Need more time to select a play on defense...

[Flamehead]

They've sacrificed 'simple and streamlined' for the 'windowed app' approach, probably to feel as though they're remaining current with the app trends of today. Bad decision, especially in a timed scenario.

Want to know why Google won the search engine wars and is now practically a verb for searching on the internet? The answer: simple, streamlined, and uncluttered. They need to go back to that.

[talucchesi]

I'm so glad someone made this thread.

Also sucks when the CPU offense gets to the line and hikes the ball in .04 seconds

[priam11]

Glad it is not just me. I thought I was just getting slow and old.


Wait......

[Armor and Sword]

Agreed. It is one of the con's of this years game in that we have pretty much no time to look at our defensive playbook at all. It is very rushed.

It needs to be patched. I am hopeful they can do this for offline play at the very least.

[BTownSlinger]

Quote: Originally Posted by TrufflesEater

You couldn't turn off the play clock in CFM in Madden 25, and if I remember correctly, you couldn't turn it off in Madden 14, either. You could in Play Now, which makes it is a good mode in which to get to know your playbook.

Yes you could. I had mine off in my offline CFM last year.

I distinctly remember it's not even a guess or a maybe.

[reyes the roof]

I will say, I do like the direction they are going with giving us more info on the plays, such as how many times they were called and how many yards they are averaging, but it is poorly implemented. The playcall menus only take up about 1/3 of the screen, and the rest is a view of the field, but when I'm calling plays my focus is 100% on the play menu, so why not expand it and have the entire screen be the playcall menu? That way you can show more than 3 plays at once with all of the new info, but still make it more efficient to navigate

[BTownSlinger]

I also noticed when paging, potentially the first page-down when the screen comes up often pages twice.

So I need to go down, up, just to go down 1. It's very clunky. By the time you found your play you might be able to make 1 or 2 subs but you're being big time rushed.

I have to make 3 subs/switches to 1 offensive play (want them lined up different) and it's a hassle every game. formation subs in a separate menu are needed even more this year than ever before because of the less time.

[jeremym480]

I feel like once I become more famialir with my teams playbook I can get a little bit faster... but with that said, I'd love to have a little more time with the defensive play call screen.

Honestly, I just have time to select the formation and the play. I rarely have enough time to switch packages before my time runs out. Another 4-5 seconds would be ideal.