Madden NFL 26 Update #4 to Include Gameplay Improvements, New Face Scans and More

[extremeskins04]

How do you NOT have a patch released already for issues the game had even before the official release of the game?? You knew about these game breaking issues.... There's literally no excuse to not have these fixes in the game yet. None.

[tdogg097]

How do you NOT have a patch released already for issues the game had even before the official release of the game?? You knew about these game breaking issues.... There's literally no excuse to not have these fixes in the game yet. None.

This is my theory without a ton of facts. Their corporate story is not unique. During the pandemic their micro transactions exploded.

They got used to that revenue stream and planned around it. Then, people's wallets dried up and EA saw their micro transactions decline significantly. It seems this has driven them to focus the vast majority of their resources on getting those micro transactions dollars back. They come out with arcadish games to try and make you buy stuff to "keep up with the Jones."

People that are into that non sim stuff want to see a completion, a sack, or an interception on a pass play. Incompletions are just too boring.

Too release a game where a defensive tackle is routinely sacking the QB on HB screens shows they are either ignorant or negligent in their execution of an NFL simulation video game.

[gr18]

You would think that if they had a clue they would've fixed the OT issues by now because that should be kind of embarassing that it's that screwed up.

[MizzouRah]

TU coming tomorrow ..

https://www.ea.com/games/madden-nfl/madden-nfl-26/news/title-update-september-17-2025?utm_campaign=mad26_hd_ww_ic_soco_twt_m26-tu-x&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cid=86152&ts=1758035480227

[sadler]

Draft class fix is interesting. Seems to suggest all those classes in the madden share will remain bugged and only new classes will include the fix. Means it will take a while for classes to repopulate madden share and you won’t know which ones are post patch. Can’t imagine Sports Gaming Rosters guy being happy his 100 hours of work are wasted because the patch won’t fix his draft class…

[ChicagoChris]

I like the fact they kinda mentinoed end of hal/end of game AI...

[gr18]

Looks like a good update.They're putting effort in to fix things so if OT logic is a difficult one I won't harp on it right now.

[WiiMaster]

Draft class fix is interesting. Seems to suggest all those classes in the madden share will remain bugged and only new classes will include the fix. Means it will take a while for classes to repopulate madden share and you won’t know which ones are post patch. Can’t imagine Sports Gaming Rosters guy being happy his 100 hours of work are wasted because the patch won’t fix his draft class…

It actually depends on how the implementation is done. Draft class files were already storing the body type information, but for whatever reason it was getting cleared when that class got imported to a franchise.

So if a draft class' body types were good when it was exported and uploaded to share, I believe those classes will now work properly again when you import them.

I'll have to dig into their fix implementation once the update drops to see exactly how they did it. There's two different ways they could have done it, or they could have even done both.

[cch99]

I like the fact they kinda mentinoed end of hal/end of game AI...

Where was that? The only AI logic thing I saw was not calling timeouts before a punt when trailing by a large margin.


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[tdogg097]

"Made improvements to blocking logic for better targeting and improved protection on Shotgun Play Action plays."

So apparently this is the only improvement to pass blocking. EA doesn't think a DT blowing up the QB on a screen pass most of the time is an issue, SMH.

[ricket]

A lot included across the board in the patch, but was also anticipating the update would include an end zone art update for teams like the Bears (navy blue), Saints (gold), Broncos, and Texans.

[GoDucks1224]

Damn. Still no OT logic fix, or even acknowledgement? Kinda wild. I basically always go for 2 now on game tying scores in the 4th quarter, or go on 4th down when I should kick a field goal, simply because I know OT is basically an automatic win for me. Really glad they are removing progressive fatigue. They never got that to work right, and if the alternative is just completely removing it then so be it. I'm gonna need proper wear and tear sliders within franchise for me to continue with it, because I don't like the way its tuned as much as I did in CFB 25 (I also don't like it as much in CFB 26 but I haven't been playing that since Madden dropped).

[TexasRyan]

Draft class fix is interesting. Seems to suggest all those classes in the madden share will remain bugged and only new classes will include the fix. Means it will take a while for classes to repopulate madden share and you won’t know which ones are post patch. Can’t imagine Sports Gaming Rosters guy being happy his 100 hours of work are wasted because the patch won’t fix his draft class…

Is it new classes or just new franchises with the same classes? Pretty excited with the face scans they added. I was hoping for some Cowboys players but 30 players is pretty good.

Cowboys could really use a few players on offense (George Pickens/Hunter Luepke would be cool/last year's rookies on OL/Terence Steele/maybe Jaydon Blue) and on defense mostly the DL (Mazi Smith/Osa/Kneeland/Donovan Ezeiruaku/Shavon Revel/etc.)

[kingsofthevalley]

I’m confused folks! The recent convo is leading me to believe a patch just dropped?

[timiville]

I read that its supposed to drop Wednesday