Mut Top 100 Ranked Player Here Looking to Help...

hackthacode said:

Yes lol, I am 6'8", and yes I used to play basketball before you even ask. Like I said in the original post, been debating if I wanted to start doing videos or not, didn't want to waste time if nobody was interested. You can verify I am top 100 though, I just checked and I'm 71. If you guys want videos I'd be happy to put some up, or maybe do a live skills talk session. I did a one on one with a guy in the tier below Top 100 yesterday and today he told me he hasn't lost since. I beat him 51-8 the prior day and he had every single top player at every single position and like 30 million coins in the bank, we did a screen share. I've gotten really skilled with this year and just wanted to help others, especially when it comes to beating cheese, spam, and glitches because I hate seeing all the top players use it.

Haven't been on Madden since 2k dropped, 55/60 raider TT. although I do the daily log in. Couldn't resist responding saying I'm 5'6 in real life, played sg in college before tearing my acl twice.lol yes shooting guard at 5'6 not because of my offense but because I was that good on defense. But I do myself have recently reignited my social media. YouTube, tik Tok, IG, just now X for some 2k clips. I don't post the specific gameplay youre talking about. But I'm in the crowd of taking pride in no money spent, authentic esque play calling. I'm not a top 100, but I compete. I post home workouts as well just to show there is life outside of gaming lol. Doesn't hurt to reach out and spread community positivity. Ggs.

https://youtube.com/@hhtmarksyt?si=YBL0AyUfBGoN7sOD

Twitch.tv/hhtmarks

TikTok: HHTMarks

IG: Harold HT Marks

Hhtmarks said:

Haven't been on Madden since 2k dropped, 55/60 raider TT. although I do the daily log in. Couldn't resist responding saying I'm 5'6 in real life, played sg in college before tearing my acl twice.lol yes shooting guard at 5'6 not because of my offense but because I was that good on defense. But I do myself have recently reignited my social media. YouTube, tik Tok, IG, just now X for some 2k clips. I don't post the specific gameplay youre talking about. But I'm in the crowd of taking pride in no money spent, authentic esque play calling. I'm not a top 100, but I compete. I post home workouts as well just to show there is life outside of gaming lol. Doesn't hurt to reach out and spread community positivity. Ggs.

https://youtube.com/@hhtmarksyt?si=YBL0AyUfBGoN7sOD

Twitch.tv/hhtmarks

TikTok: HHTMarks

IG: Harold HT Marks

Love to hear it! I’m actually running Raiders TT right now myself, but a budget version as I’m saving my coins in reserve for the crystal players drop on Tuesday. Used to be huge into 2k but idk, their online play is just so laggy, idk how it still hasn’t improved to where EA online play is at this point. I’m on a gigabit connection and every year no lag on any game except 2k. That being said I am tempted to get on it again 😂 Look forward to more positive communication in the community 😁

hackthacode said:

I got you bruh! If there’s specific things you’re looking for let me know. I’m torn between starting with affective run scheme, how to stop trips bunch, or proper team/scheme building. Would love suggestions from the forum.

Start with how to stop trips TE and bunch formations.  90% percent of ranked games are those formations. People will appreciate it.

Goodwil123 said:

Start with how to stop trips TE and bunch formations.  90% percent of ranked games are those formations. People will appreciate it.

Before I stopped playing, I found success, alternating my 4-3 cover 3 hard flat defense. Strong side LB on a purple. Dt1 is qb spy, dt2 is in a yellow to cover for the hot purple. Both ends (mack and sapp) have outside sheds. Mack has edge threat. Qb contain when needed, usually always lol Play drops until you can bait a hard flat jump, or patience til a RedZone stop as most do not take their 3 and play d. Again, I'm on 2k these days, but I'll be back

hackthacode said:

In case you haven't noticed, every year when Madden comes out they try to add updates to match the realism of football, not match what allows gamers to expose programming flaws. I know for a fact they are sick of the constant hot routing at EA and have been looking for the right update on it for awhile. Idk if you ever played football, but you get a playbook, that's what you have to work with and hot routes and protection changes, the same limits you are given in EA, should they update playbook more frequently to match football realism? Yes absolutely, and I know that's something they are already working on. I'm in the top 100 and I'm telling you this shit needs to stop. I know how to stop all the bunch formations, that's why I'm in top 100, I know how to stop the hot routes, but it makes the game not fun to worry more about pre snap adjustments than actual game skill like stick or lurking. Most scheming is done pre huddle break in real football, it's how I play in Madden, and it works. You are not being penalized for hot routes in my suggestions but you are tipping the defense, which i'm sorry, that's not just real football that's real life. If you show nothing i know nothing, soon as you start communicating with ANYONE and i can see, now know SOMETHING.

