By this I mean when you play ranked or H2H it can be hard not to give into sweaty decisions way before the game is on the line.
Especially when your opponent is doing it from the jump.
I recently forced myself to play more like the real teams do. IE punting when the game isn't in the line or when in the lead and trusting your defense.
How many of you do this? Do you find it successful? Tips for staying the course when the emotions are high?
DjNysus said:By this I mean when you play ranked or H2H it can be hard not to give into sweaty decisions way before the game is on the line.
Especially when your opponent is doing it from the jump.
I recently forced myself to play more like the real teams do. IE punting when the game isn't in the line or when in the lead and trusting your defense.
How many of you do this? Do you find it successful? Tips for staying the course when the emotions are high?
Being OK with losing. You’re either sweaty or you lose. Or you’re playing against a casual. Who probably thinks you’re sweaty.
i kinda like the sweaty gameplay and being “locked in” every game But it’s how the comp gameplay is being conducted that makes me irritated same forms, plays, glitches. i find that most of the time to win you have to play the “madden way” like going for it on 4th&30 in the 1st quarter or running the ball on 3rd&20. I would like to play sim style but I feel like I loose pretty much all the time playing that lol.
Entheogenuser420 said:i kinda like the sweaty gameplay and being “locked in” every game But it’s how the comp gameplay is being conducted that makes me irritated same forms, plays, glitches. i find that most of the time to win you have to play the “madden way” like going for it on 4th&30 in the 1st quarter or running the ball on 3rd&20. I would like to play sim style but I feel like I loose pretty much all the time playing that lol.
There’s a great sim under all the arcade stuff.
BillGardiner20 said:There’s a great sim under all the arcade stuff.
See that's the way I feel and last night and head-to-head and again this morning I played the way an actual NFL coach would and did not go sweaty when the game wasn't on the line and waited until it counted and it seemed to be less frustrating not only for me to play but more satisfying to win.
I went 3 and 1 with that mindset
phatalerror said:Being OK with losing. You’re either sweaty or you lose. Or you’re playing against a casual. Who probably thinks you’re sweaty.
LOL, well said and very true.
phatalerror said:Being OK with losing. You’re either sweaty or you lose. Or you’re playing against a casual. Who probably thinks you’re sweaty.
Not sure I agree .. that's the point of the thread.
I played less sweaty and ended up winning
I do believe that the ball don’t lie. Sometimes when you punt or kick a FG when you are supposed to, you get rewarded with a dumbass pick or fumble on the next drive lol
Daddy said:I do believe that the ball don’t lie. Sometimes when you punt or kick a FG when you are supposed to, you get rewarded with a dumbass pick or fumble on the next drive lol
Field position is real. Once I started playing the long game, I had a lot more success with the Unstoppable Drive event without ever calling an RPO, a broken route combo play, that atrocious runningback pass play, or any mid blitz alignment.
(Regarding the event, if I didn't get far enough downfield in six plays to feel comfortable defending the remaining field, I just ran out the back of my endzone on my seventh play, and forced my opponent to drive 80 yards instead of 40. I would call that unorthodox, but there are some that would feel that's sweaty.)
DjNysus said:Not sure I agree .. that's the point of the thread.
I played less sweaty and ended up winning
If my opponent is up 21 and is still calling RPO's and three versions of end runs and only glitchy pass plays, my continuing to not play sweaty will certainly lose the game.
Frankly, at that point, all there is left for me is to try to experiment with my playbook and my adjustments. And maybe annoying my opponent for not quitting out when he's up 35.
phatalerror said:If my opponent is up 21 and is still calling RPO's and three versions of end runs and only glitchy pass plays, my continuing to not play sweaty will certainly lose the game.
Frankly, at that point, all there is left for me is to try to experiment with my playbook and my adjustments. And maybe annoying my opponent for not quitting out when he's up 35.
Reverting back to my original post... I stated when the game is not on the line...
If you're down by 21 points and they're still steamrolling you then that wouldn't apply clearly the game is on the line.
DjNysus said:Reverting back to my original post... I stated when the game is not on the line...
If you're down by 21 points and they're still steamrolling you then that wouldn't apply clearly the game is on the line.
The game is always on the line. In Madden, you can be up by 21, and between the ridiculous onside recovery rate and dumb over the top Mossing nonsense, few leads are truly safe. If you're down by anything and the opponent is sweaty, you're setting yourself up for a loss if you aren't willing to dish out the same.
That unwillingness on my part is why in Seasons I alternate between Rookie and Veteran, and won't sniff Legend.
DjNysus said:By this I mean when you play ranked or H2H it can be hard not to give into sweaty decisions way before the game is on the line.
Especially when your opponent is doing it from the jump.
I recently forced myself to play more like the real teams do. IE punting when the game isn't in the line or when in the lead and trusting your defense.
How many of you do this? Do you find it successful? Tips for staying the course when the emotions are high?
I've always much preferred playing realistic situational football as opposed to just doing 2pt conversions & going for it on 4th & 25 at will. Ppl just playing arcade style football as well as all the oop nonsense has turned me away from playing online h2h.
BlacKxRaiderxWP said:I've always much preferred playing realistic situational football as opposed to just doing 2pt conversions & going for it on 4th & 25 at will. Ppl just playing arcade style football as well as all the oop nonsense has turned me away from playing online h2h.
Maybe I'm just lucky but playing smart had been serving me well pretty much average 3 wins for every loss
Yeah. I don't mind punting. I like using the punter ability that let's you see the whole kicking arc. Really helps putting them within the 5 consistently. It also feels awesome to flip field position if you take a bad sack on 3rd down. I feel like if you go for a 4 and 20 and give them the ball in fg range is not a recipe for success. I feel better about forcing them to drive 90 yards then coverting a hail Mary essentially.