If you're new to the channel, I am Gold Pony, I do new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today, we're in the brand new 2023 Volkswagen TALS courtesy of Fultner Volkswagen and Mechanics Merc PA for more information on their inventory. Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. And so today we're in this one because you get the four year, 50,000 mile bumper to bumper warranty. It's gonna be the same for the powertrain, but that's better than the typical three year, 36,000 mile warranty. They usually find the most other manufacturers. And this is a relatively affordable SUV by Volkswagen. So that is pretty cool as well. So ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering full ride quality, sound system exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. And so as you can imagine, there are a few different trim levels for the 2023 TALS. As trim levels gonna start at $24,155 SE for $28,925. And lastly, the SEL being the one we have today, starting at $34,535. But that was actually all pricing for the front wheel drive configuration. If you wanted to go all wheel drive, you can do that simply add $2,340 then to any of those prices. But I will say regardless of trim level that you go with, power plant on this one is going to be the same. Powering the TALS is a 1.5 liter turbo charged inline four cylinder, putting out 158 horsepower at 5,500 RPM, 184 pound feet of torque coming in at right around 1,700 RPM. Power sent to front wheels or all wheels through either an eight speed automatic for the front wheel drive variant or a seven speed dual clutch for the all wheel drive. So that is a pretty substantial difference there. And we actually have that dual clutch with us here today. So I'll let you know how that turns out. Zero to 60 time approximately 8.5 seconds with MPG numbers coming in at 28 in the city, 36 highway for the front wheel drive, 25 in the city, 32 then on the highway for the all wheel drive taking regular unleaded fuel. And so before we do any kind of fun acceleration test here in the TALS, I wanted to mention to you guys the drive modes. There's actually a circular dial located directly behind the shifter. There's going to be off road drive modes and on road drive modes. And typically Volkswagen will do this in some of their other SUVs as well.  And so essentially I'm going to press it in right now and just put it in sport and it wants to take off on me but eco normal sport and custom will be the on road drive modes at least. And that's going to adjust things like the shift points the throttle response and actually steering sensitivity got a little bit weightier as well. So that is pretty cool. So now having got all of that out of the way what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway. Let's put the TALS here to the test and let's see how quickly we can get our new 2023 Volkswagen TALS here up to speed. All right, sport driving man. There we go. Three, two, one, go baby. Oh, a little bit of turbo lag there at the beginning. Oh, you can tell it's a dual clutch. It definitely throws you when it shifts gears. So that is pretty darn cool. Honestly, I like the dual clutch. Let me first start by saying that. Secondly, not the quickest thing in the world. You can definitely tell, I don't know. It's just not the quickest thing in the world. I'll just leave it at that. But you shouldn't have any issues emerging out to the highway, but wouldn't have minded if this thing came just a little bit more power. But anyways, to go along with that acceleration, as always, braking is equally important.  As far as that's six easier stopping distance goes, they're just going to come in at 129 feet, which quite honestly is a little bit on the higher side. But having said that, I don't mind the braking. It's actually a quite nice braking feel here in the Volkswagen TALS. It's definitely not going to have any issues with the braking feel, but the number's not the best. And that's according to Motor Showing, by the way. So then touching on suspension and handling, upfront, you're going to get to make fierce and strut front suspension. In the back, independent multi-link rear suspension for the all-wheel drive, but then torsion beam rear axle for the front-wheel drive. So suspension setup is going to differ pretty substantially. Dependent upon if you go with front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, if you want a better ride quality, if you want a better handling, definitely go with the all-wheel drive configuration because that is the setup that is quick to give you that, but front and rear stabilizer bars will also come standard as far as ride quality goes. It's actually been perfectly fine. I've had absolutely no issues in my short test drive here today. Steering feel does adjust substantially, dependent upon the drive mode that you put it in. So I'll just leave it at that. If you want a heavier steering feel, put it in that sport mode. If you want kind of a looser steering feel, go with maybe an eco or a normal driving mode. So it does adjust pretty substantially. And there is that custom mode where you can put it in a heavier steering feel. If you wanted to, but not necessarily that crazy acceleration that you would get all the time. So that's going to be there for you as well. As far as cabin noise goes, we're going 42 miles per hour right now. Little bit of road noise, absolutely no wind noise whatsoever. So a very serene cabin. So 100% on point there. Touching of visibility, smaller SUVs you typically will not have any issues. And that is definitely the case with the Taos. I can see 100% perfectly fine out the back. So I am absolutely loving that. And on top of that, rain sensing windshield wipers will come on the SE trim level end up, which actually is new for the 2023 Taos because previously it just came on the SE L trim level. So the fact that it's now on the SE trim level and up, that's pretty dark coal. I like that. And there's plenty of new little updates for 2023 as well. I'll be touching on them throughout the video. But that pretty much rounds out the performance segment of this review guys. So now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2023 Volkswagen Taos. All right. So here she is. You guys see new 2023 Volkswagen Taos finished in deep black pearl. In case you were curious of our exact exterior color name, but this one I'm going to show you guys the window sticker here real quick. It is a 2023. And you can tell by the VIN number, starting with a three. This one is made in Mexico because all vehicles are made somewhere different even if it's the same manufacturer. So always want to mention that from now on, but let's go ahead and start up front on this one. LED headlights will come standard on every single trim level across the board. Automatic feature coming with that as well, meaning when it starts to