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Borderline false advertisement to call this a football simulation game [EDIT: former thread title before merge]
Nothing effective in this game is actual football play. Its all animation filled exploitation of the braindead cpu. EA refuses to reply or comment about anything that has to do with trash gameplay because they know its fact and dont give a damn to fix it
- TTZ_Dipsy5 years agoHero+
Which parts exactly would you try to change though? All their sports titles needs to have more arcadey elements to keep things entertaining for the community
- 5 years ago@TTZ_Dipsy Isn't that exactly why there are different game modes?
Before I continue, I'm not the same person as the original poster, nor do I wish to put words in his mouth. But I feel like sometimes people don't seem to understand that this game, this video game, is based on a game in real life. That's why when we talk about it being a simulation it's important to have authenticity that makes it relatable to real life. It's not like other video games where you don't have expectations of how it's supposed to work.
Look, I just played a ton of Campus Heroes last night. It was a different game mode, and it played that way. But there are still fundamental ways all current modes lack in providing a authentic gaming experience. It's really frustrating to have some dude call horrible HORRIBLE plays, run around like an idiot, and then be rewarded with a touch down because the defensive AI is completely static and doesn't do the most basic actions to prevent the very thing that makes people win and lose in this game. For example, I run the ball in a 3 TE set, someone with 6 or 7 defensive backs should NEVER be able to stop my running game by shooting the A gap the entire game. It's just not even in the realm of possibility, yet that's exactly what happens in Regs, MUT, and Campus Heroes because the game at a fundamental level is broken, poorly designed, and stupidly catering to idiots.
You look at something like the MCS, and we have 8 people that all run Gun Bunch and use 335 wide on defense. All of them! And it's got nothing to do with football. It doesn't makes any sense from a football perspective. It's just nonsense. It's actually disturbingly disrespectful to the game of football. Yet here we are celebrating this style of play at the expense of a game that some people are really passionate about.
So what could we change? How about punishing everything that's not actual football? How about making game mechanics that don't celebrate the antitheses of what football is? How about starting with the most obvious and most egregious sins of this game:
1) Make contains actually contain the QB.
2) Make Deep Half Zones actually do SOMETHING, ANYTHING, other than watch WR's run by them for TD's.
3) Have an actual pass rush instead of allowing people to sit back in the pocket waiting on EVERY PLAY for a deep crossing route to break open.
4) Stop allowing people take out all their linebackers and augment their run defense by shooting the A gap.
5) Add defense AI resistance to zone and man coverage so that if you run the same exact play over and over again you are punished for that.
I could really go on and on here, but that's just 5 of the first few things that come to mind. And dude, I've only been asking for this for like 25 years, so I'm sure I'm kind of a broken record by now. But if you could or anyone else could please forward this on to the development team, that would be great.- Neo_Novalis5 years agoHero+@Mutgrel fully agree.
- 4 years ago
this is so true plus give players stats but they not real on h2h thats why dt chase down high speed rb or my favorite is backwards dive for int when running opposite way and can jump 20 ft in air for int its a mess
- EA_Blueberry4 years ago
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Please show me where a DT is chasing down a high speed RB.- FawnkyDonkeys4 years agoNew Adventurer
Personal Assessment - The devs lied to us about franchise. The podcast, the blogs, the updates. All of it filled with lies.
- CPU hiring user coordinators was promised to be in at launch - still not in.
- Playbooks blog and update promised for August - still never delivered.
- 2 of the 3 updates to franchise - still nowhere to be found.
- "Live Service" slogan - never happened
- Another skill tree - never released
- Bugs we reported in the beta last June - many never fixed
We were promised that franchise would evolve over time and it hasn't. We got one update in Oct to scouting and none of the bugs introduced with it have been fixed. We were promised so much and none of it happened. It sucks. The devs blatantly lied to us and they keep stringing us along saying more updates are coming... it's March. The season ended a month ago. We are closer to the release of the next game than we are to when the last Franchise update released. It's a joke.
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