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Give running backs a brain and eyes...
I mostly play QB in RTG and the running game is really frustrating. Running backs have a very hard time finding the openings the O-Line gives them and sometimes even going against the play design. On inside runs they run outside even if the blocking works as it's designed. They don't run behind blocks but instead they run straight into defenders. It genuinely feels like they're blind and brainless. Your game is months old now and this is still an issue. Are you actually listening???Glitches
Hello, I keep noticing glitches. When I call Gun Y Off Trips Return Curls, pre snap is in motion, the person in motion (wide receiver) gets stuck on the tight end and it sometimes costs me a timeout. When I call Gun Doubles Y Off Fake Jet HB Seam, the wide out that’s supposed to go in motion, rears up then freezes in place. Only then does the player finally move when when the ball gets hiked and of course they are no use since they then run there routeQB camera
The most zoomed in camera really is a good idea, but the effort behind it sucks. I love feeling like I’m actually in the game as the QB with the camera, that immersive feeling. It actually feels like you see what a QB does. But having to pull up the hot routes just to rotate the camera to see the receivers is not good. We shouldn’t have to pull up the play to rotate the camera. And also, after the ball is snapped, it’s incredibly hard to see the receivers unless they run a slant or something that bring them to the middle of the field, unless you scramble that way, and then only the receivers the way you scramble are. It would also be cool if we could rotate the camera while the play is happening, because in real life obviously the QB can turn his head and eyes and see the entire field at all times. The camera is dope for trying to give you the feeling like you are actually on the field, just needs work. The QB cam could be the most amazing thing ever if fixed.High School Moments on Heisman weirdness
So I expect the difficulty to destroy me as a newerish player, which it did. Numerous times. Good job there. There's the usual EA Tiburon AI weirdness but if that were a dealbreaker I wouldn't have gotten the game although I do wish that some NPC players made better decisions than someone who just started football would. IE: the HB intentionally missing the hole to run into the line, which happens a lot when using run plays while not controlling the HB in RtG. No, the weird part is that once you go to college all of the Heisman restrictions are gone. You can restart all the practice minigames at any point, even in position battles (where you would expect the Ironman part of the Heisman difficulty to stick), making it trivially easy to just restart until you win the position battle. However, you cannot restart/retry at any point your High School Moments - despite the coach mentioning you can (as you can in lower difficulties). It feels, to me, it should be one or the other. Either make Heisman a dedicated Ironman mode where you cannot restart, or ease up a bit on that during High School Moments. There's also severe dissonance where the coach is guiding you through your senior year, but you're given full control of play calls, audibles, hot routes, pass protection adjustments, etc. despite your position on offense. Which makes the mode feel weird because a WR/HB usually won't be calling plays or adjusting their route just because. Considering how execution heavy these moments would need to be, maybe a tighter experience centering on the player themselves executing rather than them figuring out just how to game the system to succeed would be more interesting. It takes a lot of coach trust in College for your coach to allow you to do this, but you get the keys to the kingdom immediately in High School? Despite still having a lot of football to learn? That part doesn't hit right for me.3rd and 1
Why is it 9/10 times in road to glory when I hand it okk to my CPU RB on 3rd and 1 or shorter does the CPU back get tackled by the CPU defense 3-4 yards behind the line. Like literally 9/10 times this happens. No matter how on fire the back is or how well the line plays almost never convert a 3rd and short by running to the CPU back. Do you even care anymore EA?Road to glory Bug issues that still needs to be addressed as of 9/11
"The Natural" Mental Ability This badge has not been upgrading since CFB 25. Yes I know that you need to "Win your Conference Championship" to either unlock/upgrade, but at this point, this is nothing but a Beginner Badge for new RTG Players. Early Graduation with 3.6 GPA is currently Bugged right now and if your player was redshirted their first year, that year doesn't count towards the year you can graduate early Again, last year, we were all able to graduate by Junior Season/Sophomore (RS) season by fufilling the minimum GPA requirement. Now this year, some players (including me) are having issues this. I did this with a Redshirted Player and True (Non Redshirted) Player. Both of them after their 3rd season, they're still force to commit to school work.Disappointing
