Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

[edubbs]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

The patch will not be available until mid Sept. at the earliest. Tiborun just submitted it this week.

[bad_philanthropy]

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I really wish EA could just put this stuff up on their own servers so we don't have to wait weeks for Microsoft and Sony to go through their extensive processes.

[countryboy]

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I really wish EA could just put this stuff up on their own servers so we don't have to wait weeks for Microsoft and Sony to go through their extensive processes.

Same here.

Also, Ian mentioned having to get MS/Sony to approve the DLC. Couldn't they just put this out in the same manner as they do a roster update? Just curious.

[bad_philanthropy]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

Same here.

Also, Ian mentioned having to get MS/Sony to approve the DLC. Couldn't they just put this out in the same manner as they do a roster update? Just curious.

Roster actually go through the EA servers.

[countryboy]

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Roster actually go through the EA servers.

thats what I meant. Couldn't EA put the DLC for Madden out thru their servers like a roster update instead of going through MS/Sony?

Sorry, I didn't make that clear in my original post.

[bad_philanthropy]

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thats what I meant. Couldn't EA put the DLC for Madden out thru their servers like a roster update instead of going through MS/Sony?

Sorry, I didn't make that clear in my original post.

One of the developers on here said that the ability to do so wasn't actually in the game and joked they would have to "patch it in." I think that having EA server support for patches and DLC is an underrated item for the 2010 wishlist.

[countryboy]

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One of the developers on here said that the ability to do so wasn't actually in the game and joked they would have to "patch it in." I think that having EA server support for patches and DLC is an underrated item for the 2010 wishlist.

thanks man. Now that you mention it, I do recall reading something like that.

[Dborghi]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

Stability issues in the play call / halftime highlights / postgame highlights screens (especially in Franchise mode after training games): This was a hard one to track down as not everyone was seeing it , we did find the issue however with some Instant Replay / cache corruption, and have a fix ready for patch 2.
Workaround until the patch: Save and re-boot after any point where you have entered the game. We learned that the likelihood of this issue appearing is magnified after multiple loads into and out of the game engine. From what we’ve seen so far, people that have tried playing only one game at a time (or even one Franchise training session at a time), and saving/rebooting afterwards, have had zero crashes.

I have been playing around with this more. Specifically getting into franchise season 3 by simming every event, then trying specific actions to see what "breaks it." (In my mind, re-booting every 17 seconds was not an option)

When testing player editing, I was able to successfully change the players name, number, accessories... all without problems. But, when I tried to change their position, player training froze during intro loading.

Tested it twice, froze both times. Maybe it's just coincidence, but it doesn't seem to be.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: Actually, this is not quite right. You cannot edit a players position, and then change it back to its original.

[zjl630]

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Is there a way to download the patches on a computer and then upload to the PS3 if I don't have online for the PS3?

[Qb]

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Incredibly, incredibly late on this one, but if all of that stuff is indeed 'fixed' in the second patch... wow. If it all works as intended, kudos to the Madden team for addressing community concerns...

However, unless I overlooked something, I see no mention of CPU QB accuracy. I'm guessing much of the 40+ pages could have been on this very subject, but I haven't been to the Madden forum much lately. Read the Ian's first post & replied like a schmo... Sorry!

[roadman]

Re: Two Weeks of Madden 09, and Official Patch News!

Incredibly, incredibly late on this one, but if all of that stuff is indeed 'fixed' in the second patch... wow. If it all works as intended, kudos to the Madden team for addressing community concerns...

However, unless I overlooked something, I see no mention of CPU QB accuracy. I'm guessing much of the 40+ pages could have been on this very subject, but I haven't been to the Madden forum much lately. Read the Ian's first post & replied like a schmo... Sorry!

There is hope that the addition of CPU sliders will lower CPU QB Accuracy.

[Cusefan]

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This cant come soon enough, I am so sick of losing to these idiots who cheat. I really hope that the madden team comes through with the promise to delete wins of those who cheat.

[xxjgbxx]

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i could actually go for imported draft class players not wanting 10M for 1 yr in the 6th round

[Qb]

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There is hope that the addition of CPU sliders will lower CPU QB Accuracy.

Yeah, I just went and re-read Ian's initial post. I somehow managed to miss the paragraph about the DLC. Hopefully they can get that stuff approved & out the virtual-door!

[Skyyplum]

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I completely agree with you. These forums have become a place for nonstop bitching. The notion of blaming EA for buying the rights to the NFL is stupid. North America is a FREE MARKET society. Get a clue. Between the mods shutting down almost every thread to the "I've got my panties in a bunch" complainers, I've definitely started to see a slide in this community.

Just be happy that madden is being patched a quickly as it is.

A slide in this community is needed, for a while this place has been known as the EA *** kissers forums around the web. I don't like that EA got the license at the time they got it but I blame the NFL for being ignorant, but since EA got the license what have they given us? Every year there are problems that need to be fixed or the game is nearly unplayable causing many returns. I have played many games on the 360 since I bought it over 2 years ago and no game has froze like this game or last years madden. Other companies can make sports games that are great without freezing so why not EA. They have the most money, but they seem to use too much on marketing.

You won't see respect and appreciation from the majority when they are stuck with a game that doesn't work half the time and lacks so much. Plus, nothing is worse hearing from a few saying their copies have never froze. Thats like telling EA that theres nothing wrong and just concentrate on making a flawed Madden 2010. I'm beyond frustrated only being able to play 1 franchise game at a time because if I try to play 2 it will freeze even if I quit the franchise mode and reload.

2k was having troubles with freezing in the past couple mlb games and you know what they did? They dropped Kush games because they proved they didn't know what the hell they were doing because if you can release a game that freezes year after year that just shows ignorance in programming and laziness in testing. EA gets away with it all the time and were stuck watching developers for this game talk it up like its the next big thing in sports gaming every year. WHAT?

Patching is the worst thing that could have happened this gen because it allows a company like EA to half *** their games and just reel in 60+ dollars from millions of gamers that need an updated NFL game. When EA can release a Madden game with zero freezing, realistic game play, and great presentation out of the box I'll take back everything bad I have said about them the past few years and I'll start buying all EA sports titles but I have a feeling a pole shift will occur before that happens.