Thursday, 11 July 2013
Thursday, 20 June 2013
Trading with 10k
This is a lot easier than a lot of people would think. On my YouTube channel I have a series where I have started from 10k. Currently, there are two episodes up and a third coming soon. I started with about 15k and currently have 65k halfway through episode three. I should be able to hit 75k+ depending on the deals that I am able to find. Now you're probably wondering how I did this. It's quite simple actually and I'm going to teach you how I do it.
First, I am going to show you how to set up the auction search so you are able to find good deals. Basically, you want to be searching for gold players in a popular league in good formations. Then you want to set the minimum and maximum prices to 550 and 650. This is what your auction search should look like.
You don't have to use the BPL and you don't have to stick to just 4-1-2-1-2. You can use any league and I would recommend reaching out to other formations as well. When you pull up this search loads of players will pop up. Don't bid on every single player you see. The first few times you do this I would recommend adding them to your watch list and then check the prices when you've gotten up to the one hour mark.
Once you have added the players to your watch list, go back to the auction search and start checking prices. If you have not read my article about checking players prices then click here. In order to make profit using this method you must check prices using the lowest buy now. Then you want to calculate a 400 coin profit, but make sure you remember tax. When you are bidding to win these players just go up by the regular increments until you hit the maximum price you want to pay for the player.
Now this is the most important part of making profit. Listing the players at a price someone will buy them at, but not listing as the lowest buy now is very important. If you list it at the lowest buy now it will sell faster, but other people will try to list it as the lowest buy now, so you will destroy the price of the player by doing that. You want to match the lowest buy now on the market or put it up for a few hundred coins more than the lowest buy now.
As you can see above there are two 4-1-2-1-2 CDM Wilsheres on the market. They are both at a price of 4700. This is good because I have searched for a minimum of 5k. I would list my Wilshere up at a 5k buy now because once these two cards are bought then I will own the lowest buy now on the market. Also if people see that the next lowest buy now is 5k they will be more likely to buy the 4700 coins ones since they still have the possibility of making profit on those two cards. This isn't usually the case with most players. Most players have a range of buy nows. What I mean by that is that the card has one up at a 2k buy now, three up at a 2100 coin buy now, and three up at a 2300 coin buy now. If this is the case you will want to put your card up at the 2100 coin buy now because there is only one card at 2k which will be bought fairly quickly. Then you will be competing to sell your card with two other cards. Your card will eventually get bought and you will make 100 extra coin profit on the card than you originally calculated.
Now that we know how to find the price were going to sell at you must know how to list the player in order to not lose money. Far too often do I see people list players up for a cheap start price and the price they want to sell at as the buy now. People WILL buy your player is there is only a few hundred coins between the start price and buy now. When listing a card this is what it should look like.
As you can see, there is only 100 coins between the two prices. People will buy players that are put up on auction like this. It ensures that you are making profit, whereas if you put this card up for a 1k start price and a 1500 buy now, someone may get lucky and buy the card for 1k.
Now, there's one last thing that your probably wondering. "What if my card doesn't get bought?" There are two answers for this. Either you can lower the price by one increment at a time or you can check the lowest buy now again and see if the price has changed. Whatever you do don't get discouraged and list the player up for a really cheap price. You will eventually be able to sell the player for some profit.
This method hasn't been working very well lately as people are buying cheaper teams because of TOTS. The more expensive players have been declining rapidly in price. I would guess that after TOTS you will be able to use this method pretty easily again. Before TOTS, I was making close to 50k/day using this method, but now I'm able to pick up far fewer players at bargain prices.
This method may not seem like its getting you anywhere, but it is. If you add up all of the 400 coin profits you will be making 4k off of every 10 cards and if you learn the market well you can pick up cards left and right. You can usually pick up 20 cards every hour or so you do this if you know how. It does take time and the rewards seem low, but if you actually are trying to multiply your 10k this is the best method for it. Before I leave you to try the method out I want to tell you that the more money you have the more profit you can make per hour. If you have hundreds of thousands of coins you can still use this method and make loads of coins. I used this method until I hit 300k on my main account. I hope this works well for you and I wish you all luck.
If you want to contact me, it would be best if you sent me a message on Twitter or YouTube because I can not promise that I will check the comments on this blog. If you have any questions at all I would gladly help you to the best of my ability and if there is anything you want me to cover. Also, if you would like to see my trading in action check out the series on my YouTube channel. (link is above)
First, I am going to show you how to set up the auction search so you are able to find good deals. Basically, you want to be searching for gold players in a popular league in good formations. Then you want to set the minimum and maximum prices to 550 and 650. This is what your auction search should look like.
You don't have to use the BPL and you don't have to stick to just 4-1-2-1-2. You can use any league and I would recommend reaching out to other formations as well. When you pull up this search loads of players will pop up. Don't bid on every single player you see. The first few times you do this I would recommend adding them to your watch list and then check the prices when you've gotten up to the one hour mark.
Once you have added the players to your watch list, go back to the auction search and start checking prices. If you have not read my article about checking players prices then click here. In order to make profit using this method you must check prices using the lowest buy now. Then you want to calculate a 400 coin profit, but make sure you remember tax. When you are bidding to win these players just go up by the regular increments until you hit the maximum price you want to pay for the player.
Now this is the most important part of making profit. Listing the players at a price someone will buy them at, but not listing as the lowest buy now is very important. If you list it at the lowest buy now it will sell faster, but other people will try to list it as the lowest buy now, so you will destroy the price of the player by doing that. You want to match the lowest buy now on the market or put it up for a few hundred coins more than the lowest buy now.
As you can see above there are two 4-1-2-1-2 CDM Wilsheres on the market. They are both at a price of 4700. This is good because I have searched for a minimum of 5k. I would list my Wilshere up at a 5k buy now because once these two cards are bought then I will own the lowest buy now on the market. Also if people see that the next lowest buy now is 5k they will be more likely to buy the 4700 coins ones since they still have the possibility of making profit on those two cards. This isn't usually the case with most players. Most players have a range of buy nows. What I mean by that is that the card has one up at a 2k buy now, three up at a 2100 coin buy now, and three up at a 2300 coin buy now. If this is the case you will want to put your card up at the 2100 coin buy now because there is only one card at 2k which will be bought fairly quickly. Then you will be competing to sell your card with two other cards. Your card will eventually get bought and you will make 100 extra coin profit on the card than you originally calculated.
Now that we know how to find the price were going to sell at you must know how to list the player in order to not lose money. Far too often do I see people list players up for a cheap start price and the price they want to sell at as the buy now. People WILL buy your player is there is only a few hundred coins between the start price and buy now. When listing a card this is what it should look like.
Now, there's one last thing that your probably wondering. "What if my card doesn't get bought?" There are two answers for this. Either you can lower the price by one increment at a time or you can check the lowest buy now again and see if the price has changed. Whatever you do don't get discouraged and list the player up for a really cheap price. You will eventually be able to sell the player for some profit.
This method hasn't been working very well lately as people are buying cheaper teams because of TOTS. The more expensive players have been declining rapidly in price. I would guess that after TOTS you will be able to use this method pretty easily again. Before TOTS, I was making close to 50k/day using this method, but now I'm able to pick up far fewer players at bargain prices.
