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Defenses get the short end of the stick again... fantastic.

Originally posted by Aeir
Defenses get the short end of the stick again... fantastic.

Yup. No love for D.

Really love these changes. The screen pass upgrades are the most intriguing to see play out, especially versus blitzing defenses.

Now do the right thing and allow a full (free) respec on kickers. The game allowed two kickers and teams built two because it made sense. I would like to be able to decide which I choose (within their initial builds) that would allow for the best combination of kickoff ability and FG kicking ability. My kickoff specialist is pretty much out of the running because a one season respect can't return the point I had spent on Sprinting prior to last season. I'm sure more than one other team is in the same position.

I will say, though, these look to be a very solid set of changes.

Originally posted by Xars
Yup. No love for D.



Bort confirmed straight. He hates the d

I'm in favor of the Kicker respec because it makes sense. And it's fair to everyone else.

That said its sort of useless for me, my kickers were optimized to do their specific things and no respec is going to change the underlying attributes. They're screwed. Just gotta pick which I care more about. Good at kickoffs and hilariously bad at field goals or reverse.

Look on the bright side; at least we have a confirmed clue on how consistency effects our players' performance, but on the other hand I think as a whole we figured out as much.

I'm pretty pleased with the concept of Mobile QB changes.. could open the game to a whole new style of QB. We'll see, I have a dual threat S* QB about to play a pickup game.

I have a pickup power running QB let's see how he does with these changes.

Originally posted by Absolut Zero
That said its sort of useless for me, my kickers were optimized to do their specific things and no respec is going to change the underlying attributes. They're screwed. Just gotta pick which I care more about. Good at kickoffs and hilariously bad at field goals or reverse.

I agree. The underlying build is what it is. Since this is a game mechanic change, you could actually argue that we should be able to change the underlying build, but even I feel that's probably a bit much. A full SP respec is a fair compromise. I'll use my K as an example.

http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/player/162874

Prior to DD's announcement I spent the following:

Sprinting - 25741
Tackling - 4365
Balance - 1890
Sprinting - 4316

That's 36312 SP that could go into FG Accuracy, Consistency, or Power. Those 36k SP could make a fairly significant different in used kicking skills instead of where I placed them because I had to put them somewhere (and the game allowed me to NOT put them into kicking skills by design).

Originally posted by PHarvey
I'm pretty pleased with the concept of Mobile QB changes.. could open the game to a whole new style of QB. We'll see, I have a dual threat S* QB about to play a pickup game.

Okay so the new pocket movement is GORGEOUS. I love it.

Scrambling, though, seems a little broken:
http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/273055/4451969
http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/273055/4452137
http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/273055/4452325
http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/273055/4452340

Originally posted by PHarvey
Okay so the new pocket movement is GORGEOUS. I love it.

Scrambling, though, seems a little broken:
http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/273055/4451969
http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/273055/4452137
http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/273055/4452325
http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/273055/4452340

Hahahaha, you can really see that 71 speed!

Originally posted by Absolut Zero
Hahahaha, you can really see that 71 speed!

Didn't even look at the build. I wondered what he saw that looked wrong.

Originally posted by Xars
Yup. No love for D.

Certainly this technically buffs zone defenses, no?

Originally posted by o The Boss x
Certainly this technically buffs zone defenses, no?

Not seeing how this buffs it, makes it more important, yes. But that's an overall nerf if man defenses become more restricted in use.