

That expands a series of small boxes into large buttons on that side. To put Jackson in at quarterback, or to auto-assign your best players as starters, cycle to the Team tab (third one on the main menu), select the Adjust Lineup box, and then use the D-pad to go all the way to the right side of the screen.

Image: EA Tiburon/Electronic Arts via Polygon Making sense of the team management menusįinally, the team management menus can be bewildering to first-time or casual Ultimate Team players.

Cycle all the way to the right with the D-pad, expand these icons into their command sets, and choose “Generate Best Lineup” to be sure you have the right personnel on the field in the early goings. The team management menu isn’t intuitive for newcomers. There’s a Rivalz series box in the Missions tab from the main page, but its list is differently, and confusingly, worded and ordered. This series begins with Ultimate Team 101 and ends with Championship: Rivalz. To be sure you’re progressing through the right tasks, always access Rivalz from the Challenges box, which is under the Play tab (second tab at the main menu). Image: EA Tiburon/Electronic Arts via Polygon Finding training exercisesįurthermore, the menus’ terrible organization make it hard to keep track of where you are in the Rivalz series of training exercises. Use the one at right to know where you are in your progression and what you’re working toward. At right is how it appears from the “Challenges” item under the “Play” tab on the front page. At left is how the “Rivalz” series of exercises appears from the “Missions” tab on the front page. You may have to quit the Ultimate Team mode, go back to the main menu, and restart Ultimate Team to get to the page you want, unless and until this is addressed by a patch. Ultimate Team’s menu tabs can glitch on you, by appearing in sub-menus where the bumper buttons will not cycle through them, or disappearing from the main menu, which makes it impossible to get to your collection binder or the virtual store. Here are some tips for dealing with the problems we encountered. Madden NFL 21 Ultimate Team’s menus aren’t just slow loading, they’re very poorly designed, particularly for users who are not familiar with the mode. Image: EA Tiburon/Electronic Arts via Polygon Wrestling with menus If so, your only option is to back out to Madden NFL 21’s main menu and start it over. Sometimes menus can straight-up glitch on you, like this.
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If you complete every one on three-star difficulty, you should end up with about 15,000 MUT Coins, plus a slew of free, run-of-the-mill level players to give your team some structure, thanks to the Challenge’s tiered rewards. The Rivalz Challenges will, depending on how many difficulty stars you’re shooting for, take about an hour to wipe out in all. You can do this from the Team Tab of the main menu. Set him as your team’s starting quarterback to make Ultimate Team 101 and the Rivalz Challenges easier. At minimum, everyone gets a Superstar MVP pack that delivers cover star Lamar Jackson with an 80 rating. But consider picking Veteran (two stars) or All-Pro (three) for the easier or shorter tasks, as the number of stars you earn overall will unlock tiered rewards.įirst, though, make sure you open any packs of virtual cards that may have come with the game (if you bought one of Madden NFL 21’s special editions). All of them can be beaten, easily, at Rookie difficulty with the starting team of low-rated players. Ultimate Team 101 and the Rivalz set of Challenges are played at Madden NFL 21’s Arcade setting (the easiest of three) and at the game’s three lowest difficulties (Rookie to All-Pro). Just remember to put him in at quarterback, he makes the early tasks a lot easier. Everyone gets an 80-rated Lamar Jackson when they begin Ultimate Team. the CPU) series and otherwise found under the Play tab of the main menu. They’re part of the Challenges single-player (you vs. These are simple, one-off tasks introducing you to the game on and off the field. When you launch Ultimate Team for the first time, you’ll be taken to Ultimate Team 101. This first-things-first guide for Madden NFL 21 Ultimate Team will cover the best way to begin the mode, build up a good base of (free) currency, and then what to do with it.

It’s a great laboratory for testing out skills and strategies with a wide variety of players. You don’t have to spend a cent, or get beat up online by players who spend to win. If you’ve just picked up Madden NFL 21, consider starting your journey this year with Ultimate Team.
