On my 7th year of MUT...i think Road to the Super bowl is one of the worst mode ever made

phatalerror said:

Just in MUT 25. He's probably been playing MUT for years, and understands that winning at MUT is about playing in a way that circumvents the AI. If you know the cheat plays that overcome the current patch, you can win against guys who don't execute cheese as well as you do. It takes a few videos, and playing a football game like it isn't really football.

He's not a savant. Just another one of them.

I completely understand why you would automatically assume that I am “one of them” so no hard feelings.

I have been playing MUT for several years and I have never played the way that you described me. I don’t watch YouTube, MCS, Twitch (I’m old and don’t enjoy any of those things). I don’t know the cheese plays or latest glitch until I see it in H2H’s. A lot of players repeat these same plays and I try different things until I figure out how to stop it.

Last April I finally caved and bought a PS5 and Madden 24. Switching from old gen was a challenge as MUT feels like a completely different game on current gen. It took me a while to get used to the mechanics (and all of the RPO’s). That being said, when I left MUT24 just after Christmas I was #212 on the H2H leaderboard with 600+ Wins and 100 Losses. Yes, I understand all of the best players left 24 in the Summer to prep/play 25 so I’m not claiming to be the best player, nor do I believe I am. Unfortunately I am just incredibly stubborn and when my opponent starts running cheese plays it makes me want to stick around and find a way to beat them.

SlowAndSteady said:

I completely understand why you would automatically assume that I am “one of them” so no hard feelings.

I have been playing MUT for several years and I have never played the way that you described me. I don’t watch YouTube, MCS, Twitch (I’m old and don’t enjoy any of those things). I don’t know the cheese plays or latest glitch until I see it in H2H’s. A lot of players repeat these same plays and I try different things until I figure out how to stop it.

Last April I finally caved and bought a PS5 and Madden 24. Switching from old gen was a challenge as MUT feels like a completely different game on current gen. It took me a while to get used to the mechanics (and all of the RPO’s). That being said, when I left MUT24 just after Christmas I was #212 on the H2H leaderboard with 600+ Wins and 100 Losses. Yes, I understand all of the best players left 24 in the Summer to prep/play 25 so I’m not claiming to be the best player, nor do I believe I am. Unfortunately I am just incredibly stubborn and when my opponent starts running cheese plays it makes me want to stick around and find a way to beat them.

You seem like a decent guy, but I'm trying really hard to understand how someone doesn't have to resort to non-football tactics to win games against the winning-record head-to-head players. I've had one user here tell me to stop pretending MUT is like football, and he's probably been the most correct about the state of the game. I've had many users tell me I'm not trying hard enough to learn the game, which is frustrating because reading defenses from their alignments, keys, and so forth is fairly second-nature for me, whereas reading offenses against the cheesers isn't hard because they just ran the same freakin' play for the twentieth time.

I have a solid lineup, 93 OVR, with decent abilities activated and such. But as it has been since August, my defenders still stare at my opponent once the offensive player has flipped their play and then audibled.

Perhaps most frustrating of all are the users that start out playing legitimate plays, but as soon as they are down two scores, out comes the cheese, and I rapidly give up my lead.

I don't know what plays you're using or what adjustments you are making so that your defenders defend and so that your offensive linemen protect the A- and B-gaps. I was able to cope with a lot of the cheese from the mid-tier users until the abilities and player speeds reached a point that the AI constantly puts my players in the wrong places. For the last month, I only win in games where my opponent doesn't cheese. And it's not that I win all of those either, but at least it feels like football and I can say, "Good game".

phatalerror said:

You seem like a decent guy, but I'm trying really hard to understand how someone doesn't have to resort to non-football tactics to win games against the winning-record head-to-head players. I've had one user here tell me to stop pretending MUT is like football, and he's probably been the most correct about the state of the game. I've had many users tell me I'm not trying hard enough to learn the game, which is frustrating because reading defenses from their alignments, keys, and so forth is fairly second-nature for me, whereas reading offenses against the cheesers isn't hard because they just ran the same freakin' play for the twentieth time.

