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Official Madden 25 Online Franchise Thread: When you own the world you're always home
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FrenchMovieTheme
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some things i noticed:
1. blocking is much improved.... in some instances, TOO much improved. the run blocking improvement i give 2 thumbs up for. there are missed blocks still but overall it is very good.
2. pass blocking is a little too good though. me and smokey both had sacks but most of them were coverage sacks. i dont think either of us blitzed much so who knows
3. i don't know how to use that new running system but smokey had a couple good jukes on me
4. i say again, ball hawk has been toned down. i have only found it useful for jump balls or if the QB throws right at. haven't had where i undercut a route and it takes control for a jumping pick or anything. more testing needed
5. along with the blocking stuff, i'm not sure if its good or bad, but there are a shit load of de-cleaters on downfield blocks
6. i dont think the read option is too cheesy. you win some and lose some
7. punting power his hilariously low on all madden or something weird happened the one time i punted in 2 games. ball went about 20 yards and it wasn't even that windy
8. man coverage doesn't seem AS effective. it is still effective but i was able to catch some of the texans flat footed by releasing the ball right at or before the cut. doesn't hurt to have a highly rated QB though
9. no forced fumbles in 2 games with the niners. this troubles me
10. i see 0 plays added to the defensive playbook. i guess whatever but come on add a LITTLE something!
11. there is a command that says "disguise cushion". you press Y on D and then its Y again... only it doesn't do anything. from the description, i imagine it to mean that if you are playing off on a zone, and choose this option, your guys will scoot up giving the impression of man coverage. only nothing happens. maybe i didn't press it early enough or maybe its another worthless feature
12. they changed some of the controls. like offensive line blocking is no longer up on the D pad, but LB. maybe there's an option to change that back
13. saw various injuries to offensive and defensive guys, including shoob getting destroyed and hurt
1. blocking is much improved.... in some instances, TOO much improved. the run blocking improvement i give 2 thumbs up for. there are missed blocks still but overall it is very good.
2. pass blocking is a little too good though. me and smokey both had sacks but most of them were coverage sacks. i dont think either of us blitzed much so who knows
3. i don't know how to use that new running system but smokey had a couple good jukes on me
4. i say again, ball hawk has been toned down. i have only found it useful for jump balls or if the QB throws right at. haven't had where i undercut a route and it takes control for a jumping pick or anything. more testing needed
5. along with the blocking stuff, i'm not sure if its good or bad, but there are a shit load of de-cleaters on downfield blocks
6. i dont think the read option is too cheesy. you win some and lose some
7. punting power his hilariously low on all madden or something weird happened the one time i punted in 2 games. ball went about 20 yards and it wasn't even that windy
8. man coverage doesn't seem AS effective. it is still effective but i was able to catch some of the texans flat footed by releasing the ball right at or before the cut. doesn't hurt to have a highly rated QB though
9. no forced fumbles in 2 games with the niners. this troubles me
10. i see 0 plays added to the defensive playbook. i guess whatever but come on add a LITTLE something!
11. there is a command that says "disguise cushion". you press Y on D and then its Y again... only it doesn't do anything. from the description, i imagine it to mean that if you are playing off on a zone, and choose this option, your guys will scoot up giving the impression of man coverage. only nothing happens. maybe i didn't press it early enough or maybe its another worthless feature
12. they changed some of the controls. like offensive line blocking is no longer up on the D pad, but LB. maybe there's an option to change that back
13. saw various injuries to offensive and defensive guys, including shoob getting destroyed and hurt
FrenchMovieTheme
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also here are a couple vids from my game with smokey:
http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/168255458 (kap easy money)
http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/168255366 (smokey trying to tackle boldin gets stiff armed to oblivion)
p.s.
just noticed the videos are moving like 10 speed! not sure what happened in the upload!
http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/168255458 (kap easy money)
http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/168255366 (smokey trying to tackle boldin gets stiff armed to oblivion)
p.s.
just noticed the videos are moving like 10 speed! not sure what happened in the upload!
FrenchMovieTheme
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also, you can disable ballhawk and "heat seeker" in connected career. you can also turn off gameflow
FrenchMovieTheme
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no, the game disconnected out of disgust after VD dropped that perfectly thrown kap rainbow!
FrenchMovieTheme
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lol that was garbage. i was in perfect position but let up when i didn't think you'd have the balls to actually throw that. lesson learned!
FrenchMovieTheme
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Eifert's a beast for a rookie TE. Once again d-line play is awful on all-madden. 97 OVR Atkins did nothing all game.
FrenchMovieTheme
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want to try a game on all pro?
Tomorrow, running a quick dota then sleep. I need to get a new router before the league kicks off, anyone have a recommendation for a good wireless router?
Well I just had my first strange experience online playing Payday with randoms. Some dude named Yonel was playing the game like it was CoD.
FAST
I GOT BOMB
He would rush every map lol, no casing done. Plus when we were trying to leave with loot he would stay around and fight wave after wave even though it doesn't mean anything. We would have to constantly yell at him to get to the getaway point. I imagine this is what Smokey would be like playing Payday 2 online.
FAST
I GOT BOMB
He would rush every map lol, no casing done. Plus when we were trying to leave with loot he would stay around and fight wave after wave even though it doesn't mean anything. We would have to constantly yell at him to get to the getaway point. I imagine this is what Smokey would be like playing Payday 2 online.
FrenchMovieTheme
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i foolishly played a ranked game in madden against a guy using the raiders. what did he do? scrambled around with pryor every play until someone broke open. still won handily but it was annoying
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
Torn on whether I should go hunt for the game or just wait for Amazon delivery.