This method may not seem like its getting you anywhere, but it is. If you add up all of the 400 coin profits you will be making 4k off of every 10 cards and if you learn the market well you can pick up cards left and right. You can usually pick up 20 cards every hour or so you do this if you know how. It does take time and the rewards seem low, but if you actually are trying to multiply your 10k this is the best method for it. Before I leave you to try the method out I want to tell you that the more money you have the more profit you can make per hour. If you have hundreds of thousands of coins you can still use this method and make loads of coins. I used this method until I hit 300k on my main account. I hope this works well for you and I wish you all luck.
If you want to contact me, it would be best if you sent me a message on Twitter or YouTube because I can not promise that I will check the comments on this blog. If you have any questions at all I would gladly help you to the best of my ability and if there is anything you want me to cover. Also, if you would like to see my trading in action check out the series on my YouTube channel. (link is above)
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Finding a Players Price
Finding a players price is something that is very important when you are buying and selling players. You don't want to over pay or under sell. Now I'm sure most of you are saying "yeah, yeah, yeah, I know how to do this already". I can guarantee you that there will be some people that don't. Far too often do I see players loose money by putting players up for prices that are half of what the player is really worth. This could be easily changed if you had taken the time to read this post. There are two ways to do this and I will give you the pros and the cons of each method.
1. Using a Database
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When I first started playing FIFA 12 this is how I appraised my players. Honestly, it didn't turn out too well because after about two months I still had a measly 10k. I would recommend using a database as a ROUGH estimate. When I say rough I mean ROUGH. At times there will be prices of players that are way under or over they're actual price. If the price on the database is less than the actual value, no big deal you just lose the bids, but if the database tells you that a player is worth 10k that's really worth 2k your in a tough spot.
Pros:
- Quickly Accessible
- Gives you a Good Estimate
Cons:
- NOT 100% Accurate
- Can be Glitchy at Times
2. Checking the Lowest BIN (Buy It Now)
This is my preferred method for checking prices. When trading, lowest BIN is your friend. You want to put your players up for the lowest BIN or one of the lowest BINs. All you have to do to find the lowest buy now is go to the auction search and enter the details of the player you are trying to find. In the maximum BIN area you are going to enter the price of the lowest BIN price.
When you pull this search up you will find that Hernandez's lowest BIN is 1k. This means that you will be able to sell him at or around this price, it really depends on the formation.
Pros:
- As Accurate as You Can Get
- Memorize Prices/Players Quickly
Cons:
- Takes Time
- Isn't 100% Accurate if there is a Limited Supply of the Player
Overall, both methods are helpful in different ways. If you are quickly trying to put a bid on a player at the last second, you will probably want to use a database. If that's not the case then you should use the lowest BIN to appraise your players. I personally use a combination of both methods. Which one I use depends on what player I'm bidding on and whether or not I'm feeling lazy. Like I said before, I know most of you know this, but there are people out there that are still learning.
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Finding Someone to Trade With
This may be easier than you think. On average, there are roughly 1 millions cards on the market. Let's just assume that 800 thousand of those cards are player cards. I'm going to say that maybe 200 thousand of those cards are up for prices that no one is going to buy them at. That leaves roughly 600 thousand cards that you can make profit off of.
Deciding who to trade with is sometimes hard. It is mainly dependent on how much money you have. The reason I say this is because you NEVER want to put all of your money into a single player and you NEVER want to spend all of your coins at once. When you have low amounts of coins probably under 30k I would suggest trading with players with a price range of 1k-2k. I say this because if your making 400 coins profit per card you will be able to buy 20-40 cards or so. This may not sound like much initially, but 20 at 400 coin profit per card adds up to 8k. That is a 25% increase in coins. If you are experienced enough at trading you will be able to buy about 20 cards per hour and make anywhere from 400-1500 coins per card when you get lucky. If you are making 8k/hour and you trade for 4 hours you have already doubled your coins. All of this is given that you have the constant rate of 20 cards, but as you build up coins you will be able to trade on a much larger scale. When I had 200k I was still trading with players worth about 2k and making about 50k/day. I was trading for maybe 3 hours a day as well.
With higher amounts of money probably about 50k+ I would say you could trade with players that are worth about 7-10k and look to make at least 1k profit on a card if you can. When you have a few hundred thousand then I would say its a good idea to start trading with cards worth 20k and up.
Now you probably want to know how to find players to trade with. This isn't all that hard. What I usually do is I calculate what I am willing to trade up to. So say 2k. I then go to the auction search and put 3k in the minimum bid and 5k in the maximum bid. Your probably wondering why I do this now. As I've mentioned before, people tend to put players up for buy it nows higher than the average price. This allows you to fish out players worth around 1k while also allowing you to not have players worth over 5k show up. If you want to further check a players price just enter their information in the auction search. Then use the lowest buy it now to find the players price. Then what you want to do is calculate a buying price. First, figure out your selling price and then the EA tax of the selling price. At 2k, there is a 100 coin tax. That means you really get 1900 coins back from the sale. Then, you need to make profit of course. I tend to aim for 400 coins, so you don't want to bid over 1500 coins for a player worth 2k. Before every trading session I would recommend checking the players price just to make sure the price hasn't done anything funny.
NOTE: MAKE SURE YOU CALCULATE EA TAX INTO YOUR SELLING PRICE!
Deciding who to trade with is sometimes hard. It is mainly dependent on how much money you have. The reason I say this is because you NEVER want to put all of your money into a single player and you NEVER want to spend all of your coins at once. When you have low amounts of coins probably under 30k I would suggest trading with players with a price range of 1k-2k. I say this because if your making 400 coins profit per card you will be able to buy 20-40 cards or so. This may not sound like much initially, but 20 at 400 coin profit per card adds up to 8k. That is a 25% increase in coins. If you are experienced enough at trading you will be able to buy about 20 cards per hour and make anywhere from 400-1500 coins per card when you get lucky. If you are making 8k/hour and you trade for 4 hours you have already doubled your coins. All of this is given that you have the constant rate of 20 cards, but as you build up coins you will be able to trade on a much larger scale. When I had 200k I was still trading with players worth about 2k and making about 50k/day. I was trading for maybe 3 hours a day as well.
With higher amounts of money probably about 50k+ I would say you could trade with players that are worth about 7-10k and look to make at least 1k profit on a card if you can. When you have a few hundred thousand then I would say its a good idea to start trading with cards worth 20k and up.
Now you probably want to know how to find players to trade with. This isn't all that hard. What I usually do is I calculate what I am willing to trade up to. So say 2k. I then go to the auction search and put 3k in the minimum bid and 5k in the maximum bid. Your probably wondering why I do this now. As I've mentioned before, people tend to put players up for buy it nows higher than the average price. This allows you to fish out players worth around 1k while also allowing you to not have players worth over 5k show up. If you want to further check a players price just enter their information in the auction search. Then use the lowest buy it now to find the players price. Then what you want to do is calculate a buying price. First, figure out your selling price and then the EA tax of the selling price. At 2k, there is a 100 coin tax. That means you really get 1900 coins back from the sale. Then, you need to make profit of course. I tend to aim for 400 coins, so you don't want to bid over 1500 coins for a player worth 2k. Before every trading session I would recommend checking the players price just to make sure the price hasn't done anything funny.
