Well Jaymo, I think I won't even get to the offseason of my first dynasty before the tuning set comes out fixing those progression issues. Although most people feel it's the initial ratings being too low that's the problem. Hopefully it gets fixed before my season ends. Just playing my 8th game in my first season right now so I have 4 left plus a bowl game.
I'm back to putting RBs in the kick and punt return positions - especially punt returners. The punt blocking is so bad that you usually get hit as soon as you catch a ball. With WRs having ball security 15-20 points lower than RBs I just can't risk fumbling the ball on returns as I saw two fumbles (I recovered both thankfully) in my last game. I still don't understand the NCAA team not putting in sliders for fumbles, injuries and fatigue this year.
I'm almost through my first season playing on default Heisman. The game is fun, though the pass D is tough. I've lost one game to Florida who lit my world up for 450+ passing yards. I've had some tight games, some OT games, and some games where I beat the fool out of my opponent. Overall, it's fun. Recruiting is harder with the difficulty options, but I'm still having decent success, though nowhere near what I used to be able to pull down.
Playing the game itself is actually fun. We'll see as the years progress if I run into more losses and difficulty and I really hope the progression issues you guys are seeing doesn't truly come to life.
I know one thing, after playing the Madden demo, this is much better. I was not impressed with that at all.
I tried putting better blockers out where the gunners are......doesn't seem to have made much difference.Originally Posted by Rudy
I find a guy with the best acceleration with decent catch there, so I can at least get started for a few yards.
I tottally agree... they should have added Madden 10's sliders for fumbles AND fatigue...
It definitely feels like the returners are running in mud for the first 10 yards or so. Even with guys like Noel Devine back there with 98 acceleration, it still feels like running in mud.
I've got Vincent Smith back there returning punts. He did a nice job in the last game.
I'm four years into my offline dynasty with Iowa State and I have noticed a few things:
Alabama: 56-0, 4 National Championships
New Mexico, South Carolina, Michigan State and Minnesota are now consistent top 10 teams
Georgia Tech QB's average about 350 passing yards a game
Past two Heisman winners have been Wide Receivers
This game is oh so close to getting trophy whore'd and traded into Gamestop. I've had just about enough of the garbage of people being able to sit in Cover 2 Man with press coverage and completely shut everything down, including the shotgun running game. Fix the stupid shit, EA.
Anyone who had "17 days" in the "When does OU give up on the game" pool wins.
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Just play dude, just play on
Welcome to playing online. I don't know why you people waste your time with playing a bunch of random morons.
It'll take me at least another 3 to platinum it. Getting to be a tradition. Buy the game, become bored of the bullshit that a super major company can't even program correctly, whore it, and then get rid of it. Usually I have Madden though, and considering how bad it is this year, looks like I'll be without a football game for a long while.
It wasn't always that way, and these aren't random people. All of the top people in the tournament, so called "sim" players sit in the defense I mentioned earlier. Of course when you have great protection against the run and near unbeatable pass coverage if you have a good enough defense, I'd probably sit in it, too. It's really not their fault. If EA knew how to correctly program something as simple as man coverage, they wouldn't be able to abuse it.
because you guys arent always available and you / I want to play a human because different things happen than typical AI. I dont have friends that do this so you try to find a human element.
yes, true, ultimately the majority online are a waste of time to deal with.
Honestly, there's nothing about that tournament that implies "sim player" to me. In fact, far from it.
I'd encourage you to wait until they announce the first Tuner set, just to see what they're changing. Then make your call.
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It doesn't even have anything to do with who you're playing against.
I would usually agree, but EA has proven without a doubt the past 3 years that their patches don't improve a single thing from a gameplay standpoint. I'll probably end up keeping it just because I'm not impressed by Madden at all this year, but regardless, I'm highly disappointed how EA covered up flaws by basically making the AI psychic.
Personally, I disagree completely. But it probably is a "your mileage may vary" situation.
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I'm basing my experience on online play only. There's been some completely debility gameplay mechanic with every single game released so far this generation('08 was the severely over powered pass defense/ extreme over effectiveness of the toss and option, '09 had the rocket/strafe catch, '10 had run commit and a handful of other issues), and we've yet to see something come via a patch that truly fixed it. I'm sure they will fix a bunch of issues with their patch and tuner sets, but I'm almost very confident none of those fixes will benefit the online player. All they would have to do is lower the effectiveness of man coverage, improve zone coverage, and tone down how easy it is to get outside when running out of big formations. That. Is. Not. Hard. They're all 3 very basic issues that shouldn't even exist in the first place, but definitely should be able to be fixed. I'd bet any amount of money that not only one, but all of them get ignored.
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