Bug: Wind Indicator is broken
again. The indicator suggests that wind is blowing against you, but in fact, it is blowing with you. As we all remember, this was a multi-year unfixed bug from like Madden '10 - Madden -'15, it was fixed for Madden '16, and fixed when Madden '17 shipped, but it looks like the most recent patch broke this.
Modes: CFM Cloud most notably. Xbox One.
Can it be reproduced? Sure can, every game.
More details (taken from the ridiculous wind thread):
I also think a
recent patch recently reversed the wind indicator again. In older versions of Madden the wind indicator was always wrong... It was the opposite of what it was supposed to be. Madden '17 shipped with the correct wind indicator (it's something I check almost immediately), but then with the latest patch, it seems to have reversed itself again. I took a couple videos of this and made screenshots:
Both games are CFM cloud based games. And both show the wind being against my kicker, but it's definitely with my kicker because the ball is pointed out of the endzone in both. In one screen, the Patriots one, the ball lands well deep into the crowd. This is an example of not only broken wind indicator, but wind that is ridiculously strong. I've been to a 15 Patriots games at Gilette over the last 10 years, with Gostkowski, and in all of those games, I've never seen a kick off go into the stands ever.
Also, this bug re-introduces the "Broken coin toss / pre-game decision" issue from Madden '16. If you remember, the decision/coin toss was always busted in Madden 16, and Madden 17 seemingly fixed it. But now, if you select your first choice as "Kick" and then your second choice as "With wind," you'll likely get both choices as correct because the wind indicator is broken, so when the CPU -- presumably -- chooses "against wind" for you, it ends up giving you the wind because the indicator is busted.
Of course, this ties into the "Wind always blows endzone to endzone," "Wind is too strong in every game," and "Wind is exaggerated" bugs. But these bugs have existed for 3 or 4 straight versions of Madden in CFM mode, so I doubt they'll ever be fixed.