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4 years ago

Controller freeze during play selection

Product: Madden NFL 21
Platform:Xbox Series X
Which console generation do you have? Microsoft Xbox Series X
What is your gamertag/PSN ID? bmac1575
Date/time issue occurred April 17
What type of issue do you have? Crash/Freeze
Which mode has this happened in? Online head to head
Summarize your bug On both XBOX 1 X and Xbox Series X, my controller will suddenly stop controlling anything on screen. I am able to get the Xbox side load to show up and navigate that. This usually happens right after a play, it has happened whether on offense or defense. There is no response at all. Unable to scroll plays, call timeout, substitute, etc. sometimes it goes back to working normally after the delay of game penalty. It happens whether I’m using a wireless controller or have it hardwired. Only use Microsoft controllers and cables, has happened with the Xbox one x controllers and the new series x controller. Only happens in madden and during ranked H2H games. Also, in both cases the Xbox was direct plugged into the modem using cat 8 cables. No other network devices that could interfere. Controllers are using latest firmware and in the case of the Xbox series x controllers they are all 3 less than 3 weeks use. One that was included with the system, bought second controller a week ago and third controller this week. Any ideas on how to fix and what’s causing it?
How often does the bug occur? Occasionally (10% - 49%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Not sure since it happens randomly
What happens when the bug occurs? One or both players unable to select play causing delay of game penalty. Occasionally it will only happen once but the last time it happened, I got the delay. Was able to select a play and then the error happened again. Only this time it never corrected and caused me to be kicked out of the game for grieving. I was up 18-7 at that time.
What do you expect to see? I would hope that issues like these would have been fixed during the beta tests
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On both XBOX 1 X and Xbox Series X, my controller will suddenly stop controlling anything on screen. I am able to get the Xbox side load to show up and navigate that. This usually happens right after a play, it has happened whether on offense or defense. There is no response at all. Unable to scroll plays, call timeout, substitute, etc. sometimes it goes back to working normally after the delay of game penalty. It happens whether I’m using a wireless controller or have it hardwired. Only use Microsoft controllers and cables, has happened with the Xbox one x controllers and the new series x controller. Only happens in madden and during ranked H2H games. Also, in both cases the Xbox was direct plugged into the modem using cat 8 cables. No other network devices that could interfere. Controllers are using latest firmware and in the case of the Xbox series x controllers they are all 3 less than 3 weeks use. One that was included with the system, bought second controller a week ago and third controller this week.

3 Replies

  • @bmac1575This started happening to me too just this past week. Never experienced this before that but now it’s quite frequent happens at least once per game. I’m on xb1

  • Neo_Novalis's avatar
    Neo_Novalis
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    4 years ago

    not sure whether my suggestion is helpful but if the issue started to be there only recently, maybe the issue is related to the cache? the game saves some (user-specific) information in the cache to speed up loading processes. so, maybe something corrupted is stored there that causes the issue for you? did you @HaisamXXX already try to clean the cache? how to do it: Clear cache to fix problems with your games 

    hope that helps, but I have to admit that it is just a shot in the dark. good luck!

  • EA_Blueberry's avatar
    EA_Blueberry
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    4 years ago

    We have a similar thread here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/CFM-User-game-freezes-on-playcall-screen/m-p/9773579#U9773579

    Please add your details to that thread so we can continue to gather reports for the team. So far we've had some trouble finding a concrete workaround for this. Thank you for coming to the forums to let us know and if you stumble across any findings you think could help the Madden QA team please share! I know it must be tough to play when this happens, if any news comes up we'll share it with you here ASAP.