Madden Ultimate Team Fact Sheet, Release Date and "How To" Video

[jvaccaro]

I have a couple questions I was hoping somebody could answer:

When a player's contract expires, does he stay on your team until you can renew it or just disapear after the game?

Does a player use a game of his contract if he's benched and never plays in the game?

[poilbrun]

Well, I guess people are bitching because they thought it would be possible for free to have a kind of franchise where you would build your team little by little, by upgrading your team card by card. In reality, due to the limited number of games for each card. In a way, it's good that you can't, otherwise after a given number of games, you'd have teams full of 99's. The problem is that if your ready to spend money on the game, you're actually able to get that team full of 99's and just pay to get contract extension cards and keep it.

I've already shelled out 60 bucks to get the game, I don't mind paying some more to get a DLC that really adds to the game, but I have no interest in spending money just to be able to keep up with the players I meet online.

I'm not really complaining, though, I just have no interest in the mode. I just wish it could have been more than it is...

[distauma]

Here's what I'm not getting... if you want to be one of the players that legitimately build up your team then you can wait till you are matched up against a similarly ranked team at the matchmaking screen before playing.

If you want to pay to have a good team then you can just play whoever is willing to play against you. I see a ton of variety in the rankings of teams as it is so it's not like it's unfair for the people who choose not to pay for card packs.

And the gold and silver packs are relatively cheap in real world money terms so it's not like it's ridiculous to invest a couple dollars into the mode either if you want to enjoy it more.

[JMD]

Just played a game vs the CPU All pro mode. I got 410 coins for the win. Score was 49-0. It seemd you get bonus coins for achieving certain things like rushing over 100 yards, passing TD's Rushing TD's and so on.

[bcruise]

Quote: Originally Posted by JMD

Just played a game vs the CPU All pro mode. I got 410 coins for the win. Score was 49-0. It seemd you get bonus coins for achieving certain things like rushing over 100 yards, passing TD's Rushing TD's and so on.

Yep, and also for holding the CPU to low numbers. All-Pro is the "base" level, and anything lower you lose a percentage of the coins you earn. I just finished a fun game on Pro vs. Dallas (loss by 11, but it was closer than that score shows) and earned 230 coins - after 40 of them were subtracted for that reason.

Still a fun game, and that's the way I intend to play this mode - against different teams. There doesn't appear to be any bonus for beating a better team (I beat SF by 20 just before), but I don't really care. Just as long as I pull enough coins to keep my team going, I can enjoy playing it like this.

It was actually pretty entertaining watching a bunch of 50-60's try to bring down MBIII...

[suthrnthug]

Has anybody been able to invite friends to play online? It's not working for me.

[LingeringRegime]

This mode is actually very addicting. I played Madden into the wee hours of the morning. I haven't done that since the game was first released. I love the challenge of making my team a winner.

The best way is take your scrubs online. You can quickly tell if your opponent has a stacked team, or a team of scrubs. If the overall is similar to yours you are good to go. Even if you lose the game you still get around 300 coins. You get a Head to Head Bonus when playing online so that is a plus. I had a great game go to OT last night. I had a chance to win it but I missed a FG in the dying seconds.

Use the Auction feature. I have put several "Injury" cards and "Contract" cards up for auction, because people are always looking for those. Hopefully, I will get some good coin for them. I really need it.

Something else I found interesting. If you have several players from one real NFL team together your team chemistry goes up. Or if the head coach is from let's say the, Panthers, and if you have several Panthers on your squad the chemistry goes up even more. They borrowed that from FIFA, but it is a nice addition for this game. It adds a layer of strategy, and it prevents people from just putting all 99's together. Because their chemistry wouldn't be as high.

Quote: Originally Posted by jvaccaro

I have a couple questions I was hoping somebody could answer: When a player's contract expires, does he stay on your team until you can renew it or just disapear after the game? Does a player use a game of his contract if he's benched and never plays in the game?

When a player's contract expires he is gone.

If a player is benched he doesn't use a game off his contract.

Example: I was starting J.T. O' Sullivan at QB, I didn't feel like renewing his contract. Jamarcus Russell was on the bench the whole time and didn't get any PT up to that point. He still has 10 games on his contract.

[LionsFanNJ]

I'll admit, I'm addicted to this mode. Had a dollar sitting in my PS3 wallet and bought a gold pack, plus earned enough to buy a silver pack with coins. Got a decent 72 OVR team now. Marion the Barbarian as my HB, Gararrd at QB and DRC at corner so far. Also got a good contract card to keep barber another 4 games.

I also have three stadiums, 4 uniforms and the steelers super bowl playbook. Not sure how different that is from their standard playbook though.

Sold of a Trent Edwards card for a good 150 coins. Played a guy online and got crushed though, we had a similar skill team, but Sidney Rice and Pat white killed me.