Kicking (Classic Madden Meter)

What makes the kicking "seem" beyond horrible (it's horrible adjacent atm) is that the kick off meter requires holding down the button to gain distance. If you don't hold it down, your kick won't reach the landing zone. 

Field Goals and PATs require EXACTLY opposite mechanics, therein lies the problem -- at least for PATs (I haven't tried field goals longer than about 30 yards which came up in one of the challenge series) -- if you hold down the button on PAT, the ball goes wide and you miss the kick.

But, if you tap + tap (barely even let the meter fill, release almost immediately, the tap the button a second time) you will make every PAT.

It took a LOT of trial and error and found it out just by dumb luck. Until they added PATs to the weekly's on Wednesday, I was going for two points after every touchdown.

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