Madden NFL 12 Title Update #2 Details

[Big FN Deal]

Quote: Originally Posted by spfhelmiii

This year IRL there was LESS than 2 UDFA's per team... and this was the highest number ever. EA took a very good idea, but botched it. The fix would be simple in theory, just let the CPU "cheat" and know the actual rating of the UDFAs. That way they won't keep a UDFA that is rated, for example, "99?" at the expense of every other player thinking that the UDFA is really rated a 99 (when ultimately he is not). I still think its a great feature for the HUM player, just botched for CPU.

If CPU teams in Madden actually had a coach/coordinator/playbook/gameplan based system with, ratings expectations for each position, player performance expectations and if performance was determined by player ratings within their system, you could have the CPU AI making decisions just like a HUM. Putting the best team available "on paper" according to their system with no guarantee of how it all plays out because of random factors like injuries, opposing team's gameplans and how good their system is.

The CPU, knowing UDFA's true ratings wouldn't be a problem if the adequate risk/reward came with it. For example, the CPU Raiders knows UDFAs true ratings and they target SPD at certain positions regardless of what a player's positions skill ratings are, sometimes cutting more position skilled players for faster ones. While the Patriots target certain position skills regardless of physical ratings, sometimes cutting more athletic gifted players for more skilled ones.

The teams cutting higher ratedcurrent players for lower rated UDFAs would make sense when considering their system.

[harrybawls]

Microsoft is as bad as EA. You would think they could speed up the approval process on the systems best selling game last month. No more checking everyday for the stupid patch, I'm gonna start going outside and see how that goes.

[malky]

Yeah this is crazy, come on EA get your stuff together! Who am I kidding the patch will probably destroy what's already good with the game, you've been warned!

[docolla]

Quote: Originally Posted by malky

Yeah this is crazy, come on EA get your stuff together! Who am I kidding the patch will probably destroy what's already good with the game, you've been warned!

I really hope the patch doesn't make this game less playable. It's been on my shelf for a while and I've been looking forward to starting a dynasty once the patch is out there. It sucks that they didn't test their product before they launched it or at least let the people who got it early tell us about the bugs. But then again I understand where they're coming from. Had I known about all the issues Madden had this year I would have bought it used and EA wouldn't have made a profit off me.

[tite50]

As much venom as I've spewed on EA,mostly for buying up the rights to everything and wiping out competition,I'm just gonna hold out on this group a bit,it's some new guys this time,not Ian and co. So I'm gonna TRY to stay positive for now...but my temper is short and my barrel is long..so don't screw with us to much longer EA

[docolla]

Yea I feel you about the new team and hope that they'll do right. Even with a new team though, next year I'll rent Madden before I buy it. It's kind of crappy that they didn't let the people who got the game early tell us about it. I'm sure that they would have warned us about a few of the franchise bugs, which could have saved some of us money. I really hope they turn it around and start making a game that has some depth and doesn't need 3 or 4 patches for the franchise mode to be playable.

[enyc718]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigdfan76

Still no patch and no announcement for patch #3... well I guess halfway throught the real NFL season we'll be able to start our franchises... Dang it! Why do I always buy this crap game!

You keep buying because this game is like crack. It will never be as good as your first hit. I'm guilty of this too. I just sometimes overlook the flaws and play the.game to my liking.

[Old School SD Fan]

Quote: Originally Posted by Trojan Man

Hmmm. That's a bummer. Is it like this for all UFAs at all positions? And is it like this for all draft class members? I wonder why they wouldn't let us edit body types and shoulder pad width but would allow us to edit shoulder pad height, all other equipment, and attributes? If it's just the UFAs, I'll edit them all down to 0, but if it's the draft classes too then that's another story.

It's all incoming rookies, whether from generated draft classes or from NCAA imports. As these players take over the NFL it begins to look like a Transformers league. Ugly, distractiing, completely unacceptable. And completely ignored by EA in the patch.

If you intend to work a franchise for 5+ seasons this'll annoy most of you.