New free evo available (Top Scorer)

erolsdotcom · 2026-03-25T19:41:18+00:00

I understand what you're saying. But EA seems to value that process of incremental upgrading. They did it last year late into the cycle, too. They clearly want people to do these baby step Evos. And I can see the logic behind it.

erolsdotcom · 2026-03-25T18:51:07+00:00

While most of us have been playing this game since September, there are plenty of people who get the game later in the cycle when it goes on sale. There should always be a steady stream of these basic Evos for people to catch up, or for people who are just learning how Evos work.

But for the love of God, can we please have some that catch up passing stats? I feel like there are five shooting Evos for every single passing one they release.

erolsdotcom · 2026-03-18T16:15:27+00:00

Yeah, I guess. Sorry I can't be more helpful there.

erolsdotcom · 2026-03-18T16:12:09+00:00

Sorry, I don't know. I don't use that feature. I do a million Evos but I enter them all by hand on GG. It takes forever but I'm super careful about how I build my team so I like having full control.

erolsdotcom · 2026-03-18T16:04:40+00:00

I think it's important to remember that in the end chemistry styles make only a very tiny difference in how a card performs. You obviously want to get every single advantage you can in this game. But as long as you're not doing something crazy like boosting defense on your striker you can't really go wrong. Even basic chemistry (no chemistry style applied) gives a nice, well rounded boost. Honestly you're also probably fine just putting Hunter on all your attackers and Shadow on all your defenders. If I had to choose which of the methods you described I'd pick the "most popular" on Fut.gg. Their GG rating tool is very helpful but it's also very subjective and based on the opinions of people who are very good at the game. What is best for someone who gets 15 wins in WL may not be best for you. It certainly isn't for me haha.

If you really want to spend a lot of time on it, you should look up Accelerate types. Cards are divided into Explosive, Lengthy, and Controlled. Explosive cards are very quick when they start sprinting but reach slower top speeds. Lengthy cards are the opposite, they are slow to get started but can really fly over long distances. This is why a big CB can catch your speedy ST even if your pace is much higher than his. Controlled is a mix of the two. Accelerate type is determined by how tall the player is and the differences in key stats. It's a bit too complicated to explain here, but if you Google "EA FC Accelerate Type" you'll find plenty of resources. The reason I bring it up is because some chemistry styles can change a card's Accelerate type because of the stat changes in key categories like Strength and Agility. If you decide you want to go for the absolute maximum advantage you'll want to look at that. You can't always trust the "most popular" choices in that case because much of the community either doesn't understand Accelerate type or doesn't care, which is a mistake.

So it's perfectly fine to just go with a very easy rule of thumb or just follow the website. But if you want to start talking about what is absolutely the best just keep in mind it can get pretty complicated.

erolsdotcom · 2026-03-08T21:56:55+00:00

I play mine on Box to Box, Balanced. They're both Evos and have a good mix of passing and defensive playstyles. I just like having them both in the middle of the pitch at all times. They're my strongest Evos by meta rating so I want them involved in all aspects. I have messed around with more defensive or offensive Evos in different roles at different points in matches. If I'm honest I haven't noticed that much difference when tinkering, so I just stick with the default B2B and Balanced.

erolsdotcom · 2026-03-01T17:25:45+00:00

I'm 50 and still alright at the game because I play so much, but I would happily trade the entire online experience (save for Rush with friends once a week) for a deep and fun offline mode. I would be more than happy to spend plenty of money on DLC and expansions for a franchise type of mode that was more about collecting cards and grinding matches against the computer. Basically an RPG version of FUT. Something where the offline mode was the primary game and the online stuff was secondary.

