Probably because it's very awkward to have a TV-style broadcast with just a stadium announcer. You're watching highlight packages and having "commercial breaks" to nothing but silence.
yeah i understand what your saying...
but the announcing sucks....i'd rather tune them out then here that bad chatter all game
trust me try it 1-2 games and you won't miss them at all
Just played an online game. Threw a pass to my 6'6 tight end Jimmy Graham and he didn't use his height to jump for the ball when it was in the air. Resulted in an interception from a 5'10 safety.
Looks like the patch didn't fix one of the biggest flaws in the gameplay aspect for many years.
Just played an online game. Threw a pass to my 6'6 tight end Jimmy Graham and he didn't use his height to jump for the ball when it was in the air. Resulted in an interception from a 5'10 safety.
Looks like the patch didn't fix one of the biggest flaws in the gameplay aspect for many years.
FAIL!
That stuff is slider dependent. A higher catching slider will create more frequent and more aggressive catching attempts by the receiver.
In addition, I manually catch most every pass just to ensure that my receiver takes the best position.
Even on the plays I don't control, I find that the CPU does a fair job of going for the ball. Fades work by themselves, for example.
I am happy with the patch overall but it looks like it did not fix existing custom playbooks. I still has my added formations in their own tab instead of all under "shotgun" or "singleback" etc.
Has anyone made a NEW playbook to see if they are fixed? I am at work and can't test this until later.
Just downloaded patch today. First game went to OT. I noticed each time received 3 timeouts. It is 2 timeouts in OT right?? Not sure if this was just from this patch or not, since I just noticed it now.
The only difference I have seen (and am very happy about) is the lack of rain!
I still get audio problems where is seems to randomly change from surround to stereo or mono. Gus will be speaking really quietly and then Collingsworth will start speaking and his voice just blasts about at twice the volume.
Other than the qb sneak being toned down, and roles not being lost if you edit their equipment, I'm really not noticing much. Those were my two main gripes, so I'm good with the patch. Wish some tuners would come out though, to address a LB spying a qb that never goes after him until he's 3 yards down field.
I turned on my Xbox this morning and I was prompted to dl something that was 5MB...I already had the patch since I played all yesterday without being prompted for anything, this is strange...has anyone else came across this today?
I turned on my Xbox this morning and I was prompted to dl something that was 5MB...I already had the patch since I played all yesterday without being prompted for anything, this is strange...has anyone else came across this today?
I fired mine up after reading your post. No dice.
Maybe your cache got cleared by accident or something.
Disclaimer: Some of the changes I have noticed could be my opponents shutting down my offensive gameplan or patch adjustments.
Since the patch I have noticed Rt and Lt tackles have trouble blocking on power and sweeps. It seems that as soon as I attempt to hit the corner or cut in the DE's immediately disengage. Again this could just be my imagination.
I have also noticed defensive backs have been taking some poor angles towards the ball carrier and also behaving differently to a Wide out catching a ball. It is almost like they have been toned down. To somewhat counter this I attempt to user defend most passes, but sometimes they're just in weird positions.
Defense tackles and ends on pass plays seem to get less push than before as well. Could be my imagination.
I would love to have the point of view of players who prefer a "ranked" online match.
Has anyone else experienced an immense amount of freezing since downloading the patch?
It seems to happen at the loading screen before a franchise game or at the coin toss most times. That was happening when I tried to continue a franchise started prior to the recent patch. I started a new franchise after the patch just to test it out and while I did get a game in, it froze immediately after the game .
Disclaimer: it could very well be my Xbox. It's red-ringed twice in the past 8 months and when I had it fixed by "Gamer Doc", the guy mentioned that it's getting quite old (Elite from '07). I haven't played any of my other games to see if they too would freeze. I haven't seen it talked about much on the boards, so I'm leaning towards it being my Xbox.
Is anyone still having rain issues? I restarted my franchise, I know i have the patch because i can edit players and they dont loose their roles. So did they not fix this? its still raining every game!