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drondw12's avatar
drondw12
New Scout
1 month ago

Dumb AI teammates

The AI teammates have to be dumber this year than in previous years. WRs don’t even know where the ball is half the time. They could be wide open and they’ll intentionally jump out of the way or the ball or simply just not even try to catch it. Mind you, I have the WR catching slider set to 100 since EA refuses to address the excessive hit stick animations. If WRs just aren’t going to catch the ball, RTG as a QB is pretty much pointless. The AI controlled team has more awareness of what my offense is doing than my own offense does. 

Attached are three different screenshots displaying the football hitting the WRs somewhere in the body (usually right in the facemask) and seemingly being unable to track the football. 

3 Replies

  • LSJ1800's avatar
    LSJ1800
    Seasoned Rookie
    1 month ago

    The AI team runs my own WRs routes, catches the ball better than they do (when it's contested, they virtually never drop the ball, but my WRs do all the time), and run in the way of my WRs so they can't run their routes properly, resulting in incompletions or INTs. Another issue is WRs not trying to catch the ball, not running their routes properly, running the wrong routes (I've chosen a play from the playcall screen only to get on the field and find out it's a completely different play), running the wrong direction off screen passes, and more. These issues were rarely present from NCAA 14 and earlier games; yet they've been a problem for three years. 

  • Both your comments have merit and I agree with both of them as this has been my experience as well.

  • nickflames34509's avatar
    nickflames34509
    Newcomer
    16 hours ago

    Im playing Miami and I threw a Curl with perfect timing my WR turned around jumped for the ball and it actually changed directions and zig zagged into the CBs hands for a pick. Another throw I threw an out route perfectly timed my WR is in front of the guy sure hes a little shorter but my WR doesnt jump while the CB skys over him catches it with his balls on my WRs head and he falls over jumping side ways trying to catch the ball. Like its impossible to throw a timing route in this game because the CPU will pick it if they want or cheat to make sure its picked its ridiculous. So mnay times the game breaks the laws of physics to make sure you get an underserving bad result, I wish both the WR and CB would jump up for it and my WR would get there and have to catch it in traffic these WRs I have are like 90 overall and they player like they have -99 awareness.