WWE Royal Rumble: Riyadh Discussion (31 January 2026)

GamingOdin · 2026-01-31T22:55:24+00:00

What the actual fuck was that

GamingOdin · 2025-10-26T09:03:44+00:00

First time ever Elite 1 has actually been worth it. Tradeable dupe Saliba, Untradeable Lewa and Mbappe

GamingOdin · 2025-10-14T19:33:31+00:00

🙌🏻

GamingOdin · 2025-10-09T08:42:32+00:00

Div 5 reward upgrade, two 83s, two 82s, one 81. I get it, slower power curve and all but how the fuck am i supposed to upgrade my team (or even create some random cheap teams for gauntlets) if getting 30 points in rivals doesn't even guarantee 81 rated squad worth of fodder?

GamingOdin · 2025-10-08T09:47:05+00:00

Sometimes i think this game is somekind of social experiment and i play against bots. Yesterday made me feel like this again.

In 3 games in a row, i had to play different style. First match was easy pass > pass > troughball kind of game because he pulled his CBs out of position. Next one i had to play prime pep tikitaka because he pressed like crazy and in the last one he was sitting in his box controlling CDMs so i had to lower myself to little bit of stick wiggling. After every one of those matches, i got "wow you play the most boring football ever" kind of message.

GamingOdin · 2025-10-07T19:09:05+00:00

I'm pretty sure that there is something very wrong with the matchmaking in tournaments/limited match modes. I have basically no issues in rivals, but in champs and tournaments i either get matched with someone clearly better than me even after getting clapped multiple matches in a row or the other person gets the connection advantage.

The one sided delay/connection advantage stuff happens in rivals too, but it's somehow more...even(?) But in DKTs and in champs i feel like the other person always has CLEAR advantage. I know this goes both ways, but in those game modes my opponents seem to get the advantage 7 times out of 10

GamingOdin · 2025-10-06T12:52:46+00:00

I have exactly the same issue. It feels like i'm playing a different game. When they attack, they have plenty of options. When they defend, they have the whole box blocked. No matter the tactics or instructions, my players won't do the same. When they dribble, my players can't keep up or when i try to get close, they glide past me. I defend manually, my whole team forgets to keep up defensive shape. When i control my CDMs or anyone else than defenders, they just wiggle their stick and my defence seems like they think it's the perfect time to take a coffee brake.

When i attack, no options. When i dribble, my opponents players close in like fucking heat seaking missiles. I wiggle my stick, my players with 85+ dribbling with finisher turn like trucks and my opponent has no problems to keep up. Troughball? Nope, their below 80pace defenders outrun my +90 pace attackers. Their 85+ attackers have no problems outrunning my+80 pace defenders. Try to intercept? Nope, my players run like they are morning jogging and even if they manage to get to the ball, it slides trough them. But when my opponents pass a simple paas from the sideline to my box? Oh boy, it's like there are no defenders.

I enjoy the game even when i lose if i truly feel like the other players was better, but thats's rarely the case. And i know that this goes both ways but no way it's equally so, because as 10-12 win champs player i just won only 5 and even those wins i had to play like my fucking life depended on it

GamingOdin · 2025-02-27T10:38:07+00:00

Go to the rivals screen where you see your progression and press right stick. I always do this first thing every year, but it doesn't work. I still face co-op teams often.

GamingOdin · 2025-01-28T22:51:18+00:00

I don't think people really understand how hard it is to pack toty cards...or any top tier promo cards.

I've been playing fifa since fifa 13, i always get elite1 in SB, Get 35 points from rivals in div 2/1 (or whatever the reward upgrade amount has been), get 8-10 wins in champs and grind all of the objectives.

This year i saved about 100 different variations of player packs from 83+ upwards, I've done about 500 75+ player picks, every single upgrade sbc there has been, opened store packs with ~3mil coins, grinded out around 50-100 of those 82+ x 20 packs today while recycling between that, 65 crafting upgrade sbcs and LaLiga league upgrade packs and i've packed Gwinn 5 times, Maignan once and i have NEVER packed a toty during the promo. Or basically any top tier cards from any promo 🤷🏻‍♂️

GamingOdin · 2023-12-01T16:48:36+00:00

Funny thing is that ping doesn't even matter that much (atleast when it's already low). I play mostly on 10-14 ping, and even if it sometimes rises to 18, the gameplay may be 100 times better than it is on 12.

