I know, there's always been this massive argument over the "equalizer" but something is up after the last update

I'm not as good a Madden player as I used to be, not even close. But I am pretty decent and have a 91 OVR team now. Played a dude with 87s as his top cards. He ran read options out of full house on me. I went 3-4 with....Bosa, Sapp, Reggie.....Suggs, Nitschke, D Johnson, and Ware.....C Woodson, NTL, Kam and R Woodson. I ran mostly man, some cover 2 invert with hard flats.....this guy basically kept running to his right, Reggie and Suggs kept getting pancaked by 85-87 O linemen and a 79 ovr FB.  Usually those guys eat up those blocks. And NTL can shed blocks as well as most CBs. Got to the point I had to bring my safeties down manually. That stopped him. He didn't throw one pass all game.....I kept switching my D line but I have depth...I have LTD Chandler Jones I put in, LTD Simmons at DT, Bruce Smith, etc...I kept my guys fresh. It was nuts. .Have not had to bring my safeties up on this type of offense before. I even ran commit everytime to the correct side.

Then when I was on offense, he had Ngata with inside stuff at NT and 2 other guys that were 85 OVR cards. Took it down to the 3 yrd line with 3rd and 4th down to go. I have Okoye and Dickerson in there. I doubled the inside stuff . Didn't matter. 87 Haloti Ngata wrecked Hilgenberg with post up AND Jahri Evans, a 1.4Mil LTD card with insane blocking stats. He had 3 guys in my backfield on each run.. I tried Eric, then Okoye and couldn't get in. Luckily I got a user safety and was able to get the ball back.

Still, one or 2 plays I can see, but all game long stuff like this happened . Can't lose that many dice rolls when you have the odds in your favor based on player cards unless something is up.

I've been beaten by better players or had close games like this one with better players but this dude was running the same junk all game on O . On D dropping into deep zones  rushing 4 and getting 2 second sheds on Munoz and Gregg with edge threat. Ngata kept blowing up every run, outside runs his CBs were blowing through Iron Mike and Casper, just nuts. The only thing I had were mid route outs. He couldn't stop those. So i ran those with DK and Herman but I hate running the same stuff over and over.

This game has really become horrible. Maybe it was some sort of code, maybe it's just a function of the game being bad . Whatever it was, it was not fun

you just have to take your losses when you get it delivered to you by EA.  The gameplay can be unpredictable and if you've played this mode long enough, it's always been in the code, nothing to do with any update.  

You just have to accept it, and know that the next game the pendulum might swing back to your direction allowing your players to play as advertised.

Yeah they swear DDA isnt a real thing but the game def forces you to lose one way or another. They will make you throw dumb passes/animations/fumbles etc. or your players just eat dirt and play like bronzes. 

or theyll put you up against pros just so you lose a few hard.

kaotikords said:

Yeah they swear DDA isnt a real thing but the game def forces you to lose one way or another. They will make you throw dumb passes/animations/fumbles etc. or your players just eat dirt and play like bronzes. 

or theyll put you up against pros just so you lose a few hard.

It's funny because I saw an uncovered receiver twice againt shit person, called off play action, set the HB on a swing route, then tried to snap and throw quickly, as I've done many times before and it would not throw the ball.....the animation was delayed about a second and a half, just enough time to give his user to knock it away.  I've made that throw dozens of times right away. Eh, it's like you guys said,  if EA wants you to lose, you're going to lose.

I've been winning a lot since the last update so everything must be working perfectly. 

But in all seriousness, sometimes nothing works and sometimes everything works. I had a game where the other guy was clearly better than I was but also my CPU controlled players got 2 strip sacks (my only 2 sacks all game) that I returned for touchdowns. I had no business winning that game but EA decided they wanted me to win. 

I've had other games where nothing I do works. You can control a lot but there is clearly part of the game that's just RNG that takes a massive skill gap to overcome.

Theyll say dice rolls are dice rolls but you can totally tell when the dice are loaded for/against you with things that shouldnt happen in a row/all game.

kaotikords said:

Theyll say dice rolls are dice rolls but you can totally tell when the dice are loaded for/against you with things that shouldnt happen in a row/all game.

Which is why playing this game drunk or on painkillers (NOT condoning alcohol or drug use, just making a joke) is probably the best way to enjoy it LMAO.... that way you can laugh about all of the nonsense.

Had a similar experience last week. Guy had nobody higher than 87 on his O-line and my D-line which are 2 89's & 90 & 91 were getting dominated in the run game and they couldn't get a sack or generate pressure at all. We flip sides and his D-line dominated my O-line which consists of 2 90's 1 89 87 & 88. His D-line had an 86 as his top ranked card. There's either a parity mechanic or ratings don't mean shit. I've been playing this franchise since the 90's and I know ratings matter so I'm inclined to believe the parity theory. But I'm not sure what the threshold or conditions are that would proc a parity mechanic.

Maybe you shouldn’t just try to buy wins and get better at the game.

whitechicken said:

Maybe you shouldn’t just try to buy wins and get better at the game.

Eh, I shouldn't bother with a 2 post joke like you.

whitechicken said:

Maybe you shouldn’t just try to buy wins and get better at the game.

I don't know who you're addressing but you yourself have "bought" wins anytime you buy a card off the AH and play games you win with that card in your lineup. A very naive and ignorant take you have there. Unless you expect everyone here to believe you've never bought a card and played online with it? As was already explained by the OP this isn't a skill issue when your players just flat out don't work against lesser competition.

Copen said:

I don't know who you're addressing but you yourself have "bought" wins anytime you buy a card off the AH and play games you win with that card in your lineup. A very naive and ignorant take you have there. Unless you expect everyone here to believe you've never bought a card and played online with it? As was already explained by the OP this isn't a skill issue when your players just flat out don't work against lesser competition.

Guy's a clown. No place for kids like that here.

whitechicken said:

Maybe you shouldn’t just try to buy wins and get better at the game.

And BTW I've labbed and played with half the guys in the top 10 all-time Madden winners, kid. I was better at the game than you'll ever be, times 50.

Martyr1968 said:

Guy's a clown. No place for kids like that here.

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