Me and my cousin used to do stuff like that. He would always have a better team than I did at the time because he always had cable, so he would watch ESPN 24-7.Originally Posted by fsuprime
Me and my cousin used to do stuff like that. He would always have a better team than I did at the time because he always had cable, so he would watch ESPN 24-7.
While I agree with G that the background (read: fundamental and real) reason for the lack of changes is because so few played it, the official reason is that Tiburon is planning a massive overhaul of both offline and online franchises for Madden 12. Because of the size of the project, they did not make any changes this year (I presume with the reasoning being that it's better to put out a massive update than incremental releases).
So yeah ... nothing changed in Offline this year either.
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Looks like I won't be playing Madden again this year. I really haven't played it since I moved to the PS3 3 years ago. It's strange since I was a hardcore Madden guy on PS2. I used to play in the tournaments and other ones, and play franchise mode all day and draft the NCAA players. Now my NCAA dynasty guys go no where.
ok... i finally got online... got into the OD... i am still tethered... someone from charter is supposed to call me tomorrow (actually today since its 2AM) and let me know what they can do... i actually played a guy on this tethered setup (using Easytether by the way... was a 3 minute process no joke... i even paid 9.99 for the app to support the dev) anyways... the game was decently smooth... had its rough spots obviously, but... i need to catch a few of you guys on to just mess around in a practice game to get a feel for it...
once i find out what charter says, i will be able to give a better idea of when/if i will be getting cable speeds any time soon...
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So as much as I hate to say it, from everything I am reading I see a patch coming out soon to fix the issues with recruit ratings and progression and I get the feeling like in years past we will have to restart the OD.
The good in that: we will have ironed out all the issues (sliders) and anything else that comes up between now and then.
The bad: This may end up being a practice run.
Hopefully it doesn't come to that but I just have a feeling.
Ahhhh man not those words
Once the patch is in, doesn't it fix current dynasties? I guess I always assumed it did but I may have assumed wrong.
It would fix it in terms of player progression but if the patch also were to address something like recruiting being rated too low, it wouldn't impact this season, but it would impact future seasons.
I see that makes sense, didn't think of it like that for some reason.
if it fixes progression i dont mind some of this seasons recruits being low, then i can still use some of the frosh and soph on my roster (which is why i liked the low ratings in the first place ;/)
if they go back to the old ways, then 3*s QBs will all be 70 ovr or better and instantly be better than my current 3* freshman from last year (66 and 68 ovr) which is lame considering one of them was the best QB in the state of FL last year.
ONeback can you link to where the patch is being discussed? I cant find anything.
Last edited by fsuprime; 07-28-2010 at 10:24 AM.
I just searched around and couldn't really find anything either.
A poster on the official EA boards said that he talked to support and that a patch was supposed to be released last night. I'm willing to bet that if it is indeed true that rather than a patch addressing the issue, instead a Tuner Set would address it. Patches take at least several weeks for them to go through the complete certification; tuner sets can be a matter of days, just requires determining what and how much needs to be adjusted and then testing it in-house.
ahhh, yea i love the idea of tuner sets to get around xbox/ps3 bureaucracy crap.
Interesting about the tuner sets, can they address what needs to be done or is this a maybe? Would we know when EA did this or would it come out after they did something?
It's not so much that they are discussing a patch but more all the issues they are finding with recruits/progression and that if it's like last year the first patch will address it which will require a OD restart (I believe).
I am perfectly fine with where the recruits are coming in at OVR, I think its more progression that needs to be tuned and the other ratings like elusiveness, juke move, etc that need to be addressed.
I think they would post something about it when they do it. And considering they never really went into detail about, they would probably do that too.
Yeah... I assume that they haven't went into detail about this feature because they were waiting until they had a tuner set to download. My assumption is that whenever there is a new tuner set available, it will automatically download at the start of the game. You'll notice that when starting up the game, one of the things it does says something regarding "checking for tuner sets" or something like that.
If it's just progression, an OD restart won't be necessary... it's only if they determine that recruits are coming in below their expectations. In fact, even if it's recruits, I could see the possibility of that even being adjusted via tuner sets. The way recruits are created is that they pull randomly from ~2000 player molds, and then again randomly, it will fluctuate that player mold's ratings +/- here & there to generate each recruit in a class. Tuner sets couldn't adjust the ~2000 player molds, however it could adjust the +/- fluctuations.
i think (hope) that progression change is all they need to fix.
Thanks guys for all the information, I really appreciate that.
Yeah me too, don't think I could take a restart. Spent a boatload of time on my roster plus I just don't want to face the same teams again this year lol
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