ReTune. Worse Gameplay with last 2 updates

[QuadaMillion]

You guys have overtuned your last 2 updates and it has nearly rendered the game unplayable. Please retune how you tune your updates.

Defense still SUCKS and NEVER intercepts the ball. Any online takeaway and you will win because it is so rare. Defense is just stupid and doesn't even know where their own hands are to make a catch. Even deflections falling into their lap will be dropped but the offense can catch deflections all day long, in fact they are the only ones that can catch deflections. User picking is 99% impossible and never works anymore even when it should 100% be an INT or at least 9/10 times. They. Cannot. Catch. Please make the defense less stupid. You turned down their abilities wayyy too much and now it is like they are children who forgot how to play as soon as the ball is snapped and it is unrealistic, no team would watch so many balls go right in their path without even noticing let alone deflecting or intercepting the ball. It is unplayable at the moment. Give them life again!!!

Outside slants towards the sideline on offense are spammed online because the defenders will always cut inside and be beaten towards the outside for quick throws like 19/20 times, please address. Add plays that fix this as well. This mixed with the ability that user INTs are impossible, means even if the user on defense guards those routes manually it will still be thrown right past my hopeless defenders head who can only hope to make a tackle sooner rather than later. I can guard the route perfectly manually but it hardly matters.

Other issues other than gameplay:

Users cannot see other users alternate uniforms, it always shows them their standard top uniform. Either home or away. Additionally to that, users have the ability to make unlimited uniforms but once a certain amount is made, they cant select them on the team select screen because it gets cut off. Please add a SCROLLING BAR that would allow the users to scroll down to select their uniforms, similar to how you have it in the uniform creation menu. This would allow users to actually select their bottom listed uniforms and wear them IN GAME.

I am unable to edit and SAVE accessories for my players like striped wrist bands or different colored socks or change their mouth guards and save them and have them remained saved after I quit the game and get back on. They always revert back to what they were. This hasn't always been the case but now it is. It will only save changes made to players individual uniform accessories until I exit the game completely for that session and then they are back to how they were before I edited them.

[Jobu]

I agree. The defense was much better at release. I guess too many of those players that just roll out and throw bombs into double coverage complained in the discord about there being too many picks, so they caved to them and completely broke the defense.

Cover 2 zone pressed up will put your defenders in the best position to take away some of the out routes and outside slants you are talking about. But what often happens now, is the DB or LB will usually just tip it up to another offensive player. They completely broke the DB’s and LB’s coverage the last update. It looks like they are playing patty cake with the ball out there now. Will never pick it off. Sometimes they will juggle it around 20 times until another offensive player comes in and grabs the ball. Any OL has better hands than 90+ rated DB’s. I have seen many of OL come in take one of those juggled balls back for touchdowns.

The DB play was amazing at release. Some of the best I had seen in a football game. They were aggressive and jumped routes. Punished people for making poor throws. It was so nice to see because it was a more accurate representation of the real football. Now the defense looks comical out there. But hey at least little Johnny call roll out and throw bombs now without consequence.

[gritpro]

Agreed. 1st two weeks of the release defenses played as defenses are supposed too. I ran a dynasty with solid DBS even though a .500 team the conversative defense keep the game in front of them. i don't think more than 7 plays were over 40 yds the whole season. now, you have 40 yd plays 7 times a game or more even against prevent defenses. Doesn't make sense.

[SexyVaughn]

I completely agree. If the ball lands directly in a defender’s hands, they should be able to intercept it most of the time. Defenders often get a bad reputation in the NFL for struggling with catches, but they’re not kids—they have the skills to catch, just not to the level of legends like Randy Moss or Calvin Johnson. Now, if defenders were making one-handed, leaping catches all over the field, I’d agree that might be too much. But that’s not the problem here. The real issue is when a ball is thrown right at them from just ten yards away, and they still fail to make the interception. One of the weekly goals is to get 10 interceptions. Bro I'll be lucky to get 1 with the way this game currently is.

[FallingFaceFirst]

What we need is difficulty options and sliders to tune the game how we want to play. Hopefully that happens at some point.

[KnownB4One]

Originally posted by FallingFaceFirst:

What we need is difficulty options and sliders to tune the game how we want to play. Hopefully that happens at some point.

I hear ya on alot of these issues but they built the game without sliders intended...i wonder if they kept the old deense and used the newer passing i it would work

[executivehall]

But there are sacks galore! SMH

[executivehall]

Forget about it if your spectating; team scored a TD, then lined up for what I thought was going to be a 2 pt conversion, just to punch it in for a another touchdown, then kicked a field goal. A cool 13 point swing in a tight game, late.