Changes I’d like to see to MUT in future Maddens

I used to be someone who loved playing online when I was in high school/Uni, but since starting to work I’ve moved to offline grinding, since the stress of online games was making the game less enjoyable. Over the holidays I tried playing in the house rules and wanted to give a few thoughts on the game:

1. It would be great if house rules didn’t have a loss limit, like how it used to be. I think you can keep the extra rewards for going 10-0/10-1 for players that are really good, but it would be great if you could get a BND champ for getting to a certain number of wins like you used to in house rules. Would make it a lot more fun for casual players like me, and would also make it less upsetting when you get the massive disadvantage of getting stuck on defense first.

2. I think the amount of all 32 team chem players we have is ridiculous, and it doesn’t make sense to me. Back in the day having a theme team used to be a lot more difficult and it was fun playing against average cards that were super juiced up on a theme team. Personally 32 team chems should be reserved for Team Captains and Season players only.

3. Discounted abilities that only last for the length of the promo should be removed as well. Either the card should have a permanent discounted ability, or no discounted ability. I don’t like this limited time 0 AP ability.

4. Similarly to number 3, I think that the promo theme teams and promo strategy cards should be removed as well. The new cards in a promo should already be the best cards in the game, and it doesn’t make sense why every promo, every card needs to have basically +2 speed for 2 weeks until the promo ends.

5. Get rid of the menu lag. The input delay in the menus and collecting rewards drives me absolutely insane.

6. I’d personally love it if abilities and x-factors would go back to being 3 players on each side of the ball. If every position group just runs the exact same abilities on every card, then there may as well be no abilities because it’s all the same anyways. Having 3 players on each side of the ball who could have abilities made it feel like you could set up your team according to how you played the game.

Maybe I’m out of touch on things now and people will disagree with me, and that’s okay, but I feel like these changes would make the game a lot more fun and enjoyable.

Great thoughts, being that it's a money driven mode for EA they want to have these promo's that give you crazy boosts then go away because the whales will turn around and buy all the Playoff bundles to get those boosts

Account bound cards should be able to go in sets.

They need to tone down team chemistry.  Maybe add back coach boosts and/or boost the team strategy card to balance it.

I dont feel like a limited card dropping every day is really limited. Maybe a few for a promo, but weekly drops dont really need it. Redux doesn't need to exist, just less limited.

I know toning down the store isnt an option, but there should be more coin/training packs. The points prices are preposterous but it would take thousands of us protesting that with our wallets to fix, lol...

chackfalco said:

Account bound cards should be able to go in sets.

They need to tone down team chemistry.  Maybe add back coach boosts and/or boost the team strategy card to balance it.

I dont feel like a limited card dropping every day is really limited. Maybe a few for a promo, but weekly drops dont really need it. Redux doesn't need to exist, just less limited.

I know toning down the store isnt an option, but there should be more coin/training packs. The points prices are preposterous but it would take thousands of us protesting that with our wallets to fix, lol...

bring back NATs

Thank you for this thread nbozic10. It is so refreshing to read a thoughful and level headed post on here. Although I am not going to be holding my breath, I would love to see some of the chances that you laid out actually make their way into the game. Cheers to you Sir!

point 3 and 4 will never change.

chackfalco said:

Account bound cards should be able to go in sets.

They need to tone down team chemistry.  Maybe add back coach boosts and/or boost the team strategy card to balance it.

I dont feel like a limited card dropping every day is really limited. Maybe a few for a promo, but weekly drops dont really need it. Redux doesn't need to exist, just less limited.

I know toning down the store isnt an option, but there should be more coin/training packs. The points prices are preposterous but it would take thousands of us protesting that with our wallets to fix, lol...

They should do what mlb the show does. Start out as all buying off the auction house/packs and then you can add them to a collection and get a bigger reward for completing it. I’m pretty sure madden had sets like this earlier on in MUT  if I remember correctly…

Also I miss the older boost you got: zone defense, man coverage, run stuff, pass rush, etc. more than just promo and theme team boost

Delete the switch stick.

EA logic: Switch stick= Help for noobs who cant read the plays.

Kalmanka7 said:

Delete the switch stick.

EA logic: Switch stick= Help for noobs who cant read the plays.

If it weren't for switch stick, we'd have to rely on the AI of the CPU-controlled defenders, which is hot garbage against known abusive hot-route combinations. (If the offensive user can 'read the play'.)

I just get sick of switch-sticking only to have my new user not animate to pick off a ball going right toward him. What's the point of the mechanic if there's another algorithm being processed that says, 'Your user can't see the ball'?

Kalmanka7 said:

Delete the switch stick.

EA logic: Switch stick= Help for noobs who cant read the plays.

Delete a mechanic that relies on user skills? You fools really be out here just wanting to hit x and let the cpu do everything.  I swear they need a coach mode where you just pick plays and you cant user anyone. Losers would eat that up. 

They need to make another game and call it madden GM or something. No playing just acting like a head coach and picking plays and making personel changes.

Kalmanka7 said:

Delete the switch stick.

EA logic: Switch stick= Help for noobs who cant read the plays.

Switch stick is literally a mechanic that requires you to skillfully read your opponents plays... but sure, get rid of it!

Good post, as mentioned some of these promos generate money, so doing too much to make the game fun would get people fired. Selfishly I'd like to see a 65 spotlight token bnd LTD with the OG stats. I don't have a ton of tokens so grabbing one or two would hurt me. It be cool to have this every season,

They need to get rid of the the Promo chem boosts.

It's obviously by design, as it forces you to get cards from the latest promo to keep up with opponents, as previous promo players become obsolete after their boosts expire, and can't keep up with all the new 99 speed 0 ability players.

This is so scummy. Previous MUTs, you're players could stay relevant for a longer period of time, as they only used to get a +1 speed boost if you had certain number of players from that promo, and that's it.

Now, it seems like you need to have 50/50 TT, a 20 promo TT, AND a promo strat card to get 5+ speed. And you have no choice, because everyone else does it and you'll get dusted in h2h if you don't.

NickChubbIsMyPookie said:

Switch stick is literally a mechanic that requires you to skillfully read your opponents plays... but sure, get rid of it!

I'm always accidentally switching to guy away from the play. And I'm not even trying to switch stick. I vote for getting rid of it.