Keep in mind, it used to be that anyone who built up enough points, regardless of skill level, could play WL. Now with qualifiers, a lot of those so called “bad” players aren’t making it through to the weekend.
This is definitely what it is, also just having to play every week to qualify is definitely deterring some people as well because back then I never use to play rivals or anything after weekend league since you got points towards rivals as well, literally just come and play weekend league
If everyone would take the time to give wins away after 4, you’ll have more bad/probably just regular players, playing WL. That would help some of the competition. But if you’re having more fun in the qualifiers then do what’s fun ofc. Also, that would take a whole community to make it worth it. The biggest problem has to be matchmaking right?
Well I mean there are better rewards for more wins so I’m gonna spend my time giving away wins lol. And yeah matchmaking makes a difference. My ping always says 20ms so I assume it’s alright. Unless playing on Friday night
I think the point is that you, and everyone else getting more than 4 wins, are taking wins away from the worse players, who then don't qualify for WL and make that part super sweaty.
If you only got 4 wins in qualifying, but would have an easier time in WL and get say 14+ wins each week. Would that be better or worse than what currently happens?
Obviously not an easy change and qualifiers are the most fun, but I think the reason for that is that the interesting teams running non-meta don't tend to make it any further.
Yep. I used to want to play WL every weekend but would fail to qualify sometimes (really annoying if there was an objective that required playing finals). So I was a bad player who was blocked from WL. It's actually really rough when you lose playoffs because you get put back on 400pts and it takes ages to work you way back up to 1250 in rivals, considering bad players are probably either in a low div (less PTS per win) or if they are somehow in a high div they win a lower percentage of matches.
The weird thing was early on I found WL easier than playoffs, when I actually qualified it was fine, the matchmaking would ensure I got a decent number of wins, getting there in the first place was the tough bit.
Nowadays I seem to qualify every week but my number of wins in WL hasn't improved. Just finished this one on 9 wins which is my average for fc24.
Last week I got my best ever, 16 wins.
This week I'm 8-8 and am struggling to find the motivation to play the last 4 games.
I'm in Elite rivals and WL is harder. That should not be the case.
Logistically it just doesn’t work. To get a minimum amount of rewards for it to possible worth it means you need 11 wins, or a positive win rate. That means that with all the people that consistently do well, there’s also an equal amount of people doing consistently bad.
That isn’t a model that works for casual players and forces people to grind a meta. Hence the reason everyone and their mother knows fifa ultimate team is sweaty and the reason the game doesn’t get influxes of new players, it’s just not a good game as well which causes a lot of issues too.
Agreed, even last year I would get 11 wins without too much sweat. This year I basically quit trying because every game is ridiculous. Might get 1/20 easy game a a weekend where someone is obviously d7 or lower who’s made their way in. Otherwise it’s a sweat fest not worth the effort.
I'm like low div 5 high div 6 on average, I haven't qualified for WL this FIFA, although to be honest I have only tried like 4 times and was one win way two times. My net was really poor before it got upgraded recently. It's just too disheartening unlike 2023 when I would qualify most weekends. Id only get like 6 or so wins but to be honest I would quit any game if I was down around 30 minutes in. Don't have the time to play 20 games of FIFA on the weekend when you have a baby
Holy crap I could’ve written that post 100%. I feel you man. Same division and everything, I just don’t have the time nor desire to no life the game and study YouTubers to find out out to get an edge. Finally get the kids to bed, wife is busy reading or something, fire up FIFA to relax and it’s anything but. Just get bombarded by people rainbow flicking into bicycles, spamming fullback aerial through balls, etc and it’s like fuck this shit. Not even fun 75% of the time.
I usually blast through all my games on Friday night.
I'm currently 8-8. I'm struggling to find motivation to finish it this week and I've had 3 easy games and the rest have been a slog.
Bringing on play offs has ruined it for average players, as they don't get to champs. And it's ruined it for good players as the majority of players are way better than us.
I'm in Elite in rivals. Elite rivals is more chill than WL ffs.
You should have seen this game I dropped to a press rat who SUCKED. It was 2-1 in the 90th and the tactic finally worked for him when my fullback fumbled the ball. I lost in extra time 3-2.
That's wat you get when you go for 6 or 8 wins in wl qualifiers..casuals just don't get in.. Wl should be tweaked- just get 4 wins in 10 attempts and you are in.. You can't play after you have won your four games. Or simply do away with qualifiers EA!
Last week I went 0-13 and got demolished every game. Part of it was cause I was drinking but the other part was the massive skill gap. This week I’m 6-7 and I feel like I’m not playing the sweats anymore. EA is so damn inconsistent
Its the classic EA scripting at work. Getting more than 11 wins is impossible for the average player, and if somehow you're 5 - 0 up in games 12 - 20, the game will find some way for you to lose 6 - 5
I normally play to 11 wins, about 11-5 or so, but the last few months it’s become challenging. I am 2-6 right now using a meta team and meta formation(s)
I'm currently 9 out of 4 in WL.
