CPU RB Ballcarrier Logic Issues
Hello all, I have noticed that the CPU RB's are having some issues with their pathfinding leading to them not being efficient runners. For reference, I am on Heisman sliders with the CPU Run Blocking...
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Still in the early stages of testing things, but there's a theory that the Offsides slider is impacting player perception. With the penalty set to a value of 0 in one test game, Jam Miller ran the ball 20 times for 83 yards and didn't try to bounce one single run outside the entire game. In all prior games vs Bama with a 50 or higher offsides slider, Miller would practically try to bounce nearly every run outside like the Love images above.
1 game isn't enough to say anything definitively, but should this feedback be reaching the dev team, it's something to potentially note. Will be getting more test games in to see if there is something actually going on here or not.
You did a real service for the community by taking note of all of this and sharing it. Unfortunately, EA Sports doesn't care about football IQ nor actually making a true football action simulation game. They want to produce a game that will attract casual gamers to buy their product. Even if they claimed to address this issue it would be a long process of fixing it with a patch then breaking it with the next patch or a 3 year process of getting the CPU's AI to understand running lanes. They are going to stick their formula of highly rendered graphics with arcadey gameplay to try and generate a new fanbase currently between the ages of 11 and 18.
But I do thank you for your time and effort to show us and help us all see this issue for what it is.