Since Almost Everyone on H2H These Days Has Succumbed to the Dark Side...

...how do you handle guys that start right off the bat with RPO Alert, and follow up immediately with a mix of stretch runs, corner routes, drags, and more RPO Alerts? Are you still quitting out if you did a month ago, hoping to find a more interesting game? Are you just learning to deal with it and trying to win on offense, hoping the lesser-skilled cheesers will eventually make a situational or clock management error that lets you win by a score? Or are you fighting cheese with cheese?

Football IQ seems to be meaning less and less these days, because the exploits are becoming more widely known.

It's rough out there. I'd say it depends on the mood I'm in. Sometimes I'll quit pretty early and sometimes I'll stick around hoping for a mistake. I try not to cheese back though... be the change you want to see and all that. It's rare to play someone with a unique scheme at this point though, and it makes me less and less interested in playing the game.

I think that's a crucial thing EA does wrong - they allow the meta to be the same all year (generally). This leads to everyone playing nearly identically... which gets stale and boring. I think they should release meta-shifting patches throughout the year, but what do I know.

I just had a decent, clean battle going in Champs against a guy with a tough squad. I took a late 13-10 lead with about two minutes to play. First offensive play for my opponent out of the gate: RPO Alert.

There just aren't many decent gamers out there. It's not like his play was a great football move in the context of his actual playcalling, but it immediately set the tone for the end. I knew then and there that the other ridiculous stuff was likely to come, and that in itself was more than enough to throw me off my game in a contest where I had picked him off twice.

Just beat em man. Its annoying, but if you know how to lock it up, and there are alot of RPO defenses out, just lock em up and message them after the game LOL

I only quit now if I can tell my opponent is better, usually people that run schemes like this are worse, it's not hard to defend, just need to have a plan, this is chess and he beat you... can't expect him to not make any move you aren't prepared for, that simple... if you knew how to stop it, you could most times. It's you, not him....

Won't ever catch me playing like a coward.   To much self respect to lower my standards to that run tht   trash in this game.

It depends on what mood I'm in, often ill stay and once I find a play to stop thier cheese I get a ragequit/pause immediately.