EA are investigating a notorious FIFA Ultimate Team glitch

FIFA Ultimate Team players, one of the games most notorious glitches may be finally getting sorted.

For years dedicated FUT players have complained that the game's "Team Chemistry" mechanic doesn't work as advertised. The system - which is meant to give players a stat boost if they are playing in their favoured position, or next to team/country/league mates - doesn't appear to work on some of the higher rated (read: expensive to buy) cards in the game. Redditors have been hard at work developing this thread that investigates the great FUT Chemistry glitch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK83PEi4I14 It appears the problems get worse when you factor in players are playing or trading for higher rated players after they go through a good run of form. For example, if you stumped up for a blue (inform) Dele Alli last season, while he may have better baseline stats than his regular Alli card, his skill ceiling would have turned out lower due to him not getting the correct Chemistry boost. It's an infuriating glitch for long standing Ultimate Team players, but one that could be on its way to being fixed. EA Community manager Rob Hodson made the following announcement on the official FIFA forum in response to the new development.

Thanks to the FUT community for raising awareness of a potential fitness and chemistry inconsistency in some FUT items. After hearing this, our teams were in over the weekend and continue to thoroughly investigate the information. We will keep you informed with updates from the investigation. Our commitment to a fun, fair and secure experience in FIFA is ongoing, and as a community your feedback helps us achieve that goal. A special thanks for your continuous efforts across all channels.

So that's one more FIFA problem potentially solved. Now if the folk could take a look at our JOE reader wishlist for FIFA 17, that'd be grand too. FIFA 17 is out on September 27.