FIFA 18: 5 Ultimate Team Changes We Want To See

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FIFA Ultimate Team is by far FIFA’s most popular game mode, and it’s also the main source of revenue for the FIFA franchise. From Weekend League to Division 1, players spend hundreds of hours completing SBCs, opening packs, and upgrading their squads.

Despite the massive amount of money EA takes in from the Ultimate Team feature, it is far from perfect, with many FIFA players asking for changes, often extreme ones, to the game mode. Here are the five changes that are most needed in FIFA 18’s edition of Ultimate Team.

 

5. Improved Search Filters

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This is a big one. Whether you’re searching for their first inform or their fifth inform or even their upgraded card, you’ll end up encountering the same problem as all other UT players do. You can’t find the player you’re looking for, and you often end up overpaying because you’re too lazy to go and find the correct version or because you misinterpret a 7 for an 8.

The same goes for consumables. The fact that you can’t search for squad fitness cards, or player contracts, or all attribute cards is insane. These are some of the most important items in the game, and you should be able to find them easily, quickly, and without paying twice the price. EA could easily fix these by implementing a rating filter, where you select the rating of the player version you need, or by adding specific filters to each consumable.

This is a big issue, not only in terms of accessibility, but also in terms of price — you often find yourself spending an extra thousand coins that could be directed towards your squad just because you can’t find the item you’re looking for — and it’s something that could be quite easily fixed.

 

4. Shortened Weekend League

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Who has time for 40 games of FIFA? Unless you’re unemployed, or FIFA is your job, it’s likely that you have better stuff to do than to sit in front of your TV playing FIFA for eight hours.The rewards are great, but they don’t represent the work you need to put in in order to complete all 40 of those games.

By reducing the amount of games needed to be played, perhaps to 25 like PC, or extending the period to four days, EA would see a considerable boost in the amount of people who would play WL, and it would allow players to not have to plan their whole weekend around a video game.

 

3. More Leagues

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The addition of more leagues has been a much-wanted feature for some time now, particularly the addition of the Chinese Super League and the Brazilian leagues. These two leagues have some of the best talents in the world, but they’re still not available to play with in FIFA. From Ramires to Oscar to Tevez, all players who were fan favorites just a couple of years ago, EA is denying fans the chance to play with some of the best players on the game. Who doesn’t remember how good Ramires and Tevez were in FIFA 15?

This also is the most likely of the five to be introduced. In fact, Teixeira hinted at the appearance of the CSL for FIFA 18, a decision that would certainly earn EA some praise.

 

2. Tell Us The Truth

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Just tell us the truth. In last year’s Chemgate scandal, the truths about how chemistry and chemistry styles work were revealed. That was a good start, but there is still a lot out there that we don’t know. What are the pack weights? How are skill points determined? What determines who we’re matched up with? And the big one: Does scripting/momentum exist?

The last one has been an important subject for quite some time as more and more players have complained that their players feel sluggish at times, particularly after dominating a game or going ahead. There has also been mention of code suggesting that scripting does in fact exist, but it has yet to be confirmed.

The 20-2 shot losses and the horrible passes may just be poor finishing or bad aiming, the sluggish players just standard input lag, but as loyal customers of FIFA, we deserve to know the truth, no matter how much EA doesn’t want to give it to us.

 

1. Improved Gameplay

Easily the biggest issue in all of FIFA, whether it be Career Mode or UT, is the buggy and often infuriating gameplay. While FIFA certainly has the best gameplay of any soccer game on the market right now, PES 18 seems like it could challenge the FIFA franchise (although it’s been like that for years), and the gameplay is not void of flaws. These annoying glitches or instances of what seems like scripting/momentum have infuriated players for years, even making appearances in some of the largest eSports competitions in the world, where faulty AI has cost pro players in vital moments.

These bugs, termed “EAids” by the FIFA community, range from unexplained mistakes to major gameplay issues such as the offside trap bug on PC just a couple of weeks ago. In any major online game, this is worrying, but in the most popular sports game in the world, it is unacceptable. While it may not be such an easy fix, especially considering how recently the Frostbite engine was introduced, it’s crucial that they remedy it, especially if EA wants FIFA to become a major eSports game.

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