NOTE: MAKE SURE YOU CALCULATE EA TAX INTO YOUR SELLING PRICE!
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EA tax is 5%, so you want to calculate 95% of the price you are selling the player at. Once you have entered this data you will have the amount of coins you will receive back from the player if you sell him at the price specified in the sale price box.
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Reviewsdays Returns! (But Goes By A New Name)
So a while back, when this blog was in its infancy, I created some series to keep myself to a posting schedule and to let you guys know what topics I would be posting about. But whilst exams were going on this all went a little bit out the window and since then I have transitioned to YouTube, bringing bits and pieces of this blog with me. One of the pieces which did not make it was Reviewsdays. This was mostly because my YouTube channel is about my gaming and this series is about anything and everything meaning that the YouTube channel would limit the series too much and, well, you get the idea.
So in the style of current Hollywood culture, Reviewsdays is getting a reboot. No I'm not saying it will have better visuals at the expense of the writing. Instead it is going to be revamped and revitalised.
First of all it is going to be at least once a week but no longer limited to a specific day, meaning that if I watch a cool movie on Wednesday, I'm telling you on Wednesday. Or if I hear an awesome song on Saturday morning, you'll know on Saturday afternoon. the point is; it's easier for me and better for you. Following from that, it will leave me open to doing multiple reviews throughout the week if I find enough worth talking about.
Secondly I won't be the sole author of this series allowing a variety of views and opinions to be heard and to allow you to draw your own conclusion from them. Personally, I get annoyed when something I like is trashed by some narrow minded reviewer looking to get some publicity out of causing controversy and so to stop you guys hating me for my opinion, which is all I really have to offer, I'm going to try and mix things up a bit, and so I will be collaborating with others on reviews.
Lastly, the name Reviewsdays was just me trying to be punny (get it?) and now that I am trying to clean up this blog and change its whole purpose of being, Reviewsdays will be changed to R View. I know! Kind of cool right?
So enjoy R View and be sure to tell us your view by leaving a comment and subcribing!
So in the style of current Hollywood culture, Reviewsdays is getting a reboot. No I'm not saying it will have better visuals at the expense of the writing. Instead it is going to be revamped and revitalised.
First of all it is going to be at least once a week but no longer limited to a specific day, meaning that if I watch a cool movie on Wednesday, I'm telling you on Wednesday. Or if I hear an awesome song on Saturday morning, you'll know on Saturday afternoon. the point is; it's easier for me and better for you. Following from that, it will leave me open to doing multiple reviews throughout the week if I find enough worth talking about.
Secondly I won't be the sole author of this series allowing a variety of views and opinions to be heard and to allow you to draw your own conclusion from them. Personally, I get annoyed when something I like is trashed by some narrow minded reviewer looking to get some publicity out of causing controversy and so to stop you guys hating me for my opinion, which is all I really have to offer, I'm going to try and mix things up a bit, and so I will be collaborating with others on reviews.
Lastly, the name Reviewsdays was just me trying to be punny (get it?) and now that I am trying to clean up this blog and change its whole purpose of being, Reviewsdays will be changed to R View. I know! Kind of cool right?
So enjoy R View and be sure to tell us your view by leaving a comment and subcribing!
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
My Credibility
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This is not simply where I am going to brag about my trading success. This is simply to show you that I know what I am doing on the FUT Marketplace. I have made over one million coins in profit in the last two months. I started my journey with a measly 10k after someone hacked me for 200k and honestly I am glad they hacked me because I never would have began trading if they hadn't. Unfortunately for me, EA will not contact me back even though I have sent four messages to them about the guy that hacked me. I don't really care anymore if I get my money back, but I just want an answer from EA. Anyway, I'm throwing around some big numbers that may seem unreachable to some of you, but I promise you that you will learn from what I have to teach.
*I currently only have 700k even though the leader board says otherwise. The leader board does not take out the money that you give to EA through taxes.*
The most amount of profit I have made in one day is 150k. I was trading with informs when I came across a MOTM Muller (Worth about 400k) that was still at a 1k bid with 3 minutes left. I immediately put up a 30k bid. He got down to about 30 seconds when someone outbid me by 250 coins. We went up by the standard intervals until either the other guy gave up or had no more coins. I spent probably around 20 minutes just bidding on this one player. I eventually picked him up for just under 250k and immediately put him up for 400k. He sold for a little under 390k. If thats not profit I don’t know what is. Anyway back to my accomplishments, before the release of the first TOTS, I was making roughly 20k-50k per day. TOTS messed me up because all of the prices of players plummeted and I became unfamiliar with the market. Now I’ve been relying on investing to make money and I’m earning roughly 100k-200k per week for a few hours of work.
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Introduction
I feel like a good starting point would be to introduce myself. I am InfPlaysHD. I play video games for fun and enjoy editing, so YouTube was a great way for me to do both at once. I play on the PS3, but I am thinking about switching to the computer because it would be nice to have all of my games and editing software all on the same machine, but anyway, on to what you most likely came here for, trading. I will attempt to teach people the complex art that trading is. If all goes well I will be writing entries every Tuesday and Thursday. I can't make any guarantees because I usually forget about things or don't get around to them. Now, your probably asking "why are you doing this?" The reason is rather simple. I am continuously asked how I make so many coins and my answer to that is usually buy low sell high. People then inquire for some sort of method and I tell them I don’t actually have one. Truthfully, I do have a few methods, but they are all over the internet and are no secret. I am just too lazy to explain them. In Fifa 12, I was one of those people that searched YouTube for methods that would work for me and none seemed to work. I feel like that is where a lot of people are at these days. My solution to this problem is simple. My solution is to teach the basics of trading to everyone, so they can use these methods and actually get somewhere with them.
If you want to contact me, it would be best if you sent me a message on Twitter or YouTube because I can not promise that I will check the comments on this blog. If you have any questions at all I would gladly help you to the best of my ability and if there is anything you want me to cover. I will also be occasionally writing trading methods and I will attempt to use as many pictures as possible to make it easily comprehensible.
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Tramp City
Tramp city is my Minecraft "server" on the Xbox 360 edition of the game. On this map I, along with friends, followers and subscribers have begun to build a city from which we will base adventures and builds I will be recording for my YouTube channel. So far progress has been good but slow due to the fact that I must always be present for people to access the world. This will be changing soon as I plan to create a schedule which people can stick to loosely. This will mean that there will be regular updates to this series, along with opportunities for you to join our community and feature in some of these videos.
Next up on the agenda for Tramp City is the completion of the ground floor of all houses and the full excavation of Level 1 of the mine, following which we will start on our first big build. The first of many!
If you would like to be part of any of this then leave a comment, contact me on twitter or introduce yourself over Xbox Live and you will be more than welcome!
Next up on the agenda for Tramp City is the completion of the ground floor of all houses and the full excavation of Level 1 of the mine, following which we will start on our first big build. The first of many!
If you would like to be part of any of this then leave a comment, contact me on twitter or introduce yourself over Xbox Live and you will be more than welcome!
