Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

[mike291md]

I was thinking it would be nice next year to have an extra difficulty mode somewhere between All-Pro and All-Madden. It seems a lot of people looking for sliders this year are trying to achieve this and adding another difficulty mode might even provide a better base for next year's sliders.

To me, this year's All-Madden difficulty is too much like a God-Mode in a game like Doom or something. In other words, the degree of difficulty from All-Pro (pretty easy) to All-Madden (insanely hard) is too extreme at this point. Hopefully, the upcoming patch fixes this issue but, even with the patch, I would still like to see another difficulty mode added for next year.

What are your guys' thoughts?:wink:

[kehlis]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

You can edit the sliders to create whatever default difficulty you want. If you want a difficulty in between All Madden and All pro just move all the sliders to 12 or 13....

[myownsun]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

You can edit the sliders to create whatever default difficulty you want. If you want a difficulty in between All Madden and All pro just move all the sliders to 12 or 13....

Thats what i do, my sliders are set to 14.

[mike291md]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

You can edit the sliders to create whatever default difficulty you want. If you want a difficulty in between All Madden and All pro just move all the sliders to 12 or 13....

Lord knows I've tried that, I've even tried things like 15, 15, 10, 10, and it still doesn't seem like a good fit to me. Maybe it's just me I don't know, but even with the those slider adjustments would it not be nice to have a legitimate in-between difficulty to then adjust sliders to?

[kehlis]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

Lord knows I've tried that, I've even tried things like 15, 15, 10, 10, and it still doesn't seem like a good fit to me. Maybe it's just me I don't know, but even with the those slider adjustments would it not be nice to have a legitimate in-between difficulty to then adjust sliders to?

It's a placebo effect.

All pro has all sliders at 10
All Madden has all sliders at 15

Why would it be different in between?

If they added another difficulty level it would be doing exactly what I said except maybe they would find a way to add a .5 so we could have 12.5.

[mike291md]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

It's a placebo effect.

All pro has all sliders at 10
All Madden has all sliders at 15

Why would it be different in between?

If they added another difficulty level it would be doing exactly what I said except maybe they would find a way to add a .5 so we could have 12.5.

Hmm good point. How about this make the difficulty in-between 15 and All-Madden in the 20s?

[Bellsprout]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

Hmm good point. How about this make the difficulty in-between 15 and All-Madden in the 20s?

Then the new difficulty would be what All-Madden is now.

I like it the way it is. Completely customizable, and that makes me happy. I play with some sort of between All-Pro and All-Madden hybrid and I love it.

[mike291md]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

Then the new difficulty would be what All-Madden is now.

I like it the way it is. Completely customizable, and that makes me happy. I play with some sort of between All-Pro and All-Madden hybrid and I love it.

Does anyone customize their slider settings past 15 for any category? I ask this because is 16-20 even meaningful this year since 15 is pretty insanely difficult. My point is making All-Madden the 16-20 range (All-Madden as it plays now) and having another mode that covers the 11-15 range range (call it say Superstar Mode) would still allow for customization. In fact, even deeper customization, I believe.

And I'm not trying to knock the guys who use the 14, 14, 14, 14 or w/e combo you got going, because if it's working for you that's fantastic and I'm happy you found that balance. I'm actually shocked so far no one is supportive of an extra difficulty mode since I've seen a good number of people in the slider forums (like myself) trying to achieve that difficulty. I still feel there would be even better slider sets and maybe even less need for slider changes at all if there were a definitive mode in-between All-Pro and All-Madden.

[David129]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

The problem with sliders is the online franchise there are no sliders.So you play on all madden and get beat bythe cpu or all pro and go never lose,break every record in football.You need sliders online.

[Dog]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

I was thinking it would be nice next year to have an extra difficulty mode somewhere between All-Pro and All-Madden.

sweet. lets call it "Pro-Madden"

[at23steelers]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

The problem with sliders is the online franchise there are no sliders.So you play on all madden and get beat bythe cpu or all pro and go never lose,break every record in football.You need sliders online.

Im not going to say I am that good at this game, because I am not, but in online franchise it seems the first game of all-madden is a challenge (won 25-22) but then the next game is incredibly easy (won 62-21). The CPU threw 7 INT's with Garrard and even had Larry Johnson in the wildcat, audible out of it, and he threw a pass for an INT. So, I wouldn't say the default all-madden always is that hard. It can be a good challenge sometimes.

[mike291md]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

Im not going to say I am that good at this game, because I am not, but in online franchise it seems the first game of all-madden is a challenge (won 25-22) but then the next game is incredibly easy (won 62-21). The CPU threw 7 INT's with Garrard and even had Larry Johnson in the wildcat, audible out of it, and he threw a pass for an INT. So, I wouldn't say the default all-madden always is that hard. It can be a good challenge sometimes.

Agreed, I think if the patch fixes the broken tackles and pass coverage issues correctly then All-Madden might be pretty fun to play this year.

[OSO_FLY22]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

Agreed, I think if the patch fixes the broken tackles and pass coverage issues correctly then All-Madden might be pretty fun to play this year.

Lets hope for this because all madden or as I like to call it all BS mode becomes annoying when every running back runs like earl cambell

[LowerWolf]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

I would like to see some sort of "sim" difficulty level, where the CPU has the smarts of All-Madden but plays within the confines of its ratings like it does on All-Pro.

[RedZoneD25]

Re: Idea for Madden Team #2: New Difficulty Mode

Instead of a new difficulty mode, they need to mesh Rookie and Pro to create one good beginner setting. Then fine tune All-Pro and All-Madden to the point where All-Madden is better competition, not where you're fighting for your life to maintain a drive. To me, All-Madden is much better this year, but still too CPU-driven. By that I mean, the CPU gets an insane boost, while the user's team still seems to play on All-Pro. The Bills become the Patriots and the Patriots become the 1980s All-Pro Team.

Just one guys take.