qb with long audible animations

I got playoff russell wilson  BND and he is literally unusable even with 2 ap conductor(since he doesnt get master tac).  It takes 1 sec to put in his mouth guard every play.  Then conductor lets me get in 2 audible, but god forbid if I see my opponent come down a specific blitz and I have to id the mike and slide the line.  Not only does it take forever after the first 2 "actions" with him pointing everywhere and touching his helmet but the game is so buggy with pulling up the block menu up sometimes and getting it into the right player.  Same with Pat mahomes, and other players.   Its sucks bc the dev probably spent a year of dev time working on this to only make the game worse(just like changing the lineup building chemistry screen.

I can't speak to that card specifically, but I do know from the Hurtz card a couple months back.. you do not have to wait for the animation to stop to hike the ball. So a lot of that is just visual fodder ...you can make the play happen quickly by just hiking the ball... Try it and see?

karmaklaw said:

I got playoff russell wilson  BND and he is literally unusable even with 2 ap conductor(since he doesnt get master tac).  It takes 1 sec to put in his mouth guard every play.  Then conductor lets me get in 2 audible, but god forbid if I see my opponent come down a specific blitz and I have to id the mike and slide the line.  Not only does it take forever after the first 2 "actions" with him pointing everywhere and touching his helmet but the game is so buggy with pulling up the block menu up sometimes and getting it into the right player.  Same with Pat mahomes, and other players.   Its sucks bc the dev probably spent a year of dev time working on this to only make the game worse(just like changing the lineup building chemistry screen.

This seems to happen with basically all of the modern / current QBs, they get horrendous animations, which essentially renders them unusable.  Matthew Stafford's recent Playoff card would be AMAZING, but cannot deal with the delays making pre-snap adjustments, it's absolute crock of shit.  And to your extremely valid point, WHY waste limited Dev resources on all this bullshit fluff which makes the game objectively worse?

Because that's all EA is capable of.  They have no clue how to fix their own game, that much is obvious.  So each and every single year, they apply yet another coat of lipstick to their Madden pig and we're all made to suffer.  Anything they can use to push out bullshit news / media headlines to hype their product, such as Saquon's reverse hurdle nonsense, that was the big focus in the latest patch / feature release update whatever they're terming it.

Beyond sad and pathetic.  If for the few random people who appreciate the tidbits of "simulation" -- that stuff stops being fun after you're forced to watch it dozens upon dozens of times, such as the big play / touchdown celebrations and all the stupid animation based gameplay.  We deserve so much better -- we're BEGGING for a true, simulation based fatball title with physic based gameplay (with or without NFL branding, preferably with, but i'm desperate and would consider anything).

EA stopped even pretending to try.  We're all the assholes for trying to treat them liek a serious company.  They're essentially investment bankers, definitely not gamers, and not a soul in the building has a clue how to run a video game stupid, let alone one that is AAA caliber.

I couldn't use Lamar, nor Brock Purdy, nor any of the current crop of QBs, for the exact reason you pointed out.  Makes the game unplayable.

DjNysus said:

I can't speak to that card specifically, but I do know from the Hurtz card a couple months back.. you do not have to wait for the animation to stop to hike the ball. So a lot of that is just visual fodder ...you can make the play happen quickly by just hiking the ball... Try it and see?

Its not for hiking it.  Its for blocking assignments and audibling.  You can only get like 2 actions in then get locked into animation for like 2/3 secs where you cant  do anything

hurts, stafford, lamar all have the same issue. Even without that adjusting is too slow. Master tactician is necessary if you like to hot route, garcia one of my favorite qbs this year for that reason

yea i got wilson as bnd too and quicksold for training after 1 game, this game is bad enough this year but slow audible animations make zero sense from gameplay perspective. You literally make certain qb cards unuseable.

A tip that seems to help. If you start  making hot routes at your rb, and then go wr’s or line adjustments, it seems to help not get hung up in animations so much. At least that’s the case with Lamar. Give it a try.