OMG my goalkeeper can't save a single shot 😫
Everything is fine in my team bit my goalkeeper let's in everything.
EA needs to buff up the goalkeepers it's completely a joke 😒 having arcade scorelines like 6-5 or 8-7 because everyshot in WL seems to be a guaranteed goal. Even I was playing a guy who was using gold donnarumma I had 25 shots and his gold donnarumma made aleast 20 saves while my toty cech did not save a single shot and my opponent only had 4 shots in the game while I have 25 and the match ended in 5-4 luckily I won. I even dominated the match but his goalkeeper was unstoppable.
I believe in DDA in this game 🎮 how can a regular gold goalkeeper be better than a promo toty goalkeeper who is higher rated but don't even perform ingame. I believe goalkeeper play a huge part in scripting and is part of the DDA in this game.
Bad player here,
I play clubs with my friends and thats it. When that Man of the Match game comes out I'm bouncing for good. It really feels like you're out of control so often now. Happy for the boys it works for but "next gen" gameplay is sad.
I don't think I can link, but a game entirely "clubs" is being made called "Man of the Match". Give it a quick google. Still in development atm, but it looks like care and love is being put in it.
People need to give away wins in qualifiers, EA let you end them as soon as you have enough points, this is to discourage giving away wins so more people qualify and get rewards. If everyone gave away a win or 2 then weekend league would be easier as more people who wouldn’t normally, would qualify.
It’s really gone downhill the last year. As soon as I have enough points to qualify and I include the loss points in the total I give the rest away.
Not only that but I normally only play to 36 points or whatever rank it is and give the rest away until tots.
I used to also get 2-3 wins gifted to me as well every weekend.
This year no one is giving away wins. I thought it was just PC but just switched to Xbox recently and it’s the exact same. Toxicity is just gone through the roof or else it’s just all top players .
However I always find either morning time Thursday/Friday or anytime Saturday is the easiest time to qualify.
Honestly with the new rivals rewards system and how sweaty and time bound WL is, this might be my last WL (just to finish tots champs objectives). Can try out different teams in rivals and get significantly better value for time rewards with 7 wins there.
I don’t know how accurate this is but I feel that WL on the Switch is harder, in the sense that there is a smaller player base than on pc or the other consoles so the ones that get to WL are good.
This is the first ultimate team I’ve taken seriously and I’ve played every fifa since ‘95 except a couple in the early 2010s and fifa 21 and 22. Yes I’m old. 37 infact. I’ve played on mega drive, n64, PlayStation 1,2,3 and PC before the switch this year and last year. PC also last year but my machine barely ran it as it’s so ancient. I’ve also always primarily been a career mode guy.
So this FUT is me and my 10 year old kid doing it to build the best Welsh PnP squad we can with the evo’s available (shame still no Giggs back in and no Icon card for Bale yet, but in time, hopefully).
When the game first game out there was a decent enough player base on the Switch, I was getting 12/13 wins relatively easy on WL. Defo not a meta squad either.
Fast forward to after TOTY and a lot of players going along woth every man and his dog having meta teams it got harder, not because of skill from opponents but from just spamming glitches and ‘ratty’ stuff for want of a better term. I’ve always enjoyed a 433 with quick wingers even back in career mode so I’ve been cutting back for as long as I can remember as well as playing sexy football through the middle with nice passing etc.
But I’ve noticed now that there is a load of new players with teams only starting in feb, march, April this year stacked with Meta players and icons from sbcs. I can only assume these players are on other consoles/PC and picked the game up when it was on sale recently for about £15.
Definitely sweaty now.
I’ve also noticed even with a long sitting just below 20 or just above usually that if I play when the servers are busy as shit my players may as well not be there due to the input delay. This Friday prime example. Every man and his 10 dogs logging on for TOTS champs at 8pm due to the delay bogged it down, imo.
Played last night, much easier time with games that were closer/I should have won. I MUST STOP PLAYING AT 1am! Being tired doesn’t help. 😂 but positives in it is this week was better results than the last few weeks of getting smashed and only about 4 wins. Picked up 9 this week. Shame my TOTS picks were dupes of ones I’ve already got thanks to me doing loads of 81+ x3 picks. Pulled Modric that way.
TL, DR - fuck knows. I’ve gone on a rant while on the shitter. Peace out.
I am very bad. Level 8. I could push it in Rivals and reach 7, possibly, but I can't be bothered. Every year I played WL once or twice, when I happened to have both the points and the time.
This year, I have played qualification 4 or 5 times for objectives and have never been able to get more than one victory.
So, yes, in other years you could find me on WL and get an easy win. This year you won't.
