Madden NFL 13 Title Update #3 Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360, PS3)

[J-Unit40]

I can attest to EA not really touching the CPU playcalling. I am just not seeing it. I wish I was wrong and maybe with another game or two (already played a few 14-15 min games). Checking out the individual team playbooks and how they rated (with plays and their priority given down an distance) will tell me if they did anything at all.

FYI - this is in Play Now.

Pretty disappointing in my opinion. This is the best Madden to date, but this lack of attention to detail in this area wipes away some of the immersion.

[hyacinth1]

Did they fix rotating schedules after year 1 of CCM or is that still broken?

[BobbyColtrane]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

The first full Madden 13 patch is a big disappointment for me. While everyone was praising EA for what they did fix, they seemed to forget all the things that were absent. For me the broken team tendencies was priority #1 and it wasn’t touched. Most teams in the game still choose to run roughly 80% of the time on first and second down. I played 1.5 games against the Patriots and Eagles and it was still the same as it was before the patch. If this didn’t bother you then you are lucky. It bothers me that all the teams have the same feel and it also makes the cpu too easy to stop. It robs the game of personality. Team songs still don’t play. I scored a TD at home with Miami and their team song is still absent for some reason. Late game AI is still terrible. How can EA defend this? How can it be this bad after producing video game football for over 20 years? The cpu (Tom Brady) was losing by 6 with 18 seconds left and no time outs and they choose to run the ball from my 40. They actually got 20 yards and spiked the ball with 2 seconds left. So what do they do from just inside my 20 with only two seconds left? Bring out a 3 TE, 1 WR formation to run the ball of course. It’s beyond absurd. While they may have patched the game so that the difficulty and sliders within CCM is the same as Play Now it still wasn’t good enough. The pass reaction slider still appears to do nothing. NCAA Football has a pass coverage slider that actually affects coverage. EA’s Madden team has not provided a tool to make the coverage easier or harder. Fail. FG kicking accuracy sliders are still only global which means the human player will continue to hit 100% of their FGs since the r-stick for accuracy means almost nothing and is way too easy. This wasn’t patched either. I still saw the glitch where the game drops out of HD and looks fuzzy. It doesn’t happen often but no fix here either. About the only positives I saw from playing 1.5 games were that the physics seems better. The players seemed to move smoother as well. I haven’t played Madden much lately since I’m so annoyed with the broken team tendencies. At this point I’d like to get through at least one off-season within franchise but I may just trade this game in and be done with it. If this was the best they could do with some obvious things like late game AI so bad, then I have lost a ton of faith in the Madden dev team. Frustrated right now.

Quote: Originally Posted by DJ

Spot on, Rudy. I saw the same things today, both in and out of CCM, as it relates to AI playcalling. That's awfully tough to look past. I'll play a few more games within CCM and see if I can at least get some good games out of the CPU (default All-Madden), but more than likely, this thing is getting traded in for WWE 13 at the end of the month.

2 opinions from gamers that I totally respect- I don't need to hear anything else.

[Lil Worm]

Im playing my old offline ccm and can change my scheme all day long, but as soon as I leave the scheme screen it goes right back to the old scheme. Am I missing something?

[The_Wise_One]

When will EA give the defensive ends some love

[88shane]

Will these changes and mainly difficulty levels and slider corrections be applied to my old CC or do I need to start a new CC to get the benefits of the third patch?

[BTownSlinger]

Quote: Originally Posted by The_Wise_One

When will EA give the defensive ends some love

My RE has broken the sack record in both new franchises of mine. A few times I get like 6 a game. And they is letting the CPU control him, no ratings touched or anything funky. No cheesing.

[SA1NT401]

Smh.... Real the only thing that sums up M13 pre/post patch.

Just so many things that just make me hate this game more and more. Fix one thing and that's a loose use of the word fixed ... But other things go untouched.

I'm done.... Back on the shelf and ill trade it when ACIII drops at the end of the month.

Back to nba 2k.... Maybe they should check that title out and see what is possible...