Just Admit It

You know what your doing.  The same specific alignment and adjustments and manual moving your players to a spot that you saw on youtube to get  free rushers when only sending 4. Cheese/glitch/exploit whatever you want it to call it:  you know what you're doing. That's why you pick it on the first play and don't let up, regardless of what the opponent is doing. 

And you know what? It's fine. I wish there was a separate playcall cool down mode but oh well. If you want to play that way, go for it. But just admit it. Let's not pretend what this is, there's no way your that delusional. You know what you're doing.

What pisses me off is the denial, the talk of unique schemes, and the same exact crap that's always needed to go 10-0.

So what are you going to do about it? Come onto forums and complain, like everyone else?

Harvey87 said:

So what are you going to do about it? Come onto forums and complain, like everyone else?

I was thinking about buying the crystal step up offer. That will show 'em

Natej8888 said:

I was thinking about buying the crystal step up offer. That will show 'em

LOL, me too.  I've never played a glitcher that admits to it.

Natej8888 said:

You know what your doing.  The same specific alignment and adjustments and manual moving your players to a spot that you saw on youtube to get  free rushers when only sending 4. Cheese/glitch/exploit whatever you want it to call it:  you know what you're doing. That's why you pick it on the first play and don't let up, regardless of what the opponent is doing. 

And you know what? It's fine. I wish there was a separate playcall cool down mode but oh well. If you want to play that way, go for it. But just admit it. Let's not pretend what this is, there's no way your that delusional. You know what you're doing.

Crying and complaining isn't going to do anything. I use think this way too but now I try to play against it and learn. Do I lose most of the time? Yes. Do I get upset and angry that they do it? Heck yeah. Can't win every game. Learn and watch they they like to do. Everyone is beatable in this game. That's how online is now. Either adapt or don't play online at all.

GreenCheetos said:

Crying and complaining isn't going to do anything. I use think this way too but now I try to play against it and learn. Do I lose most of the time? Yes. Do I get upset and angry that they do it? Heck yeah. Can't win every game. Learn and watch they they like to do. Everyone is beatable in this game. That's how online is now. Either adapt or don't play online at all.

I think you misunderstood my point. Analyzing opponents playcalls and making adjustments to counteract is very enjoyable and why I have been playing Madden online for 20 years. And don't get me wrong, I win plenty of games. I've won SB's in legend, I got to 16 wins more than once in mut champs last year, and I got to champion III in less than 40 games season 1 ranked.

In my 20 years playing online I've seen it all: engage eight, 10 yard fade aggressive catch, mid blitz, play action boot over, nano blitz, etc etc etc. I gave up on people having any kind of integrity and wanting to play a legit NFL style of game a long time ago (there literally used to be a 'fair play' setting that was enabled in online play that forced people to punt, limited no huddles among other things that EA completely abandoned - but thats a whole nother topic).

But come on,  just admit what you're doing. Don't get on the mic and try to argue and justify why what your doing isn't cheesey. Don't say you played in college and know ball when you're playing dollar and picking your play even before you see what personnel the offense is bringing in. Have the balls to admit that's how you decide to play the game.

Cool down is for casuals. It’s for people who can’t read peoples tendencies in certain formations. Defense is trash this year so you almost have to be able to switch stick. Switch stick will make or break it for you this year.

you caught me

EazyBreezy said:

you caught me

But you admit it - meaning you are fundamentally not who my comments are aimed at

droblunts313 said:

Cool down is for casuals. It’s for people who can’t read peoples tendencies in certain formations. Defense is trash this year so you almost have to be able to switch stick. Switch stick will make or break it for you this year.

It really irks me just how true this statement is.  EA cannot figure out how to fix or improve defenders, so now they force us to play all eleven positions on defense and trick the community into perceiving this as a FEATURE, rather than the buggy ass shit it actually is.  Defense is so trash every year, but typically it's covered up by how powerful the various Zone KO abilities become by late in the year.  Defenders simply do not move, let alone react to the ball unless/until we've got our guys equipped with relevant abilities.  And now, those abilities will only trigger about ~half of the time, so defense will almost certainly remain broken.

The simple fact that the meta is to send two pass rushers, dropping 9 into coverage most downs, while just hoping for the shoddy O-line play and the near insta-sheds that DoN provides, well... it's something.  But yes, Switch Stick will make or break players.  Even dudes who are expert level switchers will regularly misclick, or suffer from stick-drift, to the point that a split second switch can take your defender out of the play, ensuring you give up wide open streaks down the field.

Live by the sword, die by the sword, but it's become an absolute necessity to master.  I play the majority of my MUT time in Squads play, so i still have yet to master this.  Huge skill gap type stuff.  Pisses me off because i'm terrible and forced to learn this.

peatrick said:

It really irks me just how true this statement is.  EA cannot figure out how to fix or improve defenders, so now they force us to play all eleven positions on defense and trick the community into perceiving this as a FEATURE, rather than the buggy ass shit it actually is.  Defense is so trash every year, but typically it's covered up by how powerful the various Zone KO abilities become by late in the year.  Defenders simply do not move, let alone react to the ball unless/until we've got our guys equipped with relevant abilities.  And now, those abilities will only trigger about ~half of the time, so defense will almost certainly remain broken.

The simple fact that the meta is to send two pass rushers, dropping 9 into coverage most downs, while just hoping for the shoddy O-line play and the near insta-sheds that DoN provides, well... it's something.  But yes, Switch Stick will make or break players.  Even dudes who are expert level switchers will regularly misclick, or suffer from stick-drift, to the point that a split second switch can take your defender out of the play, ensuring you give up wide open streaks down the field.

Live by the sword, die by the sword, but it's become an absolute necessity to master.  I play the majority of my MUT time in Squads play, so i still have yet to master this.  Huge skill gap type stuff.  Pisses me off because i'm terrible and forced to learn this.

I wasn’t that great at it last year but I’ve done a lot of practicing this year with the switch stick. The events are nice because you can play really quick games and it doesn't matter if you lose.

Harvey87 said:

So what are you going to do about it? Come onto forums and complain, like everyone else?

How ironic. Complaining about complainers. Or am I complaining about people who complain about complainers? 🤷