Haha, I must have left it running when I went to my parents yesterday. I have definitely NOT been playing that game for 12+ hours!
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Official Madden '17 PS4 Online League Thread: DOTA is dead, long live DOTA
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Yeah, I want to give that a run.
Am I on a bye this week? I was fucking around with MUT but never checked Franchise, sucks to not have league daddy.
you must've missed the past few pages? 10 or so people left the league, so it's currently in limbo (dead) with Wellie trying to take over and move forward
Claude Dallas
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Anyone see any deals on total Warhammer?
I saw some shit about it on Tuesday, read a few posts, wanted to comment but figured I'd make a few comments later, just never got around to it. Super busy week for me.
It's a shame, if you don't have the drive to play the game no use in continuing. Really enjoyed the league through the years, appreciate everyone who put time into it. Most of us are older, finite amount of time, Madden can eat into your available time. EA had a good game this year, but I think the last patch really fucked with the tuning on All-Madden Franchise. Every mode feels different, no kidding here. I thought it was almost perfect before the last patch, All Madden Franchise was where it should be. Run wasn't too strong, WRs didn't drop that many balls, then they updated it for the lower modes and I swear it fucked shit up.
Yeah, feel the same way. Folks are probably burned out, understandable as well. I've taken a few years off here and there, it's just hard to keep interested. MUT kind of brought me back, but I was burned out on it by January. Barely played the mode this year, although the last few weeks I've definitely started the grind again. Not interested in H2H so much, just building a squad.
Azwethinkweiz
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That piece of shit site was down all morning basically and now the game is back up to $60 before it would let me buy it. Somnia, your garbage tier place of employment needs to be burned to the ground.
Most definitely. DC is awful, I think the only MUT mode people enjoy is salary cap, felt better than the rest of the modes. Something is up.
CB, I think it's a better game than the last couple, but the last patch killed the run game. It was fine on All-Madden, not as overpowered as All-Pro, but it was nerfed to shit in the last patch. Many people hate the game, so you're not the only one. We'll see what EA does, game doesn't seem as popular this year. MUT was trash in terms of content early in year, it was pay to play, but the community all went nuts and they turned it around. That's really the problem, the Franchise community is tiny, we don't have pull.
They'll listen to gameplay complaints, but when the game plays one way in regular H2H, and then completely different in DC, or Franchise, it's hard to pinpoint wtf is wrong.
FrenchMovieTheme
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this was the best playing madden (on the field) in years and i still stick to that. where it failed, and ultimately why i feel it didn't go longer, is the little bugs here and there and the fact that tiburon bitched out on website support so we didn't have that. looking at stats and analyzing was half the fun!
i think people also had issues adapting to some of the gameplay changes. it can't be understated how crucial in-game confidence was. you chuck and int early and it's hard to come back from that. CB always referenced #HFA, and i think it was there but not to the degree that he says. i went 14-2 last season and lost 2 games on the road by a combined 6 points. i also won a bunch of road games in blow out fashion. the one thing i do agree with cb on is the jump balls were kind of a coin flip as to what would happen, and there was less rhyme/reason as to WHY the outcome was what it was. i wish tiburon could come up with a system that had more user input/skill coupled with stats of the player you were throwing to/against.
which brings me to my one major issue with the game, and it's been this way for years: a lot of the player ratings are just window dressing. the majority of the ratings you see for a player don't mean shit. this is evidenced by me having one of the worst teams in the game and able to go 14-2 and get to the superbowl. that shouldn't have happened but it did because even though i had shitty "overall" rated CB's, they played really well, my DL played really well even though overall they weren't very good, and then sprinkle in some manual LB play to take out the middle and there you have it. i also dont know why tiburon tweaked the QB accuracy settings from last year. it was perfect last year! this year, i was throwing 75%+ with kap at the end of season 1. he had very few inaccurate throws. every once in a while but for the most part he may as well have been tom brady back there.
anyways we'll see what happens with madden next year. i don't know if we'll have a league if this same garbage is going to happen. i feel bad that we presented we would have a league and then barely get through a season :/
i think people also had issues adapting to some of the gameplay changes. it can't be understated how crucial in-game confidence was. you chuck and int early and it's hard to come back from that. CB always referenced #HFA, and i think it was there but not to the degree that he says. i went 14-2 last season and lost 2 games on the road by a combined 6 points. i also won a bunch of road games in blow out fashion. the one thing i do agree with cb on is the jump balls were kind of a coin flip as to what would happen, and there was less rhyme/reason as to WHY the outcome was what it was. i wish tiburon could come up with a system that had more user input/skill coupled with stats of the player you were throwing to/against.
which brings me to my one major issue with the game, and it's been this way for years: a lot of the player ratings are just window dressing. the majority of the ratings you see for a player don't mean shit. this is evidenced by me having one of the worst teams in the game and able to go 14-2 and get to the superbowl. that shouldn't have happened but it did because even though i had shitty "overall" rated CB's, they played really well, my DL played really well even though overall they weren't very good, and then sprinkle in some manual LB play to take out the middle and there you have it. i also dont know why tiburon tweaked the QB accuracy settings from last year. it was perfect last year! this year, i was throwing 75%+ with kap at the end of season 1. he had very few inaccurate throws. every once in a while but for the most part he may as well have been tom brady back there.
anyways we'll see what happens with madden next year. i don't know if we'll have a league if this same garbage is going to happen. i feel bad that we presented we would have a league and then barely get through a season :/
FMTs d-line wrecked my oline in the WC playoff game.
I was 10-6 in season one, 2 of my losses I lost by a combined 2 points on the road. Those sucked, but shit happens. I notch those up to taking early leads in the first half, and taking my foot off the pedal in the second, both games ended 21-22, one game right after another.