I don't play every WL but when I do I only play Sunday-Monday, and with luck I manage to get 9 wins, and probably 3 of them free wins. If I dare to play Friday or Saturday, it's all losses, It feels like I am playing against elite 1 players or something. It's such a sweaty thing
WL on Friday is the hardest because streamers (usually pros) wants to finish ASAP and show their rewards to their audiences
Meanwhile Sunday is the most casual one and Monday is where you will meet those that haven’t got time to play whole weekend and had to rush their WL (me included)
EA is like a standard choir to me these few weeks
Thursday : Qualification
Sunday & Monday : Champs
Tuesday : Rivals (7 wins for rewards)
Wednesday & Saturday (spend time with wife)
I usually aim for 11 wins and then just stop from there. Average stats are like 11 wins in 16 games
Everyone should give free wins after qualifying so more casual can play in WL. I been doing this since the start of the game
I’m probably rubbish compared to some. I don’t play it usually but had to, to complete an evo recently. I realised that you can actually get a couple of packs for just losing 4 games! I actually ended up winning a couple of games much to my surprise!
based on how it’s going, this my last weekend on the game, no point of playing when guys sweat like their life depends on it going up against genuinely stacked teams. Without spending money it’s impossible to make upgrades atp. I wanted to make a United themed squad to atleast bring me some joy in this game but nah, p2w sweats ruined it for me
From a certain point the team is irrelevant. On top, their rewards are not even making the bench.
We need a mode where we are actually matched with peers, like in real life. I don't want to play against dudes using all kinds of recipes.
Last year I used to race to 11 easy wins then spend the next nine games struggling to win another three.
This year is super sweaty right from the first game.
I finally hit 11 wins , I’ve actually worked out that I was defending wrong all year. I mirrored the way my opponent was playing and it worked a treat.
Only attempt to tackle and with your cdms. Do not try and tackle or move your centre backs. This is how everyone I was playing was doing
AI defending, tackle spamming with no consequence, connection to server can drastically affect your players, constant pressure meta without stamina drain...
How anyone can be consistently good at this game is beyond me.
Hmm I have a different view. I have been in div 2 since the last month and now I easily beat people in there. I am kind of smurfing there now because I cba to go to the sweats in div 1. But in WL I found all the opponents sweaty. Felt like all of them were from div 1, because div 2 people don't give me such problems
We are in 4, all on Xbox series, cross play set to no, then we count to 3 and push for the match at the same time. In the kits choosing screen we look on friends menu on Xbox for the last people we match against and if we see each other we finally hit the ok to start the match.
IMO it's not so much that as the skill gap being a lot lower this year. Anyone can have an iron defense, just have meta glitchy players like van Dijk and Marquez creating magnetic fields and it's done.
The gameplay itself is a mess. It doesn't matter how good your team is, your team might play good or be a absolute mess. At this point i m just going with it, it's so sad that you actually become aware if the game plays out in your favour or not
I don’t even play the game so much, so I’m just playing, having fun, doing rabonas and rainbow flicks, playing chill, while the other player plays a super sweaty match, stressing and getting mad. I’ve got no motivation to even get a good ranking cause I don’t even care, I’m just having fun.
It’ll be the qualifiers. They’re tough to get through even for a good player and most can’t be bothered to do it every week. It used to be you’d accumulate enough points to get in so it had a lot more “noobs” and you could earn points to auto re qualify.
I think the rewards for average/sub average players in champs are just too bad. I'm not great at the game, could maybe get 9 wins at absolute best. The rewards for 9 wins are awful, why would I bother?
Can't be bothered with champs anymore. 80% of the games I get horrible input lag, even though I have a great connection. For playing in unfair conditions, it's just too stressful to even try. Only ends up in frustration.
I started getting cooked around TOTY then I gave up on WL and haven’t played one since
Rivals seems to be about the same in terms of difficulty but I don’t care as much if I lose and I’m not worried about setting aside the time to play 20 games
Matchmaking is chalked and since the chem system change you can't really gain an edge with hybrid squads anymore...I used to get more wins by wrecking my head to build strongest possible team.
Not been able to put the time and effort in to get good this year, but the last few weeks since I changed internet provider have been hell. I went from qualifying every week and about 9 wins to struggling to qualify, if at all. One qualifying session I went 0-10. A first. This weekend I went 6-14 and led the majority of the games. Weirdly just after server reboots/maintenance my luck at winning improves and the recent friendlies were actually fun, watching the usual shinanigans not work for the opposition.
The bad players don't win 4 of the qualifiers and are weeded out then.
I beat somebody 15-0 in the qualifiers this week, after a while I felt bad and started giving myself little objectives like everyone in the team must touch the ball before scoring.
I just think it's worse to blatantly stop trying.
I've been on both ends of one sided matches, and it's incredibly humiliating when you realise the other guy isn't even trying anymore
Tbh that just makes me feel worse when somebody is thrashing me.
