Why Are There No D-Line Stunts in Madden?

[jahswill]

I'm enjoying Madden this year, I'm just curious as to why we are in 2023 and the game doesn't have any D-Line stunts? Stunts are a huge part of simulation football!

[Coach Captures]

Because there is no leverage in madden. Defenders are sucked into blockers. Madden 17 was the only madden to apply leverage. Think about it, they got weak TEs sealing edges on much better DEs even of the DE has outside leverage. Game is just a mess.

[Hooe]

Clint Oldenburg has spoken multiple times over the years about how their team wants to implement defensive line stunts / games into Madden, but there were (and I guess still are) several video game design concerns which have prevented EA Sports from getting them into the game.

Hopefully we get them sooner than later. Defensive line stunts are increasingly important to the success of a pass rush, and they've arguably been more visible on Sundays thus far this season than ever before.

[oneamongthefence]

I would imagine average Madden players aren't aware how they work or even something like that even exists. The same reason why they went back from match coverage to spot drop.

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[stooge 1010]

also curious as to why there’s no defensive holding penalties? one of the most called penalties in the game


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[A_ZomBevo]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

Clint Oldenburg has spoken multiple times over the years about how their team wants to implement defensive line stunts / games into Madden, but there were (and I guess still are) several video game design concerns which have prevented EA Sports from getting them into the game. Hopefully we get them sooner than later. Defensive line stunts are increasingly important to the success of a pass rush, and they've arguably been more visible on Sundays thus far this season than ever before.

This is where I have a semblance of hope for NCAAF when it releases next year. Supposedly being built from the ground up and from what I heard amd please someone correct me if I am wrong, it will not be using the frostbite engine. Developers of Madden has always stated that they would at least need a year or two to truly clean up the legacy code to be able to fix Madden. Hopefully if NCAAF delivers on being better than Madden on the gameplay front, the Madden team could take NCAAF's base code and use it for Madden going forward.

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[PhillyPhanatic14]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

Clint Oldenburg has spoken multiple times over the years about how their team wants to implement defensive line stunts / games into Madden, but there were (and I guess still are) several video game design concerns which have prevented EA Sports from getting them into the game. Hopefully we get them sooner than later. Defensive line stunts are increasingly important to the success of a pass rush, and they've arguably been more visible on Sundays thus far this season than ever before.

Yeah the last time i remember him talking about it was the making madden podcast that Swami did I think. On there Clint said it would all be for show and not affect gameplay and they didn't want to add it if it wasn't being done right. He wants it in, but wants it to mean something.

[Kramer5150]

Quote: Originally Posted by A_ZomBevo

This is where I have a semblance of hope for NCAAF when it releases next year. Supposedly being built from the ground up and from what I heard amd please someone correct me if I am wrong, it will not be using the frostbite engine. Developers of Madden has always stated that they would at least need a year or two to truly clean up the legacy code to be able to fix Madden. Hopefully if NCAAF delivers on being better than Madden on the gameplay front, the Madden team could take NCAAF's base code and use it for Madden going forward. Sent from my SM-S918U using Tapatalk

According to this article, they are still going to use the frostbite engine...

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In February 2021 EA Sports made an announcement regarding their intention to return to the world of college football video games. They revealed their plans to release NCAA Football 24 a game that is being developed using EA’s renowned Frostbite engine. Interestingly this engine is also utilized for creating the Madden NFL games.

https://sportzhive.com/college-footb...24-coming-out/

I get that the article mentions from 2021, and it may have changed but I highly doubt it.