When I Finally Get a KO...

...the ball bobbles directly into the hands of one of the nuked wideout's fellow receivers.

It's just hard to stomach a game where I am literally on the losing end of every conceivable circumstance. I've got two Rahim Moore's at safety locking down everything underneath guys running nines, my man coverage receivers either fail to follow guys in motion or chase ghosts, my zone coverage linebackers are talking on the phone, and my defensive linemen refuse to take good lines against quarterbacks scrambling in figure-eights. And when I switch stick to save the AI from itself, there's some other bloke on defense that decides the pigeons above the stands demand more attention than the wideouts criss-crossing the field.

However in the world did any of you long-timers get past this torture and continue to play this nonsensical weapon of masochist destruction?

phatalerror said:

...the ball bobbles directly into the hands of one of the nuked wideout's fellow receivers.

It's just hard to stomach a game where I am literally on the losing end of every conceivable circumstance. I've got two Rahim Moore's at safety locking down everything underneath guys running nines, my man coverage receivers either fail to follow guys in motion or chase ghosts, my zone coverage linebackers are talking on the phone, and my defensive linemen refuse to take good lines against quarterbacks scrambling in figure-eights. And when I switch stick to save the AI from itself, there's some other bloke on defense that decides the pigeons above the stands demand more attention than the wideouts criss-crossing the field.

However in the world did any of you long-timers get past this torture and continue to play this nonsensical weapon of masochist destruction?

I haven’t been playing as long as many of the posters on these forums so I wouldn’t call myself a “long-timer”. That being said I have played MUT online for like 7 years and this is by far the worst I have ever seen the defense play. Every year there have been parts of the defense that didn’t react how they should and glitch plays on offense that would be OP. This year other than the d-line insta shedding due to terrible o-line blocking the rest of the defense just simply doesn’t react, pursue, or play zones how they have in previous years.

When I started playing MUT25 I noticed how easy offense was and how bad defense was. My immediate thought was if everyone can score on each possession the games will last longer and EA is then forcing all of us to play longer to get our wins/rewards. I imagine they have some kind of player engagement (time) goal as a corporation to show that their consumers are spending more time on their game so they must enjoy it more. Obviously most of us don‘t enjoy it more, we are just addicted or feel like we’ve invested too much to simply walk away.

With all of the recent abilities added offense has become more difficult and defense is still awful (except d-line). I’m finding in the House Rules event myself and my opponent are both struggling to score at all. It has become even more about knowing the glitch/cheese plays than it already was (which I don’t use at all). Most of my HR rules games have come down to the end or OT and have ended in a 1 score to 0.

SlowAndSteady said:

I haven’t been playing as long as many of the posters on these forums so I wouldn’t call myself a “long-timer”. That being said I have played MUT online for like 7 years and this is by far the worst I have ever seen the defense play. Every year there have been parts of the defense that didn’t react how they should and glitch plays on offense that would be OP. This year other than the d-line insta shedding due to terrible o-line blocking the rest of the defense just simply doesn’t react, pursue, or play zones how they have in previous years.

When I started playing MUT25 I noticed how easy offense was and how bad defense was. My immediate thought was if everyone can score on each possession the games will last longer and EA is then forcing all of us to play longer to get our wins/rewards. I imagine they have some kind of player engagement (time) goal as a corporation to show that their consumers are spending more time on their game so they must enjoy it more. Obviously most of us don‘t enjoy it more, we are just addicted or feel like we’ve invested too much to simply walk away.

With all of the recent abilities added offense has become more difficult and defense is still awful (except d-line). I’m finding in the House Rules event myself and my opponent are both struggling to score at all. It has become even more about knowing the glitch/cheese plays than it already was (which I don’t use at all). Most of my HR rules games have come down to the end or OT and have ended in a 1 score to 0.

Kind of side note, but I participated in a madden tournament (regs not mut) and the average person can not score on random ask madden def, and the user is randomly roaming around and not guarding much of anything.  I watched and most avg games ended  in like the ballpark of like 14-6 in a year were def feels impossible. I imagine the game is "more fun" when it feels like a shootout rather than like a baseball game of you hit .275 and you are considered good.