Hitstick fumbles are ridiculous

[.RoCkEtS1]

Just played an online game and he hitsticked me about 4-5 times total. 3 of them resulted in fumbles. 2 of them occurred when I was in the redzone and two of them were ran back for a touchdown. Meh at Madden...

[Primetime]

Bad luck

[Epidemik]

Just played an online game and he hitsticked me about 4-5 times total. 3 of them resulted in fumbles. 2 of them occurred when I was in the redzone and two of them were ran back for a touchdown. Meh at Madden...

In the Madden Manual (For the PS3) page 4, Under the Section Running With The Ball
if you press R1 you "protect the ball"

i don't know if that helps

[~Chance~]

you beat me to the punch. no one ever protects the ball. they take chris johnson and sprint straight up to ray lewis and try to juke him at the same time and fumble and complain about the game is unrealistic. Watch any game of football and you see them cover up the ball every time before they are tackled if they have time to.

If you play realistically, the game will be realistic

That made me lol.. But its true

[krulmichael]

Yea, the R1 (for us PS3 guys) button is your friend for sure. I've been using it since 07. Sometimes it's not always the smart thing to go for the big play.

[Epidemik]

especially if you have a top flight RB with shady hands like Run DMC. Protect the rock

[Chadman]

hitstick themselves are ridiculus. Im tired of seeing people be able to do it every play. Thats not how it works in the nfl....you dont see a killshot attempted and executed with success every play.

[Wrath]

I got hits ticked about 3 times verse this guy McGriff last night that normally would have been fumbles but protected the ball so no fumbles occurred. Sounds like you need to work on the detailed elements of the game to me, but it does happen. Just bad luck!

[RosettaStoned]

hitstick themselves are ridiculus. Im tired of seeing people be able to do it every play. Thats not how it works in the nfl....you dont see a killshot attempted and executed with success every play.

This.

[.RoCkEtS1]

I shouldn't need to protect the ball every play when I'm carrying with LT who's carrying is pretty good.

Also yeah it is pretty unrealistic to get a hit stick kind of hit almost every play.

[MmmmBeeeeer]

Yea, the R1 (for us PS3 guys) button is your friend for sure. I've been using it since 07. Sometimes it's not always the smart thing to go for the big play.

This. I protect the ball more often than I do a juke/spin.

[Garrett67]

EDIT: Nothing to see here ;)

[MmmmBeeeeer]

Just turn the fumble slider down 2 or so. Although, I'm not sure if you can for online games???

I put it to 45 and haven't seen a fumble is 2 games. (offline)

No slider adjustments online. Online is also at normal speed so it takes quicker reaction time to avoid those hit sticks ;)

[Garrett67]

No slider adjustments online. Online is also at normal speed so it takes quicker reaction time to avoid those hit sticks ;)

Actually, I don't even think there is a fumble slider. Maybe there is but I was thinking of the injury slider.

Carry on