Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

[steelers1216]

i just have a suggestion for the running animations for this upcoming madden

EA, take a look at the turn rate that the players turn there legs wen they run on the ps2 versions of madden, you guys did a good job with that in the old-gen maddens, bring it back and make it even better, we all know u can
also, make the upper lean over the legs, just watch some highlights of players running in-game (real life), just mimic that, u can do it, i have faith in u guys

[spankdatazz22]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

+ one-on-one blocking looked nice. Will be interesting to see how players interact overall on the fly
+ Receiver slipped running a pattern
+/- Game speed a tad slow? Hits/contact still seems... soft
- Sometimes players still look like they're jogging a lot of the time
- Still seem to be a lack of appropriate transitional anims to depict directional changes (quick look into the secondary)
+ Looks better than '09
- QB movement still weird

[steelers1216]

PERFECT VIDEO FOR ANIMATION IDEAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JUST PAY ATTENTION TO THE DETAILS, AND IN YOUR MIND THINK ABOUT WHAT MADDEN LOOKS LIKE, THEN SEE HOW DIFFERENT IN IS IN REAL LIFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BWCxqbXSsY

[steelers1216]

^^^^^^^^^^ copy and paste it in search bar, sorry about that

[PolkaDot]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

Enlighten yourself. Its the way the QB moves at the end of the video. If you don't see it then you don't see it.

Or . .. you could quit being an e-tough guy jerk and point it out

[steelers1216]

one more thing that i have always hated from the next-gen maddens, its a small thing, but it does bother me

the size of the ball, just make it SLIGHTLY smaller, wen i look at the screen shots of the qb's in the throwing motion, wen the ball is by their head, the ball looks the same size or bigger than there head....with their helmets on!!!!!!!!
please fix it, make the ball a little more narrower

[gametime25]

Finally EA addresses this problem. Pass blocking is something that should have been looked at a while back.

[adriano]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

Is it me or does Flaccos release look weird?

[big_larry]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

the blocking is looking good, but the last vid where spears gets the sack, the transition wasnt to smooth. Spears should have tried to strip the ball or tackle the qb from behind. but the animation slides Spears on the side of Flacco.

[icomb1ne]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

Double teams! Double teams! Double teams!

And

the blocking is looking good, but the last vid where spears gets the sack, the transition wasnt to smooth. Spears should have tried to strip the ball or tackle the qb from behind. but the animation slides Spears on the side of Flacco.

And

Why does the QB have to move like that in the pocket? (in reference to the 3rd clip the Joe Flacco clip)


Not only is that physically impossible......but it looks absolutely atrocious.

...The rest looks solid btw

[radatdude2]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

really good to see the line play improved, i really like how the defender can break away from the o-line man when needed, but like others have mentioned the way flacko moved out of the pocket looks terrible i hope the qb animations can be tweaked when breaking the pocket

[Ian_Cummings]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

I just wanted to quote this because I noticed it too. If you're going to say something about 2k's blocking then maybe you should actually show a video of what you are talking about Ian, cuz it's certainly not happening in that video.

Hmm...again, seems obvious to me, but maybe I'm not explaining it well. See attached image...

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In real life, unless that guy is getting held, there is no reason why he can't chase after the ballcarrier after he's ran past him. Instead he's trapped in a really long animation...without the ability to branch out or 'steer', you can't control how the defense reacts to the play.

[MrNFL_FanIQ]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

Dude, it's going to be in there.

I complained about it in Madden '07....nothing happened.

I complained about it in Madden '08....nothing happened.

I complained about it in Madden '09 (http://www.operationsports.com/forums/madden-nfl-football/250117-footplanting-qbs.html).....and it looks like nothing is happening.

This one of my biggest pet peeves and year after year it goes unfixed. At least in last gen versions, the momentum was so great, it was hard to make sudden movements with your QB. The developers this gen seem completely oblivious that the problem exist.

And it's being ignored (at least as of this post) in this thread as well.

[Droopy03]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

Hmm...again, seems obvious to me, but maybe I'm not explaining it well. See attached image...

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In real life, unless that guy is getting held, there is no reason why he can't chase after the ballcarrier after he's ran past him. Instead he's trapped in a really long animation...without the ability to branch out or 'steer', you can't control how the defense reacts to the play.

The guy who siad that he can't see it must be blind.

[Lodeus]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

After reading and watching it second time I do see the improvements you guys have mad. I agree with what others are saying about Flacco moving out of the pocket(I assume you moved him that way purposely) the animation does look funny.
But overall it looks good.