Franchise and player likeness issues
I don’t understand how franchise can’t be updated the week after the games happen. It is still stuck on week 16 for franchises and Madden is adding playoff modes to ultimate team which I really don’t get. Also with the new update players have been wearing the wrong helmets and for instance Jaxson dart had his scar face paint earlier, and now with the new update it’s gone again for zero reason. Please fix this ea.
MADDEN 26 FEEDBACK
Haven't gotten into franchise or anything yet, but have spent yesterday and today just toying with settings, sliders, and testing overall gameplay. I'll break it down into positives, negatives, and bugs/glitches I've run into so far. For the record, my User ID is BrandOG-182; Platform is PS5. POSITIVES: OVERALL GAMEPLAY: To my surprise feels pretty good actually considering the horrible experience CFB turned out to be. Movement is fluid and feels good; able to make good cuts on offense while running the ball, and good angle adjustments on defense while pursuing. Have only needed to make minimal adjustments to sliders, even being on All-Madden. Seems to be in a pretty solid place overall on both sides of the ball. Really plays like a pretty good game of football right now. Hopefully this remains fairly balanced at launch and after updates. SETTINGS: The amount of customization within the settings is excellent! From wear & tear, to weather; sliders & penalties, the ability to adjust everything to suit your style of gameplay has never been better. Haven't touched Franchise yet, but even last year, the XP sliders ability to adjust to age and position are great! This remains a strong positive and continues to improve. ANIMATIONS: New tackle and throw animations are really really nice additions, adding to the realism and overall emersion of the game. RUN BLOCKING: Even just blocking in general feels much better this year so far than previous years, and certainly a far cry from the dumpster fire experience it was within CFB. Running feels much much better compared to last year to the point the Run Blocking slider might even have to come down a bit. Will have to go through a season of franchise and see how the numbers look though. Pass blocking doesn't feel too overpowered for CPU, nor underpowered for the Player on 50 each, so that's pretty huge I feel. PLEASE, DO NOT screw this up with a future update! STUNTS: Were a great addition to CFB and are a great addition to Madden as well. RESTART GAME OPTION: A pretty nice touch as a Play Now option instead of just having the normal Quit option. Hopefully will see this in Franchise too. NEGATIVES: RATINGS: These are a matter of debate and discourse every year, but going through each team again this year, they still just feel out of touch with reality and leave me asking why a lot. I would really like to see more guys in the low to mid 70's, and far less in the 60's than I'm seeing. Some guys just really need some more respect on their name. Like, why is Matthew Stafford, a Super Bowl winner, still not at least a Superstar and yet Baker Mayfield (who I love as a QB so no hate toward him), is? Jared Goff with numbers he's put up is another. So many people either over or underrated. Make it make sense! These ratings affect how schemes work and play within game too, and too often I see them adjusted to make a guy fit a scheme while not emphasizing their individual skills within that position. This is especially relevant with linebackers, in which some can both rush the passer and play coverage really well at times. Good example of how it affects gameplay and scheme; Travis Hunter. Good at DB and WR. I'm afraid to even see the schemes in Franchise they were so jacked up last year. Idk who evaluates these each year, but DO BETTER PLEASE!!! KNOCKOUTS & 50/50 BALLS: My real problem with this is not just consistency, but how it pertains to overalls. This problem is exclusive to All-Madden to my knowledge because that's all I've played. Curious about other difficulties though. Whether it's knockouts or catches, they just seem to favor CPU way too consistently. I shouldn't need Superstar abilities to favor a catch or knockout when my CTH, CIT, SPC, or CVG calculates higher than the opponents player. I've had to turn CPU catching slider way down as they just do not drop the ball that often. Way too often have there been players with lower overalls coming down with, or knocking out balls against much higher overall players. This was a problem last year, and it was problem in CFB at launch with way too many 50/50 balls favoring the catch. This needs tuning. Overalls and ratings need to matter, even on All-Madden/Heisman. THAT BEHIND THE BACK KNOCKOUT ANIMATION: If you know, you know. It's in CFB as well...GET RID OF IT!!! Just terrible... QB RUNS/RUN OPTIONS: Seem very slow to launch; almost laggy. Not sure if this is just play design or buggy, but they feel as if they need a little tune up. CUSTOM UNIFORMS: The options are not great here. I liked it a few years ago when you could create multiple combinations from the whole selection of available uniforms, including the older 80s, 90s, etc versions. I hope at least the selection gets better after true launch, but we'll see. Also, the overall layout is a bit disorganized. DOWNLOADS: Specifically pertaining to older rosters/draft classes for nostalgic franchises. Been asking for this for some time now. Still no All-Time Teams either. Extremely disappointing for Franchise Mode, but I remain hopeful for possible future updates. BUGS/GLITCHES/MISLABELS SETTINGS --> GAME CONTROLS --> DEFENSE ENGAGED --> SPEED RUSH: On PS5, R2 is mislabeled here as R1 here. KICKOFF: Glitchy animation on kickoff where there appears to be a weird stutter and the kicker looks like he sort of glides across the turf instead of a fluid motion as with extra points and punts. ID MIKE: The ID Mike icon glitches out and disappears every so often. Hopefully this won't be an issue with routes as it was last year as well. So far haven't had the problem with routes in Play Now, but will have to see in Franchise. EXTRA POINT KICKS: I have the Kicking set to Multi-Meter; Tap and Tap. Every so often the extra tap doesn't register on the power gage, and the ball goes wide, even with the accuracy being good and aligned toward the middle for good accuracy on the first tap. So far this is all I've been able to discern and come up with after the first 24 hours. Going to dive into Franchise soon and leave a post in the Franchise section with what I find there. Hopefully this was helpful to those who read through it.Permanently banned MUT account. What can I do?
