I'm now well into my first season playing Franchise Mode and love this game. I enjoyed Madden many years ago but just hadn't picked it up in a long time. Being a Chiefs fan definitely gives it an extra boost. It's been a tedious process building my playbook with plays that I have trust in, still working on that but at this point I consistently drive for touchdowns and winning by a couple of scores, albeit on the "Pro" level, which I think I used to play "All Pro". Kinda funny my team has the #1 defense in football, and Isiah Pacheco is the baddest ass RB in the NFL, although now he's hurt so it's all McKinnon.
Kadarious Toney has been a monster. I'm able to hit him and kind of throw him open on those deep drag routes across the field for big plays.
It really is true that Madden no longer allows you to just mash the same few offensive plays over and over. They will just blanket cover whomever you've been hitting. I notice a sharp change usually at the beginning of the second half. Whatever plays I was roasting them with first half no longer work, or are at least a lot more risky.
I am able to mash the same over-aggressive defense over and over, though, without too many negative consequences. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brother:
All Pro with jacked sliders or nerfed All Madden. Some nerf some jack really most years
I think the All Pro with tweaked sliders is where I ended up last time I actually played. All Madden from my memory was just "no matter what you do, the AI will just have you fumble and fuck up shit you don't control, while their players make highlight video after highlight video", which wasn't fun. [Reply]
Originally Posted by wazu:
I think the All Pro with tweaked sliders is where I ended up last time I actually played. All Madden from my memory was just "no matter what you do, the AI will just have you fumble and fuck up shit you don't control, while their players make highlight video after highlight video", which wasn't fun.
:-) That is no shit. CPU WRs with 86 speed torching prime Darrelle Revis and shit. Sports games piss me off. [Reply]
Played a game of this on the stock all pro difficulty, and essentially 4-3 defense is either super OP, or the offensive line is just retarded.
I logged 13.5 sacks in a single game with 6 minute quarters.
King Felix with 4.5
Karlaftis with 4
Gay with 4
Tranquill with 1
Jones with 0. I guess he thought it was a playoff game lmao.
Doesn't matter what play you call. Cover 2, 3, 4, man, it doesn't matter. Crash your line in the middle and set linebackers to blitz all. Minimum 2 unblocked come screaming in, sometimes 3. Logged 3 safeties as well in one contest.
It's by far the worst experience in franchise. Turning up the difficulty only seems to screw you over on offense and cause more interceptions to occur, or just wide open passes get missed or dropped.
I can't imagine playing an entire season of this. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Wallcrawler:
Played a game of this on the stock all pro difficulty, and essentially 4-3 defense is either super OP, or the offensive line is just reeruned.
I logged 13.5 sacks in a single game with 6 minute quarters.
King Felix with 4.5
Karlaftis with 4
Gay with 4
Tranquill with 1
Jones with 0. I guess he thought it was a playoff game lmao.
Doesn't matter what play you call. Cover 2, 3, 4, man, it doesn't matter. Crash your line in the middle and set linebackers to blitz all. Minimum 2 unblocked come screaming in, sometimes 3. Logged 3 safeties as well in one contest.
It's by far the worst experience in franchise. Turning up the difficulty only seems to screw you over on offense and cause more interceptions to occur, or just wide open passes get missed or dropped.
I can't imagine playing an entire season of this.
Damn you’re right. This works. Thanks, I need it now that I’ve graduated to All Pro. My offense isn’t blowing teams off the field anymore. [Reply]
