Video summary
The host, Nate from The Foot Accountant, introduces the final promotional event of FC26, which is scheduled to arrive on Friday under the name "Pre-Season Final Whistle." This event marks a significant transition point as players prepare for the launch of FC27. While the community had previously anticipated an "Ultimate Rewind" promo, EA surprised them by releasing that earlier, leaving this upcoming event to serve as the true conclusion of the current season. The host outlines expectations for this final push, which should include a continuation of Season Pass rewards, potential carryover items for FC27, and most importantly, a massive influx of special cards and packs. Fans are particularly eager to see if EA will finally re-release World Cup-themed items like the Summer Stars winners or Phenoms cards, which have yet to appear in packs despite previous years' precedents.
In terms of immediate gameplay content, the video details several Squad Building Challenges (SBCs) that were available recently, focusing on the acquisition of 99-rated players. Two notable SBCs dropped previously allowed players to craft 99-rated goalkeepers like Unai Simón and Marcelo, with the latter being a unique "shape-shifter" style card that is relatively easy to complete due to the abundance of free fodder from the ongoing 85x10 grind. Another SBC offered an upgrade pack for 87+ players, which can be completed using leftover gold commons and special cards to boost daily pack limits. However, the host shares a disappointing experience with the "Four Footies Player Pick" SBC, noting that despite attempting it hundreds of times on live streams, the drop rates for 99-rated cards were extremely poor, yielding mostly 98s or lower. This highlights the current difficulty in obtaining top-tier players through pack grinding, though the host remains hopeful that the final promo will alleviate this frustration with better odds.
Looking ahead to FC27, the discussion shifts to pre-order bonuses and the upcoming release of dynamic icons. The host reveals that all starter versions of the new pre-order icons this year come with a "Play Style Plus," a significant advantage for early-game progression that was absent in previous years. While some specific icons like Zamora are criticized as underwhelming, the overall utility of these cards is high due to their enhanced play styles and official dynamic images. Additionally, there is news regarding transfer player SBCs, with leaks suggesting that players like Mo Salah will be available as token rewards around September 11th. The host also mentions upcoming giveaways of Ultimate Plus editions of FC27 on the live stream later in the week, aiming to help viewers secure these valuable pre-order bonuses before the August 31st deadline.
Ultimately, the video serves as a wrap-up for the endgame phase of FC26 while building excitement for the new title. The host acknowledges that while collecting 99-rated squads is still a priority, the focus is shifting toward enjoying the game and preparing for the next chapter. With the "Four Footies Player Pick" likely expiring soon and no expectation of another major 99 SBC drop today, players are encouraged to make their final moves before the season concludes. The community is invited to share their own experiences with pack pulls and icon choices in the comments, as the channel prepares to release exclusive news videos two hours before content drops on Wednesday and Thursday, ensuring fans stay updated on every last detail of the FC26 finale and the dawn of FC27.
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Hey guys, it's Nate aka the foot
accountant. Welcome back to the channel.
Who needs leakers to tell us what the
next promo is inside of this game when
the game itself lets us know inside of
the menus? This isn't just the next
promo, by the way. It is the final promo
of FC26 as we sail off into the sunset
towards FC27, the end of 26 into 27.
This promo that we're expecting on
Friday is the one we thought we were
going to get before we got Ultimate
Rewind. But one of the biggest things
that we're looking forward to is the
return of 99 rated footies cards and
also maybe those World Cup items as
well, like the World Cup 99 rated Summer
Stars tournament winners coming back
into packs with a hopefully much better
best of re-release. We're also looking
out for transferred player SBC's and
maybe even some more FC27 carryover
rewards. We're going to talk about it
today. Now, if you're excited for this
one, drop a thumbs up the video, hike
the video, and subscribe if you're new.
Now, speaking of FC27, we have a bombazo
video that is going to drop today on the
channel 2 hours before content. Yes,
that's all I can say, but we have an
incredible opportunity to share with you
guys, and it is going to be super duper
cool. Super duper cool. Yeah, I want to
say more, but that's all I can say.
Watch the video today that comes out two
hours before content. There'll be
another one coming tomorrow at the same
time as well with some more FC27 news.
