Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

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  • Gotmadskillzson
    Live your life
    • Apr 2008
    • 23442

    #1

    Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

    Just in case this gets lost in the Q&A thread......

    Ladies & gentlemen I have finally figured out the dual stick controls !



    Watch the tutorial videos on there, it breaks down EXACTLY how to do it. Why oh why they didn't have this in the manual is beyond me.

    But essentially, you have to completely forget how you used the right stick last year. This year the right stick highly sensitive. You flick it and that is what you will get, a LITTLE move.

    The key this year is to get use to HOLDING the right stick. Think of the right stick as a balance beam. Hold it in any direction and your player will lean in that direction that you are holding the right stick in.

    Beware though, hold it in that direction too long and you will stumble & fall to the ground in that direction as well. How long you can lean without falling over all depends on the player's agility rating. But no matter what the rating after 10 yards and you still leaning you going to fall over.

    Also keep in mind this year the right stick just isn't 4 directions. It is 8 directions this year. Hold up left and the player will twist his body and dip the right shoulder down. Hold up right and he will do the opposite shoulder. Just up and you will dip forward.

    The beauty to this all is that you can do it all on the fly, even combo dips and put some spin moves in with it or jukes with it. No longer do you have to wait for one animation to play out, you can change whenever you want in mid animation.

    So if you have a bruiser RB or FB, you can just dip one particular shoulder directly into a smaller DB and keep it moving. If your an agile back, you can dip and then spin off the dip making the slower LB's look stupid.

    Anyway I hope this helps those who were like me who wondered what is the dual controls. Because I swear the instruction manual doesn't explain it at all.
  • Strummer101er
    Banned
    • Jul 2008
    • 597

    #2
    Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

    Good stuff.

    After installing NCAA to my Xbox 360 hard drive, I spent about 15 minutes on an empty practice field just getting a feel for the new R-stick controls.

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    • Gotmadskillzson
      Live your life
      • Apr 2008
      • 23442

      #3
      Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

      Oh yeah I spent the 1st 4 hours of the morning frustrated, wondering what dual stick controls ???? Then around lunch I googled it and that website was like the 3rd link from the top. Clicked it, read it, watched the videos 5 times a piece, then went to the practice field with various schools for about an hour straight.

      Now the game is even more fun now knowing I can choose what angle I want to truck somebody. And doing combos is just awesome. I now literally look forward to letting my FB run the ball some.

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      • boritter
        Pro
        • Mar 2006
        • 917

        #4
        Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

        Good find gotmadskills. I saw this 3 or 4 months ago but I forgot about it 2 or 3 months ago. I'm off to the practice field.
        EA: Please add in-game saves.

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        • Gosens6
          All Star
          • Oct 2007
          • 6102

          #5
          Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

          Thanks for this! I knew I wasn't utilizing it properly. This has helped tons

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          • Dawg Pound88
            Banned
            • Jun 2010
            • 41

            #6
            Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

            Thanks, I was wondering how it worked.

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            • J-Unit40
              Boom!!
              • Sep 2005
              • 8261

              #7
              Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

              Very good find man! I'll be taking my game to the practice field with various athletes soon.
              "Hard work beats talent, when talent isn't working hard.”

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              • BadAssHskr
                XSX
                • Jun 2003
                • 3541

                #8
                Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

                i keep trying to steer my player with the right after being engaged, and always end up screwing myself.
                "Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory."

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                • bignasty022
                  Banned
                  • Aug 2007
                  • 40

                  #9
                  Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

                  I definitely appreciate this! I would have been lost without it.

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                  • bt1065
                    Rookie
                    • Jul 2010
                    • 5

                    #10
                    Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

                    Thanks a lot man. I'm going on huge runs now instead of just 4-5 yarders.

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                    • Gotmadskillzson
                      Live your life
                      • Apr 2008
                      • 23442

                      #11
                      Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

                      Try to steer before they make contact with you. You know like lean into them before they lean into you kind of thing. If they lean 1st, then it all boils down to your strength and break tackle rating of how far you can drag them or break out of the engagement.

                      Sometimes when I got 3 engaged and they trying to swarm me, I will work that right stick like crazy going side to side and rotating it. Doing that sometimes I will break out the crowd stumbling forward, but free.

                      Also don't forget that you can stiff arm out of a tackle too while engaged sometimes.

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                      • Brandwin
                        Hall Of Fame
                        • Jul 2002
                        • 30621

                        #12
                        Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

                        Originally posted by J-Unit40
                        Very good find man! I'll be taking my game to the practice field with various athletes soon.
                        Same here. Thanks for the link.

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                        • Gotmadskillzson
                          Live your life
                          • Apr 2008
                          • 23442

                          #13
                          Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

                          Very welcome guys. We should have some very awesome running highlights now once everybody learn the controls.

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                          • Randiesel75
                            Rookie
                            • Apr 2008
                            • 426

                            #14
                            Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

                            Excellent post, thanks for adding this!

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                            • 4815162342
                              Rookie
                              • Jul 2010
                              • 8

                              #15
                              Re: Dual Stick Running Controls Explained

                              This helped me out so much. I was wondering why my running game was so terrible with just flicking the stick.

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