Madden 12 Retail Impression (Franchise and Superstar Mode - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

[Millennium]

This is a thread for users with Madden 12 to post their impressions on Offline and Online Franchise mode, and the Superstar Mode.

THERE IS TO BE NO QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION ON THESE MODES. ANY POSTS THAT ARE NOT DIRECT IMPRESSIONS OF THESE MODES WILL BE HANDLED AS A BANNABLE OFFENSE

[jmurphy31]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impression (Franchise and Superstar Mode - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSI

Started a franchise tonight and started with a preseason game. After the first series I pulled my starters and put in a few bench players (Mallet for Brady, etc) and after the second quarter, the CPU subs for you...(Which is funny because I wanted to post I wish they had the feature from NCAA a few years ago..Where you could mass sub in blowouts)

Though some of its logic is a little off.. It had a TE has my FB, a Tackle as a back-up TE.

After the computer subbed for me I reset the game, but I didnt start it back up yet...I wonder what they will do at the half or 4th quarter...

[Aggies7]

I'll touch a little on previous poster.

I like that the computer subs for you but I noticed in the first 3 games my third stringers did not get any playing time.

I will say it was cool in the 4th preseason game my starters played first possession and then computer subbed in 3rd stringers and they played the rest of the game. Which was good because I was afraid to cut some of them because they had overall rating of 78"?" But after last preseason game they revealed the actual rating of 65 and were cut.

[jmurphy31]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impression (Franchise and Superstar Mode - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSI

I'll touch a little on previous poster.

I like that the computer subs for you but I noticed in the first 3 games my third stringers did not get any playing time.

I will say it was cool in the 4th preseason game my starters played first possession and then computer subbed in 3rd stringers and they played the rest of the game. Which was good because I was afraid to cut some of them because they had overall rating of 78"?" But after last preseason game they revealed the actual rating of 65 and were cut.

I finished my first complete preseason game. I agree with this my third string QB and RB didnt see any action. Also, it was nice to see that the computer subbed accordingly as well...They did get to their 3rd string RB and QB though.

I didnt like the automatic subs in some situations...Your Kicker becomes the Punter and Vice Versa...WR (Wes Welker) became my 4th CB and saw action in the 4th quarter. This also put him as a gunner for Punt Returns

[Aggies7]

I did forget to mention that. Thanks for reminding me.

The kicker/punter swap is annoying but not a big deal.

However I did not like my starting WR playing defense for the whole second half.

And I made the mistake of cutting all but 5 WR before final preseason game and after computer auto subbed for me they had Moreno playing WR.

Overall nothing that kills the game because you can just take them out. I just like that they computer does the mass sub for you. And it's good to see the CPU team also subs throughout the game accordingly.

[mrprice33]

Anybody figure out how to carryover accelerated clock settings from regular games to franchise? I have mine set to 15 seconds in the front end, but it only goes down to 20 while in game. Might have to lower my gametime to compensate, but it'd be nice if I didn't have to.

[Benz87]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impression (Franchise and Superstar Mode - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSI

I uploaded my RTG QB to superstar mode and it was disappointing to see absolutely zero element of combine workouts or at least a draft. I enjoyed the older version where they would put you through the mock Wonderlic Test and have combine workouts and interviews. This year you import your player and you are randomly assigned to a team in preseason. Not much excitement to it. Oh well, at least the menu is shiny. That will keep me playing.

[sky454]

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Online franchise has no sliders. You also cannot adjust the online franchise game speed. You will be forced to play online franchise on normal speed. I'm very disapoointed by this.

[mrprice33]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impression (Franchise and Superstar Mode - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSI

Cut Day is STRESSFUL.

The first week was easy. I cut Pat Devlin and some scraps at WR and CB. The second week was a little more difficult, but I had some wiggle room at WR and Lex Hilliard at RB. But cutting 8 guys after game 3 looks like it's going to be impossible lol. I'm giving Charles Clay the start to see how he compares to Lousaka Polite, who's a 90 but probably replacable. That will be my hardest choice.

