Madden 26 is in need of a MASSIVE UPDATE!
How can you release an unfinished game especially 7 days early? Superstar mode is a huge letdown! I need to be able to see season stats, contracts, awards/progress rankings, news articles etc… basically everything that’s been in the mode for years. If you add all that back and fix the buggy sphere of influence then the game would be decent. Y'all literally make this mode like we are gonna just play a couple of seasons and be done. I like to play my career until the end and it seems like over the years of Madden after you get through your 1st or 2nd season everything gets real glitchy. No more interactions and if there are it’s the same interactions every in game year. Now let’s talk about in game sights, sounds and pageantry. I’m a packers fan and let’s just say the sounds of Lambeau Field are very inaccurate. Where is the Go Pack Go chants with the packers theme music playing throughout the stadium? Where’s the fireworks and cell phone lights/light shows during pregame entrance? Also when you run out for the first snap all it shows is what round and pick you were drafted. I want to see updated season stats showing what kind of season you are having etc.. It would also be nice if we can get the Lambeau Leap put in the game as a celebration. I will not be buying another Madden, because y'all do the bare minimum and every year there are so many issues, but especially this year yall really dropped the ball.MAX Upgrade Tokens never recieved FROM Trophy store
I prematurely bought the upgrade tokens for season 5 Tim Tebow and Charles Woodson, and it gave me the regular tokens which can’t be used to take our captains from 94 overall to 95 overall. EA put the wrong upgrade token in the store and I bought them too early(day of new season), making it so I’m stuck with two 94 overall players who can’t make the lineup.Madden 26 missing players from depth chart
Currently playing franchise mode and I'm in week 17 on PlayStation 5. I'm playing with the Dallas Cowboys and when I start a game my top five receivers are missing during the game. I verified that they are not on the injury report. I Auto reordered the depth chart. Then did it again manually and my receivers aren't showing up. I have wear and tear turned off so it's not that either. It's so bad it's to the point where when I start a game my back up quarterback, and 2 corner backs are lining up at WR. On top of that my Tight ends are doing the same with my RT often times replacing my top tight end In the attached images below you will see my actual depth chart but also the lined up on the field is my number four receiver, my number four tight end and my starting corner back.
Madden Companion App Issues
So I made sure there weren’t any updates to DL and the app is up to date. When I click on any of the windows for UT or Franchise it’s popping up a connection issue and I am certain that it’s not on my end, my internet is working and having no issues with any other apps. Can someone please help me or let me know what’s going on? Maybe just maintenance ?SAM and WILL linebacker depth chart positions not aligning correctly
This year they replaced LOLB, MLB, and ROLB with SAM, MIKE, and WILL linebackers to more accurately reflect real world football. These positions will only affect base defensive formations such as 4-3 and 3-4. EA stated that the SAM position will only be used in 4-3 personnel formations due to the new edge defender positions take the outside LB’s in 3-4 formations. The issue is these new depth chart don’t work. The SAM linebacker should line up to the side of the offensive formation that has more blockers or the strength of the offense and the WILL will line up opposite to the weak side. Think SAM=Strength and WILL=Weak. How the defense currently lines up the SAM will always line up to the the left side of the defense or the right side of the offense and the WILL will always line up to the right side of the defense. They will line up this way regardless to which side the strength of the offensive formation lines up. Essentially EA has just rebranded the LOLB, MLB, and ROLB depth chart positions from previous maddens. Also similar issue is with the new nose tackle or NT depth chart position. This only seems to work for 3-4 defenses but should also work for 4-3 formations as well. If you are running 4-3 over or under formation where you have a 1-tech and a 3-tech the player you have set as your NT should always be your 1-tech at least when the offense breaks the huddle. Currently it seems your NT is basically your “Left DT” and your top player on the DT depth chart is your “Right DT”. These players will always stay on the side of the defense regardless of offensive formation alignment. This means your NT will sometimes line up as your 3-tech instead of playing the 1-tech as you would want your NT to do. I hope EA fixes this because I don’t know why they would add these positions to the depth chart and feature them in the big game features reveal in the summer only for them to not work at all as they do in real world football.Long snappers all disappeared