get dark in a night, headlights will turn on automatically for you there. LED daytime running lights also coming standard, but I did want to go back to the headlights for a second here. The headlight type is going to differ amongst the trim level. So reflector style coming with the S and SE trims, but the SEL that we have today, we're actually going to get LED projector headlights. So it's going to give you a little better illumination there at night projecting the headlights out a little bit further. So that is definitely pretty cool. Adaptive front lighting system also coming with the SEL trim level. Essentially what that is is when you're going around a bend at night, those headlights are going to swivel based on the direction of your steering angle, better help illuminating what is around that bend. So that is a safety feature in itself. So you don't end up hitting any deer or any cyclist or anything like that. Front air currents, you can find them down to the sides there helping direct air around the wheel and tire combination. And one of the coolest parts about the SEL trim level, you get that LED backlit horizontal illumination on the grill. So I'm going to kind of get up closer so you guys know what I'm talking about. But the center bar right here, going through the Volkswagen emblem, that is going to be illuminated at night. Well, at least it's going to look a lot better at night. It'll be illuminated during the day if you turn the headlights on, but still that is pretty darn cool. But anyways, that pretty much rounds out the front end of the towels here. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. All right. And so now since you are around to the side of this one, every single trim level will get roof rails. The S trim is going to get black roof rails. SE and SEL are going to get silver roof rails then. Brew privacy glass is going to come in the SE and SEL as well, silver belt line molding coming with the SE and SEL. You do have some towels lettering found on the front fenders there. That's going to come for every single trim level across the board. I think that's pretty cool. Matte black side skirts also for all trim levels across the board. But I will say, it looks pretty darn good on our black exterior.  Take a look at the side mirrors. They are body colored for the SE and SEL trims, but they will come in black for the S trim level. So do want to mention that. And they will be heated actually for the SE and SEL trim levels then as well. Then take a look down at the wheel configuration, 17 inch alloys for that S trim level, 18 inch alloys for the SE, and lastly 19 inch alloys, the ones you were currently looking at right now for our SEL trim level. But that pretty much rounds out the side profile. Let's not go ahead and make our way to the back. All right, so now since we are around to the back of this one rear spoiler with an integrated brake light all the way to the top, rear window wiper just below that. LED tail lights are going to come standard on every single trim level across the board. That is definitely nice. Got the towel sledding spelled out horizontally towards the bottom portion of that lift gate there for motion badging. That is going to be what Volkswagen of course calls their all wheel drive system because every manufacturer gives it a name of course. You do have kind of that fake exhaust look with the chrome surrounds towards the bottom corners. They are not a huge fan of that because honestly there is a single exhaust outlet tucked away down below hidden. So having said that, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next as always here is that exhaust clip. All right, so now since we are around to the back of the towel. So when it comes to opening that rear tailgate it is a manual tailgate for all trim levels across the board there. Once opened up cargo capacity comes in at 28 cubic feet even if that was not enough space. Of course the rear seats do fold down. There is a 6040 split bumping that up to 66 cubic feet which quite honestly is a ton of space for its class. So well done Volkswagen there. Cargo lighting can be found back there.  Tie-down anchors also come standard. There is a 12-volt power outlet back there. I don't remember seeing that in last year's model. So that's pretty cool. And if you were to lift up underneath of that cargo floor you will find a spare tire down there as well. But then making our way up to the rear legroom that comes in at 37.9 inches. So for reference I mean even six feet tall. This is how much space I have back there. Rear center armrest with cup holders does come standard. There is some rear ventilation back there and there is a rear charging port available then as well. So then make your way up to the front seats manually adjustable cloth seating coming with the S trim level. Eight-way power driver seat with two-way power lumbar for the SE and SE L trims. Heated front seats for the SE and SE L trims yet again and leather seating coming with the SE L trim level. Overall though, seating was pretty darn comfy and so usually I knock power lumbar for only being two-way power lumbar because I prefer the four-way because my back's not the best but these seats, they're really comfortable. Actually, you don't need the four-way power lumbar in the house. These are pretty darn comfortable seats. So let me just say that. But now let's go ahead and take a look at the steering wheel it is in telescoping. It is leatherette wrapped for the SE and SE L. So that is what you guys are looking at and it would actually be heated as well for that SE L trim level. So I like that. Now let's go ahead and make our way to the startup. Let me start by showing you guys the key. You got your Volkswagen logo on the one side. Then when you flip it over lock unlock that button to pop the rear hatch and the times two button that is going to be a remote start coming standard on the SE and SE L trims. But it is all keyless entry with a push button start for all trim levels actually across the board. So all I'm going to do here is simply put my front of the brake and press that silver engine start button located just to the left of the shifter. And so once started up, Volkswagen digital cockpit coming for all trim levels but it will different size depending upon the trim level that you go with. You will get eight-inch digital gauges for the S and SE trims and then 10 and a quarter inch digital gauge cluster for the SE L that we have with us here today. But my favorite button is going to be the view button located on the right side of the steering wheel. That's going to completely change the look of those gauges up there. So that is what I like playing around with but pretty much everything could possibly one up there from how many miles you have left until you hit empty outside temperature, speed limit of any given road. I see that up there