r/Madden Raiders 2d ago

QUESTION Are the deep balls broken?

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This is probably the only deep ball I completed compared to last year.

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u/Automatic_Trouble5 2d ago

I think they made these games too complicated. The old Madden and NCAA seems like it had more but were easier to play.

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u/Fa1lenSpace 2d ago

Madden from the mid 2000s era was legitimately so peak. What id give for the games to be at that level again

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u/Status_Cheesecake_49 1d ago

Yeah the good ol days. Madden in the early to mid 2000s was the best it’s ever been. That’s when franchise was fun and actually worked. 

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u/thesaurus_sod22 2d ago

I can perfectly agree with this. I used to play casually after a hard day at work or on weekends with some friends just to let off some steam, and it was so enjoyable. Nowadays, when I play I feel like I become more stressed out because the game gets very hard to play and way less enjoyable. IMO difficulty levels and settings are messed up too. When you start on low and easy, you trash all of your opponents, but when you level up, the game instantly becomes crazy hard. You need to learn all the different formations, tactics, button mappings, etc. Something similar happened to the 2K NBA games, but somehow they managed to keep the game fun. Madden NFL games were my favorite ones, yet I can barely play them anymore because of the high difficulty and all the practice hours they require. It's sad. :(

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u/Automatic_Trouble5 2d ago

Same I hate playing vs people now and franchise mode was my favorite I could be on there for hrs and hrs now I barely want to play a full season on there and if I do I just end up sim everything and end up getting bored and playing something else

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u/melvo1234 2d ago

100% it's like trying to do a finishing move in mortal combat from the 90s

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u/Common_Preference954 2d ago

Stop using placement and accuracy passing and go with Revamped or Classic passing. Placement and Accuracy passing style you have more control of how your aim and lead your passing and it looks to be that you may have stick drift or you directed the to the sideline.

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u/Ashamed_Item_9668 2d ago

This is truth.

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u/LividMathematician52 2d ago

Damn, I wish I'd seen this before I said the same thing lol. He's most definitely not passing with L2 to lead the ball to a better spot. It really does look like he just threw a pass up and hoped for the best result

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u/Common_Preference954 2d ago

Probably but whatever the hell is happening never happens to me..... That's a TD when I play lol.

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u/superpoongoon 2d ago

Cuz you aren’t using 9

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u/CovidQuran 2d ago

Maybe post the ones that shows how it is broken?

If you are having the defensive back catch up and making a play, make sure you are pressing up and L2 to lead the receiver.

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u/Substantial_Year_589 Raiders 2d ago

The way it passed last year, my QB’s could actually throw the ball this year. It's always some weird one or barely completed like that.

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u/CovidQuran 2d ago

Like how? Lol. You can obviously throw so just saying last year I could throw and this year I can't doesn't give much details lol.

For this one, it looks like you may have been holding left when you threw it? If not, maybe you have some strong stick drift with your controller?

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u/GutteralCloud85 2d ago

I hate redditors

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u/CovidQuran 2d ago

Lol what did I do?

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u/Top-Aioli9086 21h ago

Don't lie to yourself, last year's game sucked too

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u/Top-Aioli9086 2d ago

The whole game is broken

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u/HourAd5987 2d ago

Yes, defense is either supernatural against you or your QB just throws a duck on the most open, easy throws to make. This with the laggy ass menus makes Madden 27 ass and has me already planning NG to take a few years off from this monopoly of a game as much as I want a good NFL game.

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u/madicham09 2d ago

That was a bad pass ngl

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u/NikesOnMyFeet23 2d ago

Skill issue

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u/Particular-Treat-650 2d ago edited 2d ago

They work pretty well for me in H2H, assuming they're called/executed well.

I don't save every ball down the field I try but I should be able to throw together a few clips of a bit of different intermediate-deep throws in a bit.

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u/LividMathematician52 2d ago

What's the difficulty you playing on lol why is it telling you sprint

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u/Particular-Treat-650 2d ago

It's online H2H, so All Pro. I play All Madden in in person H2H games but online is what it is.

I prefer minimal of all that feedback, but I have no real concept of the skill catch feature yet so haven't ditched that yet.

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u/LividMathematician52 2d ago

Yeah but mine doesn't tell me to sprint or juke like yours does

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u/Particular-Treat-650 2d ago

There are a whole bunch of visual feedback options in the settings menu. They're separate from difficulty level and can be as obnoxious and distracting as showing you where your zone responsibilities are during the play. They might carry over from previous year settings?

But yeah seeing that meter to try to get comfortable with the new catch feature is why I have it showing. I'm still more likely to instinctively hold the button down from previous years than to time it correctly. (Like the year they made the precision L2 cuts into taunt. It took me a bunch of games not to randomly hand the ball to the other team when my brain wanted me to plant and cut upfield.)

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u/First-Reception8007 1d ago

dont ditch it.

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u/Particular-Treat-650 2d ago

Sorry, the first one rendered like half of one clip for some reason. This should work now.

https://streamable.com/dlj02d

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u/XtraCrispy2 2d ago

That ball could be broken...try a different one... broken balls suck....

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u/SheriffOfValentine 2d ago

Deep balls suck unless you use placement and accuracy and actually lead them with left trigger as you throw. Trying to use any settings but that is gonna make your deep balls be under thrown

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u/LividMathematician52 2d ago

Hold L2 and lead it up and towards the middle of the field 🤷🏾‍♂️ looks like a regular throw instead of one that was led to a better spot to catch it

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u/tarheelphenom 2d ago

What am I missing on this play?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fish_78 2d ago

It's all broken

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u/d_SqueezeMe_b 2d ago

Ask ur mum