[JPSports31]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impression (Franchise and Superstar Mode - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSI

In my first game of preseason, I noticed Jake Long and Brandon Marshall on special teams during a kick return. I was the kicking team, and Marshall made the tackle. It's all fun and games until one of them gets hurt. :P

[jmurphy31]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impression (Franchise and Superstar Mode - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSI

Cut Day is STRESSFUL.

The first week was easy. I cut Pat Devlin and some scraps at WR and CB. The second week was a little more difficult, but I had some wiggle room at WR and Lex Hilliard at RB. But cutting 8 guys after game 3 looks like it's going to be impossible lol. I'm giving Charles Clay the start to see how he compares to Lousaka Polite, who's a 90 but probably replacable. That will be my hardest choice.

I agree making cuts after game 3 is pretty tough...I stuck with most of my rookies and cut some low potential guys...

[brandon27]

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Anybody figure out how to carryover accelerated clock settings from regular games to franchise? I have mine set to 15 seconds in the front end, but it only goes down to 20 while in game. Might have to lower my gametime to compensate, but it'd be nice if I didn't have to.

Cut days were brutal for me. Such a great addition to the game though. Loved how the CPU was automatically subbing my players in my preseason games too so everyone got on the field, or so it seemed.

Something I found strange though, I ended up with alot of guys on the phins roster that, quite frankly shouldnt have been there. As in, I'm not even sure if they were real NFL players. I believe they all showed as rookies too.

One other thing I've noticed, you apparently can not change accellerated clock settings in Franchise. I'm not a big fan of this at all. Generaly I only play 6-8 minute quarters, these quarters are flying by now because of the damn accelerated clock. Hope I find a way to turn it off.

I just finished the preseason, heading into week 1 now.

[mrprice33]

Cut days were brutal for me. Such a great addition to the game though. Loved how the CPU was automatically subbing my players in my preseason games too so everyone got on the field, or so it seemed.

Something I found strange though, I ended up with alot of guys on the phins roster that, quite frankly shouldnt have been there. As in, I'm not even sure if they were real NFL players. I believe they all showed as rookies too.

One other thing I've noticed, you apparently can not change accellerated clock settings in Franchise. I'm not a big fan of this at all. Generaly I only play 6-8 minute quarters, these quarters are flying by now because of the damn accelerated clock. Hope I find a way to turn it off.

I just finished the preseason, heading into week 1 now.

I'm playing 13 with the 20 second minimum and it's working perfectly. 120-130 plays pretty much every game. If you're playing 6-8 no runoff I'd up that to 9 or so.

Yeah I think scouting might be broken, or it's at least unclear. After week 1 I cannot scout at all.

EDIT: looks like you can scout every 4 weeks only.

[sky454]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impression (Franchise and Superstar Mode - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSI

Bad news, according to some very upset people at ea's forums you cannot use custom playbooks in online games. You can use custom playbooks in offline franchise play.

I also wanted to warn people about playing online games just in case you decide to compete against the cheesers. If your opponent comes out in a goalline formation you need to have a goalline formation in your audibles to defend against the qb sneak. Stay away from random ranked games people.

[BRxSKINSx]

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I am not pleased with Superstar Mode.....It's kinda boring....RTG was better IMO.....No battles for starting job or nuthin, I came in from RTG and was the starter day 1....got drafted 3rd round (87 overall qb)....so then i went and created a superstar to see where i would land....I WENT 12th in da 1st ROUND....as a 65 overall reciever.....gtfoh wit that.....l

litening to the offensive coordinator is so annoying during the game.....i tried turning it off .....hoping that i could hear some commentary.....wrong....it ain't happening....even though the commentary isn't good, i wouldn't mind hearing it during superstar mode.....the only time u hear a hint of it is when a play is being reviewed....that sucks....

EA should go back to the OLD superstar mode when u had agents, interviews, and other superstar options....this mode is so plain....it gives u nuthin to do.....practice and games and that's it.....you would think that after all years of superstar mode that they would eventually get it right....add another year of failing to that.....because it's nowhere near being a good product....maybe they should think of taking it out of the game completly and adding sumthin else to replace it......

I was looking forward to making it to the H.O.F. with my RTG player....but the game mode is no fun at all, so it looks like another year wasted on RTG for me....and i probably won't bother gettin Madden 13.....unless its given to me.....