Fumble Mania

[ScudDawg]

Looks like the fumble slider needs to be lowered quite a bit, just finished a Giants vs Cowboys game on simulation mode, Elliott and Barkley had 5 fumbles combined.

[rickpersak]

Re: Fumble Mania

I completely agree. I watched a CPU vs CPU game and there were 4 fumbles caused by the Jets defense. Jamal Adams had 3 of them lol

[ScudDawg]

Re: Fumble Mania

I completely agree. I watched a CPU vs CPU game and there were 4 fumbles caused by the Jets defense. Jamal Adams had 3 of them lol

yeah it's bad so far, lol.

[Spitfirex007]

Re: Fumble Mania

I noticed this while watching a few youtube videos. So that is the first thing I did. And I'm still seeing too many fumbles. Especially from QB's. It's annoying.

[ScudDawg]

Re: Fumble Mania

I noticed this while watching a few youtube videos. So that is the first thing I did. And I'm still seeing too many fumbles. Especially from QB's. It's annoying.

yep, I got my sliders for fumbles on 0 for player and cpu already, had 2 fumbles the next game so at least that is an improvement.

[Rmiok222]

Fumble Mania

Correct me if I’m wrong. But I’m almost positive that I’m right..

The HIGHER you set the fumble slider the LESS fumbles you will have.

Edit: I’ve verified this. It clearly states in the main menu “this slider adjusts the ability for you to hold onto the ball. Move this to the left to cause more fumbles”


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[Rmiok222]

Re: Fumble Mania

https://youtu.be/Z8Q5WUvvZ_c

This is an old video and an old madden obviously but it has never changed. It’s talked about at the 1:40 mark.


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[icicle22]

Re: Fumble Mania

I am wondering if messing with sliders breaks something regarding fumbles. I didn't touch sliders at all when I first got the game and I played 6-7 games as the Browns in play now mode All Pro against many different CPU teams. I didn't see more than 1-2 fumbles in all those games.

So I went and I changed the fumble slider from 50 to 45 for both CPU and player. The very next game against the Seahawks I had 7 fumbles. 5 were turnovers. The worst thing is they were almost all on receivers getting decked as they are running after catch by whacked out WWE style hit sticks by CPU. I catch a ball in open field, run 10-15 yard and get hit and the ball pops out and is scooped up by a defender who gets a lengthy return each time. The ball is not on the ground and I never have a chance to recover.

Same thing happened when Mayfield got hit in the backfield. Ball pops out and bounces straight into a defenders arms. No chance to recover it myself.

I went back and set fumbles to 55 for both teams and played the game again but still had 3 fumbles....all on receivers getting hit sticked. Doesn't feel right. Not when the first 6-7 games there were not enough fumbles and I didn't see these over the top hit animations.

So either messing with the sliders took something way out of balance or one of the patches tweaked this. Or I could be imagining it....but I don't think I am as I didn't even notice these hit stick animations until the fumbles started.

Anyone else seeing this behavior after tweaking sliders?

[ShaneTheMaster]

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Yep. Just playing CPU vs CPU, My team (Jags) has 15 fumbles in my first 4 games. The CPU only has 4. I am wondering if switching to Pro difficulty will help (instead of AllPro) I Will be testing out.

[ShaneTheMaster]

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Yep. Just playing CPU vs CPU, My team (Jags) has 15 fumbles in my first 4 games. The CPU only has 4. I am wondering if switching to Pro difficulty will help (instead of AllPro) I Will be testing out.

So I made some slider adjustments, then restarted the game, and there was an update this morning. Next game, neither team had a fumble. I don’t know if it was my adjustments or if the update fixed the issue. Doing 1 more game to make sure.

[rickpersak]

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So I made some slider adjustments, then restarted the game, and there was an update this morning. Next game, neither team had a fumble. I don’t know if it was my adjustments or if the update fixed the issue. Doing 1 more game to make sure.

Would you mind posting what sliders you're using along with the settings?

I like to try out a bunch of different CPU vs. CPU sets to find the best one

[ScudDawg]

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I am running 75 user, 55 cpu and getting a pretty even split right now.

[ShaneTheMaster]

Re: Fumble Mania

Would you mind posting what sliders you're using along with the settings?

I like to try out a bunch of different CPU vs. CPU sets to find the best one

Still testing, but I have fumble slider set to 91, and didn’t get a single fumble last game, only 1 game though.

[briz1046]

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This seems to be highly dependent on the teams personnel, the 'enforcer' SS ability ( Landon Collins, Jamal Adams etc) seems to cause way to many FFs , outside of this ability fumbles to me seem fine at close to default

This would explain why theres such a divergence of experience

Also to second a previous post , to reduce fumbles you need to raise the slider , unfortunately the SS ability overrides the slider effect

[cdcool]

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So I made some slider adjustments, then restarted the game, and there was an update this morning. Next game, neither team had a fumble. I don’t know if it was my adjustments or if the update fixed the issue. Doing 1 more game to make sure.

Yep it appears they did something to fix that, I have Fumbles at 40 looking good now, Roughing the Passer penalties is still an issue for me.