Madden NFL 10 Blog: Customization

[PGaither84]

Quote: Originally Posted by doughron

This is awesome news! I've had every next-gen Madden and in all my franchises, I have never had ONE SINGLE PLAYER hurt for longer than the current game. Hopefully this finally fixes this problem that I've had so that your depth chart is actually relevant! Keep up the great work!

And this problem you have is the exact opposite of prior Madden games where if you didn't heavily reduce the injury slider, the injury report looked more likea MASH unit and injuries were about the ONLY thing the radio and newspaper talked about on every page. Within weks of the standard settings of older Maddens there would be 12+ end of season/carrer inujuries and a mile long list of ones that were 10-12 weeks long. This is a rough sport but the old default as TOO rough. I normally cranked it down to about 25% and found that he average injury report matched the NFL's average.

Let us hope that the standard setting for 10 will reflect an average seaon after simulating.

[MRxAmazing]

I see a lot of guys are not very happy about this blog. I think it's actually quite important. Don't get me wrong, while reading it I wasn't jumping for joy or anything. But everything posted in the update was pretty important to most of us one way or another. I personally love that we will have almost complete control over the game. I think that's huge.

P.S. To the people upset with this blog, you're forgetting that there's a press release due to be out at the end of this week (hopefully). http://www.operationsports.com/forums/madden-nfl-football/306732-madden-10-cover-shown-week-3.html#post2039361976

[Tyrant8RDFL]

Option with Acc Clock That I would like to see.

Being able to choose at what point it stops winding down.
Its currently at 2 minutes. I would like to choose 5 or maybe 4.
I would also like the option to choose if I want it at the 5 min mark of all the qtrs, not just the 2nd and 4th qtr.

I love the fact that we can now choose the clock to stop winding down at either 15,20 , or 25 secs. Thats perfect.

Is it possible to get what I requested above?

Vision cone.
Will this be back , and if so can it be a option?

Camera angles
Love that it is possible that other angles will make it into the game.
Please can you tell us if the older camera angles are what is being discussed. I really want the Far camera back.

You guys are providing a ton of options for us users. I was wondering if you can provide a list of how the setting should be set to get a true NFL simulation experience. A list of what settings will have the true attributes/ratings of all the players perform accurately in the game. This will be extremely helpful.

Thanks

[94niners]

Quote: Originally Posted by Megatron2k7

I think this was a good blog overall. It's one step at a time guys, we can't have updates with screenshots or vids every time. This customization is what we all were asking for...... isn't it ? I'm happy enough just having cpu sliders back to be honest. All the rest of the cool stuff is like more icing on the cake if you ask me. There is one area that I've been thinking about since the blog a while back, where Ian first mentioned the speed differential for different difficulty settings. I don't like this idea. I don't even like it on the lower difficulty levels. If there is a seperate slider for overall game speed, then I see no reason for this speed differential setting. It seens "anti - sim" to me. Donny is supposed to be making better and more realistic ratings for this year, and the differences in speed should be shown by pure logic alone......not sliders. I know this feature can be tuned to real speed differentials by using the slider, but I'm just wondering where the idea for this came from to start with. New players who play on low difficulty levels will have a completely wrong perception of what speed is.

Better to have this option than to have the speed differentials wrong and be stuck with it, don't you think?

Quote: Originally Posted by PGaither84

+1. Also users who don't understand what illegal formations are won't know to call time out. I know in one of the two Broncos' SB victories [I think against the Packers] Shannon Sharpe noticed a reciver wasn't lined up right [or was it they only had 10 men?] anyway, he was not on the LOS and noticed this illegal formation and made a motion to Elway and a last second adjustment to line up right before the snap to avoid a penalty. I thikn the play resulted in a first down or TD [memory is faded over the years and not being a Broncos or Packers fan at all, just that it was S. Sharpe being a bad @$$ and being SUPER aware.] I really miss these lack of penalties. These kinds of mental errors are what make the real life 49ers so bad, not poor tackling or inability to catch a pass like you see in 09. You can easily argue that 9 Penalties for 110yrds is what lost the Super Bowl for the Cards as much as the pick 6 and Holmes TD did.

Lord... you just HAD to bring that up... /smacks face...

lol but you are right! That IS a big part of the game. And it would be a good way to stop audible abusers. Plus, player awareness can factor into it (if they are keeping that rating).

Illegal procedure (other than false start) would be a nice touch, on occasion.

[Sanchez_Mareno]

Pretty much just cleaning up the menus and crisping things up with nifty little additions.
Like many have said, show some patience for the big things

[Joborule]

Pre Game Warmups with stats visuals.

That makes this blog another win. Not much I need to say here.

Now give me an update on the score overlay so I can give some more props to my wishlist!

[splff3000]

Quote: Originally Posted by adembroski

Guys, please post your feelings in the thread below... I think it's a pretty important debate and it's one of our last chances to make a real impact before release http://www.operationsports.com/forum...2-minutes.html

The poll results are almost 50/50 so far. This is a perfect case for customization if I've ever seen one.

[DaveDQ]

Wow, game speed. That is huge to me. Serious.