Madden NFL 16 Community Impressions

[Skyboxer]

Quote: Originally Posted by l8knight1

Has anyone shanked a punt or a kick? On All Madden, I have, just my fault on the stick. Love it. Kicking is more challenging, and one mess up cost me a game.

Just 1 with a 60 rated kicker in MUT

[DeuceDouglas]

Played a game last night that just went full "All-Madden mode" on me. I thought I was honing in a decent pair of sliders and had been having some really good games so I decided to start a makeshift Play Now CFM and play the Texans and got beat 41-6 in a hilarious beatdown.

There were a couple plays in particular where I was playing Cover 2 man and Cover 3 and on the Cover 2, my SS randomly decided that he was going to blitz instead of playing his deep zone and I gave up a deep bomb in one-on-one coverage. Then on the Cover 3 my corner Sean Smith completely abandoned his deep third coverage to essentially play man-to-man on a shallow cross while they threw a TD on a wide open corner route where he was supposed to be.

I was basically getting beaten from the jump though after I gave up a TD on the first drive and then on my first play of the next drive I threw a curl to Maclin and no sooner did it touch his hands was he getting hit and the ball came out but they ruled it a fumble. Then they reviewed it, but for a trap catch, not an incomplete pass and it stood. The fact that I was down so early probably had something to do with this but they must have ran the same shotgun inside zone run at least 25 times and I ran into similar issues in other games where teams ran the same play for almost half their plays.

I really wish they would add a break block and run awareness slider to run D sliders as well because that is the biggest issue I come across. I watch their safeties just crash the line as soon as the ball is snapped on my side and my guys are just willing volunteers to one-on-one blocks that they don't ever try to get off of.

All in all it seemed like a fluke game as it's the first one of M16 I've played that has been that bad. Going to play at least 5-10 more before I reevaluate though. Might play the first eight games and then kick it back to All-Pro and jack up the CPU.

[NYJin2011tm]

I'm calling pass plays I have never used before in Madden. Love it!

[RoyalSwine]

Love the gameplay. Unfortunately, almost unplayable with the glitches that plague franchise mode. Have to restart my franchise after 2-3 games each time as the game doesn't save my progress. Boots me back to the main menu without saving my franchise. Game breaker for me. Haven't heard of many others with this issue.

[NYJin2011tm]

I had an issue sort of like that. I played 2 games in Franchise(offline) and it saved and I know it saved because I went in a time or two after just looking at rosters, etc. Then I tried Draft Champions once. Then went back to play next 3rd Franchise game and it was reverted back like I only played 1 game. It was at the point to play 2nd game again. So I deleted it and haven't played since.

[T5063]

The AI logic can be pretty whacky sometimes...

I had a test CFM with the Jags where they drafted a QB 1st overall, then drafted a second QB with their first pick in the 2nd round then decided to start the second rounder over the first overall pick.

Also, seem like the Patriots get rid of Garoppolo 90% of the time, he's signed for 3 years so I'm assuming he's being traded.

[BigDaddyHolmes]

Quote: Originally Posted by RoyalSwine

Love the gameplay. Unfortunately, almost unplayable with the glitches that plague franchise mode. Have to restart my franchise after 2-3 games each time as the game doesn't save my progress. Boots me back to the main menu without saving my franchise. Game breaker for me. Haven't heard of many others with this issue.

I have the same issue. Anytime I try and save, game freezes. However, the auto save seams to work and save after a franchise game. So I am ok for the time being.

[CT Pitbull]

best game of football in quite some time. Still upset some of the minor things like playing a game in cold weather continue to be overlooked. The gameplay is really getting there though. the physics still need A LOT of cleaning up but it is a video game.

the blocking at the 2nd and 3rd levels of the defense is MUCH improved. I love how lineman "look up" somebody to pancake down field. This makes the running game fun as hell.

the debacle that is CFM is really holding this title back right now. A SOLID custom franchise mode would be really nice right now. Its time to scrap the CFM "mold" and give up back the control we all want and deserve. It just seems every friggin year it is something that makes this mode a headache or virtually unplayable for some.

though they arent as frequent as past maddens the defense does still, at times, sit flat footed in their zones but then again so do some WR's once they finish their routes.

All in all I am having a blast playing play now games at all pro level with some penalty sliders and fatigue turned up a bit