Madden NFL 10 Blog: The Importance of an Early Community Day (New Screenshot Included

[ThePPL]

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Sans eye black but that is added on the actual face during development so I hope they can get that addition in.

But why does it need to be like that? I know you're the wrong person to ask this question to, but what happened to the old concept of having the option to add in face paint in edit mode?

Besides that, it's kind of hard to complain about anything else in the picture. And I do especially like the the neon gloves. I've been waiting for EA to add in secondary colored gloves for a long time. Plus, I appreciate the community day idea.

[KANE699]

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Granted, but not really an excuse. I won't pretend to have your level of code knowledge, but when I find a problem that can't be fixed by modifying the code as-is, I trash the code and start from the ground up with an eye towards making sure the same mistakes don't happen again. That you failed in this is a bit worrying and that you wouldn't have caught it at all without input from the outside community is even more so. What's really, truly scary is that a rudimentary knowledge of how football plays are supposed to work should have caught the mistake and pointed you in the right direction.

Watch the video of Lombardi breaking down the power sweep, it shouldn't be hard to find since it's pretty famous. And in the future I would suggest employing testers who have more than a rudimentary knowledge of football theory. You guys are making a football game, c'mon now.

Ruthless.

[sportzbro]

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What kind of helmets exactly?

Agreed. I'm actually fascinated by helmets and would like to see all the pro level helmets from Schutt (ION 4D, AiR XP, DNA Pro+), Riddell (Revo, Revo Speed), and Adams (A-4, Grid-Elite, Pro-Elite).

these

[adub88]

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Ruthless.

I know right?

[KANE699]

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But why does it need to be like that? I know you're the wrong person to ask this question to, but what happened to the old concept of having the option to add in face paint in edit mode?

Besides that, it's kind of hard to complain about anything else in the picture. And I do especially like the the neon gloves. I've been waiting for EA to add in secondary colored gloves for a long time. Plus, I appreciate the community day idea.

I've always wondering the same thing, I don't think I have gotten an answer, but then again I think I forgot to ask.

[DearbornDolfan]

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Ruthless.

Maybe, but I've been an alpha and beta tester before on a few successful games. Being bluntly honest if what's wrong with the game is the only way to get things fixed. Sometimes testers need to call the programmers to task. It's great that Ian is being more transparent, but the cost of that is honest assessments that he won't necessarily like.

[KyGamerLT]

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I just want to play the game that is all I want . Ian ship me a rough copy (cough cough).

[Dawkins#20]

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I know right?

Someone else took the extreme approach unlike myself

[94niners]

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Unless...

Control is the key. All of what you said may be true, unless some circumstance makes it not true. If I need to set up and throw right away, I SHOULD BE ABLE TO. Forcing me to drop when I can see the all out blitz coming is a BAD THING.

We need less of this "forcing" us to do things.

So audible to a play with a 3 step drop or to a shotgun formation. That's what real QBs do, and realism is what we're after, right?

[canes21]

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So audible to a play with a 3 step drop or to a shotgun formation. That's what real QBs do, and realism is what we're after, right?

I agree with everyone. In real life there are 3, 5 , and 7 drop back plays. But their are situations where a QB was designed to take 3 steps, but hot audible and steps back 1 step and passes it to a quick route.

Jason Campbell did this on slants a lot when the CB would play softly.

[DearbornDolfan]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Blog: The Importance of an Early Community Day (New Screenshot Incl

So audible to a play with a 3 step drop or to a shotgun formation. That's what real QBs do, and realism is what we're after, right?

In certain systems, such as the Air Raid, the base play might be a five step drop but the QB has pass options on the first and third steps if his reads call for it. I'll point to my football theory knowledge comment to Ian and end it here.

[Vikes1]

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Did anyone get to mess around with sliders and give feedback on the effectiveness of those???????????

Oh man...great catch!

Yeah, it would be great to hear if someone remembered to check out slider effectiveness. Easy thing to forget...but very important issue.

Edit: Thanks Dave.

[94niners]

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In certain systems, such as the Air Raid, the base play might be a five step drop but the QB has pass options on the first and third steps if his reads call for it. I'll point to my football theory knowledge comment to Ian and end it here.

Mike Martz had that on occasion, I had read. But...

I agree with everyone. In real life there are 3, 5 , and 7 drop back plays. But their are situations where a QB was designed to take 3 steps, but hot audible and steps back 1 step and passes it to a quick route.

Jason Campbell did this on slants a lot when the CB would play softly.

... I would rather have one play a game removed for the sake of making it harder to cheese than to have it in and have a cheeser not do his drop every single play.

And besides, the vast majority of the time a QB takes those drops.

[sportzbro]

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so with the forced drop backs, does this mean no "one-step goal line fade routes" animation in 10? (think warner to fitz toss)

[KANE699]

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I was pissed about being forced to do a 5 or 7 step drop and not being able to break out of it, I understand on the 3, but if I have to avoid a blitzer on the 7 step drop, I want the ability to, Ian said they were working on this.