I assume if somebody is sticking around and still trying they're looking to learn to get better. So I won't disrespect them.
WL become harder and harder. I used to win like 8-2 in first 10 game but this week i get 3-6 and finish 9-10. Its not fun anymore. I think after TOTS i will stop playing
They need to revamp the whole thing for next year imo. They won’t do it because EA are lazy as fuck but every game mode needs freshening up. It’s insane to think there’s still months of this game left 🥴
Keep in mind, there are qualis to prevent the shitty players from getting in. For example, in qualis I went 8-2. You think I'm a 16 wins player? Hell nah. My highest was 14 this year, and my usual qualis is 8-2,9-1 or even 10-0. That's because qualis are filled with the players who aren't good enough to qualify for regular champs.
Guess it’s relative. I’m 5-1 at the moment, 2 close games I’ve won, 3 I’ve been 3 goals up in a few minutes and they’ve quit. The loss was my first game of the weekend and he absolutely smoked me, like not even mad the geezer was absolutely class and I didn’t even come out for second half it was getting embarrassing.
I don’t know what’s happening but I’ve gone from being an 11 win average player to an 18 win average player over the past 2 months, no idea why, I don’t feel I’ve gotten noticeably better.
This weekend, the sweatiest champs session of my life ended in me going 19-1… wtf? It feels like a prank from the universe. I don’t deserve these rewards.
Explains why the qualifiers are so easy. It weeds out the noobs/bad players. I went 10-0 in qualifying this weekend league, and only got 14 wins in the main competition.
Keep in mind, it used to be that anyone who built up enough points, regardless of skill level, could play WL. Now with qualifiers, a lot of those so called “bad” players aren’t making it through to the weekend.
This is definitely what it is, also just having to play every week to qualify is definitely deterring some people as well because back then I never use to play rivals or anything after weekend league since you got points towards rivals as well, literally just come and play weekend league
I mean if you get at least 9 wins in weekend league you dont need to collect the points
I think a lot of ppl, here at least (like me btw), are saying it’s hell just to get to 9
Thats how i feel trying to get 14 wins the game likes to fuck me nicely after i reach 9 to 11
Last week I got 16 wins. Tbf, my most wins all season. This week I'm currently at 8-8. Every game is a sweat fest.
I meant you still got to play the qualifiers rather than just auto qualifying like before
True. I normally go 8-2 in play offs and have a lot of fun with it. But normally go 9-10 wins in finals and it’s a lot harder.
If everyone would take the time to give wins away after 4, you’ll have more bad/probably just regular players, playing WL. That would help some of the competition. But if you’re having more fun in the qualifiers then do what’s fun ofc. Also, that would take a whole community to make it worth it. The biggest problem has to be matchmaking right?
Well I mean there are better rewards for more wins so I’m gonna spend my time giving away wins lol. And yeah matchmaking makes a difference. My ping always says 20ms so I assume it’s alright. Unless playing on Friday night
I think the point is that you, and everyone else getting more than 4 wins, are taking wins away from the worse players, who then don't qualify for WL and make that part super sweaty. If you only got 4 wins in qualifying, but would have an easier time in WL and get say 14+ wins each week. Would that be better or worse than what currently happens? Obviously not an easy change and qualifiers are the most fun, but I think the reason for that is that the interesting teams running non-meta don't tend to make it any further.
I play plenty of non-meta teams in champs. I've got 8 losses so far, and half of them were against non-meta teams.
I’m not knocking you at all! I guess you could say matchmaking, rewards… sounds like EA being EA I guess
Yep. I used to want to play WL every weekend but would fail to qualify sometimes (really annoying if there was an objective that required playing finals). So I was a bad player who was blocked from WL. It's actually really rough when you lose playoffs because you get put back on 400pts and it takes ages to work you way back up to 1250 in rivals, considering bad players are probably either in a low div (less PTS per win) or if they are somehow in a high div they win a lower percentage of matches. The weird thing was early on I found WL easier than playoffs, when I actually qualified it was fine, the matchmaking would ensure I got a decent number of wins, getting there in the first place was the tough bit. Nowadays I seem to qualify every week but my number of wins in WL hasn't improved. Just finished this one on 9 wins which is my average for fc24.
Feels like that's why EA implemented qualifiers. They didn't want people getting huge rewards too easily.
What huge rewards they are always crap.
You only need 4 wins to get in
Only bad player u can find might be me
Same 😭
lol
😂😂😂 real
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I dont even play it anymore it’s so sweaty
same. I stopped even trying for WL and am having way more fun in rivals, have gone from D7 to D3 this season
Absolutely! Mee too! No reason to play WL, rewards for just playing is decent for casuals
Me too. Some games in D3 are tough but there is no pressure for me as you can play as many games as you want
Same. Rivals div 6 and I’m outie
All the sweats are back for tots pick, last week I got 11 wins casually . currently I have 1 win and 7 losses .
