Madden NFL 16 Community Impressions

[Nemesis Enforcer]

Liking the game but online is a chore. Constantly seeing the same plays run 3-4 times consecutively and the defense acts like they've never seen it before.

On defense cover 4 zone seems to stop everything including the run.

Bring back fair play!!

[KOTC Wayne]

One of my biggest gripes about CFM is having players speed drop so majorly from one season to the next ( only 6 months in between seasons ) and they are nothing but 31 years old. This is completely unrealistic and it hurts CFM play, especially for the veteran teams as you have to rush the rookies into the lineup because of this and someone like Revis who would be rated 95 Ovr,his speed would be 78 so obviously you couldn't let your CB see the field with 78 speed regardless of all his other attributes. Players in real life are playing well into their mid 30's and while they have lost a little speed and mainly agility and acceleration which should be the main two attributes that takes a nose dive, no way at 35 do they turn into having a offensive lineman speed by the end of their career.

Also, set a bar for how low speeds at certain positions can ever get. For example, CBs and WRs speed should never be lower than around 85 speed, ever! If they played into their 50's..... ok...... but we are talking about their early to mid 30's. Seeing a CB or WR speed at 78 or 68 is completely unrealistic and if a player speed at those two positions were to ever drop that majorly like that in real life, sure they would have retired years ago seeing that speed has alot to do with playing sports period. Even the slowest player in the league at those two positions couldn't afford to be as slow as Madden will end up having them .

Please address those two issues.......... just because a player is 30 doesn't mean all of a sudden they are gonna lose a significant amount of speed all of a sudden .

[FluffyTonka]

online is a bit of a mess right now. played a few games today/ tonight.


lots of people just using dri archer as their rb and using tosses and screens to the outside and running around my defense. one guy i played literally did this the whole game.

another guy used the fullback dive using AP at fullback from i & goaline formation and just did it for 4 downs right up the field for 2 TD's.

seemed like even if i sent the house, AP fights for yards through the first lot of contact and still picks up 4 yards a play. a few plays he dragged defenders for 9, 10, 11 yard plays.

[willert88]

I wish EA would fix player mode. I love creating a player and taking him through his career. The problem is I made a QB my first season and the computer is awful. The AI QB only passed for 30yrs in my first game in my second game Tom Brady through for 55yrs. That's on all pro. If you make a defence player than your offence cannot score points. I wish EA would put sometime into making this mode more similar to mlb the show.

[jfsolo]

Quote: Originally Posted by KOTC Wayne

One of my biggest gripes about CFM is having players speed drop so majorly from one season to the next ( only 6 months in between seasons ) and they are nothing but 31 years old. This is completely unrealistic and it hurts CFM play, especially for the veteran teams as you have to rush the rookies into the lineup because of this and someone like Revis who would be rated 95 Ovr,his speed would be 78 so obviously you couldn't let your CB see the field with 78 speed regardless of all his other attributes. Players in real life are playing well into their mid 30's and while they have lost a little speed and mainly agility and acceleration which should be the main two attributes that takes a nose dive, no way at 35 do they turn into having a offensive lineman speed by the end of their career. Also, set a bar for how low speeds at certain positions can ever get. For example, CBs and WRs speed should never be lower than around 85 speed, ever! If they played into their 50's..... ok...... but we are talking about their early to mid 30's. Seeing a CB or WR speed at 78 or 68 is completely unrealistic and if a player speed at those two positions were to ever drop that majorly like that in real life, sure they would have retired years ago seeing that speed has alot to do with playing sports period. Even the slowest player in the league at those two positions couldn't afford to be as slow as Madden will end up having them . Please address those two issues.......... just because a player is 30 doesn't mean all of a sudden they are gonna lose a significant amount of speed all of a sudden .

Rex mentioned in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJlg4SKHfy8 that he knew that the speed drop was a flaw in implementation and that it was something they could fix in roster updates.

[DJ]

Nothing like getting my butt handed to me by the CPU. Default All-Pro (slow, 12-min. quarters), Cleveland (CPU) at Tennessee. Final: Browns 21-16 (was 21-3 but I scored 2 garbage TD's late).

I couldn't do anything on offense; run game was neutralized and Mariota made the mistake of challenging Joe Haden a couple of times. Picked off twice by him and thew another INT. I could tell I was using a team that didn't feature a big playmaker, that's for sure.

Defensively I did fine, forced 3 turnovers (2 INTs) and sacked McCown 3 times. Browns benefitted from a solid run game and good field position due to the turnovers and my lack of moving the ball on offense.

This was my first game after downloading the tuner update. Good news is that to me, the game played just as well as it did before the update.

[Lukewarm]

I said it is definitely my favorite madden. I just wish that there hadn't been so many bugs, but such is the life of gamer/developer.

[jvalverde88]

I love the addition of the option to start your franchise in pre season or regular season. Now I can download the week one roster and start in the regular season without worrying to see some weird player cuts in year one.