digi wrote:

Bob wrote:

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

Minnesänger wrote:

afgavinstan wrote:

More Fifa. More Ultimate Team. As some of you will know, in FUT, there is player cards of legends from times past. Icons, they're called. And they're extremely rare to get out of packs, they're like the unicorns of fifa. But lo and behold, there's a promo that makes them a bit more accessible to scrubs like me who don't really want to blast cash into it in the hope of packing one. Enter the "Icon Swaps" promo. Think of it like that bit in the amusements at the bowling, where the games spit out tickets then you go to the counter and see what you can get for your amount. In Icon Swaps, you complete in-game objectives to earn swap tokens. You can then use those tokens to turn them in for a variety of different packs, either preset icons, or a pack that contains a guaranteed one, etc etc. So, in December there was a set of token objectives, then another fresh set this month. Last month, I grinded different objectives for three days straight, and earned 9 tokens which gave me a "Base Or Mid Icon pack". Base or Mid? Yeah, each Icon has four versions. Base, from the early part of their career. Mid, from them on the come up. Prime, from their prime. Then Moments, one extra special super duper version that has them at their absolute peak, usually based on a certain performance or game or tournament where they went off on everyone. But the other problem is, not every Icon is made equal. For every Maradona or R9 or Pele, there's a Jari Litmanen, or Miroslav Klose. Not to say those players weren't good in their day, it's just when we're talking about usability in-game, some are just not worth the grind (or the asking price off the market) at all. So, like everything in this mode, it's a gamble. Back to my pack. So, a 'free' chance at a decent icon. Let's crack it.... And who pops out? Henrik fucking Larsson. Not just that, but the mid one, the one based on his time with Them. EA look at my Rangers crest, kits, tifos, stadium dressing that I chose and decided 'yeah let's give the big man ol' Henrik'. Fucking pig sick so I was. A decent-ish card, certainly usable from a stats standpoint, but there was no way I was going to. Just felt like it was against everything I stood for. Fucking no chance man. Gutted. Fast forward a week or so, and EA release a new Base Or Mid SBC (Squad Building Challenge), where instead of turning in tokens, I'm turning in player cards I'm not using (fodder, we call it) in a set of teams that have to be built to meet certain requirements. Thankfully I had plenty of fodder, so again, I rolled the dice.... Mid El Nino. Now that's a bit better! Definitely a usable card. Not the most meta, but definitely good enough to make my team, and make an impact. The week after, they release another. Had to spend a bit of coins (not real money!!) to complete it, but I thought fuck it, why not.... Mid Deco. Absolute toilet card. Fuck off man! My club is now at Rangers 2012 levels, I'm skint, I've no fodder. I'm at square one. I've yeeted the lot into a sbc, and came up with this shite. Fuck. Start of the year. The second set of swap tokens are released, and I get to work. I've one left over from the last batch, and calculate that I need another 9 to get to a "Mid Icon pack". Another few days of grinding, and I mean real fucking boring stuff, offline modes suck the life outta me. But we got there. After watching Chaz pack two absolute demons recently in Base Puskas and Mid Cruyff (one of the most OP out there) I was so green with envy. I had to get a belter at some point surely? So with a tired head after the grind, I took my ten tokens and fired them in. Who's next?... Ronaldo de Assis Moreira. Ronaldinho Gaucho. R10. The man, the myth, the legend. LET'S FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO! I did it! Finally got a goat! Straight into my team behind Torres and blasting me to my best performance yet in the Weekend League, going 13-7. Fucking yes boys. Class. Then, this weekend saw the release of the yearly promo, Team Of The Year. Think of a 433 with every position having a card 'voted for by the fans' as the absolute best in the last calendar year. These are super, super juiced, super cracked, absolutely silly cards. Even rarer than Icons, and actually better than the majority. Friday there saw the attackers released, today its midfielders, and on Tuesday its the lads at the back. Last night, I'm very groggily completing a SBC after a cunt of a early shift and shitty nap on the sofa. For the privilege, I get a pack of 11 attackers all rated 81 or over, and hope of a Messi, Mbappe, or a Lewandowski. I've been watching my fave streamers this weekend and even them with their multiple thousands of real world cash spent, aren't packing any. It's hilarious and sad, really. It gets cracked, and I see the special blue colour??... OMG OMG OMG OMG! IT HAPPENED! IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED!! HOLY SHIT! ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI! COME ON DOWN MY SON! So yeah, I'm gonna go home from work today and start dishing out severe lessons in sweat. My pack luck may be absolutely gubbed for the rest of the year but I don't care. LFG! Lewy & Dinho linkup baby! (tl;Dr I played a lot of Ultimate Team and packed some absolute belters)

I agree with Bob.

Big fan of this sentiment.

I’m
Not often right!