as well. That is pretty darn cool. And it would actually change color depending upon the drive mode that you put it in as well. So I just put it in sport driving mode. It's going to change to red, but if I put it back to eco or normal for that matter, it's going to change back to blue. So that is pretty darn cool. I always love digital gauges and Volkswagen did the digital gauges pretty darn good here in the Tows. But now let's go ahead and make our way to overall interior quality. Panoramic sunroof now standard on the SE L trim level. Previously that was optional on the SE L but it's now standard. So another change for 2023 there. Audit Deming Review Mirror for the SE L and climate control for the SE L ambient lighting for the SE L trim level. SE L really gives you quite a bit but wireless phone chargers just in front of the shifter for the SE trim level and the SE L of course. Previously I was just on the SE L by the way for last year, but now it's also on the SE. So SE actually it's gotten good bit of upgrades for 2023 I'll put it that way. Overall I do like the gray and the black contrast that we have here today like the contrast stitching as well. Just in front of the shifter again, you got that rubberized wireless phone charger. You got 12 volt power outlet up there. Couple phone charging ports. There's an electromechanical parking brake just to the left of the shifter. Little bit of rubberized storage behind the shifter and dual cup holders of course and tiny bit of storage then within the center armrest as well. So overall interior quality is perfectly fine for me honestly don't see any issues here. I actually like it so big fan of that. But now let's go ahead and make our way to the tech. Couple different screens here as well. S trim level is gonna give you a 6.5 inch color touchscreen display but the SE and SEL are gonna give you an eight inch color touchscreen display. That's what you guys are looking at right now. Bluetooth and audio streaming of course Android Auto Apple CarPlay factory navigation system coming with the SEL trim level. You can check out your fuel information, your weather information up there and of course your radio information. And so when it comes to the sound systems there are two of them. You will get a six speaker sound system for the S and SE trims but in the SEL that we have today we actually have an eight speaker beat sound system. So that's exciting. Let's go ahead and turn on the radio see what we got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this one. That was a lot of bass for a Christian contemporary song. I love it. Sound system is really darn good. I love the bass like I said crystal clear beats. Well done. You did a good job with the TALS. I'll just say that. That was a good sound system. But anyways, last thing I wanna mention to you guys on the infotainment screen is when you do put the TALS in reverse you will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board letting you know what is completely behind you which is always is going to lead us into safety. So front side, side curtain airbags do come standard. In the back you're gonna have latch AKA they'll wear anchors and tethers to children for the rear car seats. Rear child door locks, tire pressure monitoring system but also coming standard blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert that usually doesn't come standard on base trim levels of other manufacturers. So wanna emphasize that for collision warning with autonomous emergency braking then as well which is very nice. SEL trim level however is going to add basically everything else including adaptive cruise control, road sign recognition that I mentioned on the gauges there, high beam control which is the automatic high beams when you have your high beams on night since the vehicle coming in the opposite direction is gonna dim it back to low beams and then jump them back up to high beams when that vehicle is gone. Rear parking sensors, pedestrian monitoring and lane keep assist then as well. So overall when it comes to my final thoughts here of the TALS, lots of space for its class. That's one of the areas where the TALS really shines. Digital gauges are wonderful. That's probably my personal favorite part because in its class you don't get digital gauges that come standard so that's pretty darn cool. I absolutely love that. They're very customizable. Very nice exterior design as well. Although the fake exhaust outlets in the back still bother me. They should just delete those chrome accents just to make it not as obvious that they're trying to hide that. It's not really exposed. But anyways, I love it. It's just one of my pet peeves. Another positive though that kinda surprised me that I wasn't expecting the seats are pretty darn comfortable. So that's a big thing for me. Like I said, so I love the seats and the beat sound system is definitely on point in this thing as well. But anyways, let me know what you guys think in the new TALS in the comments section below and that is about it for this one you guys. Thank you so much for watching. Feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen if you wanna see what's coming next on the channel. Be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're into new car reviews. That is what we do here on this channel after all. Do appreciate you guys watching more than you know and I will see you guys all in the next video. Stay Gold.


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Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Photo Count, and welcome back to the channel. The prices on the FIFA 23 market continue to drop as we are experiencing, basically, the first market crash of FIFA 23, and it's painful. I'm right there with you. I'm losing coins, players and teams, players that we've invested in. Basically, it seems like everything is going down right now on this market. It's very tough to make coins, and a lot of people are just losing loads at the moment. With the way the market is headed, I wanna explain in today's video why in the world the market is dropping so much, what has caused this over the past couple of days, prices dropping so far, and are we done? Is it gonna keep dropping into today on Thursday, which I think there's a bit of potential for some fluctuation today, some prices going up, maybe some going down with supply, but also how I think tomorrow and Friday with the rule breakers promo upcoming is gonna really be interesting for this market, depending on how expensive the rule breakers cards are, and of course, a lot of weekend league demand for team buying, team building, and all of that. We're gonna talk about a lot in today's video, so strap in, buckle in, and if you're enjoying the videos on the channel, hit the thumbs up and subscribe if you're new. Let's talk about the market, because I'm trying to make coins, but honestly what I'm doing most recently is losing more coins, then making more coins, only like half the flips here on the transfer list have been pretty profitable, and I feel like you guys know exactly that feeling. The market just feels really dead, and it just feels like it keeps dropping lower and lower and lower, and as I look at prices right now, heading into a Thursday, I'm seeing prices that were like, they're crazy to me. Look at Benzema, 91 rate of Benzema is 71,000 coins. Yesterday he started the day at 91K, he dropped down to about 78, and then of course, as we've gotten to these late night hours, he's down even further. With how much these player prices has dropped, it is absolutely a market crash.  