Strafe Button Will Be Very Important This Year

[TarHeelPhenom]

With the suction gone and canned animations out, the strafe button should be your greatest ally on defense. I've been looking at these vids and see a lot of guys just overrunning plays and running right by guys. That presents some scary circumstances when you have to try and tackle in the open field.

[SonOfEd]

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it will take some getting used to, but I am pretty excited. Should make for some nice plays from the playmakers on both sides of the ball.

[canes21]

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If you want to get used to the tackling in this game, then try the 2k8 demo out. You can literally run into the ball carrier in that game and not have a tackle play out.

I can't wait to go online and be able to tackle better than a lot of people the first few days/weeks.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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By default, auto strafe is on.......so I doubt most people would even notice anything because auto strafe is on by default.

[He1nousOne1]

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Previous years I tend to focus more on playing as a defensive lineman and using stunts to break up plays personally but with this new system I am excited to step back to the linebackers and focus more time with them. Their speed was always undone by that damn morphing. Yes, I will be turning the autostrafing off and then manual strafing will be necessary.

[jboss13]

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Nah, players with no skill will use the damn defensive assist button smh. I have no clue as to why they even put that in the game.

[pigsooie86]

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an overlooked thing that pissed me off that I hope is fixed is the instant turnaround after a pick in online games. There used to be a freeze in the action for a second allowing you to adjust. There is nothing worse than when I'm playing with FS and strafing and my LB picks off a ball but then immediately pitches it back to the other team.

[buckeye02]

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You dont have to fun into the ball carrier this year with the addition of the tackle button. You just cant press it from far away. I used the strafe button anyways, so there shouldnt be that much of a change for me personally.

[jboss13]

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an overlooked thing that pissed me off that I hope is fixed is the instant turnaround after a pick in online games. There used to be a freeze in the action for a second allowing you to adjust. There is nothing worse than when I'm playing with FS and strafing and my LB picks off a ball but then immediately pitches it back to the other team.

From the videos we have seen, it has been fixed and I don't even know why they messed with it lol.

[jello1717]

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By default, auto strafe is on.......so I doubt most people would even notice anything because auto strafe is on by default.

I would guess most people turn it off. I tried it when '11 came out, but I control a MLB and every time I was in man and my guy was running a drag, my guy would auto-strafe (which of course is slower than running forward) and I couldn't stop him from strafing and the receiver would always blow by my guy. I'd imagine it wouldn't take that happening many times before people turned off auto-strafe.

Nah, players with no skill will use the damn defensive assist button smh. I have no clue as to why they even put that in the game.

Do you seriously have no clue or are you just using hyperbole? Obviously they put it in there for the "players with no skill." Hardcore gamers are a pretty small segment of their market and they need to design their game for the majority of their audience. The defensive assist button is in there for the same reason that they have a 1-button mode.

an overlooked thing that pissed me off that I hope is fixed is the instant turnaround after a pick in online games. There used to be a freeze in the action for a second allowing you to adjust. There is nothing worse than when I'm playing with FS and strafing and my LB picks off a ball but then immediately pitches it back to the other team.

Luckily I've never done that, but I've had lots of times where it was a very close game, with me trailing, and I get a pick with no one between my guy and the end zone and I could easily run it in for the win, but because I was pushing up to get to the ball, when the screen flips on me I'm now running the wrong way which givens the other team time enough to catch my guy. That really pisses me off too.

[The JareBear]

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Auto-Strafe is awesome. In the case of man coverage and not being able to sprint out of the strafe you just hold down R2 like normal, its simple, R2 overrides the auto-strafe. This also helps shut down option attacks while still using auto strafe and its many elements.

To each their own though.

[Pokes404]

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Just imagine how important strafing would be if foot planting and realistic player movement were in the game. Firing downhill at a shifty, scat back would be just begging to get your ankles broken.