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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@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.
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
- @imoveryourhead I guess I just don't agree that it would be that difficult to program. I am a programmer and have dabbled in Unreal Engine (not what they use, but the point is I know how games are developed in theory).
They already have mechanics to do things like PRESS/player contact and man coverage for example. It would not be that difficult to program an APEX defender (Such as a Nickel) to force a player into/out of the seam based on the rule of a coverage, and read the release to determine who they should cover in MAN; especially given that at the snap of the ball; the route distribution is already a known variable. Don't let them off the hook bro.
Match Coverage isn't so complicated that in today's technology can't handle implementation.
Heck, match doesn't even carry seam routes which is fundamental when it comes to match. Let alone keep leverage vs shallow and deep crossers.
Just feels lazy to be honest. Any half educated football observer knows how it should be run, these guys get paid to know and implement it. Yet year after year we get what we got now...a terribly flawed product.
When's the last time defensive playbooks got a TRUE overhaul? Besides just taking a bunch of plays out?
I completely disagree. And it's absolutely possible to implement the nuances of pattern matching PROPERLY in this game.
Devs would have to do the research and work to make sure it works correctly and yes...give us the MANY variations stayed above. And it's on the players to learn how and when to use them...by learning the game of football.
It's 2024, the technology is there to make it work. Don't give the devs and excuse.
At this point match coverage is so scaled back and broken. The only explanation is laziness right now.
There are COUNTLESS YouTube videos of lengthy seminars on match coverage. I've already submitted many.
The info is out there. Just needs to be implemented correctly is all.
