Why can't I use custom Teambuilder teams in Offline mode?
Something I've wanted to do for a while was play and develop my own league in franchise mode (Replacing all the teams and rosters of some of my own) and then just spectate games and simulate it all on it's own, solo. Yet, in Madden 26, it is impossible to use the custom teams I made and downloaded, in offline mode, only online mode. And even in online mode, I can't make multiple characters to swap between the teams. I have to retire a coach every week in order to watch and simulate CPU games.2.6KViews7likes4CommentsM26 FRANCHISE FEEDBACK
So after a pretty good Play Now/H2H experience, I'm kind of at a loss for words on how to describe the difference in experience Franchise has been. I'm only half way through my first season, but there's enough issues I feel that need addressing that it's best to just put this out here and hope it sheds some light on things that EA needs to address asap. In saying that, I'll just get right into the negatives, then the positives, but since this is much longer than expected, I'll likely post bugs found within the negatives, or create a separate post for them. For the record, my User ID is BrandOG-182; Platform is PS5. NEGATIVES: INTERFACE: Slow; Sluggish; Laggy. It's 2025, I really don't understand how it's this bad just trying to navigate. It's not just Franchise either, it's a whole game issue. Speaking of lag, there's been a bit of that with celebrations in game and cutscenes as well. OWNER/PLAYER MODE: The removal of these from the game is actually stupid and limits how people get to experience and enjoy the game. Literally last years surveys showed people wanted more options/customization, and it was even mentioned in the deep dive if I remember correctly...and yet this is literally the opposite of that. Like, why? This is how to alienate your player base and hurt business 101. STOP REMOVING OPTIONS FROM THE GAME!!!!! People are not happy about this, and understandably so. If I'm being objective though, Owner Mode definitely needed a serious makeover, and honestly, apart from setting prices to manage money better, getting to hire/fire your staff and choose different coaches, there's not much your missing out on that you can't find in the new GM's Office selection on the Franchise Main Menu. Breakouts never worked right, and overall it just needed to offer more. I still enjoyed creating a GM with Owner Mode though, and this was my primary go to for Offline Franchise every year. I have hopes that they removed it to revamp it and re-release it in a later title, but we'll see. No excuses for removing Player Mode though...BRING THESE OPTIONS BACK PLEASE!!!! UNIFORMS: Speaking about removing things from the game, what is going on with these? We literally went from being able to create multiple combinations from every available uniform and save multitudes of them in years past, to now being left with 2 custom options last year, and now 2 superstar options this year. Though worse than previous years, it could be okay if we weren't very restricted to very limited options for customization (no access to past uniforms?), and to top it off, we're locked from making our own combos when beginning a game now too. Just another thing that leaves me asking, why? Just go back to '22 or '23 and let us mix and match and save as we please. STOP REMOVING OPTIONS FROM THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CPU: It's frankly just ridiculously extra/overpowered far too often than is necessary. Literally everything seems to favor the CPU... catches, knockouts, swats, speed bursts, blocking, tackling, juking/trucking/spinning...pretty much everything. I've seen many complain about this on both All-Madden and All-Pro, and I'm told this is on EA's radar, so that's good. However, this is exactly why people complain and say the game feels scripted...it's just too much. The stuff I've witnessed within games is absurd at best, and is actually cheating at worst. QB's never miss a throw; guys warping/glitching/transporting into places to make unrealistic plays at unrealistic speeds; super low overall CPU players consistently getting the better of higher overall User players; CPU always has the upper hand on reaction time; absolutely cranked tackles/hits on pretty much every play. Most losses feel scheduled. Ratings don't matter; Sliders don't matter. Just what is actually going on here? How is this such a different experience from Play Now/H2H? I'm not sure how this game is coded, but this is what makes the game unfun, unfair, and unplayable to many people. There needs to be balance; ratings and sliders need to matter and work as intended. This is unacceptable. TRAINING CAMP: This was actually fine the way it was last year, and for some reason EA just had to mess with it. Overall the changes made weren't for the better. Bucket drop is objectively garbage. Removing a couple mini games so less players get training was dumb (I deleted M25; am I imagining this?). Training camp is really where the mini games I feel stand out and shine. I really feel there should be more of an emphasis on Training Camp for the mini games and less on the week to week, which can become tedious, especially in user leagues. Allow more players to train and gain some XP/skill points. Offer more mini games in general. Week to week training allows you to choose which mini game to play, allow this for Training Camp as well. Only positive I can think of about Training Camp this year is, I think, two mini games got a skill point increase to 2 if you get gold. Other problems I've found with Training Camp are that many seem, or are in fact, extremely bugged. 1) Can't get a consistent pass in Bucket Drop as the cursor snaps back to its original position more often then not. This does not happen to me in game. 2) Chase & Tackle is either extremely broken or someone at EA has a seriously sick sense of humor, because not only does the runner not hit the proper gap more often than not, but literally runs you in circles like a hamster behind the LOS. It's extremely frustrating. 3) WR Battle - Red Zone Attack has the quarterback lobbing passes out of the end zone, making the ball uncatchable and impossible to gain gold. I do believe this might be related to Traits, specifically the one that gives QB's the tendency to throw more lob passes. This theory needs testing though. But taking that trait off my QB did fix it for me at least. 