Can someone explain Ultimate Team?
I have tried and failed to find what Ultimate Team is in a nutshell. Does it cost anything? Thanks!
Posted Mar 13, 2012, 8:40 PM UTC
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No, its free. Its basically a giant trading card game. You earn coins in game and spend them on packs or buy things on the auction house. I believe there is a tutorial ingame.
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Then you use the players that you get to play matches against other peoples teams. In between all that you sell cards to make more coins (matches also get u coins). There are consumables that you must have (contracts, healing) and others that you can sell. Just start playing and I garantee you'll get it in no less than an hour. Making coins is by far the hardest part.
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I used to play a fair amount of UT. It's free. The packs cost money, unless you earn coins and pay for them. You can earn coins by playing in offline, or online tournies. You get a greater amount of coins for playing online if you win a lot, but offline you can relax as it's ai.
Buying packs really isn't worth it. At first it's okay as if you're just starting, you can get the basics for your squad. I must have opened near 200 packs, of different colours, and the best player I think I ever got was Gotze or Gomez, and they're not even worth that much. You need to really be lucky to get the best, a good in form (I got Michael Turner IF, my only IF. I was livid, was rated like 78 and sold for 10k. Pisstake) to even make your money back.
However, now the markets so cheap you can get 84/85 rated players for 1k or under each time. It's easy to build a team, and if you go on fifa when the games most dead, you can easily get players for cheaper than if you went on at peak time when you have to pay the premium.
Also, pay a good amount of attention to chemistry. You'll notice all the good teams have 100 chemistry. You should too, as without it your team play out of position, don't make runs, and just perform badly as a team. A bronze 100 chemistry team could beat a much better team such all all silvers, or maybe golds with only 35 chem.
I believe the best way to gain chemistry is to make a league based team (Prem League, La Liga, MLS, whatever have you).
For example, I have a Bundesliga team, with 11 Germans, and a german manager in the correct formation I play (This again is crucial to gaining chemistry). Depending on what formation you play, formation cards will be easier or harder to grab. 433,4212 and 442 are usually expensive due to their popularity. Others, not so much. If you play a different formation, you'll be fine and could spend your coins in the market buying formations for players. Otherwise for the popular ones, it's too expensive, so just try and go for the same league/nationality and you'll get 100%.
Alternatively, you could buy the player for the market, with the right formation (says if you press RT/RB, can't remember which one)
Be prepared to pay the premium however for teams from the prem and la liga in the popular formations, for obvious reasons. If you have the coins, sure go for it. But you can build good teams with the Bundesliga and the Russian League for a lot cheaper, and they're not much worse.
TLDR; It's free, play tournies, don't buy packs as good players rarely ever come, chemistry is CRUCIAL to your team. Get it to 100%.
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