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Madden 22 Franchise Mode Guide, Tips, Notes, and New House Rules

As promised, I had some time to play through most of the first season in Franchise Mode. I simmed the last few weeks and played some moments in the divisional round. My Browns lost to Tampa 38-20 in the Super Bowl. Here are a few things I noticed and of which I would like to bring everyone up to speed.

Fatigue Matters!

The Season Fatigue Bar for each player is buried in the player card under ‘Health’. I think this should be more readily available in the lineup section with a simple color dot on the player card.

As I played through every snap of from week one through fourteen I noticed a couple instances where some players (Nick Chubb, Jarvis Landry and OBJ) were all magically removed from the field and I couldn’t do anything to bring them back. Due to a few things being difficult to find in the Weekly Strategy section I totally forgot that there was a way to adjust practice methods from intensity (full vs. half pads) and which players were the focus of the training (Starters, Backups or split). In order to change these you have to manually go to the Cross Symbol (ON EACH PREP PAGE!!!! The first will be defense and the second will be offense). From there, you will want to change it as you see fit. As I wait for the next update to come out with a better scouting system I have already decided that my global settings for this will be Split/Half Pads for the first 8 weeks and then Backups/Half Pads for the last 10 weeks. I choose this for now because backups need the XP far more than the starters will as they will earn it in game. I will also never make my team practice during the Bye Week as it doesn’t seem to be worth the risk of injury or fatigue (you do you on that end).

Staff Points Might Need to be Turned Down

By the end of the first season I was able to max out the Personnel Department Trade Section (and make progress on some coaches as well). I think it was a little too easy.

I absolutely love the new coaching trees and overall effort to bring Coordinators into the game (even in simple ways like this flashback to NCAA 14). However, before the season starts you might want to slow down the XP growth for staff as it might build too fast if you are performing at a high level all season. I was able to max out the trade upgrade tree before the first offseason. This gave me the ability to fleece teams for draft picks and such with even more ease than before. The trading has been tuned somewhat (from the later update in Madden 21), but there is more to be desired on this end in my opinion.

Here are a couple of trades I made that weren’t AWFUL, but they weren’t great in terms of fairness (IMO, as always).

Coaching Carousel/Staff Moves Has Some Bugs

After the first season, the Seahawks fired their staff. Pete Carroll was looking for a job, and apparently he was so sought-after that two teams hired him. This is simply a bug that I hope will be ironed out before the big scouting patch, but it’s worth mentioning and showing you nonetheless.

Auto-Sub with Season Fatigue Could Be Tougher To Tune Than Sliders

As mentioned at the beginning, I love the idea of season fatigue as a concept. Once it is better understood and tuned by the community I think we will have some of the best depth in player development that we’ve had in Madden. As it stands, I have found that my old Auto-Sub sliders won’t perform well in 22. I will be tuning all Sub In and Sub Out to be lower (I may even start with default 80-60 in the coming weeks before the patch, just to test it out). Be on the lookout for other people to release their own ideas as well. The more input we have, the better.

All Madden vs All Pro

All Madden cheats and All Pro is tough-ish (not really) for the first 1.5 quarters (sometimes). This leaves me with a situation I have to get used to again and that is not switching players on Defense (ever). The second change I have to make is not user catching passes with WRs. The second issue is something I have serious issues with as it feels like WRs sometimes simply don’t make the slightest attempt to catch the damn ball – especially on deep routes!

The running game is still too easy, but I think it feels the best it ever has. We need to make some changes to User Run Blocking (down) and CPU Tackling (up) and the opposite the other way around.

The passing game isn’t bad from the user perspective, close to default for user passing feels good and CPU INTs will punish you if you’re sloppy. However, CPU Robo QB is alive and well at default. This will need to be tuned with User Pass Rush, Pass Coverage and INTs – CPU Pass Blocking needs bumped slightly (maybe 55 or 60?).

