Is EA really that lazy?

Steelcurtain4life said:

I have totally felt that way about cards in almost every year if not every year and I've been playing since like mut 15 or 16 but I've also noticed when you have a full TT that TT boost to your players helps counter that a bit which is probably why EA trying to kill TTs

It's a shame they refuse to listen to their community. If you're going to publish characters with stats and give bonuses with those stats for gathering the same amount of characters that belong to a specific group then MAKE THE NUMBERS MAKE SENSE. Because they don't. Numbers don't lie and the numbers we are seeing are just pictures. We need ACTUAL numbers.

antitwisted said:

Yeah, this is pretty dumb at this point. I have the same experience when I see an 84 or 86 bryce in their 3 cards in the intro, along with comparable stuff. I already know I'm in for a game where the breaks go my opponent's way the whole time and I have to play my butt off. It's like no matter what the situation, the game always finds a way to make it close unless your opponent is REALLY bad or maybe just happens to call plays countered by your style specifically (or both). On the other hand, if I see some pretty rich stuff like say, Polamalu, Captain Luck, Cromartie or whatever, it's like the breaks start going my way. Gotta say the equalizer or DDA etc is probably real if I'm honest based on observation. Just anecdotal so it's whatever; I know it can be a heated topic but it's just my opinion. It's not entirely a bad thing in some ways, but I do wish the game felt more straight up. However, if the game happens to be so badly inconsistent and random, and it's not intentional, I mean...wouldn't that arguably be even worse, since it comes down to pure ineptitude?

Lazy and deceptive. They just keep pushing out the same stuff just slightly ever so modified. The only reason MCS is big this year is to attract more players and for them to seem like they care about this eSports scene. But in reality it's to save their game from plummeting. Sadly have to think of the game from a marketing stand point. We're so thirsty for a GOOD football game because EA owns the rights till 2025 they're going to continue to pump out this bullshit and lie to their community. If they were DIRECT and HONEST there wouldn't be so many of clueless to why our players play the way they do. If I have an LTD player HE SHOULD FEEL LIKE AN LTD PLAYER. And not have me after a week saying fuck I'm just going to sell this dog water.

antitwisted said:

Yeah, this is pretty dumb at this point. I have the same experience when I see an 84 or 86 bryce in their 3 cards in the intro, along with comparable stuff. I already know I'm in for a game where the breaks go my opponent's way the whole time and I have to play my butt off. It's like no matter what the situation, the game always finds a way to make it close unless your opponent is REALLY bad or maybe just happens to call plays countered by your style specifically (or both). On the other hand, if I see some pretty rich stuff like say, Polamalu, Captain Luck, Cromartie or whatever, it's like the breaks start going my way. Gotta say the equalizer or DDA etc is probably real if I'm honest based on observation. Just anecdotal so it's whatever; I know it can be a heated topic but it's just my opinion. It's not entirely a bad thing in some ways, but I do wish the game felt more straight up. However, if the game happens to be so badly inconsistent and random, and it's not intentional, I mean...wouldn't that arguably be even worse, since it comes down to pure ineptitude?

No clue what it is but i ended up losing lmao. Just couldn't stop 86 Young, i was so mad but it's whatever. I lost 51-49, lost in the final 2 seconds lol. When i play god squads, my players are amazing but against this guy and guys like him, my defense is fucking weird and it's like they stutter.

2lao said:

Completely agree

Just not sure what happened. My team was slower, couldn't tackle and couldn't react to the ball. Kenneth Walker completely wrecked me and for the last week or so, i've been playing backs like Payton, Bo, CMC and doing well against them. Walker comes in and obliterates me and makes my defense look like shit which it is anyway

2lao said:

Lazy and deceptive. They just keep pushing out the same stuff just slightly ever so modified. The only reason MCS is big this year is to attract more players and for them to seem like they care about this eSports scene. But in reality it's to save their game from plummeting. Sadly have to think of the game from a marketing stand point. We're so thirsty for a GOOD football game because EA owns the rights till 2025 they're going to continue to pump out this bullshit and lie to their community. If they were DIRECT and HONEST there wouldn't be so many of clueless to why our players play the way they do. If I have an LTD player HE SHOULD FEEL LIKE AN LTD PLAYER. And not have me after a week saying fuck I'm just going to sell this dog water.

