Customization in Madden 10
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The latest Inside EA Blog posting goes over in detail the customization options in Madden 10. It actually goes as far as to include the actual game design document for the game settings screen. Within that some new details about the game can be found. Check out the entire posting here.
Having this kind of interaction with the community spelled it out EXTREMELY clearly – we really needed to focus in this area and make sure that we were allowing numerous customization options, especially the ones that had been requested for so many years by our community.
Accelerated clock is in, which is something that had hoped to be included in a DLC pack that never materialized for 09. No new camera angles though it remains possible the ActionCam has been tweaked from last year (hopefully). It also doesn’t appear that special teams has received any attention for 10 which is a disappointment as it remains ignored every year.
There is now a “Game Speed” setting with five different levels to choose from, a “Player Speed Differential” which will affect the range of speed between ratings, and “Coach Mode” which will see the CPU taking over control of the QB.
March 30, 2009 at 11:12 pm
YES! Accelerated clock. I hate waiting the play clock for Manning and Brady to finally call hike. It was really annoying.
March 30, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Any one see down there when it mentioned Stat Overlays, it says this:
"Minimal: All quarter and pregame banners will show (INCLUDING PRE GAME WARMUPS), but beyond that, the user will only see record-breaking stat banners".
Now am i reading too much into that? Or are we gonna get an on field pre game warm up type presentation the likes seen in NFL 2K5?
March 30, 2009 at 11:58 pm
not as exciting as the past few weeks. I think due to them obviously still working on main features which could also mean they are struggling with them as they are not ready to announce anything "huge" as compared to previous weeks, theres nothing new here except maybe "pregame warmups" which is cool, but ive got a feeling they will not be as good as we would expect.
March 31, 2009 at 12:06 am
wow madden 10 is looking great. I would like to know more on Franchise mode. What is this pre-game warm up used for? Is there any use for it? I really like how the article went in deph on how to make a game. You have to give these developers credit they work very hard to make a superb game.
March 31, 2009 at 12:08 am
how about customization in the edit player department. Can we edit ratings during franchise? can we edit builds, heights, tattoos?
March 30, 2009 at 4:08 pm
OMG. I totally noticed the pregame warmup “message” and you arent reading too much into this. I REALLLLY hope this has a pregame where QBs are throwing and handing the ball off. Notice that i didnt say “2K5 ish”. The reason is because madden 10 is going to be twice as good, and madden is going to FINALLY stomp 2k5 into the ground and spit on them, and then everyone will be able to shut the h3ll up about a game that came out in 2004.
March 31, 2009 at 8:08 pm
I want to see players doing jumping jacks and down-ups….Cut scenes with guys on the sidelines saying hi to their moms…I want mud and a whole lot of it…I want snow to pile up and bodies to imprint when landing in it….I want snow angels, new kick meters and a cold beer…
March 31, 2009 at 12:17 am
Pasta, do you know if the score overlay is still the same as 09? It really annoyed me how it doesn't go away during gameplay (especially during field goals) because it kinda gets in the way of seeing the whole field. I like it being on the top of the screen instead of the bottom but they should make it smaller.
March 31, 2009 at 1:38 am
Sorry I don't know anything along those lines yet. If I get a chance to see it early I'll note it and suggest a change.
March 31, 2009 at 2:55 am
Thanx Pasta
March 31, 2009 at 2:55 am
I agree. All the TV stations these have the rectangular stripe across the top or bottom so I'm not sure why they even put it there in the first place. Hopefully they use the one NCAA is using this year. That looks really nice.
March 31, 2009 at 12:20 am
Hey Pasta, I know this is a little off topic but I had to bring this up. Somebody wrote to ESPN's John Clayton and brought up a great idea for overtime in the NFL here it is
Q: The NFL's overtime rules seem to be unpopular. A possible solution to the overtime issue would be to have the pregame coin flip also count for the overtime period. Though some will still complain, at least the luck factor associated with the coin flip is avoided. A team trailing by one, knowing it will not get the ball back in overtime, could then go for the two-point conversion. If that occurs — success or failure — overtime is avoided.
David in Bothell, Wash.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?colum...
