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Post by dalenichol on Feb 20, 2021 16:58:02 GMT
Hey dalenichol , for me this WL has been absofuckinglutely unplayable. I've played 8 games so far, ALL the teams are super teams. All of them with POTM Bruno, Mbappé, Neymar, 88 Robben, Klaiber (or Tavernier), 86 Theo Hernandez, and such. All colorful OP cards in one team, which makes the mode unplayable. When this players had the likes of good meta teams like Rodrigo, Kante, Son, Salah, Richarlison, etc I could handle them. Now, 0-8 and I think I've finished only 2 of those games, I scored 1-2 goals in total and concededed maybe 3-4 per game. I'll give it a go tonight and tomorrow to see if it improves, but if not I don't think I'll play further than 4-5 games more. Yeah, I feel you. One thing I will say is try to finish every game. I don't know if it's true anymore (or ever was) but apparently quitting games doesn't change your ELO, so you'll keep getting the same level of opponents if you quit, but if you lose you'll come up against players with a similar record. Again, not sure if there's any truth to it, but it was something I was told on discord a few versions ago when I mentioned I quit any game I felt like I was gonna lose, to speed up time. On the main point though, yeah, I'm in absolutely the same position and feeling. I've had a better weekend than last weekend, I'm currently 10-10 and will play my last 10 tomorrow, but I've been lucky in quite a few of those wins and absolutely hammered in most of the losses. I think the time for casual players like me and you is probably gone now we're almost in March. I keep telling myself I'll stop because it's such a frustrating way to spend the weekend, but I keep managing to claw my way back to Silver 1 and automatic qualification so I figure why not, because I'm a fucking sucker
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Post by chaodck on Feb 20, 2021 18:18:40 GMT
Hey dalenichol , for me this WL has been absofuckinglutely unplayable. I've played 8 games so far, ALL the teams are super teams. All of them with POTM Bruno, Mbappé, Neymar, 88 Robben, Klaiber (or Tavernier), 86 Theo Hernandez, and such. All colorful OP cards in one team, which makes the mode unplayable. When this players had the likes of good meta teams like Rodrigo, Kante, Son, Salah, Richarlison, etc I could handle them. Now, 0-8 and I think I've finished only 2 of those games, I scored 1-2 goals in total and concededed maybe 3-4 per game. I'll give it a go tonight and tomorrow to see if it improves, but if not I don't think I'll play further than 4-5 games more. Yeah, I feel you. One thing I will say is try to finish every game. I don't know if it's true anymore (or ever was) but apparently quitting games doesn't change your ELO, so you'll keep getting the same level of opponents if you quit, but if you lose you'll come up against players with a similar record. Again, not sure if there's any truth to it, but it was something I was told on discord a few versions ago when I mentioned I quit any game I felt like I was gonna lose, to speed up time. On the main point though, yeah, I'm in absolutely the same position and feeling. I've had a better weekend than last weekend, I'm currently 10-10 and will play my last 10 tomorrow, but I've been lucky in quite a few of those wins and absolutely hammered in most of the losses. I think the time for casual players like me and you is probably gone now we're almost in March. I keep telling myself I'll stop because it's such a frustrating way to spend the weekend, but I keep managing to claw my way back to Silver 1 and automatic qualification so I figure why not, because I'm a fucking sucker Wow, never heard about the ELO. That might be why I keep getting bad matchups this weekend hahahaha. I'll try to keep it together and plow through the heavy losses I'm getting. Yeah automatic qualification is a fucking trap, you don't want to waste that haha.
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Post by dalenichol on Feb 20, 2021 18:26:54 GMT
I found this on the EA forumns from one of their community managers: "Hi @js_17TH, You're being matched on form, it's possible that you matchmade with a higher tier player who was just starting to play their FUT Champions games. Everyone starts each weekend fresh at zero form, moving up or down with each win or loss. In football terms, match form of W/L/W/W/W would result in a +3 form. Players with similar form are then paired in matchmaking." It doesn't say whether or not quitting games impacts things, but it does suggest that there's something to be said for me having a better record on friday mornings and sunday evenings than the rest of the weekend, though
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Post by dalenichol on Feb 21, 2021 11:12:17 GMT
chaodck after being 10-10, I started playing today and lost 6 in a row (not taking my own advice and quitting games ) finally got a win with my 27th game taking me to Silver 1. Stopping there, fuck that shit!