But before we get too far into that,
let's rein it back into FC26 where we
actually had some interesting SBC
content yesterday. We had no objective
content, no evolution content. It was
all in SBC's. We got two 99 rated player
SBCs here with Yan Oblak and Marcelo
footies icon. First of all, if you need
a 99 rated goalkeeper to try to build
your fully 99 rated team for this
endgame period, I know that's one of the
main motivations to be opening packs and
trying to pack 99s right now. This is a
SBC that you can do if you didn't do the
Unai Simone from the World Cup earlier
this year. That is a nice card. It is
very cheap, only three squads. I would
also say Marcelo is a very nice card.
This is one of the only footies icon
SPCs that I would have been interested
in and he's out now. 20 squads. I know
he's downvoted on foot because it does
take 20 squads to get him done. But that
is going to be incredibly easy because
Fodder is free right now with the 85x10
grind, all the specials that you get,
being able to rinse those specials back
in one special card back into this with
the golds that you get from the
repeatable footies provisions upgrade.
Like we talked about in yesterday's
video, all you need is these two packs
right here to get yourself unlimited
fodder. Again, I know he's downvoted,
but I'm upvoting that because that is a
very unique kind of shape shifteresque
Marcelo card there. And I will be
getting that one done. I probably won't
get Oblak done. Or maybe I will just
because I'll have a bunch of extra
fodder. But those are two 99 rated
player SBCs that we got yesterday. Of
course, building up our 99 rated squads.
Now, the other SBC we got yesterday was
interesting was an 87 plus time 7
upgrade pack. This still requires two
special cards and 83 and 84 rated
squads, which is slightly annoying
except for the fact that you could just
put some leftover gold commons into this
with a couple of special cards that you
may have in your SBC storage and at
least get yourself another pack seven
times a day. The 87 by7 Seven times a
day. Lot of sevens right there for sure.
But the last SBC that we got to talk
about that was brand new yesterday was
this one of four footies player pick.
This includes icons and heroes by the
way. doesn't necessarily say that, but
it does include them. Guys, I don't know
if you saw my tweet yesterday, but holy
smokes. I thought this might be a fun
player pick to do to try to chase 99
rated cards. Boy, were we wrong. We did
168 of these player picks yesterday on
the live stream. Yes, that is the
correct math. We counted 168 player
picks between a couple of share plays
and my account. And we ended up with a
handful of 98 rated cards, but not a
single 99. And I thought that was crazy.
I thought that kind of just put the pack
weight and how it's been feeling in this
endgame into a nutshell because we've
been grinding all these packs. People
been saying, "Oh, 85 by10s are
terrible." To a degree, that that's
pretty bad. Like that is pretty freaking
bad. So, I'm going to do one pick right
here. Watch the 169th player pick
actually be the one that gives a 99.
If I was tracing 99s, which I am, I
don't think I'd put my FOD into these
guys. Like, sure, there's some 98s that
if you haven't packed them, you could go
for them through this, but that's how
most of the player picks look. I would
better recommend the 95 plus player pick
for one squad that is unlimited
repeatable as well, cuz it is fun to hit
a player pick like this, but my goodness
was the weight on those super duper bad.
So, that seems like a good idea to do
that one. But maybe I wouldn't. Now, I
know in the comments of this tweet,
people are like, "Oh, I did 15. I did it
15 times and I got Iniesta. Or I did it
three times and got another Iniesta.
Second one. What's with the Iniestas in
here? Three Three first comments there.
Iniesta. There's a Dino guy said he did
it either twice or 20 times. Took 30 for
Beckenbower, 168 with nothing seems
really bad. Yeah, it was really bad. So
maybe your luck is not as bad as what we
experienced yesterday on the stream. But
maybe just be a little careful with
those booties player picks. Now,
yesterday as well, we had the swap token
SBC's refresh, which I started to do to
get myself some swap tokens from this.
Since FOD is everywhere, these are
really, really easy to get done. And if
you did notice, low tier and mid-tier
FOD did rise yesterday. I mean, 88's
went up about a,000, 2,000 a card. 84s
right now are 2K for Marmush. Nah, maybe
that's just because it's Marmush. What
about Orban? Okay, 1.5K, but that still
is up because yesterday these cards were
800 coins. Now they're up to about a
thousand plus. As you can see, all of
the 84s are there. And I even saw some
87s and 88s moving in price because of
these token swap SBC's giving you more
swap tokens for this weekly's aotment,
which of course gets us nowhere near the
3,000 that we can get every single week,
but it at least is something. Now, the
same grind is going on with everything
related to content, guys. It is the
85x10, putting it into whatever SBC you
want to put it into. And honestly, the
best thing about doing some of the SBC's
right now is getting the tradeable packs
back. Like, I need to go through here
and spam open all of my tradeable packs
because it is literally going to give me
free coins. Like, the number of small
prime gold packs that I have or like
small prime electrum players packs,
you're just going to make like a
thousand coins every single time you
open one of these small electrum players
pack. Let's just like imagine opening
that for a second 50 times. That's
probably going to make me 50k. And if I
pack a special card, that's 10,000 Insta
quick sale value that I would be able to
sell or quick sell and then get even
more coins off of that. So, that's just
one thing to kind of note with these
tradeable packs that we are getting
here. As you open those, if you have a
huge stash of those like I do, just open
them and then quick sell them super fast
because that is going to get you free
coins. Look at that right there. Boom. A
special card in the second one that I
open a team of the year honorable
mention Luis Diaz. Bang. 11,000 coins.
