Video summary
The host of this video discusses highly anticipated updates for FC Ultimate Team, centering primarily on the upcoming return of "Exchanges," which are set to launch tomorrow. These exchanges represent an unlimited repeatable pack grind system that allows players to convert high-rated duplicate cards into a supply of common and rare gold fodder needed to complete various Squad Building Challenges (SBCs). While this feature is exciting because it finally addresses the long-standing demand for infinite grinding, the host expresses significant reservations regarding its specific mechanics. Leaks suggest that the new exchange will require turning in more than three players with ratings between 87 and 90, which yields only twenty rare cards and ten common ones per run. This output is slightly less efficient than previous systems like Provisions packs, leading to concerns about whether the reward-to-effort ratio justifies the high-rated cards required as input.
Beyond the core mechanics of the exchange itself, there are serious worries regarding SBC bans due to server load. The host explains that while EA previously lifted daily limits on pack opening last year in FC25, they might not do so again this time given the volume of players expected to use the new unlimited grind immediately upon release. If servers cannot handle the traffic without imposing strict hourly or daily caps, players attempting to farm packs rapidly could face temporary bans for exceeding SBC completion rates. Consequently, the host advises caution and suggests that while having an unlimited loop is a major step forward compared to nothing at all, it may not perfectly replicate the seamless experience of previous years if EA fails to manage server capacity effectively during peak usage times.
The video also covers other significant leaks and content drops for FC27, including details on Team Three cards scheduled for release this Friday featuring players like Kroos, Zidane, and Isco with their official stats already revealed in beta builds. Additionally, the host provides a warning to those participating in the closed beta test currently available in North America, Europe, and parts of Asia; he strongly advises against posting screenshots or videos from the game online due to strict non-disclosure agreements that frequently result in permanent bans for violators. On the trading front, market analysis indicates that 99-rated cards like Cucurella are still rising in value despite beta leaks, whereas lower-tier cards such as 84s and Festival Football players remain excellent options for flipping or completing SBC requirements before their values potentially shift after new content drops today.
In conclusion, the host wraps up by balancing his enthusiasm for finally having an unlimited pack grind with a realistic assessment of its potential pitfalls. He acknowledges that while this system will allow fans to chip away at large player pick and upgrade packs without fear of running out of fodder, it is unlikely to be flawless immediately upon launch. The community's reaction will depend heavily on the actual requirements revealed in-game tomorrow and how EA handles server stability under pressure. Until then, players are encouraged to prepare their storage with high-rated duplicates, monitor market trends for 84s and Festival cards, and stay tuned for further leaks regarding season pass rewards and new evolution packs that could drop alongside these major updates later this week.
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Hey guys, it's Nate aka the foot
accountant. Welcome back to the channel.
We're talking about the magic eword.
Today, guys, exchanges, the number one
thing that we've been asking for since
footies came out. They are coming. The
leaks are telling us that we're going to
finally have an unlimited repeatable
pack grind. But there are parts of it
that make me a little bit worried based
on what we learned from the leaks. It's
still an unlimited pack grind, which we
are excited about. But again, I have
some reservations. We're going to be
discussing all of that today in the
video based on what we know and when
those are going to be dropping. And of
course, we have leaks as well. If you
saw them yesterday on Twitter, Team 3 of
footies has started to be leaked.
There's more leaks probably coming
today. We'll take a look at what 99
cards will be impossible to pack next.
And also beginning is the FC27
closed beta. This is your yearly
reminder to check your emails to see if
you got a beta code and also to not post
pictures because you could get banned.
But there's already some stuff that's
been leaked from people who have taken
that risk. We're going to take a look at
some of those leaks today as well. Lot
to discuss. If you guys are ready for
this one, drop a thumbs up the video,
hike the video, and subscribe if you are
new. Now, let's begin by taking a look
back at yesterday's content on Tuesday
where we had a rare goalkeeper
evolution. Guys, I was just thinking
about this. Do we like goalkeeper evos
almost every time they drop because we
only get one like once every three or
four weeks? I can't remember like a
truly bad goalkeeper evo because most of
these are rare and so far in between
other evos that we get that they just
seem good because the power curve
progresses in a month and now we're
boosting goalkeepers to 95 and 96 in
every single stack category four play
stop pluses and we're getting reactions
up to 96 as well. That's one of the
things I always look for. You guys know
in these goalkeeper evos, 96 reactions
is dope. Footwork plus being the first
play style plus added here is dope. And
then all the rest of the stats. 97
positioning. 96 diving handling and
reflexes and kicking going to 95.
