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Now, I know this isn’t going to be the case for everyone and I know the majority of it is RnG/luck with a bit of rinse repeat.

But: Here are my statistics.

250 85x10s

Packs with 0 Futties/TOTS/FOF = 83
Packs with 1 Futties/TOTS/FOF = 136
Packs with 2+ Futties/TOTS/FOF = 31

Futties Ratings:
95 = 44
96 = 38
97 = 15
98 = 1
99 = 0

The sudden dramatic drop off between 98 & 99 is just wild, I have two 99 players in total, one from a T1-3 95+ 1 of 3 pick and SBC Vitinha. It’s genuinely tiring when there are 8 99 cards available but instead i’m getting WW Debruyne, TOTYI Morgan, TT Morgan (94) TOTY HM Kane. And they are stuck on a loop.

I’ve had around 20-30 packs that are just all gold packs too 😭

Edit: For anyone who stumbles on this feeling like they’re unlucky, I can assure you, you’re doing better than me.

I have expended 200K coins on Futties/TOTS/FOF Cards to repeat the 85x10

My rate of packing one of these cards, is 0.9 (1/11 85x10s)

I no longer have any Futties I am able to use until rewards days because of pack weight not paying them out, the only ones i have left are those which fill my bench and my team. I do not have any TOTS/TOTS Breakthrough Cards or FOF cards to continue making them.

Futties just feels like a big fuck you to everyone who doesn’t spend money on FP.

In a game that is 1-1 a centre back should not be getting MVP, match ball and a 10 rating when the player NEVER ONCE controlled him.

A.I defending is a free win if you have Van Dijk in the back because that mf will tackle you with his back turned and moon walking on you. It’s exhausting, and then just to add the cherry on top, Ronaldo will score a screamer from the half way line to top it off.

Online play is such bullshit and very few people actually enjoy it.

This shit was designed to be one last fuck you from EA and made to be as annoying as possible.

20 Second unskippable celebration, 20 second replay of the goal you conceded from not one, but a lovely two angles, then a minute long animation of your players walking down the tunnel, which can also- not be skipped.

And AI Defending??? That shit will backstep tackle you with its back to you whilst moonwalking. And let’s not start on the 4-3-1-2 high press tactic either.

What is the point in giving us Infinite 85x10s when they cannot be repeated due to packweight being that ass. I invested spares into 20 85x10s and didn’t see one Futties Card, Not one TOTS, Not one FOF either, so how exactly are we supposed to repeat these when EA keep reducing packweight and I refuse to believe it is over something as petty as a third party app.

FC26 Has been an exhausting mess of a game, and then you ruin the most fun part of the game for F2P players by making it almost impossible to repeat.

Like, I get it’s futties and the whole promo is supposed to be about the collection of past promos for the entire game, but c’mon stop handing me WW when his 99 rated is in packs 😭

Mods probably gonna remove this one quick time, but what is EA actually doing, the 85x10s aren’t even repeatable because packweight is that dead, the chances of a futties is slim to none at best.

I have seen 2 team of the season cards from perhaps a total of 40-50 85x10s and that’s absurd. It’s august? Why are we handing out 8 gold cards to players in august like…

I don’t want this to be seen as venting, i’m just looking for advice on how any of you do it on World Class or above, previous games I used to manage on Legendary+ with a bit of difficulty of course.

This time around, I’m barely scraping a win with a 4-4-1-1 Formation & Tactic on World Class. It genuinely feels as if card stats don’t matter, but how you manage to defend the counter attack is what requires focus.

I find myself more focused on my defence rather than my attack because if I can get in front of goal, I can score 9/10 times. I wonder if switching my tactic to be more defensive would help?

However, I do like how the game is less back and forth scoring, it feels like a real match in the sense of a fight for possession.

I really do miss fragpunk from early 2025, i met some really good people from Frag.

I decided to reinstall it and try it again today despite the low playerbase and yeah, it’s still as fun as I remember, and yeah the cracks still show as to why the game lost its player base, but that doesn’t stop most of my enjoyment.

The matchmaking is a bit of a drag with the odds of running into a high elo smurf avoiding high queue times is frustrating, but nothing new.

My biggest gripe however is the memory leak in this game 😭 please for the love of god if anyone sees this from the Dev Team, fix it i beg.

Pathojen and Kismet still remain my top picks even a year later and i am once again trying to climb back into diamond or higher so i can play with my friend again. If anyone new is debating playing frag, you really should, actually a great take on a 5v5 hero shooter

I get the feeling like the point of the game is to make you so uncomfortable you have to take action, but it genuinely is so uncomfortable, I’ve never really seen topics like these covered in a game before and this is my first playthrough, going in entirely blind.

The fact choices matter and create a feeling of actually high stakes is uncomfortable, of course 99% of people are always going to choose to protect the child, but enduring seeing that, I just didn’t want to.

I don’t want spoilers because I do enjoy the game and the story, I just wonder if i’m overly invested or if this is the whole point of the game.

