FIFA 23 Ultimate Team changes: New chemistry system, FUT Moments, and more
EA Sports recently released an in-depth reveal for FIFA 23 involving their most popular game mode, Ultimate Team. After releasing information about Pro Clubs, Career Mode, and the Matchday Experience, they saved the best for last, as Ultimate Team has received the biggest overhaul in FIFA history.
FIFA Ultimate Team, better known as FUT, has the largest active playerbase out of all other game modes in FIFA. Since it generates such a large portion of EA's revenue through microtransactions, it also receives special attention from the developers, who are constantly innovating to make the experience more engaging and interesting for players.
With the introduction of cross-play in FIFA 23, fans were speculating how it would affect FUT matchmaking, as well as the transfer market. With their latest release, EA Sports have confirmed that FUT will feature a shared global transfer market across various consoles. Furthermore, matchmaking in 1v1 game modes will also have cross-play enabled within the same console generation.
The chemistry system has always been a defining feature for FUT, allowing players to build unique and creative squads. Strangely, this system has remained mostly unchanged since the inception of FUT in FIFA 09. However, with FIFA 23, the chemistry system has been completely overhauled.
Positional links have been completely removed, and players can now link to any player anywhere on the pitch based on their leagues, clubs, and nations. Players can have chemistry ratings ranging from one to three, depending on how many links they receive from the rest of the starting eleven.
Position modification has also been changed, as most players will have pre-defined alternative positions that they can switch between. Icons and
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