Can you franchise offline on this one?

I can't find franchise mode anywhere I'm reeruned.

Give it a few games, I was impressed the first few games myself, now I wish I just rented it.
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It is under careers.. You can franchise online OR offline as a player or coach (coach being regular franchise mode)

Sweet thanks yo

Wow .... what a game, just beat the Broncos in Denver 37-30.

Cassel had 282 yards passing, compteled 17-30 pass attempts with a 67 completion %, 2 TDS and 3 INTs while rushing 5 times for 49 yards. Manning was 17-31, 292 yards passing, completing 54 %, 2 TDS and 3 Ints.

Charles had 112 yards rushing and 1 TD, Hillis 39 yards on 10 attempts. McGahee had 125 yards rushing.

Baldwin and Bowe each had 90 yards receiving while Demaryius Thomas scorched Flowers for 200 yards receiving.

Tough game, came down to the wire. Oh yea and Arenas had a 104 yard kickoff return for a TD.

Anyways I like this game so much better, feels funner than last years game, just hate it that u cant use a edited roster in the new franchise mode or change there numbers and equipment. Oh well maybe they'll add that on as an addition to next years game.

17/30 isn't even close to 67%. If it was, we would love Cassel IRL.

Yeah it's 56%.

Well I exited out of it without reading the completions correctly but I do believe it did say 67 % passes completed. Anyways it was a tough hard fought game, I struggled with Charles runnin the ball early on, they were shutting him down and then i started running with Hillis and he was picking up the yards and they they started shuttin him down and Charles started picking up the yards lol. Anyways Jon Baldwin pulled through for me on alot of 3rd downs and was a big part of me winning that game.

yea i know i just looked that up, too bad i cant go back and see what the completion % was lol

I was replying to the statement that it is the same exact game as last year. I should know as I have been playing last year's game up until this week. Madden 2013 IS NOT the same game. I can see a lot of changes and improvements. Sure, it's not perfect and not everyone will like it. I'm enjoying it myself.

Hell I'm enjoying myself playing 2012 right now.

Do they keep the rosters updated for 2012? I just downloaded the "latest" version... and still have a bunch of shit players. Thomas Jones, Barry Richardson etc...

No. Rosters are up to date as of the last week of last season.

That's why new Maddens are called glorified roster updates.
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I don't know what everyone is expecting. Flying QBs? WRs with machine guns? It's a football game. Of course it's gonna stay the same every year with a few added tweaks and modifications. It's not perfect. It's a video game. But it's not COD or Battlefield. It's not going to change much, if at all, through the years. It's supposed to be a realistic, or as close to it, NFL football game. That's why the only constant change is the roster. Love you.

This x100

Wtf? Have you even played this game? If you're on XBL, it will ask you to update rosters. I have Winston, and Hillis, Rout, etc.

NM on my last post. Didn't catch that he was asking about last year's game.

I don't have a problem with Madden... I like the games. NCAA on the other hand...

yea madden 13 is not the same, its better in my opinion. Played 3 games yesterday. Beat the Falcons 48-7 i believe, Broncos 37-30, and the Chargers 55-7. I like it way better than last years game.

What skill level,?

Very logical post... I agree , and the physics engine and the updated presentation make this version the best in a while... I haven't been this hooked on a football game since 2k5

Onside kicks are so cheap. Was up 24-7 with 2 mins left to go. CPU scores to make it 24-14. Onside kick. Line drive right off one of my players legs and they recover. They score on some bullshit hailmary to make it 24-21. Onside kick again. Same shit... Line drive off one of my players legs and right into their lap. Awesome!

all-pro. i upped the sub in / sub out substitutions and adjusted the penalties. toughest game i played was against denver though.

the thing is, they don't make an attempt to make the game better every year! The same problems are there every single year, they don't work on anything with game mechanics to make it a better sim. Plus they take away little features that you like, like being able to pick who plays for each play, stuff like that. Why remove that?

Buck up and play All Madden

I just wish they would put out a new ESPN 2K version and behold ****ing awesomeness would insue.


