Madden NFL 18 Features New Target Passing, Coverage Assignments & More

[SteelD34KC]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

Oh I 100% agree and I hate it as well. I just take umbrage with it being framed that way is all.

mo·nop·o·ly
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noun
1.
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
"his likely motive was to protect his regional monopoly on furs"

It is a monopoly. I dont really care either way. As long as Madden continues to come out and gets better each year Im fine.

I never liked 2k football, but that was just me.

Id really, really like to see something like created draft class's.

But in reality only two things will make me buy this game.

1. OLine/Dline interaction - but not jsut them but LBs in 3-4 blitzting, LBs, Safeties, CBs Blitzing etc. This has been needed since madden was first built and they have never really gotten it right. Get this right, and yeah.

2. CB/WR/Safety - Interaction - The canned animations have to go. In 17 when I throw deep I get one of three animations. Either a pick where my WR doesnt even fight for the ball, although hes 88 ovr and the corner is 75 overall. DPI animation. Or the WR goes up for it, sorta catches, then drops it because of contact. Thats it. Need uncanned interaction.

Do I think Ill get either of those things? Nope. They are going to a new engine this year so they wont have time for all that. They are going to be hard pressed to get the full game over to the frostbite.

Now if they started a few years ago, like some have said, maybe, just maybe they will utilize the Frostbite to its full potential.

I mean has anyone watched a Fifa 17 game, late, 1-1 with a team driving the ball. The crowd, the noise...just amazing.

Im hopeful, as I am every year.

[Critical Kills]

Quote: Originally Posted by SteelD34KC

mo·nop·o·ly məˈnäpəlē/Submit noun 1. the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. "his likely motive was to protect his regional monopoly on furs" It is a monopoly. I dont really care either way. As long as Madden continues to come out and gets better each year Im fine.

You can't have a monopoly on a private, trademarked brand that a company owns. It's not football that EA has the exclusive agreement to make, it's the actual NFL branding of football, that they own. That's the difference as to why it's an exclusive agreement, not a monopoly.

As I said, I too don't like it and would like to see anyone who would like be able to make an NFL game, but the NFL has chosen not to go that route.

Hate it all you want but don't call it something it's not.

[N51_rob]

Gents, its been almost 12 years. Let's not rehash this again. You can have that conversation via PMs. Thanks.

[LBzrule]

Quote: Originally Posted by kjcheezhead

A reticule would be terrible imo. It's been done on old games and the problem is you have to choose between moving the cursor or moving your qb. Blitzing defenses make it unusable. The vision cone allowed you to still move the cone by hitting the WRs button so you could roll out or scramble at the same time. It was just harder, especially if you had a narrow cone that focused on the wr versus one that covered a quarter or half the field. I think it's probably a reticule the way it's described which concerns me. Sent from my iPhone using Operation Sports

After thinking more I don't think it will be a reticle. I don't think the UI for passing will change, just timing and player behavior will be much more important based on who your QB is and who your WR's are. I'll wait to hear more about it but I don't think they will put a reticle or anything else like that on the screen. It's just way too much in relation to the defense; block sheds and blitzes.

[Critical Kills]

Quote: Originally Posted by LBzrule

After thinking more I don't think it will be a reticle. I don't think the UI for passing will change, just timing and player behavior will be much more important based on who your QB is and who your WR's are. I'll wait to hear more about it but I don't think they will put a reticle or anything else like that on the screen. It's just way too much in relation to the defense; block sheds and blitzes.

If it's not a reticule I don't see how they could call it targeted passing. It has to be something separate from the receiver, ie a spot on the field and without a way to see it then it wouldn't be target passing.

[SolidSquid]

I don't think the passing system will be any different than what we already have. You'll have more control over where you place the ball or "target" which is hopefully tied to rating and cause more missed throws. But as far as the mechanic it will the same click X to throw to X

[4thQtrStre5S]

I hope coverage assignments is more than just being able to individually assign a defender to an offensive player, if that is in fact the case...and maybe the in game options of swapping CB1 and CB2 coverage on the fly, etc..

I would like to see the "Plays Ball in Air" trait removed, for example, and have that be chosen by the user; so like in NCAA Football - thus I can tell my defense to pay more aggressive, conservative or the default balanced style.

[DeuceDouglas]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

If it's not a reticule I don't see how they could call it targeted passing. It has to be something separate from the receiver, ie a spot on the field and without a way to see it then it wouldn't be target passing.

I could see it end up being something like Trigger+Receiver Icon+Thumbstick with different directions correlating to different "targets" (i.e. High and away, low and behind, low and in front, etc.) and having the triggers be tied to either a touch or bullet pass. Basically a mechanic very similar to the ball-carrier moves implemented last year and similar, but expanded, version to what I believe is already in place. The description stating that you're no longer throw at receivers and you can throw it anywhere on the field obviously contradicts that kind of mechanic though. But it's hard for me to envision them implementing any kind of difficult mechanic or something with a steep learning curve, especially if it's the default for online. Hard to say though, definitely the most interested in seeing this in action.