Now here’s what none of you are going to like, the event is not shit because of BHVR, the event is shit because of the minority of players.

Around 50% of the playerbase complained about cakes, they wasn’t getting enough, so BHVR raised the amount, people continued to complain, BHVR raised the amount again so we now get 50 for one prestige.

So why are we still not running the god damn offering?

The actual event game mode, 100% of killers complained, as a survivor player, the event is bullshit because i fully agree with killer players being given no choice but to tunnel because of how broken survivors can be. This is on BHVR.

However all the complaining, survivors pitting themselves against killers, people being toxic in game “nothing says fuck you survivors like 4 cakes and a survivor pudding”, not bringing the offering at all, or throwing games entirely. It’s left a sour taste in my mouth and to be honest, the fun is gone, I don’t want to grind for rewards when every game is just 1-3 cakes, a thrower and someone being toxic in after match chat.

It’s 24 degrees at 4am, there is no cold air, there is no nothing but hot, sticky heat and it’s impossible, you put a fan on, nice warm breeze. You throw the covers off, no difference, it’s just irritating and inescapable.

This is a genuine post in hopes to explain to people why stadium genuinely struggles with players, long queue times and as to why so many people dislike it!

I do hope that when they start updating stadium again, they implement some stuff mentioned here.

To start with, I played stadium since day 1. I loved the game mode and part of me still does, but I have to admit, over its short lifetime; it has heavily deteriorated in quality compared to what it used to be.

When did Stadium begin to lose its fun feeling?

For most, i’d say when they heavily fed into the dive meta, including characters like Tracer and her exploit that gave her insane HP.

Next: Came Hazard and his AP wall/spike guard build. This build remained unchecked for at least a month after release and turned so many people away from Stadium because it was as simple as throw wall, guard and team = wiped. He was practically untouchable with one half decent support to follow along behind him.

Now, we’re starting to catch up and along came characters like Torbjorn, who was and still is an actual fun character to play, but in a competitive environment remains unviable due to the current comp meta. Cat was a fun addition but remains extremely underwhelming compared to other supports.

Back when Stadium first came out, your biggest worry was a Mercy ult and a soldier popping his visor once every 10 seconds. Mercy received a drastic nerf to bring her more in line and solider remains pretty much the same to this day.

Now, we’re on to current day Stadium.

Ramattra
Soldier
Mei
Wuyang
Mercy or Moira

That is your average competitive comp for either side, and it is to be said, slop. Wuyang beyond round 3 is able to do insane healing & when paired up with either a Mercy or a Moira, using their respective builds, the team remains unkillable and both sides remain locked in a team fight on point until one of two supports fail to manage their cooldowns. Of course, you could counter said healing with an Ana, Junkerqueen for anti heal, however Ramattra and his damage scales so high by the time you have a push, you either need to fall back to heal, or you’re already dead because your Ana cannot keep up with the level of Wuyang, Mercy & Moira.

Junkerqueen: In her own respective right, is both a tank and support on her own, capable of surviving way too much and capable of pumping out 20K+ heals in a 7-8 round game.

Poe’s Brig Build: For all my overwatch 1 players, you will all remember Prime Brig, (yes I am sorry for the flashbacks) Now, Poe’s Brig Build allows for Brig to ult anywhere within 25-40 seconds at the start of a match beyond round 3, then every minute therefore after. During her ult, she will tick your health for 3% per second, apply burn and has her own little zen ult which will result in her out tanking both tanks combined by the end of the match.

Combine all of this and you end up with immovable objects on either side and it just becomes a deadlock on both sides until one side or the other fucks their cooldown management. Heal slop combined with overly tuned damage between several tanks and a support that refuses to die during her ult.

Combine that with the poor start stadium had with Tracer, Hazard and others and you have a game mode with a bad reputation that is highly complex for new players to learn, it becomes extremely off putting for most people who have spent several years used to the normal game.

If you read this far, congratulations you earn a gold sticker! I’m proud of all of you and I wish you luck in your games :D 💖

Edit: I appear to have missed a major point. Around the 6 month mark, Stadium switched from its current format of rounds and economy, to the Quick Play variation. I myself and a lot of others preferred this, as at the time, things were not that bad and it allowed for quicker games, quicker builds and a better player experience. But this was soon switched back after facing community uproar.

That alongside the introduction of draft picks in Season 2 of stadium was a massive chunk of the player base gone.

It genuinely does not matter how well you play, How hard you try, what role you play, you are not getting those wins. I genuinely feel like a free win service, It is absolute misery to even try, the fact that only 1 person out 20 on my friends list has fully completed drives speaks volumes about how awful this drives season is. Tier 1 & 2 are not an issue, but those final 2 wins to reach 4K? Hell no. You win 1, lose 5, win 1 lose another 5 and there is nothing I can do when my teammates genuinely do not know how to play the game.

