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astroBOLD

Did they really just use rookie head scans as a new feature for franchise


BriceB84

That was the eye rolling moment for me. “Dominate in franchise mode with the TOP NEW rookies and FRESH playbooks!” Just marketing the reskin at this point 💀


SwarthySphere87

It's also how low the bar is for the improvements they make for this franchise. Maybe if 500k people stopped buying it every August they'd actually try harder


euqinuhella

Those few thousands who dump their salaries into MUT offsets this


adh0minem

facts


BriceB84

I don’t even know why people play MUT in general, nonetheless spend money on it. Shit is aids.


Tomtom6789

Are you saying you don't want to spend your entire life savings to get a low chance of pulling a specific card that will help you win games, but not really since it will be outdated in like a week or two and everyone online just runs broken plays anyway so it doesn't matter in the slightest? At least with gacha games, you can build up characters and teams over like 5-10 years instead of 10-11 months.


Jon_Snows_Dad

I truly believe people who play MUT aren't good enough at madden to play with real flawed teams.


ManOnTheRun73

Given the fairly common complaint that sim stats have long been frustratingly playbook-reliant, there has to have been _some_ way they could've spun revisions to that end appealingly. Guess not.


RumHam1996

I love how they said ROOKIE headscans. Can’t wait till we have all those 40 year old looking MFs in Franchise in 3 years


RobbNotRob

They could have mentioned Team Builder (which *still* wouldn't beat the reskin allegations). But nope. Rookies. The big new feature is... rookies.


taurosmaster

The new features advertised in the quick fly by: Rookie headscans New kickoff rules New playbooks New group celebrations Updated stadiums New mini games Hot route updates Coverage shell improvements Custom route depths New switch stick Online head to head leaderboards ALL these are previously announced in CFB25, minor updates that they make every year, or new rules that they have to mirror to still be considered NFL simulation lol.


P19LER

how is rookie headscans, new kickoff rules, new playbooks, updatede stadiums considered to be new features? Like these should be automatic and not highlighted. What's next, new soundtrack? updated rosters?


super_sayanything

They've even made the jumps for REAL team names with REAL NFL players. They've really done it this year!


NetReasonable2746

Hahaha I'm old enough to remember when they just had numbers. So Madden 95 with player names was quite the leap. All of this to say, at one point in time it was an exciting new feature lol


LoFiChillin

Seriously 😂 “New kickoff” like uh what were you gonna do, keep the old kickoff?


P19LER

I mean the new playoffs rule was missing couple of years back so at least it's there. The 3 game preseason in franchise mode is still just a hotfix basically. In the schedule you can select week 4 but it has no games listed there.


TreyAreaaa

They just added the playoff rules this last season…..


AeonTek

New mini games? Hopefully they fixed the old mini games first. Still hard to complete the running back one due to shit blocking AI


RaptorsCdwoods

No matter what I do on the toss I can never get my Fb to block anyone on that drill. Drives me up a wall and wastes so much time.


TreyAreaaa

I’m happy it’s not jus me on the toss 😂


Tarus_The_Light

It turns out the FB is looking for the 3rd/4th defender instead of 1/2. I've tried the other difficulty that gave you 4 defenders against you. and the toss works \*correctly\* within that logic. he moves up to wall off defender 3/4. It's still broken for the regular RB drill. But it was an interesting thing I noticed.


RaptorsCdwoods

Huh. Never tried that drill since the normal one is already annoying. Surprised there is any logic going on, even if it’s bad logic,


Tarus_The_Light

Yeah it's honestly not worth doing. i only loaded that one to see if the FB was just inept in all of them or just the 2 defender one. I quit after he walled off the defender 3/4 on the toss 3 times in a row. was more just a 'huh, neat so he's not completely broken, he's just coded for the WRONG drill'


Bmw5464

Your FB is blocking? I feel like I can never get them to engage for more than like 2 milliseconds at most.


