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FUT Champions 2018
By: TWS001 Date: October 6, 2017, 6:20 pm
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So how's everyone doing?
It's horrible for me. Currently 4-6. Would snatch your hand off
if you offered me Gold 3 right now!
Didn't think it possible, but it's even worse than last year.
This new patch has brought back PTB again. So much more viable
with the changes. Long shots worse, AI defenders stronger again,
keepers able to turn out Butlandesque performances. Every team
is pure pace and attempting to attack with just three players
with everyone else defending. Through ball and 180 degree passes
are still stupidly OP so they will normally score somehow.
The absolute worst thing is the amount of goals scored straight
from kick off. I'm not talking about zigzagging straight
through. It just seems that 80% of the time, the side kicking
off can pass about and with the way that the AI of both teams
act, create a clear scoring chance. This was glaringly obvious
last year, but is just a joke this year, even worse. At least
one or two goals straight from kick off every game.
I had an unfortunate start as well. First game was in extra time
and my Playstation just decides to eject the disc, causing the
game to crash. The thing turned itself on in the middle of the
night doing this as well. It's a well known problem due to an
over sensitive eject button. On the advise of a Pro clubs team
mate, i gave the console a massive clean and have raised it by
propping it up with DVD boxes so that the eject button has a
couple of centremetres of nothing between it and the table.
Hopefully tomorrow goes better, although it normally takes me a
couple of months at least to be able to win more than I lose so
as I say, would love to somehow make Gold 3.
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Re: FUT Champions 2018
By: KoolKiwi Date: October 6, 2017, 7:32 pm
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Probably as frustrated as you mate! Think I was 2-3 last night
when I turned it off in the next game. Was tilted pretty quickly
though and decided I'd had enough.
Not sure how it'll go today ... trepidation ... ::)
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Re: FUT Champions 2018
By: KoolKiwi Date: October 7, 2017, 4:44 am
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Yep ... afternoon session - should have avoided it. Losing to 3
shots on target = 3 goals, of course.
Switched off the console at 3-7 and had some family time.
Night session finished - around 10:30 PM now) - 10-10. Goals
galore - of course! Pjanic with 3 goals and 4 assists in the
last 2 games (6-2 win and 5-1 RQ in 70th min); Mbappe with 5
goals & 3 assists. Games like that make it easier, but there are
some that stresses one out - struggling to manage with the utter
BS.
What's new, hey?!?!
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Re: FUT Champions 2018
By: TWS001 Date: October 7, 2017, 7:28 am
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I unluckily lost my first game this morning, but won the next
three, every one of them against the front three of Izquierdo -
Musa - Walcott. All easy games against three equally clueless
opponents. That puts me 7-7. Will see how it continues this
evening.......
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Re: FUT Champions 2018
By: TWS001 Date: October 7, 2017, 1:15 pm
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Played two more this afternoon and have moved on to five
straight wins, putting me at 9-7.
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Re: FUT Champions 2018
By: KoolKiwi Date: October 8, 2017, 3:12 am
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Good job.
Me - Got to 14 wins from 24 - the kid winning the last 2. Then
quit 6 games in a row throughout the morning/afternoon. Yep - 6.
Could.Not. Be. Arsed.
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Re: FUT Champions 2018
By: KoolKiwi Date: October 8, 2017, 3:16 am
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Make that 7.
The player switching and defenders committing to a specific path
when the opponent is attacking, is simply nuts. This means that
pure pace = victory now. I'm not sure why your player is full on
committed to e.g. a bouncing ball which you just know he's not
going to have a snowball's hope in hell of getting.
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Re: FUT Champions 2018
By: KoolKiwi Date: October 8, 2017, 3:17 am
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Great ... next game is Martial - Son - Sterling front line ...
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Re: FUT Champions 2018
By: TWS001 Date: October 8, 2017, 5:59 am
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It's been pretty dreadful stuff. I'm at 16-16 so should make
Gold 3 but the state of the games of so bad.
All games are basically the same. Opponent just first time
passes all the way forwards to his front three and then through
ball. Doesn't matter where they're facing in relation to the
pass. Any trash player can play a ball like that perfectly yet a
player with 90 short passing messes up a 5 yard pass unpressured
in a natural direction more often. Eventually three tackles in a
row will bounce straight back to them somehow. Their keeper
(normally Begovic) will make insane saves and you'll end up
losing despite having the vast majority of play and four times
more shots.
You'll battle to equalise and then the absolute shambolic
mechanics after kick off will gift them a goal when they can
pass around you unresponsive players. God forbid you make a
tackle, because it'll put them in an even stronger position to
score.
Refereeing has reached silly levels. Four times I've mistimed
tackles in the box and not given away the most blatant penalty
ever. You can get absolutely smashed but they give nothing. It's
just madness. I'm picking up way less cards than last year
because they call absolutely nothing at times.
The game is just inane mindless bullshit most of the time. If
you get an opponent trying to play then as ever, it is very
good, but the way the game allows people to play with little
penalty and maximum reward is an utter joke. I don't see why
people that play the same old nonsense need to have coins for an
Icon Ronaldo or Ronaldinho or Henry or whatever. All they need
is Izquierdo, Andre Gray and some other crap, and low driven it
across the keeper after continuous spamming of through balls.
Literally makes no difference at all.
I suppose the best way is just to try and play your game and it
will probably become easier to stop over time. But when they
play a hopeful, complete hit and hope, weak foot through ball
from their CB and you are controlling the covering defender, but
he refuses to move in any direction except slowly backwards as
the ball rolls about 1 foot either side of him, and straight to
an onrushing Musa to score and it just happens to be the 90th
minute then I don't even know how EA get away with this year
after year.
As ever it will be a constant battle to over come BS for the
entire year, but with the boosts IF's are already getting, then
by May, god knows how many random players will have cards that
basically have 99 in every stat.
The game on release had promise, but a lot of stupid stuff that
needed fixing. Now we just have a slight tweak on Fifa 17 and an
equal, if not more, helping of BS. Same thing happens every
year, only this year they've done it in record time.
Will be back tonight to somehow grind out two wins from 8
remaining games.
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Re: FUT Champions 2018
By: KoolKiwi Date: October 8, 2017, 2:38 pm
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"Any trash player can play a ball like that perfectly"
"Eventually three tackles in a row will bounce straight back to
them"
"keeper will make insane saves"
... stopped quoting as I felt like the rest was like reading a
recap of my WL story.
It's just crazy that these .... complete skill-less, dull,
exploiting (or cheating - whatever), no doubt pimple-faced
little morons ... can compete. For EA to implement such a
competitive game mode - on a world stage for plenty $$$ - but
yet allow the dimwitted individuals to have a better chance of
winning due to exploitation ... that's what I cannot grasp and
tilts me no end.
But ... the last quote is just so laughable ... "Will be back
tonight". :D Oh well!
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