Beta details are emerging...franchise mode upgrades are interesting...
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The new franchise mode stuff looks and feels promising, definitely get more minor injuries during the season so depth is always good
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Practice gives the most upgrades based on how intense it is. So full pads, light pads, no pads. But, if you have the setting on, players can get injured in padded practice.
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So far team building seems to be better, staff gets upgraded regularly and the ai seems to draft better
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There is a HOF induction, it gives like a temporary boost to players of that position like an inspiration bonus.
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In the regular season you can do different types of practices. Like you can do a light practice with no pads or a full padded practice where players have a chance to get hurt. There’s Also like press conferences before games now
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Drafted players will take the new number rule into consideration.
Had multiple CPU drafted players with numbers like 8 on WRs or 15 on MLBs.
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Momentum bar.
Each team's home stadium has unique levels of perks. 3 for the home team, and 2 for the away team (Not sure if the away teams perks are unique to the opponent, or the home team' stadium).
The game starts off with the first level of perks for the home team, and every play (the bigger the play, the bigger the influence) has an effect on the momentum bar.
Picture it like below, H meaning Home team perk, A meaning Away team perk.
A->A->(H)->H->H
After a big play for the home team it could move to unlock the second tier of perks for the home team.
A->A->H->(H)->H
But wait! The away team just got a pick six swinging the momentum their way!
A->(A)->H->H->H
Perks are things like disabling hot routes for primary receivers, delayed motion, play art hints, primary receiver hints, etc. The higher the tier of perk, the more powerful the perk. Nothing game-breaking though, which is good.
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Brand new super bowl intro and win animations too
Scouting is getting an overhaul too, to be updated in a live service update in September. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle: :-) There's no way EA actually test plays these games. Franchise mode is literally unplayable at launch because of a bug that resets your stats and score to 0 after playing a game. You could win a game 49-7 with 7 TDs thrown and after the game it shows you lost 7-0 with nothing done.
They don't give a fuck about franchise mode. It's only gone BACKWARDS the last decade [Reply]
Originally Posted by Dayze:
man...not looking good for EA so far.
not that it matters; the MUT money warehouse is getting ready to open it's doors Friday for M22.
Yep. They don't give a damn about the game now. They can put out the same bullshit every year and there's millions of idiots buying up packs in MUT anyway. Madden died when MUT became a thing. It's been over for years now. They try to get the hopeful franchise people back with empty promises but most of them realize now it'll never change. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
They added a ton of stuff to franchise mode this year, actually.
But who knows if it will work...I mean resetting the scores of franchise games to 0 is devastatingly awful programming.
Only having the best features available on next-gen platforms is a whip in the ass, too.
Definitely waiting til next year.
Adding features to make a deeper franchise mode is only half of it for me. I want them to overhaul the gameplay. It's gotten so stale. It's felt the same for the past decade. The stupid animation based scripted gameplay got really old. I know fuck all about video game engines, but I've seen many people complain about the Frostbite Engine using "real player motion" and how they need to scrap it and use something more physics based. [Reply]
Even if they did do that they'd be years away from an actually fun playable game that used physics instead of these predetermined animations. I'd love it if they did but I don't realistically see them doing that unless they're forced to by competition. [Reply]
I was really hoping 2K was going to be able to get back into the NFL video game business, but of course that was way too much wishful thinking... [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
Regular season games acting like preseason so all your skill position players sit after one drive mad you can't get them back in.
Madden NFL 22 is a grab bag of decent – if frequently underwhelming – ideas hurt by poor execution. Face of the Franchise, to put it mildly, is a mess. Homefield advantage is a solid addition, but it doesn’t quite capture the true extent of real on-field momentum swings. The new interface is an eyesore, and the new presentation is cast in a strange and unflattering shade of sickly green. It’s smoother and marginally more refined, but in so many ways it’s the same old Madden. In short, if you’re hoping for a massive leap forward for the series on the new generation of consoles (or on the old ones), you’re apt to be disappointed.
I have ea access for my kid so I fired it up on PC last night
wtf bruh, this game is WORSE Than last year! Not talking about the features, etc., but the gameplay. Even the AI is dumb, the tackles are all weird, and I NEVER had any weird bugs like you see on YouTube last year.
This year I completed a pass, I'm about 11 yards downfield and all the sudden whistle is called and in for a 3 yard pass. Literally, a lineman fell down and as soon as he touched the ground I was 'downed' LOL WHAT? I had the ball way down the field, my lineman did not have the ball!
its wierd and shifty and you can just tell its fuckin off [Reply]
