 Eafc ultimate team deep dive. Let's just see how much info EA wants to give us today because we've heard a lot about this already We know a lot about it. Oh, here we go. Oh the countdown. Wait, what does this say? What does it say? Electronic Arts was founded in 1982 the earliest version of football can be traced back 3,000 years. What are statistics? The maximum number of players on a football team is 11 What the original game was released in 1993 did they just really tell us how many players pay on a play on a pitch Welcome back to our EA Sports FC 24 deep dive series I'm Leravelle, and I am here with two experts and Richard from the development team to chat through what might be the biggest year in Ultimate team. Okay, how are we doing guys? Hey, Lea. Hello. There's so many new things. We have to talk Okay, that's the pack animation. Wait, there was two cars in the pack The ultimate team evolution the inclusion of women's football and play styles. We already know about those Straight into it. First up, we have to talk about ultimate team evolutions Are you telling me that I can finally improve players from my club? That's right We've never had anything quite like this in ultimate team There's so much to love about what this unlocks for people's passions for players Regardless of where they're at in their development Richard. You want to explain how this works? Okay? Yeah, so in ultimate team evolutions, you're going to be able to pick your favorite players and upgrade them throughout the year I don't know if those ratings are final though. All you have to do is pick your favorite players Complete objectives so that moococo goal turned into an evolutions card. You see that you complete 20 passes with them Get two assists and that completes level one and earns you plus 10 short passing and also upgrades their weak foot You'll also be able to level up the players item. Vincent company 88 stand out when you load into a match Okay moving on to one of my favorite things that I'm so excited to talk about Okay ball is coming to it's not any player. I think it's specific players. No, brazilian is obviously to assemble your favorite Footballers from around the world into an ultimate 11. This is the biggest edition of talk to your players We've ever introduced into the game at one time. It's called ultimate team. If you're not able to play with your favorite players It's not really your ultimate team So this year with the introduction of more leagues and with evolutions, especially You're going to be able to make your ultimate team and it's not going to look like there's that Nike kit of it So new players some new leagues with the introduction of women's football How will chemistry work putting all of these new players into my ultimate team chemistry will remain the same For example, sam kerr will link to wsl players or fellow australians and is going to link up with I don't know about these. I'll see the bottom player item ratings are not finalized and they're subject to change And what about vini 88 though? Can you tell the people if we expect any new ones? Yeah, absolutely Yeah, tevez schneider to play with some of the greatest players from the past. All right. We knew these we knew these Know that the community has been wanting a change. We knew these shots to icon chemistry So when you have an icon, we knew this as well. They're gonna apply Wow, look at that icon card design, bro So that just opens up more squad building as the first time we've seen the icon card design Team in the FC 24 Pack animation Every player in ultimate team will share the same packs the same pitch and will be included in promos throughout the year Speaking of packs something. I'm really excited about this year. We have new sets We have new animations including my personal favorite a two player walkout So if you pack two really great players, they're both going to walk out at the same time Hey Okay, or so that part of the beginning was that part of that. All right. I'm starting to put things together Interesting. That's kind of cool That's kind of cool icons and then players that I decide to improve the ultimate team evolution All right, every squad is going to be so versatile so different. I love that. That's exactly what we're hoping for Each of the dynamics looks so small Look at those dynamic image. It looks so small man. You'll personal on the card This is a great year for you to make your ultimate team truly yours I have to mention this new item design because we haven't talked about it yet And that's something that stood out to me right away It's a big change. You're right redesigning the items was a chance to bring your favorite footballers into focus And helps you understand them at a glance. All right So that is the pack animation More key information than ever like Vinny's face looks off-center for chemistry and even animated backgrounds I don't know new information. But then there it does. I don't know man styles plus that you see on the left side of the item So Vinny has the quick step play style plus and how to get the most out of them in the game Yes, yes, I was actually walking accelerate significantly faster the other day and those sound amazing Our playstyle is a big part of the gameplay dynamic in ultimate team. Absolutely I'm absolutely cooked Overall ratings That skill move bro I think you can turn off that little badge above the player in game though I think you can turn that off if you don't want to see it Like see right there unique to world-class athletes are reserved only for the best players Pretty sure you can turn it off so that it does if you don't want to see it Yeah, they're a great way to understand and get the best out of the players on the pitch And a great way to know how to build a squad that has complementary skills and strengths. I love it Let's talk a little bit about objectives. Objectives. Yeah, well, we've been working hard to give you more focus The claim all right when you load up ultimate team with the new objectives menu It's easier to understand what to play for and get back to the action There's also new navigation and really different switcher to cycle between modes So you can go straight from your squad to rivals. Oh, that's cool from sbc. Oh chat. Look at the menus And there's market confirmed Claim all There it is Yes, yes, I know how much there it is has been asking for that one myself included Are there any other changes that we can tell them about well I mean we've also made a little tweak to how players change position Okay, we knew that with a secondary position will automatically switch to that new position How you do it? So you'll no longer need to get position modifiers and keep