Monday, 3 June 2013
Let's Talk - A Summer of Movies Part 2 (Stand Alone Titles)
In part two of this three part post, I am going to be talking about some great looking movies with only the trailers to go by. So let's see how that goes.
First up we have the super star packed This Is The End. In this movie a series of disasters threatens the lives of everyone in Hollywood and a group of A-Listers band together to survive. This movie looks set to blow cinema goers away when it's released next week. Starring great comedy actors such as James Franco, Danny McBride, Jason Segel, Paul Rudd and many more, with cameos from the incredible Emma Watson, the shameless Rihanna and even The Backstreet Boys (not a typo!), this movie could easily be the movie of the year, or at least the Summer. Jokingly teased as Pineapple Express 2, if this movie is even half as funny as Pineapple Express, you are most certainly in for a treat!
First up we have the super star packed This Is The End. In this movie a series of disasters threatens the lives of everyone in Hollywood and a group of A-Listers band together to survive. This movie looks set to blow cinema goers away when it's released next week. Starring great comedy actors such as James Franco, Danny McBride, Jason Segel, Paul Rudd and many more, with cameos from the incredible Emma Watson, the shameless Rihanna and even The Backstreet Boys (not a typo!), this movie could easily be the movie of the year, or at least the Summer. Jokingly teased as Pineapple Express 2, if this movie is even half as funny as Pineapple Express, you are most certainly in for a treat!
Next we have sci-fi/thriller The Purge. In this movie the world has been made perfect with the only cost being that one day every year all crime is legal. Now this trailer was intense. Real intense! I was on the edge of my seat for most of it and by the end of it I was straight on to Google trying to find out more. With Ethan Hawke as the lead going up against the sinister Rhys Wakefield in this tale of an odd utopian society with a dark side, I think we could be looking at a very special movie. Having said that, this movie will have plenty of chances to mess up and I have been disappointed by this genre on numerous occasions so personally, I will be playing this one by ear. Set for release later this week, I wish it all the best! Trailer
Next we have a movie I really cannot wait for, R.I.P.D., based on the comic book Rest In Peace Department. The story of a department of deceased law enforcers who protect the living from the dead, this looks set to be the action flick of the summer (if only it could get a bit more publicity). Starring two amazing actors, Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds (King of heroes and anti heroes alike), I know without seeing this movie I'm going to love every minute of it. Due for release on the 19th of next month, I find myself wondering, "How far in advance can you book a ticket for the cinema?" Trailer
YouTubing!
So I recently started up my YouTube channel with mostly positive responses, which is awesome. I have been wanting to start making videos since I first started watching them in about 2009 but lack of sufficient funds and an overload of school work seemed to push it to the back burner, where it was lost, but never forgotten.
This year I suddenly thought, "Why not just do it?" and so I did! I went out, bought a capture card and now I'm recording videos on a regular basis. However I am still yet to create a schedule or learn how to edit, but I'll get there in time.
At this current time, I have two Minecraft series on the go; My solo series in which I am playing a survival game on the highest difficulty, and my multiplayer series, on which I have created a "server" called Tramp City, allowing people to show their creative side and build with my friends and me. The former has tailed off slightly whilst I focus on the latter but as I sort out a schedule each will be given the time they deserve.
As far as FIFA 13 goes, I don't really have any series planned out. I will however be trying to make squad builder videos whenever I feel I have something interesting to talk about or I have made a squad I haven't seen anywhere else. This will most definitely change when FIFA 14 is released and I will try to come up with something interesting and innovative to do.
In the nearer future, I will be doing some videos with friends, including versus mode on FIFA, campaign mode on Halo 4 with some friends, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty, Medal of Honour and anything else I can get my hands on. There's so much to do that the hardest part is figuring out where to start. When I know, I'll make sure that you do too!
The first of many!
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Let's Talk - A Summer of Movies Part 1 (Sequels)
So I don't know about you but I am excited for this Summer. Not so much for gaming though, with no one game making me stop and check for a release date, but for movies. Movies are getting bigger and better with new franchises, old franchises and reboots all coming to the big screen and so I'd like to run through just a fraction of these and let you know why you should go to the cinema this summer.
First of all let's talk sequels. Oh, the poor sequel. Never better than the first and just leading to the inevitable flop of the third (or 7th if you are a popular horror franchise). But recently sequels are where it's at. Just look at some seconds in the last decade or so: The Two Towers, The Hangover Part 2, The Dark Knight. All movies you would watch time and time again with out a second thought. So give sequels a chance!
Starting with RED 2! Now if you haven't seen RED, stop reading this and go watching it because to be honest, it is so much better than reading this and I will be here when you get back. Ok, now they've gone I can continue. RED (Retired and Extremely Dangerous) was an unbelievable comic book adaptation directed by Robert Schwentke and starring big names such as Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich. It was by far one of the best movies of 2010 but sadly went a bit under the radar for unknown reasons. Nevertheless, great acting performances from all the cast (with special mentions to John Malkovich and Karl Urban) clinched a sequel due to be released on July 19th this year. With most of the cast returning plus a few new faces, this movie promises laughs, action and even some feels such as those from the first movie (you know exactly what I'm talking about). TRAILER
Next up is Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. Now I know what you are thinking. "Percy Jackson? Really Tramp?" I don't know why you called me Tramp. Nobody calls me Tramp. But they are your thoughts so I'll just leave it at that. So back to the movie: I actually enjoyed the first in this fantasy adventure series which revitalises ancient Greek myths for a modern audience. Although aimed at a younger audience, it had a lot of laughs and decent action coupled with a smidgen of suspense, which kept me interested for the duration of the film. I'm not going to talk too much about this movie's predecessor as I haven't seen it since its stint on Sky but I will say this movie looks good. Dodgy CGI aside, it looks good. And I'll watch anything with Nathan Fillion in it! TRAILER
Last up, we have Kick-Ass 2. If you haven't seen Kick-Ass, I'm not going to ask you to stop reading, go watch it and come back. I'm instead going to ask you to stop reading, go watch it and then re-evaluate your life choices because frankly, we don't want your kind here! (Just a little joke; I love you really. Just a little less now). So Kick-Ass 2 promise the same blend of comedy and action from the first movie, that you can only find in great comic books these days. Nerd outburst aside this movie looks incredible and with new characters played played by the likes of Jim Carey, Donald Faison and even Mark Millar himself we can hope this movie builds on that success and on to greater things. Special mention to Chloe Grace Moretz, who is going to be the best actress of the next generation and just is Hit Girl. TRAILER
Before we move on I'd just like to mention a few sequels I will be covering in the near future:
-Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
-Thor: The Dark World
-The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
-The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
-Anchorman: The Legend Continues
Sadly these are not coming out until after summer and so I will have to cover them in later posts. Individually. At great length. Especially Sin City and Thor.
That's all for Part 1 guys. Leave a comment and/or share this with your friends, associates or if you think it's bad your mortal enemies. Thanks a lot for reading this far and Part 2 will be out tomorrow. Peace!
First of all let's talk sequels. Oh, the poor sequel. Never better than the first and just leading to the inevitable flop of the third (or 7th if you are a popular horror franchise). But recently sequels are where it's at. Just look at some seconds in the last decade or so: The Two Towers, The Hangover Part 2, The Dark Knight. All movies you would watch time and time again with out a second thought. So give sequels a chance!
