My problems with Madden 19
When i heard that Madden 19 would make it to pc this year, i got very excited that finally another Madden game would come to the pc. Haven't been playing that many years, but this got my excited. Didn't out right buy the game, would rather try it first with the new Origin Premium Access, and i must say now, I'm happy i did that. Sitting here now, nearly 2 months after i first got to try it, I'm sitting with a feeling of disappointment. First of all, it looks fine at start, and many of the features are also good, i there is many i like, but at the same time, there are also some big problems, that just makes me not wanna play. Some of the stuff is good, like custom draft class and Specialists depth charge, and i really like it, but other stuff puts me off. The switch over to player type, ei receivers as deep threat, slot, red zone target and possession, does makes sense, and with the scheme fits also being a part, i do see where it goes from here, sadly i also see a problem here, with players being punished for trying to use players who might will not have the same skill set, but rather complement each other skills, making a more complete threat, and allow you as a player field more then one type of player. The main reason for me getting Madden 19, other then it coming to pc, was that I'm a Giants fun, and with us getting Barkley in the draft, i got even more excited to try it out. Following the scheme fit, Barkley misses out here, being elusive rather then power, and wanting to shore up my receivers, i went out getting Dez Bryant, to play along with OBJ and Shepard so the could complement each other skills, but sadly you get punished on the scheme fit here. This and other small problems in menus i could live with, but sadly there are more bugs and errors, that i don't even know will be address, as well as what seems to be problems carried over from previous Madden games, that still haven't been fixed.
My main problem while playing, happens in the game, and has to do with lags. In game it will lag in both picture and sound, which is annoying, and the amount of lag can at time be rather big. This of course brings me troubles while playing, as run cut, timing on throws and tackle shreds gets mistimed, and i ended up with a play that could have gone for 10+ yards, going for 2 instead. This would be ok, if it happened some of the time, but with it happening nearly every time i need to do a cut as a runner or similar, this make it unplayable for me, as it gets hard to move the ball, or stop the other team from doing it. One thing that was a problem in the start, but has been some what fixed, is the injury of players, where in the start, your player just got injured, but you didn't get told at all, just that someone was injured, now you do get told, but random big injuries does still seem to happen at a often pace, even with the injury slider turned down to 20.
One of the problems that have been carried over as i see, it is the catching and the covering. At time the cpu can nearly not cover any of your guys, and you start of with a hot start, then all of a sudden the cpu is all over your players, and you cant seem to get a single catch. Have had this happening in both blow out games, where you put up 4 touchdown in the first half, all passing, beating the cornerbacks on both deep and crossing route, and to start the third quarter you keep on doing this. Then all of a sudden, everything is covered, and you cant throw it to any, as the cornerbacks are nearly glued to your receivers, and you aren't able to run it either, as your o-line is getting beaten by a 2 man rush. Have tried nearly the same, that i fine though 2 or 3 quarters could pass the ball fine, just couldn't get in the end-zone, but suddenly getting in the end-zone wasn't the problem, the problem was finding an open guy. Last on the catching part, and it is something that has cost my games a few time over, is the catching near the side line. NFL rules state that you need both feet down inbound, to catch a ball before going out of bounds, sadly i have tried many times, that either my or the cpu receivers catches the ball, getting one feet down, then going out of bounds, or catching the ball with one feet out of bounds and the other inbounds, making it according to NFL rules an incomplete catch.
About the lagging in game, i have tried everything posted on these forums, and even tried getting it on another computer, but on both i still got lag. Also tried after i was able to get it from Origin Premium Access to install and play Fifa 19 on both computers, and it should have near the same requirements as Madden 19. While Madden 19 would still lag for me, Fifa 19 ran smooth and without any problems, and i never saw any problems while playing it.
I hope that someday the lag gets fixed in Madden, but i sadly don't have a lot of faith that it gets fix, as we have before seen bugs and other problems not being fixed, even though they would be game breaking.
