I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

[Cowboy008]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

Haven't listened to all of it but having a accuracy penalty when kicking in snow or rain is great.

[mrprice33]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

I believe the news is the weather will affect your kicking game, such as getting more air in Denver, struggling in Pittsburgh, the rain and snow effecting the length etc?

Yep. Part of a multi-year plan to have weather and stadiums affect gameplay in Madden.

[ednaaard]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

Yep. Part of a multi-year plan to have weather and stadiums affect gameplay in Madden.

This is pretty cool I guess. Wind affected it before but rain and snow never really had much of an effect. Having an advantage in Denver and struggling in Pittsburgh will be good, seeing as a lot of games are win and lost due to the kicking game. Especially now kicking is no longer a gimme even in the best weather.

I hope it's not tooooo over powered though. We'll see. I'm happy with this years improvements. People are too quick to say they're disappointed, but in comparison to every other Madden release, this is by the furthest forward the developers have stepped.

[jpdavis82]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

They also said the clock won't stop on kicks like before so you won't be able to kick a fg in 3 seconds or whatever like past versions.


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[K_GUN]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

I wonder if the Mile High effect is now in play?....should be there...yes?


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[sir psycho]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

Yep. Part of a multi-year plan to have weather and stadiums affect gameplay in Madden.

Very cool addition. Do you have any idea if the stadium locations/weather will only impact the kicking game, or will it affect other areas of the game?

It would be cool if road teams playing in Denver might have a slight fatigue penalty due to the altitude. Or dome teams/warm weather teams maybe having a tougher time playing in Green Bay or New England in December/January. Not expecting those in this year, but those would be cool additions for the future.

[NateDogPack12]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

One of my really big critiques when it comes to these podcasts and interviews is that they are often cumulative. We get the same questions asked over and over again, and they basically serve as an opportunity for the developers to promote the game.

I feel like there are so many fundamental questions big and small that we don't ever have the chance to ask them. For example, I would really like to know why we can't get offensive linemen injured in the game - that's just something I would like to understand. Also, I'd like to know if we will ever be able to play all time offense for all 32 teams in CFM like we did before.

There are big questions that could be asked about the future. What is the next major step for CFM? What is your vision for the future of Madden? Stuff like that needs to be asked.

I mean, it's really cool they've added the kicking bonuses, but like some others have said, it was hardly "MASSIVE".

[mrprice33]

I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

Unfortunately we just didn't have the time we wanted to go that in depth. I want hours but had 15 minutes.

Also, some of that stuff can't be answered yet. We know what the long term vision for CFM is, but they can't talk about it yet.


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[mrprice33]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

Very cool addition. Do you have any idea if the stadium locations/weather will only impact the kicking game, or will it affect other areas of the game?



It would be cool if road teams playing in Denver might have a slight fatigue penalty due to the altitude. Or dome teams/warm weather teams maybe having a tougher time playing in Green Bay or New England in December/January. Not expecting those in this year, but those would be cool additions for the future.

These things are coming.


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[GiantBlue76]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

Sorry that I haven't had a chance to watch the video. Could someone give me a rundown of how this is different from last year? The wind affected kicking last year as well. What is different?

[oneamongthefence]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

I wonder if the Mile High effect is now in play?....should be there...yes?


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Yes. He said domes are easier to kick in as well as high altitude cities like Denver. There's also an accuracy penalty in bad weather games such as snow and rain.

Sorry that I haven't had a chance to watch the video. Could someone give me a rundown of how this is different from last year? The wind affected kicking last year as well. What is different?

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[NateDogPack12]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

Unfortunately we just didn't have the time we wanted to go that in depth. I want hours but had 15 minutes.

Also, some of that stuff can't be answered yet. We know what the long term vision for CFM is, but they can't talk about it yet.


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Yeah, I totally get where you're coming from and I appreciate that. I don't know what goes on or if they give you a preselected area of topics that you have to choose from. I guess my point is that ordinarily, it may require some time to get that in depth. But we already have had three or four interviews where so many of these basic questions have been addressed.

It would be nice if there was more working together on our part in the community so we can ask questions that build on one another. I understand that many of the GameChangers have tertiary considerations and networking to consider. Everybody wants to get their subs and their hits, but the Madden community needs to work together to extract information more effectively.

[GiantBlue76]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

Yes. He said domes are easier to kick in as well as high altitude cities like Denver. There's also an accuracy penalty in bad weather games such as snow and rain.



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Thanks a lot. Those are good additions. I like the accuracy hit.

[Big FN Deal]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

NateDogPack12 is spot on imo, no offense to anyone that does the interviews and thanks to you all for taking your time to get the info out, it would just be nice to get more "off script" Q&A when possible.

Along with that thought, I've asked before, I wonder why is it some gamers that are fortunate enough to play the game early and know what's mostly in the game to a point, even the "bad", still choose to seemingly just hype the good. I get they can't go into details about any of it but it's been a rare few times, RGiles comes to mind, I've seen someone be candid like "can't speak specifics but there were definitely some disappointments for me", the same way they say "can't talk about that yet but I'm excited to!". Not trying to call anyone out, I think it's easy to get caught up in the hype this time of year, hell I haven't been able to really get into Madden for sometime yet I still enjoy this time of year. Just saying more balance in that area would be nice, imo.

As far as the reveal about weather effecting the ball on kicks and punts, that's nice they expanded it but like someone else mentioned, it was already effected by wind. The issue in regard to weather effects on the ball was on passes, Clint said back when they first added wind effects on kick/punts, "that would be overkill" if added to passes due to the pass inaccuracies, so is that still the case or does this weather effects plan encompass passes at some point?

Edit: Someone in my earpiece just told me wind seems to effect deep passes in M16, so that makes my early comment about weather on passes dated, my apologies, like I said didn't really put much time into M16. So again, hopefully these weather effects will all carry over to passes too.

[mrprice33]

Re: I've played ~40 hours of Madden 17: AMAlmost Anything (Answers in first post)

It's a hard balance to work through. I can't speak for anyone else, but our show is going to continue get better and push for more information and more access.


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