Like FIFA Mobile last year, Retro Stars program returned for Season 2! During the program, you will have the opportunity to get popular players from past events such as Carniball, TOTY, TOTS, Lunar, Freeze and so on. Of course, along with the improved new version of many of these amazing players.
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How The Event Works
You will have to play VSA matches using a squad with maximum of 90 OVR (I don’t know how long they will force us to use amateur squads and make our main squad more useless).
Win VSA matches (there’s no playing limit) to earn Throwback Points.
Win : 5 Throwback Points
Draw : 3 Throwback Points
Loss : 1 Throwback Point
Exchange your Throwback points for a Retro Pack (50 Throwback Points for a pack and max. 5 purchases every 3 days). This pack will award you Fame Points (25-200 Fame Points a pack, 25k Training XP and chance for a Program Point).
And lastly, exchange your Fame Points or Program Points (if you lucky enough to pulled it) for Retro Stars Offers. You need between 175-250 Fame Points (or 1 Program Point) to purchase a Retro Stars offer pack.
Here are the complete list of Retro Stars Offers :
- La Liga Rivalries (175 Fame Points)
- Freeze (150 Fame Points)
- Team of the Year (175 Fame Points)
- Carniball (175 Fame Points)
- End of Era (200 Fame Points)
- Lunar New Year (175 Fame Points)
- Easter (200 Fame Points)
- Team of the Season (250 Fame Points)
- Versus Attack (200 Fame Points)
This program also give you chances to acquire a featured Retro Star player every week. You can exchange 200-250 Fame Points for an 90+ Exclusive Retro Star player.
FIFA Mobile 18 Retro Stars Tips & Tricks
For me this event is meh, because you have to grind a lot in vsa based mode (and honestly I’m tired of being stuffed with vsa, it’s not even pvp mode).
In addition, this event also depends a lot on luck, one of which I (and most of hardcore f2p players) hate the most.
But if you are willing to grind this event, these are tips and tricks that I can give you. Let’s check it out.
1. Win and dominate the VSA matches with this trick
Use a combination of bronze and master players to create an OP squad. Put bronze players in less important positions, and Master players (90+ or even better 95+ OVR) in more important positions.
Make most of players out of position so that the OVR squad goes down. The VSA matchmaking at this event is based on OVR, so there is no need to be afraid of lowering your OVR.
For example, I use the 343D formation. I put bronze players in LM, RM, CDM, CB (left) and CB (right) positions. Then I put my master players in ST, LW, RW, CAM, CB (middle) and Goalkeeper positions.
These are the results of my vsa matches :
2. Choose Retro star offers that contains tradeable players.
The goal is clear, to sell the players to the market (if you are not pulled retro star players). Unless you have favourite players in this program and no problem with the luck factor from EA, this choice is what I recommended.
Retro Stars Offers that contains tradebale, non-retro players are TOTY, TOTS, Easter, Lunar and Carniball.
3. Don’t spend all of the Fame Points, save it for Featured Retro Star Player Offer.
Every Friday, you can exchange 200-250 Fame Points for a Featured Retro Star Player Offer. These exclusive players are not yet in the game but for your information, they are Robert Lewandowski (RF 97 OVR), Paul Pogba (CM 97 OVR) and Thiago Silva (CB 97 OVR).
This is an upgraded version of their Campaign Mode cards. Paul Pogba from the England Campaign, Lewandowski from the German Campaign and Thiago Silva from the French Campaign.
So for 200-250 Fame Points, you can get 90+ OVR cards of Pogba, Lewa and Silva (their Campaign & Retro cards as well as maybe their other 90+ OVR cards).
For me, this is the best deals because at worst, I still get 90 OVR cards for rank up purpose.
False advertising from EA. The image show a 90+ OVR player but they included their base version as well (below 90 OVR).
