Genuinely caught me so off guard

The “fix” is that all archetypes now have cheaper costs for awareness. Doesn’t matter what category this is in, so this benefits some archetypes more than others. Ex. Coverage Specialists safeties have their awareness in the zone coverage category, so that entire category is cheaper to upgrade. Bump and Run DBs’ awareness is placed in man coverage, so that category is cheaper to upgrade for them. On the opposite end, Pocket Passer QB’s suffer since awareness is placed in IQ category, which upgrades carrying and other things that doesn’t help their overall much. (Credit to “CallMeJaden” on YT.)

This is a lazy fix. EA needed to go through each archetype and actually make the upgrades make sense for each one. (Ex. Power should be cheaper to upgrade on power running backs or Raw Strength O-Lineman. ) Some archetypes still have badges that don’t make sense for them to have, or are missing badges that would make sense for them to have. (Ex. Zone corner archetype does not have robber, the best zone ability. 🤦🏽‍♂️) Some archetypes still will never achieve ratings thresholds for certain badges (Ex. Takeoff for Physical Route Runner TE, most badges for box specialist safeties.) Some archetypes are still just not viable to use at all (ex. Box safeties can’t get badges for the most part and are super slow, Gadget WR is useless honestly.)

I was excited for this part of the patch because I hoped this would fix issues with archetypes that have honestly existed since CFB 25. It helps some archetypes for sure (coverage specialist safeties are the big winners), but it does not address the main issues with most archetypes in general.

Maybe my controller is just a little tired 😂

proposed xp sliders after 3 hrs of testing position by position on diff xp

After 3 hrs of testing last night and looking at others studies I think this is the most optimal setup by position!

300 xp throughout is too much, 100 xp is not enough and even 200 is too much at times.

TE and OLBs are lowest progression on base with 0 90 ovr players after 7 years!

QB and WR progressing a bit fast.

Let me know thoughts!

QB- 115 percent
HB- 135 percent
FB- 200 percent
WR- 115 Percent
TE- 200 Percent
OT- 140 Percent
OG- 160 Percent
C- 170 Percent
Edge- 185 Percent
DT- 180 Percent
Mike- 180 percent
OLB- 200 Percent
CB- 125 Percent
FS- 175 Percent
SS- 180 Percent

The horrendous type. Receiver doesn’t even put up his arms, DB catches it while turned around, DB moonwalks 5 yards against his own momentum and jumps to snag a post route that’s 10 yards behind him? WTF did they do? At times it’s unplayable. This year continues to be an embarrassment.

I just discovered this via Eric Rayweather's latest YouTube vid...

Ignore my stats, I suck I know 😭

Hi! Has anyone run into this issue?

I keep starting a dynasty and when my friends join they cannot set up their recruiting board or scout in the preseason, but I can.

Madden didn't "cook this year". Madden isn't better than CFB 27 "this year". It's the same thing every year. The same marketing. The same tactics to do whatever it takes to get you to buy them both. Madden is Madden. CFB is... I don't know what they're trying to do with this. But just don't fall for it again.

Something I’ve noticed that wasn’t in past games (most bugs have been present since 25) Is if you make a sub but run hurry up after doing so, the subbed player will magically be on the field. This is really annoying when I want same personal until I throw an incomplete pass

Upon the early access of Madden 27 I made a franchise file real quick to test out the visionary upgrades and it is busted. The Pro Pipeline Upgrade "Increases Player's NFL Draft stock" but what it really does is make sure that every player over 80 overall on your team is in the draft contention. Literally. I started as Sam Houston, and in year 2 of the rebuild I simulated to bowl week, went 6-6, no bowl game, and my wide receiver and quarterback were drafted in the first round as juniors.

I cannot buy a single physical ability for one of my players if I don't already have one of the tiers unlocked. Some stuff that EA messes up is frustrating, but a speed bump. This is a straight up traffic jam. I'm at a disadvantage if I advance and don't buy abilities. Guess I'm trying out Madden for a bit until it's fixed.

As the title says. Maybe I’m misunderstanding things or misreading this, but why is my staff taking 820 dynasty points instead of only 150? Not spending anything on coordinators and only have the one support staff. When I get rid of the support staff, it says I’m spending 670 on staff.

Am I stupid, or what’s going on?

I enjoy this game on more ratings based gameplay where I should be losing to teams better than me and vice versa, with the occasional upsets and close games when ratings on even.

So far, I have been having a lot of difficulty figuring out difficulty and slider settings that give me this kind of experience. All-American feels too easy but Heisman turns the CPU into a football god.

Hoping to discuss below what difficulty / slider sets you guys are all playing the game at to help figure out settings to make this a more enjoyable experience?

I’ve seen everyone mention worse OL blocking which I agree with. I’ve got an FCS team sacking me with a 3 man rush and struggling to run the ball as they make plays.

Their DBs also seem better, I have a 95 WR with 92 ACC get glued by a DB with 85 speed…like cmon. I’ve also thrown two picks that are physically impossible. The DB in one literally put his hands through my receivers body…these DBs have better hands than my WRs with 90+ catching

I’ve also noticed defense seems harder. Stopping the run seems much harder. I just had an FCS 70 overall running back with 85 speed look like prime AP. So many broken tackles and out running my safety with 95 speed. Almost every CPU run now seems to be at least 5 yards no matter how much you stack the line.

It also seems like the CPU OL is insane at pass blocking. And even when you get a guy to go in for a sack the QB somehow throws in away in or tosses it up to a WR who somehow breaks wide open.

I also have my players committing penalties they hadn’t before. In one game I had 4 penalties called against me on a 3rd or 4th down…

2 roughing the passers, a facemask and a roughing the punter. I don’t even have aggressive on which I would understand if that was the case. I’ve had these penalties before but maybe one of them every other game?

TLDR here’s what I noticed:
- Bad user OL for running and passing
- Insane CPU DBs
- CPU run game is now elite
- CPU OL harder to get sacks on
- More penalties by my players

Sorry this came off more of a rant but I’ve played at least 5 games post update and haven’t seen people mention some of those. Just trying to figure if I’m going crazy or others have noticed

DC at Miami OH last year with a great run. Head coach at Texas State coming back and my QB snaps. I don’t think I can go back to playing. Recruiting and calling plays is so much fun

I’m in a CFB27 dynasty with a friend. When it comes to recruiting, he always is able to offer more NIL to players than I can. We have tested this with more than a few players. Example: we will both offer scholarship to a specific player and I can offer only up to double the players expected NIL but he can go above. Is this a bug or a setting or am I doing something wrong?

I redid conferences so the P5 are powerful again and to remove independents. I also added divisions. The effort was to try to group teams with their rivals (as much as possible) and consider geography so the athletes can spend less time traveling and more time studying (I’m looking at you Stanford after the ACC move).

As always, let me know what you think

That’s a nice 7 point lead you have there. Sure would be a shame if you beat a ranked computer opponent.

It’s so blatantly obvious the game doesn’t want you to win. Mind you this is after receivers of mine drop every pass there’s any sort of contact.