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

[jay SUPREME]

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

PLEASE HELP (XBOX ONE only) : I DO NOT see button assignments (X, Y, A) when I am trying to select a Pass Play. I can view the button assignments ON THE FIELD, when I'm in the huddle, but I want to know which buttons are assigned to my receivers BEFORE I choose my plays.

[Gagnon39]

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PLEASE HELP (XBOX ONE only) : I DO NOT see button assignments (X, Y, A) when I am trying to select a Pass Play. I can view the button assignments ON THE FIELD, when I'm in the huddle, but I want to know which buttons are assigned to my receivers BEFORE I choose my plays.

I'm not sure you can. Why don't you just hold down R2 to see which buttons are assigned to which receivers at the line of scrimmage? Maybe I'm not understanding your question.

[MaddenFan676]

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Madden 15 is great with realistic graphics. It is really great improvement for over Madden 25.

[A_Quiet_Pro]

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PLEASE HELP (XBOX ONE only) : I DO NOT see button assignments (X, Y, A) when I am trying to select a Pass Play. I can view the button assignments ON THE FIELD, when I'm in the huddle, but I want to know which buttons are assigned to my receivers BEFORE I choose my plays.

unfortunately, I dont think you can see that. I do know that FOREVER Madden has had the button layout like it is on your controller. (I.E.- [typed as PS4/X1] The left receiver would be Box/X, the middle receiver or tight end typically would be X/A, the right receiver would be O/B and the slot receiver is usually Triangle/Y. And the check down is R1/RB.) If that helps any.

[OhMrHanky]

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Madden 15 is legitimately the best Madden they've made. Graphically, it looks a lot better than before, and I'm overall happy with it. Currently tweaking sliders and I'm seeing some good, fun, mostly realistic games. However, I just had to post that I played the Fifa DEMO (YES, Fifa has a demo even though madden did NOT), and omg, this game is FANTASTIC!!!! lol. I hope madden continues to borrow from them, but seriously, just playing that demo was great. Great player movement, great, responsive controls, correct player momentum, physics, ball physics, goalie interaction is fantastic, player emotion, etc. This is the way I wish I could feel about Madden every year, but sadly, it is always, well, it's probably an improvement over last year, but by how much? And, how much time will I have to spend on sliders to enjoy the game offline. Fifa is great right out of the box, and for a simple demo, played great. Really looking forward to Fifa coming out. On another note, I played the NHL demo as well. Holy Cow!!! What a CRAPPER!!!! The controls are god awful and mapped very poorly to what I would envision a hockey game doing, so not sure what other nhl fans think, but after admittedly only playing a few minutes (because the controls made absolutely no sense to me, checking is the Right thumbstick click button????? that's NO good!!), that game seemed horrible. And yes, i enjoyed the heck out of 2k hockey when they made that, so that to me was another 2k game that beat EA.

[A_Quiet_Pro]

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Madden 15 is legitimately the best Madden they've made. Graphically, it looks a lot better than before, and I'm overall happy with it. Currently tweaking sliders and I'm seeing some good, fun, mostly realistic games. However, I just had to post that I played the Fifa DEMO (YES, Fifa has a demo even though madden did NOT), and omg, this game is FANTASTIC!!!! lol. I hope madden continues to borrow from them, but seriously, just playing that demo was great. Great player movement, great, responsive controls, correct player momentum, physics, ball physics, goalie interaction is fantastic, player emotion, etc. This is the way I wish I could feel about Madden every year, but sadly, it is always, well, it's probably an improvement over last year, but by how much? And, how much time will I have to spend on sliders to enjoy the game offline. Fifa is great right out of the box, and for a simple demo, played great. Really looking forward to Fifa coming out. On another note, I played the NHL demo as well. Holy Cow!!! What a CRAPPER!!!! The controls are god awful and mapped very poorly to what I would envision a hockey game doing, so not sure what other nhl fans think, but after admittedly only playing a few minutes (because the controls made absolutely no sense to me, checking is the Right thumbstick click button????? that's NO good!!), that game seemed horrible. And yes, i enjoyed the heck out of 2k hockey when they made that, so that to me was another 2k game that beat EA.

