If you\'ve just acquired Madden NFL 21, consider starting your adventure this year with Ultimate Team. You don\'t have to spend a penny or get beaten online by players who spend to win. It is an excellent laboratory to test skills and strategies with a wide variety of players

This guide to the first thing to do for Madden NFL 21 Ultimate Team will cover the best way to start the mode, build a good money base (free), and then what to do with it. Ultimate Team 101
When you launch Ultimate Team for the first time, you will be redirected to Ultimate Team 101. These are simple, one-off tasks that introduce you to the game on and off the field

They are part of the Single Challenges series (you vs. the processor) and are also under the Play tab on the main menu

Everyone gets a Lamar Jackson ranked 80 when he starts Ultimate Team. Don\'t forget to put it at quarterback, it makes the first tasks much easier

Image: EA Tiburon /Electronic Arts. Ultimate Team 101 and the Rivalz set of challenges are played as part of MUT 21 Coins (the simplest of the three) and at the three lowest difficulty levels (Rookie to All-Pro)

All can be beaten, easily, in trouble Rookie with the starting team of poorly rated players. But consider choosing Veteran (two stars) or All-Pro (three) for the easiest or shortest tasks, because the number of stars you earn in total will unlock multi-level rewards

First, be sure to open all the virtual card packs possibly provided with the game (if you bought one of the special editions of Madden NFL 21). At a minimum, everyone gets a Superstar MVP pack that offers cover star Lamar Jackson with a score of 80.

Set him as your team\'s starting quarterback to facilitate Ultimate Team 101 and Rivalz challenges. You can do this from the Team tab on the main menu

Rivalz challenges will take about an hour, depending on how many difficulty stars you shoot for, to disappear. If you each finish in three-star trouble, you should end up with about 15,000 MUT coins, plus a slew of regular level free players to give your team a structure, thanks to the multi-level rewards of the challenge

Sometimes menus can directly glitch on you, like this one. If so, your only option is to go back to the main menu of Madden Coins and start over

Struggle with menus
The menus of Madden NFL 21 Ultimate Team are not only a slow load, they are very poorly designed, especially for users who are not familiar with the mode. Here are some tips for solving problems

Dealing with problems. Ultimate Team menu tabs can have problems, by appearing in sub-menus where bumper buttons won\'t run through them, or by disappearing from the main menu, making it impossible to access your collection binder or virtual store

You may need to leave Ultimate Team mode, return to the main menu and restart Ultimate Team to access the desired page, unless and until this is resolved by a fix. Image showing the excruciating design of the Madden Ultimate Team menu, which may have been designed by a four-year-old

On the left, the \"Rivalz\" exercise series appears in the \"Missions\" tab on the first page. On the right, you see how this appears in the \"Challenges\" element under the \"Play\" tab on the home page

Use the one on the right to find out where you stand in your progress and where you are working. Image: EA Tiburon / Electronic Arts via GamesServer

Find workout exercises. In addition, the terrible organization of menus makes it difficult to track your situation in the Rivalz training series

To make sure you\'re progressing through the right tasks, always go to Rivalz from the Challenges box, which is under the Play tab (second tab on the main menu). This series starts with Ultimate Team 101 and ends with Championship: Rivalz

There is a Rivalz series box in the Missions tab on the main page, but its list is different and confusing, worded and neat. The team management menu is not intuitive for newcomers

Scroll completely to the right with the D-pad, develop these icons in their command sets and choose \"Generate the best programming\" to make sure you have the right staff on the ground from the start. Image: EA Tiburon / Electronic Arts via Polygone

Making sense of team management menus. Finally, team management menus can be confusing for the novice or casual Ultimate Team players

To place Jackson at quarterback or to automatically assign your best players as starters, go to the Team tab (third in the main menu), select the Adjust Programming box, and then use the D-pad to go all the way. on the right side of the screen
This extends a series of small boxes in large buttons on Utplay.com. Select Generate the best composition (don\'t worry about team chemistry at the moment) to make sure you always have the best players in your field collection