toggling your players back and forth You just put them in the spot and they change change will make sbc's a lot more seamless And you'll finally be able to use a player's secondary position and draft and get them some chemistry chat You don't even have to oh Thank you. You don't even have to do anything. It just automatically changes that they have it With the most of you it feels honestly. All right. That's sick. That's sick, bro That's a w. Welcome to the club. All right chat There it is. All right. Do we have do we have pitch notes yet? I want to check right away for pitch notes because that's going to be the easiest way to keep looking to this stuff Boom ultimate team deep dive pitch notes, baby. We're here. This was it. Yeah, that's it. What did we say earlier, bro What did we say earlier? We knew that it might not be the craziest of deep dives, right? We knew that because a lot of this stuff we had already talked about But I feel like there are a number of things in here that we can that I noticed that we can talk about and learn So the first thing they showed about that um The mucoco did you notice that mucoco started as a gold card striker upgrade? Select a player that meets the following requirements shooting max 78 pace max 81 Overall max 78 and a weak foot maximum four star So it's not every player that you can fit into that spot But you can choose a lot of different players to put in there because then you can see here that it showed like them Going to the club and picking between Eligible players you see that you could search for eligible players So you're searching for eligible players And then boom emerson royale and mucoco both could have been put into that uh Evolution so they chose mucoco, which has kind of been their choice for all this and then it gives you Uh challenges which seemed decently easy actually to get them upgraded So that kind of answers a few questions based off of that the pack animation Being able to have two cards at the same time Like the sun and the holland if you were so lucky to pack that That's kind of cool. Okay. Here's what I don't understand Why does vinny's card look like this when his face is like all the way to the left? Everything seems shifted over to the left, but then look in the pack animation, bro It doesn't look like it's slanted. See see what I mean It's missing the attribute things based off of the full card design and like the mini card design They look different. Yeah, it's it's not final. You're right. It's it's not final I'm diving into the details here. Uh, I wanted to see a few of these packs weekly objectives Like the menus look very different obviously so like in objectives you can r1 l1 To the different types, but then if you want to go somewhere else, you hit l2 Yeah, new navigation So you hit l2 and you go straight from your squad boom right into rivals or champs sbc's look different The market looks different too transfer market transfer list transfer targets. That looks really quick and snappy. I do like that Also warra account up here 8,000 fifa points and 910k Also, this whole this new thing here like we saw it multiple times inside of this uh trailer this logo That must be some sort of new logo, bro. I don't know Let's let's dig into these because there's probably some better information in here Oh, not every player is eligible for every evolution You'll have to check the requirements to know what players you're allowed to use This might be evolve any silver player or evolve a left back with three star skill moves So you have some freedom, but it's still inside of a box throughout the season Our goal is to keep evolutions feeling fresh and updated will be adding more ways to evolve your squad throughout the season So like you start with this car design, then you upgrade to this to this to this That's a sick car design right there. Can I add an evolutions player to the transfer market? No, once a player has been confirmed in an evolution, it becomes Untratable you can have as many evolution players in your squad as you want But you can only activate one to upgrade at a time Can I swap back and forth between players I want to upgrade You can swap back and forth freely. Oh, that's sick In progress evolutions players cannot be submitted into sbcs However, once the player item is fully upgrade it can be and you can enroll the same player in multiple evolutions Wow, okay, there's a lot of fine print with evolutions I'm sure that's something we're gonna have to figure out throughout the year But they're making a big deal out of it, man, uh women and ultimate team Talks about chemistry on the pitch. We already knew that though. Obviously. This is the best example Lauren and Reese James since they both play for Chelsea They get that they get a link because they are both for Chelsea even though they're technically in different leagues Yo, what is this chat? Look at that. That is sick european knights objective for an 89 rated fill photo That's the same dynamic image that is on ucl card 89 from this year, isn't it? Thought that looked familiar literally the only thing in here about objectives is the claim all button and that they uh They're gonna make it look pretty Some objective groups will now have themed backgrounds so the energy and personality of our campaigns can really shine through Water graphics from ea. All right community improvements. This is big item design. Okay, we've known about that That's how the cards look the play style pluses show over here Chemistry styles and this is the first owner triangle animated backgrounds. So the nike card designs That's that's actually sick graphic design is ea's passion Like expanding on embellishments and having the art break out of the shells I'm guessing that's what this means like the nike swoosh going outside the card or maybe it means like the player dynamic images Going outside the card position modifier removal and club search improvements. That might be the biggest thing in here, man This gackpo is center forward and they put Gackpo Into the striker spot and since that's one of his alternate positions. He just instantly changes to it You don't even have to go into the card and like change the position I thought that's what we were gonna have to do. Oh, you just you just set it in the spot, bro And they said that also works in draft Which is really nice. Wait a second. Wait a second speaking of sbc's and searching your club. We hear you We've made sure to hide those loan players when you're squad building in sbc's We were talking about that Five minutes before this came out loans will no longer show up when you're building sbc's Hey, yo In addition we're changing the way position searches work the