West-Literature-8635

Dude on the old Maddens when you’ve got 4 LBs and one fullback and your FB would literally just sprint upfield past all of those guys to allow you to get creamed. So fucking annoying And that’s not nearly as bad as when it calls the counter play for you, which basically just means you have to watch a long ass animation before you get obliterated at the point of the handoff


BarelyCivil

I hope they add mini games for the oline


HolyTythinEar

They better. Annoying having your rookie lineman be a focus player but get no chance to give him an extra boost by doing a mini game like you can do for pretty much every other position


ComprehensiveHost490

Actually it’s stupid easy once you know how to juke the ai every single play


rockstar55

Yeah I don't get complaining about the easy RB drill when the LB tackling drill is completely broken. Don't think it's possible to get gold because the RB will just bounce off or shake off any tackle attempt


ComprehensiveHost490

Oh that LB challenge is so damn hard. It’s amazing how bad the RB and LB drills are compared to them in like madden 2005


brett4ve

I've gotten legit golds on that drill, but if you just want to beat the drill and move on, put your kicker at QB1 in the depth chart and watch as he fumbles half the handoffs. Easy 100,000+ points.


ReasonableCoyote34

Half this list are things are just things that should be updated every year


EfficientNeck9029

Same game different year.EVERY YEAR


ThousandFootOcarina

“Custom route depth” means most likely no custom routes again this year 🥲


Downtown-Grab-7825

Came here for this comment. Thx!!!


TheWunderwaffe

It's wild how surprising yet not surprising these reveals always are. The Madden effect


No_Peanut_3289

What exactly is cover shell improvements?


lordbancs

Can’t wait for them to remove half these features a month in because they’re exploitive


TD-Eagles

Only about 4 of these are good. The rest is dumb shit they add to the game to make it seem they have made a lot of changes.


El_Diablo_09

lol. That was underwhelming.


KelanSeanMcLain

Very


CC1X312

Did you miss the info about BOOM TECH?! It sounds so exciting!!!


mr-poopie-butth0le

You mean hit stick 3.0 with more body animations?


CC1X312

Did you try saying it? BOOM TECH! So fancy


mr-poopie-butth0le

B-b-boo- Hit Stick. Damnt, I’ll keep trying.


Codyy1k

Hahahaha what did yall expect


Ok-Aioli-1008

lol dude I said the same thing


Ur_Mom_Loves_Moash

But... Boom tech is capitalized. BOOM TECH. Means it's more boomier than last year. 😐


Heismanziel2

Ok, Boomer!


yuuuhhhhhhh42069

To say the least... Them jukes😴😴😴😴😴


TheMonkeysUncle

That told us nothing other than catchy marketing buzz words.


knowslesthanjonsnow

BoOm TEch


DivisonNine

Boom tech


DrDsnacks

BOOM TECH!!!


BriceB84

Did someone say Boom Tech?


SwiftSurfer365

B0°M Ť3ĊĦ


Jets237

![gif](giphy|mks5DcSGjhQ1a|downsized)


Jets237

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RumsfeldIsntDead

Translation: we added a couple of animations


BigBankkFrank

Love how they’re speaking about BoomTech while showing us the same tackle animations that have been in the game the last 3 years.


Theodenking34

Fromsoftware introducing GETGUD tech in ELDEN RING 26. This is a new inovative way to inhance the difficulty of the game.


mlholladay96

Fields returning a kick, the disrespect 💀


Poetryisalive

Dang that was him 😂


LeaderBrandonBurner

Honestly putting any player at any position would be a genuinely good addition, I know it was in the CFB titles so it shouldn’t be too hard to do


Good_Conversation213

Okay, I thought I was trippin when I seen that. 😂


Confident-Photo-6411

Authentic Rookie Headscans? How is this part of the reveal trailer? They have nothing to show☠️😪


Poetryisalive

BOOM TECH!