I was 10-6 in season one, 2 of my losses I lost by a combined 2 points on the road. Those sucked, but shit happens. I notch those up to taking early leads in the first half, and taking my foot off the pedal in the second, both games ended 21-22, one game right after another.
I used the "#HFA" term not only for that, but also because it was easier than typing out "random piece of bullshit coin flip garbage" every time something happened. Which was multiple times, every game. And every time I thought the game had topped out in that regard, it one-upped itself the very next week to my shock and dismay.
I couldn't believe some of the things I was seeing the last few weeks of the season in games.
I couldn't believe some of the things I was seeing the last few weeks of the season in games.
FrenchMovieTheme
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See, the jump balls were worse last year, no questions about it. This year, if you hold the swat/square button you have a fighting chance, last year you didn't. It was more of a dice roll last year than this year, but again, the patch fucked up the tuning and EA had to release a tuner pack to get it back to where it was. I don't do the jumpball shit, I take sacks or throw into coverage, lol.
No way for me to know, no numbers to back it up, but since the D improved, you saw guys throwing 50/50 balls more so than last year because they couldn't risk throwing into coverage. I always agree with FMT about bringing back more user control, I honestly stopped switching on my DBs, it's not fucking worth it. The switch is too late, they react too late, it's a mess. I just hold the icon and let the cpu run the dice roll.
I feel FMT and I are on the same page. Don't believe home field advantage really had an impact. Early in the year it most definitely did, because EA botched fatigue, away teams were tired as hell by the middle of the 3rd quarter but that was patched up. We'll see what they do. I hated the fucking jump ball mechanic, it was their way of addressing the user catch abuse, and it just made shit worse, huge mistake by EA. The game was close to being great, small flaws that ruin what could be a great experience.
Edit: I also think EA did a bad job explaining the new defensive stuff. For example, if you blitzed out of a cover 3 shell and you were facing a 2x2 alignment your defense went into cover 3 match which was essentially man coverage on all except the RB, so if you wheeled the HB you were toast. I spent a couple of hours going over some of this stuff early in the game and it's pretty wild when you realize how vulnerable you can be, but ultimately, no one plays with this shit in mind. Shading features and manning up guys are what most people do.
No way for me to know, no numbers to back it up, but since the D improved, you saw guys throwing 50/50 balls more so than last year because they couldn't risk throwing into coverage. I always agree with FMT about bringing back more user control, I honestly stopped switching on my DBs, it's not fucking worth it. The switch is too late, they react too late, it's a mess. I just hold the icon and let the cpu run the dice roll.
I feel FMT and I are on the same page. Don't believe home field advantage really had an impact. Early in the year it most definitely did, because EA botched fatigue, away teams were tired as hell by the middle of the 3rd quarter but that was patched up. We'll see what they do. I hated the fucking jump ball mechanic, it was their way of addressing the user catch abuse, and it just made shit worse, huge mistake by EA. The game was close to being great, small flaws that ruin what could be a great experience.
Edit: I also think EA did a bad job explaining the new defensive stuff. For example, if you blitzed out of a cover 3 shell and you were facing a 2x2 alignment your defense went into cover 3 match which was essentially man coverage on all except the RB, so if you wheeled the HB you were toast. I spent a couple of hours going over some of this stuff early in the game and it's pretty wild when you realize how vulnerable you can be, but ultimately, no one plays with this shit in mind. Shading features and manning up guys are what most people do.
No no no no no no no no no. Not Like this. This was that, powered up. Like some god damn super saiyan bullshit.
FrenchMovieTheme
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agreed lj. tiburon also absolutely fixed the issues with covering the flats with their new zone audibles. it becomes a cat and mouse game at that point but at least you were in control of what you wanted to take away. last year there wasn't shit you could do about covering the flats consistently because sometimes your corner would do as he should, and sometimes he would carry the wr up the field and there was never any indication of why he would or wouldn't do this
Weird, site worked fine for me this morning when I posted and I was able to pickup Tomb Raider without any issue.
FMT, did that 20% off PSN code you bought stack with the 10% off code that is floating around?
FrenchMovieTheme
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I did buddy. I got 30% off.nah, can't stack it
I guess only certain codes stacked. Thank god I got mine early.
FrenchMovieTheme
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Wtf how
Azwethinkweiz
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I got tomb raider and Deus ex, no problem. Hitman was the problem.
ScottSullivan
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I guess FMT would be the commish to approve this at this point, But I want to trade my 2nd round pick in next seasons draft to NogChomp for RT Reily Reiff. Should I submit the trade in the game?
loool
I would imagine Cyber Monday will have a bit more.barely any deals on PC parts
i was hoping to get a jumpstart on my build today
there haven't been any announced but i hope so!
I actually felt like I was starting to get the hand of things in the first season. The 2nd season has been rough for me, but it's my own fault with all the turnovers. This year had some weird stuff where guys just drop passes or picks. It felt pretty normal watching the Eagles play every Sunday.
I wish there were more ways to control my team and manage my lineup from my computer or my iPhone. It would be cool if EA put resources into making that part of it easy and fun to control and not a game of trial and error.
I wish there were more ways to control my team and manage my lineup from my computer or my iPhone. It would be cool if EA put resources into making that part of it easy and fun to control and not a game of trial and error.
FrenchMovieTheme
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Go crazy!
FrenchMovieTheme
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Yep that it does. I'm done there after Christmas. Told my buddy I couldn't do this shit anymore.
Azwethinkweiz
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Well you're the colts
ScottSullivan
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I think we finally broke the myth that the player XP wasn't counting at least right? The only thing I don't like about the progression is regression starting at 28...it should be 30 at the earliest
TheDrizzlerJ11
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I'm hooked on Hell on Wheels,
especially since I just started season 4 and they finally killed off Commons terrible acting