Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

[HolyCrap]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

1. Fixed flat coverage for cover 2 but rest of zone defenses still take to long to get to right area.

With fixing the flat coverage the Cover 2 shell is totally busted and safeties are in no mans land leaving giant gaps in the secondary.

2. the RB yardage stats are so unrealistic which is undeniable.

3. Still no fix on warping, bad CPU play calling and Defensive/Offensive line play

Took EA this long to come out with this patch tsk tsk tsk

[GatorBait06NC]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

just simmed one season before going to work here is what i got

three 2000yrd rushers
M.Turner 2558
A.Peterson 2122
D.Williams 2092

Jared Allen had 30 sacks

everything else looks good though I like that the most pancakes one guy had was 20

30 sacks??? atrocious. Let 2k have a chance now! 2500 yards is also pretty disgusting. Im definately going back and deleting game data utility and start my chise pre patches. Ive never heard of patches making games worse.

[HolyCrap]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

30 sacks??? atrocious. Let 2k have a chance now! 2500 yards is also pretty disgusting. Im definately going back and deleting game data utility and start my chise pre patches. Ive never heard of patches making games worse.

Amen Gatorbait

[muktownballer33]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

Just finished my first play now game post patch. Texans (me) vs Cowboys. All-pro default, 15 min quarters, 25 second run off.

Game was great. Dallas scored first on a TD to Roy Williams in the back of the endzone. Romo got hurt on the pass and was out the whole rest of the first half. I answered with a TD to Johnson to tie it up at 7. 2 plays later Barber fumbles, Cushing recovers and I run it back 17 yards for 6. It was awesome cause Barber got stood up on a toss left and my corner came in and caused the fumble. Kitna did nothing and I was able to take a 17-7 lead into the half. Dallas came back to cut the lead to 3 with 6 minutes to go, but I was able to answer back and ended up winning the game 27-14.

Overall it was the best game I've ever played on default settings. Dallas stuck to the run all game cause Romo was out. I really felt the game would have been MUCH tighter if Romo had not gotten hurt. I controlled the ball all game (42min TOP) and had 10 pts off Dallas turnovers.

I'm not going to jump the gun and say this game is fixed quite yet. I felt this game played great. Take away the 2 Dallas turnovers and have Romo play the whole game and this game would have been COMPLETELY different.

As of right now I'm very pleased!!

[CreatineKasey]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

1. Fixed flat coverage for cover 2 but rest of zone defenses still take to long to get to right area.

With fixing the flat coverage the Cover 2 shell is totally busted and safeties are in no mans land leaving giant gaps in the secondary.

2. the RB yardage stats are so unrealistic which is undeniable.

3. Still no fix on warping, bad CPU play calling and Defensive/Offensive line play

Took EA this long to come out with this patch tsk tsk tsk

I'm glad to hear about the cover 2. We have cover 2 soft for the purpose of playing a hook zone.. .we don't need flat zone CB's doing it too. This finally differentiates those 2 plays more. Before the adjustment people could fling those flats balls all day against cover 2 zone and break the CB's tackle off a block... it drove me nuts.

Now, anyone confirm the ball trajectory stuff?

Zone depth?

Pursuit?

[Swingking77]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

This far, I haven't really noticed all that much other then polish for the player models, which always get way more attention the game play...

When players play a blitz... BOOM! The screen sets in just fine, so blitzers will still cry foul when the screens still burn their constant blitzing. I haven't really noticed anything else...

I really don't care about the stats... I play the season, I don't sim it... I don't care about little numbers and emblems on the backs of players heads since all you see is a player making a huge glitchy run down the sidelines, in perfect uniforms... Nice.

How about we fix the animation and game play stuff next year and worry about the "little" things once the "important" stuff is done... I appareciate the Seahawks jerseys being in there now, but that should have been a release thing...

