Madden NFL 15: Online Impressions

[friscob]

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Gameplay has been smooth and lag free for me. Haven't been booted from any games which happened on the regular last yr. Defense is much better so you stand a chance against cheesers. Because the defense is improved ive noticed people playing the game in a more realistic manner (could be a coincidence based on small sample size). Still not close to sim by any means but noticeably better than the avg experience i would get from ppl in last years game.

Really just want the community feature to come back so you can play with custom sliders against like minded people. Hope they can patch it in at some point

[friscob]

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How does that seeing the opponents previous play work. I never really paid attention to it. I just assumed it was a suggestion play screen or something which I don't need.

Just shows you their last run play and then how you fared against it compared to community averages. It's helpful i guess, but if you're paying attention you can figure out what your opponent is doing without Madden having to tell you what play they just ran.

[LBzrule]

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Were you able to record it to send to Rex? May help alleviate the issue sooner than never, lol

I'll do it next time. I'm sure I'll see it sometime hmmm very soon LOL. I'm betting it won't even take three games.

Even if I were to send it though, they would need to know what that other person is doing to make that happen. That's the key. If they don't know what the other person is doing then it will take forever to figure it out because then if they fix the line just to deal with this one thing it's going to open up something else.

[Kevin McKoy]

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Also from what i have noticed, it appears our good friend strong power has made its way back. Particularly out of twin pistols, but it is still really effective in regular balanced double tight end sets also.

That is still the hardest run play to stop, i will come out in a under defense to decrease the bubbles in the formation, even spread my linebackers out, doesn't matter they still run you over with this play. Its almost making me want to hang up the cleats until next year.

[mstikes]

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My first online game H2H was enjoyable although I won 35-0 the guy I was playing didn't quit. Before that I lost a game on MUT which was a knightmare with the guy running no huddle all game !



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[perezs07]

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Just shows you their last run play and then how you fared against it compared to community averages. It's helpful i guess, but if you're paying attention you can figure out what your opponent is doing without Madden having to tell you what play they just ran.

So if your running cover 2 zone I'm assuming it shows after each time you run it

[fightingirish595]

my impressions of online are its pretty much still a cheese fest, not as easy to cheese as previous years but its still there. i wish they would actually take out the previous play thing, i never look at it but it sucks knowing the game just tells my opponet what im doing, instead of him figuring out what i like to do. i agree that a fair play option needs to be added. also corner routes are still money. i do like the fact that unranked games can be played on slow, its makes the games feel a little more real

[gator3guy]

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I've seen 1 punt in 6 games.

Connection has been pretty good so that's a plus at least.

[friscob]

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So if your running cover 2 zone I'm assuming it shows after each time you run it

Yep, your opponent will know exactly what you ran after each play is completed.

[LBzrule]

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Gorilla and it get worse. There are quite a few money run plays in this game. You are going to have to Madden it to stop these runs. Game always starts out feeling new, but then after a week online I realize the SAME TACTICS are still in play because they refuse to address the larger issues.

[Gorilla Glass]

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Gorilla and it get worse. There are quite a few money run plays in this game. You are going to have to Madden it to stop these runs. Game always starts out feeling new, but then after a week online I realize the SAME TACTICS are still in play because they refuse to address the larger issues.

Yeah and that's unfortunate.

Probably why I have gone from playing 300+ games a year to just 15 last year.

It's either being ignored or the online issues can't be fixed.

[Big FN Deal]

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Gorilla and it get worse. There are quite a few money run plays in this game. You are going to have to Madden it to stop these runs. Game always starts out feeling new, but then after a week online I realize the SAME TACTICS are still in play because they refuse to address the larger issues.

Out of curiosity and for discussion sake, why do you think they program stuff other than football fundamentals? Is it easier to add "shortcuts", is Madden coding so tangled they can't add real fundamentals without starting from scratch, lack of talent by the engineers, something else entirely or some combination?

Madden may not be so bad as long as one doesn't expect it to be anything other than Madden and that's cool but I wonder why hasn't the game moved beyond its' legacy by now. I agree that online H2H seems to expose the core of the game and there seems to be this constant that no matter what is added to improve the football in the game, it doesn't change that core.

For example, no matter what anyone's football game preference, it's a fact that Madden, NFL Fever, NFL2k/APF and BackBreaker all provide a different core experience to playing a football video game, so with all the claims of trying to make Madden more like football, less like Madden I wonder why after all this time and new consoles, its' still so Madden.

[Redskinsfan26]

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Also from what i have noticed, it appears our good friend strong power has made its way back. Particularly out of twin pistols, but it is still really effective in regular balanced double tight end sets also.

That is still the hardest run play to stop, i will come out in a under defense to decrease the bubbles in the formation, even spread my linebackers out, doesn't matter they still run you over with this play. Its almost making me want to hang up the cleats until next year.

Ran into two seperate users who just ran this play the entire game. You would think it would get boring for them, but I guess not. I felt helpless trying to stop it, felt like a matter of luck.

[bodymore]

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Just ran into a user who ran ace single back every play. When he didn't run it he threw it to the tight end on a corner route. He would throw it as soon as he broke to the corner. This was against the chiefs and Alex smith. I tried cover two, 3 and 4 and I also hot routed my lb in man coverage.

I also tried to shade outside, which doesn't work at all.

The only way I stopped it was manually taking my defender and covering the route. There should be some type of awareness where defenders should know if the same plays are being run over and over. I shouldn't have to control every player.

[Big FN Deal]

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Just ran into a user who ran ace single back every play. When he didn't run it he threw it to the tight end on a corner route. He would throw it as soon as he broke to the corner. This was against the chiefs and Alex smith. I tried cover two, 3 and 4 and I also hot routed my lb in man coverage.

I also tried to shade outside, which doesn't work at all.

The only way I stopped it was manually taking my defender and covering the route. There should be some type of awareness where defenders should know if the same plays are being run over and over. I shouldn't have to control every player.

That's what I find so odd about the ability to see your opponents previous play yet the AI doesn't adapt using that knowledge. My guess is that was some kind of compromise with the guys that think adaptive AI is the game playing for you, so instead the show the last play, expecting the User to adjust manually. There is just a different philosophy when it comes to Madden that's a part of the games legacy.