All my opponents dbs are superhuman (even if theyre trash cards)

I agree, def user error.  Need to learn the game a bit more, especially if you're experiencing that on kickoffs.

twitchtaxpro said:

I agree, def user error.  Need to learn the game a bit more, especially if you're experiencing that on kickoffs.

The game literally pulls my kick coverage guys away from where im trying to send them. Thats programmer error, not user error. Hi ea.

Ea hasnt seen a dime from me in two months. Ive soent thousamds on games i dont even play in that time. Yes, they do need us. Ask netflix. They lost millions in the last few months. We aint gonna be d over and take it. Fire these blue haired losers who know nothing about football or the product. Put effort into the game. Or die off. Period.

SquishySoldier21 said:

The game literally pulls my kick coverage guys away from where im trying to send them. Thats programmer error, not user error. Hi ea.

I hate this. Not sure where the skill gap is introduced, I generally have 2 pages of 3 options on kickoffs and they all do this weird glitch thing. until someone shows me the kickoff e-book to stop this from happening, I will continue to scum kick or boot it out of bounds on purpose before I give up another free TD 

the passing part is right though. User error. i throw picks all day and they are all my fault, except when I am testy, and then it is the games fault and I just turn it off before I make a fool of myself getting mad about a video game!

SquishySoldier21 said:

But mine are useless. And theyre all top tier cards.is this just DDA? I just played a game where ALL downfield (and even some underneath ones) were aggressively hawked by his mid cards and my guys just dont react at all. I finally quit up 21-16 with him facing 4th and 10 on his own 12 yard line with lile a min left because he threw a ball right to one of my defenders who dropped it. This game is SO bad its incredibly rare to make it out the first quarter before someone quits.

Also, to an only SLIGHTLY less frustrating extent, my opponents all seem to have a guaranteed return on kicks out yo the 40 or better (and its usually the one and only last line defender who makes that tackle, but his kick coverage team gets me inside the 30 guaranteed, sometimes inside rhe 20.

Is this the worst year of DDA/equalizer ever? Or am I missing something else?

Edit: another thing that makes kick coverage frustarting is you cant even control your coverage guys, they always "heat seek" on their own back inside and tale themselves out of the play even if youre CLEARLY trying to go outside.

Yeah the fun of this game has completely gone away with the dda and all the messed up glitches people do and the despicable things people say to eachother I will not buy another madden and I am going to play some games that aren’t actually broken

I had Nabers fumble 3 kick returns one game that I lost by 6 smh

You my friend are 1,000% correct on every statement. The DDA on ultimate team is INSANE. My team really only plays well if someone else has a good team. People with bad teams blow me out time and time again. Their DB's shut down every route combo imaginable even though my WR's are rated insanely higher. 

One example is; I had Jalen Waddle on a go route, and 82 Mekhi Blackman ran stride for stride with him with no safety help. So much so that Mekhi ended up with an interception. Had another guy with a bad team run tampa 2 the whole game. Usually, I can easily beat it. I take one of my slot receivers have him cut inside which draws the safeties attention then run a streak route making him decide between the 2.. Well.. Perfect coverage the whole game. His yellow zones was going deep enough to give the safety help.. (Which my higher rated CB's never do.)

With all of that said.. I've won 2 Superbowls. And I can tell you.. EA purposefully makes your team play terrible also when you get into the playoffs. I'll get a hot streak going, then all of a sudden my CB's can't guard, my QB has tons of overthrows on the easiest of passes and the other guys team typically plays lights out.

I feel like in general EA doesn't want us to win a ton of Superbowls because then we wouldn't have to buy packs. They want you to believe the deception that good rewards come from winning when in all actuality it's harder to win a Superbowl (not because of the competition) but because of the DDA they incorporate purposefully.

I apologize for this long rant. But I've been dealing with the same thing here lately and definitely feel like I had to get it off of my chest and I'm glad I'm not alone in being aware of the shady tactics they're using. What's the point in building a better team if they're simply going to dumb them down each game? Defeats the whole purpose of building an "ultimate team".

Fred Warner, Sean Taylor and and cards with extremely low MCV will be on me like white on rice but they would never play like that for me

V1kiNG8687 said:

You my friend are 1,000% correct on every statement. The DDA on ultimate team is INSANE. My team really only plays well if someone else has a good team. People with bad teams blow me out time and time again. Their DB's shut down every route combo imaginable even though my WR's are rated insanely higher. 

One example is; I had Jalen Waddle on a go route, and 82 Mekhi Blackman ran stride for stride with him with no safety help. So much so that Mekhi ended up with an interception. Had another guy with a bad team run tampa 2 the whole game. Usually, I can easily beat it. I take one of my slot receivers have him cut inside which draws the safeties attention then run a streak route making him decide between the 2.. Well.. Perfect coverage the whole game. His yellow zones was going deep enough to give the safety help.. (Which my higher rated CB's never do.)

With all of that said.. I've won 2 Superbowls. And I can tell you.. EA purposefully makes your team play terrible also when you get into the playoffs. I'll get a hot streak going, then all of a sudden my CB's can't guard, my QB has tons of overthrows on the easiest of passes and the other guys team typically plays lights out.

