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Msufan143935
Seasoned Newcomer
2 days ago

Excessive Injury Timeouts

Last night, I sat back and watched the CPU literally rob a game from me in broad daylight. I'm  playing dynasty on heisman mode under your standard settings, and I had a 20 point lead going into the fourth quarter. During crunch time trying to burn clock, the CPU stops the clock on every single play for 9-10 plays straight for an "injury timeout" while preserving all 3 of its timeouts and a 2 minute warning still factored into the quarter. After a fumble, interception, and a one play strike, I lose this game 42-41. This would not have been the outcome if I was able to drain the clock like a normal realistic football game would have gone. Are there any sliders I can use to remove this nuisance from the gaming experience? I enjoy the game but the frequency of these injury timeouts are not realistic and just flat out annoying tbh.  

5 Replies

  • GVRH's avatar
    GVRH
    New Veteran
    2 days ago

    Sounds more or less just like a normal Heisman / All-Madden issue; aka the scheduled loss. Instead of making the hardest difficulty more challenging, they just make it cheat, hence 10 straight convenient injury timeouts. If it wasn't that I'm certain a defensive lineman would have picked you off and ran it back for a pick 6 as you go to kneel. Never fails really. Been an issue for years with no good work around apart from turning accelerated clock on to 20 or lower and turning chew clock on while on offense. 

  • KaziAlii's avatar
    KaziAlii
    Seasoned Traveler
    18 hours ago

    I get the same thing when up against a team and trying to run out the clock. You could see it also as fatigue towards the end of the game, but it doesn't always happen. 

  • This is definitely a problem and needs to be patched.  In real life college football the clock will stop for an injury but it is immediately restarted once the injured player is off the field.  This is done to prevent what is actually happening in this game which is giving the team a free timeout.

  • You can turn injuries completely off or at least lower the wear and tear and see if that stops the problem. I have injuries off because of this issue and have not had a problem. Sucks we have to do that, but it's the only way I have found as a work around.

  • This is literally my #1 complaint about the game. Forget all the guys bitching about “I want tattoos or single leg sleeve”.  It’s this…code the clock rules correctly.  If they’re out of timeouts and get an injury, it’s a 0:30 run off.  If you need this to make the level harder and game closer then do it another way. This is maddening.

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