Madden Connected Franchise team member RedZoneD25 answers your CFM questions!

[jpdavis1982]

Thanks Dave. Did you see my question about Larry Ridley? I'm wondering if he has any special commentary for CFM especially during division games and Playoffs.

 

[poohty_t]

Frst off thanks a ton RedZoneD25 for answering our questions !!

1- Has the injury glitch for simmed games been fixed? meaning if a game in an online CFM has to get simmed, will it not on average give at least one team 2-5 guys being hurt for numerous weeks?

2- You mentioned above if someone puts all their practice time into one player it will hurt the rest of the team, but if most of the team is already pretty good ( say you have 49ers or seahawks or pats ) how much would it really hurt your team? i mean wont they still get xp for games played, and if they are already pretty good, as long as your not playing terrible they shouldnt drop in attributes correct?

3- I had heard that the playoff tie breaker logic had been fixed , could you explain how it will determine tiebreakers in m15 ?

4- Has the challenging system had any attention put on it this madden? is it better, as far as can we pick what we are challenging?Can we actually challenge plays when we want now? Also are all turn overs reviewed like in NFL this season ( bowman rule) ?

5- Has gameface been brought back? if not is there plans to bring it back?

6- Does the clear cap tool for commish's work this year?

7- Will the CFM website be the same as last year? can we finally see all the FA from it not just a small few?

so theses didnt get an answer before, thought id repost.... thanks

 

[Hawkeye]

Seriously?! No disrespect, but I find it hard to believe that someone there isn't aware of the issues with these features? You can argue they aren't CFM related, but if you see them affecting CFM, then shouldn't it be addressed with the proper "department" instead of being ignored? Especially if you're the lead designer of CFM and spent 8 months on ....... relocation uniforms? <sigh>

auto-subs - doesn't work, or at the very least, doesn't work properly? You try to set it to get some type of rotation, especially at HB and before you know it, players are disappearing from the game in the 4th quarter. It's broke.

formation subs - asinine that we have to set this every week/game. We should be able to set AND SAVE formation subs, adjusting them as needed/desired.

schemes - Chargers are a good example. Listed as a 4-3 defense, have a 4-3 defense selected, but when you go inside the scheme setting, they have 2 MLB. ?

To expand upon schemes - player types. I have changed player type inside schemes to match what the player shows only to see their OVR go down. ? Doesn't make sense. Also, the CPU doesn't properly utilize players where they are a better fit. Case in point, the Chargers had a LE (65) and a RE (60) that when moved to DT became an 83 and 81 respectively. They also had 2 OLB's, (83) and (72) that, when moved to DE, became 91 and 81 respectively. It's one thing for the CPU not to change player positions to best utilize the player, but to NOT change them in the depth chart....???? Just horrendous CPU AI.

Scouting - horribly cumbersome and unrealistic. You could sit at home and get some physical attributes, yet in Madden, everything is an unknown. On top of that, as an owner, you have a scout, but he doesn't scout. WHY DOESN'T HE SCOUT?! Someone needs to look at past Madden's and HC09 (especially HC09) and see how it was done better on last gen consoles.

No mention of "sim clock", so I'll assume it wasn't touched.

No mention of more features from HC09, so I'll assume that's a personal decision by Looman.

 

[buckeye]

Seriously?! No disrespect, but I find it hard to believe that someone there isn't aware of the issues with these features? You can argue they aren't CFM related, but if you see them affecting CFM, then shouldn't it be addressed with the proper "department" instead of being ignored? Especially if you're the lead designer of CFM and spent 8 months on ....... relocation uniforms?

auto-subs - doesn't work, or at the very least, doesn't work properly? You try to set it to get some type of rotation, especially at HB and before you know it, players are disappearing from the game in the 4th quarter. It's broke.

formation subs - asinine that we have to set this every week/game. We should be able to set AND SAVE formation subs, adjusting them as needed/desired.

schemes - Chargers are a good example. Listed as a 4-3 defense, have a 4-3 defense selected, but when you go inside the scheme setting, they have 2 MLB. ?

