FIFA 23: Ultimate Team Reveal

What to expect from the FIFA 23 Ultimate Team reveal

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Okay… here we go. The official reveal for FIFA 23’s Ultimate team is now live for us to feast our eyes on.

What we know so far

The main things we know so far are about the new, shared, market on Ultimate Team. The introduction of cross play on FIFA 23 means we will now see the Ultimate Team market shared on the below platforms: 

• PlayStation 4
• PlayStation 5
• Xbox One
• Xbox Series X|S
• Stadia

The only exception is going to be Switch and PC. These markets will continue to operate in the same way they did in previous years.

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What’s new 

A new game mode will be Introduced that relies on creating moments. This where you can re-create new moments from the previous weekends.

There will also be challenges to complete too, these will be things like score with your keeper and more. 

The reward for these will be stars, a new currency coming to the game that you can collect and spend on what you want. These will drop in seasons and will come gradually depending on the challenge. All of these will be new single player games and are more bitesize than playing a whole game.

Positional links have gone in chemistry, so chemistry has been overhauled, but it will now rely more on ensuring your player is playing where they are supposed to. 

There will now be chemistry ratings between 1-3 and this will be impacted by other players in the squad.

Another huge difference is players will have secondary positions for those who do play in multiple positions. The example given is Cancelo who can play at left back or right back, all you need to do is apply a position modifier and you can from there.

A player will at least have one position change but can have up to three. There will no longer be a disadvantage to having a player out of position, their stats will no longer be nerfed like in previous iterations of the game. 

Crossplay will be about being on the same console generation, so PS5 players can play against Xbox Series players. 

The market will also be completely shared, as well as the leaderboards in the game. 

Stadium upgrades are also being overhauled, with new animated tifos and medals to decorate your ground with. We assume these will be earned by completing challenges like in FIFA 22.

The World Cup was confirmed to be coming to Ultimate Team in FIFA 23, but we will have to wait for another announcement before we hear more as they were very coy in the announcement.

You can check out the trailer for yourself here:

Icons and Heroes

We are also expecting to see new Icons come to the game, as well as new Heroes. 

It’s still unknown which new Icons will be coming, all the information we currently have is just rumours and hearsay, but they are pointing towards some pretty special players. The rumoured players are: 

• Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina) – FUT Icon
• Rudi Voller (Germany) – FUT Icon
• Gerd Müller (Germany) – FUT Icon
• Xabi Alonso (Spain) – FUT Icon
• Jairzinho (Brazil) – FUT Icon

There’s already more information on the Heroes. We know they are going to tie into a World Cup promo, so that will be December time, and we also know to expect Yaya Toure, Claudio Marchisio, Park Ji-Sung and Carvalho. 

Although it’s been suggested some of the Icons will be downgraded to Heroes in FIFA 23.

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If the accidental announcement by EA is also to be believed, these cards are likely to tie in with a crossover event with Marvel.

We also know chemistry will be done in a new way in FIFA 23’s Ultimate Team, but that is sort of all we know. There are rumours suggesting how it will change but hopefully the big reveal will clear all of this up.