Madden NFL 11 Title Update #5 Details

[Giants4Natic]

Quote: Originally Posted by ezio

will we have to start franchises over?

It never has and never will

[ezio]

Quote: Originally Posted by Giants4Natic

It never has and never will

Ok cool. Thanks.

[probowl corner]

Quote: Originally Posted by crques

still no dirty uniforms?

they are in but its not that noticeable like before

[frankrizzo380]

Quote: Originally Posted by HFX007

so wouldn't that lead you to conclude "the Santa glitch" (which isnt a glitch) appears because your internal clock says its December? change your date and time to something before thanksgiving and after the holiday season and I bet it disappears...besides is that big a deal? press the button you'll see him for less than a second plus there are all kinds of stupid fans that wear get ups that dont quit fit in to football games...lol

the question is, "wht did it work for the breast cancer awarness accessories?" no ones complaining, just saying, wow, what an eyesore, just sparking up conversation, nothing more my friend

[youALREADYknow]

Quote: Originally Posted by kpkpkp

You know Im not sure Im too enthused by this patch.... It doesnt fix these major, and recurring, bugs; -IR still not fixed -Gameplanning still not fixed -Accelerated clock bug -Pancake tackles -Genererated rookies still demand massive contracts unless signed by CPU. Some of these bugs have been around since Madden '09. And since this patch does not fix them, and I had PERFECT custom sliders, this patch will actually make things worse for me. Bah-Humbug

Pretty much summarizes my feelings. I'm getting picture perfect simulation gameplay and statistics right now in Coach Mode and the only thing missing (GamePlanning for 2 teams) is still missing after this patch.

[youALREADYknow]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gotmadskillzson

Oh great, that is the main problem with NCAA 11 right now, when they improved it on that game. Players react too fast, causing pump fakes, counters and Play action to be totally useless because the defensive line and outside linebackers get into the backfield as soon as you snap the ball on running or play action plays.

It appears they are making the same exact mistakes that the NCAA team made.

I'll be shocked if play action, read option, counter, and screen plays aren't all rendered useless after this patch.

It is really beginning to seem like the EA/Tiburon teams release gameplay changes specifically for the online and User/User community. I could see how these changes would make those gamers happy.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Yes those are my thoughts exactly. This year they have tuned both games too geared towards the online, user vs user game play without full thinking about how it would effect the user vs cpu game play.

The whole theme this year for both football games was to water down the effect of users online using scrambling QB's. By doing so it made everything else ineffective as well such as counter plays and play action pass, running out of the shotgun, etc.

You can't prevent users online from cheesing certain plays and moves. Ramping up the cpu teammates AI play recognition just makes a jumbo mess of things when you have a user playing against the cpu.

I remember 2K tried that in NBA 2k10 by watering down certain moves and it made it totally useless to use some moves because they never worked because they watered it down so much it lost it's effectiveness. So even if you weren't cheesing it and trying to do it in a normal situation, you couldn't.

Same thing has happened this year in NCAA 11 and Madden 11. They were worried so much about people abusing scrambling QB's online that now even the CPU QB don't even scramble and on Madden 11 it is damn near impossible for even the user to scramble by how fast they got defensive linemen running in this game.

It makes playing against and as some teams in Madden totally useless now because all the QB's play the same, so therefore all the teams play the same. Playing against the Eagles is no different then playing against the Colts because both QB's play like pocket passers in this game. So therefore you don't ever have to change your defensive scheme because there is never a threat of the QB ever taking off and running on you.

It is even worse in NCAA 11 because so many spread based teams heavily rely on scrambling QB's in order to make their style of offense to thrive. Playing against against schools like Michigan, Auburn, Oregon, Florida, Ohio St, Florida St, Nevada, Texas, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Army, Navy, Air Force, etc is BORING because their QB's don't run or scramble around.

They might as well had kept all 120 schools play styles hidden because they all play the same way in the game anyway. Because all they ever do is throw or hand it off, that's it. Dual threat is no threat because they aren't dual in the game.

So really I would like to see both Madden and NCAA since they share the same problems really focus on the basics of football and worry more about the user vs cpu experience. And stop putting labels next to people names in the game if they don't behave that way.

What it is the point of labeling QB's scrambling, balanced, pocket passer if ALL of them behave like pocket passers ? What is the point of having a throw on the run attribute if the cpu QB don't ever run ? Why have counter plays and play action pass if they don't ever work ?

All this ramping up the defense AI and watering down of the offense is severely hurting the single player experience. Cheesers will always be cheesers online, so don't punish the masses just because of the small percentage of cheesers online.

[Isura]

Sports gaming was much more enjoyable before online IMO. The idiot complaining cheesers have ruined it