Recent Discussions
Interceptions- what am I doing worng (video included)
Please help me understand what im pressing that prevents my defenders from getting pics. Example 1 LSU defender makes one had interceptions nearly around the back Example 2 Tennessee defender (8th best player in game) cant make contact with the ball thrown directly to him Im pressing Y what gives
Terrible gameplay
You can’t convince me this was a finished game. Some of the idiotic stuff I see in the day-to-day gameplay is ridiculous. Terrible purists, defense coverages that are basically nonexistent, the list just goes on. I’d love to say I enjoy playing this game, but I really don’t at this current moment. A LOT needs to be fixed.Can’t pick a play (yet again), cost me national championship
Yet again, the game did not let me and my opponent choose a play. Couldn’t click a single thing and got kicked for excessive griefing. This cost me my National Championship for the second time, please fix the game and give players the rewards they are losing due to the game not working. Can’t upload a video to show here what happened as it’s too big.Sideline Shenanigans Dynasty
Auto Recruiting: OFF Auto Progress Players: ON User Coach Auto-Progression: OFF Public/Private: Private Maximum Users: 32 Cross-Play Enabled: ON Ball Hawk: Keep Individual Heat Seeker: Keep Individual Switch Assist: Keep Individual User Expectations Be active and communicative. Use Discord for communication for updates on league, trash talk and whatever else. No rage quitting Respect opponents League Name is Sideline Shenanigans Password is Dontfumble26 Let’s get this going.Schedules
I started a Charlotte offline dynasty. I played Tulane on the road, USF on the road and North Texas at Home my first season. I just started my second season and I once again play Tulane and USF on the road and UNT at home. This has been an issue in past games like 20 seasons into a dynasty but year 2!? And the games are locked conference games so nothing I can do about it. Is there anything I can do to avoid this in the future?CUT 26
why isn't the match making based off of overalls is rather have a longer queue time then get matched up with someone with a 70 overall same to be said about playing someone with an 87 overall, until late game when everyone has a 98 overall, why not match people up based on overall to at least give lower overalls a fighting chance and not cheating people with better teams let the game be skilled base not letting the game dictate who it thinks should have the upper hand because someone just won 5 games now I have to lose 5 gamesLooking to have a productive conversation about this game
From what I've seen there seems to be a clear dividing line with opinions on this game. Offline folks (Dynasty) seem to love this game. Online competitive (Road to CFP) folks seem to hate this game. I've seen the reasons supporting both trains of thought. And honestly respect them both. What's interesting is, feelings towards Madden are the same...just in reverse. So here's a thought, and it's coming from a place of understanding... Perhaps putting out a product where the offline and online modes are equally solid, is just too much work for the dev team. I truly mean that. The laundry list of fundamental oversights year in and year out appear to indicate this. So how about this as a solution...put out two separate games. Dedicate each team to putting out the best possible product. This would increase product quality. Cause the truth is, gamers game the way we want to game. And the idea that you can "engineer" the player base towards flipping over the other side (offline to online and vice versa)...is not sustainable. What we don't want is what it feels like now. Where it feels like resources were dedicated towards either game mode, while our mode of preference gets the short end of the stick. You can of course overlap gameplay resources. I'm talking about smoothing out the rough edges of these modes for College and Madden online and offline. The main limiting factor I could foresee is...personnel on hand to field two separate teams for College Football and Madden respectfully. I'm not privy to those resources, but from a business standpoint...it would appear revolutionary at the start, but over time could bear significant fruit. So what say you gamers...two separate games?
Why EA?