Starting with RED 2! Now if you haven't seen RED, stop reading this and go watching it because to be honest, it is so much better than reading this and I will be here when you get back. Ok, now they've gone I can continue. RED (Retired and Extremely Dangerous) was an unbelievable comic book adaptation directed by Robert Schwentke and starring big names such as Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich. It was by far one of the best movies of 2010 but sadly went a bit under the radar for unknown reasons. Nevertheless, great acting performances from all the cast (with special mentions to John Malkovich and Karl Urban) clinched a sequel due to be released on July 19th this year. With most of the cast returning plus a few new faces, this movie promises laughs, action and even some feels such as those from the first movie (you know exactly what I'm talking about). TRAILER
Next up is Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. Now I know what you are thinking. "Percy Jackson? Really Tramp?" I don't know why you called me Tramp. Nobody calls me Tramp. But they are your thoughts so I'll just leave it at that. So back to the movie: I actually enjoyed the first in this fantasy adventure series which revitalises ancient Greek myths for a modern audience. Although aimed at a younger audience, it had a lot of laughs and decent action coupled with a smidgen of suspense, which kept me interested for the duration of the film. I'm not going to talk too much about this movie's predecessor as I haven't seen it since its stint on Sky but I will say this movie looks good. Dodgy CGI aside, it looks good. And I'll watch anything with Nathan Fillion in it! TRAILER
Last up, we have Kick-Ass 2. If you haven't seen Kick-Ass, I'm not going to ask you to stop reading, go watch it and come back. I'm instead going to ask you to stop reading, go watch it and then re-evaluate your life choices because frankly, we don't want your kind here! (Just a little joke; I love you really. Just a little less now). So Kick-Ass 2 promise the same blend of comedy and action from the first movie, that you can only find in great comic books these days. Nerd outburst aside this movie looks incredible and with new characters played played by the likes of Jim Carey, Donald Faison and even Mark Millar himself we can hope this movie builds on that success and on to greater things. Special mention to Chloe Grace Moretz, who is going to be the best actress of the next generation and just is Hit Girl. TRAILER
Before we move on I'd just like to mention a few sequels I will be covering in the near future:
-Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
-Thor: The Dark World
-The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
-The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
-Anchorman: The Legend Continues
Sadly these are not coming out until after summer and so I will have to cover them in later posts. Individually. At great length. Especially Sin City and Thor.
That's all for Part 1 guys. Leave a comment and/or share this with your friends, associates or if you think it's bad your mortal enemies. Thanks a lot for reading this far and Part 2 will be out tomorrow. Peace!
Monday, 20 May 2013
YouTube and more!
So as some of you may be aware, my first YouTube video went up this week. I had previously put up some test videos but this was the first to make it as a full fledged success.
Well I say success. To say the video is rough around the edges is somewhat of an understatement, but posting YouTube videos isn't a simple process.
This first video, which you can see HERE, is a simple 10 minute Minecraft video which took about 3 hours to make from start to finish. By the end of it, I was tired and frustrated but decided that it was a decent first attempt (but you can be the judge of that).
With an average quality video taking this long to create and examinations on the go you can see why I haven't posted a follow up yet.
Which brings me on to the point of this post. After this Friday, I will have finished at university and will be able to clean up this blog, which I do love to write, and also get some time to experiment with recording and editing techniques in order to bring out the good quality videos I set out to make.
As this blog is how I originally started, I would like to focus on this to begin with, but with your help. I would like this to eventually become a community or forum for people who subscribe to or follow me. Reading that back, I'm not sure it comes across as I mean it; so I shall elaborate.
I want this blog to become a place where you (yes you, reading this now) can tell me what you want to see. So if you want a particular post at a particular time, you can tell me directly on here, Twitter or YouTube. Or you can go a step further and write posts yourself and submit them for moderation, and then be credited as you wish (YouTube channel, Twitter, Facebook, etc.).
So as a community based page, you can see what you choose, because honestly my opinion is not as important when you have gone out of your way to follow this blog.
Moving on to my Twitter, I feel that I have gained a majority of followers from my FIFA posts and the giveaway following them. Now don't get me wrong guys, you are awesome! I love all the support and the growing community we have built up. However...
I'm not solely a FIFA player. I love lots of games and lots of genres on lots of platforms, and I want this to reflect in what I do. I want to have different series and posts based on what I'm doing and not limit myself to a single game.
I especially don't want to do this from the get go and give you guys a false impression of what I'm trying to do here.
So with that in mind the FIFA posts will continue from this Friday as previously scheduled (That is, Sundays and Tuesdays), and I will try and do milestone giveaways as I have stated HERE, but don't be surprised when other posts go up along with them.
Now moving on from gaming (congratulations if you are still reading this!), I do want to get in to Reviewsdays once I'm clear of these pesky exams and I'd like you're input on that. For the first month or so I will be doing posts based around my interests, but I do encourage you to get in early and influence what I write about.
Please leave any comments you have on this post and check out my stuff so far (shamelessly plugged below).
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Thanks guys and girls. You truly are awesome. Peace!
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Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Another Update
Just to let you guys know that exams have started, stopping me from uploading anything new, and by the time they finish I'll be back in my home town with a capture card waiting for me. This means that the regular FIFA 13 posts will become YouTube videos (which you will still be able to view here) and future posts will be very different.
Reviews:
Reviews will be posted on the week's releases in gaming, movies and music depending on what I can and want to get my hands on that week. I can also do some reviews on comics depending on whether you guys would be interested in that. I actually had a review of the new Paramore album, the new Fall Out Boy album and the movie Seven Psychopaths lined up for the next few weeks but I am being pessimistic and have decided I probably won't have the time. If you'd like to see those go up leave a comment below and I will see what I can do. (Do watch Seven Psychopaths; It's AWESOME!)
Previews:
I will be introducing a new series in which I will be talking about what I am excited about in the near future. This will most likely be a movie related series, especially with a summer of comic book movies coming up, but will also feature the blockbuster games being teased right now.
How To:
Finally, with the other two heavily depending on my moods and opinions, this series will give you a chance to get your say. Here you will tell me what aspects of gaming you are having trouble with and I, along with some helpers (Summer reveal tease; Check) will jump in with the solutions. So if you are stuck or need a hand on any game on any platform, tweet me HERE and I'll create a post or a video just for you, with your own little shout out and maybe an appearance. Start tweeting now!
That's all for today guys and girls, and probably all for the next week or so, but stay tuned, subscribe, comment and follow, and remember I want your opinions. Thanks and peace!
Reviews:
Reviews will be posted on the week's releases in gaming, movies and music depending on what I can and want to get my hands on that week. I can also do some reviews on comics depending on whether you guys would be interested in that. I actually had a review of the new Paramore album, the new Fall Out Boy album and the movie Seven Psychopaths lined up for the next few weeks but I am being pessimistic and have decided I probably won't have the time. If you'd like to see those go up leave a comment below and I will see what I can do. (Do watch Seven Psychopaths; It's AWESOME!)
Previews:
I will be introducing a new series in which I will be talking about what I am excited about in the near future. This will most likely be a movie related series, especially with a summer of comic book movies coming up, but will also feature the blockbuster games being teased right now.
