Madden NFL 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (XB1/PS4)

[Sausage]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (XB1/PS4)

Played a couple of games on default All-Pro. Some notes:

1. Robo-QB is in full force. They just don't miss many throws or anything.
2. Too many sacks. This ties in with Robo-QB. Every play feels like a sack or a completion. Stale.
3. Running the ball. Dunno but I felt NCAA 14 had a better run game with better blocking than this.
4. Defense. I struggle to move the ball. Good that it's finally harder, though at times their recovery speed and general closing speed seem unrealistic in a way.
5. WR's are not as good as CB's. They don't attack the ball making it easy for the ball to be picked.

Nice list and I'm adjusting to 15' as we speak.

Out of your top 5 of concerns #5 is what sometimes irk when a tall receiver with skill just let's a CB out hustle them for most jump balls.

I haven't had any QB go robo on me yet, most games end between 60-70% completion on all pro. Though, there are stretches when a QB gets hot, but it isn't for very long.

When I remember not to constantly hold my sprint button my run game inside the tackles really open up.

Sacks have been hit and miss. I have quarters where I am able to get or hit the QB at every turn and them quarters where I can barely sniff him.

I have played anywhere from 8-10 games, so a small sample size.

[WISports]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (XB1/PS4)

Is there a way to get rid of the down & distance marker that's on the field pre-snap?

[TheFlamingWeazel]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (XB1/PS4)

Played a couple of games on default All-Pro. Some notes:

1. Robo-QB is in full force. They just don't miss many throws or anything.
2. Too many sacks. This ties in with Robo-QB. Every play feels like a sack or a completion. Stale.
3. Running the ball. Dunno but I felt NCAA 14 had a better run game with better blocking than this.
4. Defense. I struggle to move the ball. Good that it's finally harder, though at times their recovery speed and general closing speed seem unrealistic in a way.
5. WR's are not as good as CB's. They don't attack the ball making it easy for the ball to be picked.

Sums it up for me, the receivers being so bad kills the game for me...leads to too many picks, other legacy issues, movement still is not good....another year I am skipping after playing my friends copy for 5 days. Too many unrealistic, arcade stuff goes on in madden.

[The JareBear]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (XB1/PS4)

Switching from slow to normal has opened up the game so much, big plays, negative plays, explosive and dynamic CPU offenses, I love it

Feels like a whole new game to me. Sliders have stayed the same, a slightly modified version of charters (made CPU run block better and user run block lower) and I'm in love with the gameplay now on normal. I'm playing a game right now that is easily the best I have ever played against a CPU opponent in Madden

After this I will start an online CFM (with just me, for the stat fixes) as my companion league to my user CFM on this site

[SageInfinite]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (XB1/PS4)

Switching from slow to normal has opened up the game so much, big plays, negative plays, explosive and dynamic CPU offenses, I love it

Feels like a whole new game to me. Sliders have stayed the same, a slightly modified version of charters (made CPU run block better and user run block lower) and I'm in love with the gameplay now on normal. I'm playing a game right now that is easily the best I have ever played against a CPU opponent in Madden

After this I will start an online CFM (with just me, for the stat fixes) as my companion league to my user CFM on this site

Hearing you say this makes me want to try out normal speed. I've been on slow since day one since the game usually has played so much better for me on slow.

[SageInfinite]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (XB1/PS4)

Also seems like true step was toned down and not in a good way. I can't trigger the left stick cuts like in Madden 25.

[SageInfinite]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (XB1/PS4)

Also wish my DB's and safetys made plays on the ball like tha CPU's secondary.

[bkrich83]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (XB1/PS4)

Looks like I got my settings locked in, and am starting a 1 player online CFM so I can use the fixed sim stats.

Game certainly has issues, but it's the most fun I've had with Madden, possibly ever at least since Madden 05. This will certainly do for my football fix this year, unlike the last several years when I've been done with Madden after a week or so.

[ThreeKing]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (XB1/PS4)

Is there a way to get rid of the down & distance marker that's on the field pre-snap?

I looked for that option also, but couldn't find one.

[SageInfinite]

Re: Madden NFL 15 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (XB1/PS4)

Looks like I got my settings locked in, and am starting a 1 player online CFM so I can use the fixed sim stats.

Game certainly has issues, but it's the most fun I've had with Madden, possibly ever at least since Madden 05. This will certainly do for my football fix this year, unlike the last several years when I've been done with Madden after a week or so.

Definitely true. The game has a massive amount of potential with the right patch.

[bkrich83]

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Definitely true. The game has a massive amount of potential with the right patch.

For sure it's got it's issues, but it's keeping me entertained, and ultimately that's all I care about.

Nice to see they fixed the sim stat issue.

[DGuinta1]

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It would be cool as part of the presentation, EA does like CBS used to do, go around the league and as Brent Musberger used to say... "You are looking live.... at AT&T as the Cowboys prepare to do battle against their rival/nemesis, the Giants."

[Sdot23]

Yep too many sacks (and simmed stats) are what I want most.
I just kept trying differensettings to see what really did what and once I lowered reaction it helped a lot.
I don't think we'll ever really know what the sliders do especially to areas other than what they seemingly are designed for.

Now if I can get the D cam to not pan away from at times... I just posted that in glitch thread. Doesn't happen a lot but sucks when it does..

So ready for Online CFM it's not funny.

Peace..

Skyboxer do you have your settings DL in the community section in Madden? And is it on PS4? I'd like to try out your sliders since I'm also looking for the run game to open up a bit. Thanks man. Appreciate it.

[CT Pitbull]

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Hearing you say this makes me want to try out normal speed. I've been on slow since day one since the game usually has played so much better for me on slow.

I usually play on slow too but this year I haven't touched a thing since getting the game. Normal speed 50 thresh, with 70 fatigue. 10-12 min quarters 15-17 sec runoff, on all-pro. I honestly have won some games and lost my share. And so far I have no desire to change anything because the games im getting are dynamic and all play out differently in a good way. I also have all the madden "assist" off of course to like ball hawk,heat seeker, and strafe.


I have seen one time when I was killing the cpu and went into settings in game and somehow my difficulty was changed from all-pro to rookie. I switched it back and the game instantly went back to being where I wanted it.


I haven't touched the penalty sliders either cause as we all know they aren't gonna work anyways. So I figured why bother?

[Desolationmike]

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I'm doing a line backer player CFM, and I'm liking it a lot. The only issue I'm having is that it seems like my CPU offense cannot hold on to the ball. I'm assuming it's made that way to give me more play time, but my time of possesions are way off. At half time on 8 minute quarters my T.O.P is almost consistently 15 mins to 5 give or take. Even when I'm causing 3 and outs my offense can only hold on to the ball for like a minute or two.