Bug Report - Match Coverage
Product: Madden NFL 24 Platform:PC Which console generation do you have? Microsoft Xbox Series X What is your gamertag/PSN ID? Date/time issue occurred Always What type of issue do you have? Gam...
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Still nothing. Can someone from EA please call me? I seriously want to help you guys fix defense. This madden is one of the worst it's ever been to play defense.
I’m sure this is not the fix you are looking for, as match coverages should work on default settings, but if you go into defensive coaching adjustments and scroll all the way to the bottom you will see zone coverage-default. If you change this setting, the other option is “match”. If you set this adjustment to match instead of default, match coverages work as intended. I’m not sure what effect this has on non match coverages, but it will make the match coverages operate correctly. Hope this helps
- @imoveryourhead Thank you, but I am well aware of the match coverages already available in the game (Quarters, Palms, Cover 6, Cover 9, their variations, and Cover 3 seam). The problem is that these coverages are all broken under certain circumstances, the apex players do not play their leverage correctly, they are horrible vs. bunch because of the lack of an effective BOX or BINGO check, and frankly, there are many more variations of match coverage that aren't included, but should be (outlined in my post).
Beyond that, defenders don't even play gaps in the run fit; they just run around like morons and as a user defender it's almost impossible to know what the AI players around you are going to do when in real life, everyone has an assigned responsibility to SPILL, BOX, 2-gap, play a heavy 5 technique, etc.I guess I misunderstood your complaint with match coverage. Honestly, no coverage in the game plays correctly according to their alignment and pre snap rules as it is. As cool as it would be to have some of the highly nuanced defenses of the NFL in the game, I don’t think the AI can handle making them operate properly if they cant get the vanilla defenses to work as it is. Plus most madden players would not understand the advanced concepts you are referring to. I think your best bet to getting some of these defensive concepts in the game would be on PC with the mod community, I just don’t see madden adding them into the base game any time soon when they already struggle to get the AI to play the most simple coverages correctly. Scheme wise football is an incredibly deep sport with way more nuance than sports like soccer or basketball so tuning AI logic in a football game is a uniquely difficult challenge even for developers with a deep understanding of NFL scheme