default position search will now include both primary and Alternative positions making squad building easier more search functionality W so like if you search for strikers, it would also pull up that Gackpo who has a base position of center forward cool icon changes. Okay. We knew about this Yeah, we knew about the icon chemistry change, right? See watch over here when they put zadan in zadan goes in at camp right now There's only one primary league chemistry point zadan contributes another one And also to the other leagues and boom that's huge. We knew that though from launch icons We'll have a single base version to be aligned with the heroes and regular player items We will capture the eras and stories of these legendary players by continuing to release additional campaign versions. Wow You know what that means that means there's going to be less icons this year I would agree that means we're going to see more heroes and icons built into promo teams Icons and every other promo probably oh pick raid nick. Thank you for the host man We were just talking about how icons are only going to have one base version And I think that's an l wait. So that means if you don't get a new version Oh, no, let's say you're a bit just like terry on re this year terry on re it took him like almost all year to get a special card, bro After he got his prime card This was the best version in the game until the shapeshifters came out But the game was practically over so people that wanted to use on re were stuck with this version Since december or whenever the primes came out. What if terry on re in fc 24 doesn't get a new icon card until like june again, man Then you're stuck with this base. That might be one of the biggest changes right there though for like Especially campaigns and for promo cards. So in the fc 24 reveal remember the zadan that we saw the zadan that's in here That is zadan's prime image from fifa 23 and older fifa's That's the image on his prime card, but it's the rating of his middle version 94 lean design here is tweeting 90 hullet 90 hullet and ea fc the way they showed it had prime hullets face But with different stats so again the ratings are probably subject to change But if you were ea think about it, wouldn't you want to use the prime images? You would want to use the images on the cards in game that were associated as primes before people would think oh That's the prime zadan now again the stats are probably not 100 accurate or they're not finalized yet But I would not be surprised if the base versions that we see from inside here Right icons will launch with a single base version I wouldn't be surprised if they use the prime Like images because like subconsciously in our minds for those of us that have played fifa for a long time when we see this Pick of zadan we know oh, that's the prime and maybe they put that image on this card Rating for the start of fc 24. Oh, did you pack a new cool kit or tfo? You can now manually equip customization items directly from the new item screen Did you open a pack with a lot of untradable duplicate player items? You can now swap them in bulk with their tradable versions in your club That sounds like if you're going into your unassigned like imagine these are all unassigned There's going to be a button on the bottom that would say swap duplicates from club. That's a big w Yeah, that's instead of going one by one to see who's tradable and untradable that you already have is a untradable Or a duplicate. Yeah, that's that's cool Last but not least you can now find your favorite lengthy players easier than ever with the introduction of acceleration types in the player bio Oh, thanks. Yeah, that's nice. This might be one of the biggest w's Look how quick it is to like this guy's in spcs right now And I think you hit l2 on your controller and then you can scroll through objectives evolutions spcs transfer stadium and store It's going to be a little bit to get used to but a lot of things to save time So we can spend more time playing I mean think about it from ea standpoint too You want people to be able to get where they want to go and get through a lot of those menu inconveniences faster Right so that you can spend more time in the game in the spcs and objectives in the store Oh Squad battles match length the feedback from the community regarding squad battles has that been that matches have been too long We were happy to announce that in ea sports fc. We are reducing the length of each half from six minutes to four So you can make the most of each time you pick up the controller boom Every squad battles game four and a half. You know what they're going to do though chat They made squad battles four minutes. They're going to make you play more games instead of oh, yeah Play five games of squad battles. Well now you're going to have to play seven or eight instead It's going to be the same amount. You know what I'm saying That's literally like three things that we mentioned before the stream that I didn't expect them to change That they did chat. I feel like there weren't a lot of changes to gameplay though Like a lot of people are asking about changes to rivals changes to Footchamps maybe there's more info coming on that but the only change we got was oh, hey squad battles This is going to be four minute halves, which is a w but it's a lot of quality of life improvements chat and not a lot of like Game breaking new like features in terms of gameplay modes Yeah, zero zero gameplay changes. It sounds like we're still going to have champs rival squad battles moments and draft Obviously evolutions is a gameplay change But I feel like this fixed a lot of the annoying things about the fifa 23 menus like we've said multiple times It's a quality of life improvement update. It's not like game breaking new features It didn't talk about the market at all. Uh, it didn't talk about anything along those lines either, dude I didn't see anything in there that's that mentioned a fully cross platform market But maybe I missed it confirmed in their deep dive today huge news. Maybe I missed it, bro I don't know where that was at but cross market was already a thing just not pc Well, what these guys are saying is is that it's fully cross platform including pc I don't know man I'm a little skeptical on that all one market because I I'm missing the point where they saw it But I would love I would love to know where they saw it man. Anyways, that is uh, that's the news I mean honestly as always if you want to check out all the information. It's in the deep dive here That's the best place to go and look for it. We'll leave a link In the stream. We'll leave a link on the youtube vids to go and check that out