Originally posted by Corndog
Wait a second, it's almost like you should have to choose what to be good at? What kind of sick shit is this?
Its amazing.
Originally posted by Myrik_Justiciar
Changes are great... CB/S looks like they need help so far though.
CBs have the most demanding Physical SP needs in a game where Physical SP costs across all positions are constant. Makes it real hard to build them. Then again, that's football.
Originally posted by McLovinCowboys
1- As i said already, i love the changes, and recently you guys seems to be more active and interested in fixing and improving the game, thx for that.
2- I'm not against your logic, in fact i agree with you, i'm just saying that are some people that are like: "just max and it will be fine"
3- And yes you can't be good at everything, but obviusly there should be balance and the possibility to reach at least a mediocre level in all areas, specially for defenders, offense players can afford to have a very specialized build, defenders just cant, realistically even a defense player with a specialized build still needs a reasonable level of skills in other departments, for exemple, a specialist shutdown corner with 100 man awr, zone awr, deflecting, cov tech, sprinting, quickness, conditioning, and something like 13 tackling, 12 tackling power, 15 tackling grip, 18 break run block, would never be a pro, because he would be a huge liability on the field.
Some positions can get everything they need or they aren't as punished as other positions for having very low or no investment at all in some skills.
Defenders have a lot of trouble building, yes defense is reactive, you can't build to be great against power rushers, elusive, pure pass, fast receivers, possession receivers, but you should be able to be decent.
4- Now, seems like WRs and CBs interactions are heavily unbalanced, receivers don't exactly need to choose what to be good at, at least they don't have as near as much problems to achieve a good build as CBs have, translating to Madden, its like WRs have enough skill points to get 99 Overall, while CBs can only get 85ish.
It was the problem with power backs some seasons ago, they only needed sprinting, power running and conditioning.
Again, defenders will always have a harder time building, because they play against everything, CBs will play against the run, power backs, balanced, elusive, against fast receivers, CIT receivers, WRs only need to be good in the passing game, maybe have some blocking, and thats ok, but as the stats say, they are winning by a lot.
And i'm not like "fuck this game i'm out", i like hardcore changes, and changes like that will sometimes come out unbalanced, i'm fine with that, we are just poiting out that its unbalanced atm, CBs sucks, they already were garbage unless S*s, now they are even worse.
The balancing needs to be done via the Receiving / Pass Defense skill costs. Kind of like OLine has higher Blocking SP costs than the DLine. I'd argue that CB skill costs are too high / WRs are too low.
Then again, that's pretty much every position on O versus D (except OLine and DLine).
