Updates Coming to Madden Ultimate Team

by pastapadre
Posted August 17th, 2010 at 6:56 pm

Yesterday a few updates that will be rolling out for Madden 11′s Madden Ultimate Team were laid out. It sounds as though they will be arriving in the patch that has been slated to be delivered around the start of the NFL’s regular season.

Amongst the updates is the ability to view the lineup of teams from the leaderboard, which is pretty neat if you’re interested in seeing how other teams are shaped but without the ability to play friends in the mode not sure how many will care about that. More importantly you’ll be able to see the lineup of your opponent in the team select screen before firing up an online game.

Also being added are new “Fantasy Football” cards that will be shaped based on the big performers in fantasy for particular weeks, though I’m not sure how that is different than making cards based on big performances in games as has been the case already. There will also be the inclusion of “Rookie Cards” bringing in this year’s rookies. More collections are being added including those for rookies, AFL uniforms, and Legendary Stadiums.

Unfortunately the main concern with MUT continues to go unaddressed. That is the rampant nature of quitting which has wreaked havoc on the mode. There is no penalty to quitters, but even more importantly no coins being granted to those who are quit on. That has resulted in many basically swearing off the mode in the meantime as there is little incentive to try to play through an online MUT game when the likelihood is on the way to a victory they’ll be quit on and get nothing out of the time that had been invested. Apparently the “Continue vs CPU” option has no chance of returning but something will have to be done, and soon, to address the issue.

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philly

How many coins do you/can you get if you play the CPU in a full game? Thankfully I haven’t had any quits yet on MUT
http://pastapadre.com/ pastapadre

Not much in the grand scheme of things. A few hundred maybe. Get closer to around 1000 for online MUT games.

Jeff

Thanks for letting me know that its absolutly pointless to play vs another person online…since you can get anywhere from 1100 to 1300+ tokens playing the computer….lowest I have gotten is 1100 in 10 games.

Anonymous

Maybe if they take coins away from the quitters and give them to the player he quit on, that would deter all the quitting.
KnightRider

hey pasta, thanks for the heads up! around when do you think we’ll get the next roster update before the season starts?
The Walk On xUA

Pasta, what are the chances that they will fix it so when your opponent quits you get the win? This problem was not fixed on Ncaa, which makes me think it wont be fixed on Madden. Whats your thoughts?
http://pastapadre.com/ pastapadre

They’ll have to do something like that, can’t have people who get quit on have their time be worth nothing.
http://pastapadre.com/ pastapadre

Probably will come once final 53 man rosters are set, so probably a few days before kickoff of the season.
http://pastapadre.com/ pastapadre

I don’t think taking away coins is the answer. Basically they’d be making money off that.

People who get quit on getting coins equal to where they were in a game though makes sense, and the quitter losing a game of eligibility on each card could be a reasonable penalty.
Cardinalsfav360

MUT is a becoming a waste. If your up by more then 7 with 2 minutes left in the first half people just quit. Played 10 games completed 2. Also its way to expensive this year. Why is a player rated a 75 a gold card. Gold should atleast be 80-82 and up.
HUEJAC2

Since I have using the phillosophy of not playing anybody with a double digit quit percentage I have only had one guy to quit on me. Something everybody should think about.

Donny has got to do something about Bucs rookie WR Mike Williams. Did you see him against the Dolphins. Go Bucs.
Jkeyes_337

Hey Pasta, Any word on what else will be included in the patch? Such as tuning the tackle breaking and improving the defense?
Anonymous

True enough but if the guy you are playing against isn’t spending money on cards then why would he care if he loses a game of eligibility for the card. I think penalizing the player his own coins would be a strong enough deterrent to rid this problem.