RTG is what I looked forward to most in this game. The mode should have pathways, or be set up in a way to provide you a chance to start as a freshman sometime throughout the season on any team, to make it worth playing and enjoyable. It is extremely difficult on many teams to start as a QB early, no matter the team or difficulty. i am still learning to earn points more efficiently, but as an elite recruit ive spent over 2 seasons on UNC with a chance at starting nowhere in sight. The tasks and mini games give the impression that there was no ingenuity and effort spent towards this mode, which is a shame. The graphics look great, but this mode is awful, and frustrating enough to even drive me to come post this. I’ve never sent feedback to a developer before. The gameplay needs attention and this was a waste of my time and money.Trash
This game is absolute trash. Rtg should be full games with the statistics being the results. Cut scenes showing offensive players running off the field after I make a big play at lb. No foorball guys want to see male cheerleaders every other cut scene either. My rb picks the absolute worst path to run when I hand it off, which makes it very unrealistic when I have to throw the ball 50 times a game with - 5 rushing yards. Like come on EA put some football guys on your development team. What a waste of money.
Bruh
Came back to the game after a while and major issues still exist. Still can't graduate early, still get stuck and can't hike the ball (This RUINS your recruiting tape in highschool moments). Y'all started so great handling post-launch issues but it seems like y'all gave up and I'm assuming moved on to CFB 27 development. I want to like these games, I want to play football games. Everyone here wants this but y'all couldn't give a crap. Shame Edit: This game is so bad I decided to go do my college coursework.Mirrored Visors
I’d like to recommend adding mirrored visors as equipment options in College Football 26/Madden. In real football, players wear a variety of mirrored styles (silver, gold, rainbow, etc.), and it would make customization way more authentic. The game already has clear/tinted options, so expanding to multiple mirrored visors would give players more freedom to match their team’s look, stand out in Road to Glory/Franchise, and keep the gear up to date with what athletes are using today.Gameplay issues
I have a RTG as a qb for notre dame and jeremiyah love has 13 attempts for 4 yards averaging 0.3 yards snd this is a GOOD game for him in this RTG but yet i can clearly see open gaps for big yardage but for whatever reason instead of cutting up field like anyone who has ever played football would he bounces outside into the waiting arms of either the edge or DB on a blitz. The running logic is absolutely terrible for an triple A and exclusive rights games what do you do with your costumers money if it isn’t improving the gameplay? These games you come out with every year is a huge slap in the face to all football fans. My least year of football played was in 8th grade but i guess i have better vision of gaps and understanding of gap assignments than a 5 star nfl draft prospect… sounds about right. So lets lean on the inexperienced true freshman to put up unrealistic numbers joe burrows first year as a starter only had 16 tds and almost 3k yards but we’re expected to out up pat mahomes mvp numbers like 50 tds and 5000 yards in order to even sniff being in the playoffs The problem goes the same for madden what a disrespectful was to promote the game of football and john maddens legacy evey year. I dont understand how madden and cfb can miss the main aspects of football and expect these games to be amazing (blocking assignments, ballcarrier AI, gap assignments and discipline and finally my pass catchers / playmakers to actually jump for a ball not a little bunny hop, go back and watch randy moss and calvin Johnson and them look at modern football video games its a complete joke but lets let the LB’s be able to jump 43’in in the air like prime randy. I also like realistic play, when in the nfl other than less than desirable franchises has ever relied fully on a rookie qb to make EVERY SINGLE PLAY like I understand being a “super star” but lamar has Derrick henry does he not alost average 100 yards and game and multiple first downs? But when I play superstar breece hall apparently doesn’t know what 23 dive is because hes bouncing it outside even know the path to the end-zone