We Need One LAST SBC, Will EA Drop It?

Hey guys, it's Nate AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Props to all of you guys who are still grinding FC 26 right now in whatever way that may be. Getting the preseason rewards for FC 27, getting 99 rated cards through Evos, or doing the pack grind still. Props to you because after yesterday, I'm just so ready for FC 27. It wasn't like content yesterday was so bad that now I'm only looking forward to 27. I just think I'm ready for that game. Like my mind is already going to the early game strategy, the preparation videos, the how we're going to prepare for the web app this year because of some of the new things that are coming into the game and maybe more tradeable rewards and tradeable packs that might actually make the web app worth being on this year. That's the best time of the year and that's really what I want to talk about and we are going to soon. But with all that being said, there is one last SBC that would actually get me excited on this game and I'd love to complete it, but will EA actually drop it? We're going to talk about that today. Also, welcome to the new digs. I'm sure the microphone isn't sounding perfect. I haven't put up all the sound panels yet. The background is still a mess. This is not going to be the chair that is here in the background for a long time. But we are in the new digs literally just from the upstairs to the downstairs of the house. I'm excited to get this set up and uh have some cool stuff in the background there. But without further ado, let's get into everything that dropped yesterday on Saturday cuz there was a couple of interesting things. If you're new to the channel, by the way, drop a sub, of course. Hit the like hit the high button if you've got it. All that cool stuff. Now, let's get things going by looking at the game mode that most of us are playing right now. It is the most important game mode in this game in my opinion, the preseason final whistle event. Our question yesterday was, will the number of attempts refresh? Will this go to 30 every single day? And the answer to that is no. It is a fixed number of 30 matches that we have in total to complete this live event and to get FC 27 rewards because of course, it's still showing 25 out of 30 for me, which means it did not refresh. I would 100% still get this done. I think it's very possible to get done. 30 matches to get five wins is very very doable on almost any skill level. So, that was our confirmation of that yesterday with Saturday's content. Now, in evolutions, we have ourselves a very nice Evo. I know we're getting 99 rated Evo cards now, but the stats here are what are really really good. We're going uncapped acceleration up to 99 shot power is uncapped as well. Vision, crossing, balance are going to 99, too, for all these cards you're putting into here, and you're going 99 rated, of course. Bobby Charlton goes 98 across the board. Pulisic goes to 98 across the board, as well. That's what you're getting out of this Evo here. Look at that Paul Pogba, only at 96 dribbling, but that's honestly okay because his agility would still stay in a lengthy spot. Woo, what a card. So, for a free Evo right there, and only a couple of games to play, that is a nice end game Evo. That's kind of par for the course now. I think basically every Evo that EA is going to drop in this next 2 weeks kind of has to take our cards to 99, unless it's like an individual stat boost and it just gives a plus one overall. That's where we are at. Now, yesterday in SBCs, we didn't get a 99. We broke the streak officially with a 98 Messi. Guys, back to FIFA 19, every single year before this, we had a 99 rated Messi or multiple of them. This year, we don't. It's just the 98, and you can get this SBC done for 11 squads, and it's actually upvoted on Futbin. This surprised me a little bit. 61% upvote on a Messi card that has been super obtainable, or at least a Messi card with stats as good as this have been super obtainable because of Evos. You could have Evo'd up like 10 different special cards of Messi, it seems, from all the ones that are in packs all the time to get a card that looks like this. Alas, this is the Argentina kit Messi. So, if you do want to get this SBC done, of course, it is very craftable. But, the big SBC yesterday was, of course, the 98 plus player pick refreshing, and I got it done, and we're going to open it. I'm a little, I guess, disappointed to see that this is not unlimited repeatable or even like multiple times repeatable per day. And, of course, if you take a look at the expiration date on this SBC as well, it is out until the end of the game. So, that tells me that EA has no intentions of changing the repeatableness of this. I guess they could out of nowhere, but to me, this looks like it's going to be seven squads a day until the end of the game once per day. Like, why not? Why not let the lads just grind these to get the 99 rated cards? I don't know, but we're going to open it. I still like it. It is the most fun player pick and the most must complete player pick that we have right now. Let's get a 99. Uh a dupe. Oh, King Cantona 98. That's a bit of the problem I'm seeing with these as well as as we get to do them more and more and more, the duplicate 98s and even some of the dupe 99s are going to become a little bit annoying. So, again, it's nice to have that, but at the same time, I was kind of hoping that it would maybe be less squads, and it would be more times than just one completion per day. Now, speaking of SBCs and trying to pack 99s, I think that is the one thing that EA is waiting to drop, or I hope it's the one thing that EA is still waiting to drop on this game because every year we end the year with a 99 rated guaranteed pack or player pick. And, we already have