This game is unplayable.

QB283 said:

Hogwarts has been a lot of fun when I'm not interested in MUT. I haven't progressed quickly since I split my time between the two games but it's a bit more relaxing, and it's nice to play a game with a quest storyline again. Spent years playing Breath of the Wild before I was introduced to MUT, still one of my favorite games.

I haven't played a storyline based game since Anthem, which wasn't great, and before that Skyrim. It's been a breath of fresh air to play the game at my own pace and just enjoy it.

sensicough said:

Good time to try that Hogwarts out.  It was actually very good.  I was a bit old to be a Potter fan kid but did enjoy the movies.  Game plays a bit like Assassins Creed but way quicker.  2-3 week break from Madden recently did me a ton of good after all that Christmas fiasco.  I feel ya though.  Game got that way very quickly for me a month and a half ago

I've been playing Diablo 2 lol. Hogwarts was too buggy for me to really enjoy.

Wattserj said:

Cool downs and play limits would kill the game sadly. I'd say a good 80% if not more are people that can't actually read pre snap defenses and just spam broken plays or formations. You take those away people wil have to try and won't spend money or play the game sadly.

Played a guy last night. Ran exactly the same play for 2 quarters. Exactly the same. Had 99's everywhere but made no effort at all to use any of them. Dropped Vick back for a pass to Gronk on an In or Calvin on a Slant and that was it. Got sacked multiple times and intercepted 5 times. Toward the end, I was just lining my User up where Gronk was going to end up and waiting for him to get there!  Has to be the most frustrating 20 minutes of my life but I also wonder, what's in it for him?? Why bother?

EightyOne said:

Played a guy last night. Ran exactly the same play for 2 quarters. Exactly the same. Had 99's everywhere but made no effort at all to use any of them. Dropped Vick back for a pass to Gronk on an In or Calvin on a Slant and that was it. Got sacked multiple times and intercepted 5 times. Toward the end, I was just lining my User up where Gronk was going to end up and waiting for him to get there!  Has to be the most frustrating 20 minutes of my life but I also wonder, what's in it for him?? Why bother?

I have been there trust me. I wonder what happens when two of these players play each other? lol

Wattserj said:

I would most definitely play that mode but I doubt it happening, would be cool though.

Ya apparently the way they have it setup is to make sure you play some teams similar and some teams way better than yours so you will want to put money in and buy packs to make your team better.

MaxAlkaline said:

Ya apparently the way they have it setup is to make sure you play some teams similar and some teams way better than yours so you will want to put money in and buy packs to make your team better.

I just build a TT anymore, helps with spending lots. I also play duos for the most part so its a little bit easier to stop the cheese.

Well, Forza Horizon 5 just dropped a crazy fun looking expansion today so I think I'll be doing that some. Play a couple games on Madden, switch to Forza for an hour or two, rince and repeat. Always good this time of year to have any sort of other game to play, cause if your a NMS grinder like me man the burnout gets REAL!

I think there would also be a huge benefit to adding an actual NFL seasons mode where you take your Madden ultimate team and play through an entire 18 game season against the regular NFL teams and actually play through a full fantasy year for some sort of solo challenge style based rewards instead of it just being garbage  bs AI teams that all have Dak Prescott as a quarterback lol

This game is phenomenal. Y’all delusional. I bought this game for $60 last August and am still having tons of competitive fun.

DjNysus said:

I think there would also be a huge benefit to adding an actual NFL seasons mode where you take your Madden ultimate team and play through an entire 18 game season against the regular NFL teams and actually play through a full fantasy year for some sort of solo challenge style based rewards instead of it just being garbage  bs AI teams that all have Dak Prescott as a quarterback lol

That mode sounds awesome playing against the Regs teams. They definitely could get a lot more creative. I have been wanting salary cap back but with the ability to choose what cap mode you want to play on. Should be 3-5 tiers of different levels of cap that way if youre starting late in the year you can stay away from the God Squads

MaxAlkaline said:

This game is phenomenal. Y’all delusional. I bought this game for $60 last August and am still having tons of competitive fun.

I'm right there with you even with all the glitches. I have never played a Madden as much as I've played this year

MaxAlkaline said:

That mode sounds awesome playing against the Regs teams. They definitely could get a lot more creative. I have been wanting salary cap back but with the ability to choose what cap mode you want to play on. Should be 3-5 tiers of different levels of cap that way if youre starting late in the year you can stay away from the God Squads

Yeah, I've been saying it for a while now to anyone that'll listen, but I don't think it'll ever get back to the people that matter.. a real fantasy aspect added to MUT would be awesome. I want to play through a full real season against the computer on all Madden and have all of the commentary and extras that go along with the franchise season and be able to have that level of fantasy with my built ultimate team all the way to a fantasy super bowl. 

Great to head is fun but the little bs 5 game season is not true Fantasy at all.. MUT has always been missing that aspect.

I didn't realize how bad the servers were until I picked up another game. I live way out in the middle of nowhere so satellite internet best I could do. Loved the building aspect of MUT so I still played and every once in a while got to do an online game or 2 if everything was perfect. Since I've gotten Starlink and it's amazing can play online anytime.... decided to get a few other games and wow MUT is so laggy it really makes it unenjoyable now. I'll log on excited to play and it's gone by the time I pull up my binder and it freezes. Causing me to have to restart my console smh. People running tje meta does suck but assuming they aren't a top player it's fairly easy to stop 3 or 4 plays most of the time. They've gotta change up some things or they are going to lose a lot of customers. There's no way people are going to continue to play at this rate.

Abilities f*ed this game and negate actual skill and adjustments. 
Im not even saying that abilities shouldn't be in the game at all but they are not balanced enough as is. 
For every ability, there should be one that counters it. 

Tell me how to counter your WR dropping a pass that he had control over with two hands and started running because some Zone KO lit up. Its the most pathetic mechanic in the game. You don't let the ball drop after two steps because someone touched you with one hand. So by that, making hot routes, scheming stuff open gets totally mitigated. Theres no skill in loading up your backfield with every Zone KO in the game without knowing how to actually make adjustments. Its the ultimate bail out. 

Same thing with the running game. Lets say you run big nickel, you shaded correctly, you even have "run stopping" abilities on your line and maybe safeties. I had two D linemen come through free and guys like Gus or Henry stiff arm a 300 pound man to the ground like its nothing. That shouldnt happen. Its just bs.