Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

[Steve_OS]

Madden NFL 18 game update 1.11 is available now, check out the patch notes below. Gameplay...

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[Devaster]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

Huzzah!!!!

Will "Addressed an issue causing defenders to occasionally give up on the play during some broken tackle animations" fix the issue where if you Truck the air (no defender in front of you yet) defenders will often stop running? I sometimes screw up a truck and do it early thinking a defender is going to get to me at that moment and watch a whole bunch of defenders stand around as I truck air and then run right through a wide open hole. And I've seen my defenders give up as well when the CPU is doing a special move sometimes.

Curious what "stability issues" were addressed for CFM.

Good fixes all around. My biggest issue remaining would be turnover logic. There still appear to be some big issues with fumbles forced and recovered regarding the possession, down and distance, and clock. I've flat out recovered fumbles sometimes only to not be given the ball. I'm even rewarded the fumble recovery in the stats window, but no possession. It happens if you are in a long tackle animation against a player/CPU and you strip the ball. The game considers the play blown dead and forward progress, but then you get rewarded the fumble recovery stat but no possession. Reminiscent of how the refs were blowing sack/fumbles dead in that Chiefs/Titans playoff game, which is not proper officiating. Sacks aren't whistled dead for forward progress. And then the other bug where after a fumble forced/recovery review is reversed and it completely screws up down and distance.

[SteelerSpartan]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

Thanks to the all the folks who helped get that E CPU-Pancakes issue the attention it deserved.

Lets hope we are rid of this once and for all.

[GoBlue7]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

Good news and update assuming they didn't break something else in the process....

[jjoneshbk]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

I don't have a lot of issues with this update. Though I would like to address a few concerns that to my knowledge, either haven't been brought up enough by the community apparently, or continue to be ignored by the development team..not pointing fingers, just observing.. So, it's surely well known that the fatigue system is still a work-in-progress and should definitely be a point of emphasis by now. Fatigue in general is a very large part of football itself and lends itself to playcalling, both offensively and defensively, and also works into sub packages which calls into play team depth and so on (speaking for us my fellow franchise mode players.) Why has that yet to be addressed? I play with multiple teams in my franchise mode and unlike past Maddens, ground and pound offense seems useless. There seems to be no overall fatigue forced onto the defense no matter how long I hold the ball. I play on 10:00 minute quarters and have had drives last well over a 3rd of a quarter and yet no matter how quickly I get the ball back on offense, the defense is once again fresh as daisies..

And onto my next small gripe. I read in the patch notes that the weak box penalty will no longer be applied to the AI controlled teams...so again, now even if the CPU actually calls a bad defense, they won't be penalized for it? Why leave it in the game at all if that's the case? Does that mean I won't be penalized while going against the CPU if I call a play not meant to match a run formation even though my CPU opponent no longer has to worry about that? Not that I ever do because I call my defense based on offensive personnel, down-distance etc., but the principal idea still stands...I would like to know the train of thought here. Opinions?

[Hunkerdown]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

Football Pancakes......

[truedat79]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

Giving it til at least later tonight to download this one...

[Devaster]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

I don't have a lot of issues with this update. Though I would like to address a few concerns that to my knowledge, either haven't been brought up enough by the community apparently, or continue to be ignored by the development team..not pointing fingers, just observing.. So, it's surely well known that the fatigue system is still a work-in-progress and should definitely be a point of emphasis by now. Fatigue in general is a very large part of football itself and lends itself to playcalling, both offensively and defensively, and also works into sub packages which calls into play team depth and so on (speaking for us my fellow franchise mode players.) Why has that yet to be addressed? I play with multiple teams in my franchise mode and unlike past Maddens, ground and pound offense seems useless. There seems to be no overall fatigue forced onto the defense no matter how long I hold the ball. I play on 10:00 minute quarters and have had drives last well over a 3rd of a quarter and yet no matter how quickly I get the ball back on offense, the defense is once again fresh as daisies..

And onto my next small gripe. I read in the patch notes that the weak box penalty will no longer be applied to the AI controlled teams...so again, now even if the CPU actually calls a bad defense, they won't be penalized for it? Why leave it in the game at all if that's the case? Does that mean I won't be penalized while going against the CPU if I call a play not meant to match a run formation even though my CPU opponent no longer has to worry about that? Not that I ever do because I call my defense based on offensive personnel, down-distance etc., but the principal idea still stands...I would like to know the train of thought here. Opinions?

The AI doesn't call bad defenses. That is programmed in.

[Grey_Osprey]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

Fixing the O-line pancake issue is huge.

Maybe I missed it, but I don't see on the list where they addressed receivers jumping to make catches they could easily run under, even when pressing button for RAC.

[Devaster]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

Maybe I missed it, but I don't see on the list where they addressed receivers jumping to make catches they could easily run under, even when pressing button for RAC.

I've found this fixed when you hold down the RAC button. You have to hold down the RAC/POS/AGG catch buttons for it to enable. It is still horrible programming for receivers to jump like that when they are wide open.

[roadman]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

Thank you, that is all.

And thank you to all the people who supplied video evidence of the AI logic of the pancakes. Well played.

Now, please, Madden 19, fix that punting in to the wind issue.

This looks like a good decent patch, if it didn't break anything else.

[trekfan]

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Oh, I hope this has fixed the pancake block issue -- it really got ridiculous in my CFM and I haven't touched it in a few weeks till a fix was found.

[jjoneshbk]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

I would respectfully disagree Devastator, while it is not often, it happens quite a bit. Toward the end of half, regardless of score or situation, it will call pass defense heavy whether or not I decide run which is a situation I could take advantage of. There's also the Goal Line defense. In the instances where I need to run a hurry up play inside the 5, the defense will call a goal line play regardless of whether I got down there in shotgun formation with 5 wide or not. So if it's "programmed in" it's still "programmed wrong". The only instances where I haven't seen a "bad defense" called is if I call a run at the 4 yd line or closer in which case it will call a run stop GL defense, which is also funny because if I come out in that exact same formation and it's a pass, it will call a pass stopping defense..why is the A.I. not tailored toward individual playstyle or team based tendency instead of just being psychic in that situation? Or ANY situation for that matter..

[truedat79]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

Well apparently the trade interest bar has been screwed up by the update. I don't care about this myself, so hopefully nothing else pops up...

[rdm1800]

Re: Madden NFL 18 Patch Available Now, Patch Notes Here

Well apparently the trade interest bar has been screwed up by the update. I don't care about this myself, so hopefully nothing else pops up...

Came here to see if anyone else was having this issue. I play CFM exclusively and this bug is annoying to say the least.