EA does what EA does best. Makes awful sports games. It’s truly a shame that EA has already ruined this series and that the game feels unplayable.
The gameplay:
Offensive lineman still don’t block properly even if you adjust blocking sliders, make the correct blocking adjustments and set up blocks they still won’t engage correctly unless they get locked into an animation.
CPU ball carriers do not use enough skill moves or the correct ones in situations along with having no situational awareness. Ball carriers also refuse to hit the correct holes like they’re Trent Richardson.
CPU defenders will get a random unrealistic speed boost to breakup a pass to what was once a wide open receiver, this happens even when altering the sliders.
Players don’t block consistently in the 2nd level and up, it’s a toss up if your OL or other skill players will block or run back at you or walk by someone they should be blocking.
Road to Glory:
RTG is still watered down compared to what we had in previous iterations before the ban. The high schools moments suck and make no logical sense half of the time. In the older iterations you could edit all the high schools you’d be playing against not just the one you’re playing. You could also use previous Heisman winners in the old iterations. The wear and tear in RTG makes no sense, you can have low wear and tear sliders and keep your player healthy but your player will still become injury prone by your junior year. Along with this your RTG player should feel overpowered in high school regardless of what difficulty you’re playing on and the auto generated players should have more than the basic gear on.
Dynasty:
The transfer portal is still broken and teams still stack high rated players and players won’t transfer even if they would in real life to get playing time. Some dealbreakers don’t work correctly like playing style. The progression in the game sucks and not all positions progress on an even level and this can’t be balanced for all positions by tweaking some XP sliders as some positions progress too much even with low sliders. The base gameplay sliders don’t play realistically and even though tweaking them does help, you still don’t get realistic gameplay. We should be able to expand for team builder teams instead of having to replace a team and taking on that team’s school ratings, pipelines etc.
Rosters:
I get why we can’t have shareable rosters in the download center but we should be able to edit all players being that we won’t be able to export the rosters anyways. Along with this we should have FCS teams, the older games got FCS teams and with conference realignment and more and more schools moving up it is only realistic to have all D1 football programs.
Online play:
Numerous times I will try to play online with my friends and our games will crash no matter what we try to do to prevent the games from crashing.