FIFA Mobile 18 Retro Stars Players List
| Name | Pos. | OVR | Skill Boost | Club | League | Nation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaká | CAM | 99 | Captain | Orlando City Soccer Club | Major League Soccer | Brazil |
| Alessandro Florenzi | RB | 99 | Captain | Roma | Calcio A | Italy |
| Isco | CM | 99 | Ball Control | Real Madrid | LaLiga Santander | Spain |
| Mohamed Salah | RW | 99 | Second Striker | Liverpool | Premier League | Egypt |
| Antoine Griezmann | ST | 99 | Shot Power | Atlético Madrid | LaLiga Santander | France |
| Memphis Depay | LW | 99 | Dribbling | Olympique Lyonnais | Ligue 1 Conforama | Netherlands |
| Paulo Dybala | CAM | 99 | Second Striker | Juventus | Calcio A | Argentina |
| Samir Handanović | GK | 99 | GK Diving | Inter | Calcio A | Slovenia |
| Gareth Bale | RM | 98 | Speed | Real Madrid | LaLiga Santander | Wales |
| Lionel Messi | ST | 98 | Second Striker | FC Barcelona | LaLiga Santander | Argentina |
| Luka Modrić | CM | 98 | Ball Control | Real Madrid | LaLiga Santander | Croatia |
| De Gea | GK | 98 | GK Diving | Manchester United | Premier League | Spain |
| Pedro | LM | 98 | Counter | Chelsea | Premier League | Spain |
| Andrea Pirlo | CDM | 98 | Captain | New York City FC | Major League Soccer | Italy |
| Corentin Tolisso | CM | 98 | Captain | FC Bayern München | Bundesliga | France |
| Leon Goretzka | CAM | 98 | Shot Power | FC Schalke 04 | Bundesliga | Germany |
| Samu Castillejo | RM | 98 | Counter | Villarreal CF | LaLiga Santander | Spain |
| Gerónimo Rulli | GK | 98 | GK Diving | Real Sociedad | LaLiga Santander | Argentina |
| Jeroen Zoet | GK | 98 | GK Diving | PSV | Eredivisie | Netherlands |
| Davinson Sánchez | CB | 97 | Composed | Tottenham Hotspur | Premier League | Colombia |
| Harry Kane | ST | 97 | Shot Power | Tottenham Hotspur | Premier League | England |
| Dani Alves | RB | 97 | Pace | Paris Saint-Germain | Ligue 1 Conforama | Brazil |
| Jean-Kévin Augustin | ST | 97 | Agility | RB Leipzig | Bundesliga | France |
| Paul Pogba | CM | 97 | Ball Control | Manchester United | Premier League | France |
| Robert Lewandowski | RF | 97 | Finishing | FC Bayern München | Bundesliga | Poland |
| Thiago Silva | CB | 97 | Tackling | Paris Saint-Germain | Ligue 1 Conforama | Brazil |
| Piqué | CB | 97 | Composed | FC Barcelona | LaLiga Santander | Spain |
| Joshua Kimmich | RB | 97 | Composed | FC Bayern München | Bundesliga | Germany |
| Layvin Kurzawa | LB | 97 | Generalist | Paris Saint-Germain | Ligue 1 Conforama | France |
| Erik Lamela | RM | 97 | Counter | Tottenham Hotspur | Premier League | Argentina |
| Diego Godín | CB | 96 | Tackling | Atlético Madrid | LaLiga Santander | Uruguay |
| Mario Gaspar | RB | 96 | Balanced | Villarreal CF | LaLiga Santander | Spain |
| Paulinho | CM | 96 | Counter | FC Barcelona | LaLiga Santander | Brazil |
| Romain Alessandrini | RM | 96 | Counter | LA Galaxy | Major League Soccer | France |
| Fernando Torres | ST | 96 | Second Striker | Atlético Madrid | LaLiga Santander | Spain |
| Alessio Romagnoli | CB | 96 | Tackling | Milan | Calcio A | Italy |
| Maximilian Philipp | LW | 96 | Second Striker | Borussia Dortmund | Bundesliga | Germany |
| Paulinho | ST | 96 | Shot Power | SC Braga | Liga NOS | Portugal |
Nice analysis of the event. Agree with you on the endless vsa grinding and the large role of luck in getting 90+ pulls.
However this is still a good event to try and get sought after cards like Messi, Bale, Kane, etc. How did you know weekly featured stars will be these three?
Because it’s already on Futhead and Fifarenderz site
Yeah, this is still a good event especially for those who don’t play this game from the start of the season and don’t get the chance to get the popular players from previous events.
Trying to figure out what CAM would qualify for the SBC exchange. Got a CAM from EOE column but it won’t exchange. Who works there?
It doesn’t have to be a CAM position, any position can be accepted as long as it’s a retro player card (Paulo Dybala CAM 99, Samir Handanović GK 99, Gareth Bale RM 98, Lionel Messi ST 98, Pogba CM 97 on so on).
This SBC it’s not worth it because you have to sacrifice a 96+ OVR player (very useful for rank up) for 500 fame points. Then, those fame points doesn’t guarantee you to get another retro players (96+ OVR).
I have got bale but after that all worst players in this event only one you will get a retro star but after that nothing
I think it’s good. I haven’t even got a single retro player
I think they should lower down the price to buy a master retro star player for 150 throwback points. I think 100 throwback points should be good and maybe we could buy it for 3 times.
For me, that’s 150 throwback points for a master retro is the only one good offer from this event (and they came in the middle of the event, I doubt EA planned this from the beginning). I will no complaint even if it’s require 200, 250 or 300 throwback points because at least, we got “guarantee” master offer, not BS “chances”.
how many hours the master retro player will expire? I accidentlly spent my 280 points (spending 200) for my TOTS and it was the worst decision ever…this retro event will expire this 26 and I am planning to save throwback points for the retro master player of the week but i wanna ask how many hours or days is the duration of the weekly player??
i got kurzawa as a retro player thanks for this event ea sports