Phenomenal. So many cards that look good
in this Evo. I'm going to be doing Tim
Howard. Uh he gets the footwork plus
there, which is fantastic. He gets the
nice stat boost. Already has the 99
diving, which is sick. So many cards
look great in this. pick somebody who
you want to upgrade and definitely put
them into your main team. Like honestly,
I think this is a goalkeeper that you're
getting out of this that is suitable for
everybody's main team. The only card
that would truly be better than this
would be the 99 rated Unai Simon and
then maybe like the 96 Vozena as well.
But all things considered, that is a
fantastic goalkeeper Revo and one that
I'm a fan of. I wish I could do it twice
if I'm being completely honest. Now, in
SBC's yesterday, we had one player and
two upgrade packs. The player SPC is
Thorgan Hazard. He's really cheap. It's
an 89 rated squad, 30,000 coins to do.
This doesn't look like a good SBC now,
but with what we're going to talk about
today with exchanges in coming and the
pack grind going unlimited. I think EA
might also give us legit player SBCs
that we're genuinely excited about
doing, we're talking about player SPCs
that maybe have 20 or 25 segments to
complete inside of them. A lot of grind
would be required for that, but that
would be something super nice to chip
away at if there's 99 rated players,
five play style pluses at the end of
that grind. A player SBC like that
Thorgon Hazard would come in handy if we
have a lot of 92 and 93 rated squads to
get done. Having that 96 rated aspect
there for an SBC would be helpful. So, I
think that's one to remember and a type
of SBC to remember as we go in this next
couple weeks of footies. Now, the other
two upgrade packs that we had yesterday
were the 88x5
now upgraded from an 88x3 and of course
the 95 plus player pick, but the 88x5
still requires two team of the weeks or
two team of the seasons, which is
unfortunate. Two festival football
players got to say that too, right? With
that team of the week, tots festival
football requirement. It's just annoying
that you have to put in one for each of
these segments. But it should be easier
to get done once the exchanges do come
out. And the other player pick is the
good one, the 95 plus pick. Guys, this
has team two of footies now inside of it
as well. And of course, this is your
best chance of hitting 98 and 99 rated
cards that are either Festival of
Footballs or footies. I opened all three
of these like instantly yesterday. I
think a 97 rated was my highest rating
in terms of a pack pole. Just an 88 and
a 90 rated squad to get that done as
well. 100% must complete in my opinion
every time that SBC refreshes. Now, the
last part of content yesterday is one
that was in the store in the packs for
you section. Now, not everybody is going
to have this pack, but if you do have
it, it is 100% worth opening, guys. This
new footies Fiesta pack, which is given
out to people who logged into FC26 on
200 separate days during this year so
far. I know that's a lot of grind. If
you've been consistent, you're probably
going to have this. If you've been in
and out of the game, you're probably not
going to have it. But if you do have it,
open it. 126,000 coins give you 200
cards. That is 630 coins per card, which
is cheaper than what you can buy a gold
card for on the market. So, that is
crazy value. You're going to get a whole
bunch of special cards and tons of golds
to help you get SBC's done. So, if
you've got the funds, the pack is 100%
worth it. Don't even think about
spending FC points on that. But if you
got 126k or even if you don't trade up
to 106k like uh quick sell some of those
special cards you might be packing
tradable and list up some of these like
festival footballs that you have on your
transfer list maybe as well as tradeable
dupes and get 126k and open that pack
because that is worth it in my opinion.
Now the last thing from content
yesterday wasn't in game. it was a
trailer release for the grounds. And the
community is so divided on whether or
not this is a good addition for FC27 or
not. I'm in the side of things where
after playing this, it felt like a
breath of fresh air, something casual,
something chill, something not as
serious as regular gameplay, especially
inside of Ultimate Team where we're
playing a lot of competitive matches.
But a lot of the community also looks at
this and they're like, "Why did EA spend
their time on this mode, which is
looking arcadey, cartoonish, and stuff
like that instead of spending their time
on making gameplay better in some
areas." Totally understand, and I
totally hear that. I will say, guys,
after playing this for like 30 minutes
to an hour or so in Vancouver, it was a
blast and I think it's going to be a
good time, like that's what you're going
to use this as, a good time to log in
with your pro clubs player, you know,
get into a couple of the kickabout
modes. Maybe if you want to play pro
clubs with a team and you like to play
pro clubs, this could be a little bit
more fun for you because there are 11 v1
pro clubs matches inside of this and
stuff like that. There's live events and
tournaments I guess that are involved
with this as well because it is pro
clubs related. But the fun stuff is the
kickabouts and you've got those really
interesting modes uh which clips of them
are going viral on um Twitter because it
is kind of a FIFA street sort of vibe.