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Post by chaodck on Feb 21, 2021 15:57:06 GMT
chaodck after being 10-10, I started playing today and lost 6 in a row (not taking my own advice and quitting games ) finally got a win with my 27th game taking me to Silver 1. Stopping there, fuck that shit! Tough luck mate, at least you got to Silver 1 which is decent. After my 0-8 start, I won the 2 I played last night, including a 4-2 overtime win against one of the teams that demolished me on Friday (which was pretty amazing, gotta say). I got 20 games to go, winning 9 seems decent enough to get to Silver 1, but I might push it to try and get Gold 3 if possible. Who did you get from the 10 wins special objective player pick from this weekend? EDIT: Won 4 out of 6 in this morning's session, I'm now at 6/16. This makes me think why I bother playing on days other than Sundays. EDIT x2: Ended up on Silver 1 as well mate. Feel that I could've gone to Gold 3, but lost a few incredible games. Pulled shit on the 10 wins player pick. This week I'll have enough red players to do a 86+ re-roll (unless I get one that enters the team directly).
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Post by dalenichol on Feb 22, 2021 20:46:20 GMT
Glad you got to Silver 1 in the end buddy! I do think that S1 is probably about my level now. I did do better than last weekend when I first started taking my new meds but it still wasn't great. I think, if I keep playing, I'll aim for S1 and just be happy with it.
My 10 win player was bad, got 81 rated Blas, the French right mid. I'm hoping for better from my actual pick, but I'm not going to hold my breath!
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Post by Marshdweller on Mar 12, 2021 12:02:41 GMT
Anyone else trying out Valheim?
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Post by dalenichol on Mar 13, 2021 17:36:56 GMT
Anyone else trying out Valheim? Sorry I've not been around these parts recently life keeps getting in the way. However, yes, I've played quite a bit of Valheim and despite it being a poorly optimised, resource hogging bastard of a game, it is fucking fantastic. I'm playing with a group of 4 (myself included) although we're never all on at the same time. We've only done the first boss, but the random generation of the map has meant that the second boss is absolutely ages away, and we have to go around both mountain biome that we can't be in, and a swamp biome that's really tough. So last night we finally got a portal set up near(ish) the spawn point of The Elder, so we might finally try and take him on soon. We've almost definitely got the gear to actually do it, we've just never been able to get all the way across to him until now So, so good though
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Post by jawzy on Mar 14, 2021 18:06:51 GMT
I like its concept but its not my type of game.
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Post by chaodck on Mar 15, 2021 13:35:11 GMT
Glad you got to Silver 1 in the end buddy! I do think that S1 is probably about my level now. I did do better than last weekend when I first started taking my new meds but it still wasn't great. I think, if I keep playing, I'll aim for S1 and just be happy with it. My 10 win player was bad, got 81 rated Blas, the French right mid. I'm hoping for better from my actual pick, but I'm not going to hold my breath! Hi mate, hope you're doing well (according to your facebook at least you kinda are, that long walk post was amazing). Have you played WL again? I skipped one a few weeks ago, then on the last two weekends I've returned to my usual level, making it to Gold 3 both times (14/30 and 14/28 this weekend, my personal best). I've been super lucky with pulls, as I re-rolled the 86+ red players SBC, putting on it all my bad picks and pulled 91 Casemiro (which isn't that great, but I was using 89 Casemiro so it's surely an upgrade for me), then in the 10-win red player objective set for this weekend I pulled 90 Kane (I had 88 Vardy as my backup forward, I think Vardy might be better, but I'm rolling with Kane to try him), so that's the top 2 informs from the current week for me. I also did a party bag SBC and pulled What If 87 Roberto Pereyra, who is an upgrade over 86 FUT Champs Hakimi, so I'm happy. What about you? Have you played this past weekends?
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Post by dalenichol on Mar 15, 2021 19:22:02 GMT
Glad you got to Silver 1 in the end buddy! I do think that S1 is probably about my level now. I did do better than last weekend when I first started taking my new meds but it still wasn't great. I think, if I keep playing, I'll aim for S1 and just be happy with it. My 10 win player was bad, got 81 rated Blas, the French right mid. I'm hoping for better from my actual pick, but I'm not going to hold my breath! Hi mate, hope you're doing well (according to your facebook at least you kinda are, that long walk post was amazing). Have you played WL again? I skipped one a few weeks ago, then on the last two weekends I've returned to my usual level, making it to Gold 3 both times (14/30 and 14/28 this weekend, my personal best). I've been super lucky with pulls, as I re-rolled the 86+ red players SBC, putting on it all my bad picks and pulled 91 Casemiro (which isn't that great, but I was using 89 Casemiro so it's surely an upgrade for me), then in the 10-win red player objective set for this weekend I pulled 90 Kane (I had 88 Vardy as my backup forward, I think Vardy might be better, but I'm rolling with Kane to try him), so that's the top 2 informs from the current week for me. I also did a party bag SBC and pulled What If 87 Roberto Pereyra, who is an upgrade over 86 FUT Champs Hakimi, so I'm happy. What about you? Have you played this past weekends? Hey buddy, I'm doing alright thanks! The walk was great..sore and tiring, but great! I've not played FIFA in a while now, I think I'm done with it. I even wasted all my coins on packs, basically to discourage myself. I basically got to the point where I couldn't afford to improve my team, but couldn't keep up with the teams that I was playing in Weekend League. So whilst I do have a redemption left if I want to play another, I think that's maybe me done until the next FIFA comes out, which I'll almost definitely buy because I'm a mug!