You don't need to trade right now. You
can literally just do that. Now, let's
take a look at the promo that we learned
is coming on Friday, guys. And this is
how we learned. If you go into the live
events tab, you will notice there is a
event here called the pre-season final
whistle event. Remember last week when
we had a live event called uh Ultimate
Rewind? Well, yeah, we got the Ultimate
Rewind Gauntlet and that kind of tipped
us off that it was going to be an
Ultimate Rewind promo. Well, now we have
the pre-season live event. This is the
promo that we thought we were going to
get after footies and EA surprised us by
dropping the ultimate rewind promo. But
what this preseason promo is going to be
is kind of a continuation of what we
have in the season pass and taking us
into the end of the game with FC27
carryover rewards, more cards and packs,
hopefully more 99s, and then transfer
SBCs. That is kind of the summary of
what this preseason promo should be
because that's what it is just about
every single year. Now, in terms of FC27
carryover rewards, right now we already
have a good chunk for completing the
season pass, getting level 30 for
completing all the objectives inside of
this Delpierro completionist, right?
That's Marcario, Otendi, Troard, and
Wilson. If you complete all those
objectives, you're getting FC27 rewards.
That's really all the rewards that we
can get right now. In previous years of
this preseason promo, they would also
drop objectives like other objectives.
they would drop evolutions and even
SBC's that would give us FC27 or in
previous years 25 to 26 carryover
rewards. So that's one thing to kind of
watch out with with this promo as it
does come in to see if there are more of
those rewards that will be available.
But maybe the more interesting thing is
what should hopefully be in packs. I
wouldn't expect to get new cards. That's
one thing a lot of people are like,
"Where's a 99 Messi? Where's a 99
Ronaldo?" We might not get one. We
genuinely might not get a 99 rated card
for those two players. They've already
got 98s and higher rated ones. Maybe
EA's not going to do that this year. But
what preseason normally does is
re-release footies cards and a whole
bunch of other specials that were
previously put out during the year back
into packs. It's like one big set of
re-released cards, but it does include
99s. Now, this year, I would be very
interested to know if it would also
include along with the 99 rated footies
cards and a lot of these coming back
into packs. I'd be I would love to know
if it would include these cards, the
summer stars winners or even just some
of the other World Cup promos like the
Phenoms cards or the Path to Glories and
stuff like that because we have not seen
any of these cards re-released yet. And
it just feels like this was kind of one
of the last things that EA was holding
on to to make this preseason promo, this
very last promo of the year hit a little
bit different is they did not release
the World Cup cards yet. And I would
imagine that in this preseason batch one
that we would get on Friday, we would
probably have those cards in there. So
that's one thing to kind of watch out
for. If you're chasing the 99s, there
will be different ones available this
week. So, I guess if you're technically
chasing after, you know, the the Bruno,
the Dembele, the Graham Hansen, the
Teao, you would only have, I think,
maybe the next couple of days to pack
them, unless EA would bring any of these
cards back into packs as well during
these last few weeks of preseason. Now,
also during this preseason promo, one of
the staple parts of it is the transfer
player SBC's. I think back to this SBC
when Harry Kane moved from Spurs to
Byron. What a sad time that was. but he
got a 99 rated moments card and we had
other ones in previous years in footies
card designs like the Trent when he
moved from Liverpool to Real Madrid. I
think that was actually last year in
FC25. That is one of the staples of this
preseason promo. And it was already
leaked as well that we're going to be
getting some players like a Chelsea
player is going to be getting an SBC. Mo
Salah is going to be a token reward on
September 11th according to foot police.