4) Rushing Attack - Close Quarters; FB does not consistently block as necessary leading to high improbability of gaining gold. I'm sure I'm missing some, but I'm over it...moving on. SCHEMES/DEPTH CHART: I haven't completely gone through these yet, but I know for a fact some are wrong; Detroit being my first and primary example. They are listed as 3-4 Under Defense when in fact it should either be a 4-2-5 after googling it, or Base 4-3 if you were to check ESPN. Idk if there are more of these, but I remember it was a thing last year with Lions, Packers, Eagles, and Jags to name a few after irl changes were made with coaching staff and whatnot. I hope these get addressed. Literally just google these or go to ESPN and get the schemes and depth charts right please. RELOCATION: Mostly I'm just disappointed to see that more cities weren't added. At the least, it would be nice to have some cities where current franchises already exist, like Miami, Detroit, or LA for example. That way you could change the name/uniforms of a current franchise to different ones if you wanted. Team Builder import is nice for this when creating franchise, but I don't think there's a way to change a team name after starting a franchise. Would be nice to see a couple of new additional cities like Phoenix, or Boston, and some international ones as well. The uniforms and basic team names could use work too. Just a bit too bland and basic despite the helmets looking better after they redid them last year or the year before. ROSTERS: Still no older rosters for nostalgic franchises. This was a thing back in like '05 even. It made the game really fun, and again, it just goes to show how stupid it is to just keep removing options from the game. I really need to see these added back to the game if I'm going to keep buying and running into so much broken crap every year. Make the frustration worth it. I could easily do a ten year franchise if I could go back to 2015. EA has the Download Center for them...at worst, they could even create an in game store as part of the DLC, and put them up for purchase since we know EA loves their profit. Wouldn't love having to purchase them, but having them is better than not. OR, add them to Premium Team pass...just do whatever you need to get them back into the game please. This goes for All-Times Teams as well. POSITIVES: SETTINGS: These remain a strong positive. The only thing I'd say, and have seen posts about, is add the ability to import and adjust Wear & Tear/Weather sliders within the franchise settings. COACH CENTRAL/COACHING ABILITIES: I've really been having fun with this, and I really feel it was a great idea and implemented pretty well. I love the variety of different abilities. If you're an underdog team, there are great abilities to close the gap and make yourself more competitive vs better teams in the league. From attribute boots that help give your team an edge vs stronger opponents, to XP/Training boosts to help get your team up to par faster in order to compete better, there's a lot of great options here. And if you're a team on top of the league, there are great abilities that can help ensure you stay there too. At higher levels, abilities that help retain staff and improve scouting can help maintain staff with unlocked maxed abilities and ensure generational talent remains within the franchise despite the players that eventually leave. There are a few changes I would make however: Make more slots available. I think there are currently 6 for coach abilities, 4 for playsheets, and 2 for trainers. I wouldn't mind if those numbers were bumped up to 9 or 10 for coach abilities, 5 for playsheets, and 3 for trainers at higher levels. More slots especially seem better when there are certain abilities, such as the scouting abilities, that remain in the loadout for several weeks without the ability to remove them. Not only would more slots be nice, but I would love to see them distributed differently. Right now there is just one uniform loadout for coach abilities, playsheets, and trainer abilities respectively, in which you can activate whatever ability or playsheet from your coach and/or coordinator each week. To make each coach and coordinator feel different and special though, I would like to see the loadout sorted by each coach and the trainer instead. Give each coach and the trainer 3 abilities max to activate each week, maybe 4 for the head coach if you bumped the number up to 10 max coach abilities, then give each coordinator 2 playsheets for max activation, and the head coach 1. This makes coordinators feel more important as they can give you access to more plays per game while the coach has more of his/or own special abilities to activate that the coordinators don't. I would like to see some better spacing for ability and playsheet unlocks. Some unlocks seem they could be too far apart, but I have yet to max a coach out, so we'll see. TRAITS: These are pretty nice actually, and the fact you can add them on any player within your franchise is nice too. I'm sure there are plenty of things I'm either forgetting or have yet to stumble across, but no matter, that's what discussions are for, so others can add to them, so feel free to do so if you happen to come across this and read it. Haven't gotten to draft yet, so we'll see how that pans out and what issues arrise with that. I also have yet to try Team Builder, so hopefully I'll get some feedback for that soon as well. Overall though, considering the hype, Franchise has been a bit of a disappointment. 