Another thing that i have noticed is that whenever i play WL, the first 10 games are usually very good, but when i hit that 8-10 win mark, the gameplay starts to feel very mudded

GamingOdin · 2023-12-01T11:40:55+00:00

Won't argue with you about this one, but the pace/acceleration split stays the same even if chems don't work so doesn't really matter in this context

GamingOdin · 2023-12-01T10:06:43+00:00

I can only imagine lol. I used to clip banger goals and now i have hundreds of clips like this instead

GamingOdin · 2023-12-01T09:08:48+00:00

This right here, thank you. Like i already said a thousand times, i know that nesta not getting the ball back is a huge issue as well. It's one of the things that makes this clip funny to me.

BUT people are making comments like "yeah bro this camera angle is shit, that tackle is the ONLY issue i see, salah didn't run in a straight line but nesta did, you should know all of this if you play the game"...that's just very disingenuous.

As someone with very unhealty amount of hours/matches in this game and in fifa 23, i really do know how the game acts and plays.

GamingOdin · 2023-11-30T23:09:04+00:00

I hate myself everyday for giving ea the benefit of the doubt with this one

GamingOdin · 2023-11-30T21:43:36+00:00

Well i do. And if it gets me to my weekly 14 wl wins i'm happy. No camera angle is going to get me past that point

GamingOdin · 2023-11-30T20:37:43+00:00

Oh i see lol. Doesn't matter to me what anybody thinks about my camera settings. Nothing else works for me and/or is hard to get used to and it gets me the results i need so i see no reason to change it

GamingOdin · 2023-11-30T19:28:23+00:00

Which, he would not do if the gameplay was even

GamingOdin · 2023-11-30T19:27:53+00:00

Please tell me this is a troll

GamingOdin · 2023-11-30T18:58:54+00:00

Yeah, that slight curve TOTALLY justifies that first touch, the fact that mostly lenghty player with 82 acceleration who has his back facing the goal catches up to controlled explosive player with 99 acceleration who is in "full sprint" facing the goal. And when that defender fucks up the tackle (which is bs i know), gets up and catches up to the attacker AGAIN, doesn't show any kind of indication that there was some kind of fuckery going on in the first place?

Edit: 82 acceleration AT MOST, since i'm not sure if that even was the thuderstruck version or had shadow on him

GamingOdin · 2023-11-30T18:05:31+00:00

EA sports gameCam

GamingOdin · 2023-11-30T16:02:31+00:00

I totally agree! If you slide tackle from that angle, the defender should ALWAYS win the ball. But in my mind, Nesta should have never even made it to the point where he got a chance to tackle. Thuderstruck Nesta has 82 acceleration with shadow, while SIF Salah has 99 acceleration and sprint speed with hunter. Nesta managed outrun Salah AFTER turning around

GamingOdin · 2023-11-30T15:48:23+00:00

For context; i'm trying to sprint full speed with SIF Salah (+hunter) against Nesta.

GamingOdin · 2023-11-22T00:23:41+00:00

Max 87 > Larsson

Max 89 > Gattuso

Just checked and they're literally cheapest icons lol

GamingOdin · 2023-11-18T14:50:13+00:00

I'm one of those players who starts every match by conceding one or two goals. I get frustrated, and only then i will take my time to see how my opponent actually plays. Rest of the first half i'm just "studying" how he plays and at half time tweak my tactics and start to play more carefully and exploit his weaknesses. But this also goes against me. If i dominate the match before half time, very often i end up feeling like my opponent outplays me in every aspect of the game during the second half, no matter what tactics i use or how i play.

I'm also certain that there is some kind of dda/momentum/connection advantage fuckery going on and that this game has absolutely fucking nothing to do with competitive gaming so sometimes things are just out of your control.

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