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With the amount of time I have put into practice mode & the 'lab' in order to break top 100, I'm pretty sure I dont qualify as a 'casual'.
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Madden is not marketed as a SIM football game; its 110% arcade.
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This is the problem. Almost a decade ago it was pretty close to being a simulation and has been veered well off since then.
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The vision cone does nothing to represent realism, other than show you who the QB may be targeting.
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That's exactly the point which is completely realistic and crucial to how football in general is played.
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QB's read coverages more so than just a receiver, which is why there are route concepts that put receivers at different depth levels, but still in the same area of the field- so the QB doesnt have to change footwork, etc.
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This is the exact same in real life as it is with the cone. The QB FACES an angle of the field and that's the only thing the defense can tell. They could improve this so that the cone is only shown to the offensive player but directly correlates to how the in game model is facing.
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Anyway, the whole idea was dumb because it darkened out the rest of the field, which is just silly. You can put receivers literally on the sidelines, and still see them from shotgun while looking straight ahead IRL.
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It did not darken out the rest of the field, accuracy was just slightly affected (depending on THA rating) if you didn't throw to someone who was inside the cone. Like I said before, it wasn't perfect and had critical flaws but the general mechanics was there. If you know anything about throwing mechanics, you know that you have to step TOWARDS the receiver you are throwing to, if your base is completely not angled towards the throwing lane your mechanics and accuracy is way off. Throwing to the right side of the field isn't much of a big deal since you're facing that side by default anyway unless you're throwing to the flat but this is magnified when you're throwing to the backside