trent and Gold Trent is actually better than this junk because it's higher rated to put in SBCs.

On the loan pick I chose 93 Lahm, just wish it was the other way round as Lahm actually improves my current team compared to 86 Torres who would have been completely useless to me even at Christmas.
 
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Loaded up the Xbox had a few games of fut champs so refreshing with the squad a lot different to the ps one.

I packed 3 TT icons :) lahm 93 rated he's unreal tbh. Torres 86 one :( and the 93 casillas who is obviously ***** any shot on goal and its in!!!!
 
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Second TT icon I got was flipping 86 Torres AGAIN! Like a bad penny you put him in an SBC and he just comes back!
Then got two more junior TT icons but at least that was junior Lahm and junior Del Piero.
 
I did Keane as fodder is flying out of packs and objectives atm. I got 93 Klose back from one of the packs.

He’s a monster in the midfield, the only issue is everyone else has him as well :cry:
 
Really tempted for the new Carlos Alberto SBC but I've just sunk a lot of my fodder into the Keane SBC!

I'm a bit thin on the ground in terms of right-backs because I'm maintaining and upgrading teams from all of the big leagues - does anyone else here do this or do you just concentrate on 1 or 2 main teams??
 
StevieP said:
Really tempted for the new Carlos Alberto SBC but I've just sunk a lot of my fodder into the Keane SBC!

I'm a bit thin on the ground in terms of right-backs because I'm maintaining and upgrading teams from all of the big leagues - does anyone else here do this or do you just concentrate on 1 or 2 main teams??
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Don't have the fodder for it on Xbox or ps, I did the Keane SBC on xb and the ps I got scammed into one of those icon packs 90+ and the result from that has put me off even loading it up on either console :(

Carlos Alberto is a elite CB though. Be good as RB but elite as CB :)
 
The rumour is Marchisio is getting an SBC trophy titan card in team 2. I might have to save all my fodder for that as he'll be nuts.
 
Right, can someone explain chemistry to me like I'm 4 years old?

My BPL team (433-4) currently looks like this:

GK - FUT Ballers Ederson (91)
LB - FUT Future Stars Malacia (89)
LCB - WC Hero Marquez (89)
RCB - Rare Gold Van Dijk (90)
RB - TOTW Walker-Peters (87)
LCM - TT Icon Keane (93)
RCM - TOTY Icon Xavi Alonso (92)
CAM - Prime Icon Baggio (93)
LW - TT Hero Ljungberg (89)
RW - Rare Gold Salah (90)
ST - FUT Birthday Icon Shearer (92)

The above gives me max chemistry and on a whim I decided I wanted to give Fantasy FUT Mitoma a try at LW but when I've swapped Ljungberg with him, my chem has dropped to 31/33!?!?

If anything I would have expected the chem to increase because its another BPL player? (Mitoma drops from 3 to 1 chem like he's got no other connections??)

What (likely stupid) point am I missing?
 
StevieP said:
Right, can someone explain chemistry to me like I'm 4 years old?

My BPL team (433-4) currently looks like this:

GK - FUT Ballers Ederson (91)
LB - FUT Future Stars Malacia (89)
LCB - WC Hero Marquez (89)
RCB - Rare Gold Van Dijk (90)
RB - TOTW Walker-Peters (87)
LCM - TT Icon Keane (93)
RCM - TOTY Icon Xavi Alonso (92)
CAM - Prime Icon Baggio (93)
LW - TT Hero Ljungberg (89)
RW - Rare Gold Salah (90)
ST - FUT Birthday Icon Shearer (92)

The above gives me max chemistry and on a whim I decided I wanted to give Fantasy FUT Mitoma a try at LW but when I've swapped Ljungberg with him, my chem has dropped to 31/33!?!?

If anything I would have expected the chem to increase because its another BPL player? (Mitoma drops from 3 to 1 chem like he's got no other connections??)

What (likely stupid) point am I missing?
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Send a picture of the squad including the manager see what's going on... WC hero's get full chemistry depending on the icon they do also.. as long as you have at least 1-3 chem on each player wouldn't worry I've never had a issue my main team on Xbox sits anything from 28-31 chemistry
 
rchads89 said:
Send a picture of the squad including the manager see what's going on... WC hero's get full chemistry depending on the icon they do also.. as long as you have at least 1-3 chem on each player wouldn't worry I've never had a issue my main team on Xbox sits anything from 28-31 chemistry
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Yeah I'm not overly worried about not being on full chem but it's not understanding why that's bugging me!

I'll post some pics when I get home but on closer inspection Mitoma gets 2 chem and for some reason Ederson drops to 2 chem as well!?!? (This is all on the mobile app and I'm pretty sure when I first noticed this it was Mitoma that was getting 1 chem and everyone else was full!)

Manager-wise I've got Guardiola with a BPL league!
 
You've replaced a player contributing 2 EPL chem with a player contributing 1 chem. Both him and Mitoma have less chem than the other non Icon/Hero players because they aren't getting additional bonuses.
E.g. Salah and VVD will be giving each other Liverpool chem.
Walker-Peters will get English chem from Shearer.
Malacia will get Dutch chem from VVD (although to be honest I'm kinda surprised he's on more chem than Ederson, I don't think having just 1 nation link is enough to add extra chem)

In a team like yours Ljungberg is a great fit because of all the EPL players.