Kevin De Bruyne's another one, who is like 160K, 168K to start the day on Wednesday, is now down under 140,000 coins. This is happening everywhere. It's your meta gold cards that are dropping. Of course, it's your out of packs, informs and stuff that are dropping too. You've got a team of league Marquinhos at 193. Modich, who was above 100, is now 85. Akanji is down, and especially, you're looking at the road to the knockout cards that are absolutely getting obliterated in price. This is for me, where I've lost the most coins. Phil Foden, Val Verde, Abameyang, either trading with these guys, or I mean, some people try to, you know, investing in these players, hoping for a rise after their team won, but with these roads to the knockouts, they're just getting supplied so much through the good packs that we have had recently, like UEFA Marquis matchups, and I think they've really been invested in so much too that it's making their prices absolutely die off. And of course, the real life aspect of these roads to the knockouts is being put into play too, right? You've got Raphinha who's all over the place yesterday, but since Barca tied with Inter is now down to 190,000 coins, he was actually about 170 and started to slide back up a bit. Lamar was over 100, he went down to like 70K, where he is now, Abameyang continues to drop. Molar was 50K, he's now 38,000 coins. Messi's only a million, right? So many price drop-offs on these cards. Again, what I really think is causing all of this is what I've mentioned. Number one, the supply. The UEFA Marquis matchups packs is a big factor and especially for the road to the knockout prices dropping off, so many people were packing cards and some were good things, like really good cards from the UEFA Marquis matchups to SBC because the pack weight was really good. This is what really kicked off the start of the market crash this week. On Tuesday was the really good packs that you got from here and how cheap the SBC was. Now a lot of people on Tuesday myself included invested in some road to the knockouts for the quick flip, right? Paqueta was like 170,000 coins or something like that. I mean, now he's like 120K. This guy, he was under 120K a little bit ago, so maybe slightly rising up into the morning already today on Thursday, but I think it's number one, the supply, right? These cards keep getting packed, they keep getting packed and of course people eventually upgraded from some of these gold cards, even some of the most meta gold cards that people love to use, like an Usman Dembele, right? 83 rated card, he's dropped from like 90K to 65,000 coins in the past two or three days. A price like this doesn't just drop because of people moving on and choosing a different card, which there have been a lot of great content. Brigade SBCs released recently and I think that's part of why the market is going down, but it's the supply too. So the supply on these cards is starting to come in and overtake the demand for some of them. And like I said, with the content, the content's been really, really good recently as well. Think about all the SBCs you maybe have completed, whether it's the 80 plus upgrade packs that drains coins off the market, whether it's the Danjuma, the Benatur SBC, the Rahim Sterling ones to watch, right? There's been so many good value player SBCs that people have been working towards and grinding to get done and to add to their teams. There's just been a lot more content that people can put in their teams that is untradable and because of that, they maybe go and sell a card from their team when they go and get one of these SBCs done. Yesterday, of course, we had the Savio SBC. This could technically be impacting Usman Dabili's price a little bit, even though this card does not look that fantastic and it's pretty cheap, but I mean, he needs upgrades if he's gonna be pretty good. So that's kind of the point there is we've had a lot of great untradable content, we have a lot of supply from packs coming in and when people start to see prices drop as much as they have been dropping and people start to lose coins, like myself and I know a ton of people have been losing coins on this Phil Foden card, which I still believe is very undervalued. With the value this card is gonna be in the future, I think, with the potential upgrades that he can get. I do believe that a lot of these live cards are a bit undervalued, but I don't wanna buy them yet because the market still sees them as cards that are getting packed and supplied and people just panic sold so many of these cards and that's what's really pushing the market down on another level is the panic selling. People see prices drop, they go and they sell and they sell because they don't wanna be caught up and seeing the prices go down and oh my goodness, the prices could go down even further and that's where you see, oh my gosh, Neymar's 420K, that's literally down like 100,000 coins from where he was on Tuesday. He was like 514K, wow, that's a crazy drop on Neymar in a very short time span. All right, you know, I gotta be honest, right? There's a lot of panic selling here, there's a lot of supply, but this is not like in a crazy market crash scenario where it's not like we had a base icon upgrade pack or a hero pack that was added to SBCs that's draining tons and tons and tons of coins. Right now, the market's still in a decently healthy state. It's not like we have Black Friday on the horizon or anything like that either. I think a lot of these really high tier meta cards do have potential to bounce back this weekend a little bit. Again, I'm not saying that Neymar right now at 428K is gonna be back to 500,000 coins on Friday night when you have a lot of buyback. I'm just saying that like some of these cards that have dropped off incredible, incredible amounts. Like Neymar down from 500K to the low 400s, I could very well see this card being like 460, 450, 460 again on Friday night. That sort of thing is what I can see with the high tier meta part of this market. The lower tier cards I'd be a lot more careful with but especially some of your auto-pack special cards too, I think what we're gonna see over the next couple of days, especially on today, on Thursday is, I think you're gonna see a little bit of a slight rise on the market on your meta cards because some of them have just dropped too much as people have gotten sucked in to just the whole panic of a panic sell and of the market dropping off and them not wanting to get stuck with cards and them losing coins.   