Can’t Select scouting focus players

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@EA_Blueberry wrote:

For those that are impacted by this we'll need some info to pass along to the team. If you can reply back with these details it's greatly appreciated.

• Gamertag/PSN ID/Origin ID
• Franchise type: Offline/Cloud/Both
• Franchise name if CFM
• Please describe the positions you tried to scout and what exactly happened

We'll get this pushed up to the team to be looked at, thank you!

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Thank you for confirming, @TheNavoc 

Would you be able to respond back with these details for us to pass along to the team?

Sure, although I doubt there is much insight to be gained from this...

• My Origin ID is the one I am posting with
• Franchise Type: Offline
• Positions I tried/what happened: Tried scouting 3 players with different positions several times as well as only players with the same position. The outcome has always been that after advancing to the next week, out of the three players I chose the one who is projected to be drafted first has an additional 30% to scouting progress while the other two are at the same percentage value as before. The order in which I pick them does not appear to matter - if I select players #5,#6 and #3 in that order, only #3 will gain 30%.

That being said, I'm having a hard time imagining that any of this is that hard to reproduce. For example, there's a Madden youtuber by the name of Bengal  - who also made a video about the scouting update which was actually sponsored by EA - and he's frequently uploading franchise rebuild videos. He appears to have the very same issue in every single one he did after the scouting update came out: One player gets updated, the others don't.

Product: Madden NFL 22
Platform:Microsoft XBOX One
Which console generation do you have? Microsoft Xbox One
What is your gamertag/PSN ID? M1nTy Fr3sH 616
Date/time issue occurred 12/11/2021
What type of issue do you have? Gameplay
Which mode has this happened in? Franchise Mode
Which part of the mode? Offline
What is your Franchise League Name? Offline
Summarize your bug For scouting at Week 11, you are asked to select 3 focus players to uncover more information about them. Every time I select my players, it only ends up uncovering more information about 1 of the players I selected for my focus players. The other 2 players end up still having the same percentage scouted as the previous week. The same thing happens for my player visits in the offseason.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Franchise mode, Week 11, select focus players. Also, in offseason with player visits.
What happens when the bug occurs? For scouting at Week 11, you are asked to select 3 focus players to uncover more information about them. Every time I select my players, it only ends up uncovering more information about 1 of the players I selected for my focus players. The other 2 players end up still having the same percentage scouted as the previous week. The same thing happens for my player visits in the offseason.
What do you expect to see? More information uncovered about 3 players, not just 1
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No additional information. Everything is explained above. Selecting 3 players for Super Focus (week 11) and private workouts (FA stage 3) only unveils more information about 1 of the players you select, not all 3. 

Hey guys,

So we are in week 11 of our online franchise and I wanted to select my focus players. However, when I clicked on it and tried to have a closer look to my prospects list, I wasn't able to select my focus players anymore. Really?  I should have known better as the same happened when I tried to send my national coach to a specific region.

Maybe you could address this issue in one of your updates. At least I was able to inform my franchise mates not to make the same mistake. 

Any ideas how still to select my focus players?

Thanks

This has happened to me in multiple years.

Gamertag: Chewbasquatch

League Type: Online

Positions Broken: I’ve had the options disappear before scouting. So no positions there. I’ve also selected positions then only had a couple advance results: WR, RE, LE, ROLB, MLB, SS

So this has been going on since October, and it still hasn't been fixed?!  The heck are you guys working on over there??  If it actually ever does get fixed, will my friends and I be forced to start ANOTHER new league for the fix to take place?

Oh awesome, a new update today that still didn't address the issue.  That's pretty awesome.  Maybe some day it'll get a fix... or not

I understand that as community manager part of your duty is to promote positivity and give the appearance that the game is less buggy and poorly assembled than it actually is. But, I do not understand how you compliment this persons post and thank them for a “work around” when all their post did is dismiss a very serious problem with the scouting feature as “not that bad,” deflect using a variation of whataboutism, and provide a work around that will not work for the a weave user because most of us play connected franchise (which does not allow you to make additional save points) because Madden has always heavily encouraged and incentivized the use of connected franchise over offline franchise. 

this bug has ruined 2 franchise seasons for me… literally drained all the fun out of the scouting! And all EA had to do to fix it is remove the action from being a pop up that automatically disappears and give it a home in the player scouting menu. Then you can link the disappearing pop up to that menu (like it does when players return from injury and it links to the depth chart) the pop up may disappear, but the depth chart remains. 

but we should instead delete our franchises, start from scratch with an offline franchise and make multiple save files each week before advancing or immediately after so that we can over complicate what should be a simple process. Yeah, when you think it through it isn’t much of a work around is it?