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

[U_GOT_ROBBED]

Quote: Originally Posted by EmmdotFrisk

What are the major faults in your opinion? I know there are some big issues that people are pissed about but I want to know your opinion.

The Salary cap issue where people are 100 million over for some reason and when they ask about it it doesnt get answered.

Zone defense doesnt work well the players wait until someone catches the ball to react to them instead of when they enter the zone.

Suction blocking and tackling.

Even though we can change the scheme it doesnt matter cause I still have to do it everytime before i start a game because it still has the original scheme.

Some minor things

Why do some drafted players still have the wrong skin color. Josh was given a list soon after release and said he was fixing it yet they are still wrong. I wont draft these guys

Editing not working and being remove, just annoying

assissted tackles

Dont get me wrong I love the game but these things need fixed but Ive lost faith and thats bad because I was one of the guys defending Josh and his team.

[DJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by EmmdotFrisk

We know its a problem and are looking into fixing but it is not likely for M13.

That is a real downer. The patches have improved a lot of things with M13 but the play calling and late-game strategy by the CPU are still glaring issues, and seem to rear their head constantly in CCM. You can overlook the run-pass ratio a few times, but over several seasons? That's too much to ask. Same thing with late-game play calling. Some games it is fine but others it is really bad and saps all of the potential drama from the game you are playing.

[feeq14]

I just want to let it be known that subs are indeed not working just like before the patch. It seems like nothing has changed at all.

[rudyjuly2]

Quote: Originally Posted by poster

Emm, thanks for reporting back. If you can't fix the CPU play calling/playbooks, please report back when you know for certain, so that I can give up on the game for this year. Unbelievable that this is an issue, how on earth does this happen? Can't you guys unlock the use of custom playbooks for use in ccm, and let us fix the mess ourselves? Would doing that break something else?

Quote: Originally Posted by DJ

That is a real downer. The patches have improved a lot of things with M13 but the play calling and late-game strategy by the CPU are still glaring issues, and seem to rear their head constantly in CCM. You can overlook the run-pass ratio a few times, but over several seasons? That's too much to ask. Same thing with late-game play calling. Some games it is fine but others it is really bad and saps all of the potential drama from the game you are playing.

I was right with you guys in wanting to dump this game over the play calling tendencies. I really don't understand how EA can't fix this issue as it is huge in my eyes and a really big negative. That said there is a work around. You can use a second controller in franchise games to switch the cpu playbook to a generic one as the generic playbooks actually have working tendencies. The Legend playbooks appear fine as well. Check out this thread for further info. It saved the game for me: http://www.operationsports.com/forum...fline-ccm.html

Late game strategy is still terrible when the cpu is on offense. Another thing that has was fine in Madden 12 and broken in M13 and yet not fixed for whatever reason. I don't understand how some of these glaring issues haven't been fixed.

[fripperiffic]

Way too many issues still existing with this year. Maybe next year? Oh well, my copy sold for $40 on Ebay.

[poster]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

I was right with you guys in wanting to dump this game over the play calling tendencies. I really don't understand how EA can't fix this issue as it is huge in my eyes and a really big negative. That said there is a work around. You can use a second controller in franchise games to switch the cpu playbook to a generic one as the generic playbooks actually have working tendencies. The Legend playbooks appear fine as well. Check out this thread for further info. It saved the game for me: http://www.operationsports.com/forum...fline-ccm.html Late game strategy is still terrible when the cpu is on offense. Another thing that has was fine in Madden 12 and broken in M13 and yet not fixed for whatever reason. I don't understand how some of these glaring issues haven't been fixed.

Thanks Rudy, I have been following that thread. It seems as if it helps (don't have the game at the moment), but it seems like a half *** work around, caused by a half *** EA feature. Not at all a knock on you and everyone else who has worked on this. I am hesitant to use this method as a fix, as it still takes away the identity of the teams, which doesn't cut it in 2012. Why can't they just unlock the ability to let us bring edited playbooks in CCM. I don't care about changing the plays, just the star tendencies.

Just very frustrated, as usual when dealing with an EA Sports game.

[brahmagoul]

I don't understand why they haven't patched in the ability to assign defenders to a receiver.

[Sotendo]

Is there anyway they can fix passive receivers? I'm seeing a lot of single coverage on streak routes and the receiver never even tries to get the ball in the air, in real life it would usually either be caught or a PI penalty most of the time, at least.