But it's kind of part of the game cycle and that's how EA structures this game. EA structure this game for you and me to lose coins over the course of the year because new cards come out, they start expensive and as more and more new cards come out, those drop off because people move on to the new, the next best great thing that EA releases in the game. And yes, we have a new promo coming with rule breakers this weekend as well which could be another small aspect of why the market is dropping but I really do believe that it's a combination of the pack supply, the panic selling and just the great untradable content that we have had recently is the reasons why this market is continuing to get pushed lower. And it's making it incredibly hard to make coins from the normal ways that we have been making coins in the past couple of days just because everything just seems to go lower on the market. Now let's talk today on Thursday, a little bit of a market outlook for today. What's gonna happen, right? I do believe, like we talked about with that Neymar, some of your high tier meta cards, these guys, I mean, Thursdays aren't really big days with rival's rewards that like push the market up. I mean, Neymar right now is 430K, a pretty rare card like this. How many pages to 460,000 coins? We don't have that many cards, like four and a half pages all the way back up to 460. Of course he might get packed a little bit at rewards today but I think that some of your higher tier meta cards, higher rated that are gonna get packed a lot less and people are gonna see how cheap these guys are and they're gonna be like, man, I can go buy Benzema for 70K for my team. Heck yeah, I'm gonna go try Benzema today, play my weak and the qualifiers or play rivals games, whatever it is, there's still a lot of gameplay to man. People are playing this game to get rewards. I think you could see a couple of these meta cards go up but I also think that that might be a short lived rise because as people maybe go on and buy a few cards for their team today, after people most often do when there's a reward set released in the game, I also think you're gonna have some supply today on Wednesday, so kind of a normal Thursday. I do think you might see a bigger rise today than you have in the past couple of weeks on Thursdays just because there's gonna be so much sell off and people are gonna see these prices and they're gonna be like, man, these prices are dirt cheap, I'm gonna get involved and potentially have an opportunity to make some coins and buy some cards for my team that are just maybe a little bit too cheap right now from all the panic selling and stuff that's been going on. So that's what I would have to say and that's how I would feel about the market for today on Thursdays. I think you might see a slight rise after rewards. Also like, you know, watch these team week cards. I'm looking at Timorium, I'm looking at Cancelo. I just flipped the Cancelo from like 210 to 227, 230, right? That's the kind of profits we're having to make. It's not big, it's not pretty, just quick flips on rare cards. That's the best advice I can give you is watch the out of packs cards for today as well because those will give you some of the best profits and some of the most safest cards when a lot of stuff that is in packs is getting supplied and panic sold at the same time. The out of pack stuff usually drops a little bit less and when you have those drops, you have a bigger potential for the rarity of that card to kick in and have a little bit of a flipping opportunity and making some coins off of that as well. But definitely watch your brand new team elite cards as they get packed today from Rival's Rewards. 253 for that Timorium, he's getting pretty rare and you know, like right now, trading with these cards is a rare. You see how many Timorium we have here, like 270? Like I am really tempted to flip that to Mori. You know what, I'm gonna do it, man. Let's go, 253, it's late night. I think that in the next two hours I can get like 280 for that, seriously. He already went from 250 to 300K one time and yeah, we're gonna get there easy. So I'm gonna give that quick flip a try because that's where I see potential to make flips right now in this market is with those rare cards. So watch those informs today. There's a lot of really popular informs from the team of the week that will get supplied today and probably have some bounce backs. Watch the Korea card, there's so much hype for him. Martinelli, Pedri, Cancelo, Timori, Frimpong and Korea. Those are the guys that watch the most. I'm not saying this team of the week is insane. I'm just saying this team of the week has affordable meta cards people kind of wanna put in their team. So that's kind of the outlook for today. Maybe a slight rise after rewards and then of course a little bit of panic selling before 6 p.m., marquee matchups content but then after 6 p.m. today, I feel like your team of the week cards are gonna drop for sure. Your road to the knockout cards are probably gonna drop as well because again, marquee matchup supply is something that you really don't wanna mess with and you don't wanna try to test because a lot of times marquee matchups as we've seen in the past couple of weeks does drop the market pretty considerably. So I'd watch out with these road to knockout cards. Again, we're gonna be getting more leaks today about rule breakers. So just be of course watching for those. That could impact the market a little bit if we have some more insane cards that are leaked. But what I think you're really gonna see again is a really low point on the market Thursday night into Friday morning for a lot of meta cards. Remember the last two weeks once again is we saw low prices Thursday night and Friday and then after content on Friday, cards just explode. As people go back out to the market, they buy cards to their teams and you just see a really, really big market explosion. I think we're set up for something like that again this week for a lot of cards on this game. Oh my goodness, Raphael, he out was 81,000 coins. No freaking way, like look at this guy. He's now out of packs, he was 100K and now he's 81K. Pretty big price drop off there for an out of packs informed card that's very popular. Sadio Mane is 130K. Like part of just with this market crash is just reveling at the crazy prices that have dropped off so much in the past day or two. So my best advice to you would be just be careful. Be careful flipping