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Official Madden 25 Online Franchise Thread: When you own the world you're always home

Splat

Member
BTW James Harrison returned a pick 106 yards for a TD vs the Steelers. Now he just has to concuss himself a bunch and he'll be all squared up for his debt.
 
GG Bob. I was playing MUT earlier and people online kickoff against me like I did u for the opener. I never got passed the 35 when normally ill return one. You of course returned it for a TD. I didn't deserve to win though, so many bad picks.

See ya week 13
 

Mrbob

Member
Yeah that opening kickoff TD Hester got was dumb. Just shrugged off your guy and outran everyone else.

Game was such a lag fest it forced me to run and I hate running the ball. D:
 

Trasher

Member
Trébius;81183273 said:
Thanks for the game, congrats on the win Trasher.

GG, bro. That was a really weird game. After Bush got knocked out early with that random broken jaw, I didn't know what to do anymore... We had like 8 injuries in that first quarter. Also, for some random reason it was using Megatron as my friggin 3rd down back. Kept messing me up. Had to go into my roster after the game and fix that shit.

What's the deal with this shit where your player starts to fall over and it signals the "RS" underneath them? Are you supposed to try and balance your guy away from the direction he is falling? Happened to me twice and I couldn't figure it out.
 
GG, bro. That was a really weird game. After Bush got knocked out early with that random broken jaw, I didn't know what to do anymore... We had like 8 injuries in that first quarter. Also, for some random reason it was using Megatron as my friggin 3rd down back. Kept messing me up. Had to go into my roster after the game and fix that shit.

What's the deal with this shit where your player starts to fall over and it signals the "RS" underneath them? Are you supposed to try and balance your guy away from the direction he is falling? Happened to me twice and I couldn't figure it out.

you press the RS in the direction the arrow points to balance the player
 

LukeSmith

Member
Part of the reason why injuries and fatigue are up is probably because there's no accel clock runoff.

Fatigue feels broken this year in general, timeouts not healing guys either

So far I've only heard one complain about read option
 

CB3

intangibles, motherfucker
Offense is already OP as fuck in general. I dont see the read option a being any different.
 

eznark

Banned
and now you see why i wanted this trash banned. its broken in a million piece jigsaw puzzle. even though it's not banned at this time i haven't used it once this season nor will i... and i could decimate the league with how ridiculous kap is running it!

You used read option PA against me, don't be such a liar
 

levious

That throwing stick stunt of yours has boomeranged on us.
Does any playbook have a read option where you can actually pass after keeping the ball?
 
Read option action is what breaks the defense clown. Passing out of it is worse than the give/keep in terms of impact on the defensive AI.

Lol do you understand the word option? There is no option in the play I ran. It is a designed play action pass. I don't decide if I'm going to hand off to the rb or not.

PA pass out of that formation is no different than any other. I guess you still haven't figured out the difference between the pistol and read option.... Just like the real packers!
 

eznark

Banned
Lol do you understand the word option? There is no option in the play I ran. It is a designed play action pass. I don't decide if I'm going to hand off to the rb or not.

PA pass out of that formation is no different than any other. I guess you still haven't figured out the difference between the pistol and read option.... Just like the real packers!

FMt, it's the action in the backfield that confuses the defense, it has nothing to do with where the ball goes. The defense reacts to that play as though it were an option play, so it is way more effective at freezing both the defensive end (sometimes, I guess it's a coinflip based on awareness or something) and the same side safety. Standard play action generally has no impact on the defensive line. That's the big difference. And for a 3-4 defense it essentially makes Clay Matthews worthless in this game.

We aren't talking about actual football, we are talking about the way EA has designed their AI to react to these plays and player movements.

That said I don't think it should be banned at this point, no one is using it so its tough to tell if its broken. But you pretending like you aren't taking advantage of the way it breaks the defense is like Ram pretending there were no issues with twins.
 

McNei1y

Member
I'm playing my game against AP Packers today. I didn't have time to slot it anywhere yesterday.

Edit: Let's stop talking about banning plays. It's stupid!
 
