Madden NFL 12 Title Update #2 Details

[BoisePanther]

Quote: Originally Posted by Marino

What are you talking about, it hardly ever rains at a Dolphins home game. That's not "True" football, its crap.

Did I say it rained there every time?? Did you see where I said Tropical Storm?? Wow...I guess you were also in attendance when it was raining vs. the Pats as well??

[eastcoast49ers]

So happy they are fixing the PS3 field issues and the Rain issue...

now let's just hope the patch doesn't break other parts of the game

[Armor and Sword]

Looks good. I hope and pray the audio popping is gone. that was a monster pet peave of mine.

Glad to see I can now edit players with player roles.

I am thrilled they are fixing the custom playbooks.

The field textures....good. Not that it really ever bothered me...guess I am so old school I hardly noticed whatever people were complaining about on that front.

Now the only concern I have is the Blocked FG's from the edge.

In my franchise I have only blocked 2 FG's in 21 games played. One of them was a monster block returned for a TD that turned the entire game around for me and launched me into the post season. Now I understand they did this because it was probably being exploited online. So here is a case where offline players get the raw deal. I really hope I can still block a FG as I was never....ever able to do it on Madden 10 or 11. In fact Not since the Genesis days I could remember blocking FG's. I really hope they did not go overboard and nerfed it out completly.

[poopoop]

Quote: Originally Posted by BoisePanther

I'm not happy at all with the weather that needed to be "fixed." Weather was fine and realistic for every encounter in all of my Franchises that I started/tested out. It being "fixed" means absolutely no rain or snow hardly will ever occur now. I hope the people that were crying about true football weather are now happy with their crystal clear skies all over the NFL landscape all year 'round...because that's exactly how EA's gonna do it with this upcoming Patch. Either play in a Dome, or buy the AFL Game so it can be 73-56 final score.

Uhh even the dev team acknowledged that it was an issue. They knew it was broken way before the game was released.

Quote: Originally Posted by adembroski

It's not exactly predetermined. I wish it was, it would have allowed me to make sure it was properly tuned. It's based on "pseudo" random numbers... meaning it grabs different factors that are not random and combines them to make them varied. In other words, I can't "assign" weather for a specific game, I have a specific grouping of numbers that plug into a mathmatical equation, but the numbers polled to complete that calculations are not random, but determined by repeatable circumstances. Thus, the same game will produce the same weather each time. We didn't redo the logic this year, only the numbers behind the scenes. Unfortunately, this cropped up very late and it was the very first thing I worked on way back in January when I got here. Miami is actually set to zero precipitation in September because I was trying everything to get it to stop, but it didn't. I believe it's a bug related to dynamic time-of-day, but I'm not sure. At any rate, I'm rewriting the system that determines the weather because the old system made zero sense, I just tried to do the best I could with it.

If they go to the opposite extreme and make it so that it never rains in some places instead of always raining, then that isn't a fix and not what people were asking for anyway.

[kpkpkp]

Quote: Originally Posted by poopoop

If they go to the opposite extreme and make it so that it never rains in some places instead of always raining, then that isn't a fix and not what people were asking for anyway.

ademborwski said in his post he was rewriting the weather algorithm because the one written in there made "zero sense."

Im quoting the quote you quoted of course...

SO likely the re-writing of the weather coding he was talking about is whats in the patch. Hopefully going forward weather is more relalistic. At least thats whats his post and these patch notes would suggest.

[UMhester04]

When the hell are they gonna start using TUNERS. Why do they even have this feature if they aren't going to utilize it correctly?! I was expecting at least 4 by now.

[vstro]

Quote: Originally Posted by BoisePanther

I didn't say it did there, toughguy...

that's pretty much exactly what you said...

toughguy?

[LionsFanNJ]

I don't know those patch notes suggest no more rain. I'll put money on we won't see a single rain game in our franchises anymore. But we'll see hopefully adembroski rewrote the coding/logic to a respectable outcome.