Um, and I do think it's going to be fun,
but it's to each their own. And there
will probably be some opportunities
where we get SP inside of playing pro
clubs because we already have pro clubs
SP that we can get right now. But
playing that, the grounds mode will
probably be the way where you could get
some pro clubs SP for Ultimate Team
season progress in the future in FC27.
So, I wanted to point that out because
that was making a lot of headlines
yesterday on the interwebs. Now guys,
let's get right into the big information
and that is the fact that our upgrade
pack grind is finally going to go
unlimited because exchanges are leaked
to be coming out not today but tomorrow.
Now, it is very exciting, but we have to
hold our breath because of the way that
this exchange leak situation is going
on. Now, really quick, I do want to
explain what exchanges even are and why
do we want them? If you've never known
what exchanges are before, if this is
your first game playing Ultimate Team at
this late stage, you might be wondering,
Nate, what in the world are exchanges?
Exchanges started in FC24 during team of
the year, actually, where we had a pack
that we would turn in one player of a
certain rating, and we would get a whole
bunch of gold cards back. This 89
overall dupe exchange in FC24 was the
most popular exchange of all time. You
put in one 89 rated card and you got 51
gold cards back. This meant if you had
an excess of high ratings, you could
chuck them into this and you could get a
whole bunch of gold cards and then go do
a whole bunch of upgrade packs like 84
plus player picks that we have now or 80
plus time fives. Now, last year in FC25,
they changed a little bit. They were
called squad shifters. You had to turn
in more high rated players. Four 88s
gave you 20 rare golds, but they were 83
and above. Or 489s gave you 35 golds, 15
commons. And there were some 84x10 and
85 plus guaranteed rating requirements
inside of those squad shifters that we
had last year. Now, the whole point of
exchanges is to be able to get a whole
bunch of fodder. If you've got cards
like we have right now sitting in your
SBC storage, sitting in your club, and
you want to keep ripping packs, you can
take one of those high rated cards, put
it into an exchange, and get yourself
some fodder to keep ripping packs. This
all started yesterday with the emojis
coming back out from the Twitter
leakers. We have a small bombazo SBC
unlimited coming soon. Like this is a
leak, right? And I responded right away
to this because one of the the ways I
thought EA was going to make this pack
grind go unlimited first. Kind of like
the lowest level of unlimited pack grind
was giving us unlimited provisions
packs. And Foot Police said it's a
little bit bigger than that. But after
looking at this leak, I'm not sure if it
exactly is. This was the real tweet
though where we learned a lot. Exchanges
are coming this Thursday. It's not
multiple exchange SBCs, guys. It is one
exchange SBC that is unlimited
repeatable, but the pack is giving us 20
rares and 10 commons. And an 87 to 90
upgrade is also returning to help with
the grind. We'll talk about that in a
second. You think about 20 rares and 10
commons. That is slightly worse than the
provisions upgrade that we have right
now, which gives 15 commons and 25 rare
golds. It is repeatable seven times a
day. And this takes three 85 or higher
players. That is the provisions pack.
So, it is great that we are getting an
unlimited repeatable grind through
basically a new provisions upgrade. That
is what this sounds like. It doesn't
sound like an exchange. It sounds like a
provisions upgrade. if we're being
completely honest. Now, a bit more news
about this exchange pack that we are
getting. He says, "The main purpose of
an exchange is to increase your supply
of common and rare golds. They are
unlimited repeatable. You can do as many
as you want. Treat the requirements
carefully as we currently have a lot of
active SBC's. No special cards are
required for them." And that's the
biggest question in my mind. What are
the requirements for this? Because there
was another tweet tweet here where FIFA
Trading Romania answered Chem Expert uh
our favorite footies pack grind
specialist where he asked, "Does it
require more than three players? Do we
have to submit three or less than
three?" FIFA Trading Romania says more
than three. The exchange SBC is paired
with the 87 to 90 upgrade and it sounds
like it's paired with that for a reason.
So, what you're telling me is we're
going to get an unlimited repeatable
provisions pack called an exchange that
gives us 30 gold cards, but we're going
to have to probably turn in 87s or 88s
based on the fact that they're giving us
an 87 to 90 upgrade and it's more than
three players. Although, the provisions
upgrade that we can do right now seven
times a day is only three players and
it's only an 85 rating. I don't know if
the value of this exchange pack seems
that good. You're gonna have to turn in
a lot of high ratings. Probably let's
say let's say four 87s or 88s is what
we're guessing. You're gonna have to
turn in a lot of high rats to get golds
back. Now, I get it. We have a lot of
high ratings right now. And this could
still be good. But that's just my first
worry with this exchange pack. Again,
I'm saying all this and I'm being kind
of nitpicky because I am still a fan of
the fact that we are getting in a
limited repeatable exchange and it's
going to be good. But this is my worry
number two with this exchange grind SBC
bands because if they're giving us a
whole bunch of gold commons and rares,
we're going to be putting the commons
into the 80 plus x* 5 and we're going to
put the rares either into the 85* 2 or
the even better 84 plus player pick.