I just wanted to spread this idea as much as possible as it makes too much sense
March 31, 2009 at 7:30 am
I don't like that idea at all. The pregame coin toss only determines who gets the ball first. Both teams get the opportunity to start a half with the ball and this would give a large advantage to the team who knows that they would get the ball in overtime. For a similar example to what you quoted, lets say that a team is trailing by 3 and is inside the 10 yard line with 30 seconds left and this team knows that they will be getting the ball in OT. Now, they have no real need to try for a touchdown. They can just play it safe and try some rushing plays in those 30 seconds and maybe get a TD, but no worry if they don't because they can just kick a field goal and immediately get the ball back to win in OT.
So yeah, the real key to this is that the team that wins the toss(I'm assuming the team that loses the toss would get the ball in OT…not that it makes a difference though) is not actually gaining an advantage. The only time this happens in the NFL is with the OT toss but, why penalize the team that won the pregame toss because they got the ball first? This would worse than the current system because it contains all the same faults but now lets you plan for OT which takes away from the sense that anything can happen and from the excitement of both regulation and OT.
Also, what if you're Marty Mornhinweg and don't want the ball in OT? lol
March 31, 2009 at 3:02 pm
To answer your 1st question about whether a coach would sit on the ball to get it back in OT, coaches do that anyway. If your down by 3 with 30 seconds left you run as many safe plays as you can in 20-22 seconds and while taking a few safe shots at the end zone in regulation and settle for the FG in need be. So what changes is that you can plan ahead of time for OT instead of waiting to see what happens with the OT coin toss. To answer your 2nd question no coach prepares for OT before the game so how can the coach get upset if win or lose the opening coin toss? Complaining about not receiving the ball for OT means to admit to worrying about playing for 60 minutes for a tie. Their were 512 games and 15 OT games for an average of 1 OT for every 34 games or 3% of all NFL games. What this idea does is allow a team to game plan late in the game as they know who will receive the ball 1st in OT. Also this requires little implication and strays away from gimmick OT ideas such as each team gets the ball or only TD's allowed etc.
March 31, 2009 at 12:32 pm
OT is only unpopular with the fans. The players/coaches/owners don't want the rules changed.
Want the ball in OT? PLAY DEFENSE!!!
March 31, 2009 at 12:27 am
The ability to shut off the huge scoreboard at the top of the screen once you break the huddle would be great. Either that, or just a nice little condensed version of the scoreboard in the top right corner that shows score and time remaining
March 31, 2009 at 1:34 am
Exactly. I really hope they do something about that. It seems like the score overlay takes up the whole screen in 09. I want to appreciate graphics & the atmosphere not a huge scoreboard dead center in the middle of gameplay.
March 31, 2009 at 1:37 am
Thats actually really smart. Even more so since it comes from a guy in the city where I work
March 31, 2009 at 1:49 am
Ty, it's 2009. That makes it 5 years EA has had to catch up to 2K5. So far, no good. We will all be very happy if they eventually achieve it, but there has been no excuse for some of the piss-poor efforts we've seen over the recent years from EA.
March 31, 2009 at 1:51 am
Pasta, you said that there were no new camera angles, but in the article it pretty clearly states new ones are planned, just figured i'd throw that in there.
March 31, 2009 at 1:55 am
ok the coach mode feature sounds great. now i can get that head coach type of thing in madden(if its what it should be). i really wanna kno more about this feature tho. pasta can u look more into it please and post more info about how it works?
March 31, 2009 at 1:56 am
See, even if EA did make the Best football game ever this year, people like you would still find a way to discredit them. Its like saying that if the Browns won a superbowl, THEY WON A SUPERBOWL, people like you would say that its been 30+ years since the last one, so its about time. who gives a crap they would have won a Superbowl. Like all the slogans say. Believe In NOW. dont live in the past
March 31, 2009 at 2:00 am
Wrong. Everybody wants to play a great football game. Madden has taken steps backwards from where it was at 5 years ago. It's still missing features that were in 2004. There's no excuse for that. It has seemed over the past year that EA have actually been TRYING to improve both Madden and NBA Live. I hope they are successful, but history is not on their side.