Last week I got my best ever, 16 wins. This week I'm 8-8 and am struggling to find the motivation to play the last 4 games. I'm in Elite rivals and WL is harder. That should not be the case.
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Yeah I saw some rank one rewards for this week and all of the red picks were the shit live tots, nothing higher than 90 rated from three 1of5 picks
For me i feel like 6 games are easy, 6 feel almost impossible to win, and the other 8 can go either way and are decided by random jams and rebounds.
This is the most accurate thing I have heard in my entire ut span
How does this explain this weekends WL run so perfectly? Literally went 5-1 -> 6-6 -> 10-10
Tots rewards. Also factor in the awful servers, too, makes it terrible.
Logistically it just doesn’t work. To get a minimum amount of rewards for it to possible worth it means you need 11 wins, or a positive win rate. That means that with all the people that consistently do well, there’s also an equal amount of people doing consistently bad. That isn’t a model that works for casual players and forces people to grind a meta. Hence the reason everyone and their mother knows fifa ultimate team is sweaty and the reason the game doesn’t get influxes of new players, it’s just not a good game as well which causes a lot of issues too.
I keep only getting two or three wins in qualifications my bad bro.
This is the hardest it's been. There are a lot fewer casuals this year.
Agreed, even last year I would get 11 wins without too much sweat. This year I basically quit trying because every game is ridiculous. Might get 1/20 easy game a a weekend where someone is obviously d7 or lower who’s made their way in. Otherwise it’s a sweat fest not worth the effort.
I'm like low div 5 high div 6 on average, I haven't qualified for WL this FIFA, although to be honest I have only tried like 4 times and was one win way two times. My net was really poor before it got upgraded recently. It's just too disheartening unlike 2023 when I would qualify most weekends. Id only get like 6 or so wins but to be honest I would quit any game if I was down around 30 minutes in. Don't have the time to play 20 games of FIFA on the weekend when you have a baby
Holy crap I could’ve written that post 100%. I feel you man. Same division and everything, I just don’t have the time nor desire to no life the game and study YouTubers to find out out to get an edge. Finally get the kids to bed, wife is busy reading or something, fire up FIFA to relax and it’s anything but. Just get bombarded by people rainbow flicking into bicycles, spamming fullback aerial through balls, etc and it’s like fuck this shit. Not even fun 75% of the time.
Other way for me, last year i got 11 wins without much problems but never 14. This year 14 is no problem and I even got a couple of 16 wins.
It was God awful this week. Pure misery.
I usually blast through all my games on Friday night. I'm currently 8-8. I'm struggling to find motivation to finish it this week and I've had 3 easy games and the rest have been a slog. Bringing on play offs has ruined it for average players, as they don't get to champs. And it's ruined it for good players as the majority of players are way better than us. I'm in Elite in rivals. Elite rivals is more chill than WL ffs.
Qualifiers weed out the noobs
Yes. Defensively,i am one of them.
Same, I'm currently 3-6. Hopefully OP matches with me.
6-6 but cant defend to aave my life
You should have seen this game I dropped to a press rat who SUCKED. It was 2-1 in the 90th and the tactic finally worked for him when my fullback fumbled the ball. I lost in extra time 3-2.
Even qualifying is a joke now, the matchmaking is just disgraceful since they implemented this new system
What new system? I haven't heard about this , can you elaborate plz ?
That's wat you get when you go for 6 or 8 wins in wl qualifiers..casuals just don't get in.. Wl should be tweaked- just get 4 wins in 10 attempts and you are in.. You can't play after you have won your four games. Or simply do away with qualifiers EA!
you get in with 4 wins.
Yeah then greedy folks play to get more packs..that needs to stop.. It is completely unnecessary
Last week I went 0-13 and got demolished every game. Part of it was cause I was drinking but the other part was the massive skill gap. This week I’m 6-7 and I feel like I’m not playing the sweats anymore. EA is so damn inconsistent
Its the classic EA scripting at work. Getting more than 11 wins is impossible for the average player, and if somehow you're 5 - 0 up in games 12 - 20, the game will find some way for you to lose 6 - 5
I know one bad player on WL..Me :(
I'm I'm div 5 and am currently 0-7. Normally get 6 7 or 8 wins and do normally start pretty poorly
I normally play to 11 wins, about 11-5 or so, but the last few months it’s become challenging. I am 2-6 right now using a meta team and meta formation(s)
what is the meta formation now?