How To:
Finally, with the other two heavily depending on my moods and opinions, this series will give you a chance to get your say. Here you will tell me what aspects of gaming you are having trouble with and I, along with some helpers (Summer reveal tease; Check) will jump in with the solutions. So if you are stuck or need a hand on any game on any platform, tweet me HERE and I'll create a post or a video just for you, with your own little shout out and maybe an appearance. Start tweeting now!
That's all for today guys and girls, and probably all for the next week or so, but stay tuned, subscribe, comment and follow, and remember I want your opinions. Thanks and peace!
*Oh yeah, I love Minecraft now. That is all*
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Hidden Gemsdays - Week 2
Hey guys! This week on Hidden Gemsdays, I'm going to be bring you some special players from our Scottish Squad Builder posted on Sunday. Some of these players are very surprising and equally cheap, earning them a position in our squad. Ok now the introduction is out of the way, let's get started.
First up, we have our bronze midfielder McCabe, from Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship. This CM put in some great performances and far out-shined his gold counterparts. With 76 pace and 69 dribbling he is an awesome attacking midfielder and for under 300 coins, an absolute bargain too.
Next it's going to have to be Gilks. This beast of a keeper from Blackpool in the Championship saved the team from an undeserved defeat on many an occasion, pulling of reflex saves and coming out on top in plenty of 1 on 1 situations. At only 6'1", he is a little bit shorter than I would like my keeper to be, but in game you can't really notice. For under 400 coins, he is definitely worth a look, and has earned himself the #1 position in this squad.
Next, at LB we have Lee Wallace from Rangers.This guy was fast, strong and always where he needed to be, whether in attack or defence. Assisting a couple of times and putting in match saving tackles plenty of times, he makes it into the team easily with a price tag of around 750 coins.
Lastly, we have Gary Caldwell, the Wigan CB. Caldwell turned out to be an absolute tank of a defender. He is a little bit lacking in pace, but he makes up for it with brute strength and presence. For under 400 coins, I'd recommend you pick him up now and try him out. If you're really lucky, you might even get him for discard value.
Now I would just like to mention two more players who are going to eventually be added to this squad.
First of all, Snodgrass will most likely feature because he was hands down the best player all round in the Scottish Squad, but I would like to pick up his IF version first to compare the two. Secondly Templeton will probably be on the subs for this team, but I need to find a Hearts version of his card for chemistry purposes and sadly there haven't been any on the market over the past few days.
Ok, that's it for this weeks Hidden Gems, but stay tuned for next weeks Dutch players who you will definitely want to go out and buy for your teams. Thanks for reading guys, and as always let me know what you think by leaving a comment. All criticism is appreciated; especially the positive kind. Peace!
First up, we have our bronze midfielder McCabe, from Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship. This CM put in some great performances and far out-shined his gold counterparts. With 76 pace and 69 dribbling he is an awesome attacking midfielder and for under 300 coins, an absolute bargain too.
Next it's going to have to be Gilks. This beast of a keeper from Blackpool in the Championship saved the team from an undeserved defeat on many an occasion, pulling of reflex saves and coming out on top in plenty of 1 on 1 situations. At only 6'1", he is a little bit shorter than I would like my keeper to be, but in game you can't really notice. For under 400 coins, he is definitely worth a look, and has earned himself the #1 position in this squad.
Next, at LB we have Lee Wallace from Rangers.This guy was fast, strong and always where he needed to be, whether in attack or defence. Assisting a couple of times and putting in match saving tackles plenty of times, he makes it into the team easily with a price tag of around 750 coins.
Lastly, we have Gary Caldwell, the Wigan CB. Caldwell turned out to be an absolute tank of a defender. He is a little bit lacking in pace, but he makes up for it with brute strength and presence. For under 400 coins, I'd recommend you pick him up now and try him out. If you're really lucky, you might even get him for discard value.
Now I would just like to mention two more players who are going to eventually be added to this squad.
First of all, Snodgrass will most likely feature because he was hands down the best player all round in the Scottish Squad, but I would like to pick up his IF version first to compare the two. Secondly Templeton will probably be on the subs for this team, but I need to find a Hearts version of his card for chemistry purposes and sadly there haven't been any on the market over the past few days.
Ok, that's it for this weeks Hidden Gems, but stay tuned for next weeks Dutch players who you will definitely want to go out and buy for your teams. Thanks for reading guys, and as always let me know what you think by leaving a comment. All criticism is appreciated; especially the positive kind. Peace!
*See the team so far HERE*
Sunday, 28 April 2013
Scottish FIFA 13 Ultimate Team Squad Builder - Week 2
Hey guys! Today I'm going to be bringing you another Squad Builder. This team will be made entirely of Scottish players and isn't as bad as it sounds (apologies to fans of Scottish football). We found some great hidden gems in this team and on Wednesday those chosen for our Hidden Gems squad will be revealed. If I have missed any players you would like me to review just leave a comment and I will do a separate post for you. Enjoy.
Starting in goal we have Gilks who plays for Blackpool in the Championship. There aren't a lot of choices for GK in this team and I chose Gilks based solely on his reflexes being higher than other choices. It turns out however that Gilks is a bit of a tank in the net, regularly pulling of fantastic reflex saves against players such as Rooney and Falcao. For 400 coins or less, he is a great player, saving this team on more than one occasion. Example
Next we have our two CBs. As LCB we have McGregor from the SPL. A decent CB, he did his job, but nothing more, and failed to stand out and for 250 coins that is okay. As RCB we have Wigan's Caldwell. His height is a bit disappointing, leading to some tense moments during set pieces, but overall a very good defender. Always in the right place at the right time, Caldwell matched the likes of Pirlo, Balotelli and Rooney and even managed to pick up a goal for himself. If you shop around you might be able to pick him up for under 300 coins, so if he doesn't play well for you you can just quick sell him for a profit.
At LB we have Wallace, playing for Rangers in the Scottish 3rd Division. To be honest I chose this player to compensate for the CBs' lack of pace, but he actually turned out to be an all round good player. He's great going forward and supporting the LF but gets right back in position after the attack thanks to his high defensive work rate. His only let is his shooting but he creates more chances than he takes. For under 1000 coins he was definitely worth it but unless he fits into your team perfectly, you don't need him.
On the other side of the pitch, we have Whittaker from Norwich in the BPL. Another player picked for pace but in this case that is all he is really good for. For around 1500 coins this player is, in my opinion not really worth the coins and a bit of a let down to the squad over all.
In the three CM positions, starting from the left, we have McCabe, Fletcher and Adam. McCabe is the first bronze player of this series and I actually chose him because of my experience with him in career mode. A decent player available for 200 coins, he played as well as his gold team mates if not slightly better. Fletcher, who plays for Manchester United definitely under performed in this team, and as the highest rated player in the squad, that was very disappointing. I think I picked him up for 500 coins but if I could do it again, I wouldn't pay higher than discard value for him. Finally we have Charlie Adam from Stoke. Adam was a bit of a surprise actually, pulling off a few skill runs and getting himself on the score sheet more often than not, so for 600 coins this gold player is pretty much the exact opposite of Fletcher.