I feel like in general EA doesn't want us to win a ton of Superbowls because then we wouldn't have to buy packs. They want you to believe the deception that good rewards come from winning when in all actuality it's harder to win a Superbowl (not because of the competition) but because of the DDA they incorporate purposefully.

I apologize for this long rant. But I've been dealing with the same thing here lately and definitely feel like I had to get it off of my chest and I'm glad I'm not alone in being aware of the shady tactics they're using. What's the point in building a better team if they're simply going to dumb them down each game? Defeats the whole purpose of building an "ultimate team".

I realized this a couple years ago, back when I occasionally bought packs and had a couple good  LTD pulls. Those LTD cards played like horse shit! So I made a farm team with all budget beasts and won a SB effortlessly against the same type of competition. Haven’t spent a dime since then.

SquishySoldier21 said:

But mine are useless. And theyre all top tier cards.is this just DDA? I just played a game where ALL downfield (and even some underneath ones) were aggressively hawked by his mid cards and my guys just dont react at all. I finally quit up 21-16 with him facing 4th and 10 on his own 12 yard line with lile a min left because he threw a ball right to one of my defenders who dropped it. This game is SO bad its incredibly rare to make it out the first quarter before someone quits.

Also, to an only SLIGHTLY less frustrating extent, my opponents all seem to have a guaranteed return on kicks out yo the 40 or better (and its usually the one and only last line defender who makes that tackle, but his kick coverage team gets me inside the 30 guaranteed, sometimes inside rhe 20.

Is this the worst year of DDA/equalizer ever? Or am I missing something else?

Edit: another thing that makes kick coverage frustarting is you cant even control your coverage guys, they always "heat seek" on their own back inside and tale themselves out of the play even if youre CLEARLY trying to go outside.

Ok so I get the frustration with uneven play and all, but what reason would you have to play almost an entire game, be up 21-16, with your opponent facing 4th and 10 at his own 12 and a minute left?

If he was hawking your throws all game long why wait until 1 minute left with the lead in hand to quit?

Not sure I buy that part of your story.

I get the frustration about the other stuff though.

Maniacal said:

I realized this a couple years ago, back when I occasionally bought packs and had a couple good  LTD pulls. Those LTD cards played like horse shit! So I made a farm team with all budget beasts and won a SB effortlessly against the same type of competition. Haven’t spent a dime since then.

Just sold most of my team besides a few budget beasts. Currently 3-0. Seemed like I couldn't win a game before. The guy I played last game fumbled twice. 2 hit sticks, 2 fumbles. Most his players were 88 over.. My ovr is 85.. I can 100% confirm with any uncertainties that my team is playing better now that I've sold off the good players. This is insane.

SquishySoldier21 said:

But mine are useless. And theyre all top tier cards.is this just DDA? I just played a game where ALL downfield (and even some underneath ones) were aggressively hawked by his mid cards and my guys just dont react at all. I finally quit up 21-16 with him facing 4th and 10 on his own 12 yard line with lile a min left because he threw a ball right to one of my defenders who dropped it. This game is SO bad its incredibly rare to make it out the first quarter before someone quits.

Also, to an only SLIGHTLY less frustrating extent, my opponents all seem to have a guaranteed return on kicks out yo the 40 or better (and its usually the one and only last line defender who makes that tackle, but his kick coverage team gets me inside the 30 guaranteed, sometimes inside rhe 20.

Is this the worst year of DDA/equalizer ever? Or am I missing something else?

Edit: another thing that makes kick coverage frustarting is you cant even control your coverage guys, they always "heat seek" on their own back inside and tale themselves out of the play even if youre CLEARLY trying to go outside.

This might be a user error

I have none of these issues when I play and majority of the time stop people inside the 30 (at the 25 and back) on kickoffs and my DBs play just fine

And rarely do people quit in the first quarter in my games unless I go up by multiple scores (14-0 and have the ball)

Also are you kicking the ball in the direction you choose to kick? Like if you kick right you choose kickoff right. I know that's definitely something that would throw off lane integrity and where your players go

SquishySoldier21 said:

But mine are useless. And theyre all top tier cards.is this just DDA? I just played a game where ALL downfield (and even some underneath ones) were aggressively hawked by his mid cards and my guys just dont react at all. I finally quit up 21-16 with him facing 4th and 10 on his own 12 yard line with lile a min left because he threw a ball right to one of my defenders who dropped it. This game is SO bad its incredibly rare to make it out the first quarter before someone quits.

Also, to an only SLIGHTLY less frustrating extent, my opponents all seem to have a guaranteed return on kicks out yo the 40 or better (and its usually the one and only last line defender who makes that tackle, but his kick coverage team gets me inside the 30 guaranteed, sometimes inside rhe 20.

Is this the worst year of DDA/equalizer ever? Or am I missing something else?

Edit: another thing that makes kick coverage frustarting is you cant even control your coverage guys, they always "heat seek" on their own back inside and tale themselves out of the play even if youre CLEARLY trying to go outside.

That might have been me Ngl

I think it has something to do with the patch. Because they said something about dbs going for the ball and having better reaction times