Slide Protection: Can you trust it?

[RaychelSnr]

One of the new additions for Madden and NCAA this year that excites me in the new four-man slide protections. Since the offensive and defensive lines will not receive an overhaul this year, at least having something at our disposal is a plus for building protection schemes. As I sat and played NCAA 13, I discovered some good and some bad about slide protection. In the end, I think users are still left with a critical question: can you trust it?


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[unfriendlyghst]

Great write up and I really enjoy your posts. Keep em' comming.

[THE YAMA]

The slide protection for me is a 50/50. Half the time it works, half the time it doesn't.

[LBzrule]

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I don't want to start anything, but this is the type of stuff I'm expecting EAGC's to pick up on and discuss with the devs (producers/programmers). Why am I getting the season pass and finding this stuff? Why doesn't a developer come out and say, well that's just not how we designed the slide in our game? What is causing the Center and LG not to slide here? The developers and producers can put out a lot of fires by simply stating how they intend things to work in their game. Anyways, there is more to come

[wat3]

Wasn't slide protection in the older Maddens' on Xbox/PS2 days? This is what people mean when they say EA removes features just to put them back in 5 years later and call them "new".

[RaychelSnr]

YT video wasn't working initially, embedding is now fixed. In case anyone fretted about such things

[reddogmaddogbul]

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Good points all across the board.Line play is a must do for the dev team going foward into madden and ncaa.

[Feldman011teen]

I believe slide protection has been on this game since 2005? I read nothing prior to release of them enhancing this feature. In fact this site criticizes the line play. I use it all the time. Its better than not using it. Lots of time counters won't work b/c the line play a.i. sucks.

[shaunlmason]

Re: Slide Protection: Can you trust it?

One of the new additions for Madden and NCAA this year that excites me in the new four-man slide protections.

I must have missed this addition, can you show me a link describing it?

[LBzrule]

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I must have missed this addition, can you show me a link describing it?

Clint described it in an interview. I think people are reading this wrong. I'm not saying slide protection is new. I'm saying the 4 man with the back side tackle in big on big is new.

[jfsolo]

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It's been working really well for me in NCAA, but then I have also altered the sliders to affect the whole dynamic. With pass rushing on 75 and pass blocking on 60, when I make the right read on the direction of the blitz my linemen always slide over and get a hat on a defender, if the numbers are even, someone has use one of the moves to get free. No one ever come through untouched.

Default settings may be another story, but with slider tweaks, I have total confidence in Slide Protection.

[N51_rob]

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Clint described it in an interview. I think people are reading this wrong. I'm not saying slide protection is new. I'm saying the 4 man with the back side tackle in big on big is new.

Yeah, this is new. I know that in Madden 12 if you slid the protection say to the right side your LT would leave the end unblocked as the whole line would shift and the end would have a free run at your QB, unless you changed a RB/FB to block to that side, or you moved the pocket and got rid of the ball quickly.

[chi_hawks]

i thought line sliding was in the last few years games?

anyway, until the line interaction is completely redone, with a physics based engine, its a crapshoot.

[poster]

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I haven't and don't plan on playing NCAA, but I hope they worked on improving it for Madden. That was awful, and just as bad was the HB morphing over without even knowing the DT was there and the DT getting suctioned into the block.

Good article and video, LBzrule.

[LBzrule]

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i thought line sliding was in the last few years games?

anyway, until the line interaction is completely redone, with a physics based engine, its a crapshoot.

Hopefully this will be the last time I'll need to clarify. I'm not saying slide protection is new, I'm saying 4 man slide with the back side tackle in big on big protection is new.