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This is going to be entirely customization based as I was able to kind of get a deep dive into franchise. -Generic faces: They NEED to go. I was messing around making a draft class and I exited after 5-6 players. Half of the faces are unusable due to them improperly fitting in helmet or being a straight up eye sore. I feel as if many people made comments about how poor the hairstyles are on the generic face in recent years. instead of fixing them or making new ones, they just put caps on half of them. Easy and lazy way out in my opinion. My SUGGESTION, get the CFB faces into Madden. It's been recently brought to my attention by a content creator on X that the system in Madden and CFB as far as the generic faces are different. However, make new faces at least. Or actually take the time to rework the same CFB system into Madden. While not being able to create a player in CFB sucks, when editing and customization generic recruits I rarely see players with the same face which adds a huge depth of authenticity that Madden has never had. Im aware that there are thousands of generic faces in CFB but to replace the 200 in Madden with refreshed ones would be a much needed change that has been ignored for a decade. I genuinely do not understand how the devs are proud and happy putting that out in each product each year. Every sports game EA included has a face builder of some sort. Not even asking for that much. -Player styles missing in draft class players: Editing any recruit in CFB gives u a variety of options for QB stances, RB/CB/WR/LB stances etc. Madden has this as well in superstar so again why was franchise neglected. This adds authenticity in CFB and superstar. Seeing it blatantly ignored in franchise is disgraceful. -Body styles: The other massive eyesore are how poorly the body styles look in Madden. Again, CFB offers the same (thin, lean, standard, muscular, heavy) body styles that look 100000x better than they do in Madden. The standard body type in Madden is way too bulky compared to CFB for example. -Helmet tilt/fitting: Pretty sure this was addressed in CFB and all the helmets fit real and generic players nearly perfectly. Madden makes created players have no neck and huge shoulders. Eyesore. Helmets dont fit properly and are way too big. If you asked me how i describe customization in Madden id say bland, generic, and unauthentic. Things people have been saying for years and still hasnt been acknowledged. Im sick of it. Im sick of getting responses about how frustrating it is and not seeing any changes made or even acknowledging that its a work in progress. The Madden team lets me down year after year.98Views3likes1CommentFuture Madden (Franchise mode) wishlist
So Iโve been playing Madden for a long time. I wanna say since 08 or 09, itโs come a long way since then and where we are now, I really wanted to make a wishlist of some sort so here it is. player retirements. I find it almost heart crushing when a player in your franchise retires. In todayโs league there have been more players playing around with the idea of playing longer than the normal age retirement. And with Madden seemingly being open to having more commissioner mode type abilities I think this would be a HUGE addition. Iโm not asking for the ability to bring back someone like Peyton Manning. But the ability to bring back players who were already apart of your franchise save would be a good move. It would stop the feeling of wanting to create or restart a franchise just because on player retired. This is probably a big thing for me because like I said earlier, Madden seems open to having some sort of commissioner mode. If you look at college football 26 you can do things like create the schedules. edit the rules and really just make your league yours and play the game the way you want to play it. In Madden so far, you can do things like undo free agency signings turn off salary cap turn off injuries. So there are already a ton of commissioner type abilities I would like for EA sports to really add to this. Rebuild Stadium or Stadium management overhaul. This has been stale for far too long. I know that EA has been working towards stuff like new stadiums and more abilities/options with that stuff. This just feels like something that should be talked about more. GM/Owner mode. Iโm not exactly sure why they would take that out of the game in the first place. Maybe it was some sort of we need to redo it and do it right so weโre gonna take it out type of thinking regardless I hope that this does find its way back into the game instead of just merging it all together unless Iโm mistaken, there is no way to hire a different head coach when you start your franchise. If there is a way, it is not clear. Pro Bowl. I do think that they will be bringing this back. I think that they are rebuilding it due to the change the NFL has made to it. But I must say I donโt agree with making it the way the NFL has it. I would keep it as a normal game like it was no oneโs actually playing in it. No oneโs actually getting hurt. I think that they would do more harm than good. Changing it to the way the NFL has it now. I think they could do a lot more maybe add the NFL honors Moore presentation really do something that shows weโre in playoff season. Also, adding in the NFL Hall of Fame game would be a great addition. Madden cover athlete. I think as you progress through your seasons in franchise mode, a player should be selected for the next Madden cover so for example, if Iโm in the year 2030 and Drake Maye has a historic season then he should be selected for that years Madden cover. This kind of goes back to player retirements in a way, but being able to play past seasons would be really cool. It doesnโt have to be a franchise mode thing, but just the ability to play prior seasons with those players in those teams like the 2015 Carolina Panthers or the Seattle Seahawks Legion of boom era would be really cool to play. Playing certain Super Bowl moments like the Patriots in Seattle on the 1 yard line to win the game or the Nick Foles moment so many things like that would be really cool to add into the game. So this is my wish list for future Maddenโs obviously I know some of these things might already be in the works or they already have their eyes on doing some of the stuff, but I just figured that this would be a good way for me too express how Iโve been feeling about franchise mode over the past few Madden video games. Hopefully some of the stuff gets added. I think my biggest request would be the player retirements. I think that would go a long way and make a lot of people happy while they work on other things.204Views1like1CommentCorrupted Cloud data/Unable to save
Out of no where my offline franchise file was deleted and I got the message about my cloud data being corrupted with the error code: EC:10607. I was able to to get my save back and played on it but then I got the data corrupted error again and now it will not recover the data or save a new franchise. Has anyone else had this issue and found a fix?347Views0likes2Comments