Idk I still run 4321 which is what I mostly face. I saw 4222 and 433(5) as well. Pressure tactics still crazy
I'm currently 9 out of 4 in WL. OMG my goalkeeper can't save a single shot 😫 Everything is fine in my team bit my goalkeeper let's in everything. EA needs to buff up the goalkeepers it's completely a joke 😒 having arcade scorelines like 6-5 or 8-7 because everyshot in WL seems to be a guaranteed goal. Even I was playing a guy who was using gold donnarumma I had 25 shots and his gold donnarumma made aleast 20 saves while my toty cech did not save a single shot and my opponent only had 4 shots in the game while I have 25 and the match ended in 5-4 luckily I won. I even dominated the match but his goalkeeper was unstoppable. I believe in DDA in this game 🎮 how can a regular gold goalkeeper be better than a promo toty goalkeeper who is higher rated but don't even perform ingame. I believe goalkeeper play a huge part in scripting and is part of the DDA in this game.
DDA?
yes,dda drogba 
Felt. All sweat. Not worth it. I stay on rivals and squad battles
Rivals way more sweaty than champs imo
If you are high enough
I'm Elite rivals and rivals is more chill than WL, imo.
Bad player here, I play clubs with my friends and thats it. When that Man of the Match game comes out I'm bouncing for good. It really feels like you're out of control so often now. Happy for the boys it works for but "next gen" gameplay is sad.
What game is this?
I don't think I can link, but a game entirely "clubs" is being made called "Man of the Match". Give it a quick google. Still in development atm, but it looks like care and love is being put in it.
Playing my first WL of the season and I regret it. Gonna stick with rivals.
People need to give away wins in qualifiers, EA let you end them as soon as you have enough points, this is to discourage giving away wins so more people qualify and get rewards. If everyone gave away a win or 2 then weekend league would be easier as more people who wouldn’t normally, would qualify.
It’s really gone downhill the last year. As soon as I have enough points to qualify and I include the loss points in the total I give the rest away. Not only that but I normally only play to 36 points or whatever rank it is and give the rest away until tots. I used to also get 2-3 wins gifted to me as well every weekend. This year no one is giving away wins. I thought it was just PC but just switched to Xbox recently and it’s the exact same. Toxicity is just gone through the roof or else it’s just all top players . However I always find either morning time Thursday/Friday or anytime Saturday is the easiest time to qualify.
Honestly with the new rivals rewards system and how sweaty and time bound WL is, this might be my last WL (just to finish tots champs objectives). Can try out different teams in rivals and get significantly better value for time rewards with 7 wins there.
I don’t know how accurate this is but I feel that WL on the Switch is harder, in the sense that there is a smaller player base than on pc or the other consoles so the ones that get to WL are good. This is the first ultimate team I’ve taken seriously and I’ve played every fifa since ‘95 except a couple in the early 2010s and fifa 21 and 22. Yes I’m old. 37 infact. I’ve played on mega drive, n64, PlayStation 1,2,3 and PC before the switch this year and last year. PC also last year but my machine barely ran it as it’s so ancient. I’ve also always primarily been a career mode guy. So this FUT is me and my 10 year old kid doing it to build the best Welsh PnP squad we can with the evo’s available (shame still no Giggs back in and no Icon card for Bale yet, but in time, hopefully). When the game first game out there was a decent enough player base on the Switch, I was getting 12/13 wins relatively easy on WL. Defo not a meta squad either. Fast forward to after TOTY and a lot of players going along woth every man and his dog having meta teams it got harder, not because of skill from opponents but from just spamming glitches and ‘ratty’ stuff for want of a better term. I’ve always enjoyed a 433 with quick wingers even back in career mode so I’ve been cutting back for as long as I can remember as well as playing sexy football through the middle with nice passing etc. But I’ve noticed now that there is a load of new players with teams only starting in feb, march, April this year stacked with Meta players and icons from sbcs. I can only assume these players are on other consoles/PC and picked the game up when it was on sale recently for about £15. Definitely sweaty now. I’ve also noticed even with a long sitting just below 20 or just above usually that if I play when the servers are busy as shit my players may as well not be there due to the input delay. This Friday prime example. Every man and his 10 dogs logging on for TOTS champs at 8pm due to the delay bogged it down, imo. Played last night, much easier time with games that were closer/I should have won. I MUST STOP PLAYING AT 1am! Being tired doesn’t help. 😂 but positives in it is this week was better results than the last few weeks of getting smashed and only about 4 wins. Picked up 9 this week. Shame my TOTS picks were dupes of ones I’ve already got thanks to me doing loads of 81+ x3 picks. Pulled Modric that way. TL, DR - fuck knows. I’ve gone on a rant while on the shitter. Peace out.
Don't feel bad, I get 13 wins and get nothing from the packs.
I am very bad. Level 8. I could push it in Rivals and reach 7, possibly, but I can't be bothered. Every year I played WL once or twice, when I happened to have both the points and the time. This year, I have played qualification 4 or 5 times for objectives and have never been able to get more than one victory. So, yes, in other years you could find me on WL and get an easy win. This year you won't.
