Madden 16 Pre-release Impressions Thread

[vision]

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I'm wondering if this was done so you can lead your receivers up the field better than in 15; I always felt that was a problem on fly routes. If I had more time with the trial I'd test it out but I'll probably wait until the retail version.

To my surprise, I've actually had "realistic" success with fly and seam routes, without using the modifier. I've actually had some nice over the shoulder catches while the Db is just out of reach. Where as before, the ball would've been under thrown, and/or the Db or Lb would swat it. Also I just don't see myself using the user catch options, the cpu seems to do it well enough. If the guy is open that's all I'm worried about.. Seems Arcady when the button icons pop up. In fact I turned that off.. And it feels more "sim" this way to me. The only meaningful use it seems for user-ing seems to be aggressive catch for long balls.. Or defensive button choices for long balls.

[SincerelYourz]

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Good morning people,

Ok - I have only skimmed this thread so I don't know whatthe majority feel about the game or any issues people are finding. But after 4 hours of playing on the XBOX via EA Access - I can only give you mine.

Difficulty: All Pro. No Slider adjustments.

The Good:
- The game is beautiful. Videos don't do it justice. The crowds, the stadiums, the lighting are all top notch. Just wow.
- Face scanning looks so good. Really adds to the game.
- In the course of 4 games - I have seen the following: User sacks, CPU sacking me (more than I like), penalties both sides, CPU overthrows, User overthrows (Jets QBs suck), solid but not great running game by both user & CPU, pass break ups by the CPU and User, spectacular catches User & CPU and momentum shifts. In other words - it's been a pretty balanced experience.
- The game is fun. I'm sure 2 weeks in the honeymoon phase will be over and it will fashionable to bash the game (cuz that's how it goes) but all I can say is - this game is fun to play and much better than last years effort.
- LOVE LOVE the new Front end menu's, user interface, in game graphics, etc. IMO companies take that stuff for granted but that stuff matters just as much as in game graphics [to me].
- Didn't realize how much I missed the game soundtrack. Don't like every song [of course] but it's a welcome return.

The Bad:
- The announcing sucks. I won't sugar coat it. Jim and Phil sound like they are reading from a script. I know they are but good grief could they pretend for a minute and have some genuine enthusiasm? I NEVER understand why all sposrts games don't use voice actors for the announcing.
- The funky camera angels look GREAT pre snap and on offense - but on defense at times seems too close to the action and a tad slow to adjust. All last year I played from the defensive side of the camera instead of the traditional view. It looks like I am going to have to switch back to the traditional view.

The UGLY:
- Slowdown. I am wondering if this is an XBOX issue? The game just seems to lag and drag at certain parts in the game. Not all the time or a majority of the time. But just enough for it to be noticable. I aactually had a game freeze on me last night and I had to quit the ame and restart. I can't remember the last time I had a game completely freeze up on me.

the ea access version has frozen on me 3 times already

[sethschroeder]

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So I'm copy and pasting this from a thread I made about the high and low pass modifier buttons. (Don't really understand why it can't have its own thread.. I wanted to discuss this in its own thread).

Anyway..

I've only used these buttons a few times. I found nothing was broken with using he left stick to throw high and low in madden 15. I would prefer them to at least have a classic option in 16. It feels clunky to me to have to use two different modifiers buttons. So far with my playing time, all of these additions including user catching options seem like gimmicks (the cpu seems to determine what type of catch to make, which is great). The gameplay additions seem somewhat unnecessary to be successful in game... Unless you like to spam the deep ball and use aggressive catch with an elite receiver.

I don't know, maybe I'll feel different about it with time.

Have you used the modifier yet in 2016? Based on viewing game play of those testing it out it is a drastic high and low throw to avoid defenders.


In 2015 it was never meant to be high vs low throw with up and down but was meant to lead the receiver up the field. The reason it seemed like you were throwing "high" or "low" was because they were under throwing or over throwing the receiver. In 2016 the QB is knowledgable of where the WR is and purposely throwing high or low.


2016 = high + low throw modifier but throwing to the WR location
2015 = left stick was throwing the ball further up the field or under throwing the WR which lead to the thought process that this was meant for "high" and "low" throws


You could accomplish something similar at times in 2015 but low throw was really the only thing that worked. High throws were routinely face high it would seem.

[Glenn33]

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Eric Flowers gave up 34 and his pass blocking dropped from 82 to 75

My Giants first round pick regressed after 1 year in the league????!!!

[DreSki]

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Just played a game and had 2 defensive holding calls in the game. Happened when my corner get beat off the press and grabbed the WR so he wouldnt get a big lead on him. Was awesome to see.

[SolidSquid]

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When shedding blocks in the run game, LBs seem to freeze for a second when they come off of them, leading to open lanes. Anyone else noticing this?

[The JareBear]

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Just played my first h2h draft champion game

Now I remember why I stopped playing ranked matches

[DreSki]

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Just played my first h2h draft champion game

Now I remember why I stopped playing ranked matches

Was that bad eh JareBear? Sucky i did a draft earlier was hoping to maybe get into it this year. I imagine the guy was playing super cheesy?

[Bushido]

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Played a game Texans (me) vs Jaguars (CPU)

I didn't care about the outcome or any other stats. I simply wanted to control JJ Watt, the game's best defensive player, and see what I could do with him.

At default pass blocking (50) he was completely useless. He couldn't even beat his man 1-on-1 type of useless.

Bumped it down to 45. He was starting to get a little bit of a push, but no pressures.

Bumped it down to 40. He finally was able to hit Bortles, but right after he threw the ball.

[The JareBear]

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Played second game against user I draft champs

It was more fun but in crunch time he just fb dive. How do you stop it? Seems unstoppable in user games

Edit:

Not gonna lie, draft champs is fun. I'll spend time in this mode

[clay91]

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Still finding too much success on Shotgun Inside Zone plays and the 01 trap plays too. I thought I read something in the write ups that this was toned down a bit. (I played on all pro with default sliders). Anyone else see this?

[The JareBear]

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I play on all pro with user run block at 40 and for me those plays aren't issues

[BreakingBad2013]

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I would suggest glossing over all madden in franchise mode, until sliders are out. Just had Matt Ryan and Romo throw 80+% on me, while Bradford struggled to hit 45% just blatantly missing throws.

Also, held Dez to 0 catches, and the Cowboys still three for almost 300 yards. Terrance Williams and Cole Beasley are ridiculous on All Madden lol. Got open every single time they needed to, and when they didn't , my DBs ran away from the ball to allow them a reception lol.

Also, the Cowboys ran the same 2 or 3 plays every third down, andstill couldn't stop it absolutely a play calling issue here, where I see exact formation and motion plays about 8 times in 3 quarters. 7 min qtr.

All Madden is still All Maddening

[Glenn33]

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Just played my first h2h draft champion game

Now I remember why I stopped playing ranked matches

I just had a similar baptism this afternoon. My opponent wasn't cheesy at all - I quite simply wasn't good enough to compete. I am determined to get up to snuff - even if it takes 100 loses to do so.

[clay91]

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I play on all pro with user run block at 40 and for me those plays aren't issues

Ok, cool. I will bump down the slider and play some more games. Thanks.