 Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We are gonna be having our first FIFA 22 discussion today on the channel, taking a look at what we learned from the official reveal trailer and from EA's website and all the information they are putting out there along with some of the quote unquote leaks of information that is actually, there's some new leaks coming out just recently about some weekend league and foot champions updates. So I wanna talk about that a little bit today as well. We'll start off with that and then look at some of the other information that we learned. Now I'm not gonna watch the trailer because that is long and dizzying to be completely honest. But of course, inside of FIFA 21 right now, you've got the trailer and your first chance to pre-order the ultimate edition of FIFA 22. And a lot of this information is over here on the website. So we're gonna be looking over here a lot today. Now we're gonna start with the basics but of course talk about that brand new, I guess you could call it the leak of information about the weekend league. And we're gonna start off with that because of course in the deep dive for FIFA 22 ultimate team, which says full reveal coming soon, you guys have heard about the heroes, we'll talk about those a little bit more today. It says foot 22 redesigns, division rivals and foot champions to create a more accessible way to test your skills in progress against other players. So we knew there were gonna be some changes coming to these two modes, but today there was some information released talking specifically about those things. And that is this, that foot champions, the weekend league is going to be shortened once again. Now from FIFA 18 to FIFA 17 to FIFA 19, I believe, they switched the weekend league from 40 games to 30 games. Now they're going back another 10 games. 20 games of weekend league is going to be the new normal for our premier competition inside of FIFA. And also qualification is not going to be just from division rivals points like it was this past year. It's going to be going back to sort of a DKT, which was basically a knockout tournament, a daily knockout tournament is what that stood for, where you had to win four games in a row to get into the weekend league. Now it looks like it's gonna be different from the old DKT that we used to have that you have five games, you have to win three and you get three attempts per week. Now that makes it seem like it's gonna be a lot easier, right? They even said here on the webpage that it is going to make the foot champions weekend league more accessible, right? And right off the bat, it makes you think, okay, three wins out of five, if those don't have to be consecutive, then that's probably going to get more people inside of the weekend league. Now it also says that these are going to be, there was some more information released about this weekend league qualification and it is going to be released and you're gonna get matched up still with skill-based matchmaking. So if you're in division four, division five, you'll get matched up with players around your same division. And also, again, this is just scratching the surface today. We're learning a lot of information, but there's a new player reward system, right? So basically it makes us think of how foot champions weekend league rewards have some rating ranges or like 89 plus or 91 plus for some of the higher tiers in weekend league rewards. And it looks like that is gonna be somewhat similar to how rewards look all year inside of FIFA 22. So basically the higher rank you get, the better version of the card that you get, which is gonna be very interesting, of course. Now right now, again, this is just preliminary information and we're gonna get a lot more info about this later on when they do the deep dive on FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. Again, full reveal coming soon. But I wanted to start off and talk about that today because this is just a lot of, there's a lot of talk around this, right? There's just a lot of talk about what is going on with foot champions because 20 games, there's less games, which makes people think it's gonna be more accessible. I think in all honestly, there's a new player reward system. I honestly think though, what you're gonna see is probably rewards are gonna be, I guess, less, if you compare FIFA 21 rewards with a 30 game weekend league to FIFA 22 rewards with a 20 game weekend league, I feel like you're going to see lower quality rewards because EA of course is gonna say and they're gonna think, hey, you're playing less games. So even though it's the most premier competition, I still think they're gonna reduce the rewards, even though they could be quote unquote better for like red picks, I still think they might reduce the quantity of rewards. So that is something that as we learn more information about this, we will be looking out for, of course. Now let's go into some of the other stuff that was talked about because these foot heroes, people are very excited about and they're really cool, right? It's kind of like a lower echelon of icons. But also there's some stuff in here that's making it seem like these cards might not be out until December 1st. So I wanna talk about that a bit as well, but just to kind of put some clarification on what these foot heroes are, they have unique league specific chemistry which is tied to their specific hero moment providing a green club link to any player within the same league as well as the usual nation link, giving you new ways to build your dream squad and recreate some of football's most famous moments in FIFA 22. So they get a green link to any league as well as a usual nation link, which to me, usual nation link is just a, not a solid green link, but it is just an orange, like a basic link between cards with the same nationality. So that makes sense, right? If you were to link