6 features FIFA 21 Ultimate Team needs to add DexertoWith the release of FIFA 21 fast-approaching, we start to question: how can EA sports innovate its most popular game mode, Ultimate Team? The mode\u2019s reveal is now on the horizon, and we\u2019ve listed here 6 major features that we want to see added (or re-added) in next year\u2019s game. One of the biggest complaints FIFA players have, year to year, is that the game feels like a re-skinned version of the previous year\u2019s. Here, we take a look at six features we want to see added to FIFA 21\u2019s Ultimate Team, that would make it feel discernibly different from FIFA 20 and, hopefully, restore it to its former glory. 1 \u2013 Bring tournaments back Why were tournaments ever removed from FIFA Ultimate Team? They featured in a host of the older Ultimate Teams, in both Single Player and Online variants. The tournaments would come with team limitations and requirements, similar to the SBCs we see in recent FIFA titles. However, players would then pit their team against opponents in a knock-out tournament \u2013 like the current Draft mode. Winning the tournament would earn players awesome rewards, but the tournaments have not featured in UT for some years now. One of the major appeals of tournaments was that they encouraged teams you wouldn\u2019t normally see in online play. Running an all-silver team? You were guaranteed to come up against another all-silver outfit. Now, using anything but the most highly rated team possible sees you consistently outclassed online, whether it\u2019s in FUT Champions or Division Rivals. 2 \u2013 Wager Matches This has been on the radar of FIFA fans for some time, now. As long ago as FIFA 13, prominent creators like KSI were calling for EA to add wagers. In a mode where in-game currency is so prevalent, it\u2019s quite remarkable that EA have never added such a feature. This could easily be a tiered edition \u2013 with players able to invest as many or as few coins as they want. The thought of a match with 1,000, 10,000 or even 100,000 coins riding on it sounds incredibly exciting, and would constitute a more than worthwhile change. An argument against this change is that it would be wrong to implement such a feature in a game aimed at younger audiences. However, it seems disingenuous to argue such a feature would be inappropriate when so much of Ultimate Team is geared around micro-transactions, and players are so frequently encouraged to use real-money to purchase packs. 3 \u2013 Custom Badge & Kit Creators The whole raison d\u2019etre of Ultimate Team is to create your own XI and club, in whatever way you choose to. It seems bizarre then, that even in FIFA 20, the option to design your own badge or kits is not yet a feature. What seems even more strange, at least to FIFA players, is that the freedom to create your own badges\/kits is already in a host of EA titles, like the company\u2019s NHL games. This is a must-add in FIFA 21 but, to be honest, it\u2019s been a must-add for a few years now. 4 \u2013 Challenge Matches\/Scenarios These would, in theory, work like Ultimate Team tournaments. Players would be tasked with using their squad to recreate a match scenario, and pull off a real-life comeback or challenge. Down 3-0 to AC Milan in the final of the Champions League? Come back and win 4-3 and earn all kinds of UCL rewards. This is just one example of countless scenarios that could be added, with decades worth of amazing football moments to pick from. Similar to SBCs, unique and powerful rewards could be on offer upon completion. 5 \u2013 Scrap FUT Champions, introduce a new comp mode The introduction of FUT Champs back in FIFA 17 was met with universal praise, and rightly so. FIFA had long been calling out for a competitive mode, on top of the Seasons (now Rivals) mode. However, Champs has remained largely untouched in the years that followed. The reduction from 40 matches to 30 made it more accessible to casual players, but it\u2019s still a slug to get through the games for anyone who doesn\u2019t dedicate their entire weekends to FIFA. The idea of a competitive game mode is good, but FUT Champs needs reworking or replacing going forwards. A league-based ranked mode would seem a pragmatic alternative. 6 \u2013 Bring back Trade Deals The move to introduce price ranges to FIFA Ultimate Team was massively unpopular, but so was the removal of trade deals. As it sounds, this allowed players to offer multiple cards in return for one, more valuable one. It allowed freedom in the market, and led to a host of \u2018Pink Slips\u2019 between creators. The problem is that, with FIFA Points at such a premium, players would always look for alternative ways to get ahead. Regardless, it\u2019s a market feature that would reduce reliance on SBCs, and allow some of the better cards in the game to be accessed without having to drop millions of coins. Not to mention, this feature is already in other EA titles, such as Madden NFL \u2013 meaning it\u2019s definitely something they\u2019re capable of implementing. That rounds up the features we want to see in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team! What did we miss? Be sure to tweet us @UltimateTeamUK to let us know what you want to see added in next year\u2019s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
6 features FIFA 21 Ultimate Team needs to add DexertoWith the release of FIFA 21 fast-approaching, we start to question: how can EA sports innovate its most popular game mode, Ultimate Team? The mode\u2019s reveal is now on the horizon, and we\u2019ve listed here 6 major features that we want to see added (or re-added) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}