We had these leaks a couple of days back
like actually a week ago now. Foot
police was leaking this into September
and that's honestly pretty crazy. Now,
the leakers might start posting a little
bit of news surrounding this preseason
promo and there may be some more bits
and pieces that we don't know yet right
now that will be incoming for this
promo. But right now, what I would
expect would be a big set of special
cards and packs, transfer player SBCs,
maybe maybe um some potential carryover
rewards in FC27, and then hopefully a
lot of cards and packs as well. and
nothing changing with the pack grind to
make it even worse. Like things happened
to be worse this last weekend before EA
changed the grind back to being better.
So that's kind of a short summary of
what this next promo should be looking
like. We'll be watching out for the
leaks to see if we do get anything
there. By the way, that friendly mode
that was shown in live events is a first
to three mode and that's nice because at
this end game stage, we don't want to
spend a whole bunch of time grinding.
I'm not even playing foot champs right
now. I'm playing more pro clubs and I'm
playing Ultimate Team just because it's
fun and a breath of fresh air. And
honestly, guys, I'm just more excited
for FC27
than anything else. Now, I'm still
chasing a 99 rated squad, don't get me
wrong. Like, I'm trying to collect the
99s at this point. They've dropped
multiple in SBC's. It should be pretty
easy to get done. We'll get that done
here soon. But speaking of SC27, once
again, we do have a big video coming
today, so make sure you keep an eye out
for that. But yesterday, we learned the
official stats and even dynamic images
and play style pluses of all of the
pre-order icons that will be potentially
packable at the beginning of FC27. If
you get the ultimate or Ultimate Plus
edition of the game, once again, you
don't have to do $150, $150 to get the
Ultimate Plus edition to get one of
these icons. You can get the Ultimate
Edition as well. It's just interesting
to see the stats and it's guys really
interesting to me as well that all of
the little bro or like the starter
versions that we'll get day one all have
a play style plus. That is not how the
icons went last year for the pre-order
pack. All the icons last year did not
have a play style plus, but this year
they do. And I find that interesting. I
think a lot of these cards in here look
very, very good. They will all be usable
even though there are a couple of L's. I
would say in my opinion the biggest L
will be Zamraata. I think Arisa would be
an L as well. And then after that, a lot
of the rest of the cards look pretty
usable because that play style plus is
so important in the early game where a
lot of our other gold cards that we will
have won't be having play style pluses.
So, this is a pretty big deal and it's
nice to see what the cards are going to
upgrade to as well. And I also would
imagine that these would be official
dynamics because this is EA tweeting
this out and they're all in their
national team kits which is pretty cool
as well. So, that's kind of the FC27
news that we have for today. Again,
guys, check out the YouTube video that
will be dropping 2 hours before content.
We'll have another one tomorrow about
some FC27 news today on Wednesday. What
sort of content are we looking forward
to? Well, the footies team for pick goes
away. I don't know what they're going to
replace this with, but honestly, it
feels like the pick that we got
yesterday kind of replaced it already.
like the one and four footies player
pick unlimited repeatable kind of makes
the other team four footies player pick
irrelevant now if I'm being completely
honest. So that one is probably going to
expire today and I don't know if there
would be anything else that would
replace it and uh since we got two 99
player SBC's yesterday with Oblak and
Marcelo. I don't really think there's an
expectation for another one today. Maybe
we'll get an evolution. I don't exactly
know. But really what we're moving
towards right now in this game is FC27.
We're trying to get to the end of the
season. We're trying to get a few tokens
here or there and get those 99 rated
cards and uh still having trouble
getting the 99s in terms of pack pulls.
I've gotten four. So, I' I've definitely
hit, you know, hit the jackpot four
times, but also at the same time, like,
man, opening 168 of those player picks
yesterday between my account and between
some others. That is still baffling me
that we did not snag a 99 from any of
those. Let me know in the comments how
those fared for you. Let me know as well
what icon you would like to pack from
this list as we do have just a few days
left um to get these icons. You have to
pre-order before August 31st to get one
of these icons. I should mention that as
well if that is on your radar. We'll be
doing our last couple giveaways of
Ultimate Plus editions of the game this
weekend on the stream. This Friday night
on the stream the 28th. That way I can
get you guys sorted with Ultimate Plus
editions of FC27.
We got one more 85 by10 here. It's
winter wild cards. It's definitely not
Bruno. Yeah, it's definitely not. I will
see you guys in a second video today. Be
on the lookout for that. Have a great
Wednesday and I'll see you in the stream
after that. It's been Nate with
accountancy there.
out.