Slide Protection: Can you trust it?

[shaunlmason]

Quote: Originally Posted by MMChrisS

One of the new additions for Madden and NCAA this year that excites me in the new four-man slide protections.

I must have missed this addition, can you show me a link describing it?

[LBzrule]

Quote: Originally Posted by Shaun Mason

I must have missed this addition, can you show me a link describing it?

Clint described it in an interview. I think people are reading this wrong. I'm not saying slide protection is new. I'm saying the 4 man with the back side tackle in big on big is new.

[jfsolo]

It's been working really well for me in NCAA, but then I have also altered the sliders to affect the whole dynamic. With pass rushing on 75 and pass blocking on 60, when I make the right read on the direction of the blitz my linemen always slide over and get a hat on a defender, if the numbers are even, someone has use one of the moves to get free. No one ever come through untouched.

Default settings may be another story, but with slider tweaks, I have total confidence in Slide Protection.

[N51_rob]

Quote: Originally Posted by LBzrule

Clint described it in an interview. I think people are reading this wrong. I'm not saying slide protection is new. I'm saying the 4 man with the back side tackle in big on big is new.

Yeah, this is new. I know that in Madden 12 if you slid the protection say to the right side your LT would leave the end unblocked as the whole line would shift and the end would have a free run at your QB, unless you changed a RB/FB to block to that side, or you moved the pocket and got rid of the ball quickly.

[chi_hawks]

i thought line sliding was in the last few years games?

anyway, until the line interaction is completely redone, with a physics based engine, its a crapshoot.

[poster]

I haven't and don't plan on playing NCAA, but I hope they worked on improving it for Madden. That was awful, and just as bad was the HB morphing over without even knowing the DT was there and the DT getting suctioned into the block.

Good article and video, LBzrule.

[LBzrule]

Quote: Originally Posted by chi_hawks

i thought line sliding was in the last few years games? anyway, until the line interaction is completely redone, with a physics based engine, its a crapshoot.

Hopefully this will be the last time I'll need to clarify. I'm not saying slide protection is new, I'm saying 4 man slide with the back side tackle in big on big protection is new.

[LBzrule]

I think the worse thing the video shows is that the Center and LG do not slide to the side I told them to slide. Doesn't make sense and without a developer (programmer or producer) explaining things we are left thinking that things work a certain way.