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Madden NFL '16 |OT| It's Madden Season
- Thread starter The Albatross
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That is hilarious.
Petrae
Member
Now I see why devs suggested not to start Franchise Mode until the patch comes through. I'm still waiting for the Encroachment Bug to be fixed. Haven't touched the game in a week. What a waste of money this was.
But at least I learned (the hard way) that buying games at launch is a dumb thing to do. Wait a few weeks for shit to be patched, then buy. I guess.
PadWarrior
Member
Any timetable on that roster patch? Glad I didn't buy it yet
The encroachment thing happens like once every 10 games, why is that keeping you from playing the game?
Petrae
Member
It cost me 50 yards in penalties in one game, during one drive-- and forced me into overtime when I had a game won. That's more than enough to make me wait on a patch instead of crossing my fingers every time I play that I don't get hit with it again.
Last I heard, sometime this month. No definitive dates.
PadWarrior
Member
Thanks!
postal chaos
Member
How do these Twitch streamers get a whole team of legend and diamond players? Do they spend hundreds of dollars?
...Scatter...
Banned
As a counter to the aggressive catch BS, you have the "your receivers will drop every open pass if a high ranked defender is anywhere close" BS. It's frustrating trying to pass on a stacked D. Not because it's hard to find an open receiver, because it is, but because once you do the receivers will just drop the damn ball.
pixel monkey
Banned
After playing it over the weekend, I much prefer the receiving in last year's version. This is just over complication for the sake of adding in another damned button to press.
No thanks, EA... I'm sticking with '15.
panthapanda
Member
Some do because they get the money right back. Just look if they have any of that green currency in their game.
Or they work the auction house to make profit.
Or EA pulls some strings to help them out because it makes people want to open packs when they see these streamers "pull" these legends and elites.
Totally new to MUT and sort of grasping it, sort of. But theres like no single player season like there's going to be for the nhl HUT (which ive also never played)? But either way so far this mode is extremely addicting and I've been short changing myself for years not playing it evidently. Not a fan of playing online unless I personally know the person though.
panthapanda
Member
Same here. I'm really tempted to spend money because I'm pretty impulsive but I've been doing a good job so far and I'm halfway done with the journey solos and they gave me some decent cards.
My experience online hasn't been too bad. I started the season with a 64 ovr team and have won both because my opponent quit on me. Mind you, I'm not the best madden player by far. I was actually psyching myself out to play online with randoms because I thought they would cheese but my opponents so far actually punted on 4th downs. Luck of the draw tho I suppose.
The Albatross
Member
Honestly I think you get more cheese in Draft Champions mode because there's no punishment for losing/cheesing, you just quit and start over with a new squad. In MUT, you lose a player's contract, you lose the game, your record goes down, etc.
panthapanda
Member
I was winning 14-0 in the fourth with ball in hand and either ea servers shitted on me or dude pulled the plug. No win for that game 
The Albatross
Member
This isn't true, I just tested it. Make sure you have a custom roster file loaded (or whatever roster file you want to use), Go to Franchise -> Create new -> Use Active Roster, and it uses whatever roser you have loaded. I just tried it by dropping Fred Jackson from the Bills and loaded it up, and it has Fred Jackson on the FA list. I'm on Xbox One.
Matrix XII
Member
I'm going to eat my words and clear the air. I was wrong in my earlier comments of Madden 16. Completely, flat out wrong.
Madden 16 is a worthy purchase and I do see some major improvements in a lot of areas in the game.
- I feel the tackling realism and physics have been improved.
- The running game feels much more realistic. The way you must read your blocks and hit the holes in coverage as they open is much more important this year.
- The receiving physics has undergone a major overhaul. I always complained about the receiver not fighting for a jump ball in the past, no more of that now.
- Ball tips and deflections are more prevalent now based on circumstances.
- Quarterback drop backs feel better and more fluid than before.
- Ball carriers can "carry the pile" based on their physics, movement speed, and attributes better than before. Not as much issues with "hitting a brick wall defender."
- Kicking game feels familiar but tweaked a little bit I think, hard to pinpoint, but it feels a little better. Even the ball bouncing off the net looks more realistic.
- Screen passes work more efficiently, or get broken up more efficiently, like they should in certain situations.
- No halftime show if not wanted, thankfully.
- The drive goals and XP is a lot more fun and refreshing than I anticipated.
These are just a few reasons. But anyways, yes it's a good game and I wrote it off far to quickly.
Madden 16 is a worthy purchase and I do see some major improvements in a lot of areas in the game.
- I feel the tackling realism and physics have been improved.
- The running game feels much more realistic. The way you must read your blocks and hit the holes in coverage as they open is much more important this year.
- The receiving physics has undergone a major overhaul. I always complained about the receiver not fighting for a jump ball in the past, no more of that now.
- Ball tips and deflections are more prevalent now based on circumstances.
- Quarterback drop backs feel better and more fluid than before.
- Ball carriers can "carry the pile" based on their physics, movement speed, and attributes better than before. Not as much issues with "hitting a brick wall defender."
- Kicking game feels familiar but tweaked a little bit I think, hard to pinpoint, but it feels a little better. Even the ball bouncing off the net looks more realistic.
- Screen passes work more efficiently, or get broken up more efficiently, like they should in certain situations.
- No halftime show if not wanted, thankfully.
- The drive goals and XP is a lot more fun and refreshing than I anticipated.
