re: Madden 18 Hype Thread - New Trailer in OP

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And of course I'm sure I'll buy it like I do every year.

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I just want a new NCAA game and for the NFL games to be made by 2K

EA is reportedly releasing new vids sometime this week. I'm guessing they start Monday

Defense was fun last year. Okay, semi fun. I played in multiple leagues under All Madden with sim sliders

They have three diff play modes online. Sim, casual, and something else. I'll link up all of the original stuff if y'all want? I made this thread for the new stuff coming in the next few days. I didnt want to rehash old information.

I really liked what hey did with commentary last year. Curious to see how they improve from there.

Pro bowl voting would be cool to see how close you are.

I'd love for them to make Route Run more expensive to upgrade. It's dirt cheap, the cheapest on the game to upgrade iirc but it's one of the most impactful attributes. Meanwhile its counterpart Man Coverage is expensive as hell. It's like 3,000 XP starting at 80 ovr. Meanwhile route run is 600 xp. Madden needs to revamp their XP scaling. That's #1 for me.

I'm almost 99% certain they adjust the regression scale. Most of the community hated that players were useless by 30. I liked the direction but it was too harsh on speed. Maybe 1pt at 28 and 29? Then do 2pts? Alshon Jeffrey was borderline useless in basic leagues and even with the speed min thresh adjusted, he was nothing more than a situational pass catcher at 29! In his prime.

I mentioned this in the Madden groupme recruit chat, it'd be cool if EA put in a switch in the user team section that doesn't allow members to cut players that can be toggled on/off for each user. Call it Trusted User. That way if somebody wants to cut their roster, they can't. It'll be less risky to invite randoms into your league.

Also a way to reset games. If a dude cheeses another hardcore, I should be able to reset it. I don't remember it happening with M17 but I know in the past if somebody lagged out in the 4th quarter with 6 minutes left, sometimes EA would count the game. Total waste of time.

I got tired of people running corner routes. Does sim sliders stop corner routes? The corner route with the deep crossing route combo is absolutely unstoppable.

And how do you play any sliders on online head to head?

Adjusting the sliders would need its own thread. They all work basically how you'd think they do. Turn it up to make it more efficient or down for less.

Madden's sliders are kinda wonky. For example, the fatigue slider sucks. If you move it just 1 increment either way, you get extreme results. If you up it, you're players are resting after one no huddle or after just a couple of plays. If you lower it they may never come out of the game.

ETA: unless you know what you're looking for, sim sliders won't appeal to you.

Gameplay trailer supposed to drop today or tomorrow

If they can tighten up the gameplay and running mechanics I'd call it successful. I'd also like to see better DB/WR interaction on press and more control over zones.

And the obvious trying to fix the DB blitz cheese from M17. Oh brings up another point, fixing the blocking. Often times my FB won't even pick up a defender on a stretch or HB Dive. I saw a video the other day where second level blocking did look much improved though

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hot route 15 different fricking times just to exploit the game engine and cause the AI to run into each other,

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You should disguise your coverage better. I'd have to load it up but there's an adjustment presnap where it shows a cover 3. I think it's called base, the CBs are ten yards off the LOS and there's one safety over the top which is one of the C3 looks. I'll go C2 and do that, they'll got route into a Out route and throw it. Pick 6.


I've never seen players run into each other fwiw