Solo Battles are an absolute cheat by EA

you actually made a very good point at the end there that i did not even consider. I stopped madden in 98 when i had to go to school get a job etc. started back this year , went and looked at madden 18 and realized very little changes. I wouldn't stand a chance against anyone who has been playiing for 20 years. On a completely different note, stick skills are good to have but i can't imagine someone with super human thumbs and digits so much greater than someone else after a while it is what it is , i think it's more upstairs and what you know will work because , again people that have been doing it for years SHOULD KNOW. I'm not arguing i'm saying you are right. i"m just trying to figure out what the separation is.

Quote from Whogon >> "Governors of Hawaii" 

Lol  Hawaii, just like all states, only has one Governor

Ok

This literally makes me sick. I cannot believe people are literally BRAGGING about "getting 1.5 million coins", or "running 1 or 2 unstoppable plays"?  Is that why u bought the game?  NOT to simulate football and run cool plays. To run 2 or 3 EXPLOITS?  everyone runs the exact same defenses, makes EXACT same adjustments, this is truly the worst football simulation I have ever played. I'm embarrassed I spent money in this game. Its not just a "live service" for EA to sell you and other 14 yr old preteens coins. And u buy em. That way u can feel proud about ur "god squad" momma forked up 450$ to buy you. That's why they made diamond players. For rich kids with mommas credit card. Oh u want a 90 ovr team?  Better spend. Otherwise it'll be around Xmas before u start seeing real players.  This is pathetic. Now u can "unlock" ur squad early...just have to pay. 75$ for JUST the 88 ovr jj watt gatorade?  Lol even tho they advertise 90 or 92 version or whatever. And millenials EAT THIS STUFF UP. just like battlefront 2. It's a gambling system for young children, that has been outlawed now in several countries. Governors of Hawaii had to step in to stop EA greed and exploitation of CHILDREN. yet, u millenials literally defend it, bc once u out 500 dollars or so In the game, u then can easily beat challenges and other people who have to WORK FOR THEIR LIVING. THEY DON'T HAVE MOMMAS CREDIT CARD TO GET THE 91 VICK DAY ONE. I have bought EVERY madden since probably before 2002. And I'm now done. It's beyond evident they're not fixing this game. ANYONE who's played legit time in it for years...knows the degradation. It's not even really a football simulation anymore.  Users have ALMOST 0 control. You get "animations" that calculate ur odds, and give u whichever animation it thinks is appropriate for that scenario. The cpu can catch ANY pass it wants, but simply diving. I've seen more diving cpu catches, than all years for over 20 yrs combined. Yet, when I'm WIDE OPEN with a 90 ranked tyreek hill, oops, one handed grab animation, with approx. 3% chance to catch. Yall think it's a coincidence they made tyreek hill team of the week card?  Lol they have become MASTERS of playing you. Everyone In the madden community KNOWS...all that matters in madden now, is speed. Which they have now made even worse because players are basically jogging out on the field. I even get what they're trying to do they're trying to slow down the game so that users have time to make plays rather than just these huge monster 60-yard plays every other play. But they've failed, miserably. I get an interception and I watch a 90 overall Jalen Ramsey run for a pick-6 no joke slower than I did in high school I even timed it one time to see how fast he was covering 5 yards or 40 yards. His 40 yd dash according to madden is around 5.3 seconds. I beat that in high school. This isn't football. It's a live service platform to sell YOU cards. They make about 1 billion dollars, a year, off just madden currency. NOT including the 800 million per year, per game. Why would they EVER change. They're getting rich off your lazinessn, apathy, and u spending not just 60 dollars for essentially a free to play game...now they get u to buy all the "madden level packages" AND THEN mut coin service and "special offers" like gatorade jj watt for over 100$ real world money. So now ONE PLAYER, on ONE promotiom....is now double the price of THE GAME ITSELF. and the scary thing to me, is u kids, u sad little millenials, are the reason. U have no standards. U accept ANYTHING. bc you're not the one ACTUALLY PAYING. you don't work jobs, u SURE don't work full time. U ask mom for shark cards. U play the solos, get cheated by the pathetic solo battles that are designed to play where your 88 ranked squad, gets absolutely crushed by a 77 ranked squad. Why?  Bc the computer has access to Everything. Before the play even starts, they know your tendencies, the % of times u run certain plays--and on what down u run them. They know which play you're running. They can dive-catch LITERALLY every single play, if it so desired. Yet, u can be streaking WIDE open with a card u spent 100 Real world $ on, to have him get unto an animation that has him throw up one hand and smack ball away, rather than making a catch I swear on my LIFE I could've made, as a sophomore in HIGH SCHOOL. I literally could not finish my game. I get a safety on a 79 ranked solo battle, bc my qb justttt happened to "wind up slowly" on his throw. Bc the computer wanted that. Watch CLOSELY your games. First half...whatever the rank, they'll come out TOUGH.  making Precision throws never dropping passes their defense will be absolutely on point. That way you can be the "hero" of the 2nd half. If your down about 10 points I would literally bet my life savings you're going to come back in that game and be within three points at the end of it. Bc it's Scripted.  we have computers that are so good the best chess players in the world cannot beat the computer which means that computers are now more sophisticated and smarter than the average human being probably smarter then the smartest human being. add on to that it even knows what play you're going to run before you run it and the percentage of chances you've done things on those certain Downs before but you want us to believe that the computer does not use that information to its advantage to get you to spend more money?  Do what u want with your mommy's $. Until 2K Games or someone steps up as a legit competitor since Madden has a monopoly (even tho monopolies are HIGHLY illegal In this country) they don't NEED to compete. They just roster update, throw in a new system that they will tell you will change the game and every year me included, we just consume. Until everyone is smarter with their money, this will be what we get. A good game takes about 3 yrs to make GOOD. This game cranks out every year. Do you honestly think This is the best a company can do that makes billions a year? EA lost over 3 billion dollars due to the Star Wars Battlefront 2 debacle we're even Disney had to step in and tell them they were too greedy. guys were talking a company that lost 3 billion dollars and told their shareholders not to worry. do you know many other companies that can lose 3 billion dollars in a year and on their quarterly statement  tell investors not to worry because they can easily lose 3 billion and keep it moving forward. How are u idiots DEFENDING THIS UTERRLY BROKEN GAME. I literally cannot even play it.  this year's Madden has so little user control that I honestly have almost no fun playing it. They are almost solely banking on the purchasing system, the cards. It's become dungeons and dragons. Pay to win. Disgusting.  if you are defending any part of this game I literally beg you to really examine it play it and tell me you're having fun running the same two or maybe three offensive plays that are just simply exploits.  two defensive plays with the exact same adjustments every play just to get the game to run like it should. for the first month or two the game was so broken people in the secondary would not even play a streak route as I did back in high school.  the game was literally created and shipped broken. It's like asking call of Duty players not to buy the game it'll never work and you're going to buy it anyway. Why?  Basically bc your mom worked hard, and loves her little boo boo so much she'll put her  credit card on your PS4 account. Ur birthday and xmas gifts, are now digital coins to let u get a 91 vick card, that plays liKE TRASH. He can't even consistently make passes I saw thrown better in college. Hell in some high schools! Yet these r supposed to be THE HIGHEST TIER ATHLETES lol. Laughable. Please speak with ur wallets and DON'T BUY MADDEN 2020.  Assassin's Creed took a year off and they had the best game they've made in over 10 years. But with 6 months to "develop" the EXACT same game, every year, same legacy issues EVery year--no fixes, patches, jogging NFL athletes? Truly the  worst football simulation I have ever played in my entire life I can say that with a straight face with my hand on the Bible. It PAINS me to read kids defending this crap. Bc they youtubed "glitchiest madden 19 plays". & asked momma to make their Xmas and birthday gift, a digital card that won't even be in their lineup come December lol. But...its "in the game"

