03-27-2009, 07:05 PM
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MVP
OVR: 49
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Lima, Peru
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Re: Ian, Whats the fate of the rocket catch?
Currently my favorite examle of an exploit and the attitude of people who use them is this:
In Madden 08 on defense you could call a Dollar/prevent package that has 3 downlinemen and a MLB. The MLB is told to blitz up the gut and the D-Line is told to pinch. Next the D-Line is told to crash [LB + right thumbstick down.] This causes 3x linemen and the MLB to line up over and attack the center and your two gaurds. Simple math tells you that 4 vs 3 means that someone is comming through unblocked. Even if you are in a shotgun, you have little to no time to makea read and play.
People who abused this exploit would claim that this is tacticle and not an exploit. They refused to acknowledge that the O-Line in real life would adjsut and pinch their protection to stop this. No, no, no, it's tacticle and they are superior players right? Well in Madden 09 we saw the return of SLIDE PROTECTION for the O-line. In he first few days online on 09 the same cheeseballs came on trid to play 08 style on 09. Just a simple tap of the left trigger to activate line protect and down to pinch the line... EVERYONE IS BLOCKED! Oh you should have heared how mad they were. I played a guy in real life and his was cursing up a storm about how it is BS that Maddn "removed" his exploit. When he was done with his tyraid I told him to do it again, adn I DIDN'T pinch my line and BAM! there they came. The exploit wasn't remvered, the real life counter to the stratagy was ADDED. Needles to say he was rather quite as he realised it WAS an exploit in 08.
I have no problem with the rocket catch in Madden for Sim reasons. My 2 problems are with not having an effective counter/the defense not attacking the RC and secondly that only the top recivers should be able to hang on to the ball/make the catch/jump that high. Fitz, Moss, Buress, etc are the real rocket catchers, not Mark Jones of the Carolina Panthers.
To EA and Ian, please don't take the rocket catch out, refine it, create a counter for it, make defenders play the reciver better, and force recivers who are below a HIGH rattings check not make the play. There is a reason why Fitz is so great, not just any can do the things he can. In madden, everyone can. That's the flaw.
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