Armor & Sword's All Pro Custom Simulation (15 Min Quarters) Style Sliders

[Hiero]

Does the game play different if "Ball Hawk", "Strafe Assist", "Heat Seeker", etc? Basically, I'm trying to not have any assist or boosts enabled so I'm curious if I turn those off that they will change how these sliders.

[Phillyboy67]

http://www.twitch.tv/caddilacwill


streaming these sliders now

[ThisIsReality]

It's so relieving to see sliders not so off the default values compared to previous years. Good on EA to address QB acccuracy. :P

Also, great sliders as always A&S

[Armor and Sword]

Good morning Gents. I took last night off to relax and watch some LLWS with my son. I have slept a total of 5 hours in 2 nights, and I also have a day job.....so with that said LOL....


Ok so let's summarize where we are and things I want to stress.


1. I am now advocating playing with 10 to 12 minute quarters and a runoff to 18 seconds. It's up to you. I am personally playing with 12 minutes now...but could cut that down to 10 minutes. The most important thing for me is not the amount of plays but how the final stats look and the flow and feel of the game. I am not obsessed with the amount of plays as long as the final result looks like what you see on Sunday. Having fun is the point. Don't obsess about number of plays....it's a video game.

2. Tackle slider has been moved/being tested at 40 - far too many broken tackles at 35. Watched JoshC1977's stream last night and 40 looked great.

3. Threshold is now being tested at 25 - IMO this will end up being the biggest key to the slider set in the end.

4. I am not testing in "Play Now" nor will I ever as I will never play in that mode so I will not waste my time (sorry Play Now guys no offense intended but I have limited play time and need to use it wisely, CFM is my go to mode for Madden).

5. Pass coverage and defense in general for both the CPU and USER is being looked at closely but the lack of the patch is making this part difficult.

I know I said this several times but I can't seem to say it enough. We must be patient and wait for the patch to address the in-game progression boost bug. It is affecting scores and making the game high scoring at the moment.


I am highly confident once it drops the set will get locked in quite quickly IMO.

We are very very close but the progression bug is skewing the samples and I can't do anything about that.

This evening I will be having an all night streaming party playing CFM games in both the offline 32 team test franchise and most likely a H2H online CFM game in the SOS test league!!!!

I am not going to update the front page just yet but use these adjustments:


25 Threshold

40 Tackling

60 Injuries


Coming soon in all likelihood will be brand new adjustments to pass coverage sliders to both the CPU and USER to tighten up the defense.


Have fun guys and keep the feedback coming!!!

[Armor and Sword]

Quote: Originally Posted by Hiero

Does the game play different if "Ball Hawk", "Strafe Assist", "Heat Seeker", etc? Basically, I'm trying to not have any assist or boosts enabled so I'm curious if I turn those off that they will change how these sliders.

Only if your using these features as a user. It does not affect the CPU at all.

I like having them on as I use them when I user defense as a LB or DB/S. Ball Hawk is needed to use the (hold down when ball is on the air) triangle feature when playing the ball with a CB or S.

[Gosens6]

Hey Swords, are you saying these won't work for play now at all? I LOVE the way these play, but the confidence bug and all these high scoring games aren't working for me right now.

Will I get a different experience if I use these in play now? I'd love to stream for a few hours this morning to show people how great these are, but I wanna know if I HAVE to use these on CFM only?


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[Armor and Sword]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gosens6

Hey Swords, are you saying these won't work for play now at all? I LOVE the way these play, but the confidence bug and all these high scoring games aren't working for me right now. Will I get a different experience if I use these in play now? I'd love to stream for a few hours this morning to show people how great these are, but I wanna know if I HAVE to use these on CFM only? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Whats up Gosens!

They should work just fine in Play Now, but fatigue and auto subs should be set to default.

I am just saying I am not testing them in Play Now to give them for lack of a better term "my stamp of approval" (lol) for Play Now.

But I would not be concerned that the game play will be much different. In fact they may play better in play now if drive goals are inactive in Play Now. Because that bug is affecting the balance of the game more than some may even think.

It's a brutal ratings based bug. The patch can't get here soon enough.

[icvu42]

I know there is the in game progression bug, but my question is with season progression. I have never had an interest in XP and drive goals and progressing my own players. I just like to play the game.

If I set for the CPU to progress my players does that work realistic enough? Also, how often do you set for the CPU progression? Every 4 weeks? End of season?

Thanks for your work!

Rick