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    Madden NFL 18 - Sponsored by the Tom Brady GOAT Tour

    Released 25th August.




    Also new seems to be their version of THE JOURNEY. They have called it LONGSHOT.

    You take control of Devin Wade, a forgotten prospect on the road to hear his name called on NFL Draft day.



    Unfortunately as with FIFAs version, you are limited to only using Wade. There isn't any customisation. You are also limited to being a QB.


    Lastly Ultimate Team returns. As part of the pre-order bonus you get to choose one Elite player for your team(as seen in image below). I'm not sure if you get to keep them for good, but if you get to, that's pretty good. I've seen some site advertise 5 packs with this bonus too, but I cant tell if that's accross the board.

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    I've ordered the GOAT edition although I wont be able to play until the 2nd.

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    I'll probably end up picking this up at some point, although I should really just skip this one as I've not played a whole lot of 17.

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    I played a lot of 17, although nowhere near as much as 16.

    My jam was UT but they made so many bad changes that it pissed me off.

    Also a little annoyed with this in regards to being limited as a QB in that journey thing. I loved doing a player career with a CB last year although it was slightly broken when I was the nickel CB. I found that I could just change to a blitz and I'd have a free run at the QB.

    I think I got around 100 sacks in that season. Fun times.

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    Yeah, I forgot you can actually kinda get the camera set so the defence is at the bottom of the screen when you're a defensive player again. Might have to try a season as a FS & see if it's as good as my Madden 11 one.

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    I loved playing as a FS on Mut 16.

    I went through Legends Sean Taylor, Career Tribute Woodson and then UT Boss Reed.

    I was terrible at actually reading the game but they had so much pace and catching ability that I was accidentally baiting opponents into throwing at them. It was the most fun I've had on a Madden game I think.

    I sold up my great squad for mediocre ones but with a stud FS.

    www.muthead.com/16/players/17123-ed-reed

    Edit: 97 speed, 100 acceleration, 90 awareness, 98 jumping, 97 agility, 92 catching, 97 spectacular catch, 85 catch in traffic, 95 pursuit, 97 hit power, 100 play recognition, 89 man coverage, 101 zone.

    He also had the best traits too.

    Boss Reed was like a corner, safety, linebacker and receiver rolled into one.

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    Did anyone pick this up today?

    I can't seem to find it cheaper than £49.99, so I've not jumped on yet.

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    Same. I didn't realise it was coming out so soon so was all ready to get it but £40's my limit. I'll hold off until the season starts and get it then.

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    That story mode looks so good it's almost worth it.

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    Second defensive snap on MUT this year:



    Ray

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    Was that Winston trying to throw it away before he took the sack?

    Impressed with the AI trying something like that if so.

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    Yeah, they've nailed Jameis by the look of it.

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    Team right now:





    I user Ray on defence and despite being a little too slow for a user with crap hands he's glitchy as hell. I seem to be averaging 0.8-0.9 interceptions a game in the solos, including the short ones.

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    I wanted to do a Ravens franchise but the official roster and none of the 4 custom ones that I downloaded are correct.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan View Post
    Yeah, they've nailed Jameis by the look of it.
    Nailed the Jags too:



    Also ended the game with a 91 yard pick 6, so spot on.

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    Proper filthy team that Mahow.

    What's your W-L in MUT at the moment?

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    I've only done solos thus far.

    So 100% win.

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    I'm so tempted to get this but I'll wait for next year and make it an every other year thing. It probably isn't worth getting every year.

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    Unless the price drops somewhere fairly soon, I'm the same.

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    Yeah, it sounds like it's basically the same game (isn't it always?), and I only really play Franchise mode, so I probably won't bother with this one either unless I get it as a birthday present.

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    I'd quite like it too, but not at £50.

    With FIFA out too soon for the same money, I don't see it happening.

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    They've also added MUT Champions so this will be a huge time sink along with FIFA.

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    What luck.



    What spin.



    What hurdle.

    The 87 Randy Moss is a complete glitch at this stage.

    6 foot 4 with 90 speed (only John Ross, FO Tyreek Hill and MUT Master Sean Taylor have more), 89 acceleration, 90 jumping etc etc.

    http://www.muthead.com/18/players/20...s/full-ratings

    He's amazing.

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    That first TD is the kind that breaks controllers. It's tempting to switch over to putting time into this for a year so as not to burn out on FIFA but we all know I wouldn't stick to it.

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    Bit the bullet and having this delivered. Not sure if it'll get processed in time for tomorrow but I hope so.

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    Got excited when I saw that a new roster update was ready but the pricks still haven't added some players who actually made it to our 53 man roster.