You were this time,
I'm backing Bob.

digi wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

digi wrote:

Bob wrote:

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

Minnesänger wrote:

afgavinstan wrote:

More Fifa. More Ultimate Team. As some of you will know, in FUT, there is player cards of legends from times past. Icons, they're called. And they're extremely rare to get out of packs, they're like the unicorns of fifa. But lo and behold, there's a promo that makes them a bit more accessible to scrubs like me who don't really want to blast cash into it in the hope of packing one. Enter the "Icon Swaps" promo. Think of it like that bit in the amusements at the bowling, where the games spit out tickets then you go to the counter and see what you can get for your amount. In Icon Swaps, you complete in-game objectives to earn swap tokens. You can then use those tokens to turn them in for a variety of different packs, either preset icons, or a pack that contains a guaranteed one, etc etc. So, in December there was a set of token objectives, then another fresh set this month. Last month, I grinded different objectives for three days straight, and earned 9 tokens which gave me a "Base Or Mid Icon pack". Base or Mid? Yeah, each Icon has four versions. Base, from the early part of their career. Mid, from them on the come up. Prime, from their prime. Then Moments, one extra special super duper version that has them at their absolute peak, usually based on a certain performance or game or tournament where they went off on everyone. But the other problem is, not every Icon is made equal. For every Maradona or R9 or Pele, there's a Jari Litmanen, or Miroslav Klose. Not to say those players weren't good in their day, it's just when we're talking about usability in-game, some are just not worth the grind (or the asking price off the market) at all. So, like everything in this mode, it's a gamble. Back to my pack. So, a 'free' chance at a decent icon. Let's crack it.... And who pops out? Henrik fucking Larsson. Not just that, but the mid one, the one based on his time with Them. EA look at my Rangers crest, kits, tifos, stadium dressing that I chose and decided 'yeah let's give the big man ol' Henrik'. Fucking pig sick so I was. A decent-ish card, certainly usable from a stats standpoint, but there was no way I was going to. Just felt like it was against everything I stood for. Fucking no chance man. Gutted. Fast forward a week or so, and EA release a new Base Or Mid SBC (Squad Building Challenge), where instead of turning in tokens, I'm turning in player cards I'm not using (fodder, we call it) in a set of teams that have to be built to meet certain requirements. Thankfully I had plenty of fodder, so again, I rolled the dice.... Mid El Nino. Now that's a bit better! Definitely a usable card. Not the most meta, but definitely good enough to make my team, and make an impact. The week after, they release another. Had to spend a bit of coins (not real money!!) to complete it, but I thought fuck it, why not.... Mid Deco. Absolute toilet card. Fuck off man! My club is now at Rangers 2012 levels, I'm skint, I've no fodder. I'm at square one. I've yeeted the lot into a sbc, and came up with this shite. Fuck. Start of the year. The second set of swap tokens are released, and I get to work. I've one left over from the last batch, and calculate that I need another 9 to get to a "Mid Icon pack". Another few days of grinding, and I mean real fucking boring stuff, offline modes suck the life outta me. But we got there. After watching Chaz pack two absolute demons recently in Base Puskas and Mid Cruyff (one of the most OP out there) I was so green with envy. I had to get a belter at some point surely? So with a tired head after the grind, I took my ten tokens and fired them in. Who's next?... Ronaldo de Assis Moreira. Ronaldinho Gaucho. R10. The man, the myth, the legend. LET'S FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO! I did it! Finally got a goat! Straight into my team behind Torres and blasting me to my best performance yet in the Weekend League, going 13-7. Fucking yes boys. Class. Then, this weekend saw the release of the yearly promo, Team Of The Year. Think of a 433 with every position having a card 'voted for by the fans' as the absolute best in the last calendar year. These are super, super juiced, super cracked, absolutely silly cards. Even rarer than Icons, and actually better than the majority. Friday there saw the attackers released, today its midfielders, and on Tuesday its the lads at the back. Last night, I'm very groggily completing a SBC after a cunt of a early shift and shitty nap on the sofa. For the privilege, I get a pack of 11 attackers all rated 81 or over, and hope of a Messi, Mbappe, or a Lewandowski. I've been watching my fave streamers this weekend and even them with their multiple thousands of real world cash spent, aren't packing any. It's hilarious and sad, really. It gets cracked, and I see the special blue colour??... OMG OMG OMG OMG! IT HAPPENED! IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED!! HOLY SHIT! ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI! COME ON DOWN MY SON! So yeah, I'm gonna go home from work today and start dishing out severe lessons in sweat. My pack luck may be absolutely gubbed for the rest of the year but I don't care. LFG! Lewy & Dinho linkup baby! (tl;Dr I played a lot of Ultimate Team and packed some absolute belters)

I agree with Bob.

Big fan of this sentiment.

I’m
Not often right!

You were this time,
I'm backing Bob.

Can everyone stop quoting the whole long post on full? Cheers folks.

