For those that claim I get DDA,

Moderator Sevein131 said:

Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment,  you can search that term to find out more but there's essentially no concrete proof DDA is active in any EA Sports games. 

Most of the time, DDA is used by the Madden community as an excuse to cope with why they have lost to what they would describe as an inferior team, completely ignoring that their opponent may not be inferior.   Hence why many say "scheme over team". 

The game is too animation based and depending on the dice roll, some animations go your way and other times animations go the other way.   It's just what we have to deal with until someone comes along with an alternative for us to get our licensed football game fix.  But that doesn't mean DDA is in the game. 

I always simply recommend that anyone who claims DDA exists and lesser teams get boosted, to play with a lesser team and see how many more wins they get.  If it exists why not take advantage of it? At the end of the day it seems that most who claim they only lost because of DDA are expecting instant wins from the team they bought vs someone who chooses not to buy all of the most expensive items for one reason or another. 

Finally,  I think DDA would go against EA's model of wanting to sell more packs and players.   If I can field a lesser team, get assistance from the game in the form of DDA and win comfortably, why would I spend money or time to improve my team?   It just doesn't make sense, but what does make sense is the animation based system used to simulate football needs an overhaul so it doesn't feel so random at times one way or the other and actually make every attribute point matter instead of making tangible improvements threshold based.

I lose to inferior teams all the time. I usually have to better team and by a lot sometimes and I still get smoked. I can't blame the game for that. My opponents are simply better. Good players who know scheme and how to play football beat me Everytime.

Cizzle said:

I'm on the fence if it's a real thing but my theory is this.

Well who is gonna need the most boosts to win games? Of course bad players with bad teams. But if you keep losin you're not gonna keep on playin. And then of course you won't buy packs. But if u win some cuz of dda you will keep playin and buyin packs. Players who win a lot most likely won't buy as many packs. As for myself without braggin I am pretty decent and win 16 mut champs with losing only 0-2 at the most. I rarely buy new cards when they come out cuz I still win games with a lesser team. Some promos I don't even buy any cards.

When I have games where I fumble like 3 times with my truzz Qb it's usually vs teams that don't have all the high end cards. Could be coincidence but could also be dda.

Most likely explanation is you try to do too much because you have truzz.  There's no gain to take unnecessary hits with truzz or tank but people still do all the time and a good player will make you pay since they know how to time hits and strips better.

Woodysky said:

I lose to inferior teams all the time. I usually have to better team and by a lot sometimes and I still get smoked. I can't blame the game for that. My opponents are simply better. Good players who know scheme and how to play football beat me Everytime.

This is the attitude that helps you get better, you can admit when someone is better regardless of their team.  That helps you learn. 

I think it's a much better perspective than trying to blame losses on EA being against you for a given game.   We get lucky sometimes from the animations and sometimes we get the raw end of animations.   It's really as simple as that.   I hope we can one day get a game that doesn't lean so heavily on animations so we have more control over the outcome from play to play.

Moderator Sevein131 said:

Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment,  you can search that term to find out more but there's essentially no concrete proof DDA is active in any EA Sports games. 

Most of the time, DDA is used by the Madden community as an excuse to cope with why they have lost to what they would describe as an inferior team, completely ignoring that their opponent may not be inferior.   Hence why many say "scheme over team". 

The game is too animation based and depending on the dice roll, some animations go your way and other times animations go the other way.   It's just what we have to deal with until someone comes along with an alternative for us to get our licensed football game fix.  But that doesn't mean DDA is in the game. 

I always simply recommend that anyone who claims DDA exists and lesser teams get boosted, to play with a lesser team and see how many more wins they get.  If it exists why not take advantage of it? At the end of the day it seems that most who claim they only lost because of DDA are expecting instant wins from the team they bought vs someone who chooses not to buy all of the most expensive items for one reason or another. 

Finally,  I think DDA would go against EA's model of wanting to sell more packs and players.   If I can field a lesser team, get assistance from the game in the form of DDA and win comfortably, why would I spend money or time to improve my team?   It just doesn't make sense, but what does make sense is the animation based system used to simulate football needs an overhaul so it doesn't feel so random at times one way or the other and actually make every attribute point matter instead of making tangible improvements threshold based.

Most of the time, DDA is used by the Madden community as an excuse to cope with why they have lost to what they would describe as an inferior team, completely ignoring that their opponent may not be inferior.   Hence why many say "scheme over team". 

hit it on the button right there, that's exactly why I made that one post about it a month or 2 ago lmao

peatrick said:

This is NOT dynamic difficulty adjustment, it's merely the game being a buggy, inconsistent mess.  O-line play and blocking in general is potentially THE worst aspect of a beyond broken game, however for M25 the ability to control and move around the field as a USER is towards the top of that lengthy list.  USER controlled players regularly refuse to animate, the ball will just go directly through us at times, no matter how well we play defense.  We can basically run the route for an opponent and they'll still come away with a huge gain.  This is not DDA, i assure you.

"DDA" is simply the way kids explain away the horrendous, inconsistent gameplay.  We're all expecting to drop into a modern, simulation fatball experience and this is anything but that -- so we're all left scratching our heads and cannot (or refuse to) admit to ourselves that EA basically just bilked us out of seventy dollars (if not significantly more) for a roster update.  Little else has changed since the PS3 generation, if anything EA continues to strip out features to feed back to us a ~decade later.  I.E. "impactful weather" what a novel idea for Madden 26, surely this is going to be the most real Madden ever, m'right?  UGGH.

This is not a serious video game company, they do not give one flying fuck about anything the community has to say.  Anyone expecting things to be better or different next year delusional.  Nothing can or will change as long as EA continues to hold onto the exclusive license agreement with the NFL.