I want to get me a PS3 so I can get Madden but ever since 2K5 came out Madden football just lost it's burst and it's been disapoint.

Q x INFINITY

If they made the exact same 2k game just with new gen graphics and updated rosters it would destroy madden.

All Madden level has never been about making the game harder as much as the computer making insane interceptions, causing fumbles, and 25 broken tackle runs.

This

I agree with this when talking about last year's game. This game, not so much. Those things you speak of, they are not present in this version.

The only thing that I can say is unrealistic about this game is that I am able to shut down the CPU run game fairly easily.

so after you guys have bought it and played almost a week.

Was this really THE YEAR that the new dev team finally gets it?!?!

remember all of that hype about how they recognize the problems and want to be passionate about making a great game? Well what do you say?

I agree with this.

They are in the one I have.
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DBs still run the routes and catch better than the receivers and linebackers still jump 20 feet in the air to make ridiculous interceptions..what exactly were the improvements?

This.

Had S. Ridley break three tackles on an 80 yard run in my second game last night. Peachy.

EDIT: On All-Madden, of course.

Graphics are a touch better, the player movements are a bit more natural and the defenses you face is are little more realistic.
This year is the best I've seen since '04 I believe.

The cons on it are the RB's fall a little easy, there are a few glitches that get annoying. Things like that gif a few posts back.

If you are looking for a game to just waste time, this is it. There's a lot of extras and I enjoy them. If not, wait a few months or buy a used copy since its a bit pricey right now.

Sliders do wonders. I've had some pretty fun seasons on All Madden mode....too bad franchise mode was a complete piece of shit.

I use all-madden with custom sliders. I see pretty realistic numbers on both teams as well as a very competitive game.

I was disappointed in my first impression. I've found some good tips in this thread and on other forums. those help a lot along with playing around with the sliders. I've finally found settings that allow for close games and realistic stat lines.

the issues that stand out to me are...

-sometimes the CPU doesn't assess penalty yardage correctly. I recently played a game where I was facing 2nd down and 3. I got 2 yards running so, that would've have left me with 3rd and 1. I was called for holding on the same running play. The CPU accepted the penalty and I wound up with 1st and 9 to go. WTF?

-contain doesn't seem to work for the D-line. I can do it manually but, I'd rather rush while the CPU does contain.

ok im playing on all-madden now, i can pass the ball but cant run against any team. are there any good sliders where i can run the ball too ?

try tweaking the CPU defense shed block slider. on all-pro its set at 75 (i think) try turning that one down to 50-65. that will affect the CPU pass rush too. so you shouldn't turn it down too low.

Whats up with the receivers dropping passes when they are wide open ?

some players have that trait. it sucks but it happens all the time in RL.

ugh this game is pissing me off. all-madden is too complex for 5 mph brain lol

All-Pro is too easy too though. There were alot of times when playing on All-Madden that i wanted to throw my controller. I gotta find me some good sliders so that I can compete on all-madden but not win in blowouts too

operationsports

yea i know all bout that site. when i play on all-madden as soon as i get outside the tackle box the defender is able to pull off the block and get me for a tackle 9 times out of 10. stanzi was my qb cause i benched both cassel and quinn during that game cause they were pissing me off, stanzi threw for 250 yards while charles ran for 55 yards on 30 attempts and hillis 25 yards on 10 attempts. i can pass the ball, but i cannot run it.

Lower the computer blockshedding rating. Change the speed threshold to 0 (this making Charles actual speed and where a slower d-lineman cannot chase him down from behind)

Yea. I just got through playing with some all-madden sliders against the raiders and won 41-31. I was up 31-10 at halftime, and they came back in scored 21 in the 3rd quarter and held me to none, it was a tough game. Jamaal Charles had 198 yards rushing, Hillis had 65, Gray 17, and Draughn 7. Also Cassel had 304 yards passing 2 TD passes and 4 Ints. Boss had a monster game 7 catches for 133 yards. Cant wait to play some tougher teams to see how i do against them. I have trouble with gettin some pass rush on the quarterback and stopping them on converting passes.