Quote from MutApotheosis >> I want to throw a question out there for the people who say: it's easy

I learned by middle school that if another student said "that test was hard", I shouldn't say "not for me" cuz otherwise everyone would hate me

Middle school.....

So do people like you guys? :p

Or the other kids could quit being lazy and study kinda like how everyone on here whining can google how to beat solo battles instead of whining about how bad they “get cheated”.

88 Barkley has been wearing cement boots in solo battles for me. Haven’t played since patch, hoping to see some improvement.

I want to throw a question out there for the people who say: it's easy

I learned by middle school that if another student said "that test was hard", I shouldn't say "not for me" cuz otherwise everyone would hate me

Middle school.....

So do people like you guys? :p

I like them, just don't understand the formula for the most points yet.

Anyways I actually came to this thread to ask if solo battles are significantly easier now with the patch or what? I do just fine by the way..... on defense. Most of my games are 10-0 or 14-0. I’m a sim player though and don’t wanna cheese the same play over and over.

Ya patch was today and you definitely have to cheese against the CPU on all madden. You def cant throw the ball within 5 yards of any defender they will pick it off. I'm not that great either and I have yet to lose on all madden. I run 2 plays on defense and rotate 5 plays on offense 2 run and 3 pass.

Hope the update fixed most of that , the speed is very slow for me

I played with the new patch and your running backs are much quicker out of the gate.  The block shedding didn't appear to be reduced any and I was up 14-0 going into the 4th quarter when my QB's starting throwing the ball 10 + yards from the receivers and 84 speed AB blew by my defenders with 86+ speed like my DB's were in quicksand.  Ended up winning 17-14 with a last second FG.  Got the same points as the prior game when I won 14-0.  Should make the elite ranking and get a minimum of 150K again this week.

Quote from thedrunkgamer >> Quote from Juicy_J_8787 >> We should all bow down to the Madden gods in this thread that are just sooooooo much better than everybody else. Smh 

 This guy is right. Rather than educate how to win. Posters say  it’s easy because I did it so it’s your fault. Helps no one. ps I hate how you can’t have a run game

Quote from Juicy_J_8787 >> We should all bow down to the Madden gods in this thread that are just sooooooo much better than everybody else. Smh 

 This guy is right. Rather than educate how to win. Posters say  it’s easy because I did it so it’s your fault. Helps no one. ps I hate how you can’t have a run game

Beautiful thing is that it is not required

Quote from Babynoze >> Quote from lxjgtxl >> Well the patch that just came out should fix most of the problems listed. Solo battle speeds will be set to normal, dline blocksheds will be tuned down a bit in all madden, and play actions will be patched a bit too I believe

 correct. sped them up and it's so much nicer

 this

Or juicy j you can just take the game back. If you let the computer constantly beat you odds are a user is gonna thrash you.

All I do on offense is run five wides  and run either Verts or I think hi low maybe? and I put my 91 Randy moss on a slant route and I swear he is open every single time. If it’s zone throw it quick if it’s man well the CPU is toast.  On defense I guess I’m just pretty good I don’t really blitz but I have Bruce Smith and Strahan. Moss is in the slot btw

We should all bow down to the Madden gods in this thread that are just sooooooo much better than everybody else. Smh

Yeah, I don’t understand why people are complaining about the difficulty.

When the game first dropped, I decided to try my first game on Ultimate/All-Madden and I won before even figuring out the pa crossers/ mid blitz cheese.

Maybe you just don’t have the stick skills for all-madden?

If anyone here claims to be a Madden veteran, you should know basic things when playin on All-Madden like THROW INTO TIGHT WINDOWS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

I swear, most people on here must’ve started playing madden in 2014