To expand upon schemes - player types. I have changed player type inside schemes to match what the player shows only to see their OVR go down. ? Doesn't make sense. Also, the CPU doesn't properly utilize players where they are a better fit. Case in point, the Chargers had a LE (65) and a RE (60) that when moved to DT became an 83 and 81 respectively. They also had 2 OLB's, (83) and (72) that, when moved to DE, became 91 and 81 respectively. It's one thing for the CPU not to change player positions to best utilize the player, but to NOT change them in the depth chart....???? Just horrendous CPU AI.

Scouting - horribly cumbersome and unrealistic. You could sit at home and get some physical attributes, yet in Madden, everything is an unknown. On top of that, as an owner, you have a scout, but he doesn't scout. WHY DOESN'T HE SCOUT?! Someone needs to look at past Madden's and HC09 (especially HC09) and see how it was done better on last gen consoles.

No mention of "sim clock", so I'll assume it wasn't touched.

No mention of more features from HC09, so I'll assume that's a personal decision by Looman.

Number 1: check the attitude.

-Half of the items you mentioned you provided zero description of what the actual issue is.

-Many are not CFM issues as they are general gameplay. I.E. formation sub's, substitution slider,

-wth is "sim clock"?

-and I'm not seeing the issue with ovr change? A players attributes are what causes the fluctuation in a OVR per scheme. If a player has spent the majority of his career as a 3-4 run stuffer, then that will be his classification on the game.

That does not mean he does mean he doesn't have the skill set to be a 4-3 balanced end (if he has the physical attributes and positional attributes his OVR may be better as something else).

-whether you want to believe it, there were a lot of people complaining about uniform options or lack there of. Do I personally care about uniforms? No but a shit ton of people do.

-Josh Looman also has people to answer to when it comes to features going in. If he doesn't get approval, he can't put it in. When it comes to HC09, we have all pushed for many features to be brought in.

The problem with adding the combine, pro-days etc is that you have to have an entirely different game mode built to have those things. With the addition of player specific drills (via the Gauntlet) those things should be easier to accomplish.


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[Jlinton]

Does the new Jaguars stadium have the cabanas and new jumbo screen? Can they be seen ???

 

[poohty_t]

-whether you want to believe it, there were a lot of people complaining about uniform options or lack there of. Do I personally care about uniforms? No but a shit ton of people do.

To me the sad thing about this fact is this, even after all this time was spent working on the uniforms ( which i think honestly most adult players could care less about them being perfect) i am willing to bet there will still be about the same amount of people crying about them once they get the game. Those who wanna nit-pick , such small and minor details will never be satisfied i dont think. I just personally hope , if they are not happy with them after this madden, Looman will drop it and focus on more important things. I honestly dont think you can please most of those who wanna be so critical over such tiny details most would never even see. I would much rather see time spent on better gameplay ,functions & features .

 

[buckeye]

To me the sad thing about this fact is this, even after all this time was spent working on the uniforms ( which i think honestly most adult players could care less about them being perfect) i am willing to bet there will still be about the same amount of people crying about them once they get the game. Those who wanna nit-pick , such small and minor details will never be satisfied i dont think. I just personally hope , if they are not happy with them after this madden, Looman will drop it and focus on more important things. I honestly dont think you can please most of those who wanna be so critical over such tiny details most would never even see. I would much rather see time spent on better gameplay ,functions & features .

This x1000

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[MrBill]

Does the new Jaguars stadium have the cabanas and new jumbo screen? Can they be seen ???

I can't speak to the cabanas but I know for sure the new jumbotron is in the game. There were some screens captured of it in the live stream for gameplay a couple of weeks back.

 

[MajorSupreme]

When we sim 10 years in the future, does it sim through each game and each offseason stage, which could be a 25 minute+ investment?

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[maxwspen]

When playing with an owner/coach, is there the ability to change the coaches "scheme and philosophy" (i.e., run/pass ratio, workhouse RB/RBBC, Zone/Man)?? Seemed there was minimal control in this department, especially as my team changed over time and the strengths would change between running and passing.

Also, are the simulated stats during offline seasons in CFM more realistic this year? It was frustrating to see the "top" qbs in a season have about 15 TDs to 25 INTs and 45% completion percentage..

thanks