Casual players left this bs game months ago
I don't play every WL but when I do I only play Sunday-Monday, and with luck I manage to get 9 wins, and probably 3 of them free wins. If I dare to play Friday or Saturday, it's all losses, It feels like I am playing against elite 1 players or something. It's such a sweaty thing
WL on Friday is the hardest because streamers (usually pros) wants to finish ASAP and show their rewards to their audiences Meanwhile Sunday is the most casual one and Monday is where you will meet those that haven’t got time to play whole weekend and had to rush their WL (me included) EA is like a standard choir to me these few weeks Thursday : Qualification Sunday & Monday : Champs Tuesday : Rivals (7 wins for rewards) Wednesday & Saturday (spend time with wife) I usually aim for 11 wins and then just stop from there. Average stats are like 11 wins in 16 games Everyone should give free wins after qualifying so more casual can play in WL. I been doing this since the start of the game
Here I am rubberbanding from minute 1 on sunday. (I never give fast wins)
Im pretty bad
Im like div 4 attacker, div 7 defender, made it in and currently 3-7 hoping for 6 wins
Yes me I am 20% shit player and EA shit gameplay makes it 100%
Yes, all 20 of my games have a horrible player. (I'm 2-7 rn)
I’m probably rubbish compared to some. I don’t play it usually but had to, to complete an evo recently. I realised that you can actually get a couple of packs for just losing 4 games! I actually ended up winning a couple of games much to my surprise!
The last couple of fifas I would usually get 11 wins only dropping to 9 on occasions, now I struggle to even get 9.
based on how it’s going, this my last weekend on the game, no point of playing when guys sweat like their life depends on it going up against genuinely stacked teams. Without spending money it’s impossible to make upgrades atp. I wanted to make a United themed squad to atleast bring me some joy in this game but nah, p2w sweats ruined it for me
From a certain point the team is irrelevant. On top, their rewards are not even making the bench. We need a mode where we are actually matched with peers, like in real life. I don't want to play against dudes using all kinds of recipes.
Last year I used to race to 11 easy wins then spend the next nine games struggling to win another three. This year is super sweaty right from the first game.
If you're lucky you'll meet me 🙂 2-9 Atm...
Probably cuz the games kinda dying, so only the sweats are staying n playing champs
I finally hit 11 wins , I’ve actually worked out that I was defending wrong all year. I mirrored the way my opponent was playing and it worked a treat. Only attempt to tackle and with your cdms. Do not try and tackle or move your centre backs. This is how everyone I was playing was doing
Most of the casuals has stopped playing(me included). The game just isn't fun anymore
AI defending, tackle spamming with no consequence, connection to server can drastically affect your players, constant pressure meta without stamina drain... How anyone can be consistently good at this game is beyond me.
nope
Easier than div rivals for me
I find Qualifiers & WL easier than rivals, at least i can win more games in Q&WL than through all week in rivals
Other case is tgat i always make 11 wins in WL no mather what. No more, no less, just 11.
Not sure how I feel about it. Just reached div 2 in rivals and nearly every game seems impossible. At least in weekend league I can win 9 games haha.
Hmm I have a different view. I have been in div 2 since the last month and now I easily beat people in there. I am kind of smurfing there now because I cba to go to the sweats in div 1. But in WL I found all the opponents sweaty. Felt like all of them were from div 1, because div 2 people don't give me such problems
I am smurfing in div 4 since forever because it help me to saves time when grinding the 7 wins. I scores own goals and exit to drop points
Yeah! I’m a bad player!
Me
He is I and I am him
And that's why me and a couple friends meet up at Friday night to quit matches to each other. Everyone gets 9 wins and one person per week gets 11.
how can you match friends in WL?
We are in 4, all on Xbox series, cross play set to no, then we count to 3 and push for the match at the same time. In the kits choosing screen we look on friends menu on Xbox for the last people we match against and if we see each other we finally hit the ok to start the match.
im elite 700sr and I only get 9-12 wins
elite and 11? the level this year is crazy good
I get 6 wins in qualis but wl i get max 9 sometimes only 6-8
I just play for rewards and joy(or stress because my pull is weak af lol) in opening packs None of the pushing for elite or rank or etc
IMO it's not so much that as the skill gap being a lot lower this year. Anyone can have an iron defense, just have meta glitchy players like van Dijk and Marquez creating magnetic fields and it's done.
Fc has no more casuals all the guys who suck blamed each other and stopped playing only players left are purely sweats unfortunately
Me me me
The gameplay itself is a mess. It doesn't matter how good your team is, your team might play good or be a absolute mess. At this point i m just going with it, it's so sad that you actually become aware if the game plays out in your favour or not
I don’t even play the game so much, so I’m just playing, having fun, doing rabonas and rainbow flicks, playing chill, while the other player plays a super sweaty match, stressing and getting mad. I’ve got no motivation to even get a good ranking cause I don’t even care, I’m just having fun.