That is going to be a lot of SBC's that
we are doing just to get a bunch of
player picks opened and just to get a
bunch of uh 80 plus times five packs
open. I'm worried about SBC bands. Right
now, the limit is 90 SBC's per hour or
300 SBC's per day. And at the endame of
last year in FC25, EA lifted those
numbers and basically allowed us to do
unlimited number of packs. They have to
do that this year as well because if
they don't, then we're going to be stuck
with this unlimited grind. It would be
unlimited at that point in quotes
because it wouldn't truly be unlimited
if you would be getting SBC banned after
maybe sitting down and doing packs for
like an hour or an hour and a half
because that's how quick with extensions
these days you're going to blitz through
doing 90 player picks or 90 80 plus
times fives. So these are not the
exchanges of old. I think we have to
kind of rewrite our thinking. I don't
know if we're ever going to get the old
FC24 exchanges which were peak exchange
SBC's kind of like FIFA Trading Romania
is saying here. Uh it's not the same as
it was, but it's at least something and
it has been improved. The menu grind has
been improved. So overall, yes, we are
finally g getting in a limited
repeatable pack grind, but it definitely
doesn't look like it's going to be
perfect. We just have to wait and see
what the requirements are going to be.
And honestly, we're gonna have to wait
and see once we get into it, like how it
actually feels, how cumbersome it is and
stuff like that. This does feel like, as
Jamie Foot economist said, they were
waiting to bring back an exch
exchangeesque loop and that it wouldn't
be the same as in previous releases.
That is definitely coming true. And it
also feels like EA is just saying, "You
guys wanted exchanges. Here's maybe the
worst exchange possible. Here you go. We
gave you exchanges." That's kind of how
it feels right now. But you know what?
I'm being a little bit too harsh because
it is in a limited repeatable pack
grind. We'll just have to see if the SBC
bands and the requirements are okay. So,
let me know what you guys think because
it is exciting, but at the same time, I
always counter that thought with, well,
how is it actually going to play out in
game? Drop your comments down below. I'd
love to see how you guys are feeling
about it. And once again, this is not
coming out until tomorrow on Thursday.
We also need to take a look at what is
coming out on Friday because the team
three footies cards are starting to be
leaked. These are the cards that we
would be doing in a limited repeatable
pack grind for after Friday and into
next week. We've got a 99 most likely.
These are predicted stats, but let's be
honest. Cro is probably going to be one
of the 99 rated players. Cro is in this
one. Zinedine Zidan is going to be in
this team three. Oise, who's also
probably going to be a 99, is in this
team three as well. as Celiba and
Cherokee. I also believe there is
another kind of lower rated player that
is leaked who I'm forgetting the name of
uh right now at the moment. But the
names so far are looking all right.
Again, we don't know the official stats
for those players right now. U oh,
Clement Langlay, that's the player who's
probably not going to be 99 rated that
is leaked at the moment as well to be in
footies. I skipped over one player and
that is Putus because guys, this Putus
leak is said to be a part of the season
pass. We have one week left to get to
level 30 in our current season pass. And
by the way, if you care about FC27 at
all, if you want to max out your
rewards, this is a very little known
fact about the season pass. If you get
to level 30, you get an 82* 5 pack in
FC27. I'm going to make sure to remind
you guys about that in this next couple
of days as we're in the last seven days
now of the season pass. I'm just got to
level 29 here. If you need SP, take a
look at the seasonal tab and objectives.
There is a lot that is out. There's SP
bonus objectives that are out right now,
but that is the first season pass leak
that we do have. It'll be the last
season pass of FC26. So, I'm sure we'll
get some more leaks of that, especially
leaks of more players and even evos that
are going to be a part of that here
pretty soon. One more thing to talk
about in terms of leaks for this team
three of footies coming on Friday is the
token store. Muller's finally getting
his card. He was leaked two weeks ago,
didn't drop. Here he is. It's kind of
the UNC token store footies cards. Here
we've got Benzema, Müller, and Isco. And
these are official stats. Benzema's got
98 shooting, which is cool, but Bro
needs a pace boost and he's 97 rated, so
it might not happen. Müller is 96 rated,
so it might be possible to evo his card
there. But those are official stats for
the footies token store players incoming
this weekend. Now, let's talk about
today and close out the video with the
content that's coming today and maybe
the FC27 version of the game that some
of you guys are playing right now. A few
hours ago, it seems to be players
started getting on the FC27 closed beta.
