Warrior General Games

I've come to some pretty weird conclusions from my testing on these, basically it boils down to this:

Combo is the best, everything else is a crutch to make up for deficiencies.

Combo allows for the most amount of freedom for your back to do whatever he wants to, but it has the problem of getting blown the fuck up if your carry awareness is not high enough.

Basically, best results are as follows:

Aware above 60 - combo
Aware above 40 - N-S/slippery
Aware below 40 - Elusive/Power

The gains you get outside of combo are nice, but the real reason to use them is that they restrict player movement. Combo lets a player move freely, but you generally want one of 2 things, the HB to be moving downfield or the HB to be getting to the edge. The different carry styles force you to do these things beyond your HBs awareness - power style compels him to run upfield, elusive forces him to get to the edge - and that creates good situations more often for a HB with lower awareness and keeps him from running into places he shouldn't (e.g. Slow powerback kicking it to the outside to find the edge or an elusive back trying to lower his shoulder for that daylight) but with the higher awareness this is no longer a problem and he has more freedom to ignore the hard-coded movements.


That's my take on it anyway, anyone else want to chime in?

With that out of the way, I've always thought that Carry Awareness was useless but it is obvious to me through your research that it has some use. You can circumvent the restrictions of your carry style by being more aware of open lanes. I am finishing off my current power back builds and then I'm going to try to perfect the elusive/combo build.

Slippery is the best, IMO. Player hit holes better with it, and tend to have less fumbles.

Originally posted by BoDiddley
Slippery is the best, IMO. Player hit holes better with it, and tend to have less fumbles.

It's a bit weird, elusive actually has the best inside running up til you hit near 90 awareness because it is almost always a good idea to kick it out when you can from the gut as an elusive guy. But on outside running it's atrocious behavior to never be able to cut upfield and be bouncing out with elusive moves to throw off pursuers you could already beat in a foot race. Slippery does solve some of that but my main issues with it are the inability to reverse direction, like hard cuts never happen at all aside from designed counters. Combo seriously is only a liability running up the gut for a low awareness elusiveback - once the awareness comes up he has the freedom to bounce it wherever he wants and the knowledge to know he's not going to be able to bowl over big bubba...no matter how hard he wants it.

Originally posted by DeeVee8
With that out of the way, I've always thought that Carry Awareness was useless but it is obvious to me through your research that it has some use. You can circumvent the restrictions of your carry style by being more aware of open lanes. I am finishing off my current power back builds and then I'm going to try to perfect the elusive/combo build.

If you are running power style, it quite literally is. I mean, maybe get 35 just to cover your bases because it's cheap as crap.

And if you're moving on to elusive styles I may have to build some powerbacks

If you have a power back with 40 awareness are you saying set to N-S or slippery? I have my guy set to combo now. I had him at power to begin with. since I changed it to combo Ive noticed he tries to hit a hole instead of just running into guys when he could have adjusted a little a got yards instead of - or a couple. once his build is more filled out I thought Id try power again in scrims and c what happens

Originally posted by rackhound
If you have a power back with 40 awareness are you saying set to N-S or slippery? I have my guy set to combo now. I had him at power to begin with. since I changed it to combo Ive noticed he tries to hit a hole instead of just running into guys when he could have adjusted a little a got yards instead of - or a couple. once his build is more filled out I thought Id try power again in scrims and c what happens

You're looking at either N-S or Power for best results, combo is beautiful but at 40 your still lacking a little bit. Then again if you have a decent amount of speed him bouncing out may not be the worst thing. It's a general thing that needs to examined per player but if you are going for combo I'd recommend at least 55.

More testing under my belt

On elusive side you may want to stay on slippery til 70 awareness actually, so long as you aren't returning kicks of any kind. They are pretty even from 50-70 for overall average but slippery has more home-run potential til you hit 70+

On the power side, you can switch to combo at 60 still. I'd not suggest much carry awareness for a typical powerback though. Power style is good anyhow and the only ability majorly effected by the awareness seems to be stiff arm - which you shouldn't be using unless you are a combo-back anyhow as it has low power requirements to fire but has such a low fire rate. If you have a lot of mobility though the awareness and combo style can pay dividends.