Madden NFL 20 Patch 1.20 Available Now - Patch Notes Here

[jpdavis82]

Madden NFL 20 game update 1.20 is available, featuring NFL Live Playbooks, new X-Factor players, updated...

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[xSABOx]

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I spotted those new NFL Live playbooks last update but there wasnt any plays assigned to them, will share whats in there after this update

EDIT: Only compared the chargers default playbook to their NFL live version and the plays for the most part are the exact same thing, too many four verts/corner strike/PA shot in 2 min offense... prct is 10% between all plays so r/p ratio might be off... but again this was only one playbook

Only downside so far is the fact that they're not assigning the percentages a play gets called to match real life, so everything is just set to 10%... so what happens is if there are more pass plays then run palys in that situation, obviously the odds are a pass gets called more

[reyes the roof]

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That sucks that it sounds like they took out the ability to do the restructuring trick to even out cap hits over the life of a contract.

I know their intentions were right for increasing the QB runs with Harbaugh’s playbook, but he’s the coach of the Lions in my franchise so I’m not excited about Matt Stafford running even more

[xSABOx]

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That sucks that it sounds like they took out the ability to do the restructuring trick to even out cap hits over the life of a contract.

I know their intentions were right for increasing the QB runs with Harbaugh’s playbook, but he’s the coach of the Lions in my franchise so I’m not excited about Matt Stafford running even more

I could be wrong but im pretty sure if u take over the coach, change his playbook under scheme then retire him(he doesnt really retire) itll stick..

but this is offline cfm only

[mtmetcalfe]

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Can someone explain to me why it’s so important for EA to keep a cap on numbers of XF and SS players in the base roster but in franchise mode players never regress dev traits so you are stuck with increase year to year?

[reyes the roof]

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I could be wrong but im pretty sure if u take over the coach, change his playbook under scheme then retire him(he doesnt really retire) itll stick..

but this is offline cfm only

I’ll give that a shot. One weird thing I noticed is that I scrolled through all of the coaches the other day to look at their schemes and playbooks, Harbaugh is a west coast scheme I believe but the guy that replaced him still uses the Harbaugh book but it says his scheme is run and shoot. I’ve played the Lions twice and Baltimore twice and the playcalling is totally different for the two teams with the same book. Baltimore didn’t call one designed QB run in either game

[Nickda55]

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I haven't been able to try out the new patch yet.

But with the NFL Live playbooks, does anyone know if the CPU be able to utilize the NFL Live playbooks in CFM? Or does it only impact the user?

[warren_playa]

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Anyone know what the new plays / formations are in the ravens offense ?

[Saro1]

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I started a new CMF but the players are not update with the new XFactors traits. Do we have to wait for the new roster update?

[edgevoice]

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I haven't been able to try out the new patch yet.

But with the NFL Live playbooks, does anyone know if the CPU be able to utilize the NFL Live playbooks in CFM? Or does it only impact the user?

I believe this is a user-only feature. Since the live books cannot be customized, I don't see how these alternate (live) books could be gameplanned for CPU playcalling. They appear, from what I've read and checked out after receiving the update, to be in the same realm as the generic playbooks that also cannot be customized or gameplanned.

[baconbits11]

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I believe this is a user-only feature. Since the live books cannot be customized, I don't see how these alternate (live) books could be gameplanned for CPU playcalling. They appear, from what I've read and checked out after receiving the update, to be in the same realm as the generic playbooks that also cannot be customized or gameplanned.

Hope you are wrong. I would think that if the option is turned on with CFM, it would populate through all coaches even the CPU ones. Couldn't someone go in and look at a CPU coach to see if the "A" is next to their playbook?

[RogueHominid]

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It looks like the CPU uses them, if the test I ran is valid.

Here's what I did:

The update says formations were added to the Live playbooks. I checked and NE had a 46 formation added to the 34 set. I ran a pre-season game vs. them with the Previous Play option on to see if they called this or one of their new 43 sets. They called the 46 on my second drive.

This seems to indicate that flipping the Live Playbooks toggle "on" in pre-game activates it for both the CPU and the HUM.

I'd be happy to have this test refuted if folks think the logic is wrong, but that's what I found.

EDIT:

Now I'm confused. I thought 34 46 was proof the new books were being used by the CPU, but it now looks like that formation, which didn't used to be in the NE book, is in fact in their book and is available for formation subs. The new 43 formation is not available for formation subs and I didn't see that one called.

Someone with Twitter should be able to get us an answer.

Interestingly, the NE game plan in custom PBs does not include the 34 46 in any situation, yet it was called in my game. I'm not sure what that tells us, though.

[edgevoice]

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Hope you are wrong. I would think that if the option is turned on with CFM, it would populate through all coaches even the CPU ones. Couldn't someone go in and look at a CPU coach to see if the "A" is next to their playbook?

I hope so as well. The important question here that bears asking is: even if the plays are present for the CPU books, are they gameplanned so the CPU will call those new plays? Maybe someone with PC can go under the hood and see.

[bcruise]

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I fear for any CPU quarterbacks whose RL teams might use Four Verts a lot (if there are any), but I like the concept of the NFL Live playbook thing if it works properly. Since it is essentially starting from scratch on the playbooks (meaning they created new ones), it seems like there's less chance of the old playbook problems - the AI tendencies that mess up the balance of various parts of the game - creeping in.

Edit: That is, IF this affects AI teams at all of course - I see there's some uncertainty on that point.

[edgevoice]

Re: Madden NFL 20 Patch 1.20 Available Now - Patch Notes Here

It looks like the CPU uses them, if the test I ran is valid.

Here's what I did:

The update says formations were added to the Live playbooks. I checked and NE had a 46 formation added to the 34 set. I ran a pre-season game vs. them with the Previous Play option on to see if they called this or one of their new 43 sets. They called the 46 on my second drive.

This seems to indicate that flipping the Live Playbooks toggle "on" in pre-game activates it for both the CPU and the HUM.

I'd be happy to have this test refuted if folks think the logic is wrong, but that's what I found.

EDIT:

Now I'm confused. I thought 34 46 was proof the new books were being used by the CPU, but it now looks like that formation, which didn't used to be in the NE book, is in fact in their book and is available for formation subs. The new 43 formation is not available for formation subs and I didn't see that one called.

Someone with Twitter should be able to get us an answer.

Interestingly, the NE game plan in custom PBs does not include the 34 46 in any situation, yet it was called in my game. I'm not sure what that tells us, though.

All I know is that in the previous patch, I carefully went thru every single teams' offensive playbook and noticed all books were finally fully gameplanned. That was not the case previously as they were not completed since launch. They also added some new additional plays so maybe that's why you may not have noticed? However, since Live playbooks are being treated like the Generic books, I can't get into them and see if new plays have stars assigned.

For now I am just going with books as is until maybe someone on PC can find a way in and check this. If EA gameplanned the Live books, the CPU will call those plays. If not, I don't see how the CPU would be able to do so. Then again, doesn't mean I know everything...