Madden NFL 16 Community Impressions

[ehh]

Quote: Originally Posted by TeamHawkins

Penalties are mainly against the USER, especially in the 4th if you have a lead which is cheesy to me.

I just finished up Jets (me) @ Buffalo, 13 minute quarters on All-Pro with all penalty sliders at 60 and the Bills had 14 penalties while I had nine.

FWIW, last year the NFL averaged 13.2 penalties per game. So A) the sliders work great B) the home CPU team had more penalties than I did.

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

Jacked up the penalties to 55 and one thing I noticed, the Roughing the QB is called more often than not.

Yeah, it either needs to be patched or lowered but at 60 the Bills got called for two complete BS roughing the passers against me. The DE tried to run past Geno to pursue a pass into the flat and lightly brushed Geno who took a goofy flop and got the flag. You could easily tell the DE was not still pressuring Geno but instead pursing the RB.

[bigeastbumrush]

Initial impressions:

BAD:
-Feels a lot like '15. Not saying that's terrible but it just felt the same.
-Commentary is a bore.
-My DBs seem to be brain dead. CPU receivers just wide open. I literally. Had a Safety stand and watch the ball go over his head for a TD. He stopped running for some reason.
-Aggresive/RAC/Possession catches are a good idea to me but something about it just feels like cheese. Maybe it's the pop up. Don't know yet. I do like the physicality of the contact though.
-The game feels fast even on Slow.
-Need a more robust halftime show.

GOOD:
-The running game. Although the whole "locomotion" seems overpowering at times, there seem to be true holes up the middle. I had my Center and RG double team a DL and push the line forward. A year ago, the HB would've just fell at that spot.
-I like the pop up stats for some strange reason.
-CPU QBs will run if they don't see anything open downfield.
-The WR/DB and OL/DL line interactions are great. Biggest prove meant IMO.
-I saw a DPI penalty with the slider set to 100. Although it was only one for the entire game, it seems like it will be a factor this year. There was too much contact on that play so it felt good.

Overall, it's good. Very similar to last year but I feel it's more intricate as far as controls go. Definitely need practice to learn how to do some of the more complex stuff naturally.

I would hate to play this game online though. I think it'd be a cheeser's wet dream with all of the improvements to offense.

So far: 8.5/10

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by HozAndMoose

Im pretty sure you can turn those off

Please let us know how. Haven't found a way.

[T5063]

Ok, so I started an offline CFM. I randomly selected the Lions. All-pro default.

Just finished the first game. I beat the chargers 22-21 on a last second field goal after being down 21-13 at the start of the fourth.

Stats-wise everything was good. Rivers completed 60% of his passes while Stafford completed 69%. Each team only got 1 sack. Rivers threw some bad passes when he was pressured, however, there was two plays where he got pressured and he tuck and ran with the ball out of the backfield like a running back... I though that was really weird.

Passing game is great. Throwing of your back foot will result in some wild throws. Throwing into coverage will result with a lot of hold-your-breath moments as you never know what the outcome will be.

Penalties were there but still too few compared to a real NFL game.

My starting RB had way to many of the carries compared to the backups.

Overall, its a big improvement but it still needs some tuning and slider work.

CFM needs to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch in my opinion.

[LowerWolf]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lisac

Havent found a way, if there is please let me know!

It's under Visual Settings. I forget the actual one though.

[jwilphl]

I just started playing so I'm going to keep this short initially: what is with the very off colors in the game? I'm playing a night game at Lambeau right now, and the Eagles pants are quite obviously blue rather than green, while the Packers jerseys are really faded versions of the real jerseys.

Is this normal or is it something else? Any comments on the colors in the game? I mean they are so clearly off I don't see how the team at EA could have missed it and thought, "yeah that looks right."

[HozAndMoose]

Quote: Originally Posted by kehlis

Please let us know how. Haven't found a way.

Quote: Originally Posted by LowerWolf

It's under Visual Settings. I forget the actual one though.

Yepp Visual Settings > On Field Visual Feedback

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by HozAndMoose

Yepp Visual Settings > On Field Visual Feedback

Lifesaver. Thank you.


Does that also eliminate the dumb xp point bonus that float out of their helmets?