Everyone who was complaining or thinks that the game is better because of less abilities is wrong. The defense in this game does not work without those abilities, and I use this as proof. I’ve pretty much only been losing like this as of late. I have guys 100% covered, double, triple teamed, and will find a way to lose to things like this. The game is better when there is abilities that are free.

I’m not advocating for a bunch of free avalanches or free freight trains. Those are busted and take away from the gameplay. But we should be allowed to play defense and not lose to Hail Marys like this.

  • click on and make a play bro

    Clicking on makes it worse half the time it’ll suck you into an animation that takes him out of the play

    This clicking on in m26 is way worse unless you switch stick prior ruined d compared to m25

    Or you get no animation to be able to make a play! Its ridiculous that actually reading the play, getting to the spot early, & strafing, is almost a guaranteed giving up a catch/TD! That used to be part of the “skill gap” now it just hurts you, & way better to be behind or even out of the play & getting the teleport/speed boost, or the over the head/shoulder INT on a lead pass, to the Off player thats got the defender beat by 3-5yds! At least the super man leaping INTs from dude thats 5-10yds off the LoS, 20yds+ away from the target circle!

    Yeah deadass half the time if you click on your either gonna get no animation or it’ll drag your db 5 yards out of the play if you try to come down to swat it

  • You went for the pick as well. Play the man or swat and that’s (maybe) not a TD

  • So your a settings player you need the settings to win

    Nah I just need someone who’s double covered to not catch the ball

  • I'm with everyone else, this one was on you.

  • He had height and was underneath the defenders. You lost a dice roll bro, click on and user it better.

    Carmichael is 6’8 and the other DB was Jalen Ramsey

    True that, but the receiver still had position on the ball relative to both defenders. At the end of the day it's a dice roll between player stats. The probabilities are determined by the relative player stats from the players involved in the play. Abilities just boost your probability of winning the interaction but you can still play the interaction better too.

    Then again you could play it perfect and the other guy could still win, because there's still a dice roll to determine who comes up with it. I've had balls teleport through lurker animations and magnet catch into people several yards behind me. lol Talk about losing a dice roll.

    I feel like how cards play game to game changes just as much. It's as if there's a hidden modifier that rerolls before each game and determines if the cards brought their "A" game or not. I notice it replaying challenges too. One run it'll be an easy one play touchdown, restart the challenge, get sacked 3 times in a row using the same play, restart and it's back to one play touchdowns.

    There's so many unknowns I just do my best and live with the rest. It's probably EA trying to screw us so we feel the need to spend more money to buy more packs and chase better players. Much like on CoD where Activision matches NMS players against sweats using DLC guns so people think they need the DLC guns to win. (they filed a patent for it) If you buy a new camo or blueprint in CoD the next few games are usually lopsided blowouts where they give you easy wins. To both justify your purchase and push NMS players to spend more.

  • This is wild to post lmao

  • Switch stick would’ve made a play right there

    I chose not to because he was literally double covered and I figured it would be a knock out

  • I think we just need a little more AP. Definitely not 200 but we need more on both sides of the ball.

  • No! Abilities are whats wrong with the game, & has been for years! The fact you need them to be able to the most basic of things, not even do them well, but just “animate” is ridiculous! Stats mean absolutely nothing!

    I wish stats meant something but I’m not sure what to do other than rearrange my ability stacks again. They threw it into double coverage but I didn’t get a knockout because I don’t have the correct abilities I guess

    Ya, pretty frustrating abilities being so OP ruined the game IMO, all it is a way to create more “economy” getting training to keep purchasing them, & for the players that get discounted abilities… There is a reason why X-factors you get 90% back and upgrades & abilities you get “½” (usually more like 40-45%… Sad, Traits & Stats really dont mean anything anymore! Height & Spd, Tkl & Hit Pow, dont really matter like it used to anymore either… I got players with 99 stats, cant catch, get out jumped by shorter players with lower jump, Opp breaks tackles constantly, slow Opp players toast/catch 99 spd players with ease… All bc of having an ability! So ya, I def feel what you are saying!

  • Skill issue bro

    Care to elaborate

  • skill issue

  • I don’t see what is wrong there. He was wide open.

    Now wide open is a stretch lol

  • Don’t be a chicken and make a user play. Click on and don’t let the CPU decide games for you.

  • this sub genuinely gets mad at the wrong things lmao he shouldn’t have to click on when there were THREE DEFENDERS right there lmao ball should have been automatically picked or at worst should have been an incomplete