Madden NFL 15 Connected Franchise Details, Trailer and Screenshots

[mestevo]

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I really want to see an in depth blog thingy detailing what affects confidence.

If I play as the Ravens and draft a QB in the first round will it impact Joe's confidence?

Hopefully in the future they add to it so that some players are more sensitive to such changes. Some players handle adversity better than others.

.... didn't they use exactly that example in the blog?

[Hooe]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Connected Franchise Details, Trailer and Screenshots

How is confidence going to change my players performance? Does it just lower my overall. Heading into the game.

It was mentioned that low confidence negatively affected "key attributes". There was a screenshot on the blog with Ryan Tannehill having low confidence, and there were red down arrows next to his Throw Accuracy Short / Medium / Deep ratings.

<img src="http://web-vassets.ea.com/Assets/Resources/Image/madden-15-cfm-14.jpg">

It appears that the reduced ratings are visible in this screen; out of the box, Tannehill's accuracy ratings are 87 / 80 / 70, per the ratings reveal blogs.

[Cowboy008]

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This is a little thing but I was just wondering they said teams will wear alternative jerseys this year. Does this mean they will wear throwback jerseys as well?

[OhMrHanky]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Connected Franchise Details, Trailer and Screenshots

Well, 1 thing I noticed was missing and at this point I am going to assume has NOT been fixed. But, if anyone has heard, please, chime in. When u supersim DURING a game, does it factor in the play clock now? FINALLY?? U know, so that if u supersim an entire quarter, u don't throw 70+ passes and rush for 300 yds with each play lasting 7 secs with no play clock runoff?? This isn't a deal breaker for me, BUT it's just one of those things that irks me when trying to run out the clock with 5-10 min left if I'm up by a lot and other random times I want to use supersim.

[Primo80]

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Draft classes got overlooked again... guy was touting random classes as if it was a new thing. Yeah its an improvement if it prevents people from internet scouting, cool. So it was a bad idea in retrospect, thats not new over at EA.

I want to know what their long term vision over there is for career mode. Those rookie recruits need to be convincing. I saw a screen with a rookie on it - still a generic face that doesnt look right next to actual pros.

Im not trying to cry about it, just pointing out that - tuned stats aside - we'll be drafting the same stale players as before. All I can hope for is that they dont make these player models look slapped together on the field. Matter of fact, just take out those bulky elbow pads altogether.

[PainTrain43]

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Though I am one of the biggest champions of custom draft classes, you are fooling yourself if you think its absence will cause EA to lose a lot of customers.

Sales have already dropped quite a bit and I know quite a few people who skipped Madden last year for just that reason and are skipping it again for that reason.

Not saying they will lose millions of customers...but probably in the thousands. That is a big deal to ALOT of people, and a big reason alot of people even bought NCAA to begin with when it was still being made.

[rkocjay]

20 days seems far away

[goravens2052]

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Not true bud. I would love to play through a season and draft the real rookies like we USED to be able to. An edited draft class would work just as well. If this wasn't possible with CCM/CFM then maybe CFM/CCM is a failure. I say this because its looking like the "logic" with CCM/CFM supposedly wouldn't work.


Why wasn't this thought of when CFM/CCM was born/created/designed?? This should have been possible from day 1 imo along with editing ratings inan offline CFM.

First off, you do realize there is no NCAA video game right? So how are we supposed to draft real rookies anymore? I get it, editable draft class, but this is where you contradict yourself. You say you only want season mode, you don't want nothing to do with the draft, but yet you want editable draft classes? I know everyone else does but why would you want editable draft classes if you only play one season and want nothing to do with the off-season?

Also the whole fake rookies thing is a stupid argument. If you weren't aware, after 4 seasons of NCAA, all the real rookies are gone and your importing fake players anyway. So either after 4 seasons, you either import fake players or use the fake draft classes? Since you don't play more than one, guess what? The league becomes a league of fake players after years of playing it.

Nah man, not trying to pick a fight. Just trying to understand where you were coming from, and I didn't play Madden on Xbox or PS2 after 06 so I'm not familiar with features that continued on.

My point about complaining was meant in jest (see the bit about "half of OS"), but obviously was worded poorly. My fault. Hope you find what you're looking for in Madden eventually.

I find it funny he is so passionate about this that he resorted to name calling but yet he says you were trying to start a fight. Just needs to play one season in CFM, start over. Guess it's too difficult.

[badluck22]

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Your two points is something I want to know about as well. The relocation thing, yes being able to choose any team name regardless of the city would be a very welcome addition. I also noticed they said that you may be better off building a new stadium, or relocating. In M25, the only way you could build a new stadium is by relocating, and you couldn't just build a brand new one in the same city. Does that mean we actually can build a new stadium in our current city?

im 90% sure you can build a new stadium in your current city if the current stadium is bad enough.

[badluck22]

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I wonder if we have been given more scouting points. You could not really research in depth numerous positions of need last year. They want us to dig deep in these random classes, we need the points to do so.

this site is saying its been redesigned, that was a worry of mine too

http://traditionsportsonline.com/threads/ea-sports-madden-15-connected-franchise-mode-what-it-all-means.111768/

Scouting Changes:
What it all means: In Madden 15, the Scouting has been tweaked to allow for more in depth scouting. The Letter grade is now easier to access, while the true number grade will cost you an abundance of points. This will help CFM users scout more in depth on the surface, and allow them to build their boards a little better. Of course, that is only if you do not go crazy and use all your points on a stud player.

[charter04]

Madden NFL 15 Connected Franchise Details, Trailer and Screenshots

Do random draft classes mean that we'll have guys named LaDarias Williams being a white guy from BYU?

Had to take this post off before I got banned.

[Kaiser Wilhelm]

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That reminds me of the recruits produced in the NCAA football series. There would be 10 out the top 25 players were ath, RBs, and WR's named things like Dedrick Jones and run 4.2's and be white. Then 80% of kickers and punters would be black. It just starts looking weird in year 8. Lol

I doubt EA will employ racial profiling in Madden.

[MrPinkBlackrose]

....and about being off the field on 4th down.....what if there is a punt return for a TD?? Do I miss seeing that because it is sim'd??? If a tree falls in the forrest, it will have made no sound....

[cam780]

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I am cautiously optimistic. I like the thought of random draft classes; however, I can also see some issues. Are we going to see classes with QB Jadaveon Smith, RB Jadaveon Francis' C Jadaveon Johnson, CB Jadaveon Frederick and P Jadaveon Clinton? There are just some names that shouldn't be common.

Also if story lines are in and random and no different than the past 2 years, could we see the two sport quarterback slated to go first overall choose baseball in back to back seasons?

Also on an aside, what's up with the lack of real coaches in the game? A few years ago you had every coach in the union in the game and now you probably have 10? It's too late for this version but next year, if we can't get NFL coaches I'd like to see some form of back story for the created coaches. Maybe even give them a CFM story line, maybe Tomas Single is Alabama's head coach whose rumored to be looking to accept the challenge of NFL.

[Azcardinal32]

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This looks great, this year they made progressing players less tedious. Hopefully next year they can fix scouting. From the screen shown it doesnt look like scouting has changed at all so I still have to spend ridiculous amounts of points on things I can learn for free at the scouting combine like speed, strength, etc.