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

[rudyjuly2]

Somewhere Rex Ryan is smiling.

[SloeyEZ]

not a clue what anyone is talking about anymore...rex ryan and s&m?

[rudyjuly2]

Quote: Originally Posted by SloeyEZ

not a clue what anyone is talking about anymore...rex ryan and s&m?

Rex Ryan has a foot fetish that was exposed and embarrassed him last year.

[DJ]

OK, back on the topic of impressions:

I used the CPU playbook suggestions the other day and yeah, didn't make much of a difference in my CCM. I am Oakland and played Miami in Week 2. While the play calling was better, the execution was horrid.

I won 31-10. Bush scored on an 80-yard to open the game, which i thought was encouraging. After that, he gained a total of 8 yards the rest of the game.

I could've scored more points had my receivers not dropped 8 passes.

I don't know what else to do at this point. It is zero fun to play against the CPU in CCM. They rarely put together a sustained drive. I'm 2 games in and already bored. I'd like to at least be challenged by the CPU. I've tried all kinds of slider sets and they make minimal difference in CCM.

[SloeyEZ]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

Rex Ryan has a foot fetish that was exposed and embarrassed him last year.

lol, you're right, i forgot about that.

[SloeyEZ]

Quote: Originally Posted by DJ

OK, back on the topic of impressions: I used the CPU playbook suggestions the other day and yeah, didn't make much of a difference in my CCM. I am Oakland and played Miami in Week 2. While the play calling was better, the execution was horrid. I won 31-10. Bush scored on an 80-yard to open the game, which i thought was encouraging. After that, he gained a total of 8 yards the rest of the game. I could've scored more points had my receivers not dropped 8 passes. I don't know what else to do at this point. It is zero fun to play against the CPU in CCM. They rarely put together a sustained drive. I'm 2 games in and already bored. I'd like to at least be challenged by the CPU. I've tried all kinds of slider sets and they make minimal difference in CCM.

you probably don't want to hear it...but there is one way to improve the CPU results...don't control your players use coach mode.

Speaking of which though, i've finally bit the bullet and joined an online league and am very proud to say, that without controlling my players, I won my first game against someone who controlled his players. I'm Tampa and this game was against the Cowboys. It was rather funny since Cowboys were up 21-10 late in 3rd quarter and Romo threw 3 INTs...I won the game 26-21 Funnest game I've ever played on Madden. (still not quite Head Coach, but getting closer)

[rudyjuly2]

Quote: Originally Posted by DJ

OK, back on the topic of impressions: I used the CPU playbook suggestions the other day and yeah, didn't make much of a difference in my CCM. I am Oakland and played Miami in Week 2. While the play calling was better, the execution was horrid. I won 31-10. Bush scored on an 80-yard to open the game, which i thought was encouraging. After that, he gained a total of 8 yards the rest of the game. I could've scored more points had my receivers not dropped 8 passes. I don't know what else to do at this point. It is zero fun to play against the CPU in CCM. They rarely put together a sustained drive. I'm 2 games in and already bored. I'd like to at least be challenged by the CPU. I've tried all kinds of slider sets and they make minimal difference in CCM.

DJ, I would suggest you jump up to All-Madden. You are bored because the game is too easy for you. Try out one of the All-Madden sets or just play on default for a game and see how it goes. Might want to play an exhibtion game first but I think that's the only way you save this game if you can't get a good game out of the cpu on All-Pro.

There has always been a problem with EA football games on the All-Pro or All-American difficulty and under: the cpu QB can be really stupid. Combine that with already suspect play calling and the cpu can get too easy. It would be really nice if EA added a QB awareness slider so we could make their QBs smarter on the lower levels but they have never done that. So we normally compensate by reducing the coverage slider so they complete more passes. But Madden's pass reaction slider is useless so we can't really do that either. After that the only big thing you can do is boost the cpu pass block as their passing game is affected tremendously by pass protection.

I will say the playbook switch helps a ton for me. Not having the terribly predictable play calling on 1st and 2nd down is huge. The next step for you is making the game harder to get fun again.

[miniviking10]

I don't know why but every time I start up Madden 13 it still doesn't prompt me to update the game...I feel left out...