that in the season pass, but they need to drop this as an SBC as well. That is the one last SBC, a guaranteed 99 pack or player pick inside of an SBC is the last thing EA needs to do. Now, how much would this even cost if they were to drop it? Well, if they're requiring seven squads for a 98 plus player pick, this one's probably going to be like 10 or more. But again, fodder's free, 85 by 10 grind, 86 by 10s that we can do every single day. We know this, right? The grind is easy, fodder is everywhere. We would do it. We would absolutely do it for a guaranteed 99 pack pull, even if that one's like you get to do it once per week. Like EA, just do it. The pack is in the code, you've already given us those packs through the end of the season pass, like level 20 something, I think you can get a guaranteed 99 pack and potentially a 99 player pick as well. There is a player pick in the end of the season pass that gives you just players from the Spain World Cup winners team, but I think that is one last SBC that we all want that EA just need to drop. Because guys, 10 Today again is August 30th. There is one more day of August, and then we are in September. And when the clock strikes September for me, the gears shift, and it is new FC time. Right? Like FC 27, I know, it's been close for a while. We've been kind of done with FC 26. We've been in the end game. The number of people playing this game is declining. My motivation to play this game is declining. Just give me FC 27, and that's why I think EA should give us this 99 rated pack. We got 99 rated cards and Evos. We're getting 99 SBCs all over the place. We're packing more 99s kind of. Just let the floodgates open. There's no more holding back, EA. It's the last couple of weeks in this game. Who cares? Let it go. I hope that SBC is coming. Now, would it come today? I doubt it. It They could just drop it on like a random Monday or Tuesday. They might wait to drop it until like this upcoming Friday with the second week of this preseason promo, which looks like it's going to be the last week of any promo inside of this game, by the way, because it doesn't look like this is going to be a three-week promo taking us right into 27. Looks like EA is going to start with their less promo weeks, maybe early before FC 27, since this seems to be, like I said again, only a 2-week probably cuz that is what the website has said and it doesn't kind of mention anything beyond what is going to be happening after this Friday. So, fingers crossed that an SBC like that would be coming. Other than that, you know the grind. We're still doing the packs, still hitting the magic wand, if you will, as well, using some of those abilities out there to build the packs super quick. And really, what else do we have to look forward to, guys, besides a 99-rated overall guaranteed pack cuz we have 99-rated everywhere else. Now, let's take a look at content that could be dropping today. And also, reminder, if you want to trade, and again, just flex that muscle, that's the analogy that I've been using, flex that muscle heading into FC 27, go do it. Like, seriously, you're going to be like, "Mate, it's so dumb. Who cares?" Right, games dead. You're literally just getting ready for the game that is about to come out and that's an advantage that you're going to have over others. If you're flexing that muscle again and thinking in that way of supply and demand, I even find myself wondering like, "Wait, how is the market going to react because of this, that, and the other?" And I'm like, "Well, we got to think back to how it normally happens at the beginning of the year." But also, at the same time, think about the new spin on things that's maybe going to change this year. I mean, I love it. The strategy of the early game is the best. Now, what is happening today besides the market that you could get involved with? Chris Richards is expiring. The 94-plus icon pick is expiring. Do we really care what replaces that? Not super much of a care unless it's like a 98-plus or 97-plus icon or hero-only player pick. If there's something that high-rated, that specific, I would be interested because that would give you potential for the 99 R9, the 99 Gareth Bale, and even some of those 99s that aren't in packs right now. If it was just like 99-plus Festival of Football or sorry, 97-plus Festival of Football or footies icon or hero. So, that's one thing that we could potentially be getting today as a part of content. That's a guess, but that is an expiring SBC. So, I would look out for that. And then we still have a number of 99 rated that are expected to be in this first week of preseason. We've got the Anderson, Laquois, the Tonali, the Beckenbauer, and then of course the Lamin Mall and Pedri 99 rated Spain players. Of course, a lot of people are looking forward to that Lamin Mall card and are expecting it to be pretty expensive. He's a lot more expensive than Messi, right? He's like 2.5, 2.6 mil in the market. Messi was less than that. So, how much would that Lamin Mall cost as an SBC? We still don't know the answer to that one, but that's kind of crazy that they didn't drop him as a promo Friday SBC player. Like, I get it. Diomande, big transfer. That's one of the main parts of this promo is the transfer SBCs. Sure, but also like Lamin Mall, too. I think that's the biggest name out of all those SBC players there besides Messi who dropped today, you know. Lamin Mall, Messi. They could have dropped them together. That would have been cool. A fun, interesting way to drop those two cards, but we'll be watching out for that SBC today. I don't really think we'll get too much else other than that unless we do get a surprise of something else in SBCs or evolutions. No more FC 27 rewards to chase until this next Friday. Once again, guys, don't forget