cards right now and I need to heed some of this advice myself. I bought a Forlan yesterday at 300,000 coins because I thought it was a great deal and granted he was 360, he went down to 300, went back up to 320, I didn't sell, I was trying to get 330, I was being too greedy. And he kept going back down, there's been continuous panic selling here. Why could the market not go up a lot today? I wanna ask and answer that question really quick is I just don't think there's enough demand today to really pick the market up enough to make things really explode today on Thursday. I think it'd be a slight rise and then after that I do think you would see some more panic selling and some more price drops. But then again, once we get towards Friday, it's gonna be a very interesting Friday on the market with everything going on with the Rule Breakers Promo. And that's actually what I wanna talk about next. Really quick is the Rule Breakers Promo because we have the loading screen and maybe some of this panic like we talked about is due to the fact that the Rule Breakers Promo looks pretty solid.  There could be some more potential panic even after a content drop. And that would of course, you know, it's good to wait and good to kind of be reactionary in that sense to what happens on Friday promo content drops. So let's talk about today on Thursday content wise what we could see and all that we know about Rule Breakers. So Rule Breakers of course is game changing attribute upgrades that transform their style of play, right? You guys remember back in FIFA 22 we had the Holland that they decreased the shooting a little bit and they boosted his passing made him one of the best midfielders in the game. They gave Casemiro a extra pace boost. Rutiger, I think they basically, I think they upgraded his pace and then downgraded his dribbling or they upgraded his physical and downgraded his dribbling. One of the two Suarez with a bunch of a pace boost there. The Davies card who went down on the pace but they boosted his shooting. Kulusevski with a really nice pace boost on his card. Tegatito Corona was probably the most popular rule breaker card last year at a team one. Absolutely mental card. So we do have some leaks about cards that are dropping this weekend. Pique, which of course you would hope to get a pace boost. I don't know if these stats are actually legit and confirmed or if they're predictions but one of the most interesting things that we found with this Zaha card with this leak right here is Zaha and his base gold card is able to be an explosive accelerate type with the right chem style. Think like if you put a finisher on him or an artist, he goes to explosive. This card right here with these stats if they downgrade the dribbling and upgrade the physical this Zaha card could potentially be lengthy. Imagine a card that was once explosive in game now because this rule breakers promo with a strength boost and maybe a downgrade on the dribbling becoming lengthy. That's pretty crazy. And that's where I think that this new accelerate and all this new stuff in the game could be very interesting for brand new promo cards and EA know what they're doing with this stuff. They know they can create height by doing a promo like this and making cards that used to be lengthy maybe explosive or vice versa, making a card that was explosive now lengthy. And I think that's what this Zaha card is exactly gonna be, especially after seeing this leak. So PK, Fakir, Zaha and Christiane Ronaldo are the big names that we have right now. Those are all the rule breaker names that we have. Of course, this is the actual confirmed card design. I think it's pretty, I think I like it. It's just, it's actually a lot different from other card designs we've had and I'm a fan of that. So GG's EA Sports for this card design and the graphics work that was done there. So yeah, rule breakers is always a nice promo. It really is. And, you know, last year we had some really good SBCs as a part of this as well. The Klosterman card was really nice. It was a two week promo. There's some rumors that this year it's gonna be two weeks as well. So we're just gonna have to see what leaks we get today on Thursday. I would imagine that a loading screen with updated players on it would absolutely be a part of the content today on Thursday. So watch out for that. Also today on Thursday, we mentioned the Marquis matchups. We could have some more squad foundations and objectives which personally, I think, this is really nice. And this actually could aid in why the markets continuing to drop right now is these are solid players. Windall's card in here is really solid. Giratruida is really solid. You know, these guys aren't gonna, you know, be the most meta cards in the world but especially if you don't wanna, you know, lose coins in your team, you can right now go make a really solid Air DeVizzee squad by playing 10 matches, 20 matches or whatever, getting all of these cards completed, putting these guys into your team, at least a pretty solid hybrid with maybe some untradables that you have. These guys are all gonna link up very nicely to get you a good chemistry because they're like all Dutch and all into Air DeVizzee, especially the guys that are in the squad foundations. Then you can add Gacpo, you had the SBC for the Brazilian right wing, Savio yesterday, so yeah, they're not gonna be the most meta but there's still some pretty cool cards that you can get for basically free, if you will. So that's a big W of what's going on right now with the content but that also could aid in the market crash a little bit. Last thing I wanna talk about is SBC Fodder and I don't like that I always save SBC Fodder conversations for the end of the video but especially with like the SBC that we had last year at the beginning of Rule Breakers, that player pick and Kunku, Fodder is down and I like it. I like Fodder a lot and you know me, we've seen these prices move a lot on the higher tier and the Fodder the most. Rubent Diaz on Tuesday was 23K, dropped down to 21 yesterday even again from 22 down to 19K. Today with rivals rewards and marquee matchups is going to present a great opportunity to snag Fodder. I like 84s, I like 87s, 88s. Those are the cards that I like the most because as you've noticed in these SBCs that EA released, a lot of times they're either doing an 86 plus requirement or an 88 plus requirement. And you would imagine that the player SBC that would drop tomorrow on Friday would be a little bit more expensive, you know, probably somewhere around like this 75 to 150K range-ish, right? I think that the Kudusepski that we had last week was seen as an underwhelming value SBC but it had some of those higher tier squad requirements inside of it. I think that the 88s, especially if you take more of a meta approach to it, this Bernardo Silva is an absolutely very