Backup CPU QBs – Oooof…. In a Good Way (I think?)

So, I injured Lamar Jackson in the first game we had against the Ravens (ruptured disk – 6 weeks! W00T!). In comes Tyler Huntley and good lord was it a different feel. He turned the ball over 6 times (2 picks and 4 fumbles – should have been 5, but his LG recovered). Suffice to say, poorly rated QBs will play – poorly most of the time. Robo QB is still a factor, but wow – they are lacking in the ball security department.

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Let me know what kind of settings you are finding success with in the comments or on the platforms listed above. Happy Gaming and GO BROWNS!

Madden 17 CFM Sliders and Settings (1st Edition)

It’s that time of year once again. Time for everyone to bring their Madden clicks to NoobTubeTV for our sliders and settings. This year is going to be a bit different in a few ways. First, it is going to involve an initial shift to All Pro for our sliders. This is due to numerous statements from the developers and EA Game Changers that All Pro is the best difficulty to use if you want the more balanced/realistic gameplay. Personally, I’m starting to wonder if the statements of balanced gameplay and realism rely more on the player instituting house rules for sim play against the CPU.

I have noticed (like the rest of the Madden 17 players that there is a preponderance of fumbles and injuries (especially while simming).

It seems that EA Tiburon has stepped up their game and will be supporting the Madden experience more than we have seen in years. I will be doing the same with these sliders and settings for CFM. Expect updates and tuning over the next couple months. I usually create sliders with the intent of realistic substitutions, stats, and challenge. I find that gameplay/player animations have a tendency of dictating weird situations and morphing on the field. It isn’t my prerogative to go through every game like Sim Football Critic does on YouTube. I have recently started watching his videos with more regularity and highly recommend tuning into his channel if you enjoy watching gameplay and hearing coherent commentary. Also, I tend to agree with his philosophy that messing with the sliders too much will severely alter the performance of the game and your experience playing it.

Here’s the first iteration of our CFM Sliders for Madden 17.

Player Skill:

QB Accuracy

Pass Blocking

WR Catching

Run Blocking

Fumbles

Pass Def. Reaction

Interceptions

Pass Coverage

Tackling

CPU Skill:

QB Accuracy

Pass Blocking

WR Catching

Run Blocking

Fumbles

Pass Def. Reaction

Interceptions

Pass Coverage

Tackling

Special Teams – Keep All At 50

Injuries – 50

Fatigue – 57

Speed Threshold – 49

Penalties –

Def. Pass Interference – 80

(Keep all others at default)

SETTINGS

Skill – All Pro

Quarter Length – 12 Minutes

Acc Clock – ON (15 Seconds)

User Team Help – OFF (All of them)

Game Speed – Normal

Trade Type – Enable All

League Type – All

Relocation – Users Only

INJURY NOTE – This setting is totally up to the individual. You need to decide how you want to begin your franchise mode. Do you want to start with Week 1 Rosters? You might want to wait until the official Week 1 roster drops. Start your Franchise with injuries turned OFF and start your Franchise at Week 1 instead of Pre-Season.

My personal settings are going to feature the latest roster update (as of August 26)… this means I will need to trade Mingo to New England for a 5^thRound Pick. I will start with Pre-Existing Injuries Turned On with Pre-Season Injuries Turned Off. I want to start realistically with players out for 2016 that are injuried now, but I also want a chance to build my own team and deal with my own alternate Madden universe.

Injury – On

Pre-Existing Injury – On (this is totally up to you)

Madden 16 – Settings and Sliders (CFM)

As promised, here are the official NoobTubeTV settings (version 1.0) and sliders for your CFM.

A few things before you dig into these. Yes, I have nerfed the CPU run blocking. This is because I have played against enough players like Jeremy Hill and such that simply run over every tackle attempt that I chose to even it up a bit. I am considering turning CPU Run Block up to 20 as I keep playing, but so far I have been having great games (especially in my second season).

