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JamesTron4861
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7 months ago

FIX DYNAMIC LIGHTING!!

I can't believe this is broken again. It works sometimes or shadows are completely static throughout the entire game. Why is this so hard to get right? It's somewhat passable in College Football 25. This is a detail that was in the game 20+ years ago. It completely ruins the immersion factor when the stadium lighting stays static throughout the game, or only changes ONCE.

In fact, if this was working (even just as crudely as CFB 25) I'd be willing to overlook some of the other glaring issues in the game. PLEASE FIX THIS AND DON'T WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR AND ADVERTISE IT AS A NEW FEATURE WHEN IT HAS PREVIOUSLY EXISTED  20 YEARS AGO!!!! 

 

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  • Agree. They have the same crews working on Madden 26 that they do on CF26 and CF does it wonderfully and Madden still can’t get it straight. It works sometimes and half the time the lighting is static. No idea why this is so difficult to fix considering it even worked on Madden 25 PS4 version! 

  • What do you mean fix? THIS IS HOW THEY MEANT TO RELEASE IT. They needed a way to make the college game have something marketable, since it doesn't have the same broadcast features, so they kept dynamic lighting out of Madden. 

  • Can’t say I disagree with you. Next year they’ll add dynamic lighting and take away the broadcast packages and then reintroduce them in Madden 28 as new features. Can’t tell you how many people argue the game “has dynamic lighting in it already” yeah it has it—in a broken state that only works properly maybe 20% of the time if you’re lucky. 

  • Right and the reason it’s in CF26 is that people complained so much about it missing in CF25 that they knew not getting it straight for 26 would mean sales would be affected so then of course they did something about it.  The fact you can’t get that kind of immersive feature straight in a PS5 game at this point is beyond unacceptable. Like EliteTeamKiller said in his previous post, they do this crap on purpose. 

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