I was banned for "Coin distribution," which I obviously have not done. I obviously appealed close to a month ago now and have patiently waited for responses as I'm pretty sure I was banned from EAs bot as many others have been. Now, 5+ appeals later, I don't understand how that is fair when I was banned for no reason. This happened to me on Madden 21 years ago, and months after they finally unbanned the account. This account I had 70M coins and 1k hours played, and it's just all gone because of a bot. I guess as I've asked for details on the ban and they have told me they cannot go into details. Which again makes absolutely no sense to me at all. What am I supposed to do? There is nobody I can get in contact with? They wont even let me appeal anymore.Weather Settings for Individual Games
I think this idea is probably a throwback to something that used to be... But, as awesome as the new weather effects and impacts to the game are, I think allowing players to choose the Weather for each game would be an easy addition. I understand there might be some competitive modes or online Franchises where people may not want this option, so maybe it's an additional toggle when setting up a new Franchise. An option to allow players to change the Weather settings for each game or not. And honestly, I'm not sure who wouldn't be happy having more control of how they get to play each game. It can be done and still keep the weather relevant to a game's geographic location, if anyone's worried about realism. As in, games in Miami can't select heavy snow, but can turn on heavy rain if that's how they want to play that game. I often sim a large portion of Franchise season games, so when I do play, I'd love to be able to make it extra fun by deciding what weather to play in.franchise
I hope they can come out with something better next year for franchise cause if they can’t, I don’t even know if I keep my game console. i’m just tired of the horrible defensive experience I have when I play the game my players just play like idiots. standing and glitching around the field. dragging 5 yards in to blocks. corners following receivers when I’m running zone coverage. my safeties and corners acting oblivious when someone’s running through their zones, my safeties are corner, standing on the whole other side of the field in man coverage like come on manElectronic Arts HAS DIED now called Extra Asinine
First off it’s 2026 & we haven’t had audio commentary outside the lines since 2013! How are you called Electronic Arts when you’re so far behind in sports game development & artistic authenticity! It’s been the same copy & paste garbage. I literally refuse to buy the game anymore haven’t in 4 years the only reason I unfortunately know how 0.0 star it is due to my middle brother whose been loyal to buying the brand since we started playing Madden ‘99. We love sports in all its glorious form reality, virtual etc but this is ludacris even the rapper would agree! We praise the TE position & we can’t even pick it as a career position option #Gronk, J. Wit, Tony G, Kelce should all be offended by this. Other player roles as well the O. Line etc for god sake change your name to “Extra Asinine = It’s not in the game” cause it’s literally not everything you think would be put into the most & only hyped version of the #NFL video game more common sense items like audio! This is why y’all were so pressed when #2K had briefly NFL licensing cause they were killing your sales for doing what your brand name didn’t do anymore make a legit game with audio commentary & some stylish art. Y’all act like we don’t see the interviews etc on tv how the hell y’all put in after game interviews with no audio commentary. Y’all lazy & when you start dogging the AI defense in ALL MADDEN the game likes to kick you out of the servers at the end & not give you your accomplishment credits for the W, no turnovers etc. just stop making the game y’all even took out transferring your college players into Madden 26 pathetic EXTRA ASININE ITS NOT GONNA BE IN THIS YEAR OR NEXT YEARS GAME.Madden X
Instead of yearly releases, make Madden X. A game that has year round fixes and updates. Off-season moves reflect without having to buy the new game each year. In terms of revenue let users create a "My-Fan" which would be similar to the yard avatar, but instead of soley unlocking gear to wear, we can buy or earn rare throwback jerseys and sideline gear. Fans avatar spawn in there favorite teams stadium and can traverse most of it and explore and go to hubs to play online or different modes. When your friends are playing online you can spend in-game money to buy tickets and spectate, teleporting fans to their stadium, the better the seats you pay for, the more the hosting players make when ppl spectate. Making it valuable to play memorable games for you friends without having to stream or screenshare. "Helmet vision" as a locked setting for both users in matchups online.Superstar mode
I keep getting an error message when loading my superstar mode. Since the second to last update. i cleared my cache, uninstalled the game, and reinstalled but i still get the same thing. I have purchased every madden since madden 04. is there something anyone can do? Or is there something else i should do. If this doesn’t work i might just give up on madden. These games are too expensive to not have a feature fully work. can someone help??Sub-zero Epic Challenges
I was playing MUT challenges, and I spent about 2 hours on a challenge to get full stars on the Sub-Zero Epic Challenges. After the game ended, I got the animation that I received all 5 stars and to return to the home. When I returned I did not get any of the stars or rewards [CM edit - CAPS]Mut lineup madden 26
Been 4 months now i hae not been able to use my lineup update today didnt fix it I’ve uninstalled the gamr reinstalled it still getting error our severs cannot process your request right now try again later getting tired of it get it fixed i spend money and nothing works over madden 26 i want my money back if i cannot even use my players ive paid for the way i want too ive also cleared my cache multiple times nothing works
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