It's 2014, And Madden's AI Is Still Playing on Rookie

[RaychelSnr]

Things are bad when you’re practically begging for the CPU to put up a stop.

It was the 12th time that drive I had run the same play: HB Dive right up the center. My Eagles had a significant lead, and I wanted the opposing defense to force me to pass the ball. As you may have already guessed, that never came to fruition.

On that 12th play, LeSean McCoy cruised into the endzone for a touchdown. Why was it so easy? Because despite my repetition in the playcalling, the CPU refused to stack the box. Better yet, they would often spread their defensive line in a QB contain. Why? Why wouldn’t they try and stop me, when I’m making it so very easy for them?

The answer is simple: Madden’s AI doesn’t adapt. This is more prevalent in the playcalling than anywhere else, and it’s especially noticeable as the game carries on. No matter the score, no matter the time left on the clock, the CPU fails to adapt defensively.

What a shame it is, that in the year 2014 we still have to abide by house rules and dumb ourselves down to the CPU’s level.

It’s 2014, and Madden’s AI is still wrong.

[charter04]

Is that on All pro or All Madden?

[kjcheezhead]

Re: It's 2014, And Madden's AI Is Still Playing on Rookie

Is that on All pro or All Madden?

Honestly, he ran hb dive 12 times in a row. Should it really matter if it's on all pro or all madden? What makes it worse it that EA touts adaptive ai as a new feature seemingly every year.

[Gorilla Glass]

That's funny because if I run the same run play continuously, my running backs cough up the ball.

Maybe the game is different for lower tiered teams.

[mike24forever]

If only my WR would fight for balls thrown to them. I play in the S.O.S. League and we don't switch when the ball is in the air, and they look like deer in headlights watching CB's and SS's catching the ball.

[charter04]

Re: It's 2014, And Madden's AI Is Still Playing on Rookie

Honestly, he ran hb dive 12 times in a row. Should it really matter if it's on all pro or all madden? What makes it worse it that EA touts adaptive ai as a new feature seemingly every year.

It matters because when I play on all madden it seems like the CPU knows what I'm running a lot of times. It is still messed up. The CPU doesn't adjust enough and aren't "smart". I play most of my games against humans in a OL CFM so I don't have to deal with most of the worst stuff.

[Jarodd21]

Re: It's 2014, And Madden's AI Is Still Playing on Rookie

It adapts to almost everything else besides running plays up the middle. For some reason the DTs won't shed any blocks against the run up the middle. They shed blocks up the middle against passes.. I'm hoping to see one last patch to address that issue and the USER pass coverage.

[BadAssHskr]

Re: It's 2014, And Madden's AI Is Still Playing on Rookie

I dont know, but im basically toast aftet that Chiefs game.....

[Fist Of Kings]

Re: It's 2014, And Madden's AI Is Still Playing on Rookie

A major problem that I feel is overlooked mainly because of how bad the qb sack issue is, but I feel it's just as game breaking. When I first got the game, I thought it was 'tough' to run, mainly because I did mostly inside runs where defenders would make tackles through their blocks, or gaping wholes closed as soon as I accelerated. But the ai couldn't handle outside runs, especially in a 2 te set.

It was an easy 150 yards a game. If defense worked properly, I would have to mix up my playcalling, but instead in this game I would purposely 'mix' it up with inside runs just to help out the ai. So now we're dealing with highly accurate robo qbs across the board, yet they even nullify that by taking sack after sack, killing their own drives so they struggle to score. Then on defense they can't even make basic adjustments, so they give up a lot of points, meaning that for us offline players we're dealing with a broken game that is too easy and you have to house rule yourself, and even then it's not enough.

I shouldn't have to house rule myself with a game that comes out every year and said this was the smartest playing madden ever. 3rd and inches? They're not pinching their lineman. I motion my TE left?(the strength of my O-line) They randomly shift to the right or do nothing despite the obvious disadvantage that the defense is in. They hyped 'new' features like the tackle cone, which is just a tackle prompt and button change to what we had before, while ignoring that this game can't make basic defensive adjustments, even worse that much older football games can.

In the link below, they hype the improved ai, but I often saw the opposite, like my defenders swatting balls even though they were in a position to go for the pick.

http://www.easports.com/madden-nfl/n...e-player-sense

[kingsofthevalley]

I was having this same problem because I really like to play smash mouth, up the gut football. What seems to have worked for me, is the reduction of the Run Block slider. I'm currently set at 15, and might drop it down to 10. Last game I played, I averaged 2-4 yards up the middle with an occasional 6-8

[Blazingheat98]

I guess it makes you wonder why this piece of crap is "ALWAYS" getting higher scores than it actually deserves...!!! Bring back 2K and end all this EA non-sense!!

[Rabid_Beaver]

Re: It's 2014, And Madden's AI Is Still Playing on Rookie

Madden has been utter rubbish since 2006.

EA has literally destroyed the franchise from a gameplay perspective.

Same issues since forever. Pathetic AI. DUMB team management. Useless features. Etc. etc. etc.

[@marcusjiles]

Wow, you read the NHL roster post, then come read this... It's... maddening lol. How does this happen and nobody has to answer for it?

[BenGerman]

Re: It's 2014, And Madden's AI Is Still Playing on Rookie

Is that on All pro or All Madden?

I was playing on All-Madden, at the time. I haven't played enough of All-Pro to know if it makes a difference, but I'll look into it.

[treq21]

A major problem that I feel is overlooked mainly because of how bad the qb sack issue is, but I feel it's just as game breaking. When I first got the game, I thought it was 'tough' to run, mainly because I did mostly inside runs where defenders would make tackles through their blocks, or gaping wholes closed as soon as I accelerated. But the ai couldn't handle outside runs, especially in a 2 te set.

It was an easy 150 yards a game. If defense worked properly, I would have to mix up my playcalling, but instead in this game I would purposely 'mix' it up with inside runs just to help out the ai. So now we're dealing with highly accurate robo qbs across the board, yet they even nullify that by taking sack after sack, killing their own drives so they struggle to score. Then on defense they can't even make basic adjustments, so they give up a lot of points, meaning that for us offline players we're dealing with a broken game that is too easy and you have to house rule yourself, and even then it's not enough.

I shouldn't have to house rule myself with a game that comes out every year and said this was the smartest playing madden ever. 3rd and inches? They're not pinching their lineman. I motion my TE left?(the strength of my O-line) They randomly shift to the right or do nothing despite the obvious disadvantage that the defense is in. They hyped 'new' features like the tackle cone, which is just a tackle prompt and button change to what we had before, while ignoring that this game can't make basic defensive adjustments, even worse that much older football games can.

In the link below, they hype the improved ai, but I often saw the opposite, like my defenders swatting balls even though they were in a position to go for the pick.

http://www.easports.com/madden-nfl/n...e-player-sense

That was all just hype, like it is every year. They also said there would be more innacurate passes from QBs, but we still have robo QB.

The game doesnt change that much from year to year, and it hardly ever has.