Keep in mind 3chem is significantly better than 2chem e.g. it gives double the pace boost. It's not a linear scale, the difference between 3cham and 2chem is bigger than than between 1chem and 2chem. Or in other words it's arguably better to have 10x3 1x1 than 9x3 2x2.
That said, Mitoma has a very high base pace so it's probably less critical to get him to 3chem compared to some players.

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I've started throwing a few special cards into SBCs now, normally I hate doing this and hoard everything but I just can't get enough Gold fodder for some of the icon SBCs going around. So I've taken the approach of getting rid of e.g. goalkeepers I'll probably never use due to having a higher rated one of the same nation/league, any players where I also have a loan of that player, and generally looking at how many players I have in that position for that league, e.g. I had a lot of Seria A strikers. Otherwise it feels like I'll never unlock anyone while they are still decent compared to newer cards being released (e.g. I just did Hugo Sanchez a few days ago, but would have been great to have him months earlier).
 
Going to save up a little bit of money each week to dive into FIFA 24 ultimate team this year (haven't really played ultimate team since 2014) how much do you lot normally spend on it the first month (apart from buying the actual game) it seems everyone playing it has super teams already.
 
Nothing on fifa points apart from if I get some initially with the version I buy.

I'd never pump money into FIFA again as the mode is too frustrating and they're making more and more of it untradeable.

Anyone can get a meta team without spending a penny, if you want a team of the absolute best cards like R9 etc you have to spend thousands or be a full time trader without some extreme luck.
 
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I don't spend any money on it. I've always joined late in the cycle and you can get an 'ok' team fairly quickly, I guess it comes down to how competitive you want to be. But if you are having to "save up a little bit of money each week" rather than just having loads of cash burning a hole in your pocket I would really steer clear of that as you will get buyers remorse, you'll get a short term hit from having a nice team but also feel ripped off by some inevitable bad pack luck, and then a couple of months down the line the cards you paid money for will become alsorans as more and more high rated cards get released.
With FIFA23 I actually joined via the mobile app early on and played for a couple of months before getting the game, just doing SBCs and a bit of minor trading, getting free packs, promo packs for 10 coins etc. Obviously without rewards you develop nowhere near the proper rate but it wasn't like I then got the game and was behind the curve for months, obviously I wasn't near the top echelons but equally it wasn't like every team was massively better. My team now I still don't have anyone rated over 93, but it's generally good enough, if I lose games it's based more on the skill of my opponent than what cards they have.

Don't be scared of joining late and using that as a reason to wait for FIFA24 (or equivalent), I joined FIFA22 when it went on gamepass in June and because of all the promotions you get high rated cards pretty quick. I ended up with a 198 rated team which was pretty good, only thing letting it down was I didn't do the 99 Dembele SBC so had 96 Torres at RW instead.
Remember that even if you find yourself outgunned you can use SBCs and offline objectives to unlock better cards and put you in a position to compete.

You'll always come up against the odd person with a ridiculous team of expensive cards which as mentioned above will be because they are either spending a lot, dedicating hours a day to trading or have been very lucky. No point trying to compete with that, it's like if someone on your street parks a 23 plate Lambo on their drive just accept it and move on, they've chosen to invest more than you whether that be money or time, or won the lottery, don't worry about trying to chase that dream.

That said I've got the bug now so probably the next release I'll just bite the bullet and pay the £60 or whatever is they are asking to play it from the start. I have a theory that a fun way to start off is focus on a strong silver team, because it's kind of self-perpetuating, if you do well in the Silver comps then you unlock special silver cards like flashbacks and stuff with ridiculous stats but "74" overall, so you can keep ahead of the competition. And then those special silver cards with artificially low ratings really help in the friendlies with caps on team rating because it keeps the average down.

Also don't forget EA aren't making FIFA24, so it's not really clear what the structure of their new game EA Sports FC will be, maybe it will be more weighted towards pay2win, maybe less, who knows.
 
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Ayahuasca said:
Nothing on fifa points apart from if I get some initially with the version I buy.

I'd never pump money into FIFA again as the mode is too frustrating and they're making more and more of it untradeable.

Anyone can get a meta team without spending a penny, if you want a team of the absolute best cards like R9 etc you have to spend thousands or be a full time trader without some extreme luck.
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This basically. I spent a lot at the start of the year and all I get now is matched with people with teams with multiple TOTY, Pele, R9, Zidane etc. and it is toxic as hell. I played a guy yesterday with 94 R9 up front, Zidane, Jairzinho and all the usual, I pulled it back to 1-1 in the 2nd half and he quit immediately.
 
Yeah, I think FUT of old you needed to pump money into getting a good team. Nowadays though the market is so cheap and it's easy to acquire fodder for SBC, within a couple of months of the game being out most players had 88 rated teams.

At the end of the day, the absolute beast players might buy you a win or two more each weekend league, but if you're a decent player, you will just do well with whatever you have. I got 71 points, last weekend league, my best yet with a fairly modest team of players, none of which I have spent real money on. I made my team 'better' this week and have already lost most Champs games today and the whole of last weekend!
 
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