Gameplay is Dead.

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I know this won’t be a new topic to discuss, but I feel as though I just needed to vent my frustrations somewhere.

I would consider myself to be an above average player at the game, who solely plays with a NMS squad and have managed to build a fairly solid squad this year in MUT. However, my love for MUT has been declining week by week this year due to the gameplay.

I thought I’d jump on this evening to gain the last XP I needed for the field pass before the new season starts, but I can’t even bring myself to play it. I played a total of 4 games, each consisted of god squads with the likes of Brady, Harrison Jr, GT Gronk etc and they all ran the same stupid RPO BS every single play (and I mean EVERY single play). I constantly feel like it’s pointless to even attempt to make somewhat of a deeper pass on offence with all the KO abilities across the DB’s, but I wont bring myself to spam RPO cheese plays up the entire field.

I know some of you will be thinking “thats how football is played” but remember this is a game, it’s meant for enjoyment. I may be wrong, but I genuinely can’t fathom how someone can gain any kind of satisfaction from running a total of 3 plays out of their offensive playbook.

Resultantly, I decided to just play some regs and my word the gameplay is far more enjoyable. I just wish EA would make MUT resemble that, but we all know that wouldn’t happen. I’m just praying that CF25 and the next MUT25 have learned that this type of gameplay isn’t what we want as football fans and consumers.

Apologies for the rant, I really just needed to vent and see if anyone else feels the same as I do.

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I don't disagree with everything you said. I think most people would argue that "winning" is what is fun, and overrules the whole only running 3 plays BS. I win a lot of games but I get irritated with myself when I run stretch RPO more than 5 times. At the same time, it's stoppable and most people will run it until you stop it.

I think the biggest thing I learned this year with them adding a reaction bonus to zone KOs, is the importance of creating spacing with pull routes not just vertically, but horizontally and noticing how each effect each other depending on if you are running things to the wide or short side of the field from the hash marks.

I don't think the specific cards matter, I still have only used Breece Hall GT and I got him for free. Scheme over team until there are specific abilities that you have to have.

At this point I think the most irritating thing, especially for defense you have to have specific players/abilities to remain competitive. Vs a good player I think you absolutely need the Aidan Hutchinson with momentum shift to be able to get a stop vs someone who has angry runs + yac em up (or a second angry runs) and Omaha. The A-gap blitzing is also super annoying, it's all blockable. I know how to block most of the meta blitzes, but even with master tactician I'm spending 10-15 seconds on my play clock to set up pass pro which is super annoying.

I also tried making the switch to regs... 10 games and none of them made it to half time without my opponent just quitting out. Only 1 competitive game, I don't like losing but I don't like playing vs bad comp either.