Quitting is a serious problem pasta. I don’t know how you feel about it, but most people I know get quite enraged when it happens. It only stands to reason that the punishment should be fitting. If you are going to get coins for someone quitting and they don’t come from the person quitting, then ones friends can spam on the quits to help out another friend build up coins.
UM_Gophers

wassup with the rosters? yes I know they are waiting for final cuts but come on did everybody see Logan Payne vs the Rams? Kid gonna make the team!!! I’m lucky enough they got Joe Web didnt see his jumping rateing but it better be 99 he jumped over that stack without a problem
jz

Madden better get the patch of a life time or to ebay my copy goes! This is the worst defense in Madden that I can remember. sliders don’t even do a thing to fix the poor AI. Im hoping the patch makes coverege so tight you think Wrs are virgins on how hard it is to catch a pass.
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Madden2011

Its a money making scheme for looman and thats it…the card ratings are a joke, the pack prices are a joke, its a total money pit for EA. Anyone who spends money on mut is serving EAS greed.
Jackiedunfee

Last year when they introduced this mode it was really fun.If you had 20,000 coins you could build a top notch team from scratch, i remember getting the legendary Jay Cutler for 4000 coins. Now EA has made it so that you have 2 spend actual money to be able to compete, now with 20,000 coins your lucky to get 1 player. People have no choice but to a minimum for there on the block cards that is just a insane amount of coins. EA great job EA i was really looking forward to this this year And i cant play any game on-line because people quit b4 halftime if there down
Willy2535

Another thing that I really didnt like with MUT was the fact that you had to resign ur cards, If youve gone out and earned enough coins and then bought ur cards, I think you shud be able to keep them and discard them at ur liking, not have to then earn more coins so that you can resign them otherwise lose them
Bokinghbk

Who cares fix this crap heap game that I paid for. How about a patch that fixes the oline franchise so I can adjust the cpu sliders. Give me some Cap money so I can manage my team. Im sorry I wouldn’t mind MUT so bad if they just could have got the basics down. How about give me position battles and disgruntled players, and hot and cold streaks. Team chemistry! Why can’t they go to a James Brown Scoring Break During my game or at half time. When they put out the patch that fixes that. I will get excited. Quit trying to whore more money out of me! EA can take the MUT and shove it up their BUT.
Zachhanke

Fallout 3: New Vegas comes out in a couple of months.

That will seriously be taking over my time if there isn’t a severe fix for fans of online one on one.
http://www.facebook.com/GMBBrian Brian Mann

The fact that we cannot play this with friends is mind boggling.

http://twitter.com/amassicott alex massicott

There should be lobbies, I don’t get why they set it up the way they did.

Jordan

Pasta,

Do you know if there’s going to be a patch for PA? It’s ridiculous that the blocking is so teribble on PA’s. Makes it impossible to even use them at all
srg842

When they released the MUT last year, I played it a lot. Spent some money on coins and grew my team pretty well. This year I had 20,000 coins from the GS preorder. I was pretty excited to get in there and buy a few packs and build my team much quicker. I bought a couple of gold packs and a platinum and my best player is a 72 (I think) and is Justin Peele. Next best player is Sam Hurd. That is awful that I spent all those coins and have nothing to show for it. Wouldn’t be bad if I had one or two better than average players, but come on! Not even one 80 out of a platinum pack. Is that really too much to ask for?
Kobra_55

It makes no sense that anyone quits on MUT. I lost to a guy last night and still got 1250 coins, about double what I usually make when I play the CPU.
Cardsfav360

Just keep hitting match up until you do. It’s not hard.
Ktizzy34

mut is ridiculous. i hate how video game companies like ea make u pay to use features for a game i already paid $65 for. This is the same as having to buy new maps for cod. i don’t agree with ppl saying that it is ea greed, cuz they r trying to make money, the only reason they made the game was for money. The “problem” is probably only gonna be fixed if ppl stop buying the game……Or at least stop wasting their money for features that should be expected.
http://twitter.com/amassicott alex massicott

Am I doing something wrong?
Whenever I check the leaderboard on PS3,its empty
Kingstink2002

anybody else having problems keeping players with low contracts? i find it really annoying that i dont have enough contract cards and i have to spend like 800 coins for 1 contract card on auction block. if you are familiar with fifa ultimate team, its just like 150 for a contract card for 10 games or something like that so it doesnt take a game to get a game in a sense.