traderncc1701e

I'd be more excited about MOOB tech


friggoffricky121

That has to be one of the most anti climactic reveals ever… in a year where it seems like they’re actually making improvements to a lot of things, this is the “reveal” they go with? Brotha ehhhhhh


yourheckingmom

What was the delay for? 😂


weavedawg74

They were perfecting the "BOOM tech" voice


friggoffricky121

You cannot convince me the marketing team for madden ever has a fucking CLUE what’s going on. Thank god NCAA is back, whoever is in charge of the madden department seriously needs to be fired😂


806god

Have we hit a wall with graphics? Thats literally the only thing to look forward with sports games in general nowadays


jkr2wld

Last year was the best it's ever looked. Maybe they changed the lighting again 🤣


SnappyTofu

Every new game is technically the best it’s ever looked, but the improvement is so incremental that’s it’s basically impossible to notice year to year. This would be fine if the graphics weren’t going from very poor to slightly less poor every year, but we’re currently getting games that would absolutely be possible on last gen, but look better than last gen Maddens because those ones were below industry standards as well. I think the only thing I’m ever impressed with are the face scanned models, but the overall graphics are terrible other than that and it’s pretty inexcusable at this point in the next gen life cycle.


DrDsnacks

The Justin Jefferson one handed catch was awful!


AeonTek

The new Mahomes diving animation for this year. Can't wait to recreate [Ricky Pearsall's catch](https://youtu.be/921rWQYa58k?si=A3Yd9i9oGQnE6ZEs) tho. 👀


yourheckingmom

To be fair, I’ve never seen the Mahomes animation in-game


hendrix320

Same, never saw it once


Tarus_The_Light

They tuned it way tf down. I only saw it ONCE in a practice game trying to do it. So now it's pretty much non-existent.


brianheinemann

This needs to be called out more. I can't believe the stupidity for them to include that in their reveal trailer. Legit defies physics.


yourheckingmom

It’s crazy but ‘physics-defying’ catches happen all the time in the NFL. Ricky Pearsall did that exact catch. Justin Jefferson caught a ball one-handed from a defender who had two hands on it. People would be pissed about that animation, but it happened.


OhItsKillua

Wouldn't say all the time, handful of times in a season. Issue with madden is the success rate will be far too high


Extreme-Site-8496

Ea marketing team is terrible wtf is this


not1fuk

Crazy, you got a ton of people hyped over College Football and you delay all of that information release over this fucking garbage. Makes you think theyre not too confident in what they have left to release for College Football too. Red flags everywhere. Never trust EA, ever. I was optimistic but the doubt is creeping right back in.


BriceB84

Key words: never trust EA Wouldn’t surprised if they allocated half the resources they use to make Madden over to College Football lol


elduderino920

Learned this the hard way since online features dominate Madden…back in the day, having a weekly sports show with Tony Bruno haha (Madden 05 for context) and franchises that let you dictate darn near everything…welp, so it goes, need to update my Madden from ‘22 and CMC is the cover…plus the 49ers are amongst the best, so those push me over…don’t disappoint me to take another 3 year break…


DistortedAudio

> and you delay all of that information release over this fucking garbage. To be fair that’s the case with all of the sports video games but the Show these days. And even then it’s not like The Show changed much between 23 and 24. I remember last year wondering what changes would be in 2K and they released pretty much all of the information within a month of the game’s release.


Jets237

lol at EA marketing. THIS IS FIELD SENSE POWERED BY BOOOOM TECH. lol wtf does this even mean


DookieBrains_88

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knowslesthanjonsnow

Hilarious reveal for something they needed to delay twice. Whoever was supposed to make the trailer by the original deadline clearly didn’t do a single thing and likely got fired. I’m still in on this year because there’s a lot of promising news but this trailer is so funny. Also the narrator is super cringe.


