Madden NFL 16 Community Impressions

[JMD]

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Just a couple more things from me. I decided to watch a CPU vs CPU game while having a bite to eat. It was pretty incredible how great it looked and played. I saw several animations I had not seen while playing.

Next, last night I played a great game Chiefs(me) at Bills (CPU). I was up 24-7 at the half. 9 minute quarters no accel clock, all pro with some slider tweaks.
The Bills came back on me and tied the game as the clock expired with a pass to the end zone that was deflected by my DB and caught by the Bills WR. It was very cool. Went into overtime , I won the toss a took the ball. Had a nice drive going got inside the 15 and threw a pass to the end zone, Maclin stumbled a bit and the ball got picked off. The Bills then started killing me with the running game, so I blitzed and Cassel burned me, went deep for the winning TD. I've never had a madden game this good before, it was truely a blast.

[Falconsfan21]

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I was playing a game last night against the Saints on all pro. I went up 7-0 on the first drive. Next drive saints hand off the ball to Ingram who went 70 yards until Vic Beasley chased him down to save the td. Brees throws in it in for 6 on the next play. Before the end of the 2nd quarter i hit a field goal to go up by 3.

Beginning of the 3rd Brees start moving the ball down the field. The Saints get to about the 35 yard line. He trys to throw it deep (thanks to the play the ball mechanic) Robert Alford pops the ball out of the wr hands and William Moore gets a interception. I move the ball and but only got 3. Saints move the ball but got 3 as well. So score is 13-10 at the start of the 4th. I move the ball and was able to get a td to go up 20-10. Saints get the ball but couldnt get anything done and punts.

Now, we are about 4 minutes left in the quarter and i feel good. i think i have this in the bag. I get the ball to the 50 and i try to pass the ball to Freeman and it gets picked. I felt sick after that pick. Brees moves the ball and i hold to them to only 3. Score 20-13. I get the ball back and was able to get to close enough to score 3. Under 2 mintues left i have to stop the Saints. Brees ate up my secondary and was able to score a last minute touchdown. Lucky for me all i had to do was burn out the last 50 seconds and walk away with a 23-21 victory.

I was at the edge of my seat the whole game. This is a first time in a LONG time playing madden ive felt that way.

[Smoke6]

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Online play is still same ole crap. Deep ball aggressive catches in traffic or doubked covered all gm no matter what now. Also the manually done nano blitzes from the same damn 1 play on defense and cant even hand the ball off. Slide dprotection does nothing or leaving backs into block. Having fun tho but that aggressive catch stuff is really killing it

[T5063]

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I was playing the Seahawks in my test CFM as the Lions.

I was throwing for just under 70% with 2tds with Stafford before he got knocked out of the game mid 3rd quarter. I didn't change my game plan and I went 5/11 1td, 1int with Moore (the backup).

There definitely is a difference between good and mediocre quarterbacks.

[brandon27]

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I'm enjoying the experience on all-pro. I played most of my EA Access trial on Pro, just to get used to the new throwing/catching controls. I've now gone back up to my usual all-pro settings. I'm probably going to tweak the user run game settings a bit. I find the run blocking a bit weak for the player. I also find my Defense snuffing the CPU's run way too much as well. So some touchups there too.


The difference between pro and all pro is pretty big IMO. The big thing I noticed was the difference in QB accuracy from pro to all pro. Big jump this year as opposed to previous years.


All pro, with default sliders though is a pretty good baseline experience. As I said, going to play with the sliders a bit just to customize the experience to where I want it, which is what's great about having sliders in the game.


They've done a good job this year.


Clear up the Franchise mode bugs, and we've got a really good football title on our hands this year IMO.

[mikejs210]

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There's a lot that I like this year in Madden 16, unfortunately, that's all moot with the current frame rate issues.

[WISports]

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I don't care foe the highlighted circle underneath your controlled player. To me, the less graphics on the field, the better. Either have a circle under them so it's transparent... that isn't colored in (if that makes sense), or just have the names underneath the player.


I tried turning this off, but I don't see the option. Anybody know if it's possible?

[Bumble14]

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There's a lot that I like this year in Madden 16, unfortunately, that's all moot with the current frame rate issues.

If you're playing on XB1, turn your console off and unplug it to clear the cache.

If this does not solve the issue, uninstall all game data and the game from your HD. Turn your console off and unplug it to clear the cache. Boot it back up and re-install all data.

This should fix the frame rate issues you are seeing.

[jcass10]

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Does anyone have any advice or pointers on playing with the DLine? With Harrison/Richardson/Wilkerson I expected to get a bit of pressure, but I can barely get into the backfield.