up, you could link up this Robbie Keane card with Harry Kane, right? In the Premier League and get a green link between those two cards or you could link up this Gomez with anybody in abundance they get and it would be a green link. So that's gonna be very interesting. Again, adding in a whole new piece of squad building material and they list a lot of the players. Now this is only just a fraction of some of the players that have been added to the code. We talked about it a couple of weeks ago about some of the new icons and heroes that were added to the code. This is just a few of them and we know all their stats already, right? For some of these items with their ratings, these match up to what the leaks were. So we know the in-game stats already for a lot of these cards. That are in the games. Some of these dynamic images look really, really sick and this card design looks really cool as well, right? With the outline on it, with the colors on the inside. It looks like a really, really cool card design and again, there are gonna be more foot heroes released in August. Now, we're gonna skip ahead and start talking about some pre-order stuff here for a second because there is one interesting thing to know about these foot heroes. I guess it's kind of on the side of your screen here. It's hard to see, but it says down here at the bottom, get untradable foot heroes player item from December 1st, right? This is the date. If they're waiting to release these foot heroes cards in the game until December 1st, that is a huge L in my opinion. Like to get people hyped up for a new feature, a new type of card that is gonna come out in FIFA and you're not gonna make it available from the start, I think that would be a huge L. I honestly think that these cards are going to be available from the start of FIFA 22. We just won't get our free one from the pre-order until December 1st, which is kind of interesting, right? Because if you think about it, a lot of us like to trade. We like to make coins. We like to try out these players with the coins that we have, by the players that we want to use. A lot of us probably will have an opportunity to pick up some of these hero cards if they are on the market right away and use them before December 1st, when maybe if we pre-order the Ultimate Edition, we will be getting one of these cards, right? It's very, very similar to how earlier in the year, this year in FIFA 21, we had the David Beckham card that was released as an 86 rated special card, basically to like everybody, right? And they released it to almost everybody and he had a special card design and it was released in December actually. So this is kind of what it reminds me of these foot hero cards, but that's just gonna be an interesting dynamic if they're on the market right away. Now if they're not on the market and they're not in the game until December 1st, then that is just an element itself and I wish they would not, I hope they don't do that. But if that is the way that it is, then it'll make sense and there will be some hype with it around that time. But as we get players that are progressing the power curve in FIFA, there's gonna be a lot of cards that will already be better than these foot heroes since we already kind of know their stats. Yes, they'll be very interesting, they'll be very hype, people want to try them out and want to use them. A lot of them returning to FIFA or like Dempsey was in FIFA a couple of years ago, this is his return or some cards maybe in FIFA for the first time ever, some players. So there's a lot of talk around that and a lot of just unknown, right? We're gonna learn a lot more about this, but as of right now, it really depends on when they're gonna release these foot heroes for me, depending on if they are hype or not. Now I mentioned this Ultimate Team deep dive, right? Full reveal coming soon. Volta, full reveal coming soon. Career mode, full reveal coming soon. Those are gonna be released via the pitch notes, right? EA released pitch notes last year. This is all the way back to August of 2020. And basically every couple of days, they released a deep dive on whatever sort of, I guess the game mode of FIFA Ultimate Team or FIFA 21 that they wanted to focus on the most, right? So they did a gameplay deep dive. They did Ultimate Team, pro clubs, Volta, career mode. Then they did a beta, then they did a launch update. So probably starting in the next two to three weeks or so we're gonna start to see a lot of these pitch notes deep dives. We haven't had pitch notes right now at the end of FIFA 21. We haven't had pitch notes in a long time. It's been a while since we've actually had pitch notes, I think at least a couple of weeks, maybe even a couple of months. But I just wanted to kind of put that out there so that you guys know what to expect as we get closer because again, we probably won't hear too much from EA. I guess we'll probably hear the occasional tweet or two. They tweeted out some pictures of the foot heroes. They're gonna keep promo-ing their trailer and stuff like that. But until we have another announcement, it's all just gonna be Twitter talk. It's all just gonna be waiting for those further deep dives on a lot of this information. Now, let's talk more about pre-orders, right? Because again, inside of FIFA 21 right now, you can pre-order FIFA. It's right there, you get 10% off. Now I will say one thing, you can actually get 20% off. If you have an EA Play subscription, you automatically get another 10% off of the new game. So that'd be 20% off of that new FIFA just to shout that out. That is available out there for you. But there's some shady stuff with this Ultimate Edition of FIFA because what EA you can tell with the way that EA is doing this is they're really trying to get you to buy this Ultimate Edition and to spend a little bit more money to get this Ultimate Edition because they're gonna make you feel