Drives needs an overhaul, because it is dreadful to work for them, I am currently a gold player for support and so far, 3 cheaters, 3 bans, 3SR adjustments.

Apart from cheaters, people do not want to work for their wins, I am having to pull 30-40 kills & 20K healing a match just to result in a draw on certain maps, it is awful, the lobbies are dominated by quick play warriors across all ranks who do not care to try and just result in thrown games because they simply do not know how to counter a heavy attack team fight, do not know how to position themselves and do not even try to learn.

That + The amount of deranked accounts & or smurfs in queue with friends for drives is crazy work, it is genuinely dreadful to play and even though I like the drive banner for this season, I just don’t want to torture myself with it because no one seems to care but myself and the opposing team.

This is mainly pure curiosity about you, the players of Call of Duty. I have always viewed call of duty as a children’s game despite its 18+ rating, mainly because i rarely see any adults despite content creators actually playing the game.

As a child I had always played COD but as I grew up I got tired with the game, finding it bland, boring and extremely repetitive year in year out, seems more like they’re relying on nostalgia to gain a substantial playerbase.

So, my question is how do you all feel about call of duty? I always feel like it’s mainly children who play because adults have grown tired of the slop. If you are an adult playing call of duty, is this your first call of duty? and if not, what keeps you returning to the game?

This isn’t aimed towards the zombie community, I can understand that, this is targeted to multiplayer players!

I’d really like to see a feature in game where you can favourite certain skins on your weapons, then enable a randomise feature.

Of course, this is complex to implement for Valorant specifically due to others being able to pick up your weapons and weapons carrying over from round to round.

So, how would this work? To put it simply, only allow a skin to change upon buying the weapon. Therefore, any weapon dropped and then picked up by another player is unaffected, and weapon carry overs between rounds remain unaffected.

Why should this be implemented? Valorant is a few years old now, over 800 skins in the game and people are going to own more than one skin for the Vandal, let’s say. It’s limiting to only allow a person to use that one skin for 13 rounds +.

Counteract Arguments: Yes, you can change your skin after each game, but quality of life is always appreciated by the players!

Hi PC frens! Has anyone noticed a significant drop in the games performance after the most recent update? Or is this just a me issue? For the past two days the game has been significantly worse with performance, so I of course assumed a driver update may help, this did not and my performance remained the same. I assumed lowering my graphics settings would be the next appropriate step, this did not help either.

Additional Context:

FPS Count: 40-28FPS (in game and menus)
Graphics Settings: Lowered from Ultra Preset - High Preset.

PC Specs:

CPU: I9-11900K
GPU: RTX 4070
RAM: 32GB DDR5
PSU: 850W Gold Standard

For the life of me, I cannot see my PC being an issue and I have no issue with running more demanding games.

I’m quite new to Valorant and saw a lot of suggestions for improvement to get comfy with one specific character so I can focus on aiming and mechanics.

I really enjoy playing clove, her kit is really nice to use and a lot of people often help in random matches with good smoke spots. Yet my friend tells me Clove isn’t all that viable and I would be better off on any other controller.

I’ll openly admit, I’m Iron 3, bottom of the barrel bad due to inexperience and lack of understanding, but I do really want to improve without burdening my team. I would prefer to use a controller as that is where I feel most comfortable providing something for my team even when I don’t get kills. Clove would be my go to, Miks second and Omen right near the bottom due to his kit feeling complex for me, any recommendations and advice would go great please!

The current system with the 24 hour store is outdated and extremely limiting to players who are wanting and waiting for a specific skin. At a rough calculation in 2026 the odds of a specific skin are roughly 0.33% per day (This is not exact)

So, here is my suggestion. Overhaul the 24 hour store to contain 1 weapon skin for each weapon, per day rotating every day. The RNG system of the store would not be such an issue if for example: A player waiting for the Evori Vandal, were to get 1 Vandal skin per day. It dramatically decreases wait times for players, serving as a QoL (Quality of Life) change.

This also has 0 affect to Riot’s income gained from Valorant, players are willing to spend the money, they’re just waiting for the skin they want to show up, so why punish players with FOMO because they didn’t get paid until said bundle left the store for example.

If the 24 hour store remains the same as it is now, the wait times is only going to increase and the chances of a specific skin showing up is only going to decrease with the more time that passes, due to more skins being added to the store.

What is the best mode for someone under level 50 to get to grips with the game? I have tried Swiftplay, but it genuinely feels like torture to bottom frag every game and meet a Radiant Chamber who just turns you inside out. Every game there is at least someone Ascendant on higher playing against me and it just isn’t a chance to learn.

I get it “learn from the greats by watching how they did it.” but why would I want to watch someone smoke my ass who has 1000+ more hours than me? Of course I can copy, doesn’t mean I’ll be an exact replica of them.

It takes the fun out of Valorant when you can’t even be given a chance to learn and I’m terrified to play Unrated because I don’t want to endure 25 rounds max of getting my ass handed to me if it’s the same experience.