March 31, 2009 at 2:11 am
The coach mode was in previous maddens before they took it out. If they announce one more feature that was in previous editions I will personally go down to Austin and give them a 2 piece and a biscuit.
March 31, 2009 at 2:40 am
Sorry, But what the heck is a 2 piece and a….. a biscut?
March 31, 2009 at 2:51 am
Duh, he wants to give them a combo meal from KFC because he's happy about all the features they're bringing back.
March 31, 2009 at 2:52 am
Duh, he wants to give them a combo meal from KFC because he's happy about all the features they're bringing back…although I prefer the bucket of wings myself.
March 31, 2009 at 3:34 am
A 2 piece and a biscuit is a jab, straight and a uppercut. I'm surprised
you never heard o that. am I the only one in here who knows this?
March 31, 2009 at 3:37 am
Lol. I was kidding Mo.
March 31, 2009 at 4:40 am
Hence the song, "Don't get 2 pieced" from Turf Talk. Yay Areaaaa!!!!
March 31, 2009 at 3:46 am
I know all about it but I am also curious to see what they are going to do with the fatigue tired of trying to defend the wr screens with a hurry up dude and they never get tired!!!!!!
March 31, 2009 at 11:37 pm
exactly
people who run the no huddle should have to think twice about doing it if they actually got the fatigue settings right
March 31, 2009 at 4:46 am
This all sounded like a bunch of gibberish……I dont come on Pastapadre's football blog for this…..where are the ACTUAL game play edits, changes, features…..graphics? this kind of 'customization' info should have been something they came out with at the very end……..very boring read really.
March 31, 2009 at 11:37 pm
its better than nothing
March 31, 2009 at 8:59 am
I'm digging the injury slider, but the common issue with a "slider" for injuries is going to be that increasing the slider will lead to far to many significant injuries. If I'm playing with 15 min. quarters (which I should be able to do with accelerated clock), then there should be 5-10 injuries a game that might only result in a player being "shaken" up and having to leave for a play or a series. I seem to remember dealing with an injury slider in the previous gen of Madden (I think) and it led to far too many significant injuries. You would lose 5-10 players a game for 3 or more weeks. The obvious issue with that, is the fact that the IR is broken.
March 31, 2009 at 10:53 am
Do any of you guys know or have heard anything about the ps2 game?????!!!!!!!!!??????? if so please post what you heard………………….thanks!!!!!!!
March 31, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I heard they were gonna give you an updated rosters as DLC for the PS2. That will be the Madden 10 for the PS2. Also they are going to add the forward pass for the Atari 2600 edition.
March 31, 2009 at 11:01 am
so no news on if they tweaked franchise or superstar yet?
March 31, 2009 at 1:56 pm
It baffles me how people can't except the info they get and complain about anything they're given. Yes it wasn't that big of a posting..but like it's stated almost every time…they're building up to bigger things. Its called marketing logic, just because you don't get every question answered when you want it doesn't make all information useless, some of use understand how things work..
March 31, 2009 at 8:06 pm
I agree…What is odd is that the release is just a tad over four months away….HARD TO BELIEVE!!
March 31, 2009 at 1:57 pm
All this means nothing without enhanced gameplay!
GAMPLAY PLEASE
March 31, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Stop complaining!
March 31, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Well, this answers my question about removing the analog sticks for kicking…….damnit, I hate that there is no suspense on FG kicks within 50 yds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Arrrgggghhhhhhhh-
March 31, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Exactly… there's no luck involved with OT. If the other team gets the ball and scores on your defense and wins the game there's no luck in that, you just didn't play good defense. The rules right now are fine, defenses stop offenses all the time in the NFL. They should be able to stop them when it COUNTS, and if they can't then they deserve to loose the game (not bad luck)
March 31, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Yeah, I hope the NFL doesn't go the college route….It's the pros…Want to win? Call heads!!