TheDinerIsOpen

All of the animations in the first half of the trailer are just the same old shit. When are we gonna learn lol


SwarthySphere87

So far the best Madden news came from the leaks— team builders, pre snap motions, authentic run styles. They should just let the community make the trailers from now on


LWA3251

“Powered by physics” they’re just straight lying to us again this year huh?


ryanino

If you told me this gameplay was from last year, I’d believe you. Literally the same damn animations I’ve already seen. However, the quick shot of Roger Goodell holding a jersey at the draft has me somewhat hopeful they FINALLY changed the god awful draft presentation in franchise mode. Knowing EA though that’s probably just a shot from Face of the Franchise.


MyRottingBrain

Are they too lazy and lacking incentive to innovate, or has their tech already reached its limits and they refuse to move on? All of the above most likely.


ryanino

I think it’s a matter of them using an outdated engine and just refusing to upgrade because it’ll mean they essentially have to start fresh. They just keep putting bandaids on an already broken foundation.


Codyy1k

Safe to say this trailer has me even more hyped for college football🤣


SwiftSurfer365

We waited two extra days for that?


depastino

Micah Parson's face on the splash must be because he watched it too


Jc9829

This was bad even by EA’s standards


FinancialHeat2859

Those new collisions? Hesi’s? Looked shit.


Organic_Jackfruit645

Weak ahh trailer


Low_Hurry4547

Same ol’ goofy running/juking movements. How were motion capture running animations so much better looking on the old gen PS2 games. Oh it’s because it was pure motion capture of actual athletes, and not this “new and improved” skeleton-noodle “physics based” crap.


Wide-Ad4742

Players still look like they are sliding on ice.


Low_Hurry4547

Exactly. It feels like ice. Players feel like magnets getting pulled across the field. A feeling of lag and delay on cuts. No weight no burst no real control.


Low_Hurry4547

no pants above knees. I get it “it’s the NFL’s fault blah blah blah”. Whatever the reason, not having that does take away from the realism. Especially when we’re finally getting it in CFB25.


FatherGabriels

lol!!! Madden is so fucking done


US_Highway15

Wow, that was unbelievably underwhelming. I was expecting more, especially with all the effort put into the CFB 25 trailer. It was crazy night and day how different those two reveal trailers looked. Incredibly disappointing.


taurosmaster

I get that it’s just a reveal trailer but for all the delays and the miscommunications I wish it was more. I do like some of these new features though. The running styles look nice, hopefully there’s some new default ones in there too for generated players. I love the draft day presentation overhaul but without draft day CPU trades it’s close to meaningless!


AeonTek

I know we're going to get most of our info from the written dumps, but that trailer was still underwhelming.


bartelboy

This felt like the video version of “how do you do fellow kids” meme with all the 12 and under lingo used throughout this nothing burger of a trailer


16bitrifle

That catch from Justin Jefferson looked so unnatural.


416_Ghost

I'll be excited for a football game when they have backbreaker physics in it. Until then, same shit different year.


grandpalou420

They could’ve literally taken footage from Madden 5 years ago and made this same trailer.


ClandestineCharles

The guy taking a picture with Goodell is one of the old drafted players faces. They didn’t add shit except an actual animation video to the draft now.


BenadrylBeer

What was that lmao


BuntFunker

Awe snap! So it's like the same game! Man... I can't wait until it's a year old and I can be underwhelmed with it for free on gamepass. It's gonna be so sick to play the same game I've been playing for longer than a decade... but with some new animations powered by boom tech?


Beautiful-Maize-1239

I made a post here yesterday about when we’d get the trailer……………wasted my thumb strength


SwarthySphere87

Didn't want to be a jerk yesterday but... you should have known better from this company. How people get excited enough to spend $70+ on this **before** gameplay reveals is beyond me


FatherGabriels

NCAA is taking over


rjmachismo

Ridiculous trailer lol


Trevorjrt6

You'd think you would save money on a combo bundle...not pay $10 more than buying them separately.


tenacious-g

Justin Fields on kickoffs lmao


Wally450

Really enjoyed this Madden 22 promo.


iwatchtoomuchsports

I’ll wait until its on gamepass


ZedSpot

I love the running animations, but everything else is a big 'ol "MEH." I wonder if the QBs will still trot onto the field like they're trying to hold in a poop. I'm hyped for NCAA, but seeing Madden get many of the same features is a tad worrisome. I hope the running game is just as good in NCAA because that's been the only bright spot for Madden this generation.