These are just a few reasons. But anyways, yes it's a good game and I wrote it off far to quickly.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
A prime example of how bad the aggressive catch is in this game:
https://twitter.com/RealKentMurphy/status/638029956992368644
https://twitter.com/RealKentMurphy/status/638029956992368644
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
I've managed to beat all the weekly challenges so far but the all pro difficulty is hard for me as I am a newbie. I usually have to grind for a bit, upgrade my team several times and pull out a close one. I think I need to go back to the tutorial.
FallingEdge
Member
Are there substitution packages in the game? I want to change my RB on the fly but I don't see how.
panthapanda
Member
Yes, you sub out on the fly by flicking right stick left or right. Or press R1 or right bumper to specifically sub a player you want.
edit: man I'm trying to grind out the style solos and buying the cards to upgrade my style is super expensive. At first, I thought it was overall that increased the style but I was wrong. Now it makes sense why this crappy 63 overall wr kept replacing my better WR in the same style. These freakin cards can go up to 8k for a bronze.
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
Not on all madden
Matrix XII
Member
haha, yeah the aggressive catch needs some tweaking.
I also have an issue where every time I exit a game it doesn't go back to the main menu. Just has the big football in the background spinning slowly.
Anyone else have this issue?
I have to restart Madden every time I finish a game. Luckily it saves my progress even though I don't get back to any main menus.
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
I hope they don't mess with aggressive catch or the system in place. Very fair in an all madden game against people who are playing sim ball
panthapanda
Member
Happens to me. So many bugs in this game.
So I joined this MUT community and boy are they weird. I think the website has some sort of reward system for posting so the forums are basically spam and people waving their junk around and posters just saying "cool bro congrats". There are a couple of informative posters hidden in there but man is that community really strange.
The Albatross
Member
Tuning update came out today to reduce the success rate of aggressive catch. It still works, but a bit less.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cn1tp3vJP4&feature=youtu.be
Video from PastaPadre's site blog HIt the Pass of 20 aggressive catches and the result. Eli to Odell Beckham vs. Cowboys in practice mode 1 on 1.
This is amazing. Shit doesn't happen every time though, I've stopped Calvin enough player vs. player. If you play the ball and it's 1 on 1 or even 2 on 1, then CJ will catch it most times on streaks. If you play the man, it's like 50/50 with safety help, probably lower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cn1tp3vJP4&feature=youtu.be
Video from PastaPadre's site blog HIt the Pass of 20 aggressive catches and the result. Eli to Odell Beckham vs. Cowboys in practice mode 1 on 1.
This is amazing. Shit doesn't happen every time though, I've stopped Calvin enough player vs. player. If you play the ball and it's 1 on 1 or even 2 on 1, then CJ will catch it most times on streaks. If you play the man, it's like 50/50 with safety help, probably lower.
panthapanda
Member
Anyone that is playing MUT and that is new. Don't just sell off your bronze or silver players. Some of them fetch for over 2k in the auction house thanks to the style solos. Check their style rating before you sell and you could be sitting on a gold mine! Luckily, I never really sold my cards anyway and I'm selling some of these cards and I'm close to 100k now. Since I'm not that greedy, I just undercut some of the cards already posted by about 100 or 200 coins and they pretty much sell instantly.
Edit: generally +12 style points is good. Do your own style solos before you sell them first of course or else you will have to shell out some coins yourself and they are not cheap.
Edit: generally +12 style points is good. Do your own style solos before you sell them first of course or else you will have to shell out some coins yourself and they are not cheap.
wait for the patch, because apparently players regress at a crazy fast rate
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
has this game been seriously crashy for anyone else? I've had it hard lock during games, loading, and saving(which really sucks). This is on Xbox One, and I'm able to get back to the dashboard, so it's not the console freezing just the game.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
I hope they did something to keep people from going for it on 4th down every time when they are in their own territory.
Got the Shakes
Member
Takes me like 30 second from the time I start the game from the desktop on PS4 to when I'm actually in the game menus. Maybe takes 30 seconds tops for an actual game to start too.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Why do some player cards look different from one another? What is so special about those cards with the light shine?
The Albatross
Member
Doesn't sound right. I'll have to time it when I get home because I usually go from stand by so I'm in the menus already.
Each card is given a value like "Bronze" "Gold" "Diamond" etc, or whatever, I don't know what the actual colors are. FOr instance, I have a bronze Calvin Johnson card, where Calvin is 81 overall. A diamond Calvin Johnson card he'd probably be something like 97 overall. I think the idea is that the Bronze card is when CJ was a rookie, so he's not the freak that he became, and the diamond card is the 2013 season where he completely tore it up.
I don't really get much of MUT though.
The Albatross
Member
Patch is reportedly due out starting today. This solves some of the progression bugs and other reported bugs over the last couple weeks. No full change log yet.
Week 1 rosters usually come out the Friday before week 1, so probably this Friday Sept 11, but that's just been the typical release in past years, no confirmation.
Week 1 rosters usually come out the Friday before week 1, so probably this Friday Sept 11, but that's just been the typical release in past years, no confirmation.
The_Almighty_Swan
Banned
Roster update is going to be out any day now. Wouldn't be surprised if it's out before the weekend.
Zvonimir Boban
Banned
So they've tuned the rookie deep accuracy but not the inflated speed ratings?
Fucks sake.
Fucks sake.
The_Almighty_Swan
Banned
Pretty much... Makes rookies that much more important this madden. Everybody is going to be scavenging for draft picks each year in their connected franchises.
Zvonimir Boban
Banned
I'm all for the draft becoming more important but this doesn't do that, it just makes every real player worthless.
PadWarrior
Member
Have they fixed the updated roster franchise mode bug?
The Albatross
Member
Was that loading a franchise with custom or updated rosters? That wasn't broken, after someone made that post I went on and tried it and worked fine