This game is pissing me the **** off online. Charles is slow as ****ing molasses. It's aggravating when you watch other rbs run away from DJ and Charles can't out run a DE.

Kasl can't hit anyone deep. He leaves it short and gets picked all the time.

Hali gets no pass rush at all.

I don't get that issue with Charles. Make sure you've turned off auto-sprint. He's the fastest back I've played with or against.
I'm with you on Hali though. I've gotten maybe 2 sacks in the 6 games I've played online. Maybe I need to get better with his finesse moves.

That's because he gets held in Madden too.

I'm insanely frustrated playing this game online. I get booted in the first quarter of just about every game with the reason being network timeout.

I've checked the router, reset it, ran tests on the PS3. Can't figure it out.

It's frustrating as hell.

I need to play on all-madden I think. I was on allpro against the Saints, 6 minute qtrs, accelerated play clock, and I had 478 yards and 7 TDs with Charles.....

Mostly just ran the i-form, HB Outside Zone play. I also picked off Brees like 6 times. I hope all-madden isn't too cheap because all-pro is too easy and I hate messing around with sliders. I never saw how it should be up to the player to adjust the difficulty of every aspect of the game.

im a big fan if this years' iteration. its been a few years since I've played, and I'm out of practice. Definitely playing on pro right now. And winning fairly easily. But having a big problem stopping people unless I 'guess' run or pass, etc... With the L2 trigger presnap. Looking forward to getting better and moving to some slider tweaked allpro or all madden games. I play 15 min quarters with acc clock so that the games have a realistic number of plays and drives.

Really wish I could edit players in offline con careers mode though.

Yea it sucks bout not being able to edit player on ccm. i've always liked to play franchise mode and build my team but one thing i like to be able to do is for sure is to use custom rosters and be able to edit players i sign or draft, not so much the ratings but stuff like their equipment and numbers. Anyways i've got some good sliders for all-madden if anybody wants em.

I just got through playing the rams and won 34-26. Cassel threw for 270 yards completing 69 % of his passes 2 TD's and 1 Int, Charles ran for 166 on 26 carriers, 2 TD's with a 6.3 ypc avg. Baldwin had 7 catches for 82 yards and 1 TD, Bowe had 4 catches for 61 yards and McCluster had 4 catches for 43 yards. Was a fun game, just sucks not being able to really get after their qb or shut down their passing game and but was able to shut down their run game.

Bradford threw for 265 and Jackson had only 17 carries for 51 yards and 1 TD, Pead had 5 carries for 24 yards.

So if anybody just now starting to play wants to try these sliders, just shoot me a pm and i'll give them to you.

Heh, been playing customized all madden, not doing too bad.
I'm undefeated through 10.
Cassel and Charles are tearing shit up, both are top choices for MVP.
I've played 3 games and won in OT.
The saints game was crazy. They jumped out ahead by 17, I roared back with a pick 6 then scored 14 before half.
They made some adjustments I think because half of my usual plays weren't working, they went up by 6.
I tied it up going into OT then ran the spread against them.
Ended up popping right down the field and scoring a GW TD, Cassel to Hillis for 20 yards.

Final score: 37-31

Yep, turn off auto sprint.

And I seem to get more sacks with Houston than Hali. There is still a little of that BS from last year's game where he falls down. :banghead:

I played on All Pro for awhile in the last two versions of this game. But I would get beaten when I played online against the better players in my league. I figured that I needed to up my game so I switched to All Madden (for my off line franchise) about halfway through the year. It was frustrating at first. And I had a lot of games that I would get mad and just start over until I figured out how to beat the opponent. Eventually, you figure out that a lot of shorter passes and sticking with the running game is a winning combo. That and some other things. Just try different things until you figure out what works for you.

yup, houston and DJ get most of mine

This...
However, I figured out that if you swap Houston and Hali every few series, Hali gets his ass in there more frequently.
Move him around a little and see what happens.

This is very true.

