More Madden NFL 18 Features Revealed

[IdleRace4]

Madden's biggest need for improvement has been the QB and CFM.

Draft and scouting needs to be changed so a human can't snatch all the top players where the cpu misses on most. Relocating and uniforms need allot of improvement. CPU trades and FA's.

I want to be excited but I won't. The sim sliders could be just giving cfm players something since 95% of the dev cycle is devoted to Ultimate team so they can scam on those packs and bundles that give nothing.

[darknmild]

Honestly, I enjoyed Madden 17 enough that if the only thing they implemented was ratings and the styles of play...and made them as they intended which for us sm folks means penalties, mistakes ect...then this warrants my pre order. I might even do the GOAT just because. Everything else is pure bonus and welcome. I assume nothing and take info in stride.

I agree. This is how I feel. I must say I am very interested in this Targeted Passing feature.

[DeuceDouglas]

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By that description I don't think coverage assignments is what we all hope it is.

Yeah, the way it's worded makes it seem more like that path assist or running line that they implemented last year than the 'best-on-best' type thing most people would expect and were wanting when you hear coverage assignments.

[ODogg]

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Targeted passing...like NFL Fever or NCAA Football on the PSX?


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[illwill10]

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I am not a fan of the Madden traits portfolio AT ALL. Reason being is the development team hasn't redone the ratings scheme. The way I see it, and ol Clint can't convince me it doesnt...is that traits and the ratings do mix well together. They conflict with each other and this it doesn't make the players play "true to form" which is why we have weird QB play IMO.

Me either. Since it was implemented and never worked on since(besides maybe adding a couple more traits), it has been too basic. There can't just be 3 settings to a trait that differentiate players. Prime example scrambling. Besides obvious QBs, most of the athletic QBs don't really scramble like that unless they have clear space when they need a first down. They use their mobility to extend plays. So to have settings of 'Never, Some times, Often' isn't really accurate.

I agree with your ratings stance. Besides QB ratings, ratings haven't been touched at all since start of PS3/360. I don't like how traits has been implemented. But I think it is important to have individual player tendencies to differentiate players. Like how NBA 2k does. But even with 2k, i don't think badges are necessary. That makes it 3 seperate factors that affect gameplay. Their badges have a bigger impact than ratings. Without certain badges, ratings don't really matter. So with Madden, ratings should affect how well a player does at a certain ability. But it needs something to determine how and when players handle each aspect of position

[quan15]

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Seems as if "Coach Adjustments" may be similar to what they had in NCAA.

https://youtu.be/iybu7Aew48k?t=3m8s

[Americas Team]

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No mention of revamped line play for pass rushing and pass blocking, bummer

[PhillyPhanatic14]

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No mention of revamped line play for pass rushing and pass blocking, bummer

Might still be in. That's not something that an average person is going. To see on Gamestop.com and be like "yo imma buy this game cuz of that" which is what all this stuff is. All the good stuff will be in the blogs which should start coming soon. I think we had most if not all of them by EA Play last year.

[jerwoods]

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sounds like madden 12 but for next gen hopefully they make 32-team cont 1 button

[illwill10]

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Seems as if "Coach Adjustments" may be similar to what they had in NCAA.

https://youtu.be/iybu7Aew48k?t=3m8s

That would make a lot of sense. I liked it in NCAA. Could be quicker way to make adjustments on the fly. I hate having to rush to make adjustments pre-snaps. So this could be a good feature. If they could expand on it and even add it on pause menu, that would be great.
Ah I miss NCAA. NCAA 14 was great. I loved the dynasty. If the lawsuit never happened, it would have progressed to one of the top sports games. I can only imagine NCAA on this engine. I would even take a remastered version of NCAA 14 with current game play.

[fballturkey]

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[CENTER][*]Coverage Assignment: Know your job in pass coverage with an on-screen, real-time UI system informing you of your coverage assignment in pass defense.

If they don't actually give us custom coverage assignments then the naming of this "feature" is a massive troll on the playerbase.

[Lexicon]

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"
Favorite Ways to Play
FRANCHISE - Create your Dynasty. Play weekly full game matchups or get through a season quickly by playing as just the offense, defense, or key moments from the game. Grab the reins and control your teams' operations from signing free agents and making trades, to scouting and drafting players, your decisions build your dynasty. Join up with other players and battle through the season in a fully connected league experience. Choose to play and manage your Franchise from your smart phone using the Madden Companion App."

LOL. Welp........

Dag... not even a "MORE TO COME" at the end of it

[illwill10]

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If they don't actually give us custom coverage assignments then the naming of this "feature" is a massive troll on the playerbase.

Agree. If it isn't how it was before, where you can manually select custom coverage assignments, then it will be a disappointment. I want to be able to shadow the best receiver or find good matchups. Or How tight or loose my defender covers.
But, I think it would go with the old NCAA way. It would conflict with each other. It would have to be either or. If I had to choose, I want custom coverage assignments.

[OhMrHanky]

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Might still be in. That's not something that an average person is going. To see on Gamestop.com and be like "yo imma buy this game cuz of that" which is what all this stuff is. All the good stuff will be in the blogs which should start coming soon. I think we had most if not all of them by EA Play last year.

Yeah, Rex mentioned last year how the marketing goes and whatnot. And, I'd say, as a general rule, for most of the people in this forum, and most of the sim guys, we have to wait longer to hear the 'boring' gameplay features that have been improved or tweaked or whatnot. Last, year, they came out with write-ups in their blogs or whatnot that tended to give us the info we wanted. Ball physics, commentary, etc, all seemed to be written about a little after the back of the box stuff. I hope they have a blog or 2 before the EA play event next month, but u never know.


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[illwill10]

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This is pretty much at the pace of previous Maddens. Where now info doesn't start rolling until just over 3 months prior to release. Gameplay and Modes are usually rolled in June. Presentation and Audio is around the same time. Online and MUT is around July. Usually info is done being Released Late July. Then until Release there are a lot of game videos being dropped