What's everyone using?
Classic, Placement and power, or placement and accuracy?
Which one is best? Why?
professorfoolish
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colbyzg
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Classic. Too lazy to learn free form. People who use free form kick my ass with it though so it’s worth learning IMO.
peatrick
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professorfoolish said:What's everyone using?
Classic, Placement and power, or placement and accuracy?
Which one is best? Why?
You need to be using Placement & Accuracy (not classic), unless you're a Boomer and have decades of relearning to do. Hop into practice mode and rip off a bunch of throws and try to get your settings dialed in. I'd start low, perhaps on 4-5 "Accuracy" (out of 20?) and slowly work up from there once you get comfortable holding down the L2 trigger to start leading your receivers. I think i made it as high as 7/20 and have already been considering drawing that down to 5 or 6.
This is a skill gap issue that will determine the difference between regular players and those who are elite and able to fit balls into extremely tight windows. Holy hell, wish i took a video clip of the luckiest DOT i've probably ever thrown during a House Rules game late last evening. My receiver managed to catch the ball, practically out of bounds in the back corner of the endzone. I felt liek Tom Brady for a moment. It was a terrible read, my receiver was DEFINITELY covered, but the Pass Lead placement allowed me to grab a lucky score and win the game. YMMV, but definitely Placement & Accuracy would be my vote.
You don't even HAVE to pass lead on plays, but it will give you the option to as you continue to learn and get more and more comfortable with the game. Hope that helps!
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professorfoolish
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peatrick said:You need to be using Placement & Accuracy (not classic), unless you're a Boomer and have decades of relearning to do. Hop into practice mode and rip off a bunch of throws and try to get your settings dialed in. I'd start low, perhaps on 4-5 "Accuracy" (out of 20?) and slowly work up from there once you get comfortable holding down the L2 trigger to start leading your receivers. I think i made it as high as 7/20 and have already been considering drawing that down to 5 or 6.
This is a skill gap issue that will determine the difference between regular players and those who are elite and able to fit balls into extremely tight windows. Holy hell, wish i took a video clip of the luckiest DOT i've probably ever thrown during a House Rules game late last evening. My receiver managed to catch the ball, practically out of bounds in the back corner of the endzone. I felt liek Tom Brady for a moment. It was a terrible read, my receiver was DEFINITELY covered, but the Pass Lead placement allowed me to grab a lucky score and win the game. YMMV, but definitely Placement & Accuracy would be my vote.
You don't even HAVE to pass lead on plays, but it will give you the option to as you continue to learn and get more and more comfortable with the game. Hope that helps!
Been using placement and power, but just decided to revisit the idea. Thanks for the write up! Going to take some time to practice this over the weekend
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