Madden 24 Preview - GameInformer

[PhillyPhanatic14]

https://www.gameinformer.com/preview...ing-the-chains

Great article.

"However, perhaps the biggest improvement to defense comes in the form of what the developer is taking away from their repertoire: their "psychic" abilities. In past games, defenders would magically swat away passes they weren't even looking at or preemptively run the receiver's route before the receiver himself ran it. Those A.I. anomalies are gone in this entry, making for more realistic defensive play."

[Brooke2011]

Rear hand warmers …. Nice touch EA …. Aka equipment guru.

[Sphinx]

This blurb made me pretty happy,

"Commissioners of Franchise leagues can also look forward to a ton of new settings, including age XP sliders, trade difficulty settings, adjustable draft timers, progression/regression sliders, and plenty more."

[PhillyPhanatic14]

This is the coolest thing I've read about the game so far.

"Additionally, new draft class generators... (including) out-of-position generators that let you identify if that incoming quarterback might actually make for a better NFL running back."

More variance in the draft classes is awesome and an out of position generator is really really cool.

[Kramer5150]

Still reading the article, but this jumped out at me.....

Quote:

In addition to the continued use of authentic soundtracks for each stadium

Does this possible mean that we'll get to hear Renegade at Acrisure? That would be pretty sweet if true and a great way to "up" the momentum..and show cutscenes of the fans waiving the terrible towels? I might be getting WAY ahead of myself here, but DAMN if that wouldn't be awesome...

[trekfan]

All of it sounds good, happy that PC is finally going next-gen (it's about damn time), but don't call me a believer -- Madden has had plenty of fluff pieces out before. I trust nothing until the community has some time with the game in hand.

[shanew21]

This article does a lot better job than the gridiron notes.

A few things that stood out:
- Raytracing
- CPU Free Agency logic so they'll keep star players
- Defenses react to repetitive play calls
- A lot of talk about the "single player experience"

As an exclusively single player guy with Madden, it does seem like they're addressing a large part of their user base this year instead of just focusing on online modes.

[jpdavis82]

This subtle line here, is something that has been a complaint in the OS community for many years. I hope they truly fixed this.