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Jdlive07
Rising Novice
3 years ago

Catching

Madden needs a catching overhaul.

The catching animations (not all of course), are a bit dated. When you watch an NFL game, most times receivers would tend to use their body or other body parts to assist in securing the catch. Right now in madden, everyone is making perfect catches with their hands. This often looks out of place, and the animations do not look natural most of the time. A WR running a dig route should not have both palms up and in front of him trying to make that catch, unless there's crazy glue on his gloves.

A TE running a seam route, should be turning around to catch a bullet pass to the back; not nonchalantly sticking his hands up and receiving the ball as if it were a lob pass.

Also, we've had the same catch animation on kickoffs/punts for years now. Those need to be more dynamic. Maybe make catching kickoffs/punts a meta game for more dynamic outcomes.

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3 Replies

  • EA_Kent's avatar
    EA_Kent
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago

    Hi @Jdlive07, 

    I moved your thread over to the Game Suggestions board we just set up. 

    If anyone has any ideas on changes to catching this is the place to share your thoughts. 

  • Neo_Novalis's avatar
    Neo_Novalis
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    3 years ago
    @Jdlive07 very good points! From my perspective, successful catching should also depend on the difficulty regarding the angle the ball is thrown to the receiver. For instance, a WR should be much more successful when the ball was accurately thrown directly into his arms from the front (e.g. when running a curl route) and with low speed/passing power compared to a bullet pass into his back on streak/fade etc. routes where the receiver must turn his upper body to catch the ball while continuing to run straight ahead. I'd say to simulate that it might be important to adjust the catching animations too.
  • Jdlive07's avatar
    Jdlive07
    Rising Novice
    3 years ago

    @Neo_Novalis Agreed! That's a good idea

    This could also be leveraged by the player/catcher rating system. For example, Davante Adams should have more success catching bullet passes to his back shoulder than a middle of the pack receiver. 

    But even on these difficult throws, there should be a YAC penalty. What I mean is that the receiver should often (not always; depending on ratings), stumble to the ground/out of bounds after making such difficult catches.

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