Madden NFL 22 Scouting Update Arrives with Gameplay Tuning & More - Patch Notes

[Momoney168]

Re: Madden NFL 22 Scouting Update Arrives with Gameplay Tuning & More - Patch Notes

Same experience for me. Tried it multiple times, same result.

We’re these offline or cloud? I was offline and had the same thing happen.


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[PhillyPhanatic14]

Re: Madden NFL 22 Scouting Report Update Available Now - Patch Notes

The Cowboys took a QB with their 1st round pick in my franchise. For context - Dak threw for 4,325 with 36 TDs, 8 INTs. The team went 16-1. He is not hurt.



That is simply bad AI draft logic. There's no excuse for it. A 3rd rounder would be fine as a backup. Using a 1st rounder when you have an elite QB with 3 years remaining on his deal makes 0 sense.

LOL the Cardinals just took a QB with a high 2nd round pick after Kyler threw for 4,445, ran for another 430. Had 36 TDs and 13 INTs.



Clearly something is off here... When the Cards took Kyler one year after taking Rosen it's because Rosen was garbage and Kyler was a generational talent. They didn't already have an elite QB on their team.

[PhillyPhanatic14]

Re: Madden NFL 22 Scouting Update Arrives with Gameplay Tuning & More - Patch Notes

We’re these offline or cloud? I was offline and had the same thing happen.


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One cloud, one offline.

[spfhelmiii]

Re: Madden NFL 22 Scouting Update Arrives with Gameplay Tuning & More - Patch Notes

Anyone know how/when we can fire scouts and reassign regions? Thought that was something that we could change on the fly, but doesn’t look that way.

[hockeyyt988]

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Anyone know how/when we can fire scouts and reassign regions? Thought that was something that we could change on the fly, but doesn’t look that way.

I tested it and I think it’s week 2 of preseason. Not sure if you can after that week or not, but it starts then.

I did start today week 5 so I’m stuck with the scouts game already gave you.


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[Grey_Osprey]

Re: Madden NFL 22 Scouting Report Update Available Now - Patch Notes

YES, I have NEVER had a crash on my XSX playing M22 but I picked that play today and it crashed. Loaded back up into the online CFM, picked it again and CRASH.

So it's something to do with that play.

Playing after the patch, I had the game crash to the XSX dashboard after manually selecting a formation and trying to substitute my RB. I've had it crash to Madden's main menu before when saving/exiting out of franchises, but never to my XSX dashboard.

[Playmakers]

Re: Madden NFL 22 Scouting Report Update Available Now - Patch Notes

The Cowboys took a QB with their 1st round pick in my franchise. For context - Dak threw for 4,325 with 36 TDs, 8 INTs. The team went 16-1. He is not hurt.



That is simply bad AI draft logic. There's no excuse for it. A 3rd rounder would be fine as a backup. Using a 1st rounder when you have an elite QB with 3 years remaining on his deal makes 0 sense.

I just found out about the patch earlier today.

I was hoping to read about how it effected gameplay.

Saw this post and I'm guessing if they didn't get scouting right that means there's a chance they might have failed in the gameplay dept as well....

But I'll hold judgment until I play this weekend.

Crossing fingers that EA didn't mess anything up

[BoomFranchise]

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That's literally not true though with how insanely popular and huge the NFL is today. Unless you're talking about a few prospects here and there from the smallest schools in the nation (and even then if those guys flash, they will get picked up sooner or later on the searchlight), NFL scouting departments will know all there is to know about each and every eligible draft prospect in the class. They don't just get to the end of the third round on their draft board and say "welp, good year fellas, let's put the blind folds on and start throwing darts every which way".



The reason the draft itself is such a crap-shoot is because of what happens to prospects once they're actually in the NFL. The team they're on, the coaches they have, the schemes they play in, their teammates, their mentors, the media they play for, how dedicated they remain or become, etc al. So many factors go into an NFL player's career, it's not written by where or when they're drafted or what player they are when they are drafted. That's one of the things that makes sports so fascinating in general.



Trying to replicate the randomness of the draft by restricting your ability to scout isn't relatively realistic. The problem is there's not many ways to replicate that randomness in Madden once these prospects are fully professional players.

Totally agreed. People aren't following how GM's and scouts actually do their work if they think it's just random after round 3. Seriously?!?!

[Elbowz]

Re: Madden NFL 22 Scouting Update Arrives with Gameplay Tuning & More - Patch Notes

Not in the patch notes, but I noticed they changed all of the jersey models. They fit a bit more snug/tighter. But, of course, it doesn't apply to your own created player. They also updated a bunch of scans that weren't listed (Byron Jones, for example)

[ShaneTheMaster]

Re: Madden NFL 22 Scouting Update Arrives with Gameplay Tuning & More - Patch Notes

A new feature of this patch seems to be constant crashing on Series X. All crashes happened while super summing on slow in offline franchise - and a team (Jets) was near the goal line. I suspect a play in the Jets playbook being the cause.

[Gagnon39]

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Has the issue of the CPU abandoning the running game when trailing in the 4th quarter been addressed?


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[brandonmuc]

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Long time lurker, first time poster. Thanks Armor for all the work on the sliders.

I am curious if when starting your franchise you have a suggested starting role to go with? Is it better to go owner? Coach? Do you get different scenarios based on the different roles?

Thanks!

[NYJin2011tm]

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I have PS5 and PS4 and it was 4gb and 46gb respectively. It is strange.

[PhillyPhanatic14]

Re: Madden NFL 22 Scouting Update Arrives with Gameplay Tuning & More - Patch Notes

Really good insight from Swami's twitter. Worth reading his replies to this post - https://twitter.com/Swami_EA/status/1448034898862911493


A couple quick things worth mentioning -

1. They're aware of the game crashes happening right now
2. They're aware of draft logic being broken. Sounds like a fix isn't happening until M23.
3. Looks like he is aware of what seems to be a bug that a couple of us have seen where focused player scouting and private visits aren't increasing the amount that a player is scouted. If it works properly then 30% should be unlocked for super focused and 40% for private workout.

There's a lot of good stuff in there.

[YabaDaba]

Re: Madden NFL 22 Scouting Update Arrives with Gameplay Tuning & More - Patch Notes

I'm just absolutely dumbfounded about how the QB passing stat issue in offline franchise remains unfixed, even though it works fine for online franchises.

In fact, I think the QB stats as a whole are a little reduced with the other tuning in this patch. The "workaround" someone posted of setting CPU playbooks to KC to get better stats is no longer effective.