What is FIFA Ultimate team

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What is FIFA Ultimate team? FIFA Ultimate Team explained

So what is FIFA Ultimate team that everyone becomes addicted to in FIFA? FIFA Ultimate Team (commonly called FUT or sometimes UT) is a mode in FIFA. It enables you build teams using any players from all the leagues to play offline and online to win coins to buy better players or packs which contain random players.

Online you can play Division Rivals and qualify for the FUT Champions Weekend and even qualify for major EA events to compete against professional FIFA players. FUT Drafts gives a choice of 5 players for each position so you can get to use all the best players without needing to actually build your own team. It does cost 15k coins to enter however. The better you do in 4 games the greater the rewards. Offline you can play Squad Battles and as with Rivals you gain rewards the better you do each week. For the first time you can now play FUT Co-Op online with a friend. Meaning you can be in different locations and play on the same team. Other big parts of FIFA Ultimate Team are Squad Building Challenges (SBCs) and Objectives. To complete SBCs you create squads to submit in exchange for rewards or players. Objectives are monthly and weekly, setting gameplay challenges to again unlock rewards. Players, points, coins, club features etc.

Start of FIFA Ultimate Team

Watch the awesome video opposite by @MattHDGamer showing what to do as he explains. Everyone starts off with a very average team. Returning players from previous FIFA get free packs. There is a web app which starts week or so before the console release. On there you can see what your starter team is and open any of the free packs. You can trade on the web app as if you are on the full game. Create squads, buy and sell players and even do SBCs. If you login to the webapp daily before the game is released you receive daily gifts which are just small packs or coins.

If you ordered a version of the game where you get packs these are separate and will be available when you play on your console. Although the game only gives you 1 or 2 of the packs per week available to open. You do NOT get all packs to open as soon as you start the game. Also you don’t actually have to open a pack because it is there. Maybe let them build up and open them later in the year.

 

How to start FIFA 21 Ultimate team video by @MattHDGamer


Does your Ultimate Team carry over in new version?

No anything you did in FIFA 20 on Ultimate team stays on that version. So you can load older versions and your squads will be as you left them. EA don’t turn off the servers for previous versions so you can still play online. FUT Champions is only available on the latest version however. When you start FIFA 21 Ultimate team it is new and starts from scratch. Coins from zero and only the random players you get as a new player (bronze, silver and couple of gold). You cannot transfer anything between versions. Although there is a one time FIFA points transfer if you had them on FIFA 20. With next gen consoles arriving during FIFA 21 progress continues onto the PS5 from PS4 and Xbox S/X from Xbox One. No need to buy FIFA again or start FUT again.

Ultimate Team card types

Players in FIFA Ultimate team are split into three categories. Bronze players rated 0-64, Silver players rated 65-74 and Gold players rated 75 to 99. These generally reflect their ability in real life and the price reflects their popularity within the game. You can create a team mixing any of them but some competitions offline and online might have to meet certain requirements.

Each category is further broken down into Normal, Rare and In Form. The following image shows one of each for bronze, silver and gold. Normal is a standard card, rare means it is just that and more valuable.

Every week in real life some players are outstanding. Ultimate team on FIFA recognises this and creates new versions of the players with increased better stats. These are called In Form players and become available to buy and are inside packs during each week. Sometimes in different positions to their original card. If you have a normal version of a card that does not change to the in form version. It means there will be the normal version of the card available and also the In Form version.

 
bronze-silver-gold-cards


Different versions of Ultimate team players

Throughout the season EA release various new versions of the players apart from the Team of the Week In Forms. In FIFA 20 there will be around 30 different types of player. Team of the Year players and Team of the Season players usually have the most hype but EA have made others such as Flashback just as good to tempt players. Below shows all the versions or Ronaldo in FIFA 15 as an example. We know that is years ago but we love nostalgia in FIFA.

all ronaldos fut15

Should I buy FIFA points to buy more packs?

EA have created FUT in a way that encourages you to open more packs and get better players. This along with the professional scene exploding mean many players spend money to buy packs. Although better in game players will help you we don’t recommend spending money. Learn to play with lower rated players and even if you lose you will improve. Knowing all the controls and how to do skills will help you become a better FIFA player for every version of FIFA.

Chemistry in FIFA Ultimate Team

When you play an Ultimate team game the chemistry helps your players perform better, pass better and generally play better. You will notice your manager to the right also adds to this chemistry. Basically chemistry is based on 4 things. Correct position of player, nationality, league and club. Overall team chemistry is more important than individual player chemistry. Though we advise any player be on at least 6 chemistry.

Each player in each team you have will have a chemistry rating out of 10. So when that is 10 the player will play to his maximum ability (his stats). When you look at your team you will see the chemistry rating out of 100 to the right. This is the total of all your players chemistry. If you have 2 players from the same league and country you will see a green link between them. This indicates a strong link. If a link is yellow it is weaker and if it red it is low. To increase a player chemistry from 9 to 10 play 10 games with him.

Player contracts and fitness

The players have contracts so they can play games. Default is 7 but you can add contracts which you can buy in the trade area. Every time a player plays a game they go down by 1 contract. Fitness has been removed for FUT 21 but exists in previous versions. Pre FIFA 21 it is gained by resting and lost by playing. Generally a player with 80 or lower fitness will be much slower in the game. You can buy fitness cards to add to individual players or to the entire squad.

Trading in Ultimate Team

You can buy and sell your players in the trading area or you can go to the store and buy packs. These can be bought with virtual coins you make in the game or you can buy packs using Microsoft points you buy with real money. We don’t advise this as our guides show how you can make the virtual coins in the game. https://fifaaddiction.com/ultimate-team/fut-trading-guide/making-a-million/

Be aware that when you sell any player on Ultimate Team 5% tax is removed from the sale. Check out our handy FUT tax page for reference https://fifaaddiction.com/5229/fifa-ultimate-team-tax-guide


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