Completion percentage on ACE formation Miami out-route against man coverage was tested as I noticed I could complete 90% of these passes on default setting as the DB never stuck with his man. When I adjusted pass coverage this actually made no difference wither 100 or 0. I did the following with coverage on 0.
1) Set up a CB and WR with the same speed, agility and acceleration
2) Set threshold to 0, then 50, then 100
3) Call ACE formation Miami and pass to the out-route only against man defense this route is nearly 100% of the time uncovered as the defender misses the cut and doesn't catch up on default.
4) Throw 20 passes and pay close attention to the coverage by the CB and calculate the number of deflections and completion percentage.
Here are my results:
1) Threshold 0: 100% completion, no deflections. The defender always fails to cut and then can't catch up to the WR. Pass coverage slider doesn't seem to work (change it from 0 to 100 and repeat passing 20 times to confirm this)
2) Threshold 50: 90% completion, 1 deflection, 1 bad pass. The defender only once made the cut with the WR and was then able to deflect the ball, otherwise the same as 0. Pass coverage slider doesn't work at all (change from 0 to 100 and repeat passing 20 times to confirm this)
3) Threshold 100: 30% completion percentage, defender made the cut 80% of the time and deflected the ball 12 times. The defender seemed to make the cut before even the WR and was in a better position on the ball. Pass coverage slider suddenly worked. By adjusting this slider the percentage of the time the CB made the cut varied drastically from 100% deflections at 100 to 30% deflections at 0.
Conclusions:
Threshold slider should be able to fix many of the complaints about wide open gameplay in the passing game with wide open passes if you increase this slider substantially and then adjust your pass coverage slider to tweak. I will be deciding on my chosen value in my slider thread but I encourage all slider makers to review this and test it themselves and consider if passing difficulties are present to increase threshold above 50.
This slider is not simply adjusting the speed rating between atheletes. I have confirmed that it does this but if I make the players have the same speed, acceleration and agility this slider still remarkably improves coverage. It seems logical to conclude that this slider is somehow effecting the man and zone coverage settings or perhaps wide reciever route running. Either way it seems the only way to address any problems in the passing game, but it certainly isn't by adjusting speed.
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