Madden NFL 11 Patch 1.03 Available, Post Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

[i3man]

Quote: Originally Posted by roll2tide

This. Between the lack of defense and the ease of the passing game the game was bad online before. Now these things are the same or worse and kick meter is now set to Wii. I used to not care about the exclusive license but now I am really starting to see how it has allowed apathy and ineptness to become the norm at EA. How some of these things make it through beta is beyond me and the fact that they only make it worse via patches is just baffling. Seriously....if any dev ever reads this.....I would LOVE to know who in the hades saw this kick meter and thought, "man, this is gonna be great!" Please reassign them to the janitorial department.

It's possible the design team and beta testers are just average Madden players at best. If they weren't they'd be scoring 70 points a game in development and beta testing and surely would have created better defense.

There are 3 different modes of difficulty in the game. It's beyond me how they cannot make a level of difficulty suitable for everyone. The current levels are way too close in difficulty.

[Boling4Humor]

I'm not sure if this was improved with the patch but I am very proud to say I was playing a game against the Chiefs and I had not one but TWO pass interference calls called against them. I was so happy I didn't care that I lost to them, it was the highlight of my game. so if it is because of the patch (because this never happened before), thank you ian.

[steelernation28]

Turning fight for the fumble off, makes it nearly impossible to recover the ball in a scrum, this was not fixed. I guess no one at EA plays with fight for the fumble turned off!

[steelernation28]

Does anyone know if this is the last of the patches? These patches came a lot quicker than '10's did, and I'm wondering if they halved these fixes to indroduce them sooner? I was shocked to see the 1.03 update in September.

[lisinas]

Quote: Originally Posted by steelernation28

Turning fight for the fumble off, makes it nearly impossible to recover the ball in a scrum, this was not fixed. I guess no one at EA plays with fight for the fumble turned off!

What are you talking about ? Im playing with fight for fumble off and i have recovered more fumbles than lost.

[Todem]

Replay is still shaky.

PA is working. It is not supposed to work all the time. But out of 5 attempts in a game yesterday I pulled off 3 completions and 2 incompletions. The good thing was I did have some time to scan and throw. There will be times (like in the real NFL) they will call the right defense and sack you. But they fixed it. Last year it always worked and worked too good. Now I can feel the balance of PA and the need to set it up properly.


I did notice some PI being called finally. Broken tackles offline with sliders are toned down.


Still the same impressions.

Offline the game is a big winner.

Online it is a big failure.

[Flamehead]

I'm on offline gamer only and I decided to try out the patch by setting everything to default all-pro. Except for the cpu kicker shanking kicks left and right, I could tell a much improved difference in the gameplay. Not many big plays and the ones that did happen I could see why they did. Gameplay stats were reasonably realistic as well. I believe EA did a good job.

[JVM]

Quote: Originally Posted by steelernation28

Does anyone know if this is the last of the patches? These patches came a lot quicker than '10's did, and I'm wondering if they halved these fixes to indroduce them sooner? I was shocked to see the 1.03 update in September.

From what was said in the first post here, doesn't seem like there will be another patch:

"We hope the updates you see above released with title update 3 will give you everything you need to keep Madden NFL 11 in your disc tray for weeks and months to come. See you on the gridiron!"