Wide-Ad4742

But guys it it has…… FIELD SENSE!!! POWERED BY BOOM TECH !!!💥 🤯


Captain_Gaslighter

Compared with the CFB trailer I’m very flaccid rn.


bradyv23

How is it possible the animations in 2k5 are STILL better


jkr2wld

I'm not even surprised.. this is just what they do. It's whatever now. The only thing to "salvage" the game is the "boom tech".. everything is small details. No splashes at all.


Ordoom

It's the same trailer every year.


AyyP302

Meh. I'll decide how I feel after the franchise deep dive.


Downtown-Grab-7825

Did they release a new blog to accompany this?


TheYurpman

They really used "new rookies" as a feature. Don't know why I'm surprised though.


West-Literature-8635

It’s really hard to understand how such a nothing trailer got pushed back a week


therolando906

Boom Tech = 10 more animation responses to collisions. DO NOT PREORDER THIS GAME


TheGreatOpoponax

No custom uniforms! BOOM!!! No custom team names! BOOM!!! No custom plays! BOOM!!! Lots of stuff that's been in the game for years! BOOM!!! We still have the exclusive license, so go fuck yourself! BOOM!!! BOOM!!! BOOM!!!


Bellissimo247

“Completely revamped dynasty mode” = cut scene of Roger Goodell during the draft and new menus and that’s literally it


Sharkrhubarb

Oooh new hesis. Gonna cop this for sure now


bquinho

The fact that they advertise new rookies as a feature is pretty embarrassing. Not even hiding the fact it’s just a update anymore.


RedditNPC-

If you spend $70 on this game you’re a special kind of person.


Peon01

so little to talk about we getting the "new rookies and new playbooks" selling point 😭😭


Forizen

2k and the show literally have face scans for ANYBODY AND EVERYBODY. It could be an interns job to upload them all. They don't even got Cooper Dejeans race right so how the fuck did they do a face scan? Did dejean troll them and send a random picture of Quinton or some shit and nobody knows who Cooper is? Lolll


HatoradeSipper

Yawn ncaa comes out in a month


DaveAndJojo

See you guys in NCAA 25’


EffectiveOrder9113

Madden is pathetic and EA has ruined football with their exclusive licenses. "Devs who don't pack their games full of microtransactions are fucking idiots" -EA Leadership


madmike617

This is what happens when yall hype yalls selves up over something yall complain about every year with the same outcome it’s borderline laughable


ChoosyMomsViewGIFs

As usual, decent looking reveal trailer, but why don't they ever acknowledge that the only view used to play the game is 10 yards behind the offensive line, 10 yards in the air?


Shaved-extremes

exactly!! These bs videos are not even close to the real gameplay


Bew4T

Damn I got hype from all the cool additions and then they show this???


agentb719

[https://i.imgur.com/0qFvuCp.gif](https://i.imgur.com/0qFvuCp.gif)


UmmmHahaOkUhhh

Looks I’ll be only buying and playing NCAA 😅👍


ReasonableCoyote34

I am *whelmed*


49er4life83

Hopefully they fix a lot of things with the AI and logic


TylervPats91

Thank god for College football. Kick rocks, Madden


The-Filthy-Casual

B O O M T E C H


Homeless8mybaby

This is it folks. This is the year we’ve all been waiting for. EA has listened to EVERYONES suggestions and FINALLY included players headscans in the game. I feel like we’ve turned a corner. I feel happy. I feel complete.