like you miss out if you don't. Of course, you get the four days early September 27th access instead of October 1st, which is when the standard edition, the worldwide launch day, and everything will go live. But a lot of this has to do with PS4 versus PS5 or Xbox One versus Xbox Series X, right? So Ultimate Edition is basically the only edition that will have dual entitlement. And of course, if you guys know what dual entitlement is, that basically means that you will have the ability, if you buy the Ultimate Edition, you will have the ability to buy the game one time, whether it's for PS4 or PS5, and you will be able to upgrade for free and not have to buy the game again. Now, if you buy the standard edition on PS4 and you get a PS5 or from an Xbox One to an Xbox Series X, you will not be able to freely upgrade that game. You'll have to buy FIFA again for your next-gen console when you get it. So again, that's one of those things where it's like, it feels like EA is really pushing you into getting this Ultimate Edition. Now also, let's take a look at some of the benefits because this is where it gets interesting as well. For the first time ever, they're giving you legit FIFA points. Instead of giving you those rare gold packs for like 12 weeks or whatever it was, they would drop you tradable rare gold packs on Sunday night and release them at the same time as squad battle rewards, they're now just straight up giving you 4,600 FIFA points, which we've been talking about this over the past few days. This is a lesser value than what you would have received with those rare gold packs because those rare gold packs are valued at 25,000 coins apiece. I don't know how many FIFA points that is, and you got those for 12 weeks. 4,600 FIFA points, while yes, is kind of nice to have those FIFA points right away at the start, which by the way, these might not be on your account right away. These might not actually get into your account until September 27th, when the actual full game drops, if you will. I don't think that there's any EA Play or EA Access 10-hour trial period before that. I don't believe that those FIFA points would show up. That's just my opinion. We'll figure out more around those lines later on, but this is basically a lesser value than those 25K packs for 12 weeks or whatever it was, but it's just kind of crazy to see that these FIFA points are there. And the reason I think that they switched this up this year instead of just giving you packs, they want to give you FIFA points and people who maybe didn't spend FIFA points before, maybe they're buying the Ultimate Edition because again, EA is persuading them to buy the Ultimate Edition for that fear of missing out with the dual entitlement upgrade. And they want to get you used to spending FIFA points with preview packs, because I really think that preview packs are going to be in FIFA 22 all year long, and that is the new normal that we are going to see in FIFA. And if they give you FIFA points like this, then you're going to be able to maybe preview some packs in that first couple of weeks and or just spend the FIFA points on the packs or just kind of hold onto those, right? Let's say you're doing a preview pack for a 7.5K, you pack something sick, and like, okay, I'm going to use my FIFA points today and buy that pack. Next day, you don't get anything great. Day after that, you use your FIFA points to buy a pack that gets you something sick, right? So I think that right here is just kind of one of those like subliminal messaging things that EA is doing to maybe some of the more casual players of this game to get them to get used to using FIFA points, spending FIFA points, get used to the preview packs and stuff like that. So just EA giving you FIFA points makes you notice inside of FIFA that you have those FIFA points up there. And by the way, if people are saying that if you buy the Ultimate Edition and your account is not a true RTG, that's bogus, right? Your account is still a true RTG. You are not spending any money on the game. It's basically just like them giving you the packs last year. You're still getting free tradable packs from ordering a different version and a more expensive version of the game. This year, they're just doing it through FIFA points. So that is my opinion on that. Of course, we talked about the Foot Heroes item which won't be out until December 1st. You get an untradable FIFA 22 ones to watch player item, which this is the official, that's the gold card design. And this is the official card design for ones to watch, which, you know, it looks good, right? These card designs at the EA card design just keep getting better and better. Now, of course, this card looks a little scrunched, right? This is just like a little picture version. It'll be a full-size card image. Same thing with the Foot Heroes player, right? It looks like a little scrunched image right now, but this should be what the card design looks like inside of FIFA 22. And a lot of people like the image of the gold card design. It looks very, like, elaborate, right? You take a look at a gold card this year in FIFA. Let's just go to the popular page and find one real quick. This guy's on the popular page, right? A Chiang Pong. You really don't have that much design in the card. You have a couple of these designs kind of here in the back, and the rest of the card is just gold. Now, FIFA 22, with that almost like lightning bolt kind of thing with the design already on the left, I think that looks really good. That's a pretty cool card design for the rare golds, which I'm a big fan of right there. Of course, as a part of the Ultimate Edition, you get that Team of the Week Player One item as well. You get the five-game loan, Killing of Bape, which is going to, everybody's gonna hate that card in Friendly's. Again, if Friendly's are made the same way as they are last year, and you get to choose between