I have a solid lineup, 93 OVR, with decent abilities activated and such. But as it has been since August, my defenders still stare at my opponent once the offensive player has flipped their play and then audibled.

Perhaps most frustrating of all are the users that start out playing legitimate plays, but as soon as they are down two scores, out comes the cheese, and I rapidly give up my lead.

I don't know what plays you're using or what adjustments you are making so that your defenders defend and so that your offensive linemen protect the A- and B-gaps. I was able to cope with a lot of the cheese from the mid-tier users until the abilities and player speeds reached a point that the AI constantly puts my players in the wrong places. For the last month, I only win in games where my opponent doesn't cheese. And it's not that I win all of those either, but at least it feels like football and I can say, "Good game".

I couldn’t agree more about defense in this year’s MUT. I have always played much better on defense and typically struggled more on offense. My experience so far with 25 has been the opposite. Getting stops has been much more challenging.

I started this game with 49ers Defensive Playbook and haven’t changed yet. I mostly use Nickel Over, Nickel Wide, and Dime 3-2.  Against heavy runners I have tried some 4-3 formations but haven’t had a lot of success since my LB’s aren’t that great aside from the free Sean Taylor.

The zone coverage this year leaves huge gaps so I have been sending more blitzing players than I have in years past. Mostly blitzing my slot CB or one SubLb but not every play. I will occasionally throw in a zero blitz on 3rd and long and very rarely on 1st down to mix it up and hope for a sack. I have found that mixing up my zone coverages more frequently has helped as well.

Even with utilizing multiple formations, zone coverages, blitzing CB’s, etc. I am giving up tons of yards, plenty of big plays, and way more points than I ever have in previous years. In MUT24 H2H with my 700+ games, my Defense allowed an average of less than 6 points per game and averaged roughly 1.9 turnovers per game. This game I have been giving up 17+ points against decent players.

My defenders don’t react and seem oblivious at least 60-70% of the time, miss tackles, terrible pursuit angles, drop INT’s, single coverage don’t animate for INT’s, DB’s get stuck behind the receiver and just watch them catch the ball without attempting to INT or KO, etc.

The only good thing I can say is because defense is so bad I have had an easier time playing offense. Most of my games have been more back and forth scoring on each drive. In my Super Bowl run I‘m pretty sure I scored the first TD in every game and in the playoffs I had 0 shutouts.

I can say that some games there is a little bit of luck involved but so far I have won my hardest games without luck. It was by making in game adjustments based on what my opponent was doing. Sometimes it took until the 4th quarter to figure it out.

Some games I’ve lost to a better player, someone who beat me with their YouTube cheese, or even games that I beat myself by making bad reads or poor play calls. 

Good luck out there!

Feel free to DM me whenever, if I can help I will gladly do so.

jimshredder said:

Did we really need another DDA loaded sweat fest when we alraedy have champions

Once you reach the playoffs, the game will match you up against someone not in the playoffs, then tilt the game to them

Although it does the same thing in your favor when your not in playoffs and your opponent is

They dont want anymore to get AJ Brown or Douglas

It wouldnt suprise me if no one has actually won this mode...and EA just puts random AJ Browns/Douglas on the auction block to "make it look like people won"

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Honestly, couldnt we get another non ELO/non DDA honest game mode such as the MutMas draft

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Its amazing how they go from creating the most mode in one promo...to following it up with the worst mode.