I absolutely agree. Having just played the FIFA 15 demo myself, I gotta say it's leagues beyond what Madden's doing right now. The field degradation, the player movement, the player control, the A.I, everything is there. Something occurred to me while playing though. Madden uses the L2/LT button to activate the precision modifier just like FIFA uses it to create a more accurate and precise player movement and skill. I see why the Madden dev team did that... because it makes sense. The only problem is.... MADDEN DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME KIND OF PLAYER MOVEMENT THAT FIFA DOES!!!!! FIFA looks, feels, and plays very organically and realistically. Madden doesn't. Madden player movement seems forced, robotic, and animated. In FIFA, the way the character slows down to make cuts and movements feels very realistic and the way you would see it on TV when you press L2/LT; The way the character slows down when you press L2/LT in Madden is very deliberate, not subtle at all, and you feel that you have no real momentum. TRUE STEP DOESN'T MEAN ABSOLUTELY NEEDING TO TAKE STUTTER STEPS TO CHANGE DIRECTION, IT JUST MEANS SLOWING DOWN ENOUGH TO DO IT! FIFA characters foot plant and slow down enough to do what they have to do, and if you try something that shouldn't work, it doesn't, and you pay for it. When you try and do this in Madden, it feels and looks like it shouldn't work to begin with. I look at Madden and feel like I'm controlling a character, I look at FIFA and feel like I'm controlling a human. THIS HAS TO BE FIXED IN MADDEN!!!! PLAYER MOVEMENT NEEDS TO BE SCRAPPED AND REDONE FROM SCRATCH! Tiburon REALLY needs to work closely with EA Canada on 16 when it comes to player movement, player control, and ball physics!

[OhMrHanky]

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I absolutely agree. Having just played the FIFA 15 demo myself, I gotta say it's leagues beyond what Madden's doing right now. The field degradation, the player movement, the player control, the A.I, everything is there. Something occurred to me while playing though. Madden uses the L2/LT button to activate the precision modifier just like FIFA uses it to create a more accurate and precise player movement and skill. I see why the Madden dev team did that... because it makes sense. The only problem is.... MADDEN DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME KIND OF PLAYER MOVEMENT THAT FIFA DOES!!!!! FIFA looks, feels, and plays very organically and realistically. Madden doesn't. Madden player movement seems forced, robotic, and animated. In FIFA, the way the character slows down to make cuts and movements feels very realistic and the way you would see it on TV when you press L2/LT; The way the character slows down when you press L2/LT in Madden is very deliberate, not subtle at all, and you feel that you have no real momentum. TRUE STEP DOESN'T MEAN ABSOLUTELY NEEDING TO TAKE STUTTER STEPS TO CHANGE DIRECTION, IT JUST MEANS SLOWING DOWN ENOUGH TO DO IT! FIFA characters foot plant and slow down enough to do what they have to do, and if you try something that shouldn't work, it doesn't, and you pay for it. When you try and do this in Madden, it feels and looks like it shouldn't work to begin with. I look at Madden and feel like I'm controlling a character, I look at FIFA and feel like I'm controlling a human. THIS HAS TO BE FIXED IN MADDEN!!!! PLAYER MOVEMENT NEEDS TO BE SCRAPPED AND REDONE FROM SCRATCH! Tiburon REALLY needs to work closely with EA Canada on 16 when it comes to player movement, player control, and ball physics!

lol, about all i can say to this post is, "yep". lol. Absolutely correct, my man. That's a great way to look at it when u mention the "feel" of the movement of players. I was very against Madden implementing the L2 to trigger to precise movement because i didn't feel it was necessary in a football game. But, having played fifa for years, I understand the desire to put this in. But, of course, as you say, because the momentum isn't right, etc. in Madden, it just doesn't play out correctly. I can tell u that in fifa, I juke and jive all over the place with their "precision modifier" button and I LOVE it!!!! It works correctly, and it absolutely makes sense, and when I use it, I "feel" the need to, I simply do what a human would do on the pitch, slow up, then speed up, then 360 precision by some fool, and GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLL!!!! lol. But, with Madden "precision modifier", honestly, I NEVER use it because it feels absolutely arcady, and just doesn't make as much sense to me in football, honestly. Yes, u have slow down, speed up moments in football, however, most of football is played at break neck speed. You are ALWAYS trying to run fast. I, personally, appreciated 13's attempt to have NO sprint button. I loved it. I loved the idea of allowing the actual digital player determine when he could sprint or not. And, instead of the precision modifier, make the the actual jukes and stiff arms DO the modifying. They slow down a ball carrier all by themselves. I don't want/need another button to shift gears as a football player. The juke/truck stick already does that for me! And, actually, i'm ok with 3 speeds/modes of transit in Madden. However, for me, they were already there. Normal, Sprint, and Protect Ball. I wish they would stick to that and allow the Protect Ball to allow for smaller movements. But, once again, allow the jukes themselves to perform the "slow down" of the player. I HATE the precision modifier in Madden. However, if they had the EXACT physics engine of fifa, I might enjoy it more. Seriously, that fifa demo was already fantastic. I'm a chelsea guy, and my squad is already ridiculously stacked. We finally loaned out that sorry a$$, Torres, and we picked up my FAVORITE online player to destroy people with, DROGBA!!!! There's a great point to comparing madden to fifa. Fifa has also done a much better and fantastic job at making each individual player just that, "individual". Drogba plays a hell of a lot different than Ronaldo who plays different than Messi who plays different than, etc, etc. Very individualized. That still does not exist in madden. Anyways, I know this off Madden topic, and more for Fifa. So, i'll say again, this is the best madden yet (although, i personally still really liked 13) due primarily to graphical advancements and better overall D (although, slider adjustments are severely necessary when playing against the cpu). So, madden 15 is good, but man, i can't wait to destroy some fools online with Chelsea in Fifa 15!!!!! woohooo!!!!!!

