Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed, Pre-Order & Deluxe Edition Details

[SolidSquid]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed (UPDATE: Pre-Order Info Added)

Sounds like they ignored fixing anything about the confidence system. In a 32 man online league, it sucks when you get ahold of a team that is low in confidence year after year. Confidence should replenish to 50 at the start of every season as it does in real life. No one goes into a season saying WE ARE GONNA SUCK! YEA! Everything else about the game I thought was decent(compared to past maddens) in madden 15. I will need to see more at E3 to really launch my feeling about the game in a certain direction. Hopefully E3 will also put to bed all the speculation and rumors about Joe Montana Football 16 and show us what exactly it is gonna be all about.

Confidence really need to reset to 50 at the beginning of a new season. Maybe if you a playoff team the year before you should start at 60. But to have guys start the season with low confidence makes it impossible to get it back up.

I rally hope they adjust how confidence is gained or lost too. If I win a game 24-0 but my QB doesn't throw a TD or int why does his confidence go down

[TexasFan2005]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed (UPDATE: Pre-Order Info Added)

Since presentation has been a discussion in this thread, I may be in the minority in saying this but I hope they keep the mini-commercials/advertisements they have for the start of quarters & after timeouts. It felt somewhat authentic in Madden 15

[aholbert32]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed - Total Control Passing and More

Probably because EA still has the "EA Sports Network" in Madden. Instead of actually utilizing CBS or ESPN presentation logos and stat banners they just use some similar camera swipes and then make the rest "innovative" camera angles. Why not just actually use the real life station?

EA doesnt want and shouldnt want to spend money on acquiring the CBS logo/mark for the game. That is a waste of money when you can get damn close without using CBS.

Also, their two announcers are CBS announcers so ESPN is out. I doubt that CBS would allow their announcers to be affiliated with a game that makes it appear that they are announcers for another competing network.

[aholbert32]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed (UPDATE: Pre-Order Info Added)

There are very few on this train. I saw a JM16 train pass by and it was packed.

None of the passengers know where that is going though.

[NDAlum]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed - Total Control Passing and More

Sounds geared towards MUT online button mashing. We will see if the CPU AI utilizes these new features (WR/DB catches). If they don't it will be a complete waste of a feature.

If WR's like Dez/Mega/DT are complete beasts and are aggressive to the ball while having a big advantage over smaller DB's I'll be in heaven. If it's like last year where CPU AI WR's are completely worthless then I might skip the game.

[SolidSquid]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed (UPDATE: Pre-Order Info Added)

One thing I am curious about is will there still be "swat tackles"? You have probably seen it before where a defender is in the air playing a swat animation, but the receiver catches the ball and defender automatically warps into a tackle animation. Separating it into "play the ball" and "hit the receiver" should have some impact on gameplay

[SolidSquid]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed (UPDATE: Pre-Order Info Added)

None of the passengers know where that is going though.

But just like with madden I enjoy the ride more than the destination

[KringKong556]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed (UPDATE: Pre-Order Info Added)

Confidence really need to reset to 50 at the beginning of a new season. Maybe if you a playoff team the year before you should start at 60. But to have guys start the season with low confidence makes it impossible to get it back up.

I rally hope they adjust how confidence is gained or lost too. If I win a game 24-0 but my QB doesn't throw a TD or int why does his confidence go down

Without a doubt, 100% agree. The idea of confidence itself is a very good one. Teams that are confident play better and go harder; and vice versa for teams that have low confidence. But if you start 0-3 confidence is sometimes so jacked up that even getting to 5-3 on a 5 game win streak isn't enough todig out of the hole. I hate seeing guys that won a game lose 5 points of confidence because that game winning pass deflection "shoulda been a pick" or a WR that had 5 receptions for 70 yards and a TD should have contributed more in a game won by 7 points. Their plays literally won the game but yet they lose points over some of the dumbest things. And 12 hours of gameprep to get just 3-4 confidence points or at the most like 8-10 with development boosts and such is just ridiculous. I'll wait before I make a decision of how I feel about this year's game until after E3 and after a deep dive into franchise mode comes out, but as of now it doesn't look all that great for CFM lovers.

[KG]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed (UPDATE: Pre-Order Info Added)

Whatever happened to true-step and making it apply to all 22? Not trolling, just curious in general.

[SolidSquid]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed (UPDATE: Pre-Order Info Added)

Without a doubt, 100% agree. The idea of confidence itself is a very good one. Teams that are confident play better and go harder; and vice versa for teams that have low confidence. But if you start 0-3 confidence is sometimes so jacked up that even getting to 5-3 on a 5 game win streak isn't enough todig out of the hole. I hate seeing guys that won a game lose 5 points of confidence because that game winning pass deflection "shoulda been a pick" or a WR that had 5 receptions for 70 yards and a TD should have contributed more in a game won by 7 points. Their plays literally won the game but yet they lose points over some of the dumbest things. And 12 hours of gameprep to get just 3-4 confidence points or at the most like 8-10 with development boosts and such is just ridiculous. I'll wait before I make a decision of how I feel about this year's game until after E3 and after a deep dive into franchise mode comes out, but as of now it doesn't look all that great for CFM lovers.

It's par for the course though, great idea terrible implementation

[KringKong556]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed (UPDATE: Pre-Order Info Added)

It's par for the course though, great idea terrible implementation

Yea, and they never listen to what needs fixed. I see guys saying "I love EA because they listen to their customers and make the game changes that people wanna see". HA HA HA. That makes me laugh. The most asked for things have taken years of complaining and asking before EA FINALLY added it to the game and act like they "listen to the players".

[SolidSquid]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed (UPDATE: Pre-Order Info Added)

Whatever happened to true-step and making it apply to all 22? Not trolling, just curious in general.

I'm not exactly sure but they could have scrapped it. I know they said they wouldn't be able to deliever on living worlds they originally planned to

[aholbert32]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed (UPDATE: Pre-Order Info Added)

But just like with madden I enjoy the ride more than the destination

I HATE the ride. This is the pattern every Madden release takes here:

- Speculation based on some random info about the game.
- Arguments about the cover.
- Speculation and complaints about the back of the box info.
- Optimism and speculation after the first full video or dev video.
- Complaints when E3 videos dont appear after the first night and claims that EA is hiding things.
- Optimism after the E3 videos drop the next night.
- Complaints after people start nitpicking the E3 videos.
- Optimism or speculation depending on the subject matter of the next dev videos.
- A group of people claim they wont buy the game because of the videos and information.
- Another group of people play the EA Access version and rave that the game is the best version of Madden in years. They are usually wrong.
- Half of the people who said they wouldnt buy the game, buy it and then complain about it.
- The other half dont buy it and use the rest of the year to hype other games and complain about the exclusive deal.

Rinse and repeat.

[JKSportsGamer1984]

Whatever happened to true-step and making it apply to all 22? Not trolling, just curious in general.

This! Haven't heard anything about True Step since Madden 25. Was that another one & done feature? I know it was still in Madden 15 but only for user controlled players & they supposedly tuned it. Didn't they say they were adding it to all 22 players?

[howboutdat]

Re: Some Madden NFL 16 Features Revealed, Pre-Order & Deluxe Edition Details

Sorry but the "new" passing stuff was almost word for word what they said was in m13, that wasnt.

the new WR /CB INTERACTIONS, sounds like more forced animations, great!!!! LOVE THOSE

CFM- same thing, just a tweak here and there....


wow so basically new thing is wr/cb interactions, but yet still not a word about player assignments.cant match up my best cb with other teams best wr? ? still ? come on man

im yawning already at this "new" madden.