Post 8th ZC

New to MUT and was wondering if someone could explain what Zero Chill being nerfed on the 8th will look like in terms of the 9th going forward. TIA!

Everything good will be taken away like speed, COD, etc.  They'll keep 1-3 useless attribute boosts like  tackle, pass block footwork, etc.

CTOUGH23 said:

Everything good will be taken away like speed, COD, etc.  They'll keep 1-3 useless attribute boosts like  tackle, pass block footwork, etc.

Pbf is pass block fitness fyi. Its correlated with dl finesse move stats.

As for op. Truth is we done know how bad they will nerf everything yet. Expect the worst, however.

cferga32 said:

Pbf is pass block fitness fyi. Its correlated with dl finesse move stats.

As for op. Truth is we done know how bad they will nerf everything yet. Expect the worst, however.

What have previous event nerfs looked like?

I have David Montgomery and he’s a 96 currently in my team, so I guess just curious what it’ll look like afterwards. I have the 92 autumn Surtain so alternatively why did he look like during the promo for that?

cferga32 said:

Pbf is pass block fitness fyi. Its correlated with dl finesse move stats.

As for op. Truth is we done know how bad they will nerf everything yet. Expect the worst, however.

I misspoke you are correct my apologies

CTOUGH23 said:

I misspoke you are correct my apologies

No worries your point still stands, I just caught the pass block footwork stat and was like what is that lol.

Lampshades said:

What have previous event nerfs looked like?

I have David Montgomery and he’s a 96 currently in my team, so I guess just curious what it’ll look like afterwards. I have the 92 autumn Surtain so alternatively why did he look like during the promo for that?

Some actually say. This boost will be nerfed to plus 1 awareness. That's a strat card example I'm pretty sure right now. 

And like the other poster said it's usually nerfed to mid level boosts as far as the x20, x30 etc theme boosts.  They almost always take away speed, accel etc

cferga32 said:

Some actually say. This boost will be nerfed to plus 1 awareness. That's a strat card example I'm pretty sure right now. 

And like the other poster said it's usually nerfed to mid level boosts as far as the x20, x30 etc theme boosts.  They almost always take away speed, accel etc

What about the ability discount? Do the frozen abilities usually raise back up to the same AP as normal abilities?

Woodysky said:

What about the ability discount? Do the frozen abilities usually raise back up to the same AP as normal abilities?

The in-game descriptions tell us what the AP costs will be.  For example, Mike Vick's (RB) Freight Train will raise to 10AP, after January 8th.  ALL of those free ability buckets will melt away and the majority of these cards will become (mostly) worthless.  Should still be some incredibly tall and fast theme team players from this, however, moving forward, we have to assume it'll be a little more reasonable, in terms of cards getting discounted (for example, 1AP Pick Artist) abilities, versus multiple free buckets.

The game is about to change, dramatically.  This was just a brief taste of what end-game MUT will look liek, basically in May.  Playoffs promo should be the new jazz.

The next promos will be playoffs then Super Bowl.  The playoff promo cards will get "special treatment" and probably have a couple ability buckets discounted.  Sane with the SB promo.  Last year the SB promo had a boost...if you had 5-6 specific players (Cowboys and Packers TT's), they gave you a CRAZY boost to those TT's.

So, to keep up with the Meta, you'll HAVE to get players from the current promo.

peatrick said:

The in-game descriptions tell us what the AP costs will be.  For example, Mike Vick's (RB) Freight Train will raise to 10AP, after January 8th.  ALL of those free ability buckets will melt away and the majority of these cards will become (mostly) worthless.  Should still be some incredibly tall and fast theme team players from this, however, moving forward, we have to assume it'll be a little more reasonable, in terms of cards getting discounted (for example, 1AP Pick Artist) abilities, versus multiple free buckets.

The game is about to change, dramatically.  This was just a brief taste of what end-game MUT will look liek, basically in May.  Playoffs promo should be the new jazz.

I was mainly referring to the ones that melt away. So if a player has pick artist of 2 like standard and a frozen pick artist. When that.melts away does it go to 2 or is it still discounted at 1 for example?

Woodysky said:

I was mainly referring to the ones that melt away. So if a player has pick artist of 2 like standard and a frozen pick artist. When that.melts away does it go to 2 or is it still discounted at 1 for example?

I'm going to assume they'll all be retail cost, but there are a handful of outliers.  Unsure if the in-game descriptions read a specific AP value/cost for each and every Frozen ability, but the one I am zeroed in on is that 10AP Freight Train -- it seems that only these X-factor buckets show a specific value.  It's probably safe to assume the other, regular abilities will become normal retail prices, i would not assume they'll retain ANY discounts.

EA wants these cards to become essentially worthless, so we're all forced to chase the latest and greatest cards.  This is planned-obsolescence on steroids.

peatrick said:

I'm going to assume they'll all be retail cost, but there are a handful of outliers.  Unsure if the in-game descriptions read a specific AP value/cost for each and every Frozen ability, but the one I am zeroed in on is that 10AP Freight Train -- it seems that only these X-factor buckets show a specific value.  It's probably safe to assume the other, regular abilities will become normal retail prices, i would not assume they'll retain ANY discounts.

EA wants these cards to become essentially worthless, so we're all forced to chase the latest and greatest cards.  This is planned-obsolescence on steroids.

Yes they learned from last year. Those combine cards were crazy good for several promos after. Took 2 overall increases and ASA to bump people off the combine. It is genius on their end to just make everything only relevant during the promo.

Last year after the boosts/discounts went away the abilities on all ZC/Ghosts cards went back up to normal price, no discount. So I would assume the same for this year. Many of these cards will still be very good if they fit your theme teams, but besides that a lot of them will get outdated within the next couple of weeks (depending on how good Playoffs promo is).