again this is not real life😭

spanky1407 said:

again this is not real life😭

Again EAs goal is to make it as realistic as possible. Not cater to gamers. The majority of maddens money comes from casuals not streamers and gamers who study maddens programming flaws 😂 bruh if u like to expose programming and not football just say that, but I assure you the programmers at EA work every day to make it about football and not exposure to programming

Hhtmarks said:

Before I stopped playing, I found success, alternating my 4-3 cover 3 hard flat defense. Strong side LB on a purple. Dt1 is qb spy, dt2 is in a yellow to cover for the hot purple. Both ends (mack and sapp) have outside sheds. Mack has edge threat. Qb contain when needed, usually always lol Play drops until you can bait a hard flat jump, or patience til a RedZone stop as most do not take their 3 and play d. Again, I'm on 2k these days, but I'll be back

4-3 cover 3 flats is good in goal line but anywhere else you’re too exposed.

Goodwil123 said:

Start with how to stop trips TE and bunch formations.  90% percent of ranked games are those formations. People will appreciate it.

That’s an easy one, no problem. I’ll do a live stream later and I’m sure I’ll play someone using it 😂

Currently I lean towards Nickel  Defense (MIAMI) and Trips TE Flex/ Bunch X Nasty (BEARS).

Would love to learn how to break down reads and progressions both pre and post snap (mainly post snap) and what to watch for with the DB's and Route combos etc..

And any tips if you know that MAN works better than ZONE based on how the animations/coding is built. Is it optimal to build a Man scheme? Which attributes are most effective?

tmac1023 said:

Currently I lean towards Nickel  Defense (MIAMI) and Trips TE Flex/ Bunch X Nasty (BEARS).

Would love to learn how to break down reads and progressions both pre and post snap (mainly post snap) and what to watch for with the DB's and Route combos etc..

And any tips if you know that MAN works better than ZONE based on how the animations/coding is built. Is it optimal to build a Man scheme? Which attributes are most effective?

I use nickel too but change my formations. I most do man and focus my team building to hit 90 mcv on all dbs except free safety. At the same time you want them over 85 zone in case you need to switch. Learning how to run a hard flat to back side and curl flat to open side helps a ton in cover 3 and cover 4. Learning how to adjust and sending a blitzing linebacker while dropping a d lineman is also a very affective strategy in man to confuse your opponent on where the pressure is coming from and where the user player will be. Will dive more into this on my streams.

hackthacode said:

4-3 cover 3 flats is good in goal line but anywhere else you’re too exposed.

I thrive in goal line defense. Patience and drop coverage helps exposure.

Following on twitch!

hackthacode said:

Again EAs goal is to make it as realistic as possible. Not cater to gamers. The majority of maddens money comes from casuals not streamers and gamers who study maddens programming flaws 😂 bruh if u like to expose programming and not football just say that, but I assure you the programmers at EA work every day to make it about football and not exposure to programming

I love real football have my whole life, bit if you want real football just go outside😂. Video games are meant to be fun and ridiculous, and before you say it’s a simulation there are other modes for that mut is legitimately advertised as a fantasy game mode aka not real. Anything can be stopped with a simple adjustment.  Presnap adjustments and switch stick are the entire skill gap, and you wanna take that way for realism😂. Just because people wanna relive their glory days, and play “real football” doesn’t mean the game should become worse to please these people. Putting a good play on the field is not “exposing programming”, it’s exposing garbage players who run stock coverage and bitch when people beat them, and say anybody that can beat their defense is “exploiting the game”, and “cheesing”.

Take it away? No I wanna do exactly what happens in real life in ANYTHING not just football. You start signalling in ANYTHING your opponent now has some idea of adjustments, they had NONE before that. I don't care if we're talking chess, if we're talking drug dealers avoiding police, if we're talking about sports, YOU TIP YOUR HAND YOU'VE GIVEN SOMETHING AWAY, and Madden should reflect that. It's not realistic for a HUMAN to yell something out or signal with their hand and another human who is looking right at them to have no clue what's happening, and then factor in they are seeing it OVER AND OVER AND OVER, it should start being a tell, not a guessing game. I'm going to repeat, if you have a hot route lets say for a post, and you call that hot route every single play, every singel series, how long you think it takes for a DB to know exactly wtf you're doing when you call that out? Oh youre gonna switch each routes signal for a hot route on every series? Yea good luck, these are NFL football players not Einstein, even Ryan Fitzpatrick a Havard grad would struggle with that, same with Peyton Manning a football genius. The people that are mostly playing madden aren't goign to go outside and "play football", they aren't little kids. Most of them did play football, that time has passed now, and they want to use their knowledge of the game in a video game, not learn how to expose poor programming and holes. If that's what you're into go play RPG games.