I'm playing franchise mode season 2 week 5. I drafted a rookie TE that was a better long snapper then the long snapper on my roster. I cut my long snapper in favor of my rookie TE during preseason roster cuts. I was able to simulate the first 4 weeks without issue (no long snapper on my roster, rookie TE used at top of depth chart) Week 5 I went to play the game it wouldn't let me as I had no long snapper. The free agent list has zero long snappers. I check the NFL roster there are only 21 long snappers in total so many other teams don't have a long snapper either. There is nothing on the transaction log that shows my cut long snapper retired and he isn't on anyone's roster. He wasn't a terribly rated player (by long snapper standards) around 74/75 overall. Here is the response from support: Do not worry I will help you in all possible ways. When you simulate a game, Madden does not rigorously enforce specialist depth chart requirements. The game may use a backup tight end, offensive lineman, or simply auto-assign another rostered player in the simulated engine. However, when you play the game manually, Madden requires a player slotted specifically at the long snapper position in your depth chart, otherwise, it restricts you from starting the game. This is another artificial barrier—likely intended to ensure gameplay realism when controlling the team yourself—but it is not enforced in simulation, exposing an inconsistency in how the franchise mode treats roster rules between simulated and played games. Long snappers disappear from the free agent pool after preseason cuts due to the game's roster management logic, which automatically purges low-rated or niche-position players from the free agent pool once teams finalize their rosters for the regular season. This is commonly done to reduce the size of the free agent database and improve game performance, but unfortunately, it disproportionately affects specialists like long snappers. The game doesn't create extra long snappers to refill the pool, nor does it retain most cut ones for signing, so after final preseason cuts, many long snappers (and other specialized, low-rated players like Sam linebackers) simply vanish from the game's ecosystem, leaving teams unable to sign them during the regular season. The logic needs changing. If I can't play without a LS on the roster then it should be the same for every team. And if that is the case then there should be enough available players in case of injuries so you don't get stuck like I am. Obviously the computer AI doesn't value the LS position as they did the same thing I did during the preseason. The the roster/free agent logic doesn't value the LS players as free agent so they just disappear without a trace. There is no way to generate a player for me to sign so I'll be forced to switch a player to LS to play the game. Then I lose flexibility as this player won't be able to play the position I swapped them from. So I can't swap my TE to LS and also have him play TE. It should either make every team have a long snapper and keep enough free agents around in case of emergency or not require one at all (since it seems like the LS addition was half baked addition anyway)MADDEN 26: Create A Player body sizes broken
Hello I wanted to report that when creating players it doesn't seem to matter the position the body figure/body build does not change. I made a LT 6'7" 304 lbs but he stayed the same structure or size as the default QB body. I even went out reloaded etc nothing changes . I even went into a exhibition game to see if maybe it's just in create a player menu, but no even in-game he looks skinny . So went a step further edited a player already on game they are all correct body hefty/bigger body styles for lineman and I edited 1 to a HB made him around 5'8" 210lbs and body stayed the big lineman . 1st pic is a real lineman as you can see he has a hefty body structure in pic 2 the player I created looks extremely skinny. Thanks , H.B.PLAYER STUCK ON IR WHEN FULLY HEALTHY
I am playing in both online and offline franchise modes but I have players that are stuck on the IR List while they are fully healthy and able to return. Has this issue been fixed yet or when will it be fixed? As Madden 26 was supposed to be the best MADDEN it has so many unresolved issue and we are stuck playing it because we love football and have no other option. CAN YOU PLEASE HURRY UP AND FIX THIS ISSUE BECAUSE IT AFFECTS THE INTEGRITY OF THE GAME WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE FULL ACCESS TO YOUR PLAYERS IN FRANCHISE MODE!!!!!!????????
