Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

[Shadymamba]

Great news, especially with the direct snap and out of bound bugs...

Although this is not fixable in this years game, but throws like this happen too often with accuracy. Something to look for in 2010....stolen from the Video thread

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<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/video/285485" target="_top">EA SPORTS World: Madden 09 Video Highlight</a></div>
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wth..first of all it was taveras jackson lmao!!!!!! 2nd wow thats crazy....

[bamajeff]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

I have not read through every reply. So I don't know if this has been addressed. If we have already started a franchise, will we have to re-start it in order for the patch to work?

[TJdaSportsGuy]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

Guys,

Enough of the "WOW!! LOOK AT ALL THAT'S WRONG WITH THIS GAME1!11!!" posts. Enough of the "What do you mean, take away from working on Madden 2010" posts. Enough of the "But...but....MY FRANCHISE IS SCREWED!!" posts.

They get it, ok? They are aware of all of that. And your constant pissing and moaning in this thread does nothing to remedy the situation. So just stop it.

Use the thread to discuss the patch, what it will fix, what it won't, that's fine. But enough of the complaining. It's trolling, which is not allowed by our forum rules, and each offending post will be dealt with accordingly.

[RubenDouglas]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

Big thanks for the update. I still havent found the time to buy madden but when the patch releases, i may be down to be it.

good stuff

[sleezy101]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

This is great news, thanks for listening to us!

[Klocker]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

Guys,

Enough of the "WOW!! LOOK AT ALL THAT'S WRONG WITH THIS GAME1!11!!" posts. Enough of the "What do you mean, take away from working on Madden 2010" posts. Enough of the "But...but....MY FRANCHISE IS SCREWED!!" posts.

They get it, ok? They are aware of all of that. And your constant pissing and moaning in this thread does nothing to remedy the situation. So just stop it.

Use the thread to discuss the patch, what it will fix, what it won't, that's fine. But enough of the complaining. It's trolling, which is not allowed by our forum rules, and each offending post will be dealt with accordingly.

thank you, that crap is annoying, especially by the people who did not even bother to read the frickin thread.

thanks Ian and to your team for responding to our needs... looking forward to it.

[sois]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

What about fatigue on defense or in general? Can that not be fixed/patched?

This patch info is great, however, I would also like to know about fatigue and sub in/out sliders.

[blackngoldfan]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

Thanks for the great news IAN!!!

The game would be complete for me if these 2 things were added to the game:

Game speed slider or slow the game down a tad - I really liked the speed of the demo ("In just 1 play" DVD) I didn't see the over the top dive tackles (from the "lowlights" part of the tackle animation thread) nearly as much with the speed slowed down.

In-game saves - To play a full game, I have to play late.(usually after the wife and kids are asleep)

[Ankido]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

My main concern is the CPU blocking. Have you guys even looked into this as to why blockers do random crazy blocks that make no sense what so ever? Why would a blocker avoid an on coming defender to run across the opposite field to make a tackle? People are complaining about the run game but it has nothing to do with sliders. I honestly think sliders cannot fix this and it seems to be an issue with the blocking overall. I've tested this on all settings and the CPU is stupid at blocking. Am I the only one who sees this? I will try my best to show you with a video but it really screws the game up. I'd rather have Robo QB and a fixed blocking system.

[stoncold32]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

So is the PS3 getting the whole DLC save the gamer icons, or not any DLC at all? That sentence was kind of ambiguous....

[Flamehead]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

I appreciate Ian's and the team's work on the patch. I do find the following wording curious, however:

"Penalty sliders ineffective: A common complaint from the hardcore community was the lack of effect from the penalty sliders. We increased these substantially for patch 2."

So does expecting an effect from the penalty sliders = hardcore? Aren't penalties a basic part of football?

If casual/arcade players are turned off by penalties such that they don't have much effect by default (by design, perhaps?), isn't that what the sliders are supposed to be there for--so they can turn them DOWN?

But the patch as a whole? I think it will please many people. At least they are tweaking a lot of things.

[Ceothachosen1]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

great job guys i really apreciate it this will make the game soo much better

[Hammer67]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

"On a side note, there is also a Franchise stability issue that we have been investigating, and we are working feverishly to get this figured out. We will update on that issue as soon as we can."

A Side Note? I swear, seriously...that patch #2 being done and shipped off...and they're still "working feverishly" to get the Franchise stability issue fixed? So, patch #2 coming out...and more than likely Franchise will still freeze? LoL...man...almost everyone just over looked that part right there...and saw the ga-zillion other "fixes". Franchise will still be broken, even after patch 2...just like I said. Congrats EA...

Oh, and I know no one directly in the "know" will respond to anything I say...which makes me think, even more, that I'm pretty much dead on in my assumptions.

Actually, it can probably be more attributed to the fact that you didn't ask a question and you added nothing of value worthy of being commented on...

[Klocker]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

So is the PS3 getting the whole DLC save the gamer icons, or not any DLC at all? That sentence was kind of ambiguous....

he references SONY and MS in his sentence about getting approval for the DLC content, so common sense tells me that of course it's coming to PS3 (if approved) and I don't think PS3 has Gamerpics does it?

[Klocker]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

1. Field degradation: Another common complaint was the lack of field degradation. Our effect was very subtle, which was also getting overshadowed by our lighting and post effects, so we increased this effect for the patch.

yea man... I hope you cranked it up as we want to see that ish.