Madden NFL 16: More Hands-On Impressions

[BenGerman]

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Not good about CPU QB AI.

If incompletions only occur due to inaccuracy on extremely long passes, that means another year of default CPU QB completion percentages of 75% and up. Last year, 80% was an achievable number for even average QBs on a regular basis. Coupled with the sack issue, it QB AI killed the sense of realism and immersion.

Even if the sack issue is reduced such that one could user-play every game and come up with less than 75 sacks (I'd love to see bad teams struggle to get to 30 for the season!), super high completion percentages will significantly lessen the immersion factor.

This alone has me thinking I'll forego a day-one purchase to see just how fixable this issue is or is not with sliders.

I think this is a good idea. Until I see some passes hit the ground without touching anything else, it's really hard to imagine the passing game being where it needs to be.

[aholbert32]

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I think this is a good idea. Until I see some passes hit the ground without touching anything else, it's really hard to imagine the passing game where it needs to be.

Sliders can fix that though. I'm just hoping I dont have to go to extremes with the sliders to get that to happen this year.

[l8knight1]

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Does anyone know if we will be able to import rosters from Madden 15 to Madden 16??

[NINJAK2]

Working penalties alone puts this game on my radar. I hope they fixed the profile glitch from 15 where profiles were randomly deleted.
Ben- Do you know if coach mode is still an option?

[BleedGreen710]

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Im confused because in all the gameplay videos I've seen so far, QBs are missing throws pretty frequently. I thought that was one of the best things about Madden 16 is that QBs would actually miss throws for once. But then you had this to say:

|QB's regularly rifle throws right where they need to be, which the only exception being passes upwards of 30 yards. The only time incompletions happen are on knock-downs and interceptions.

How can it be so different compared to the gameplay videos I've seen?

[Branchurian]

This write up encourages me , I'm all about gameplay being as realistic and functioning as possible and balancing the money plays sound good well. Seems like this team at Tiburon is invested in improving gameplay but I'll wait and see a few months after it comes out. Every year we have something "encouraging" to say about each rendition and stuff never pans out.The tell of the tape will be in August

[The Kid 24]

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Anything on injuries? Can we manually injure players like on The Show?

[4thQtrStre5S]

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I love this bullet point, "Paying close attention to the offensive line and player ratings, there's a noticeable difference in who you're running or passing behind."


What concerns me, as I read the posts in this thread, is that many of the slider making people are figuring that things like QB accuracy can be adjusted with sliders, as before, but now I am thinking, if penalties are actually working in game, adjusting those certain sliders to get a realistic passing game could add a whole new world of frustrations in other areas when trying to balance out teh game and maintain a proper penalty level in game..

[MAGboyswifT27]

This was a good write up on Madden 16. Although it's unfortunate that there are still things that are needing to be fixed, at least we know what to expect now with Madden. The hope is that one year there'll be a Madden that'll blow us out of our seats like it used to when we were growing up. I guess our generation was spoiled with innovation. Maybe someday that can happen again where we have that true NFL sim experience. With that being said I'm still looking forward to playing this, we don't have any other options.

[steeldee7]

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I cant wait for the game. I hope that the qb accuracy is curtailed to reflect their real life counter parts.

[The JareBear]

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I love this bullet point, "Paying close attention to the offensive line and player ratings, there's a noticeable difference in who you're running or passing behind."


What concerns me, as I read the posts in this thread, is that many of the slider making people are figuring that things like QB accuracy can be adjusted with sliders, as before, but now I am thinking, if penalties are actually working in game, adjusting those certain sliders to get a realistic passing game could add a whole new world of frustrations in other areas when trying to balance out teh game and maintain a proper penalty level in game..

Yeah, I almost guarantee finding a balanced set will be tougher this year but this site has the best in the business so we should,be good

[crowshow]

I'm still trying to figure out will there be a equipment update?

[crowshow]

I'm still trying to figure out will there be a equipment update?

it's actually getting frustrating with seeing player models with the same old equipment from Madden 2008, they could at least update the gloves. Come on EA, every other sports title you all make has updated equipment every year. What's the problem?

[BenGerman]

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Im confused because in all the gameplay videos I've seen so far, QBs are missing throws pretty frequently. I thought that was one of the best things about Madden 16 is that QBs would actually miss throws for once. But then you had this to say:

|QB's regularly rifle throws right where they need to be, which the only exception being passes upwards of 30 yards. The only time incompletions happen are on knock-downs and interceptions.

How can it be so different compared to the gameplay videos I've seen?

There could be a zillion reasons for this, but I'll assume it's the most likely one: there's been an extremely small sample size of available video, and I was only able to play a limited amount of games.

Keep in mind, these impressions are entirely based on reactionary opinions I had after playing the game for a few hours. I could be off on some things and right about others.

Edit: In regards to a coach mode, there was no indication that they'd removed it from the game.

[Mr.Smif]

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You would think. But that was also my concern with the new catch animations... I just didn't see as many on the CPU end as I did the user. Which is fine, I guess? It's just too bad that both sides weren't given equal attention.

This doesn't surprise me, any new feature they add to the game does not apply to cpu controlled players. For example, true step, after three years into the new gen still only the user controlled players can activate it, same goes for defensive line moves too, only users are able to get pressure on the Qb accept for an occasional pre-determined situation where the cpu defensive tackle just bulls over the OL for a sack. I really don't get why they choose to do this, seems lazy to me.