Is there a certain way to beat the OL this year compared to years past?

Thanks

[mikejs210]

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If you're playing on XB1, turn your console off and unplug it to clear the cache.

If this does not solve the issue, uninstall all game data and the game from your HD. Turn your console off and unplug it to clear the cache. Boot it back up and re-install all data.

This should fix the frame rate issues you are seeing.

I tried unplugging it to clear the cache and that didn't work.

I will try uninstalling all game data and unplugging the console this evening and report back. Thanks!

[Skyboxer]

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I hate how the CPU can sit and hard count all day long and never false start, I do it like twice and it's an automatic false start every time, and I never draw an offsides.

Sliders. I actually had to lower mine after adjusting as the CPU was getting to many false starts.

[JoeyV9009]

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I primarily play CFM, but “Draft Champions” seems like something I’ll spend a lot of nights playing too. Especially those nights when you want to play, but don’t know who / how / what you want to play as.
I was pretty optimistic heading into M16 as far as game play thanks to E3 / users providing videos, and I feel like it hasn’t disappointed. There are some AI decisions I don’t understand. Most of them are play calling late / time outs not being used.

I enjoy that player ratings matter, but they’re not too over powering. My favorite team has always been Seattle, and the last few years of Madden haven’t been the most fun to play as them because games were not all that fun to play, unless I tweaked sliders so much that average Joe’s could burn Sherm, and Shawn could get tackled by a 160lb corner with 42TKL.

The play ball mechanic has been so much fun, because it’s not a catch, by me or the CPU, every time. It is fun seeing a WR catch the ball, and the DB hit it out, or vice versa. It’s finally fun to have one-on-one on the outsides and throw the fade or back shoulder. They feel so much more organic, and they tie perfectly into the WR/DB mechanics. It looks like a game you’d see on TV, and that’s before you account for the sweet graphics and post play cut angles… which are pretty ‘baller’.

I’ve yet to dive into CFM too much while I wait for the patch, and obviously we have equipment / uniform issues that we all know we shouldn’t… But as far as on field play, I’m digging this years edition.

[NYJin2011tm]

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Just went to play my 2nd Franchise game and rechecked settings. Defensive Holding slider is not saving. No matter what I set it to when I go back in it is reset back to 50. Anyone else?

[Bumble14]

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I tried unplugging it to clear the cache and that didn't work.

I will try uninstalling all game data and unplugging the console this evening and report back. Thanks!

Make sure you also uninstall the game itself along with the data. The game and all data needs to be physically re-installed with a cleared cache.

Now back to impressions before Millennium puts the hammer down on me for going off topic. ;-)

[mikejs210]

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So as to not derail, my impressions:

-I enjoy the new passing mechanics. I find that throwing to a pass to a WR and using the Possession modifier works very well, especially throwing into the endzone. The WR will get down fast to avoid getting hit and generally does a good job of securing the catch. This mechanic also seems to work well when throwing to the flats and sidelines.

-The RAC modifier works well when throwing slants and crosses obviously and keeps the WR running in stride to get up field.

-In regards to the Aggressive Catch mechanic, I was using New England and was trying this to Gronk mainly and didn't feel that it was too overpowered. The defenders did a good job of covering it and I found that the WR-DB interactions seemed fluid and I wasn't able to abuse it. I only had a pass tipped up high once in three games and it happened organically.

-The throw high/low modifiers both seem to work fine to me as well. I always wanted the ability to throw low to WRs, especially in the endzone and these modifiers allow you to place the ball away from defenders.

-I wasn't a big fan of the Touch Pass modifier, mainly because it requires you to double tap the receiver's icon and I'm still getting used to that. You're supposed to use this modifier when throwing into zone coverage to get it over the underneath coverage, but in front of the deep coverage. It worked well in training, but I need more time using this.

-I ran 3 games vs. the CPU and 2 of them came down to the last drive and I actually lost both those games; 1 was Andrew Luck hitting Hilton deep for a 50 yard TD with 8 seconds left. I've never had the CPU beat me like that and to be honest, I was happy to see that from the CPU. I didn't see too much of Robo QB and they do stick with the running game. In previous years, I would find that the CPU would never establish the run. In 2016, the CPU is able to gain yards and gain 1st downs which is welcome.

-There are finally penalties being called. Mainly offensive and defensive holding. I'm fine with it as we often see plays get brought back all the time because of holding in the NFL.

-Overall, the game feels polished, the animations seem fluid and the game is quite enjoyable. This is from a couch co-op and CFM user though. I've found that playing vs. randoms online tends to deteriorate my experience with Madden as more exploits are used and the sim experience is diminished.