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Post by dalenichol on Mar 18, 2021 19:54:16 GMT
As good ol' JR would say...Business is about to pick up! CM03/04 is up and running! That's my evening sorted
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Post by jawzy on Mar 18, 2021 20:22:31 GMT
Put it up in FM update. I was semi tempted to do it with motorsport manager if i could ever find a way to present it and be semi interesting. Though if going retro I would dive with non fm/cm , as older versions to today feel too hollow even though back in dy it was amazing, but I would dabble with USM98 or Premier Manager 98, just for the pure different vibes! or even a game from around 91? called "The Manager"
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Post by dalenichol on Mar 19, 2021 7:47:24 GMT
I actually seen a guy on twitter start posting about The Manager yesterday.
Unfortunately 03/04 just runs too slowly for me to want to get properly involved with it. I still go back to CM01/02 fairly regularly, but I've played it so much that I fancied something different. Having not played FM in weeks i decided to start a new save with Rangers last night now that the update is out, but I just dont have the FM itch anywhere near as much these days, unfortunately.
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Post by chaodck on Apr 6, 2021 22:41:22 GMT
You think you've been having a bad day? Well, at least surely is better than Antonio Giovinazzi's.
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Post by Marshdweller on Apr 7, 2021 19:54:44 GMT
35 stops?! And half an hour behind the leader? Ouch.
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Post by Mikey on Aug 11, 2021 9:04:17 GMT
Bit of a late reply but what game is that chaodck ? I'm big fan of F1. As for gaming; I've been bored a lot lately, so the only game I'm enjoying right now is Among Us.
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Post by chaodck on Aug 30, 2021 19:19:45 GMT
Bit of a late reply but what game is that chaodck ? I'm big fan of F1. As for gaming; I've been bored a lot lately, so the only game I'm enjoying right now is Among Us. Hi mate, long time to reply sorry but this forum hasn't been much active lately. The game is Motorsport Manager from SEGA, with a F1 Mod called Fire Fantasy 2021.
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Post by Mikey on Aug 31, 2021 21:45:47 GMT
Bit of a late reply but what game is that chaodck ? I'm big fan of F1. As for gaming; I've been bored a lot lately, so the only game I'm enjoying right now is Among Us. Hi mate, long time to reply sorry but this forum hasn't been much active lately. The game is Motorsport Manager from SEGA, with a F1 Mod called Fire Fantasy 2021. Thanks mate, I'll give it a try.
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Post by chaodck on Sept 14, 2021 20:47:10 GMT
Well, last week I got back to FIFA 21 for a last kick of it before FIFA 22. There's currently an SBC for 10 85+ Rare Players that is pure pure brilliant gold. I've now got a 97 rated team. I haven't played FUT Champs yet, as last week I wasn't qualified for it. I've been having a lot of fun in Rivals though, despite facing a ton of similar teams, as everyone's crazily doing this SBC. dalenichol you shoud try it haha. It's at least a free re-roll if you pull duplicates as you just put them back in the SBC again, and pull 10 new players.
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Post by dalenichol on Sept 17, 2021 20:15:38 GMT
Haha that looks mental. I've not played FIFA in ages but I might go do that just to see what happens Still not decided on FIFA 22 or what platform I'll get it on if I do, but we'll see.
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Post by chaodck on Sept 18, 2021 4:03:23 GMT
Haha that looks mental. I've not played FIFA in ages but I might go do that just to see what happens Still not decided on FIFA 22 or what platform I'll get it on if I do, but we'll see. The SBC ended today, there's little to no content regarding SBC's right now, only icons which are mad expensive. Still I managed to get 97 Prime Icon Ronaldo to replace Salah and am working in the 98 Prime Icon Maradona SBC (I should knock it out, tomorrow or Sunday) to replace Di María, just for the lulz. Still, despite the SBC being over, there's a fuckton of cheap 93+ players in the market, almost all TOTS or TOTY players are shit cheap. Regarding FIFA 22, I've got EA Play Pro, so I get it "for free" on PC, with the top tier version and on the earliest date. So yeah, I'll be here haha.