Alaba, Foden, or Sun, which I feel like most people will choose between Sun or Foden for a three matches as well, and then you get a local youth prospect for career mode. So, I mean, still, basically it's a technical, they're giving you a foot heroes player, so they're giving you another untradable item to be in your Ultimate Team and they're taking some packs away from you. If you kind of, as last year, they gave you more packs last year and more value for packs, but this year they're giving you a foot heroes player item for that Ultimate Edition purchase. So, I just kind of found that very, very interesting, in my opinion, and again, the scummy part about this is, I really just don't like the dual entitlement part about this, and I'm also not too sure about the, what is it called, the hyper motion, right? This stuff right here, the hyper motion that they're really, really talking about, revolutionizing gameplay, hyper motion technology, watching all of this stuff gives me a fricking headache, in my opinion, but hyper motion says it's only gonna be available on PS5, Xbox Series X or S, and Stadia. Now I heard some people talking about how Stadia and PC are different, but they're run on the same thing and this might just be a typo for EA where it actually will be available on PC, so we'll probably have some more information coming on that, but of course, getting into some of the gameplay features they're talking about with this, of course, this is the image that everybody is talking about off the rip, because it shows Christian Pulisic coming in and a real Madrid defender coming in and basically what looks like an auto block, and of course, that was one of the biggest frustrations of FIFA 21 was just the auto blocks, and this calls this tactical AI, so they come up with all the fancy words, they have the fancy names and new ways to describe what they're doing to change the game, but in reality, we just have to get our hands on it and see if it feels different and stuff like that, so goalkeeper rewrite, they're doing some stuff with goalkeepers, true ball physics, I feel like I've heard that every year, explosive sprint, when I read this, all I can think of is the bridge mechanic, right? They're saying a new gameplay mechanic that changes dynamic of one-on-one situations, explosive sprint gives you more control over acceleration when dribbling or defending, lure opponents in and choose to unleash your full speed to get away from the defender as you drive your team forward and attack. That literally just sounds like a bridge, it's gonna move to me, and I think there's a moment inside of the FIFA 22 trailer where Mbappe does a bridge move around the defender, but he does it basically with his, he kind of goes behind with his back foot, so it's like a flare bridge, if you will, so I don't know what's gonna happen with that, but as we always talk about the brand new scale moves and the brand new features that they added to the game every year are always the ones that are the most overpowered, so of course, be on the lookout when we have deep dives, gameplay deep dives, they talk about stuff with those pitch notes. Again, I actually wanna scroll down and show you what I'm really looking forward to with these pitch notes, and I'm gonna go back and show you one from FIFA 21 right now, is the pictures that they show and the videos that they show. I actually don't know if they're gonna show any of those, yeah, these right here, these are the videos and the pictures. Basically, this shows you the coding of the game, these kind of fake players or the shot trajectory ones. This is the stuff with the animations and how they code the game. This is what I'm really excited to see. I'm really excited to see that kind of stuff when they do like a gameplay deep dive, so that's just one thing that I'm kind of talking to you guys about and I wanna tell you about is watch out for these sorts of things in the game when they're getting released in FIFA, so just kinda watch out for that. Those will be a very helpful tool to kind of describe and see what's going on with all this new stuff inside of FIFA 22. So again, the big news is the weekend league changes, right? And we're gonna have a lot more news that is coming in the next few days, or the next few, I guess, couple weeks, not necessarily days, but they're really going hard after this hyper-motion stuff, they're really going hard after some of the gameplay features and I guess FIFA 22 powered by football. So that's all the information that I have and wanna talk about with you guys today. Again, I feel like there's a lot of stuff that's gonna be coming out, but I feel like today we kind of scratched the surface, talked about the pre-order stuff. We'll talk more about that later on. Maybe is there a better time to buy the pre-order? Is there a better way where you can save some money? And of course, some things like that. So those are all my thoughts on FIFA 22. Try to throw some stuff in there, not just reading out what they posted, but incorporating how we might see that into FIFA 22. Let me know down in the comments what you guys think about all this FIFA 22 hype, man. It's building, right? It is here. We are in that time period the new game is on the horizon. We are basically two and a half months away from the new game coming out October 1st, September 27th, September 22nd, 22 should be the web app release. That is like 10 days before the game release. So September 22nd of 2021 should be the web app release. And that's when we fully get started on FIFA. So that's all the FIFA 22 information for now. As more stuff comes out, we'll talk about it and we'll update you guys. If you did like this video, make sure to put a thumbs up on it. Again, comment down below if you have any questions or comments and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Ford Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace out.