Will do.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

digi wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

digi wrote:

Bob wrote:

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

Minnesänger wrote:

afgavinstan wrote:

More Fifa. More Ultimate Team. As some of you will know, in FUT, there is player cards of legends from times past. Icons, they're called. And they're extremely rare to get out of packs, they're like the unicorns of fifa. But lo and behold, there's a promo that makes them a bit more accessible to scrubs like me who don't really want to blast cash into it in the hope of packing one. Enter the "Icon Swaps" promo. Think of it like that bit in the amusements at the bowling, where the games spit out tickets then you go to the counter and see what you can get for your amount. In Icon Swaps, you complete in-game objectives to earn swap tokens. You can then use those tokens to turn them in for a variety of different packs, either preset icons, or a pack that contains a guaranteed one, etc etc. So, in December there was a set of token objectives, then another fresh set this month. Last month, I grinded different objectives for three days straight, and earned 9 tokens which gave me a "Base Or Mid Icon pack". Base or Mid? Yeah, each Icon has four versions. Base, from the early part of their career. Mid, from them on the come up. Prime, from their prime. Then Moments, one extra special super duper version that has them at their absolute peak, usually based on a certain performance or game or tournament where they went off on everyone. But the other problem is, not every Icon is made equal. For every Maradona or R9 or Pele, there's a Jari Litmanen, or Miroslav Klose. Not to say those players weren't good in their day, it's just when we're talking about usability in-game, some are just not worth the grind (or the asking price off the market) at all. So, like everything in this mode, it's a gamble. Back to my pack. So, a 'free' chance at a decent icon. Let's crack it.... And who pops out? Henrik fucking Larsson. Not just that, but the mid one, the one based on his time with Them. EA look at my Rangers crest, kits, tifos, stadium dressing that I chose and decided 'yeah let's give the big man ol' Henrik'. Fucking pig sick so I was. A decent-ish card, certainly usable from a stats standpoint, but there was no way I was going to. Just felt like it was against everything I stood for. Fucking no chance man. Gutted. Fast forward a week or so, and EA release a new Base Or Mid SBC (Squad Building Challenge), where instead of turning in tokens, I'm turning in player cards I'm not using (fodder, we call it) in a set of teams that have to be built to meet certain requirements. Thankfully I had plenty of fodder, so again, I rolled the dice.... Mid El Nino. Now that's a bit better! Definitely a usable card. Not the most meta, but definitely good enough to make my team, and make an impact. The week after, they release another. Had to spend a bit of coins (not real money!!) to complete it, but I thought fuck it, why not.... Mid Deco. Absolute toilet card. Fuck off man! My club is now at Rangers 2012 levels, I'm skint, I've no fodder. I'm at square one. I've yeeted the lot into a sbc, and came up with this shite. Fuck. Start of the year. The second set of swap tokens are released, and I get to work. I've one left over from the last batch, and calculate that I need another 9 to get to a "Mid Icon pack". Another few days of grinding, and I mean real fucking boring stuff, offline modes suck the life outta me. But we got there. After watching Chaz pack two absolute demons recently in Base Puskas and Mid Cruyff (one of the most OP out there) I was so green with envy. I had to get a belter at some point surely? So with a tired head after the grind, I took my ten tokens and fired them in. Who's next?... Ronaldo de Assis Moreira. Ronaldinho Gaucho. R10. The man, the myth, the legend. LET'S FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO! I did it! Finally got a goat! Straight into my team behind Torres and blasting me to my best performance yet in the Weekend League, going 13-7. Fucking yes boys. Class. Then, this weekend saw the release of the yearly promo, Team Of The Year. Think of a 433 with every position having a card 'voted for by the fans' as the absolute best in the last calendar year. These are super, super juiced, super cracked, absolutely silly cards. Even rarer than Icons, and actually better than the majority. Friday there saw the attackers released, today its midfielders, and on Tuesday its the lads at the back. Last night, I'm very groggily completing a SBC after a cunt of a early shift and shitty nap on the sofa. For the privilege, I get a pack of 11 attackers all rated 81 or over, and hope of a Messi, Mbappe, or a Lewandowski. I've been watching my fave streamers this weekend and even them with their multiple thousands of real world cash spent, aren't packing any. It's hilarious and sad, really. It gets cracked, and I see the special blue colour??... OMG OMG OMG OMG! IT HAPPENED! IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED!! HOLY SHIT! ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI! COME ON DOWN MY SON! So yeah, I'm gonna go home from work today and start dishing out severe lessons in sweat. My pack luck may be absolutely gubbed for the rest of the year but I don't care. LFG! Lewy & Dinho linkup baby! (tl;Dr I played a lot of Ultimate Team and packed some absolute belters)

I agree with Bob.

Big fan of this sentiment.

I’m Not often right!

You were this time, I'm backing Bob.

Can everyone stop quoting the whole long post on full? Cheers folks.

Will do.

It's probably time to stop otherwise the gifs will get annoyingly small.

Bollockoff wrote:

Subnautica: Below Zero

Not sure yet how I feel about this being a lot more dialogue / plot heavy than the OG.

acemuzzy wrote:

Yes m8. Do the dark world this time!