Henry getting nerfed?

Dirk26 said:

ABSOLUTELY!!!  Years ago, we simply referred to this as the "new card smell."  I think EA has gotten better at hiding some of their tweaks, but you used to be able to set your watch to it.  About 2-3 weeks after a card was released, it played completely different overnight.  I still think EA does this, I just accept it at this point and try to keep my roster current.

How to track it then? There has to be some way of knowing. Maybe in the written codes of the game that's not quantifiable by numbers?

They killed the run game. Everyone’s fumbling so much now. Even without fatigue. But I can’t make my opponents with non abilities fumble. Make it make sense

Nobodyfresh82 said:

Absolutely. 

How else do you get people to buy new players.  If you could have a RB from a month or so again last the rest of the year, there would be no incentive to spend any money. 

Now with everyone having avalanche your HB need truzz.  I have never had someone with Truzz fumble even with an avalanche hit stick, but I'm sure it is possible.

and like, its kind of a debate whether that's just inherent design that EA builds into the, we always see the progression of the game go to ridiculous abilities, but the way they layer them into the game like that seems to be planned for cards to fall out of meta.

Nobodyfresh82 said:

Absolutely. 

How else do you get people to buy new players.  If you could have a RB from a month or so again last the rest of the year, there would be no incentive to spend any money. 

Now with everyone having avalanche your HB need truzz.  I have never had someone with Truzz fumble even with an avalanche hit stick, but I'm sure it is possible.

My Faalele has fumbled twice with Truzz from the Avalanche+Enforcer Supreme combo…

Avalanche buffed

My Jeanty fumbled twice in the same game to an enforcer Supreme+avalanche even with freight train and tank so I have since moved on to Jacobs who dropped today with Phenom, Truzz, and Tank

Dirk26 said:

ABSOLUTELY!!!  Years ago, we simply referred to this as the "new card smell."  I think EA has gotten better at hiding some of their tweaks, but you used to be able to set your watch to it.  About 2-3 weeks after a card was released, it played completely different overnight.  I still think EA does this, I just accept it at this point and try to keep my roster current.

Had a 5 yard pass with Cam Ward, (not under pressure might I add) sailed 20 yards right into the hands of Ronnie Lott.. and he has every throwing ability I could put on him lol. I said yep, they started it again

Woodysky said:

Is it common for ea to buff and nerf players and or abilities without mentioning it?

Yes this is EA, you will Never get a patch Note !

Getliketrey24 said:

Buffed avalanche pretty sure

Idk about that, it dont seem buffed for my guys.

He is not nerfed, with all the free abilities everyone has Tackle Supreme, Avalanche, and Enforcer. I have Tackle Supreme on my front 7 not to include some of my secondary and Enforcer & Avalanche on 5/7.

phatalerror said:

I think people are reading the patterns incorrectly. It's not that individual cards are being invisibly penalized. There's no question however that EA adjusts "sliders" that affect gameplay greatly. A few weeks ago, fumbles were out of hand, but then the balance was tweaked to reduce the frequency of fumbling. A few weeks before that, I experienced a greater frequency of dropped interceptions. Meanwhile, various abilities are now available at little cost at most positions.

Henry is still Henry. The attributes haven't changed. The sliders however affect how his attributes factor into gameplay interactions, and depending on the relative differences in the attributes of other players, slider adjustments that have affected Henry may or may not similarly affect other players.

Slider adjustments are a core part of EA's method for countering the tendency of the Madden experience to become stale. I personally am not a fan of that approach, as it arbitrarily and unpredictably alters the value of the individual components of the lineup I've spent months tuning. An EA update is like firing a rocket using a specific amount of fuel with a specific velocity and specific trajectory under anticipated environmental conditions, and despite the abundance of known data, having zero confidence that the rocket will land anywhere near its target. Slider adjustments break the "physics" of Madden.

Very well put. You’re exactly right. It would be incredibly labor intensive to adjust player ratings individually. It’s much easier to adjust the environment. It definitely happens. Maybe not all the time, but a lot more than people realize.

Henry isn’t nerfed. Avalanches have gotten a boost. I’ve ran as many avalanches as I can all year. I would force fumbles occasionally. Within the last several days I’ve been getting roughly 2-4 a game.

Woodysky said:

Is it common for ea to buff and nerf players and or abilities without mentioning it?

Yes they never mention it. They adjust sliders every week.

MutTrucker85 said:

Yes they never mention it. They adjust sliders every week.

What are sliders? Do they change stats?

Woodysky said:

Yes but that doesn't mean the cards get nerfed as in stats reduced. There is always gonna be a newer shiner card that has more. But has it been confirmed the card has truly been nerfed like they do in other games?

The cards and stats no but abilities yes absolutely.