Madden 20's New Ability System Spotlights The League's Superstars (Game Informer)

[4thQtrStre5S]

Quote: Originally Posted by jfsolo

The most important aspect of this IMO, is will there be enough animation variety to make these abilities play out realistically in game, instead of looking WWE-ish the way things like Hit Sticks often do.

Agree 100%. The animations need to be in the game and play out smoothly.

[m1ke_nyc]

This is a good feature. But they have to get the balancing right. I’m sure some things will take user feedback for tuning.

[callmetaternuts]

Just don’t make it OP or NBA JAm like. In the zone shouldn’t mean perfect.

[Cowboy008]

Hoping this will make playing the cpu different every week.

[TheGentlemanGhost]

Quote: Originally Posted by DocHolliday

I have all the trust in the world EA will be able to balance this..... Sent from my iPhone using Operation Sports

Ha, yeah. I'm most afraid of the QB abilities more than anything. "deadly pump-fakes", I'm not sure how deadly they are going to make them. Do we necessarily even need "deadly" pump fakes? It just sounds OP and glitchy. There's so many core mechanics in the game that need to be resolved in order for some of this to work without being OP imho.

[Nza]

The key with features like these for EA has always been, will it be implemented in a way that works well with generated players years into a franchise?

[Kid OS]

All this means is animations will have even more of an impact on the on-field play. That's a bad thing. We have to collectively realize that these features are cosmetic only. Madden's physics system and gameplay engine are not built for anything other than animation determined play. Current Madden is closer to Mortal Kombat than it is to Battlefield in terms of gameplay. You press a button, you get an animation that will control both you and the players around you. That's it. No amount of traits and abilities will be able to correct the issue of "animations > physics".

[JBucc]

I have a bad feeling about this.