I've been a regular player since 2000, Madden and CFB. Online H2H in particular. Thousands of $ spent in MUT/CUT in that span. Over the past 3 years I've slowly lost interest in playing either. CFB was great to get back into last year when it came out, but that only lasted a month, same as Madden 25. After spending the past week playing CFB 26, unfortunately my patience may not even get me playing into week 2. Online H2H has always had one major problem, for some reason its gotten worse instead of better, and IMO its a solvable problem - PLAY SPAMMING. You can spend hundreds of dollars, hours building a team, doing challenges, solos, and when you enter H2H, more than 50% of the gameplay is versus an opponent spamming one or two plays on offense and defense. The "computer" in no way learns or anticipates plays that are repeatedly called. You can try to user-cover, change formations, alignments, mostly to no benefit. To prove my point, go into Online H2H standings and look at any player and their total plays called avg. Play a game in the All-American or Heisman division and live it for yourself. Graphics have improved enormously over the years, the presentation of the game as well, but the "computer" or AI adaptability shows no progress. One would think with AI implemented properly this could fixed. Make the computer learn and adapt, force users to alternate or disguise plays. Make play calling more challenging. Or even adding a play "cool down" would combat play spammers. If you want a realistic game, this is an area that needs attention immediately. Otherwise, make it an arcade style game and allow all of these unrealistic events to happen. I want to say, in Madden versions over 10 years ago, the "computer" did this; if you repeatedly called a play it would anticipate and jump routes. Bring this back!!! I'm likely done with CFB 26 and if nothing changes my stint with Madden 26 will also be brief. I'd be in 100% if there were simply attempts to improve this issue. I havent seen it over the recent years, Ive submitted similar feedback in the past, all to deaf ears. Not even attempting to improve this area of the game pushes long-term users like myself away. Please fix.My CB/FS/SS play style grade went from an A+ to an F in one game
I switched from a 6 minute clock to an accelerated 15 minute clock because I felt like that was a better gaming experience but after I finished one game the play style grades went from an A+ to an F. I even had 2 INTs and won the game so I'm curious as to why my secondary's play style grades completely tanked despite playing well. It's caused me to be completely locked out of a couple of recruits and I have no clue how to fix it. Do I have to go back to the 6 minute non accelerated clock or is there something else that can help fix the issue?Fix the coaching adjustments asap!!!
Just lost a game because the coaching adjustment switch to speed by itself and cause the defense to Kris Kross every defense assignment that was on the field. I keep it on balance because if you switch it to anything else the defense glitch out for some reason. This is horrible. The deep blue zone that’s supposed to guard WR 6 that’s lined up on the left-side of the field is wide on because his coverage is all the way to the right. Smh paid $90 for this broken defense can’t even compete fairly.
How great is EA Sports
Just wanted to take this time to tell the EA crew how "awesome" this years college football is. 25 was good but yall broke the mold with 26. Absolutely nothing wrong with this game. Obvious picks being dropped for no explainable reason? GENIUS! CUT packs being way more expensive? OUTSTANDING. Having to sell your entire team to get enough training for one roll? I mean generously give that guy a raise. Great work team. I mean just incredible job of "improving" upon last year. I seriously dont see how this game could get any "better". EA tag is Odinson838400 and I "mean" every word i typed. "Absolutely", "positively" mean it. Nothing can beat the bang up job these guys did on this game. Also I am selling some oceanfront property in Omaha, Nebraska...seriously.Buggy disaster
Online dynasty. Every other game raining. Every other game crashes Xbox series s. Cpu qb completion % always above 80. Cpu cant run at all. Rosters are horrible. Every black freshman has a combover. Insane amount of white corners still. Cant snap the ball. Corners never get picks. What a joke of a game that I was super hyped for.Roster Issues
Bringing this up again with added info as I feel it's not getting discussed enough (Understandably so with the amount of bugs making the game unplayable to some). But the roster is a mess. I understand that some players may have not opted in and I'm guessing freshman who are fall enrollees may not be able to sign Nil until they officially enroll, but the amount of even early enrollee freshman missing and transfers, especially small school transfers that moved up a level (like Sincere Brown and Teon Parks in Colorado) is bad. This issue is compounded by the fact that editing the fake/non NIL players is still broken. In the main menu roster management, you can't edit numbers and when you edit the name, no matter what you do, as soon as you leave the screen, the name reverts back to the fake name. If you attempt to edit while in Offline dynasty mode, the change positions is locked until after the season which blocks from properly fixing positions ahead of your first season. We really either need a quicker roster update or a fix to editing current rosters for fake and non nil players. And a future suggestion, we should be able to edit more on fake players. At least name, number, position, height, weight, and skin color. If the potential issue is risk of people creating players who opted out and using online, there's a easy fix. Allow only base roster, unedited for Online Dynasty and online modes. Offline Dynasty we should be able to use a more edited roster and be able to tweak fake players.