Yup -- Hali falls down or is pushed down 7/10 times. Most all my sacks come from Houston or Tjax. I rarely blitz DJ.
Hali's power move skill is pretty low -- his finesse moves, however, are very high.. Maybe we're not using the sticks right?

Its left or right on the R-stick. I've had better luck using the OLB swap package out of nickel 2-4-5 so he is going against the RT. Try to us it just as the OL engages you, and make sure auto sprint is OFF.

I'll try the swap package a few times. Turning off auto-sprint and gameflow is the first thing I do upon loading Madden for the first time.
Are you using sprint immediately after the snap and holding it down while pushing left or right on the Right-Stick?

I absolutely love franchise mode so far. Weekly progression rocks. I'm actually seeing improvement in my team.

A lot of anal sex happening after plays, though. Like, players just start slipping and ****ing each other in the ass.

So I turned off auto sprint. HUGE DIFFERENCE.

I'll try moving Hali around and see what that does for me.

Madden is garbage. :D

Yeah same here. I get near 3-4 sacks a game from Houston's side of the field.

I have success rushing with Poe in the 1-4-6 just pressing down on the RS. If I try to play as Hali or Houston, I usually just fall down

Somehow I have more success controlling Houston. With Hali, he just falls down. Strange

The last three years, Tamba has been ****ing worthless in Madden. It absolutely infuriates me.

i have success running the 3-4 with the ends being Poe and Powe and Toribio in the middle. linebackers are able to do their jobs, and there is no stopping Hali and Houston cause of Poe and Powe requiring double teams.

I've been playing on All-Pro. I'm like 5-3 or something into week 10.

Houston and T Jax are monsters in pass rushing. Dorsey is a useless piece of shit. Tamba is pretty good, he has a couple less sacks than either T Jax or Houston, but he's stout against the run. Poe's strength helps out a lot; I think he has about the same amount of sacks as Tamba.

I never hear Belcher, Lewis or Routt's names called. For Routt that's a good thing, not so much for Belcher although my run defense is pretty good. Lewis is just ok, not a glaring hole but I plan on replacing him in the draft with a faster player as I usually user-control the FS. Flowers locks his side down and Berry is amazing.

The Chargers are up on me in the division race but I actually already beat them twice. It's looking like I'll make the playoffs either as the division champ or wildcard but we'll see.

I can't wait to get to the offseason and see how they've tweaked it. I also can't wait to replace ol' Matty Cass. I have my eye on a mid-1st round QB that I'm looking to grab. There's another that's projected to go #1 that I want but I can't trade the farm for him. I lowballed Albert and now he's going to hit the free agent market (lol, asshole) and Lilja is bothering me about resigning but I think I'm going to let him walk. I was also thinking of letting Dorsey walk but I think that will be too much to fix in one offseason.

As far as the game itself is concerned, I have to say I like it. It feels more natural than previous installments.

I haven't had the issues some are complaining about with speed. I keep the auto-sprint on but turn off auto-strafe. I generally average anywhere from 3.5-6 YPC with Charles so no need to change it.

The two complaints I have so far are the GameFace and All-Madden. I uploaded my GameFace and it shows that I have it, but when I go to create a coach or player it's just the generic created guy. My GameFace shows up when I'm checking stats and things (the pic at the top), but on the field it's the other guy. Not a huge issue but kind of annoying.

All-Madden is by far the most annoying shit ever. I played my first 3 games on it and about threw my ****ing remote 19 different times. It's not so much harder than it is cheap as hell and it's ****ing infuriating. I had Charles drop 2 legitimate, wide open TD passes in 7 point games. Stevan Ridley (who the **** is that guy?) broke 3 different tackles on the first play of my second game for an 80 yard TD. It's just bullshit. If they made the game tougher all around I could understand, but that kind of shit is unacceptable. It was so obviously just cheap bullshit that I couldn't help lowering the skill rating to All-Pro.

And another thing, I've been playing 5 minute quarters with accelerated game clock. I'm not getting quite realistic game stats so how long of quarters would you guys recommend and should I keep the accelerate clock running?

His ratings are beast this year at least

I run 8 min quarters with accelerated clock to 25 seconds.