I’m LOVING the AP change…

QB283 said:

None of us are cheerleading EA. We know EA exploits us. I personally am just pleasantly surprise by how much the 6 AP change has improved my competitive gameplay experience. I'm going on three days of great H2H gameplay in the higher tiers, even in matches I don't win. 

Is the change ill-timed? Yes. Is it likely meant to create demand for future double 0 AP players? Yes. But I think it accomplished the goal of skill-based gameplay.

100% agree. EA obviously did it to make as much money as possible off the diehards before 24 launch's. Most casual players have already stopped playing at this point in the year.

However gameplay since has been pretty solid. Yes you are missing some abilities on defense while still being able to run the same offense, but it isn't that far off from being back to how the game played around Christmas, which was where I personally thought it peaked. 8ap would probably be the perfect balance in my eyes. And I do have some bias as I've gone 24-2 in legend h2h since the ap change, but I've seen minimal dollar and even less spinner. A shift to a zone meta for the rest of the year is kind of refreshing to be honest. 

This meta shift probably will only be a couple of weeks till the GT's drop, and people can get 2 0ap buckets and stack 3 KO's for 1ap. Guess we will see.

spent like 5 minutes retooling all my abilities, im fine for the whole year lmfao

Literal trash, dont need the AP but ive spent all year building my team and now they think they gonna say i cant play with it anymore... fk that im done with madden for good... they shouldve had brains and put this in next years game instead of such a jurastic change to the game after the season is basically over... this is absolute trash and in no way better... idiots should basically be done with 23 and all in on 24 at this point smh

LoonyGoon said:

Love that for y’all i went against a guy running goaline quadfather even after the change🙃

exactly.

lets check back with this guy after the next big program and gt on may 18th.

those double/triple 0 ap buckets 99s will be comical

ThorsQuads said:

Played a couple Champs games and have really seen the changes. As soon as the X-Factor on Flash or Bus is gone, there is just no offense out of these guys. And when they’re on defense, there just isn’t enough for all these KOs to bail people out. You gotta choose now if you want the Unstoppable Forces or KOs. I love it. Less bailouts and more actual gameplay.

favorite part of the AP drop for me, is that I no longer feel obligated to either play man or zone.

most of my AP is used for PA and acrobat combo 

only my  deep safeties have abilities that won't activate in Man coverage  (deep out ko).

unstoppable Force seems to have disappeared😁 only seeing it in House rules this week.

ThorsQuads said:

I just love how you can actually exploit mismatches. In this last game I played, the dude only had PA on his slot corner so I was throwing to Jimmy Smith in the slot every down. Was getting real sick of guys having 3 Unstoppable Forces and then KOs on all corners AND Acro on their user. Love the 6 AP way more.

Sounds like enthralling game play. Getting knockouts is so wack, but throwing outs and flats to the same player down the whole field is unique and cool

bbrewer23goblue said:

lol less ap still same trash meta....stop lying

Just make the game no fun because I’m only playing solos right now since I’m months behind.

QB283 said:

It's different gameplay for sure. There's definitely still some meta influences on H2H, but they don't seem to be as effective.

I actually tried out Flash without his X-Factor today and he still did well with just Evasive for 0. Ended up making that decision because Gronk's Vanguard was more important to my run game... and it showed up when Flash was able to follow Gronk's pancakes all the way to the end zone.

just wondering do you play Gronk at te or fullback? I like him at fullback, I love when he meet my opponents user in the hole. it's the most satisfying pancake.

Raydondee said:

just wondering do you play Gronk at te or fullback? I like him at fullback, I love when he meet my opponents user in the hole. it's the most satisfying pancake.

I play him at fullback for the same reasons you do. I find that Antonio Gates is a better route runner

ThorsQuads said:

Played a couple Champs games and have really seen the changes. As soon as the X-Factor on Flash or Bus is gone, there is just no offense out of these guys. And when they’re on defense, there just isn’t enough for all these KOs to bail people out. You gotta choose now if you want the Unstoppable Forces or KOs. I love it. Less bailouts and more actual gameplay.

Couldn't agree more! I never had trouble with the x-factors but people really are getting exposed especially since they usually only have one (2 at most) play with passing.

I feel like my offense got better but my defense got worse. I'm running man coverage and I always get toasted on corner routes out of gun tight. I usually put my safety that's playing Overton and man him up on the WR thats running the deep corner. And I press me corners and shade outside. I also have PA+DRKO on all corners and my FS. Any advice?

AGREE BIG BALLER

Nothings changed at all im the same and people I play in h2h are the same

offense is basically the same i had abilities like red zone threat on all my wr and Human joystick on moss and Ceedee because i had so many open ap slots and now with 6 ap i just took those abilities i don't really need off and its basically the same game but defense is definitely a change less kos mean more catch but really not the big of a deal