Finally we get to the forwards, who in my opinion really make this team so much fun. In the LF position we have Templeton who has cards for both Rangers in the Scottish 3rd Division and for Hearts in the SPL. This guy is a bit of a beast. He has 87 pace with 4 star skills and weak foot making him a dream of a winger. Don't let his shot stats fool you, because he can score great goals against the likes of Lloris, Hart and Valdes, from all positions. For only 1200 coins, I'd recommended you give him a go, and with two cards available you can try him out in a few different teams.
On the other side, converted to the RF position we have Snodgrass, another Norwich player. I wasn't expecting much from Snodgrass in this position with his low pace but his dribbling and skills made up for it easily. I only wish his IF card wasn't so pricey. Maybe with the prices all going down I can pick him up for future squad builders, but in the mean time his rare card does the job. Snodgrass picked up the majority of goals for the team as well as Man Of The Match on most occasions and for 1500 coins, I would definitely call that a bargain.
Lastly we have our striker Ross McCormack from Leeds in the Championship. A good striker with pretty decent attacking stats, I like to think of him as a silver RVP, with all round good stats but just lacking in that little bit of pace you want in a solo striker. For around 400 coins he is definitely worth a look for fans of cheap silvers.
All in all this team has a few stand out players and can hold its own against those Division 1 teams, including the Brazilian sweat teams. You know the ones I'm talking about. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this squad builder and try out some of these players yourself. If you want me to do a squad builder for a particular country or league (the more obscure the better) just let me know in the comment and Hidden Gems from this squad will be revealed on Wednesday. Thanks for reading guys and girls. Peace!
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Just A Quick Update
For those of you out there wondering about this blog, there will be more content after the exam season (in about a month), such as live streaming Call of Duty, FIFA videos on YouTube, Let's Play series on Gears of War: Judgement and so much more. So hang on in the mean time and watch us explode over the summer. Peace!
Twitter Give Away!
Ok, so that didn't really go as planned so instead as well as the Open Invitation challenge, there will be a twitter give away of the same mystery prize which will be revealed upon reaching 50 followers on the new TrampishRedman twitter account.
Once this target is reached, two lucky followers will be chosen at random to receive this prize. This give away will be the first of many which will take place at specific milestones and will hopefully become more frequent over time. For those of you reading this now, you will be able to look back one day at this moment and say "I was first you know!" Imagine the privilege of telling your grandkids that.
Of course I'm just kidding, but please do get involve with this and enjoy the next few weeks of content. Peace!
Once this target is reached, two lucky followers will be chosen at random to receive this prize. This give away will be the first of many which will take place at specific milestones and will hopefully become more frequent over time. For those of you reading this now, you will be able to look back one day at this moment and say "I was first you know!" Imagine the privilege of telling your grandkids that.
Of course I'm just kidding, but please do get involve with this and enjoy the next few weeks of content. Peace!
Open Invitation
Do you have an Xbox 360?
Do you have FIFA 13?
Challenge me on FUT! If you win, you will get a mystery prize!
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Hidden Gemsdays - Week 1
First of all I would like to give a quick introduction to this series and what it will be about. Every Wednesday, we will be taking the players from Squad Builder Sundays who are under appreciated and under priced and create a special new team out of it.
So for the first members of this team, we will be taking three players from the Belgian Squad Builder. These players have actually become three of my favourite players of the year and are so undervalued that you probably won't play anybody with these players.
First up we have the only gold player and the most expensive player, and that is going to be Kevin De Bruyne. De Bruyne is a reasonably cheap, Bundesliga in form who you can pick up right now for around 30k. He is an incredible all round player with decent pace, dribbling and attacking play but I think he belongs on the left hand side simply because his five star weak foot allows for the perfect cut inside and shot. He has four star skills for all you skill players out there which is decent for a CM and is able to walk through teams on occasion. His shot is formidable allowing you to score montage worthy long shots from anywhere on the pitch. All in all, he's a great player and his price is on the rise, so pick him up and if he doesn't play well, just trade him for a profit.
Next we have our RB, Ritchie De Laet. This guy has incredible pace and decent defensive stats making him a formidable wing back, but he also has great attacking stats and a tendency to get up the pitch and support the forwards. For around 1800 coins on Xbox Live, this player is a great find and so undervalued, you may be able to get him for under 750 coins.
So for the first members of this team, we will be taking three players from the Belgian Squad Builder. These players have actually become three of my favourite players of the year and are so undervalued that you probably won't play anybody with these players.
First up we have the only gold player and the most expensive player, and that is going to be Kevin De Bruyne. De Bruyne is a reasonably cheap, Bundesliga in form who you can pick up right now for around 30k. He is an incredible all round player with decent pace, dribbling and attacking play but I think he belongs on the left hand side simply because his five star weak foot allows for the perfect cut inside and shot. He has four star skills for all you skill players out there which is decent for a CM and is able to walk through teams on occasion. His shot is formidable allowing you to score montage worthy long shots from anywhere on the pitch. All in all, he's a great player and his price is on the rise, so pick him up and if he doesn't play well, just trade him for a profit.
Next we have our RB, Ritchie De Laet. This guy has incredible pace and decent defensive stats making him a formidable wing back, but he also has great attacking stats and a tendency to get up the pitch and support the forwards. For around 1800 coins on Xbox Live, this player is a great find and so undervalued, you may be able to get him for under 750 coins.
Finally, we have the beasty Jonathan Legear from the Russian League. This player is unbelievably good and for only 750 coins I highly recommend you stop reading this blog, turn on your console and buy him now because you will not regret it. With high pace and dribbling, this player will run rings around the opposing LB, allowing you to get in that game winning cross/shot. Speaking of his shot, you may remember me mentioning it in this weeks Squad Builder Sunday. Since then, I have played a tonne of games with said team and it has been so fun, but the stand out stat from the whole team is that Legear, on average, scores 2.5 goals every game. I don't know where EA have gotten this 69 shot from because really that should say 100 OP, because if he misses you have done something terribly wrong. So go out and buy him now, even if it means building a team around him, but with the Russian league being so good and so cheap, you can't go wrong.
Ok guys, this is it from Hidden Gemsdays, but please let me know what you think of it and what you want to see in the future. This weeks Squad Builder Sunday I'm going to bring you some Scots and let you know what I think of them. If there are any Scottish players you would like to see reviewed, just leave me a message in the comments and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. So until Sunday, Peace!
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Reviewsdays - Week 1
For Reviewsdays (That's right. Review mashed up with Tuesday) this week I'm going to be reviewing Futwiz.com. Now I know what you are thinking; A website? A FIFA website?. I know this doesn't seem like a great way to start a reviewing series, but to be honest I don't have any new games, movies or music right now and I'm not sure I have the know how yet to do a comic review, because, well, I'm kind of new to the game.
So in the mean time I'm going to be talking about this FUT website.
Now this website is one of many which try to make life on FIFA 13's Ultimate Team just a little bit easier. I first came across this website when it was mentioned in a video by Zerkaa and have since loyally only used this one (...and FUTHead but shush). This website is great for trading and squad building with daily stats of average market prices and an app to create and edit squad with out needing to buy any players.
Here, you can see the squad builder function in use, where I have created an in form BPL team. From this I am told the chemistry of the team (without a manager) and given all the card stats of each player. This allows you to search for and try out players without the hassle of buying and selling and so saving you coins in the long run.