Improved run blocking makes me very happy.
Improved run blocking makes me very happy.
Yeah I think the biggest selling point is how good it looks on a portable. I'm waiting on PS4 Killzone since it looks like it as a ton of options and maps will be free dlc.
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
Does anyone know if they fixed contracts in Madden 25? It was stupid that even though they were UDFAs, guys like Maurice Leopard and CJ Sanford could be locked up for 7 years for a million dollars per despite their numbers. Sanford rushed for almost 2000 yards and Leopard was awesome. Their low AWRs made the contract signing AI believe they were worth much less than a fair market price.
I would be shocked if that was fixed, they couldn't even fix the wind bug
FrenchMovieTheme
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I'll test it out in a bit. I also want to test out if replays are back in ccm
I saw that day9 yesterday got 3 legendary cards in a row or something. Have no idea what that even means, but apparently it's less than a 1% chance to get just one legendary?
FrenchMovieTheme
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1. there are no replays in CCM again i just tested it out against the CPU 
2. there is a "media relations" section where you give statements to the media and it affects your team popularity and fan happiness
3. in the upper right of the media relations section, it says "Jed York - Owner, 9th Value - Funds $5M" no idea what those funds are for
4. practice mode now has 10 scenarios and they are all worth 2000XP. however, if you lose, you only get 1000XP.
5. the awareness stat is now brought to you by snickers. lulz. the XP needed is still weird for the stats. vance mcdonald (rookie TE) needs to come up with 33,522 points to go from 86 to 87 in the "Injury Upgrade" category. alright
6. for some reason, a bunch of my players have moderately different ratings in CCM than if i play an online head to head game. boone drops from an 88 to a 79, nnamdi rises from an 83 to an 86, etc. i remember this happened last year, i'll have to see if the actual STATS changed or if its just the OVR
7. for owner mode part, it says "Remember you'll have to use your funds to pay signing bonsuses so if you go into the offseason with $0, you'll struggle to improve your team"
boone franchise - rbk 97, pbk 85, ibl 91, str 89, awr 79
boone regular - same
so commenting on above, i don't remember why OVR changes, but it doesn't change the player
2. there is a "media relations" section where you give statements to the media and it affects your team popularity and fan happiness
3. in the upper right of the media relations section, it says "Jed York - Owner, 9th Value - Funds $5M" no idea what those funds are for
4. practice mode now has 10 scenarios and they are all worth 2000XP. however, if you lose, you only get 1000XP.
5. the awareness stat is now brought to you by snickers. lulz. the XP needed is still weird for the stats. vance mcdonald (rookie TE) needs to come up with 33,522 points to go from 86 to 87 in the "Injury Upgrade" category. alright
6. for some reason, a bunch of my players have moderately different ratings in CCM than if i play an online head to head game. boone drops from an 88 to a 79, nnamdi rises from an 83 to an 86, etc. i remember this happened last year, i'll have to see if the actual STATS changed or if its just the OVR
7. for owner mode part, it says "Remember you'll have to use your funds to pay signing bonsuses so if you go into the offseason with $0, you'll struggle to improve your team"
boone franchise - rbk 97, pbk 85, ibl 91, str 89, awr 79
boone regular - same
so commenting on above, i don't remember why OVR changes, but it doesn't change the player
FrenchMovieTheme
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let me double check, i didn't see any menu that would allow that but i wasn't really looking beyond practice
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Nope!
FrenchMovieTheme
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also i can import any custom roster to start the franchise so we don't actually need to wait for EA to release it. there is also a "community share" menu where you can download rosters that people have uploaded to the server. the default roster EA gives you is a 75 man roster. most of the players currently on the niners are in this roster but there are some missing nobodies because a lot of teams are at 90 man rosters right now in real life
Could we potentially export out CC rosters, olio load them to their servers, then download them individually to use against each other?
FrenchMovieTheme
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they gave us back a 7 year old feature! next year maybe they'll give us back vision cone! are you never satisfied!? then eat a snickers!
ill try it out ez
lol
JPP has moved to 3-4 LE #FYIDM
1. there are no replays in CCM again i just tested it out against the CPU
2. there is a "media relations" section where you give statements to the media and it affects your team popularity and fan happiness
3. in the upper right of the media relations section, it says "Jed York - Owner, 9th Value - Funds $5M" no idea what those funds are for
4. practice mode now has 10 scenarios and they are all worth 2000XP. however, if you lose, you only get 1000XP.
5. the awareness stat is now brought to you by snickers. lulz. the XP needed is still weird for the stats. vance mcdonald (rookie TE) needs to come up with 33,522 points to go from 86 to 87 in the "Injury Upgrade" category. alright
6. for some reason, a bunch of my players have moderately different ratings in CCM than if i play an online head to head game. boone drops from an 88 to a 79, nnamdi rises from an 83 to an 86, etc. i remember this happened last year, i'll have to see if the actual STATS changed or if its just the OVR
7. for owner mode part, it says "Remember you'll have to use your funds to pay signing bonsuses so if you go into the offseason with $0, you'll struggle to improve your team"
boone franchise - rbk 97, pbk 85, ibl 91, str 89, awr 79
boone regular - same
so commenting on above, i don't remember why OVR changes, but it doesn't change the player
The OVR changed depending on what offensive/defensive scheme you were running.
FrenchMovieTheme
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no i was testing out the playbook. had a weird pitch on a triple option that smokey returned like 90 yards for a td. if this was a league game smokey would've been blown out