Nano Blitz detection?

I'm only just now hearing of this, is Nano blitz detection common knowledge in the community?  Seems it's been in the game for years and years, until now i never understood how or why my (or my opponents') pass rushers would often freeze or stutter-step instead of actually pursuing the QB when they had a wide open lane.

Here's a quick blurb i yoinked from an old stream, where allegedly someone named "Rex" was explaining the rationale behind this feature (~8 years ago):  [source]

"Ok, state of Madden time real quick. We're concerned about nanos. What are nanos? When a guy comes in free untouched due to a glitch. Now, we could spend all our time hunting youtube videos and spending the cycle patching it, but we're not going to do that. When we spend all our time trying to patch this, we lose time to spend developing new features. The nano blitz detector is going to detect what pre-snap audibles you use, and if it determines it is a nano, it will give the defender a stutter step animation as if he was expecting to be blocked."

So, back to my original point and question -- are or were you aware of this?  If so, what can you tell me about it, or what has your personal experience been, how do you typically avoid triggering this in-game?  Anything that can be shared would be super relevant and important.

So you're asking how to exploit around an exploit prevention feature? Ok....

STRIKESHOT1 said:

So you're asking how to exploit around an exploit prevention feature? Ok....

lmao

Sometimes it happens when you're not glitching. Sometimes if i feel like my opponent is runninng play action, i'll audible into overload blitz and i'll user the LB who is blitzing and sometimes, he just stops but i'm not glitching at all, i'm timing my opponents snap and rushing in just as he snaps.  Most of the time i get burned but it works sometimes but nano detection stops me sometimes

STRIKESHOT1 said:

So you're asking how to exploit around an exploit prevention feature? Ok....

Merely trying to make sense of the steaming pile of shit that has become Madden.  Knowledge is power, IMO.  Term it however you want.  If the game was coded properly, none of this would be a discussion topic, let alone for the better part of a ~decade, or however long this "feature" has been in the game.  I'm a late bloomer, only just now finding a term to apply to what we've all been seeing in one form or another.

A-gap pressure is coming, no matter what we say or do on these boards, my good man.  I'm running Secure Protector across almost my entire O-line and i would encourage everyone else to do the same, if you have any desire to play even somewhat competitively.

SportsPerson94 said:

Sometimes it happens when you're not glitching. Sometimes if i feel like my opponent is runninng play action, i'll audible into overload blitz and i'll user the LB who is blitzing and sometimes, he just stops but i'm not glitching at all, i'm timing my opponents snap and rushing in just as he snaps.  Most of the time i get burned but it works sometimes but nano detection stops me sometimes

Hilarious that somehow WE, the end-user / gamers / player-base, somehow manage to get blamed for EA's constant inadequacy.  Some really fierce mental gymnastics that must require to remain so willfully ignorant all the time.  As much as i wish this were truly simulation fatball, it is nothing of the sort.  Kids always gonna chirp, i fully expected to hear some dumb stuff, in whatever comments thread... why should this be any different, ya know?

peatrick said:

I'm only just now hearing of this, is Nano blitz detection common knowledge in the community?  Seems it's been in the game for years and years, until now i never understood how or why my (or my opponents') pass rushers would often freeze or stutter-step instead of actually pursuing the QB when they had a wide open lane.

Here's a quick blurb i yoinked from an old stream, where allegedly someone named "Rex" was explaining the rationale behind this feature (~8 years ago):  [source]

"Ok, state of Madden time real quick. We're concerned about nanos. What are nanos? When a guy comes in free untouched due to a glitch. Now, we could spend all our time hunting youtube videos and spending the cycle patching it, but we're not going to do that. When we spend all our time trying to patch this, we lose time to spend developing new features. The nano blitz detector is going to detect what pre-snap audibles you use, and if it determines it is a nano, it will give the defender a stutter step animation as if he was expecting to be blocked."

So, back to my original point and question -- are or were you aware of this?  If so, what can you tell me about it, or what has your personal experience been, how do you typically avoid triggering this in-game?  Anything that can be shared would be super relevant and important.

I'm pretty sure they took this feature out within the last year or two

They couldn't get it to work right and it was effecting the Offensive side of the ball in certain formations.

itscush2push said:

I'm pretty sure they took this feature out within the last year or two

They couldn't get it to work right and it was effecting the Offensive side of the ball in certain formations.

Thanks for the insight -- i'm sure even if they did attempt to remove it at one point, it somehow got reverted during any number of the patches they had to roll back, heh.  Obviously i have no clue, talking out my ass, as per usual... but nothing they attempt seems to work, be it pass catching (on both offense and defense, it's been absolutely horrendous this year and why we need to have Gift Wrapped and/or Pick/LurkArtist so our darn professional athletes can merely catch the damn ball) or the fatigue and stamina issues that plagued us for months, before EA ultimately reverted those changes, as well.

Oh yeah, nearly forgot about the kicking meter glitch that went away, before being re-introduced after one of the prior patches was again reverted.  What an absolute mess.  I'm pissing into the wind hoping for this game to ever be decent.

Lurk Artist is an attempt to make LBs great again since they nerfed the crap out of them due to Ryan Shazier being a god card in Madden. 

They could easily fix it all but they're being hella cheap and lazy with it

itscush2push said:

Lurk Artist is an attempt to make LBs great again since they nerfed the crap out of them due to Ryan Shazier being a god card in Madden. 

They could easily fix it all but they're being hella cheap and lazy with it

I'm not convinced they can fix it.  It seems they tried numerous attempts to fix catching on both offense and defense, which was exactly what i attempted to ramble about.  It's plain as day, we can look at the old patch notes to see the numerous times they were forced to roll back these changes and yet we STILL don't have any hope of a fix.

EA giving out Pick and LurkArtist (as well as Gift Wrapped) for free is them basically admitting they have no clue how to code their own game, so here's some abilities to make up for our shortcomings.  Have fun.  Huge bonus that Linebackers can finally animate, but it should be a base feature, not require some ability.