Desync is not from film study

I had film study on and got a desync. Took film stude off and got a desync. Turned all my abilities off and got a desync. Not sure what’s going but I get desynced like fife times a night before I just turn off this damn game

Marlbroman1 said:

I had film study on and got a desync. Took film stude off and got a desync. Turned all my abilities off and got a desync. Not sure what’s going but I get desynced like fife times a night before I just turn off this damn game

Film Study can definitely cause random Desyncs, but you are absolutely 100% correct here.  The majority of the problems are the poor coding and unreliable EA login servers.

This is not going to be a magic, cure-all style fix, but I have some suggestions that will hopefully help improve the frequency of which you are experiencing those Desync issues.  Before you start playing Madden, especially on a new game day cycle, be certain you have fully closed the game and relaunched it from the main menu.  What is typically happening (at least in my instance) is that i put my console into "Rest Mode" rather than powering it all the way down, so the M25 game client never gets a chance to fully refresh itself.  We log in the following day and M25 still thinks it's technically yesterday.  By the time our PS5 catches up to Madden 25 game servers, POOF there's some issue, which results in these DESYNCs.  I think.  This is my best guess, based on much speculation and even more first-hand experience dealing with them.

It's a huge pain in the ass and not something we should have to deal with in 2025, but we're basically still playing the PS2 era versions of John Madden Football in many respects, warts and all.

Make sure you've collected all of the available in-game rewards, especially lingering stuff from the prior week; MUT Champs, Solo Battles, House Rules, etc.  AT LEAST once per day we need to fully close the entire M25 game client and start fresh.  If you power down your console every evening, you should be fine, but the majority of us just let these devices go to sleep and EA clearly hasn't written code to compensate for that.  Log in, collect all your stuff from prior week, then back out.  Before you go to start grinding some new game/mode, etc. it can't hurt to repeat this process.

It's dramatically helped improve my own situation, but we're all dealing with it.

I've experienced more desync issues since Thursday than ever. I shut my console down every night, so that is not a fix in my case.

EA servers generally just suck for such a major title. I'd ove to know what kind of investment they make into them every year. When I ran a lot of FUT I do not remember ever having server issues, games not counting, etc., but it has been years so I may have forgotten if it's the same experience. lol

Thanks for your input and advice. When I am done playing for any session, I go to my home menu and quit the game then power down my console. So this is not the issue. It’s very annoying cause I have been playing house rules and could have gone 6-0 at least once. Playing h2h we have games won that coun as a loss or we get a sway when winning and the game don’t count. Makes me want to pace my controller on th back side of my tv by pushing it through the front. 🤷🏻‍♂️. I don’t know why I get so angry playing a stupid game, I think that angers me too. Lmao.

A few days ago I matched up with the same opponent twice and both times he desynced me. Neither were from Film Study and I believe both were somehow intentional from my opponent. In BOTH games I had taken a decent lead and had the ball again, I called a run play and right after snapping the ball the Desync occurred. 

After each game I immediately loaded into the next game against a different opponent and my connection had no issues.

Marlbroman1 said:

I had film study on and got a desync. Took film stude off and got a desync. Turned all my abilities off and got a desync. Not sure what’s going but I get desynced like fife times a night before I just turn off this damn game

Did you ask your opponent because they 100% had it.

Uncommittedgamer said:

Did you ask your opponent because they 100% had it.

You mean these toxic people who run all the glitchy plays just to get a win and talk shit to you the whole time? Like they would tell you?  Besides , I’m always on defense when it happens.

Marlbroman1 said:

You mean these toxic people who run all the glitchy plays just to get a win and talk shit to you the whole time? Like they would tell you?  Besides , I’m always on defense when it happens.

I don’t think it matters if you’re on defense. I’ve had film study show for me but I’ve not used it for 2 months. That’s how glitchy it is if one player uses it

Rofl yes those people 😂

Uncommittedgamer said:

I don’t think it matters if you’re on defense. I’ve had film study show for me but I’ve not used it for 2 months. That’s how glitchy it is if one player uses it

Rofl yes those people 😂

Lmao.

same here just now, stripped my team of film study checked all, and on MY second play of the whole game i got a desync after a nice run. unreal. wouldve smoked dude LOL

thecornhusk14 said:

same here just now, stripped my team of film study checked all, and on MY second play of the whole game i got a desync after a nice run. unreal. wouldve smoked dude LOL

That sucks man. Now people are trying to say it has something to do with relentless. Idk. I think people are doing this on purpose.

Someone said they took DT Chris jones out of the line up and that stopped the desync

Marlbroman1 said:

Someone said they took DT Chris jones out of the line up and that stopped the desync

It did. I’ve been dealing with EA long enough (between golf and Madden) to have invested the time and research it took to overcome their finicky connection needs but this has been beyond maddening.   

Maybe it’s coincidence but it definitely happens when he’s on my roster and does not happen when he’s nowhere on the roster.

This doesn’t mean it won’t start up again….today’s a new day. 🙄

dougk said:

It did. I’ve been dealing with EA long enough (between golf and Madden) to have invested the time and research it took to overcome their finicky connection needs but this has been beyond maddening.   

Maybe it’s coincidence but it definitely happens when he’s on my roster and does not happen when he’s nowhere on the roster.

This doesn’t mean it won’t start up again….today’s a new day. 🙄

That’s good to know. I’m gonna take him out today after work and see if that fixes my issue too. Glad it worked for you for now at least