FMt, it's the action in the backfield that confuses the defense, it has nothing to do with where the ball goes. The defense reacts to that play as though it were an option play, so it is way more effective at freezing both the defensive end (sometimes, I guess it's a coinflip based on awareness or something) and the same side safety. Standard play action generally has no impact on the defensive line. That's the big difference. And for a 3-4 defense it essentially makes Clay Matthews worthless in this game.

We aren't talking about actual football, we are talking about the way EA has designed their AI to react to these plays and player movements.

That said I don't think it should be banned at this point, no one is using it so its tough to tell if its broken. But you pretending like you aren't taking advantage of the way it breaks the defense is like Ram pretending there were no issues with twins.

the defense in the game is late to react in general. it has nothing to do with PA pass run out of the pistol or twins or whatever you want. they also don't react timely to the running back with the ball. its almost like the line/LB's dont penetrate until they see for sure that the rb has the ball. that split second is the difference between stopping the RB in the backfield and the rb getting a minimum of 3 yards
 

Mrbob

Member
FMt, it's the action in the backfield that confuses the defense, it has nothing to do with where the ball goes. The defense reacts to that play as though it were an option play, so it is way more effective at freezing both the defensive end (sometimes, I guess it's a coinflip based on awareness or something) and the same side safety. Standard play action generally has no impact on the defensive line. That's the big difference. And for a 3-4 defense it essentially makes Clay Matthews worthless in this game.

We aren't talking about actual football, we are talking about the way EA has designed their AI to react to these plays and player movements.

That said I don't think it should be banned at this point, no one is using it so its tough to tell if its broken. But you pretending like you aren't taking advantage of the way it breaks the defense is like Ram pretending there were no issues with twins.

There is a huge spread on next gen EA Sports games in the latest Game Informer ( if you get digital version available now with the trash CoD Ghosts cover ) and they talk about defensive play. The AI makes up their mind on what kind of play it will be pre snap and doesn't change, which is one thing that is supposed to be rectified with the next gen versions. So I'm cautiously optimistic the PS4 version won't be complete garbage.

NBA Live sounds ambitious as well, but still EA needs to prove it first!
 

Truelize

Steroid Distributor
I'm curious if the lag was so bad yesterday due to NHL coming out.

How is it that as this generation comes to a close this game still doesn't have smooth netcode? Is this due to the power of the consoles? There is a lot more going on during a game of Halo or CoD online than in a single Madden game and those two games can run butter smooth.
 
doesn't look like there was much interest in the FA draft, so go ahead and sign ONE FA of your choosing at this point, and then it'll be open to however many you want this coming monday
 

brentech

Member
There is a huge spread on next gen EA Sports games in the latest Game Informer ( if you get digital version available now with the trash CoD Ghosts cover ) and they talk about defensive play. The AI makes up their mind on what kind of play it will be pre snap and doesn't change, which is one thing that is supposed to be rectified with the next gen versions. So I'm cautiously optimistic the PS4 version won't be complete garbage.

NBA Live sounds ambitious as well, but still EA needs to prove it first!
Hrm, I'll have to download my issue and give a read. That's more info about the game than we've heard to date, lol
 

Smokey

Member
Goodbye blops 2, 2k13,and last of us

I leave 2k13 as the reigning best player on gaf. Deal with it. Blops 2 I still got live for u, I'll just play you on ps3. TLOU I need a ps4 port.

Ready for gta v!
 

Mrbob

Member
Hrm, I'll have to download my issue and give a read. That's more info about the game than we've heard to date, lol

It sounds similar to what we have heard before, but a little more fleshed. Each group has their own AI routine. Dline, linebackers, secondary, and it's shared AI so they all think the same thing. Whereas the next gen version will have individual AI for each player and they are supposed to react on the fly if the play if different than what they first thought.
 

Nightz

Member
Speaking of the site, I contacted EA support about it saying that I'm not in any leagues and the guy couldn't figure it out. He said that he would send the case over to a "specialist" and they'll get back to me. Which means...I don't expect to be able to use the site at all this year.
 
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