usable card still. This guy was 43K a week ago and now he's 22,000 coins. This is the type of fodder card that you could absolutely sink some coins into. Get some on bid today on Thursday. I think it's a great shout. Do a little bit of a club stock. It's the time of the year to start thinking about SBC fodder very, very seriously because you guys know we've had a hero pack and an icon pack added to the code and last year during rule breakers was the first time that we had the hero upgrade SBC. Yes, it is true. It is factual. That was the first time we had the hero upgrade and we saw prices move a lot on the market. Fodder went crazy, crazy high and of course, as you would expect, a lot of prices of meta cards went down. So that's just something I put out there is start looking at fodder and take it seriously as Timore continues to rise. Where did I get mine at, 253? Oh yeah, chilling. We'll get 280 before we go to sleep and be happy with that. So I know we're losing coins right now. I know a lot of you guys have lost coins but I'm here to tell you that it's gonna bounce back, right? There's going to be brighter days ahead. That's how it always is with these market crashes.  But hey, it's only temporary. These cards will rise back up. We will have plenty more opportunities to make coins and to recoup these losses that we have had as soon as tomorrow and even today. So keep your spirits up, keep those positive thoughts and it's still gonna be a good day on FIFA today, on a Thursday. I'm really curious to see if they tease some more players on the loading screen and what leaks we have because we're definitely gonna get some more rule breakers leaks today on Thursday. Watch out for these live cards like OdaGuard and Wonby Saka because like we've seen, last thing I'll mention here, with the road to the knockouts, even if a player and their team wins, right? Like Zambal and Guisa, Napoli won yesterday, right? They killed it, GGs to them. His card still went down post game. Muller, Bayern Munich won. His card still went down post game because so many people had invested before the game and so many people try to buy the card and trade during the game. They expect the price to go up after the game but that literally never happens with these cards. So even if Arsenal win today, if OdaGuard were to rise into the pregame hype, I would sell the card or if Arsenal score a goal and he goes up, sell the card, don't hold until after the game. Same thing with Wonby Saka as well. I'd be very, very careful not to hold on these cards for too long just because they dropped. Same thing with Paqueta as well. I mean Paqueta, OdaGuard and Wonby Saka are kind of the only cards today that have basically more value than discard on the market if we're being honest with a lot of these other guys being like less than 15K except for Jerob Renault. So just watch those guys today just like the same thing with Bremer and Rafinha and Thomas Lamar. These guys, not all their teams won but for the guys that had teams that won their prices still dropped off. So just be very careful with that. Road to the Knockouts are some of the most fun cards in this game, but they're also the most risky cards and they lose people. I tweeted this yesterday. I think that Road to the Knockouts caused the biggest loss of coins out of any card type or road to the finals caused the biggest loss of coins throughout the entire year of FIFA more than any other card type in this game. So as the servers are being slow I'm gonna take that as my sign to log off and be done with the video. But if you enjoyed today's video smash them up on a comment down below if you have any questions tell me how your market experiences have been and I know that we're losing some coins but we're gonna make it back just as I said and if you wanna do that hit the subscribe button on the channel as well. I'll see you guys today on the Twitch stream. It's been Nate the Boat Account and I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.


Meantime, the President will on Sunday depart Abuja for the United States to attend the 78th United Nations General Assembly, which will take place from September 18 to 26 in New York City. On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly 2023, the President will be having an investment at the front and center of his conversations or his counterparts around the world in order to continue advancing very aggressively on his economic development and diplomatic drive to attract foreign direct investment into the country, as he did at the just concluded G20 summit in India. President or brief in-state House correspondent, the special advisor on media and publicity, Adjuri Inglali, said President Tinibu will actively participate in two major summits at the UN, aside from the general debate of the Assembly. On Sunday, His Excellency President Bola Med Tinibu will be departing Abuja for New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly of 2023. Of course, aside from the engagements he's going to be having at the General Assembly, aside from the active participation that the Nigerian delegation will be engaging in at the Assembly, there are a series of very important side activities that will have wide-ranging ramifications on the Nigerian economy. The President, again, focusing in on his economic development diplomacy, will be having investment at the front and center of his conversations with his counterparts around the world. These engagements include bilateral meetings on the sidelines with the President of the United States, with the President of Komoros, with the President of South Africa, with the President of the European Union Commission, with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, with the King of Jordan, with the Algerian President, with the Brazilian President, and with the Spanish Prime Minister. The President will also meet with major chief executives and leaders of multinational firms cutting across multiple sectors of the economy as part of a series of very important side activities that will have wide-ranging ramifications on the Nigerian economy. In addition to that, the President will be speaking at the UN High-Level Reform of the Global Financial Architecture. This is a sequel to the engagement Mr. President had in Paris. It will essentially allow our President to lay out his vision for a fairer international financial system that does not any longer leave out developing countries from the decision-making table. He is very determined to drive this. He is leading it from the front, and that is a very important engagement on his schedule. The President will also be presiding over the Nigeria Small and Medium-Skilled Business Summit to ensure that Nigeria keys in on opportunities that have been presented by the Nigerian-owned small and medium-skilled enterprises to make an impact in foreign markets.


