Next patch update???

Cant play defense with man coverage getting beat by worthless animations and zones are busted still even though I have 85s 84s throughout my secondary and LBs  (Bates, Season 1 McKinney, Bland, Revis, Gardner, Urlacher, and Warner)..... When will defense be playable?.... I mean there should be no way 79 JJ mccarthy should be able to bomb it 50+ to WR who is double-covered and makes the most insane aggressive animation.... And you can call good defense and have quick stick skills to audible individual players before the snap put if the animation is being taken advantage of more on offense than defense whats the point.... most inconsistent launch i've experienced playing madden and ive been playing since before the great madden 05.

wont be a real patch until after the mcs 9/9 or so

I think zones are fine, only thing they need to patch is agg catches.

Defense is near worthless since you can chuck the ball into coverage most of the time with no consequences.

It's about 40% skill, 60% luck right now.

n1eee said:

I think zones are fine, only thing they need to patch is agg catches.

When you first start the game yeah. But then when setting hooks, flats, or curl flats when you get a feel for what the opponent is running if you don’t user that player the player wacks out leaving the widest busted coverage for a TD. Happens multiple times and if you try to not adjust zones and just play cover 3 match since they removed the “match” setting where you adjust zones that still doesn’t work because QBs drop back 20 yard from the pass rush waiting for that TE or WR to break free since they can’t pass offf zones smoothly

Defense plays fine this year, I agree the agg catch nonsense is a bit annoying but unfortunately i dont think EA is capable of making the slight adjustment to jump ball outcomes without screwing up the other half..i prefer an agg catch here and there versus receivers dropping every pass cause of “scary footsteps” like last year.

Rael52 said:

When you first start the game yeah. But then when setting hooks, flats, or curl flats when you get a feel for what the opponent is running if you don’t user that player the player wacks out leaving the widest busted coverage for a TD. Happens multiple times and if you try to not adjust zones and just play cover 3 match since they removed the “match” setting where you adjust zones that still doesn’t work because QBs drop back 20 yard from the pass rush waiting for that TE or WR to break free since they can’t pass offf zones smoothly

idk, I never run match and I switch stick everything so maybe I don’t notice it as much

butttt doesn’t really matter right now since my elite CB’s are all getting dunked on by gold WR’s

The next patch will address...

air trucking (stupid that provides an speed boost)

Aggs (they're too powerful and can't stay the way they are even with KOs in the future since they're 50/50 now)

Hooks (they are not in a good state)

Stemmed Down Corners (they're too powerful even with soft squats, real solution would be adding back base align)

n1eee said:

idk, I never run match and I switch stick everything so maybe I don’t notice it as much

butttt doesn’t really matter right now since my elite CB’s are all getting dunked on by gold WR’s

thats my point. im keeping bland and revis but just got rid of gardnerfor team captain talib and i notice no difference

GGerz said:

The next patch will address...

air trucking (stupid that provides an speed boost)

Aggs (they're too powerful and can't stay the way they are even with KOs in the future since they're 50/50 now)

Hooks (they are not in a good state)

Stemmed Down Corners (they're too powerful even with soft squats, real solution would be adding back base align)

How do they not test play their game before launch or even during early release fix your shit. cfb is playing better on defense and more balanced on offense than this.... They couldve just copy and pasted that just like all of EA's animations for their players

My biggest issue is with the tackling 

LB’s and Safties will take atrocious angles towards the ball carrier unless you user them. But you may get juked so it would be nice to know the safety who is running over won’t suddenly turn away from the ball carrier for some inexplicable reason lol

Rael52 said:

How do they not test play their game before launch or even during early release fix your shit. cfb is playing better on defense and more balanced on offense than this.... They couldve just copy and pasted that just like all of EA's animations for their players

I'll be honest... I feel like this game plays better than CFB. I couldn't stop a nose bleed. On Madden, I actually feel that I can get stops.

GGerz said:

The next patch will address...

air trucking (stupid that provides an speed boost)

Aggs (they're too powerful and can't stay the way they are even with KOs in the future since they're 50/50 now)

Hooks (they are not in a good state)

Stemmed Down Corners (they're too powerful even with soft squats, real solution would be adding back base align)

disagree on the corner point, while yes they do get open really fast, ive housed several of them, you just got to stem down your zone to behind the LOS

Disagree.

This is the best early Madden in over 5-7 years. Last year the defense was far worse. In the past offensive players couldn't catch without an ability, defensive zone where useless without an ability.

. . . "Cant play defense with man coverage . . " this years man to start the year is better than any recent years. I don't expect it to be lockdown at this point with 80-89 MCV. That means 99s later means nothing.

Personally, I am looking forward to December-January gameplay, IMO this is when the game is most playable. It's gets silly in the last few months with all of the Arcade style pancakes and the whole teams is stacked with abilities and x-factors.