Massive FIFA handicap glitch discovered

Have you ever felt like your players weren’t playing to the best of their ability in your favourite sports game? New evidence discovered by several well-known FIFA Youtubers and Redditors shows that they probably aren’t.

The issue specifically affects FIFA’s Ultimate Team mode which allows players to build teams using player cards they find in packs.

Ever since this mode was introduced some users have complained that whilst playing with teams comprised of highly rated players, often their teams will feel sluggish, slow to react and clumsy.

This has become known as “handicapping” and nobody has been able to find a way to prove that it exists – until now.

This is a breakdown of what was found:

When you build your team, by playing cards in particular positions, and with particular set-ups, you can increase their chemistry attribute. Having a high chemistry attribute on a player will give them boosted stats, having a low chemistry will nerf their stats. These chemistry stats boosts are huge for how your team plays.
It turns out that for a large chunk of the most expensive cards in the game, FIFA has not been attributing the stats boost to the cards afforded by their chemistry. Meaning that they feel sluggish, slow and clumsy in comparison to other, cheaper cards in the game which have been given the chemistry stats boost.
This means that users have been spending vast amounts of in-game and real life money, sometimes hundreds even thousands of dollars/pounds, to obtain player cards which are NOT what they seem and are in fact heavily nerfed.

Apparently, this glitch has appeared in every FIFA since 2009. EA may have to atone for millions of players who have spent money on upgrades over the last seven years.

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