In FIFA 23, you’ll be able to level up your Virtual Pro in more ways than ever before. Pro Clubs and VOLTA FOOTBALL are both modes designed to be played with your friends, where you share experiences and spend time, and compete with and against each other. The key difference being that Pro Clubs is where you go for an authentic football experience, and VOLTA is where you and your friends go to relax in a mode where anything can happen.
This year there are new features that bring the Pro Clubs and VOLTA FOOTBALL experiences closer together, so that regardless of how you and your friends feel like playing on any given day, you’ll be making progress. Climb the Ranks in Pro Clubs, or Battle each other across the range of Party Games in VOLTA Arcades, you’ll make progress however you want to spend time with your friends in FIFA 23 across the two modes. There is also a live service element to Pro Clubs through shared Seasons Progress across Pro Clubs and VOLTA FOOTBALL, to earn and unlock new content for your Avatar all year round.
Through 66 Skill Games, you’ll be able to earn Player Growth XP up to a weekly cap, while competing for bragging rights for the top spot on each of the Skill Games leaderboards against your club teammates. This means if you only have a few minutes to play, you can still spend it sharpening your skills while making progress and growing your Pro. As for how much XP you’ll earn, we’re still tweaking that, but the harder the Skill Game and the higher your rank, the more XP you’ll earn.
So next time you’re waiting for that last clubmate to come online, hop on over to Skill Games (accessible via the Pro Clubs Hub menu), and earn bragging rights over your friends.
To further reward a player’s contribution to Pro Clubs matches, a more diverse range of gameplay actions will award Player Growth XP and the amount of XP awarded for each action has been adjusted. This is to ensure a more fair distribution of XP for supporting players who contribute to success without putting the ball in the back of the net themselves.
You will also be able to customize your Avatar to bring your own style onto the pitch with your friends is really important.
In Pro Clubs you’ll be able to unlock Tattoos, Facial Accessories, Boots, Hair Styles, and Facial Hair customization options. We want our players to feel like there is something for everyone, though we have been mindful of not overtly impacting the authentic tone of Pro Clubs for FIFA 23.
In VOLTA FOOTBALL, they are amping up the fun and continuing to push the boundaries with full costumes, neon clothing and face paint, while also working with very exciting designers to deliver content every season.
Each season will bring new gear for both Pro Clubs and VOLTA players that you can unlock through Seasonal Progression and the VOLTA Shop.
Now, whether you play VOLTA FOOTBALL (Arcades, Squads, and Battles) or Pro Clubs (Drop-Ins, League, Cup and Friendly Matches), you’ll earn Seasonal Points (SP) that contribute towards unlocking new gear for your Virtual Pro. Seasonal Points earned will contribute to the same Seasonal Event Progression system shared between the two modes. Seasonal Events will continue to function in the same way and at the same (mostly) six-week cadence that they did in VOLTA FOOTBALL for FIFA 22. This means every Season, there will be new content dropping for you to earn and unlock for both your Pro Clubs, and VOLTA Avatars.
Pro Clubs players will earn both SP and VOLTA Coin rewards based on their performance (Match Rating, with a bonus for being the ‘Player of the Match’), and the outcome of the match (Win, Loss, Draw). A summary of your rewards can now be found in the Pro Clubs post-match sequence.
Seasonal Event Progression can be tracked via the Seasonal Event Panel inside both the Pro Clubs and VOLTA FOOTBALL Hubs, which will also alert you to when you have a reward waiting to be claimed. All rewards must be claimed manually and from within VOLTA FOOTBALL. For Pro Clubs players, this means they will need to navigate to VOLTA FOOTBALL, which can conveniently be done via a direct link from inside the Pro Clubs Hub.
You’ll also be earning VOLTA Coins to spend in the VOLTA Shop. Go to the VOLTA Shop to unlock these shareable items. Shareable items are indicated by the VOLTA FOOTBALL and Pro Clubs logo on the item image.
Note: Not all items in the VOLTA Shop are equippable in Pro Clubs.
Four new Player-based Perks have been added to FIFA 23 allowing you to further refine your play style.
Here are the four new Perks and what they do:
Attacking Perks
- Poacher – Increases your all-round finishing (including boosts to Volleys, Finishing, and Heading Accuracy) when inside the box.
Chance Creation Perks
- Light Passes – Increases your teammates’ ability to trap and control your passes.
Defensive Perks
- Interceptor – Improves your ability to intercept & disrupt your opposition’s passes & shots when defending and in close proximity to the ball.
- Chase Down – Increases your pace when defending immediately following a loss of possession. The perk will deactivate after 40 in-game seconds if you have not regained possession.
Drop-Ins
- In a bid to make Drop-Ins a faster paced and more engaging experience, Pro Clubs Drop-In has undergone some changes for FIFA 23.
- Most noticeably, Half Length has been reduced to four minutes and matches will proceed to Golden Goal extra time in the event of a draw at the conclusion of 90 mins. Matches will not proceed to penalties at the end of two periods of Golden Goal and instead, the match will end as a draw.
- To freshen up the match experience, Drop-In games will now be played in a variety of stadiums, and the teams will wear kits from a selection of new Drop-In designs. These kits and stadiums will rotate to make sure the environment you play in never gets old.
New and upgraded games give you more ways to battle it out against friends. My personal favorite is the inclusion of Obstacle Courses where you race against your friends from one end of the stadium to the other trying to control the ball and dribble around the obstacles.
Improved crowd audio, new props, dynamically coloured balls, new sound effects and more bring more excitement each time you step into Arcades.
There will be six new Arcade Games at launch:
Dribble King: Stay inside the moving circle, collecting trophies and avoiding obstacles. If you exit the circle, you’re eliminated.
Obstacle Course: Race to the end of a pitch filled with obstacles and score a goal before any of your opponents.
Foot Golf: It’s like golf, but with goals…and kicking. Score a goal in the given net in the fewest shots possible.
Four-Squares: When the ball comes towards you, kick it into any of your opponents’ squares. If it bounces in your square two times or if you kick it out of bounds, you’re eliminated.
Battle Buckets: Battle opponents one on one to gain possession of the ball, and then lob it into a bucket in the center of the pitch to claim it for your team. Claim the most buckets to win.
Capture the Ball: Just like capture the flag. Steal the ball from your opponent’s “base” area and bring it back to your own.