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Just put a custom draft event each game mode...its THAT SIMPLE

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The people running EA are either dumb or dont care about their customers or BOTH

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😂 yall with this DDA non sense let’s be real EA is greedy as can be why would they make worse players play better? Would make no sense wouldn’t make people with worse teams spend money on packs for better players. you can’t sit here and say how EA turned this into a money grab (which 100% is) than say DDA makes you lose. 

first time playing The event I went undefeated and won the Super Bowl and sold AJ for 2.2 mil so your wrong about no one winning

mherzog617 said:

😂 yall with this DDA non sense let’s be real EA is greedy as can be why would they make worse players play better? Would make no sense wouldn’t make people with worse teams spend money on packs for better players. you can’t sit here and say how EA turned this into a money grab (which 100% is) than say DDA makes you lose. 

first time playing The event I went undefeated and won the Super Bowl and sold AJ for 2.2 mil so your wrong about no one winning

Screenshot of you winning AJ?

Or is your source..."trust me bro" Adam Schiff style

jimshredder said:

Screenshot of you winning AJ?

Or is your source..."trust me bro" Adam Schiff style

lmao how do you add a pick I’ll show you my auctions why would i Lie about that 😂 some people Can actually just win at the game

mherzog617 said:

lmao how do you add a pick I’ll show you my auctions why would i Lie about that 😂 some people Can actually just win at the game

This one time....

At band camp...

Stay classy lil bro

Thought it was just me. When i get to the playoffs my zones randomly go into man coverage mid play, zero yard hard flats are 15 yards up field, balls thrown directly at my defender go thru them, opponent gets insta sacks sending 3-4 but i get zero pressure sending 5. Just blatant game scripting/DDA

SlowAndSteady said:

Thanks  man!

I have played the game for several years and I got super lucky on my first day pulling Calvin SS and selling right away. I was able to build a decent budget squad, made some AH flips, and spent a little money. Now my team is looking pretty good after winning the SB event.

Also, my Super Bowl run was my 3rd run through this mode. The first two runs I went 10-1 through the regular season and lost my first playoff game.

Congrats on all your wins counting.  My first run I had 7 regular season wins only four counted.   I had one disconnect and another was my power went out.    going for my fifth win I had my FG blocked but if I made it my win probably wouldn't have counted anyway.   I don't care about the cheese I want EA to make sure every damn game counts and I didn't just waste 15-20 minutes for no wins or losses

Mindham86 said:

Congrats on all your wins counting.  My first run I had 7 regular season wins only four counted.   I had one disconnect and another was my power went out.    going for my fifth win I had my FG blocked but if I made it my win probably wouldn't have counted anyway.   I don't care about the cheese I want EA to make sure every damn game counts and I didn't just waste 15-20 minutes for no wins or losses

I could’t agree more. I had one playoff win that went until the clock expired and it didn’t count. It was a close, sweaty win and stole roughly 30 minutes of my life.

This morning I decided to try another run and just finished 9-0 again. This time I had one game that went the distance and luckily the win counted.

jimshredder said:

This one time....

At band camp...

Stay classy lil bro

😂 stay classy your the one blaming your lack of skill on DDA, when the company your saying uses DDA only cares about selling packs.  so how does that make sense?  come on now get it together. You win games they match a you with better opponents youll just want to be matched up with little ass kids and get easy wins god forbid you have a close game and have to adjust threw out. 😂

mherzog617 said:

😂 stay classy your the one blaming your lack of skill on DDA, when the company your saying uses DDA only cares about selling packs.  so how does that make sense?  come on now get it together. You win games they match a you with better opponents youll just want to be matched up with little ass kids and get easy wins god forbid you have a close game and have to adjust threw out. 😂

Your troll game is WEAKKK

Go practice lil bro

mherzog617 said:

😂 stay classy your the one blaming your lack of skill on DDA, when the company your saying uses DDA only cares about selling packs.  so how does that make sense?  come on now get it together. You win games they match a you with better opponents youll just want to be matched up with little ass kids and get easy wins god forbid you have a close game and have to adjust threw out. 😂

What?

jimshredder said:

Your troll game is WEAKKK

Go practice lil bro

Your the one who posted they can’t win the playoff event 😂 yet my game is weak your a clown