is legit wide open all he has to do is hit the right hole and go (not juke or spin for a random reason either ) but nah im required as a rookie to put up 350 a game on the jets. Make it make sense Final point why make a football game if the basic fundamentals of football are not shown, all of the basic knowledge for pass coverage, run fits and gap assignments, on offense run and pass blocking logic, run game logic how about we stop focusing on celebrations, tattoos excess equipment and especially the stupid jump ball and superstar mini games until you actually get the fundamentals right even if that means no yearly releases take a year or two and make a actual good game and make on time roster adjustments like after big trades or big commitments for the previous game untill the next one is good to go and continue that cycle fans wouldn’t want a brand new game evey year if the game is actually good and you make good updates to it, loyal fans wouldn’t stay patient knowing the next game will be 10x better with 10x times the upgrades and new cosmetics, better life like stadiums, runouts etc. bottom line we fans want a good football game if you cant provide s good football game quit making fans suffer and release the exclusive nfl tag and let other more capable companies make an amazing game for deserving fans.Road To Glory... or bench
Started Road to Glory, got the 2nd string qb at Michigan, now even with my coaches happiness full, good grades and getting gold medal in practice every week I have have yet to take a single snap in 3 seasons.. I bought this game to play football, not worry about someone being happy or grades, or only being able to practice, ruins the game. With superstar in Madden 26 even when you don't start your coach will put you in every few games at least... fix the game EAPresentation is sorely lacking.
Presentation needs A-L-O-T of work. I will focus in on Oklahoma as that is my preferred school but it needs work across the board.. First, OU TD celebrations at night need to include the lights going on and off like they do at LSU Alabama Ole Miss and others. This can be updated in the next update. If you can put tortillas in the crowd for Texas Tech, you can have cheerleaders, or at the very minimum, Boomer (the mascot) making an O and a U with his/their arms for OU. And what happened to the "OOOOOOOOO-U" chant during kickoffs? It was there at launch but not anymore. If NMSU, BC, KSU, Notre Dame, and other schools can get a pregame band formation at midfield, then why cant OU get the same as their band also does a midfield school logo formation. (See attachment 123918) You updated field graphics so why do you have OU using the same endzone art for conference and non-con games when IRL the endzone art is different (see attachment 124601 and 124543 red bg white letters-conf, red letters no bg-noncon). Why cant we choose which games to stripe our stadium for? And where are the "Boomer" and "Sooner" crowd chants? And before you try the "authentic experience" argument, it is moot because I have never seen OU horizontally stripe the stadium, but you made sure to add it in the game. .Now to pan out to the rest of the game. Why cant we delete coach profiles from the trophy room when they are no longer active? I have 6 coaches who were created simply for testing purposes and now they are all just there permanently and they are eyesores. Are Mr Brightside, Welcome to the Jungle, Sandstorm and Enter Sandman the only songs you have rights to? If so, why? This game is a multi-billion-dollar game. I think you can get the rights to a few more songs. Oh, and why aren't those songs available on the tracklist at the main menu? Why do you only have 16 school fight songs available? Why not make all the songs available? Or at least the big ones like the four i just listed. The songs you currently have are some of the most unpopular and rarely-used school songs in the game. Come on EA, you can do better than this. And you don't need to wait until next year's game. You have already showed that you can update Mascots, field art, chants and music, so there is nothing discussed here you cant fix in the next title update. This is an across-the-board area that is being neglected so bad its almost criminal.Mike LB RTG issues
I’ve had a blast playing MLB in RTG. Freshman year at Alabama worked my way up to MLB1, and it was so much fun. Sophomore year, new coach, and I’m assuming because it brought his playbook, but about 80% of the game I will be placed on the defensive line. I will change defensive scheme before each game to try and combat this, but it just reverts back to nickel almost every single time. It’s not fun and almost unplayable. I wouldn’t mind it doing every once in a while but I’m just stuck on the line and it’s killing my stats and my enjoyment. Any ideas?
