If EA does a House Rules for sugar rush, it should something similar to Genki Clash

I honestly think that the genki clash house rules event was one of the best that EA has done for two main reasons. 

1. The component of winning field position made for a much more realistic style of strategy IMO. 

2. It prevented those who rely solely on being "no huddle demons" who only have success with that playstyle from being able to run that cheese in a house rules event which was a Glorius change of pace, and actually made mut players have to think about what to call on offense lol. 

Maybe I am on my own Island here, but I really hope EA does more special events like this.

i prefer the campus heroes HR……either side of the ball was always just one and done

agreed,genki is the blue print of how all hr events shoild be .

I disagree.

I thought the house rules before the tug of war back and forth play was perfect.

One series, either offense or defense.

It was much less time consuming.

Some people have school, work, a life, etc. The quicker it can be completed, the better. Especially since they make you win 10 or 15 or 20 or 50 of them.

Genki clash was based, and a model of excellence

mberezoski said:

I honestly think that the genki clash house rules event was one of the best that EA has done for two main reasons. 

1. The component of winning field position made for a much more realistic style of strategy IMO. 

2. It prevented those who rely solely on being "no huddle demons" who only have success with that playstyle from being able to run that cheese in a house rules event which was a Glorius change of pace, and actually made mut players have to think about what to call on offense lol. 

Maybe I am on my own Island here, but I really hope EA does more special events like this.

I cannot stand these forced 1 play scenarios, that shit got old and tedious really quick.  I enjoy the chess match of trying to learn my opponent's tendencies and adjusting to try and prevent them.  Having a single play to try and bomb the ball deep (especially now that Moss'd X-factor exists) was frustrating, not to mention all the damn time sitting to wait for MUT menus to load in between games.  Say you come out, successfully bomb your opponent, win in a single play -- then you have to go wait 2-3 minutes for the slow ass menus to load, before finding your next game.  Then you get to try and set up all of your defensive adjustments every single time, substitutions, etc.  It's maddening (no pun intended) that we lack these basic quality of life features, which would enable us to actually play the game, rather than being stuck in slow and buggy ass menus.

Is it just me?  Are PS5 loading times somehow painfully slow compared with Xbox and/or PC?  Should i disable cross-play or what else haven't i considered?  Performance isn't improving, from what i gather.

Wooooo said:

I disagree.

I thought the house rules before the tug of war back and forth play was perfect.

One series, either offense or defense.

It was much less time consuming.

Some people have school, work, a life, etc. The quicker it can be completed, the better. Especially since they make you win 10 or 15 or 20 or 50 of them.

My issue with previous HR rules events is that it encourages more spam/cheese players to indulge themselves, which inherently creates more f*ckery, which then leads to more HR losses which means you have to play more HR games to reach a field pass goal, and then leads to more time invested. 

Genki clash exposed the skill gap which made the games easier to win IMO, which led to less hr games to play and I would bet it led to less time consumed overall.

peatrick said:

I cannot stand these forced 1 play scenarios, that shit got old and tedious really quick.  I enjoy the chess match of trying to learn my opponent's tendencies and adjusting to try and prevent them.  Having a single play to try and bomb the ball deep (especially now that Moss'd X-factor exists) was frustrating, not to mention all the damn time sitting to wait for MUT menus to load in between games.  Say you come out, successfully bomb your opponent, win in a single play -- then you have to go wait 2-3 minutes for the slow ass menus to load, before finding your next game.  Then you get to try and set up all of your defensive adjustments every single time, substitutions, etc.  It's maddening (no pun intended) that we lack these basic quality of life features, which would enable us to actually play the game, rather than being stuck in slow and buggy ass menus.

Is it just me?  Are PS5 loading times somehow painfully slow compared with Xbox and/or PC?  Should i disable cross-play or what else haven't i considered?  Performance isn't improving, from what i gather.

I am on XBOX so I did not have to deal with slow loading times. I just enjoyed the anti no huddle aspect of it.

I loved the Genki House Rules also. I think where they might've found the key to keeping ppl playing it is instead tying the special currencies to it. It made it possible (as long as you were willing to grind) to get 3 champions without spending coins last go around, so hopefully they continue that. Then again, knowing EA, that'll be the last time we have that possibility smh.

FloorGeneral said:

I loved the Genki House Rules also. I think where they might've found the key to keeping ppl playing it is instead tying the special currencies to it. It made it possible (as long as you were willing to grind) to get 3 champions without spending coins last go around, so hopefully they continue that. Then again, knowing EA, that'll be the last time we have that possibility smh.

I completely forgot about that aspect of it, and yes it was nice to actually play an online event that led to one being able to acquire champion players while also having fun in the process.

mberezoski said:

I completely forgot about that aspect of it, and yes it was nice to actually play an online event that led to one being able to acquire champion players while also having fun in the process.

No doubt, being able to earn a Rob Havenstein, a true end-game Tackle, well... that was highly unusual and super dreamy.  I'd grind out 50, or even 100 wins for that again... despite the horrendous PS5 loading times.  I have only just recently become aware that the performance is better on Xbox.  Goodness, didn't really anticipate having to invest in yet another console... i would have bought an Xbox for my bedroom had i known it was that much of a difference.

peatrick said:

No doubt, being able to earn a Rob Havenstein, a true end-game Tackle, well... that was highly unusual and super dreamy.  I'd grind out 50, or even 100 wins for that again... despite the horrendous PS5 loading times.  I have only just recently become aware that the performance is better on Xbox.  Goodness, didn't really anticipate having to invest in yet another console... i would have bought an Xbox for my bedroom had i known it was that much of a difference.

It was not a grind for some of us but hey if it was for you, then you might as well punt your console out the window and light it on fire cause it is not going to get better lol.

mberezoski said:

It was not a grind for some of us but hey if it was for you, then you might as well punt your console out the window and light it on fire cause it is not going to get better lol.

Yeah, those extremely short game modes, especially Tug of War aren't / weren't that enjoyable to me.  It just requires so much initial setup to begin to settle into a game, if we had some option to preserve our coaching adjustments, or roster/substitutions or any of those qualify of life things, it'd be SO much better and easier and faster to navigate.

The strategy and head games are half the fun for me, personally.  I want to analyze my opponent, learn their tendencies, then figure out how to quickly take those away.  I'm not as good as most players, but i'm a quick learner and even if I throw a couple careless picks and go down 14-0, i still am confident in my ability to claw my way back... which can't really happen when i'm loading a game mode, bombing a tutty in one play, then waiting for the next game.  I'm glad someone enjoys those easy wins, but it's not what i signed up for.

Granted, as you stated... nothing about this is anywhere close to simulation fatball, so i might as well toss my console and light it on fire.  Instead of buying Madden this coming August, i think i'll save myself the time, money and frustration and get a new OLED or something, rather than piss away ridiculous amount of effort and resources on a game that clearly is not trending in a positive direction.

I loved it and finally connected to a H2H mode I didn’t have to learn the meta plays and counters to those plays I team build so my team vs someone else one play for one play I had more fun doing that than other forms particularly a full game mode people either pause and quit on me when they see who I have or they cheese me to death and its a slow laborious process.