to get that objective done. That's the whistle, final whistle objective we were just talking about. Team of the Year Nuno Mendes. That's a fun one right there. So, yeah, that's just a reminder to not forget to get that one done. And then also, I know we mentioned it in some short form content just a couple of days ago, but don't forget to get Maradona because Maradona is going to be giving us some sort of reward in FC 27 as well. It was on EA's help website. They never really publicized this and what the reward is even going to be. Like, they haven't even told us that, but they said completing this Maradona and playing one game in the world's game mode, which is outside of Ultimate Team. But if you play one game in the group stages of that game [snorts] mode, which is still available on the game. I don't know why it's spazzing off of me right now, but you will be eligible to get some FC 27 rewards as well. So, again, that's the motivation for me. Maybe pack a 99 here or there, but get all of my objectives done, get all those carryover rewards done, and get into FC 27. Short video today, guys. Actually, one more thing. Speaking of FC 27, this tweet kind of went out yesterday. Breaking, Bruiser has been massively nerfed in FC 27. Spamming from behind doesn't work anymore, which we talked to a gameplay producer, and I literally asked him that question a month ago when I was in Vancouver. Um I mentioned Bruiser. I was like, "Yeah, everybody is not happy with Bruiser in FC 26 because of how OP it is, even after it was patched and uh nerfed, like it's still crazy OP." And he was like, "Yeah, one of the things that we implemented this year is a uh penalty to the defender who is spamming Bruiser. Like your guy could potentially even get a foul, but we'll just try to like grab on a jersey, and won't even get the jersey if you're actually spamming uh that Bruiser button. So, that is not a new piece of information, in my opinion, but I don't know what the Bruiser has been massively nerfed part here. I don't know where this came from. Um from my experience playing 27, again, very early build, is not final build. They probably were still tweaking things. Um Bruiser still seemed to be usable. It definitely didn't seem to be as OP, but it did still seem to be usable. Um even with stronger players who didn't have the Bruiser play style or play style plus, like you could still get that animation and get the ball off of somebody. Now, I will be interested to see the counter to that, which is like the new agile dribbling or off-balance dribbling for players that have 85 agility, balance, and in-game dribbling stat um or more because that seemed pretty OP. We saw that in the trailer. We talked about that in the trailer and I even talked about that in when I was experiencing FC 27 gameplay myself. So, very interesting to see how that goes, but this tweet yesterday kind of came out of nowhere. It sounds like there was another guy YouTube video posted by the guide FC 26 tips and tricks where this gameplay was kind of seen and posted and everything, but I don't know. I mean it's kind of weird because we had the beta. We were able to experience that or some people will and now we're just kind of waiting for the real thing to come out. Back in the day, if you guys remember this, there used to be a beta, then there used to be a demo, which was like you could stream it, you could record it, I think if I remember correctly, but it was free and everybody played the demo and it was just kick-off, but it was like everybody could get their hands on the new game before it came out. We don't get that anymore. I wish they would do an open beta as well because sure, yeah, it would destroy the hype for the current game, but why not run like Call of Duty is doing right now, an open beta weekend for literally just 3 days for like Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Just run an open beta weekend and then instead of having to patch the game 1, 2, 3 weeks and a month into the full game being released. If you do an open beta like that, you're going to find out so many bugs because so many people are going to be on the game experiencing and playing the game in a different way. You're going to find those mistakes and find those bugs and you're going to be able to fix them earlier like straight away with a day one patch or a day one update before everybody else is out on the game instead of fixing some of those things that could be super duper annoying and detract from the playing experience 2, 3, 4 weeks in. That's kind of the thing I'm just thinking of after seeing this and I want to talk to you guys about there. So, that's kind of the FC 27 gameplay news that we have of the day. There's really no other leaks besides the SBCs that we looked at. There will be a lot of information and news, I'm sure, still to come about FC 27. Um you know, things about pitch notes, things about play styles. We still don't know all the play styles for all the ratings. Like they've got the ratings database up, but we don't know is Claudia Pina going to have finesse plus? Is you know, [snorts] who's going to have what play styles, base play styles? Who's going to have what play style pluses? We don't know any of that. Anyways, I'm yapping, guys. Have a great Sunday. I will see you on a video tomorrow. Might be our last FC 26 video or maybe we'll have two more, we'll see. And then we'll transition into FC 27. Maybe we'll call it this. When the September month starts, we'll transition to FC 27. How about that? So, we'll have a last FC 26 video tomorrow. And then after that, whoop, into FC 27, into the real excitement, at least for me. At least for me. We'll still be on 26, but like 27 mindset. Anyway, guys, have a great Sunday. It's been Nate with the Can. I'll see you later. Peace out.