EA Sports today made some updates to FIFA 11 Ultimate Team, providing football (soccer) fans two new features to extend the experience until FIFA 12 is released. The new features, Play-A-Friend Challenge and Friends Leaderboards, are available through a game update, which is available now for download. The Ultimate Team servers may be offline for a while depending on where you live.
The Play-A-Friend Challenge allows you to test your skills against your friends’ Ultimate Teams, even if they are offline. The CPU will control your friends’ teams and results are recorded and presented to your friends the next time they log on. The other addition, Friends Leaderboards, allows you to automatically compare your progress against friends in personalized leaderboards. There will be a new menu option within FIFA Ultimate Team. You can track which friend has the best squad, the number of coins earned, the number of trades undertaken, and the overall value of your club.
The update that is available to download will only impact Ultimate Team. The servers will be down for a while, according to the official FIFA 11 site, but should be back up by Thursday, Feb. 17.