[HolyCrap]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

I'm glad to hear about the cover 2. We have cover 2 soft for the purpose of playing a hook zone.. .we don't need flat zone CB's doing it too. This finally differentiates those 2 plays more. Before the adjustment people could fling those flats balls all day against cover 2 zone and break the CB's tackle off a block... it drove me nuts.

Now, anyone confirm the ball trajectory stuff?

Zone depth?

Pursuit?

well the flat is covered but the safeties drop too far back so all u have to do now to beat cover 2 is throw the ball up the hash and the safeties are too far away to react on the play

[123dc123]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

Can anyone confirm if they fixed coach mode? like basically made it how it use to be where you can't control any of the players after the snap? thanks.

[CreatineKasey]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

well the flat is covered but the safeties drop too far back so all u have to do now to beat cover 2 is throw the ball up the hash and the safeties are too far away to react on the play

You could do that anyway. I did it all the time. Glad to see the flats get hit. I bet they did help on the cover 3 part also.

Any word on man coverage of RB's by LB's in the flat?

[HolyCrap]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

You could do that anyway. I did it all the time. Glad to see the flats get hit. I bet they did help on the cover 3 part also.

Any word on man coverage of RB's by LB's in the flat?

Cover 3 still busted. LBS cant get into the right position fast enuf or dont get to their zone fast enuf

[KC Fire]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

How hard is it to get man align to actually work. All it does is freeze your defenders. They don't even align to their man. Flats are still broken, sim stats broke as well. Typical EA, one step forward two steps back.

[object00]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

Gameplay impressions:

-Noticeably smoother feel to it...almost a little glide-y..if that's a word

-Defensive pressure is more effective..to the point that I tuned my sliders back down to a median level. I had them set so that my D could shed blockers quicker.

- Sacking the QB without diving at his feet is possible now. You can also catch the QB mid throw, and instead of it being thrown away, you get the sack.

- Running seemed easier to me..not sure if it was due to the glide feel, or if the tuning has somehow made it simpler. I noticed more broken tackles and big runs on. I'm tweaking the run sliders to an even more difficult setting. I was already up at 14.

Overall I'm happy with the feel and I think I can tune my sliders to get this thing right.

[LionsFanNJ]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

You could do that anyway. I did it all the time. Glad to see the flats get hit. I bet they did help on the cover 3 part also.

Any word on man coverage of RB's by LB's in the flat?

The LB's may not get to the flats in time to stop the catch, but when i've called man i've had my LB's and Safeties haul to catch up to the back and try and make the tackle for short gains. If the ball is late sometimes they'll make a play on it. This is only on a 2 game sample though

[jyoung]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

Safeties already played way too far back before the patch.

Like 10-15 yards back from where they should be.

It's a shame that EA can't figure out how to get the defense set up right, but at least the flats are better now.

I can make up for the bad safety play be taking control of a safety manually, but playing the flats manually is impossible since I can't even see what's happening over there on my 4:3 screen.

[GatorBait06NC]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Patch #2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

I got some good news and some bad news.

Good news is that if you control all 32 teams and set all the teams to 60-40 favoring the pass, it corrects rushing numbers. Passing numbers are still slightly high, but its playable.

Bad news is that this does nothing for sacks.

Also controlling all 32 teams is a PURE F'ING DISASTER. After the first season, even with CPU making all the moves. The CPU doesnt sign enough people. When I tried to sim the first game in season 2, the pop up came up and said that the Saints didnt have enough cap room to sign enough players to fill their roster.

Thing was, I thought they might need one player. WRONG. They needed 5 offensive lineman, 2 defensive backs, and a kicker. Isnt the CPU supposed to be doing this????

Either way people, we waited months for a patch only to be let down in typical EA fashion. I seriously think im done with EA sports titles. I love Madden and NCAA football, but I cant bare to put up with this year after year.

Everyones best bet is to delete their game data utility and play the game how it was released, before the patches. Patches ruining games, only EA could get away with this. Im pissed. Theres no way Looman and the team didnt see all this stats disaster. And they still released it? Why? Talk about sticking it to the poeple that fill your pockets.