Madden NFL 23 Improvements and Upgrades Arriving at Launch Based on Closed Beta Feedback

[ChicagoChris]

Looking through the notes and not seeing anything on penalties. How were penalties in the beta?

[YaBarber]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChicagoChris

Looking through the notes and not seeing anything on penalties. How were penalties in the beta?

Almost nonexistent like usual

[canes21]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChicagoChris

Looking through the notes and not seeing anything on penalties. How were penalties in the beta?

Similar to how they've been the last few years. You need to crank most of them up towards 100 to get them called at a realistic clip. Pushing Roughing the Passer up at all leads to some ridiculous calls. Still no defensive holding. Offsides and false starts still need work.

You can get a realistic amount of penalties in the game with sliders, it just won't be the most authentic penalty distribution.

[jfsolo]

Glad to see the WR contested catch tuning as well as a lessening of man defenders getting faked out so often.

Although I wish it didn't exist(that's never going to happen) It's good to see a lot a work done on the hit stick because it was not well implemented at all in the Beta.

It's also good to see tuning on FA resigning, player motivations and tags. If they aren't done well then everything falls apart in Franchise.

[ForUntoOblivionSoar∞]

Quote: Originally Posted by Steve_OS

https://www.ea.com/games/madden-nfl/...-beta-feedback

I’m liking what I’m hearing.

[ForUntoOblivionSoar∞]

Quote: Originally Posted by PhillyPhanatic14

"Looking at overall defensive gameplay, having a powerful pass rush is critical to the balance of the game, and the pass rush at launch is still going to be more powerful than it was in Madden NFL 22." The whole article reads like Clint sticking to his guns. I like the feeling I'm getting from it, but we'll have to see what happens post-launch. I feel like our biggest fear on OS during the beta is that the game will get tuned for the YTers and comp crowd, and this article seems to say over and over again that they're not doing that.

I do worry that they weren’t as forceful on that. But hey, if it’s better than Madden 22 that’s a good thing.

[Playmakers]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChicagoChris

Looking through the notes and not seeing anything on penalties. How were penalties in the beta?

This is why the Sliders need to be looked at re-evaluated by EA

Sliders would also help this doing game play

Play Awareness - Too easy to run the same plays over and over again

They need to install a CPU IQ Slider on both offense and defense

[jfsolo]

Quote: Originally Posted by ForUntoOblivionSoar∞

I do worry that they weren’t as forceful on that. But hey, if it’s better than Madden 22 that’s a good thing.

For me as a solo player, a slight tick down of the pass blocking slider will fix things if necessary.

One thing that will keep the pass rush solid even at default is the exponentially improved speed and pathfinding of free blitzers.