March 31, 2009 at 7:51 pm
this is what we need for the perfect madden:
1. Bring back the field degration from Madden 07.
2. Add more advanced weather affects with weather changing during a game.
3. I'd like to see helmets pop off sometimes.
4. Fix linebackers jumping so high.
5. Fix DB's jumping verticly while running at full speed.
6. Fix the blocking.
7. Make franchise more fun.
8. I would like spectate mode online.
9. Better commentary.
10. Make size vs. strength matter. Because, it does in real life.
11. Pile ups! – If the ball is fumbled on the line. I'd like to see guys dive and jump on each other fighting for the loose ball!
12. Fix play clock!
13. Bring Madden back!
14. I'd like to see old school teams brought back. Like, 80's Bronco's and '75 Giants with the actual players from that year.
15. Bring back MVP of the Game – At the end of the game show his top highlights and talk about his stats.
16. Coin Toss – Has anyone mentioned this? I wanna see players and the ref on the field calling heads or tails.
17. Cheerleaders!! Why no cheerleaders? I see it on Sunday right?
18. Add formation shifts.
19. Bring back Create a play and create a play book.
20. Fix plays that work unrealisticly well and take out rocket catch.
21. 3-4 Defense needs to run properly.
22. Please make better use of the ESPN license and integrate it into the gameplay!
23. I want pregame warmups, a halftime highlight show and a postgame highlight and stats show!
24. Add some kind of animation to the jerseys! Similar to what you did in NHL 09.
March 31, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Nice list. I like #11 the most. I have yet to see a game really emphasize pile ups and a delay. Maybe with refs on the field we can get this some year. I am with you on #14. I want the '85 Bears, the team that was banned from tournaments in Madden 93. #17 needs to not happen. Cheerleaders? Has nothing to do with football…#22 — YES!!
March 31, 2009 at 9:42 pm
I agree with most of your lists especially #2, #6, #7 and #10. I would like to add QB Vision. With QB Vision you actually had the awareness rating make a difference and had to look off receivers to complete passes. It added a more realistic feature to the game and prevented people from doing the mad scramble with Romo, McNabb and Young as soon as the ball is snapped
March 31, 2009 at 11:40 pm
probably one of the better list of improvements that ive read
hopefully they throw some of this stuff in
March 31, 2009 at 8:10 pm
What in the world ever happened to Back Breaker or whatever the hell that game was called? I wanted to see that game engine in motion….
March 31, 2009 at 9:03 pm
I think it's still coming out later this year or early next year. Although there was talk that EA might buy the technology and use it in upcoming football games, so who knows.
March 31, 2009 at 9:04 pm
I think it's still coming out later this year or early next year. Although there was talk that EA might buy the technology and use it in upcoming football games, so who knows. Either one is fine with me because those videos for it are incredible.
March 31, 2009 at 9:30 pm
XD. Sorry Emmitt1742 but you got WRECKED!
March 31, 2009 at 11:35 pm
amen for new kick meters
March 31, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Thank God for the accelerated clock! It's about time that's back. I like being able to use the real 15 minute quarters instead of playing 8 minute quarters. Just makes it more realistic, even though it doesn't change a lot. Just another one of those little things that makes the game better. It's amazing all the small improvements that can be made to make the game better. If the developers would always listen to the gamers, their jobs would be a lot easier. God is in the details!
April 1, 2009 at 1:05 am
New Madden NFL 10 website is live and mentions "fight for the fumble". Cross it off your wishlist.
Its as cool as you hope it will be IMO
This was from ian cummings twitter page so it looks like we will see the pile ups.
April 1, 2009 at 4:13 am
FIX FRANCHISE MODE!!!! make it how it used to be on xbox
April 1, 2009 at 5:43 am
How about when drafting players from NCAA the numbers change to the NFL standards. The whole numbering process in the game was a joke. Having players with #1, 2, 3, 4, etc…
The Xbox version allowed you to edit player numbers during franchise if you wanted to. I think this feature should definately be brought back. That way people can govern their own franchises the way they see fit. If the game has the NFL sticker on it, then it should at the minimum conform to the rules of the game, PERIOND…
April 2, 2009 at 3:18 am
Yeah, they really should add something thats already in the current version of the game huh… It makes sense to me…
Now that I'm done being sarcastic, if you want to change the players number just go to 'Edit Player' and you'll see the option there.