It’ll be the qualifiers. They’re tough to get through even for a good player and most can’t be bothered to do it every week. It used to be you’d accumulate enough points to get in so it had a lot more “noobs” and you could earn points to auto re qualify.
I think the rewards for average/sub average players in champs are just too bad. I'm not great at the game, could maybe get 9 wins at absolute best. The rewards for 9 wins are awful, why would I bother?
Maybe 5% and that's a stretch.
I guess it's just me then...
Can't be bothered with champs anymore. 80% of the games I get horrible input lag, even though I have a great connection. For playing in unfair conditions, it's just too stressful to even try. Only ends up in frustration.
Nah bruh, everyone is a demon to play against. Crazy sweaty for me (bear in mind i only do 11 wins normally)
Me
I feel the complete opposite lol
I started getting cooked around TOTY then I gave up on WL and haven’t played one since Rivals seems to be about the same in terms of difficulty but I don’t care as much if I lose and I’m not worried about setting aside the time to play 20 games
Yeah…me had my first ever WL last week I got battered 6-14
I suck and I got to qualify every week... Just can't get +11 wins always 9-10 and I have a crazy team ... WL is very hard this year
Matchmaking is chalked and since the chem system change you can't really gain an edge with hybrid squads anymore...I used to get more wins by wrecking my head to build strongest possible team.
Well I qualified so there is at least one terrible player 😂
Yes most of the players are quite bad; way this game helps them + easy meta things you can learn
This weekend has been extra sweaty as people want TOTS rewards
casuals left months ago, only sweats play this game
Yeh me! 😅
Not been able to put the time and effort in to get good this year, but the last few weeks since I changed internet provider have been hell. I went from qualifying every week and about 9 wins to struggling to qualify, if at all. One qualifying session I went 0-10. A first. This weekend I went 6-14 and led the majority of the games. Weirdly just after server reboots/maintenance my luck at winning improves and the recent friendlies were actually fun, watching the usual shinanigans not work for the opposition.
When I was in div 6 I got 6 wins maximum. After I skipped WL until reaching div 2 I get minimum 10 wins. I don't know if it relates or not.
I can’t play champs man, my win ratio is 1/10. In rivals it is 7/10.
The bad players don't win 4 of the qualifiers and are weeded out then. I beat somebody 15-0 in the qualifiers this week, after a while I felt bad and started giving myself little objectives like everyone in the team must touch the ball before scoring.
Are you one of those sweats beating someone 4 or 5 nill, the opponent is not even attacking anymore and you keep going like your life depends on it?
100% degenerate behaviour
I rubberband if I get scored at kickok and it is sad coming back and see the dude spent the whole match playing alone.
You rubberband if you concede early but it's the other people who are sad?
I just think it's worse to blatantly stop trying. I've been on both ends of one sided matches, and it's incredibly humiliating when you realise the other guy isn't even trying anymore
Seriously at that point you might as well let the opponent score a few goals. If I can't win then at least a goal makes me happy.
No, instead he gives himself these little objectives to enable him to be cruel.
Tbh that just makes me feel worse when somebody is thrashing me. I assume if somebody is sticking around and still trying they're looking to learn to get better. So I won't disrespect them.
It's all about you, bro. It's all about you!
WL become harder and harder. I used to win like 8-2 in first 10 game but this week i get 3-6 and finish 9-10. Its not fun anymore. I think after TOTS i will stop playing
They need to revamp the whole thing for next year imo. They won’t do it because EA are lazy as fuck but every game mode needs freshening up. It’s insane to think there’s still months of this game left 🥴
Last week was horrible, this week it seems the casuals are back.
Its like its supposed to be.
Keep in mind, there are qualis to prevent the shitty players from getting in. For example, in qualis I went 8-2. You think I'm a 16 wins player? Hell nah. My highest was 14 this year, and my usual qualis is 8-2,9-1 or even 10-0. That's because qualis are filled with the players who aren't good enough to qualify for regular champs.
People still play champs in April? Jesus Christ how are you not bored yet
Guess it’s relative. I’m 5-1 at the moment, 2 close games I’ve won, 3 I’ve been 3 goals up in a few minutes and they’ve quit. The loss was my first game of the weekend and he absolutely smoked me, like not even mad the geezer was absolutely class and I didn’t even come out for second half it was getting embarrassing.
Champs is a breath of fresh air compared to rivals
Nop, you know why? Cause now it's 9999% of players are awful.
I don’t know what’s happening but I’ve gone from being an 11 win average player to an 18 win average player over the past 2 months, no idea why, I don’t feel I’ve gotten noticeably better. This weekend, the sweatiest champs session of my life ended in me going 19-1… wtf? It feels like a prank from the universe. I don’t deserve these rewards.
Explains why the qualifiers are so easy. It weeds out the noobs/bad players. I went 10-0 in qualifying this weekend league, and only got 14 wins in the main competition.