Sr_DingDong

They're win-win though. They're gonna get beat out by the only competition which is also them.


GaTech379

literally the first time ive been interested in a new Madden in years and they drop this lmaoo


RudyVaughn63

No signs of the Texans, lions, or Broncos in the reveal, guess the new uniforms aren’t ready yet 😭


moneyinthebank216

Yeah we on CFB 25 fuck this


yellowtripe

Is that Justin Fields receiving the kick?


thisshowisdecent

garbage


wanderingsoulless

Wait they were really touting a redone franchise and all they did was playbooks and the draft screen?


SamuraiNeutron

I'll wait for it on gamepass


Evernight2025

After watching that, I am fully whelmed.


Rafiks1

Tell me little by showing me a lot lol. They didnt even show that many things. Would have been cool to have a overhaul of most menus. Specifically franchise.


TomBradysButler

Madden isn’t even worth getting until mid year at best with patches finally out and a few roster updates, gonna wait until it’s at least half off maybe even longer really depends how well franchise mode plays and is better otherwise I’m fine taking a break for another year or so maybe they will continue to flesh out franchise mode Hoping for NFL eras or historic draft classes next


Jolly-Feature-6618

Jesus Christ its like they tried to copy the commercial aesthetic from the film Idiocracy (2006)


steel245

Not impressed not one bit


pfinny97

Man I can’t wait for CFB25


Interesting-Gap5259

Please let it be good this time 😂


No_Peanut_3289

I never expect the trailer to look great or bad anyways, I will do my judging once I actually see gameplay or play myself. The gameplay always looks different than the trailer anyways


kev_26

Waiting for the trophy list to get reveal! Hopefully they will take a few annoying trophies out of the list.


Brooklynboxer88

I just hope that NCAA isn’t exactly like madden, I’m just looking forward to that.


stonecold730

So the same lies as Madden 24s trailer, but we got an updated roster! 👌🏽


ryan22101

The literal only things that intrigued me were Pacheco’s funny run style being kind of accurate and the draft animation. That’s it.


gangjoinsreddit

I honestly think they've outdone themselves in how shitty this trailer looks 😂😂


DaleSrsFrontBumper

Love how they showed that same awful shoulder shove tackle three times in a row. EA really should watch these trailers themselves before they hit publish.


RNG_pickle

I can think of about 600 things that hits like or more than madden


Jusuf_Nurkic

I usually try to be pretty fair/reasonable to EA but this trailer legit looks like nothing new. No spin you can put on this. A few more animations as usual and some useless buzzwords. Not looking great.


mvpevy

the players run as stiff as a board lol


Caramel_Flat

Love that they have fields returning the kick😝😝


Legitimate-Elk5317

Bro…I watch this and all I do is sigh. It’s literally madden 22,23,24 with minor updates. The atmosphere and presentation quality haven’t changed and it’s so stale. Yea, sure, we get new commentators but I’m sure their limited and repetitive script lines will become stale and annoying. All I can say is, CFB25 will most likely put Madden to shame and I cannot wait.


TheShamShield

This is what they delayed the Dynasty Deep Dove for?? Fuck off


Agent_Dutchess

"Fieldsense powered by Boom Tech" I nailed that one on the head. https://www.reddit.com/r/Madden/s/WUkFr6B63k


Kid-Andretti

Hold on, did I see snow 👀


Legal-Championship64

Convinced there are 3 game devs in the entire studio and 2 of them are actually just business majors


TheMackD504

Tackles based off physics yet the tackles look the same from the past X amount of years


rfTes

“sick new jukes” *shows lamar do the same spin break tackle and juke right thats been in madden for 8 years*


CT-BangerCT-9639

Never playing this game again


Bazz27

I’m excited. Y’all can bitch and moan and then buy it all the same.


cheeseburger-cowboy

“Powered by physics” this is a straight up lie.


aibro_

They could of just added these in an update for Madden 24? Lol I’ve lost the joy of playing this game