This is NOT dynamic difficulty adjustment, it's merely the game being a buggy, inconsistent mess.

BOOM, you said it perfectly

I've never just straight up had a ball go through any of my players or my user

Post a few of your full games, wins and losses. It should clear things up pretty quickly. 😂

RavensFlockLetsFly said:

Most of the time, DDA is used by the Madden community as an excuse to cope with why they have lost to what they would describe as an inferior team, completely ignoring that their opponent may not be inferior.   Hence why many say "scheme over team". 

hit it on the button right there, that's exactly why I made that one post about it a month or 2 ago lmao

Yall fundamentally do not understand what DDA is if you think it’s related to team overalls

xXcGilmer18Xx said:

Please watch this clip… that is as anti DDA as I’ve seen.. 

Sorry it’s a late clip, I was stunned.. 

https://www.xbox.com/play/media/aGLUm5CUpF

Another note, the fact that you are “stunned” indicates this doesn’t happen to you frequently.

Stuff like this happens in my games all the time, I don’t even think twice about it anymore

Crab5 said:

Another note, the fact that you are “stunned” indicates this doesn’t happen to you frequently.

Stuff like this happens in my games all the time, I don’t even think twice about it anymore

Happens ALL the dang time.

Personally, I as well am on the fence with this. It has definitely happened to me on more than one occasion, but like others have stated, it very well could be just animation based. In fact, I've actually seen stuff like this happen in Franchise mode, which doesn't seem like a game mode needing DDA...

Wouldn't be shocked either way, Madden is broken anyway

Moderator Sevein131 said:

Most likely explanation is you try to do too much because you have truzz.  There's no gain to take unnecessary hits with truzz or tank but people still do all the time and a good player will make you pay since they know how to time hits and strips better.

Nah I don't run often with my Qb but I had one game where I fumbled twice with my Qb while being tackled from behind. Not even a hit stick. Two runs. Two fumbles. That's one game where I thought dda is real. My qb never fumbled again being tackled from behind since then

Moderator Sevein131 said:

Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment,  you can search that term to find out more but there's essentially no concrete proof DDA is active in any EA Sports games. 

Most of the time, DDA is used by the Madden community as an excuse to cope with why they have lost to what they would describe as an inferior team, completely ignoring that their opponent may not be inferior.   Hence why many say "scheme over team". 

The game is too animation based and depending on the dice roll, some animations go your way and other times animations go the other way.   It's just what we have to deal with until someone comes along with an alternative for us to get our licensed football game fix.  But that doesn't mean DDA is in the game. 

I always simply recommend that anyone who claims DDA exists and lesser teams get boosted, to play with a lesser team and see how many more wins they get.  If it exists why not take advantage of it? At the end of the day it seems that most who claim they only lost because of DDA are expecting instant wins from the team they bought vs someone who chooses not to buy all of the most expensive items for one reason or another. 

Finally,  I think DDA would go against EA's model of wanting to sell more packs and players.   If I can field a lesser team, get assistance from the game in the form of DDA and win comfortably, why would I spend money or time to improve my team?   It just doesn't make sense, but what does make sense is the animation based system used to simulate football needs an overhaul so it doesn't feel so random at times one way or the other and actually make every attribute point matter instead of making tangible improvements threshold based.

This is not DDA.

Difficulty adjustment (which is exactly what it says it is) makes the game easier or harder and can be set in almost all solo games by the User. Its long been suspected that the game ALSO sets a level of difficulty before or during H2H matches so as to balance the game, thereby making it more engaging for both players. If you think about it, it makes sense that a game involving two separate people needs some unifying way of balancing the difficulty for both of them. A game you win easily or get pasted in is not engaging. If you won every time or lost every time you would soon get bored and stop playing. A game that people don't want to play is a bad game. 

The problem comes when the game involves either paying large of sums of money to buy 'better' players or competing for hours and hours to earn them. Its reasonable that either type of player expects their team to be a 'better' team but, were that to happen, the high OVR teams would always win and we'd be back to where we were in the last paragraph with a lack of engagement.

Again, if you think about it, it makes total sense that the difference between teams is kept small (hence the ability to earn high OVR players without spending) and there is some form of balancing to make every game a challenge. Good players, particularly those with high OVR sides will win more than they lose. Bad players, with or without high OVR teams will lose more than they win but the difference for most of the playing population will be marginal. The best situation for EA is that players bat around .500 whatever team they have. Again, think about it; they'd want a playing population just frustrated enough with losses so as to buy or grind for 'better' players and just happy enough with their win percentage to keep coming back for more. That's an engaged player base.

The ball going through a player is not DDA; its just a bad game and shit like that happens all the time. What also happens all the time in Madden is that O and D Lines go from heroes to clown shows from one game to the next. DB's play like they're psychic or blind. Running Backs suddenly run like they're in socks. WR's get slow and drop everything. Top that up with convenient holding pens and (worst of the lot) fumbles and you have a game where it is very easy to tip the scales. Anyone playing H2H for any length of time will see nonsense like this regularly but remember, they may have it from both sides, either experiencing it themselves or seeing it on the other side of the ball. They'll also see it in any solo challenge where the difficulty is set to All Madden. Coincidence? Sure it is.

Good day 

 I’m not  a good player at all. I’m really not and I’ve had several occasions all year  with things happening  that are just such a head scratcher that keep me in the game and sometimes I’ve ended up winning when I clearly shouldn’t have. Then gotten messages  from my opponent, saying all kinds of nasty things which I end up agreeing with them saying you are right I wasn’t supposed to win but what could I do ? 
One time I stopped playing and on a field goal to win the game, The player on the edge just jumped and blocked the kick himself I was just waiting for the game  to be finished to review some highlights. next thing I know I won the game. I have had plenty of things like this happen all year long.