And once again, guys, this is a fun time
because you get to get on the game and
be hands-on with some of the new
features. See the new gallery and stuff
like that. I haven't got on the game
yet. I don't even have a beta code yet.
Hopefully, I do get one in the next
couple of days via email. Check your
emails associated with your EA accounts.
If you're in Canada, Ireland, USA, or
UK, that's where the beta is available.
PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, it's all
there. Remember guys, don't post
pictures. Don't um especially don't post
videos of what you're playing online.
You're allegedly not even allowed to
talk about it. But every single year,
the people that get banned are the
people who are posting pictures of the
actual beta itself. And guess what? We
have leaks already from the beta. This
one is actually pretty interesting.
There is a custom photo scan your face
feature that is going to be a part of
probably the grounds pro club. club. I
don't think this is a part of Ultimate
Team, but this is something that's been
in 2K for a really long time. Uh, but of
course, it is cool to see it inside of
FC. So, this tweet is banging right now
with this leak being the first news of
any information from the beta. And then
also, Eggy TK on his Instagram posting
one of the first beta screenshots that
somebody else posted on Twitter um about
his in-game head avatar looking um
pretty large. bobblehead eky TK. I think
it just might be the angle or something.
I don't know what's going on there. But
yeah, guys, just um just don't post
pictures of the beta. I would hate to
see any of you guys get banned if that
were to happen. Even if you think
something cool is happening, you want to
share it, like just don't do that. But
the FC27 beta is open. Uh and honestly,
that might, this is crazy to say, but
that might hurt the market a bit. So, if
you have still any of these 99 rated
cards, I would probably think about
selling them. How much are we looking at
right now for Cucarella? I mean, he's
still going up. How much is he? 1.1 mil
or just over a mill. Crazy. These cards
are still going up. But I would highly
recommend selling those. The best thing
you can do on the market right now is
get involved on the 84s. As we talked
about, 84 ratings today are going to
bang as well. How much are they right
now? Yeah. Okay. They're even up a
little bit right now. Guys, if you need
coins, get on bids for 84s. Wow. 1,700
really right now because today on
Wednesday is the refresh of the swaps
SB. Yeah, they're already up still. Get
on bids. These cards yesterday went from
800 up to 2K and they were just now down
to 800 coins. Get on bids. I would even
pay a,000 coins for these. I would pay
a,000 coins because the swaps SBC's for
footies tokens refreshed today and
people like they do every Wednesday. I
had my date wrong last week by the way.
These refreshed. They said in game that
they had refreshed on Thursday. They
didn't. They refreshed on Wednesdays.
Anyways, uh people are going to be doing
these this week. I'm even like behind
right now on them. I good on tokens
though for the week. So, I probably
won't finish them. But make sure you buy
83s and fours. Sell them after content
today and even before content because
they will be moving up. So, that's your
daily trade there. And of course, trade
with those festival football cards
because Paor, Javi Simons, and all those
festival football captains cards, the
festival of football and to the call
cards, those are still really good to
flip as well. Por is 17K. Probably sells
for 20 to 22,000 today after content
with more SPCs that are incoming. Now,
speaking of SBC's that will be dropping
today, of course, I'm still hoping for
that Musa Sissoko player pick or not
player pick, Musa Susoko player SBC. He
was one of the SBC names that is still
out there and leaked. But we should be
getting a footies team two guaranteed
player pick today as well. I didn't even
get the team one player pick done. I'll
probably have to do that before the
content drop today. But this should be
coming out as a team two pick as a part
of content and then we should have some
sort of evolution uh dropped in game
today as well. Also, last day if you're
trying to get rivals rewards for the
tokens, last day to get those before
those rewards come out tomorrow. Just
worth a mention there. And then, of
course, all eyes would be on tomorrow
with the exchange SBC's finally
dropping. Let me know down in the
comments how you guys are feeling about
the exchange SBC's after uh we have kind
of talked through everything there with
those. Again, I like the unlimited
grind, but at the same time, like I've
said multiple times now, I just don't
know if I love it. 80 times five giving
me a footies. Now Den right-wing uh
Politano, I'm packing this guy all the
time. But you know what? We'll take
that. Add that to the storage and we'll
be doing a big SBC with a 95 rated card
hopefully soon. Anyway guys, that's the
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great Wednesday. Peace