Re: OLine Blocking

I was having the same issue, no matter what I did, sliding protections, ID the Mike, leaving RB or tight end in to block, didn't matter, I was getting demolished. 

So, I set my pass blocking slider to 100. One would think that maxing out the slider would give you an impenetrable pocket of unrealistic proportion... 

It... did not. The CPU d-line still blows by my guys as they just stand there making no effort to even touch them.

The AI is broken. The sliders are broken. Things don't work even close to how they should. All things that are blatantly obvious and should have been fixed at some point during their FOUR YEAR development of this game.

Did I mention this took them FOUR YEARS...? 

@CanadeionFunny thing is, out of frustration I was messing sliders this morning, and when I set my pass block to 0 they turned into the great wall of China! lmao same thing with fumbles (aka ball carrier). At 100 my QB fumbles every time he got touched. Catching looks like it might be backwards as well, a long with other weird things.

Going to do some more testing and research.

I say we all take bets on whether EA will fix anything worthwhile with their next update. My money is on “nope.”

Can’t we talk about screen plays? Literally impossible from under center bc the O Line doesn’t touch the pass rushers at all prior to the O Line moving to block for the screen. 

It’s as if the Devs don’t know how American Football works. It’s almost as if they didn’t produce NCAA Football from 1992-2014. 

@Thunda3986perhaps it’s my experience in the military, as far as bringing in “subject matter experts” to teach or to tackle specific aspects of my job. One would assume that after an 11 year hiatus that EA would spare no expense and bring in the NCAA Football A team Devs from years gone by in order to make a good showing with 2025.

I don’t play Madden, but in 2025 most of the god awful aspects of clock management(not allowing us to enter hot route or flip play command when formations shift), how poorly the triple option works, how pulling line men are so bad in 2025 that all counter and plays with pulling linemen are broken, I swear they must have used a lot of former and/or current Madden Devs for NCAA 2025.

All of the mechanics in NCAA 2025 feel so foreign to anything I’ve experienced playing EA’s NCAA football series every year since 1992-2014. Yes since 1992. 2025 is the worst iteration of the franchise. 

Let’s also point out how Custom Playbooks could be used in Dynasty and in Online play up until 2014. Not so in 2025. It’s as if the Devs don’t know their own franchise. 

Let’s also point all of the artificial ways in 2025 how  we are locked out of input when calling audibles, resulting in delay of game after delay of game. In 2025 we can’t enter hot routes until all players are set at the line of scrimmage. In previous years we could enter hot routes as the play was flipping  or when we were running upfield during the hurry up after we called a new play. I’m going absolutely insane in 2025 pushing buttons to change my play or to enter hot routes and I’m not allowed to do this because??? 

And the god damned Turbo mode locking me into a play when I didn’t want to enter Turbo mode and inadvertently hit a wrong button.  

The frustrations are insurmountable at this point and I’m done with 2025 until this mess is sorted.