EA accidentally makes FIFA Ultimate Team debug menu available to all on the FUT web app
EA accidentally made the FIFA Ultimate Team debug menu available to all on the FUT web app yesterday and in the process let players see their account settings in a way never publicly available before.
Though the tools were visible, players couldn’t use them to add content or make permanent changes to their own or anyone else’s accounts, EA has insisted.
However, at least one player was able to disable their own FUT transfer market access using these debug tools.
The video below, uploaded to reddit by user Lqurens, clearly shows how they were able to access the debug menu within the web app and block their own access to the transfer market.
Since EA decided to leave the Webapp in Teststage I decided to block my transfer access! from r/FIFA
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EA said this ability was “only temporary for that session within the web app”, and they were only able to do it to their own account.
However, it’s the long list of kill switches – and their associated values set for an account – that caught the attention of players. For example, players noticed a setting called “PackOddsLowPercentageLocalizationThreshold”. EA said this setting was previously used to determine the threshold for when the pack probabilities screen displays a value as <1%. The company insisted that while this setting is displayed in the debug menu, it is no longer used in the FUT web app.
Other eye-catching kill switches include “dreamSquadEnabled”. What is a dream squad? “enablePlayerTraits” suggests EA can turn off player traits for specific users. And “championsGlickoRatingMultiplier” suggests the Glicko rating system can be used for matchmaking in FUT Champions to varying degrees.