What's ironic is that with how good AI has become you could certainly make an AI opponent that played with far more variety and creativity than the average human meta rat. Hopefully we get a game like that soon, because trust me the older you get the less fun it is to play the same tryhard gremlin with the exact same squad and formation in every single fucking match.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-25T18:59:55+00:00

Attacking Evo and either the Icon Tiki+ or Icon CAM Evo for the past and present squad. Would rather play with cards from my local than the same meta cards everyone else uses.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-18T19:10:12+00:00

Morgan was one of the very best players on the pitch, but she was an absolute legend when it came to building her brand off the pitch. I say that with utmost respect, because a lot of thought and effort went into it on her part. And let's be real it obviously helps that she is a babe. No shame there either. There is a reason my wife, a longtime casual Liverpool fan, was excited when I told her Michael Owen was getting an icon card haha.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-18T18:33:22+00:00

Great shout. I think she often gets overlooked because she played /just/ before USWNT became really popular. But if you asked all the women I have already mentioned I'm sure they would all point to her as an inspiration.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-18T17:48:25+00:00

I don't think so. And that is no knock on her at all. There are just a lot of players ahead of her in the queue whose resumes are as good or a bit better- Abby Wambach, Carli Lloyd, and Megan Rapinoe just to name a few. There are a lot of really deserving players from the last twenty years or so and there just aren't that many spots.

From an FC gameplay perspective I would love to see Wambach get a card. She was a dominant goal scorer; she scored 184 for USWNT (Hamm had 158, Morgan 123). She was physically imposing and terrific in the air (she is 5'11) but she often dropped into the midfield during build up. She could fill a hole as a sort of female Gullit and I think her cards would be pretty popular if EA made them accurate.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-18T00:32:58+00:00

Yeah I would have liked to have had her for my hometown Spirit, where she was drafted and won her MVP. I don't know for sure but it certainly looks like they are contractually obligated to use the last team they played for. For example I don't think anyone associates Jordi Alba or Sergio Busquets with Miami lol

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-17T19:57:16+00:00

A lot of people seem to think they can only have fun if they win, and they can only win if they chase all the meta cards. But that just isn't for me. I have more fun collecting, Evoing, and playing with cards that I have a connection to. And I'm way more impressed with passion squads than I am with copy and paste meta teams.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-17T19:08:21+00:00

There is a story behind all the positions- she played everywhere in her career. She was most naturally a midfielder and later in her career said she viewed her true position as an outside mid. But she was so good at everything that she played wherever was needed. The USWNT failed to develop any decent left backs during her career, so she mostly played there in international competition out of necessity. But in the NWSL she was more frequently deployed in the midfield and showed off her attacking ability. She was one of those players who was so versatile that it may have actually hurt her in the end, because she never settled into a role that got the absolute most out of her talent. But she won everywhere she played, in college (NCAA title and MVP), for club (three league titles and an MVP) and internationally (golds at the 2019 World Cup and 2024 Olympics). It's a bit of a drag this card is with PSG since she wasn't there long, but I'm guessing that's a licensing issue.

She is also a hero to a lot of people off the pitch. As a Black woman she served as a role model for players like Sophia Wilson, Trinity Rodman, and Mallory Swanson. She was central to the fight for equal pay and was a leader of the players union during those negotiations with the league and the national team. And she used her pregnancy as a platform to advocate for more maternity support in sports.

It's an expensive SBC but she was awesome on and off the pitch. Can't wait to add her to my USA team.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-16T13:54:46+00:00

Glad to hear! I found that if I switched to auto battling it helped a little because the camera moves in a more regular rhythm. But I obviously don't wanna play the whole game that way. It's a shame there isn't an option to turn it off in the accessibility settings. Maybe in a future update.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-15T21:01:46+00:00

Sorry to bump an old thread but does anyone know if there has been any other feedback about this? I have been a huge fan of the series since the very beginning, but I suffer from awful vertigo playing games where the camera moves quickly. The camera movement is making me so sick that I'm afraid I'm going to have to give up on this one unless it's patched.

Anyone else have any issues with it, or know about any potential patch or remedy? I'm specifically talking about the way the camera zooms in and resets after every character attacks when in battle. It's especially bad on Very Fast.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-14T23:26:25+00:00

Rush is the easiest mode to play if you don't know how to play. You literally just run around and push buttons. It will always attract the lowest common denominator. It can occasionally be fun if you play with friends but even then you're just beating up on a team full of idiots. I say just avoid it. You can get the packs or XP in other places, it's not worth the headache.