    Dickheads.

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    I also finished Longshot the other day.

    The story is laughable, there's fuck all actual football playing in it and most of your playing time is comprised of QTEs.

    They'd have been better sticking off just doing the NBA 2k route of some college stuff then you get drafted and can continue for a season or so.

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    It didn't get dispatched today either. But will on Monday so I''ll have to wait a little.

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    Glorious save.

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    Someone finally did a proper roster update and I've updated it a little bit.

    They've nailed the Ravens though, second week of pre-season and I've already got 2 people injured.

    Edit: And now Mosley out for 7 weeks :\

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    I was foolish enough to make my Franchise games on the cloud so Irma is making them incredibly slow and I can't access MUT at all.

    Sigh.

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    Can you not download the save and then switch off cloud save while that's going on?

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    No, that would be too logical for EA.

    When you select a cloud save there is no way to access it without internet access or have the ability to change it to an offline save.

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    Finished my first season and won the Super Bowl over the Falcons (always the bridesmaids) and just took part in my first draft.

    http://eagamesblog.com/madden-18-cfm-scouting-tool-now/

    I used this after scouting which helped a lot (protip: fill it in as the season is going along, I had to put in 90 players and I didn't have access to old draft stories) but I ended up trading constantly so only got in 3 picks.

    The first is a 'Strong Arm' QB picked 31st who has an overall of 80 but has 93 throw power (-2 on Flacco), 87 short accuracy (-1), 84 medium accuracy (tied), 75 deep accuracy (-4) and 83 throw on the run (+4). Which is pretty damn awesome for a rookie.

    The next two were RBs, the first was picked one spot after my QB and is a balanced guy with an overall of 77. The other was picked with the last pick of the 5th and despite only having a 64 rating he looks like Marshawn Lynch-lite with 87 trucking and a massive 91 stiff arm.

    Next season I have 1 first rounder, 3 second rounders, 5 third rounders, 6 fourth rounders, 1 fifth rounder, 1 6th rounder and 3 seventh rounders.

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    And now my roster is seemingly broken.

    I sign loads of UDFAs (too many but I wanted to check them out and then cut), it then tells me to start cutting some so I do. When I cut half of the required I can no longer cut anymore so I back out. I then check my roster and loads that I wanted to keep have been cut by the AI with some added to my practice squad. I keep signing back those that I wanted, then I realise that my practice squad members are counting against my 53 as I only have 44 in my actual roster so cut them and it works. The next week my practice squad is filled up again but this time they are not counting against the 53 and I have to cut 9 from my actual roster.

    Everything is on manual so I have no idea why the AI is messing with my roster and why the numbers are all screwed up now.

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    I'm in! Had £15 of free Amazon vouchers and got an email from PSN with a 30% off code the digital version so cost £26 overall. I just need to hope that it'll have downloaded before the Super Bowl now.

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    Throwing so many stupid picks and the players tend to suffer from incomplete passes way more than before this game. Happy with this one though, the rare time it went exactly as intended. Hope they sort out the choppy replays.

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    Primetime

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    Madden 19 announced, and they're bringing back custom draft classes for Franchise Mode

    New 'position archetypes' & progression too, so hopefully it's not shit. More to be revealed June 11th.

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    They’ve given a bit more info on the position archetypes in the MUT video, so we’ll now have specific spots for power back (presumably short yardage/goal line), slot CB, pass rush D-Linemen, slot WR & sub LB.

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    That is great.

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    They've also announced they're getting rid of the player contract system.

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    I got excited for a second, thinking they were actually putting in a proper contract system for Franchise Mode, but that’s just for MUT.

    Still, maybe they’ll sort it for CFM as well.

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    Is the career mode up to much on this? Or is it just an FUT-centric game like FIFA to flog virtual cards to people?

    I hate playing idiots online so only really play career mode on FIFA, but considering this.

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    It's more FUT than career mode at the moment aka FIFA.

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    The career mode is still good though.

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    It's way better than the Fifa version. The franchise announcements will be coming soon too, so hopefully they've made some more big changes to go with custom draft classes.

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    I had a shit bug that fucked up my favourite career though.

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    I actually played a CPU/CPU Saints franchise all the way through until rookies were retiring on 17 (which is what I still play). I think after about five years that cap stopped going up, meaning I was in 2032 with £182m cap, which is barely more than the current cap in real life

    I really fucking hope they've got that sorted in 19 - the whole contract/cap system needs overhauling to be fair, as does scouting & the draft.

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    NHL franchise mode is/looks far better than the Madden one so hopefully EA sorts it out by giving it a massive overhaul (I doubt it really but we can only live and hope).

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