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If you scroll down from your squad builder you can see a list of all the players stats and also their current market value on all three systems along with a total letting you know how much the squad in question will end up costing you. This is useful if you have a budget for your squad and if you go over this budget you can swap around some players and the prices then change automatically. Pretty cool, right?
I advise you go and check it out now], mess around with the features and then use it before you next try your hand at trading. Peace out!
So in the mean time I'm going to be talking about this FUT website.
Now this website is one of many which try to make life on FIFA 13's Ultimate Team just a little bit easier. I first came across this website when it was mentioned in a video by Zerkaa and have since loyally only used this one (...and FUTHead but shush). This website is great for trading and squad building with daily stats of average market prices and an app to create and edit squad with out needing to buy any players.
Here, you can see the squad builder function in use, where I have created an in form BPL team. From this I am told the chemistry of the team (without a manager) and given all the card stats of each player. This allows you to search for and try out players without the hassle of buying and selling and so saving you coins in the long run.
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If you scroll down from your squad builder you can see a list of all the players stats and also their current market value on all three systems along with a total letting you know how much the squad in question will end up costing you. This is useful if you have a budget for your squad and if you go over this budget you can swap around some players and the prices then change automatically. Pretty cool, right?
I advise you go and check it out now], mess around with the features and then use it before you next try your hand at trading. Peace out!
Monday, 22 April 2013
Belgian FIFA 13 Ultimate Team Squad Builder - Week 1
Today I'm bringing you a little sweaty squad builder containing all Belgian players that will set you back between 25k and 350k depending on your budget. A lot of the more expensive players featured in my version of the squad are used in multiple teams, wherein lies the savings. This squad is unbeaten so far on my account in the 1st division. It has the major pace factor which is crucial for your sweaty teams and contains a few hidden gems you might be able to pick up on the cheap.
*All prices are based on Xbox prices at the time of publishing*
Starting in goal we have Thibaut Courtois. A great, young keeper, he is tipped to be one of the best in the coming years. At 20 years old, he is a future Chelsea #1 and a personal favourite of mine. He can also fit in to your BBVA team but with plenty of cheap options in this league, I would leave that to preference. I have chosen to go for his standard card as it only set me back 700 coins but if you can pick up the IF version for under 20k I would highly recommend it. With great reflexes and handling don't expect any spills from this man.
Next up we have our 1st CB, Jan Vertonghen. A Belgian first team regular, introduced to the BPL this season, he has great pace for his position and defensive stats. Along with his strength at the back, you get a high attacking work rate and a powerful shot so don't be surprised if he picks up a few crucial goals for your team. You can pick up his standard card for around 1,500 coins today if you're lucky and you won't regret it. I've included a picture of his IF version just to show what a perfect version of this squad would look like, but you will be lucky to pick this up for anything under 120k.
In the second CB position, we have Thomas Vermaelen, the Arsenal veteran and captain. Vermaelen actually played alongside our other CB, Vertonghen, during their years at Ajax and are currently partnered in the defence of the Belgian national side. He shares Vertonghen's high defensive stats and has similar pace and mentality making this a perfect partnership at the back. A bargain at around 2,100 coins, I would recommend this man for any low end BPL side.
At RB we have Ritchie De Laet, who plays for Leicester in the Npower Championship. This player is all pace. At 87, he can keep up with nearly any striker thrown at you, making up for his other, mediocre stats. This card is slightly pricier than the others and you may struggle to find more than one for auction at any one time. For this version of the team, I picked him up for 4,500 coins but in previous versions, I managed to get him for as cheap as 700 coins. A key component of this team, with a high attacking mentality, you may find De Laet higher up the pitch than our RF shown below (no spoilers here!), setting up goals with his amazing crosses and scoring a few wonder goals by cutting in.
At LB we have Derick Tshimanga, recently purchased by KRC Genk. Our second of four silver stars in this squad builder, Tshimanga shares De Laet's fantastic pace but because he is a Pro League silver player he is incredibly cheap, averaging at around 2000 coins but selling for as low as 650 coins if you shop around.
Moving on to our CMs, we have Kevin De Bruyne on the left hand side. Another future Chelsea star, De Bruyne is at home on this side of the pitch have started as a left midfielder and with a 5 star weak foot. De Bruyne is by far my favourite IF card and at 30,000 coins I think he is a bargain. His dribbling helps him keep up with our LF and his incredible shot will have you scoring screamers regularly from outside the box.
In the middle of our team, we are going to have Marouane Fellaini. I've gone with his 1st IF card in my team any of his three versions will work for this squad. With fantastic defensive stats and a high defensive mentality, Fellaini is a fantastic holding midfielder on FUT and what he lacks in pace he makes up for with brute strength. I managed to pick him up for 73k coins and I have never looked back.
In the RCM position of our squad we have Axel Witsel. I have yet to try out his IF as I am currently shopping around for it but the standard card I have is average at best and is only there because Dembele is incredibly overpriced as a CM. a blemish on an otherwise perfect squad, hopefully the IF version will be much better.
Starting on the left side, at LF we have the one and only Eden Hazard. Hazard is perhaps the best in his position and is one of the main reasons this team was created. With great pace and dribbling and a fantastic shot, Hazard is an amazing attacking player, scoring plenty of goals and picking up assists left, right and centre. For around 70k coins he is a relative bargain and is a necessity for your BPL teams and hybrid squads alike.On the opposite side of the pitch at RF we have Jonathan Legear. A converted RM from the Russian League, he is another hidden gem. His pace and dribbling are incredible and his shot is unbelievable; you won't even realise he is a silver player until he is credited for a goal.
All together this squad set me back 180k coins and has yet to let me down. It consist solely of pacey, attacking players with great dribbling and goal-scoring potential.
I hope you enjoyed this squad builder and go out and try your own version of the squad. If you do let me know how well you do and what, if anything, you would change. If you have any suggestions or requests for future squad builders, leave a comment and I'll get back to you. Thanks for reading and until next time, peace!
*UPDATE - Lukaku acquired!*
All prices stated are either current Xbox Live auction prices or from Futwiz
Friday, 12 April 2013
Utilising The FUT Online App
With FIFA Ultimate Team on FIFA 13, it is key as a player to be able to make the most of trading from anywhere at any time. Taking myself as an example, I have left my Xbox 360 at my university accommodation and without access to it I have made 100,000 coins and upgraded from 2 teams to 8, allowing myself to pick and choose and rotate my teams as I see fit. With this app, linked below, all this was possible in just three weeks of part time trading. No packs, no games, just strategical trades. If you'd like to see either a series on trading up, a squad builder or a tutorial, leave a comment and they will be up in the near future. Thanks for reading and keep coming back for your updates.
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On this page we will be teaching you how to get the most from your Ultimate Team in this franchise and how to be the best in your career mode. In our series "FUT" we will show you how to trade up, mix and match and sweat through the league systems and in "Career Mode" we will teach you how to make the most of the transfer market and scout the best players to take your team to the top. In order to do so, the series publisher will be starting from the bottom and working their way up as you to will. We hope you enjoy these posts and leave a comment on what you want to see next.
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