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This is Witchspace news for Friday the 18th of November 2022 I'm CMDR Buur In Elite Dangerous News this week, there's a new Thargoid Interceptor coming in Update 14 Two key features of being buffed, we now know where the first human contact with a Stargoid is due to take place And we break down everything else we learn about Update 14 from FDev's information dense livestream As always if you enjoy our stuff hit the thumbs up, don't forget to subscribe and ping that little bell to see all our Elite Dangerous content You can also join our Patreon which directly supports the work we do here at the pit, links to that and everything else are below As Tharg's Day rolled around this week a new duo of community goals kicked off that are centered around the efforts of the Xeno Advocacy movement and its efforts to promote diplomacy rather than gratuitous violence in our dealings with our mandibald faced multi-limbed murderous neighbours Congressman Dalton Chase is fronting the effort and in his speech he details how the Megaship Kingfisher will be moving to Hyades Sector YO-QB5-1 to greet Stargoid 1 that the movement has named Taranis If you're curious Taranis is a god of thunder from Celtic mythology who also is associated with eight-spoked wheel iconography, probably not a coincidence The text of this week's community goals states that the welcome wagon Megaship has been granted special restricted access to the system for its rendezvous meaning everyone except the Megaship will be locked out of the system so that's definitely going to go well then Congressman Dalton Chase makes special mention of the some 3,000 brave volunteers, his words, that are riding the soon to be atomised Megaship for its meeting with the all-powerful swirling salad creature from beyond the stars, that's nice of him isn't it, not going with them then clearly One CG this week is asking for deliveries of fruit and vegetables, semiconductors, basic medicines and muon images to the Blenkinsock hub in the Andervandul system while a twin CG is asking for bounty vouchers to the same location to help keep pirates off the back of the deliveries We have no idea currently when the doomship is due to arrive for its meeting, suffice to say that it won't be long A quick look at the Canon Stargoid Tracker linked below will show you that Stargoid 1 is already bearing down on the target system so the brave volunteers won't have to wait long for their almost inevitable doom In a much anticipated and somewhat information dense live stream last night community managers Bruce Guerrero and Arthur told me let go the first tidbits of information regarding the upcoming update 14 to Elite Dangerous Odyssey which they are describing as one of the biggest updates since the launch of Odyssey and they have revealed that it is scheduled to arrive with us on November the 29 an update incidentally that is expected to herald the arrival of multiple unknown interstellar anomalies that have been sent by the Thargoids as a direct result of Salvation's attempt to wipe them out with the Proteus superweapon in HIP 22460 which I'm sure they're absolutely not angry about The team were very keen to point out throughout the stream that the information they were letting go was very limited and with good reason and is nowhere near the full content of the update Elite Dangerous has always been a game about discovery and that discovery continues to be at the heart of the player experience that the company considers so important with that in mind then the vast majority of new additions and changes to the game arriving with update 14 will be kept largely secret until the update drops and will be for the player base to discover as has always been the case in the game particularly when it comes to all things associated with the Thargoids what they did reveal however was what they described as a new interceptor that will be part of the patch this new interceptor will not be a run of the mill interceptor it will be something more unique and it will behave very differently to Thargoid entities that we've seen before the team describing its behavior as mysterious and it will be doing something quite specific that will need to investigate be warned however if you're detected and the interceptor decides it doesn't like you it will call for help what form that help is and how quickly it arrives the team did not divulge at the very least the way this new entity is being described it sounds as though this new interceptor affords much more of an opportunity for observation, research and investigation rather than out and out combat and given the Thargoids propensity for detecting our heat signatures we are left wondering if perhaps very cold running science vessels are about to become important as we collectively investigate this new interloper the team then went on to confirm that as we reported last week there is indeed a buff incoming to the payouts given for exobiological data from Vista Genomics Arthur and Bruce stopped short of giving specific numbers but they did say that the pay increase players would see from the exobiopayouts would be quote pretty significant unquote this is undoubtedly going to be a huge boon to the players looking to raise their rank in the odyssey introduced on foot career path and it was good to hear this confirmed by the team the boost to Vista Gen Payouts is actually scheduled to arrive before update 14 and is currently windowed for some time in the next week just after update 14 a further buff is being delivered to the game this time however the devs are turning their eye toward the base anti-zeno weapons in the game the aim appears to be to make the regularly available AX weapons much more of a viable option when getting involved with anti-zeno operations the team were at pains to point out however that the guardian based weaponry will still absolutely be the top tier choice in situations where they can be used as of this video that's anywhere outside of hip 22460 however we do have very strong suspicions that that might be about to change as the stargoid start to arrive in the bubble if indeed our suspicions are correct then any buff to the damage and effectiveness of the current bottom tier AX weapons could well prove very valuable indeed whatever the case if you're just starting out with AX combat and you've not yet been through the acquisition of guardian AX technology then your involvement will likely be much more effective it's interesting to hear that two areas of the game are being buffed and does put a different context on some comments Arthur made later in the stream where he stated that detailed player feedback continues to be collated and fed back to the developers he specifically made mention that engineering and quote some of those loops are being looked at and that a lot of work was going on behind the scenes given the buffs that exo bio and base AX are getting around the release of update 14 it does seem likely that we can expect more of this sort of thing going forward the team were very clear throughout the stream that what they discussed was just one small part of update 14's bigger picture stating that update 14 was quote really bringing something big to the game unquote and there is much more to the update that they just can't talk about yet the yet part of that statement was particularly important however as they further added that post update 14's launch they are planning an in-depth dive into the patch and its content on a live stream that will include interviews with the developers that live stream is scheduled for the 1st of December post update 14 Arthur did also say that he's been looking at details for updates coming to the game and that they would be talking about that content soon when we know more about this we'll of course let you know right here with all of these key points then there's a fair bit to take in in the week ahead you can expect a buff to the payouts from exo biological samples following that update 14 is scheduled for the 29th of November it's likely to be a big patch with associated significant downtime so just be forewarned for that just one of the features of update 14 is a new interceptor it'll be doing something mysterious and it's up to the player base to work out what it's doing it won't like being disturbed and if it detects you it'll likely call for help soon after update 14 the base AX weapons will be getting a buff but the guardian base technology will still be far and away the more powerful option there will be a special deep dive live stream on the 1st of December looking at update 14 and talking to devs post update 14 there is more to come and fdev plan on talking about that soon but there is currently no firm schedule for that information all in all a very busy live stream and a packed few weeks now lay in front of us as we head into December there are some interesting days ahead I suspect what plans do you have to investigate the new interceptor have you got a boatload of exo bio data you're looking to hand in how do you think the Kingfisher Megaship will fare when it attempts first contact with a Stargoid let us know in the comments below that's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then 07 commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack we very much look forward to seeing you next time