[A_Quiet_Pro]

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But, with Madden "precision modifier", honestly, I NEVER use it because it feels absolutely arcady, and just doesn't make as much sense to me in football, honestly.

And this is why madden suffers.. because they force us to play Madden to be successful at it using a VERY poorly and non sensical implemented gameplay mechanic. In order to run somewhat successfully, you need to be able to use the precision modifier, but it doesn't work, so the game doesn't work. Simple. (That's just a running example, but honestly, it's their overall M.O.) Tiburon is great for introducing different mechanics to play their game and making/coding the game where it forces you to use it, or you won't play as well, but said mechanic is so poorly done, the gameplay sucks and suffers.

[A_Quiet_Pro]

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While I'm in this thread, EA needs to take a look at co-OP. Idk why or how, but whenever I play alone, the game plays fine. No A.I. problems, no animation problems, no difficulty problems, but when I play co-OP, it seems to get harder, (even though it's on a lower difficulty go figure), and it just plays funny, doesn't respond, etc....

[bdeezy89]

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Another PI play that wasn't called. This one is clear as day, I even threw it to Julio to see if a flag was going to be thrown smh EA

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[A_Quiet_Pro]

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Another PI play that wasn't called. This one is clear as day, I even threw it to Julio to see if a flag was going to be thrown smh EA

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This happens all the time. It's really sad.

[Mr.Smif]

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Online pisses me off so bad sometimes, its the only mode I play in Madden. This user cheese is still in the game, Im playing online head-to-head, Ted Ginn is wide open 5 yards in front of the safety on a deep post middle. I throw it, the users turns into the safety and all of the sudden zooms in from of Ginn an intercepts the ball! This happens all the time online, once users switch to the db's, they all of the sudden get a speed boost! some BS man, im bout done with this cheating game, can't wait for Oct 7th.

[robo3687]

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has anyone else just had all their settings/sliders/modes be reset out of nowhere?

Turned it on today and had to play the Seahawks/Panthers intro again, and go through all the introduction videos when I went into modes. All my audio and gameplay settings were reset as well as my sliders. All my skills trainer progress was reset as well...

Thankfully all my save files were still there and my slider presets as well so it hasn't been too bad...but still...doesn't seem like something that should happen...

[A_Quiet_Pro]

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Online pisses me off so bad sometimes, its the only mode I play in Madden. This user cheese is still in the game, Im playing online head-to-head, Ted Ginn is wide open 5 yards in front of the safety on a deep post middle. I throw it, the users turns into the safety and all of the sudden zooms in from of Ginn an intercepts the ball! This happens all the time online, once users switch to the db's, they all of the sudden get a speed boost! some BS man, im bout done with this cheating game, can't wait for Oct 7th.

What's Oct. 7th?

[A_Quiet_Pro]

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Something else they need to do... The one down, distance and field position that really matters to make sure you know, is 4th, and if your in field goal range. IDK why, but it's ONLY 4th down where EA decided to remove the score bug during play calling. There's been too many times I'm trying to see if I can go for it, do a field goal, etc, but I can't figure it out, because the score bug doesn't show?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! They need to fix this. (And while they're at it, throw in a wind visual on that too so you dont have to wait until your kicking and say "ohhh crap, I have a headwind, I can't make this". *blown timeout*