Expanded PBs

[madmax25]

What is the barrier to adding the playbooks from NCAA 14 to Madden 21? Obviously work. But with RPOs in the game, plus triple option has been around the entire current generation, the mechanics are present for all option types.

It may be a bit arcady, but would be an interesting step forward. Might be fun to run the flexbone with the ravens, or the spread option playbook with philly. At the end of the day, it’s a video game and if we can have a game where Brian Urlacher tackles Otto Graham, why not one where Jimmy G runs the straight T?

Listened to a podcast about the origins of madden a few months ago. It was noted that the only reason Madden got involved was to make the game a teaching tool as that was his passion about football. It’s a great listen, BTW, but the original playbook on the first Madden was his actual PB from Oakland.

I think expanding PBs to include college and even HS style football has its place in Madden as it opens up so many more wrinkles to the game.

[scotty1011]

Re: Expanded PBs

Its more budget and what the suits at EA give the playbook department for motion capture time. The big difference between NCAA 14 and Madden 19 & 20 is all handoffs, M19 & M20 are motion captured. NCAA 14 didn’t use motion capture for handoffs they used some other kind of QB turns that could be blended together. I know this because we have been modding playbooks on Madden 19 & 20 on PC for 2 years now. We are limited by the handoff animations in the game but some remnants of the blended turn handoffs remain. We also were able to open the NCAA 14 playbooks and the routes and auto motion did translate to Madden 20 if we wanted to use them.

[reyes the roof]

Re: Expanded PBs

One barrier is that they’re at their limit for plays that can be added to a custom playbook, so you’d never be able to build it exactly how you want. They’d have to add a triple option playbook and hope it has everything you want in it

[Philosopher0]

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they’re at their limit for plays that can be added to a custom playbook

No they aren't...

[reyes the roof]

Re: Expanded PBs

No they aren't...

Yes they are, it’s why the new plays that get added to the live playbooks aren’t available in custom books

[scotty1011]

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When did they reach their limit? At initial release of Madden they had a certain numbers of plays in there customplaybook.db during the year they added plays to the customplaybook.db.