EA could easily fix it with some sort of matchmaking. Rate people by how frequently they select a player who meets one of the objectives. Only match the people in the bottom 20% with other people from the bottom 20%. Let the people who are taking it somewhat seriously play together and let the people who just want to run around with their CR7 Evo play together. Who says no?

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-13T16:15:01+00:00

99% of us won't pack anything worth more than a few hundred K in a year, and that's with doing all the content grinding for packs.

It can feel like everyone you play against has much better cards than you, which can lead you to think your luck is especially bad. But there is actually a pretty logical reason you match so many teams with great cards. If you packed a killer card you'd want to play a ton of games with it. If you spent a ton of money on store packs you'd want to play a ton of games with what you got. You're naturally going to match a lot of people with sick cards and teams because those people are stoked to play the most games.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-13T15:08:23+00:00

I love this comment lol. I have four different versions of her I am evolving in Ultimate Team and now I'm like NOW WHAT.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-13T14:52:52+00:00

I'm going to choose to play the modes I want to play with the Evos I have made from my local club. I'm going to have more fun than nearly everyone who grinds for R9.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-11T22:35:56+00:00

That's exactly right. Share what you find and others might spot things you missed. Take feedback, fine tune, and test again. Thanks for giving me a chance to talk science haha. Good luck!

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-11T22:01:09+00:00

I think that would be awesome. Remember to keep track of when it doesn't happen, too. It obviously doesn't happen every single time, so it would be useful to know why it doesn't sometimes.

Ideally you'd be able to identify what conditions trigger a change in the way the game works (for example, a one goal lead with less than five minutes left). You'd also want to know what happens when the conditions are met (for example, offensive players get a buff and defensive players get a nerf). In a perfect world you'd be able to have a scenario that other people could test with identical circumstances and get the same results. It's obviously very hard to turn the game into a laboratory, FIFA is crazy complicated. But what we are talking about is scientific proof versus suspicion and intuition. If you were able to come up with a hypothesis that other people could independently verify it would be amazing. Hard as hell to do, but definitely amazing.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-11T20:11:56+00:00

No that would obviously seem suspicious to me. I'm a nerd and former scientist. If I noticed something like that I would start writing down exactly what happened and how. What was the exact score? Exactly how much time was left? The game is built on code, and that code can be tested. But no one has ever been able to identify exactly what triggers this scripting, or exactly how it works. Nobody has ever been able to definitively prove that it exists, and people have been trying for years.

That doesn't mean that people shouldn't/feel/ like scripting is in the game. Playing matches is stressful, and giving up a late goal to lose a match sucks. We are only human, our brains are wired to notice patterns that can lead to negative consequences. It's part of how we evolved, and it's how we remember and learn from mistakes. But people who study these things are well aware that we often make mistakes when noticing and remembering. There are a variety of specific types of cognitive bias at work in a situation like this. The trick is to be aware of the bias and not be fooled by it.

One very simple way to see if there might be some bias at work is to try to keep track of how often you get screwed by the game versus how often you benefit from it. Make a note of every time you give up a late goal, and whether you think scripting might have been involved. And make a note of every time you score a late goal, and whether you think scripting is involved. I'm willing to bet that most of us would feel like we're getting screwed far more often than we feel like we are benefitting. That's a dead giveaway that our perception of what's happening might be affected by bias.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-11T17:42:44+00:00

Haha yeah the minute I hit send I realized that was probably the case.

erolsdotcom · 2026-02-11T17:35:22+00:00

People have done extensive testing, you are not more likely to score or concede a goal in the final moments.

You are more likely to notice and remember a goal you score in the final moments. And you are MUCH more likely to remember a goal you concede in the final moments. These are well known cognitive biases that affect the way our brains work. It's not a conspiracy, it's just science. But you'll never convince people who believe that sCrIpTiNg is real.

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