In FIFA 20, fitness is broken in Ultimate Team. Right now, you can save a lot of coins. Players are demanding: “EA Sports, just leave it like this!”
What’s wrong with fitness? For years, “fitness” has been a key part of FUT fans’ daily routine. After each match, the fitness of the players on the active team decreases. This means that players with low fitness start the next match with less stamina and get tired quicker.
That’s why you should use fitness cards on players every few games, so they have full fitness and stamina for the next match.
However, in FIFA 20, you can save your fitness cards for now. Because fitness is broken, as many fans report on reddit.
This is the bug with fitness: Fitness still decreases on the player card, but the corresponding player starts the next match with full stamina anyway. No matter how low the fitness value drops, the stamina in the upcoming game is always at maximum.
This fitness issue, according to player reports, affects the most important FUT modes:
- Division Rivals, a purely online mode against other FUT players,
- and Squad Battles, a single-player mode against the AI
In friendly matches, however, the fitness value is said to actually affect stamina in the game. There is no “bug” here.
Fitness has been broken since the launch of FIFA 20 Ultimate Team
Since when has the bug been in the game? Since the beginning. In fact, reports began to surface earlier this week during Early Access on reddit that fitness was broken.
Since then, there has been a discussion about whether this is an intentional change or a bug. Additionally, there was speculation that the fitness value might no longer affect the stamina at the start of a match, but rather how quickly a player loses stamina during the match. But many players say: no, a player with 50 fitness loses stamina just as quickly as a player with maximum fitness. Currently, the consensus is that fitness in FIFA 20 Ultimate Team is simply broken.
When and how EA Sports will fix this bug is still unknown. But players say: “This can stay like this.”
Save coins with broken fitness
This is what the fans say: On reddit, players are exchanging tips that they should now save their fitness cards, especially the valuable team fitness cards.
Because if you have to buy fitness cards expensively on the transfer market, it costs time and many coins. Thus, fitness slows down fans’ team building because coins have to be spent on fitness instead of players.
This has been annoying some for a long time. Therefore, many users are currently writing on reddit:
- “I wish this were a new feature”
- “This is how it should actually be. Fitness should be replenished after each game. It’s just a waste of time to constantly have to care about fitness cards.”
- “It’s so good that you don’t have to care about player fitness. You can go straight into the next game.”
- “Honestly, they should get rid of fitness altogether.”
One user wrote a few hours ago that he knew that EA Sports would patch this soon. But he wishes that developers would come up with cooler things than fitness cards to include in packs. Things like player accessories or more customization options. Fitness is just annoying.
EA Sports recently addressed all the issues in Career Mode and released a list of bugs they are currently working on. The fitness in FUT is not mentioned there.
So in summary: Save your fitness cards in FIFA 20 Ultimate Team while fitness is broken. Who knows how long this will last.
