Madden NFL 16 Title Update #1 Available Now, Roster Update Scheduled For Friday

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by DeuceDouglas

I'm probably in the minority here but I honestly don't believe it was the patch or tuner update that ruined anything. I've only gotten positive results from the tuner and the patch within Play Now. I played one of the best games yet of M16 this morning. I feel like this is strictly is a CFM issue. It seems like it has way too many moving parts. Drive goals and confidence, more specifically, just throw everything out of whack. Ratings (and traits?) are constantly changing, moving, fluctuating, etc. and it creates an unstable mess. And one of those things goes wrong and it creates absolutely nasty side effects (sim engine issue creates 50 point drops in attributes). CFM has been pretty messed up from its inception, as has confidence. Between every issue it's had with XP, confidence, and game prep it needs to be stripped down to strictly a season mode and built from the ground up (again) because it seems like nothing works properly at all.

This pretty much sums it up for me. Play now with tuner and patch play brilliantly for me. Cfm once you get in to it and the confidence stuff take over plays like a completely different game and not in a good way.


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[Cpterp22]

How hard is it for EA just go back to the way franchise mode was a few years ago? Keep owner mode, get rid of all the other crap and if the game plays like it does on play now we got the best game we've gotten a long time

[bucky60]

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobia

I will never understand the issues EA has when it comes to tuning or patching. "Patch Notes: Only affects WRs/DBs....I repeat ONLY!!!!!!! Week later QB completion percentages go from 50/60% to 75/90%" I'm being sarcastic obviously with the QB percentages but how does this happen?? I shouldn't ask that because I already know the answer. Remember the whisper game when you were like 5 or 6? Whisper a phrase into classmate ear, they then whisper it to someone else, this then continues around the room. The last person then says out loud the phrase, which will be different from when it started. The more people involved the more things get distorted. Apply this to developing a video game and multiple hands involved, you get this kind of stuff.

I think it's much more like, with real time embedded simulations, one thing has so much connectivity to other things, that changing one things actually ends up effected so many other areas of the simulation. It has to be very difficult to balance the gameplay/statistics of a football simulation. I don't see this as a whisper game where something gets constantly reinterpreted. I can see how WR/DB interactions could have an unwanted side effect on QB completion %.

[DeuceDouglas]

Quote: Originally Posted by booker21

I agree with you. Put the same play now game on the CFM and we are in heaven.

That's what I mean though, I think it really is there. But it becomes so convoluted by all the ratings changes and everything else that just doesn't work properly. I don't think CFM was ready for more stuff like this to be added. It didn't even work well last year and yet they piled more onto it. If you took away everything Confidence and Goals wise that start changing things so radically, I think CFM would resemble Play Now almost identically which might be wishful thinking but CFM's extras and basics haven't ever seemed to work correctly and I feel like this isn't any different than that.

[BadAssHskr]

hopefully this is relevant enough, but as far as tuner goes, and deleting it from the xbox1, can this be done? i have everything saved on an external HD, and just can't rmember being in a situation to see individual files.

.....this coming from a guy who is waiting until the roster update to play cfm post patch....

[drustrk3]

Quote: Originally Posted by DeuceDouglas

That's what I mean though, I think it really is there. But it becomes so convoluted by all the ratings changes and everything else that just doesn't work properly. I don't think CFM was ready for more stuff like this to be added. It didn't even work well last year and yet they piled more onto it. If you took away everything Confidence and Goals wise that start changing things so radically, I think CFM would resemble Play Now almost identically which might be wishful thinking but CFM's extras and basics haven't ever seemed to work correctly and I feel like this isn't any different than that.

I'm gonna give offline cfm with no tuner a shot. Can't Sim to see the results, because we're talking about game play issues at qb. Let's see after a few games if the qb is still funky, of if it's like play now.

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[SwampFox]

For the confidence issues, isn't there a way to reset a team's confidence levels in CFM to 50 in online CFM? I thought I read that somewhere.

If so, just reset every team's confidence each week.

[Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by SwampFox

For the confidence issues, isn't there a way to reset a team's confidence levels in CFM to 50 in online CFM? I thought I read that somewhere. If so, just reset every team's confidence each week.

There is a confidence reset option for user-controlled teams, but I believe it only moves teams with Confidence below 50 back up to 50, last I heard it does not reset any player's confidence back to 50 if player in question has 50+ Confidence.