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Post by dalenichol on Sept 18, 2021 10:08:11 GMT
Ah nice one. I need to see what any of my friends are doing. I think someone decided to go playstation next year and there's one that might go PC. I'm not too fussed either way, but I'm learning towards getting the Series X version.
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Post by jawzy on Sept 18, 2021 21:06:08 GMT
Pc fut fifa years ago was riddled with cheaters of all sorts.
Not touched pc fifa in years though.
Pes do a free version of there game on steam iirc. Not tried it though.
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Post by chaodck on Sept 19, 2021 3:52:38 GMT
Pc fut fifa years ago was riddled with cheaters of all sorts. Not touched pc fifa in years though. Pes do a free version of there game on steam iirc. Not tried it though. I played thoroughly online this season and didn't notice anything fishy really. I don't get to play at a high high level (Division 5 in Rivals and Gold 3 max in FUT Champs), but at least on those mid-tier levels, everything looked legit.
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Post by jawzy on Sept 20, 2021 22:12:06 GMT
Twas mainly something that was happening before match that meant I would get a lose and the opponent would get a win, thus coin farming.
Are prices on pc still sky high compared to console markets?
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Post by chaodck on Sept 21, 2021 4:25:46 GMT
Twas mainly something that was happening before match that meant I would get a lose and the opponent would get a win, thus coin farming. Are prices on pc still sky high compared to console markets? Well, I've had disconnects from opponents at some points that end up handing me a loss, but at least in competitive modes, it's not something exploitable I think as I haven't seen it massively (On friendlies you could always quit after scoring a goal, which meant that when challenges and objectives regarding the mode where around, most matches weren't finished, you scored a goal first, you quit the game). Regarding prices, they are obviously higher than in consoles as the market is smaller. But it's pretty fair in the sense that if you pull a big sellable card, you'll get a ton of coins. I remember pulling a 92 Bruno Fernandes within the first hour of the promo, and I sold him for 2M coins immediately, which allowed me to buy a 95 Messi (for around 1.2M) later that featured in my team almost until the end of the year.
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Post by chaodck on Sept 22, 2021 21:04:17 GMT
FIFA 22 has just launched with EA Play Pro (full game, Ultimate Edition). I'll give it a go and let you know how the game feels, and what I pull for my starting Ultimate Team. EDIT: I'd call this great luck from the legacy FIFA 21 packs...
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Post by chaodck on Sept 23, 2021 14:09:53 GMT
FIFA 22 has just launched with EA Play Pro (full game, Ultimate Edition). I'll give it a go and let you know how the game feels, and what I pull for my starting Ultimate Team. EDIT: I'd call this great luck from the legacy FIFA 21 packs... So, game feels good. Gameplay is different, a bit slower paced which makes it better I think as it's a bit more realistic, but you'll need to adjust. I spent a bit of coins (around 10k) to complement the players I got from the packs and ended up with an 81 rated team with 100 chem. It's not much, but super improvable given the great start to the economic side of things due to the Vini pull. Havertz is sellable, valued around 14-15k so I think I'll keep him as he's been amazing for me so far, when I pull a Hunter chem, he'll be even better. I still don't understand how the new Rivals and FUT Champs systems work, even after watching Nepenthez explain it. I played 4 Rivals games last night, winning 3 (two against a starter squad, one against a decent/good team) and narrowly and unluckily (18 shots on goal against 4, lost 2-3) lost one (against a decent/good team). This has me still in Division 10, and I managed to get to the first tier of rewards for the "first week". That's it so far, only basic SBC's, not much content on that front. dalenichol, Dale mate, any news regarding on where (and if...) you'll play? There are a few objectives for good packs which can be knocked out on friendlies with a pal, and I have no one to play with haha.
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Post by dalenichol on Sept 23, 2021 20:43:00 GMT
chaodck my preference is Series X, which is what I'm installing on currently. At the same time though, I am also kinda tempted by PC, so I really don't know. If I get the series X trial and they don't give me some good packs as a reward for playing previously, then I'll fuck it off and play on PC. I might just install it on PC anyway and worst case scenario, I can do your objectives for you Also, random thought but I have a new role at work which will see me do 3pm-12am shifts, so I'd be tempted to play PC just because I know you'd only be at like 9:30/10pm when I get home and might be up for some games
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