Madden 09 Patch #2 Released, Impressions Here

[MJenness]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

It might be my eyes playing tricks with me at this hour and it could be related to the field degradation, but overall the lighting seems to look better. The game looks less "blue."

Probably because they toned down the filter, which was "hiding" some of the field degradation.

[Rawdeal28]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

yes i have the patch now!!!! ps3, los angeles!

[erickonasis]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

Is anyone else NOT getting the patch...Ive tried about 10 times and personally i'm getting sick of it....Is there something that you need to do to different than before?

[bcruise]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

Here's an idea of how much that delay matters, folks. Playing the same way the CPU does I just saw a total of 20 plays in the first quarter....on TEN minute quarters. 20 is quite low if you're aiming for that 120-play mark. I've never been able to get realistic play totals on anything above 8 minutes...EVER. Way back on the SNES games, even. For this game I could well be settling on 11 minutes.

That, to me, is awesome. I love playing longer games, and the only reason I didn't before was because the comp snapped the ball too fast. No more.

[Rawdeal28]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

Is anyone else NOT getting the patch...Ive tried about 10 times and personally i'm getting sick of it....Is there something that you need to do to different than before?

nope, just start the game and it should prompt you.



and the removal of the cpu quick snap is golden!! love it

[Instant C1a55ic]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

Is anyone else NOT getting the patch...Ive tried about 10 times and personally i'm getting sick of it....Is there something that you need to do to different than before?

im in central time and i still dont have it yet. I called my buddy who lives on the other side of my small town and he still doesnt have it. Thank god i dont work today

[TJdaSportsGuy]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

Is anyone else NOT getting the patch...Ive tried about 10 times and personally i'm getting sick of it....Is there something that you need to do to different than before?

It sometimes takes a while for the patch to hit all the pipelines. Not everyone gets patches at the same time. It's all dependent on where your servers are.

[silver540i]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

Anyone with the patch -- how is the field degradation now?

[sars3shot]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

just got mine at 4:07 and i live in las vegas. good gamin gentleman. 360 byh the way.

[Rawdeal28]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

Here's an idea of how much that delay matters, folks. Playing the same way the CPU does I just saw a total of 20 plays in the first quarter....on TEN minute quarters. 20 is quite low if you're aiming for that 120-play mark. I've never been able to get realistic play totals on anything above 8 minutes...EVER. Way back on the SNES games, even. For this game I could well be settling on 11 minutes.

That, to me, is awesome. I love playing longer games, and the only reason I didn't before was because the comp snapped the ball too fast. No more.

and the best part of all is that now the cpu can have a realistic time of possesion. in my raider franchise, the cpu time of possession was almost always below 20 minutes and i play on 12 quarters.

now me and cpu teams can battle it out for real!! gotta love it!

[erickonasis]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

It sometimes takes a while for the patch to hit all the pipelines. Not everyone gets patches at the same time. It's all dependent on where your servers are.

That must be the case cause i'm not getting squat so there's obviously still some issues with people receiving the patch ...Quite frustrating..Its Not like Philly is a small city

[TJdaSportsGuy]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

That must be the case cause i'm not getting squat so there's obviously still some issues with people receiving the patch ...Quite frustrating..Its Not like Philly is a small city

City size has nothing to do with it...it's whatever server you connect to when you hop onto Xbox Live. Some are faster than others. You may want to try powering your system off all together and see if that helps.

[Rawdeal28]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

That must be the case cause i'm not getting squat so there's obviously still some issues with people receiving the patch ...Quite frustrating..Its Not like Philly is a small city

patience grasshoppa. lol

[erickonasis]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

City size has nothing to do with it...it's whatever server you connect to when you hop onto Xbox Live. Some are faster than others. You may want to try powering your system off all together and see if that helps.

Did all that unplugged the cable from the xbox took the game out of the tray put it back in about 6 times ...truly frustrating

[brezz2001]

Re: **Official Madden 09 (Post Patch 2) Impressions Thread**

Just to clarify, this is just the patch and not also the DLC that has been rumored? Do we have any notice on when/if DLC will be released?

Thanks,

Brian