FIFA 21 : Volta Online

Drop-In to a public lobby as your created VOLTA AVATAR, and team with up to three other VOLTA AVATARS from the community to challenge other community teams online. When you Drop-In, captains will be randomly assigned the role. As captain, your Drop-In team will use your Team Crest, Team Name, Home Turf, and AI assigned teammates for any unfilled roles like the goalkeeper. Captains can also choose to edit the Matchmaking Settings that determine Match Types, whether you want to play with Walls, No Walls, or have no specific preference. Captains can also determine the Opponent Type, such as Co-Op Teams Only.

Players that are not the captain in the Drop-In lobby are able to swap positions with AI players (except the goalkeeper), view the selected Matchmaking Settings, or check out the gear of the other players in the lobby as well as their Title. More on Titles later in this article.

If you find that you have a Drop-In team that has great team chemistry, you can choose to stay together for the next match. Players you compete with in the same Drop-In lobby are also listed on the Recent Teammates tile and can be sent invites to be friends on your friends' list. Or course, if you’d like to jump into a new lobby at the end of the match, you have that option as well.

You can team with up to three of your friends and test your skills against other teams online. Start a private lobby and invite players from your friends list to form your team, with the private lobby host acting as the Captain who has the same abilities that exist in Drop-In. If you’re playing with less than 3 friends, the AI teammates will be filled with players from the Captain’s starting squad.

With solo play, you are the Captain of your team. With full control over your AI teammates, you can use Squad Management to determine which players to field based on the style of play you prefer when taking on online opponents.

There are multiple Divisions to progress through in VOLTA SQUADS and progression is tied to you as an individual Avatar. Everyone starts with placement matches that determine their appropriate Division. Each Division has a Matchmaking Ranking (MMR) range calculated by match history. Movement through the different Divisions is determined by an increase in wins/losses in a player’s match history during the active Division event, which is also indicated in the Squad Progress panel. At the start of a new Division event, a player will be promoted or relegated. Getting promoted into a new Division unlocks an exclusive Division reward including VOLTA COINS and gear only available in VOLTA SQUADS. With Divisions, the intent is to match players of similar skill level so everyone can have fair and fun matches.

There are 5 ranks in each Division, 5 being the lowest and 1 the highest, and players earn points towards their rank progress in the Division events. Players participate in weekly events and earn rank points for every win, draw or loss. Along the way, players unlock unique limited time rank rewards for each new rank they reach within the event.