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Quote: Originally Posted by muddafnzeus

Thanks! 4 games in and it's much more balanced on the amount of drops I was getting when I went to 52. Less predetermined looking drops and more realistic situations and occasional clunker of wide open hands.

I too think there were too many drops (I play on All-Madden) so I upped User WR Catch to 55. I might even do 60, lol.

Quote: Originally Posted by Rhudey

I feel this is another case of one step forward and one step back. I noticed the QB changes right away, and for sure it's really improved. Unfortunately it seems they have completely nerfed the pass rush. On AP I used the Seahawks and I was getting upwards of 10 seconds to throw at times with a bad O-line. I tried turning down pass blocking all the way to 5 and it didn't matter. One game I played against the Broncos and Ifedi (who is awful) owned Von Miller. Pre-patch my bad linemen were being consistently beaten by superior D linemen. What this has done is make o-line irrelevant again. I loved how it was pre-patch, with my bad line I had to look at line match ups to determine where the pressure was coming from, use ID the Mike, use the line slide feature. I had to know where the pressure was going to come from and what I was going to do with the ball. Now I can just sit in the "pocket" (it's not really a pocket since the ends don't get up field much anymore) and wait until someone is wide open. I don't need to use any line features and I know even the blitzes will be picked up. Ruins CFM too, I was scouting o-line to rebuild mine, now it doesn't matter, just draft some garbage ones because the ratings no longer matter. I bumped up to All-Madden, turned down blocking to 40 and still didn't see much difference. Will have to try further tonight but the problem is I'm terrible at offense in AM to the point it's not much fun. But having a brick wall oline on AP isn't that much fun either.

I also noticed pass blocking is far better for the User after the patch. I have been playing All-Madden (simulation) and I had to have User Pass Block all the way up to 100, and I still got sacked too much!

Now I am thinking using default 50 for All-Madden User Pass Block (or maybe 55 or 60) because I am not getting sacked nearly as much as I was before the patch and definitely notice I have had more time in the pocket.