Madden NFL 12 Super Bowl Halftime Blog: Tuner Sets and Surprise Onside Kicks

[Meast21Forever]

a few things:

- happy about the tuners. that's going to improve the game. the way this team worked well into december patching and updating madden 11, tuner sets will only improve madden 12 further.

- surprise onside kicks won't ruin online play. get a grip people. obviously they'll tune the ai to be aware of it. and if it does work once, ok then. but if it works more than once, that's on you. if someone wants to do that every time, make them pay. the risk outweighs the reward.

- why are people surprised how good the game looks 'for an early build'? it's madden 11 updated. not to say it's not a different game, but it isn't like they built it from scratch. they're just adding things. it looks pretty similar to 11 to me aesthetically aside from the score bug at the top.

- this blog is about as exciting as i expected. ian's not going to come out and release all the updated franchise info when the game doesn't ship for another 7 months. he's just feeding us baby birds what he's allowed to.

- is it me or does ian's controller look worn out? his pads are all shiny

- still a bunch of individual players out there. each one is kinda wandering around doing his own thing. after playing nba 2k11 for so long, it'd be nice to see a player or two come together and hit helmets or high five or something. they recovered an onside kick, a few guys celebrated to themselves, and then it's off the field at the exact same rate of speed lol. a bit robotic almost. 2k11 spoiled me i guess

[erich20012001]

Quote: Originally Posted by Meast21Forever

a few things: - happy about the tuners. that's going to improve the game. the way this team worked well into december patching and updating madden 11, tuner sets will only improve madden 12 further. - surprise onside kicks won't ruin online play. get a grip people. obviously they'll tune the ai to be aware of it. and if it does work once, ok then. but if it works more than once, that's on you. if someone wants to do that every time, make them pay. the risk outweighs the reward. - why are people surprised how good the game looks 'for an early build'? it's madden 11 updated. not to say it's not a different game, but it isn't like they built it from scratch. they're just adding things. it looks pretty similar to 11 to me aesthetically aside from the score bug at the top. - this blog is about as exciting as i expected. ian's not going to come out and release all the updated franchise info when the game doesn't ship for another 7 months. he's just feeding us baby birds what he's allowed to. - is it me or does ian's controller look worn out? his pads are all shiny - still a bunch of individual players out there. each one is kinda wandering around doing his own thing. after playing nba 2k11 for so long, it'd be nice to see a player or two come together and hit helmets or high five or something. they recovered an onside kick, a few guys celebrated to themselves, and then it's off the field at the exact same rate of speed lol. a bit robotic almost. 2k11 spoiled me i guess

This is the first thing I noticed, and something that if fixed, can bring a lot to the game. They need to make a team feel like a team. It brings life to a game.

[dickey1331]

Quote: Originally Posted by brett the jet favre

thas all we are gonna see online hah!

Did you read the blog?

[TheCreep]

Whatever. I just hope Ian and the crew watched the full game today to make sure they implement the linebacker variants of the revo speed. Clay Matthews helmet/facemask needs to be implemented asap.

[Step2001]

Players need to have a Special Teams Rating & Allow us to set our Special Teams Units. So much more......

[RynoAid]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blue Line

ok then, someone wake me up in six months when all the info is already released. im not going to sit here and pretend that this was news worthy

I think any info you get 7 months in advance is newsworthy.. especially if it includes info on tuner sets. The onside kick info was just to bury the lead...

[adembroski]

I agree with Ryno... the tuner sets are the real news here.

I'm going to take myself out of my current job for just a moment and comment as if I don't know what else is coming down the pike... Ian addressed something that the community had been asking for but he had been resisting because he felt there were bigger fish to fry. I think it was a smart blog to do, it was the right blog to do, because it's something that's already in the game, already working, and thus it isn't gonna get cut, and he can let the community who's been demanding it know "hey, we are listening, we're doing what we can."

Again, back to the tuner sets... I think we all expected them, but it's confirmed now, and that can't be anything but a good thing. It isn't huge news, anybody who's been here the past two seasons knows it's not gonna be huge news (year 1 was head tracking, I don't remember what it was last year, but I know there was a similar "where's the real news" kinda thing).

Anyways, there's a long ways to go to August, and plenty more news coming. I'm sure it'll start to flow like a river around the draft, so sit down, chill, wait it out.

[Meast21Forever]

Quote: Originally Posted by adembroski

I'm going to take myself out of my current job for just a moment and comment as if I don't know what else is coming down the pike...

i hate you...