That reminds me you need to add me on PS, been a good few years since we had a game.
Gaming FIFA 22
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Do not open your OTW pack. You'll get a random rare gold player instead of your actual card.
That just happened to me.
How is the single player experience this year? Gamepay more realistic? Career mode is engaging?
Career mode is dogshit as per. Mainly due to the AI and dumb glitches.
There are things quite clearly untouched. 19 year old free agents appearing rated in the 80s just like previous games.
Ah, okay. Seems like FIFA is still not for me then.
£70 bloody quid. Anybody else remember the good old days when the English supermarkets would compete on price and you could pick FIFA up for £25?
I remember when freddos were 5p
Not really - when they killed league SBCs and took out fitness cards they made it more or less untenable.
Those were the days mate :-)
When is the best time to open the OTW pack?
OTW players are in packs at 6PM UK time so in 7hr 30 mins, open after that.
I was losing my mind with contextual dribbling being built-in until a pro finally told me the way to disable it.
The game is somewhat playable for me now since I'm not at the mercy of the AI dribbling for me.
The game is somewhat playable for me now since I'm not at the mercy of the AI dribbling for me.
For those that opened their OTW packs, a new one will be given in the coming days based on the EA website.
Was playing around with a few different formations, struggling to find one that worked. Finally seemed to have found one with the 451 (2dm 3cam) Fernandes, Foden & Havertz are linking so well with good passing and pace. Lukaku uptop has been quality too.
Was playing around with a few different formations, struggling to find one that worked. Finally seemed to have found one with the 451 (2dm 3cam) Fernandes, Foden & Havertz are linking so well with good passing and pace. Lukaku uptop has been quality too.
They've now disabled you opening OTW packs until 6pm tonight. Wise decision 
How many OTW cards are there? Is there a chance I pull somebody that a danish side (for example) has signed?
Is this worth it for someone who's a PES player and hasn't bought a FIFA game in about 6 years?
Well I opened a pack by mistake and got some gold MLS player.They've now disabled you opening OTW packs until 6pm tonight. Wise decision
Considering the state of efootball... if you want a football game them yes
Yeah I figured as much. I pretty much go for PES every year since I mostly play offline singleplayer and I don't like FIFA's scripting (don't care for ultimate team, its a glorified gambling simulator IMO). But looking at how bad ePES is I figured I'd give FIFA another go.
Got to say it was nice on the first day of the trial but now insane how quickly almost everybody has got an absolutely insane team. Haaland, Lukaku etc in almost every team I'm coming up against and even seeing legends like Eusebio ffs. Granted I haven't spent all of my 4600 pre-order points but it would be lovely to face teams similar to mine this early.
Teams not even bad in fairness but it's more cheap good players rather than expensive quality like most seem to have.
Teams not even bad in fairness but it's more cheap good players rather than expensive quality like most seem to have.
Thing is, I genuinely enjoy FUT at the start of every year when you have a mediocre team and everyone is starting out. 1-2 months in it becomes dumb though with all the ridiculous cards and everyone getting really high rated teams. The offline gameplay most years isn't too bad either once you adjust the sliders (there's this one forum that always tries to find a good balance of sliders and they do a good job with it). The problem is usually the off the pitch mechanics in modes like career mode are usually so bad and lack depth to them. Not sure what it's like this year as it just came out today for me but @Solius seems to not be a fan, which is a shame.
The most fun for me has always been if you have people you can play it with regularly offline, as it's the user base more than the game itself which causes it to be annoying as feck by always trying to exploit things IMO.
That’s good to be fair. Thanks.
It's ridiculous that you were even able to open it without OTW players being out. But yeah, fair play to them for seeing their mistake and rectifying it
Yeah I was half expecting them to just say touch fecking shit and move on.
I just get angry at the lack of basic fixes for things. If you don’t care for small details and can change the sliders i’m sure it can be enjoyable.
The gameplay when it works is actually quite good this year really. There’s still frustrating issues like poor player switching, silly blocks and things like that but I like the focus on passing more and it’s definitely no longer ridiculously easy to move up the field. You can’t get through on goal with two passes every single time which is much much better. I’ve also scored some quite unique goals and some really satisfying ones. They need to fix gk saves at close range and the long distance shooting (too easy) but it’s close!
I got Anto! <3 #9
Picking this up today after work.
Some very satisfying games against PSG (who I've played in 70% of my games regardless of my team choice)
Note the absolute jammy opening goal for PSG guy, and also then a wonderful move to eventually win it in the last minutes!
And then this one, went down to ten men and still thrashed him Very happy with the fourth goal.
Note the absolute jammy opening goal for PSG guy, and also then a wonderful move to eventually win it in the last minutes!
And then this one, went down to ten men and still thrashed him
Very happy with the fourth goal.Up to Div 6 now.
I feel like my team is holding me back though but I refuse to pay stupid prices for cards that'll plummet soon enough.
I feel like my team is holding me back though but I refuse to pay stupid prices for cards that'll plummet soon enough.
Switched back to FIFA, after trying the Efootball game. Only played one kick off because my PS5 is telling me that it’s going to take 9 hours to download the final 23GB. I’m more than happy with the gameplay for now, though I seem to remember the short passing being harder on semi controller settings last time I played FIFA. The only thing I need to get used to is the crossing/long passing which seems much harder than PES to get the distance.
Got Grealish in ones to watch. 3.6 röntgen.
So satisfying
especially after the cnut tried to foul me.Got Alaba. Not really happy, but could be worse I guess.
Going to open mine shortly. Hoping for Ronaldo/Varane.
Predicting Berghuis.
Predicting Berghuis.
Alaba isn’t bad either. Season is still young. Who knows where they’ll end up. Imagine getting ronaldo though?