New Abilities?

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I was looking around the ability tier list, and I noticed a bunch of unrated abilities I've never heard of and no players can get. Could these be future season pass abilities?

Arm talent - Passers with this ability have increased velocity on bullet passes

^SFL/PLE?

Cut 'em up - On 2nd down, receivers with this ability have a better chance of beating the press & faking out man coverage defenders when using cut moves

Deep deadeye - Passers with this ability are no worse than Slightly Inaccurate on all deep throws while their feet are set not under pressure (except on high/low throws).

Destroyer - Defenders with this ability don't allow broken tackles when hit-sticking ballcarriers

^enforcer?

Disrupter - In later downs, defenders with this ability are extremely likely to force fumbles on hit-stick tackles

Film Student - Defenders with this ability can see the offensive hat count via coach cam

Finesser - Pass rushers with this ability have an extra pass rush point

Honarary reciever/tight end - Defenders with this ability are more likely to catch tipped passes

^tip drill?

Hot pursuit - Defenders with this ability do not get faked out by ballcarriers

Hurdle elite - Ballcarriers with this ability do not fumble during hurdles

^leap frog?

Immovable object - While in the pocket, passers with this ability are almost guaranteed to break the first sack attempt by a blitzing defensive back.

^that exists, forgot the name

Iron grip - Players with this ability are unaffected by catch chance penalties due to being double covered

Jam master - In early downs, defenders with this ability play physical and often win press attempts

Juggernaut - On 2nd down, ballcarriers with this ability have a greatly improved chance of winning Stiff Arm and Truck attempts, but run slower.

^thats in superstar mode

Juke elite - Ballcarriers with this ability have steerable juke animations.

^juke box?

Theres a few more but I'm wondering why they're here/when will MUT get them.

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These are all most likely future abilities. Just combos of existing abilities or better versions of existing abilities.

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MrAgentSochi said:

These are all most likely future abilities. Just combos of existing abilities or better versions of existing abilities.

Agreed. EA isn't really capable of devoting resources to improve the current state of the game, especially not this late in the game cycle -- best we can get is this sort of workaround, by combining a couple (often terrible) abilities, hoping to make something, somewhat useful to work within the constraints of reduced AP totals. There's no real way for them to improve upon the 0AP Ability buckets and X-factors that start ON from the Superbowl promo, so i suspect this is the angle they'll be using to work us all over (for more cash, of course).

Even then, I need to seriously temper my expectations, as they chance that EA can pull off these new abilities while also preserving some type of "fair, balanced" and hopefully competitive gameplay (HA, that'd be dreamy, eh?) is slim to none, IMO. I'd love to be wrong here, though. Curious to see what/when these are introduced. We've gotten a slow trickle of new options, but as OP pointed out, very few exist in-game.

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