Yes I agree with you. It's legacy code reused over and over again. I remember one time they even still kept an advertisement in the stands in game for the previous version. I think it was madden 20, they still had a graphic advertisement for madden 19, lmao. I play on the PC version on top of this and it has a whole host of issues the other platforms don't have. It can even potentially  be harmful to the parts used.

SportsPerson94 said:

Just not sure what happened. My team was slower, couldn't tackle and couldn't react to the ball. Kenneth Walker completely wrecked me and for the last week or so, i've been playing backs like Payton, Bo, CMC and doing well against them. Walker comes in and obliterates me and makes my defense look like shit which it is anyway

Walter Peyton gets improved blocking today from what I've just saw. Same oline as me and similar defense and his oline just would create huge gaps for him

antitwisted said:

Yes I agree with you. It's legacy code reused over and over again. I remember one time they even still kept an advertisement in the stands in game for the previous version. I think it was madden 20, they still had a graphic advertisement for madden 19, lmao. I play on the PC version on top of this and it has a whole host of issues the other platforms don't have. It can even potentially  be harmful to the parts used.

🤣 fuck that's bad, but I too play on PC and it runs like ass compared to PS5 legit thought about starting over and switch but I'd lose so much, IF ONLY THERE WAS A WAY...they give us the companion app to be able to view the markets but don't join them together? Wanna know why...? Maximum profits. You have 5/6 markets whatever to drop a total of 5k ltds a week. You're reaching everyone in the market to maximize profitable gain. Now if it was all one market even keeping that same number for drops of ltds they would make profits? No the PS4/Xbox lower category would stop purchasing packs n such. And now you have everyone competing for auctions. Cards would hold more value(or would they 🙃).

2lao said:

🤣 fuck that's bad, but I too play on PC and it runs like ass compared to PS5 legit thought about starting over and switch but I'd lose so much, IF ONLY THERE WAS A WAY...they give us the companion app to be able to view the markets but don't join them together? Wanna know why...? Maximum profits. You have 5/6 markets whatever to drop a total of 5k ltds a week. You're reaching everyone in the market to maximize profitable gain. Now if it was all one market even keeping that same number for drops of ltds they would make profits? No the PS4/Xbox lower category would stop purchasing packs n such. And now you have everyone competing for auctions. Cards would hold more value(or would they 🙃).

Yeah keep an eye on your CPU temp and voltage when playing the game. I use a second monitor (yes I've tried disabling all of that and it doesn't affect anything) to keep my mobo software on display, always remaining vigilant of issues. I've been working on adjusting a lot of things to try to fix the terrible issues with this game using the CPU so heavily instead of the GPU. Spoiler alert, so far not much has helped but limiting FPS to 60 and putting every setting on nvidia control panel to favor maximum performance seems to be the best right now.

antitwisted said:

Yeah keep an eye on your CPU temp and voltage when playing the game. I use a second monitor (yes I've tried disabling all of that and it doesn't affect anything) to keep my mobo software on display, always remaining vigilant of issues. I've been working on adjusting a lot of things to try to fix the terrible issues with this game using the CPU so heavily instead of the GPU. Spoiler alert, so far not much has helped but limiting FPS to 60 and putting every setting on nvidia control panel to favor maximum performance seems to be the best right now.

So I have a Ryzen 9 3900x, 32gbs of ram, 6800xt 16gb GPU. I too limited it down to 60fps and noticed a increase in stability but I still get stutters when the ball is thrown. My controller also randomly disconnects along with when I'm randomly selecting a play it will just start flipping through plays. Both controllers are perfectly fine. One is an Xbox and the other is a brand new PS5 controller. I just don't want anymore stutters as the stutters cause me to misalign my players when attempting to catch the ball on defense and offense. But lately I've been having to leave it to the AI to do everything in order for me to complete the play. My passing lately has also been horrendous, so many times I'm hitting receivers dead in the hands and they can't hang onto the ball when sides are flipped dudes catching everything...is there something I'm doing wrong when throwing the ball to my receiver? Should I be free forming every pass**?

** I've noticed with free forming my receivers will not even attempt to run or even catch the ball even when I'm trying to have them aggressively catch the ball.

Yes they are