Also, be sure to set the auto-subs before the season if you want to get the proper stats for starters and backups.

I set the quarter length to 12 minutes because 15 was giving me far too many plays and high scores. Setting it at 12 minutes is a great sim experience that will give you about 65 plays per game depending on how quickly you snap the ball, etc.

One final tip… When running the ball you should NEVER hit the sprint button until the play has developed and then speed burst through the hole.

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask!

Instant Starter – ON

Salary Cap – ON

Skill Level – All Madden

Quarter Length – 12 Minutes

Accelerated Clock – On

Minimum Play Clock – 15 Seconds

Game Speed – Normal

Player Progression – Every 4 Weeks

Coach Firing – On

Gameplay Tuning – Yes

Injury – On

Pre-Existing Injury – OFF

Trade Deadline – On

Trade Type – Enable All

Relocation Settings – Off

League Type – All

Auto Strafe – Off

Heat Seeker – On

Ball Hawk – On

Camera – Standard

On-Field Visual – Off

Def. Tackle Indicator – Off

Kicking Arc – On

Passing Camera – On

CPU Settings (CFM)

All set to OFF besides Game Prep (Game Prep is a complete waste of time)

SLIDERS HUM/CPU

QBA 55/40

Pass Block 50/50

WRC – 50/41

RBK – 53/15

FUM – 45/35

PDR – 75/55

INT – 50/40

PCV – 70/53

TAK – 60/45

Special Teams

FGP – 50

FGA – 50 (If you set this below 50 you will get the terrible accuracy glitch that basically makes your kick arc go crazy)

PPW – 50

PAC – 100 (CPU punters are terrible, EA needs to fix this legacy issue)

KOP – 50

Game Options

Injuries – 55

Fatigue – 60

Min Speed Thresh – 40

Penalties

Offside – 55

False Start – 50

Holding – 40

Def. Hold – 50

Face Mask – 50

Def PI – 50

Off PI – On

Kick Catch – On

Illegal Block – 50

Intentional Ground – On (Doesn’t work either way)

Rough Pass – 50

Rough Kick – On

Running Into – On

Auto-Subs

QB – 50/40

HB – 85/70

WR – 85/70

TE/FB – 80/65

OL – 12/10

DT – 80/65

DE – 80/65

LB – 80/65

CB – 80/70

S – 80/70

Madden 25 – All-Madden Sliders

Now that we have made it into November it is safe to say that most of what will be patched in Madden 25 has been ‘tuned’ and patched by EA.

Here are the official NoobTubeTV Settings for All-Madden Difficulty.

You can also download the sliders from the GamerTag – Outspoknpoet (on Xbox 360)

Skill Level – All Madden

Playcall Style – GameFlow

Quarter Length – 15 Minutes

Accelerated Clock – 13 seconds

Game Speed – Slow

Heat Seeker/Ball Hawk – Both On

Switch Assist – Off

HUMAN (Player Skill)

QBA – 10

PBLK – 0

WRC – 25

RBLK – 3

Fumbles – 25

PassD – 30

INT – 20

PassCov – 25

TAK – 50

CPU SKILL

QBA – 20

PBLK – 25

WRC – 50

RBLK – 50

FUM – 50

PassD – 60

INT – 30

PCOV – 65

TAK – 60

SPECIAL TEAMS (ALL)

FGP – 45

FGA – 30

PPOW – 50

PACC – 100

KOPOW – 45

OTHER SETTINGS

Injuries – 50

Fatigue – 51

SPD Thresh – 15

PENALTIES

Offside – 99

False Start – 50

Holding – 55

Face Mask -54

DPI – 99

OPI – 99

Clipping – 50

INTG – 99

Rough Pass – 53

Rough Kicker – 99

Madden 13 All-Madden Sliders for Connected Careers Now Available Updated 2/1/13

For those of you clamoring for a more challenging experience in Madden 13 – look no further. These sliders are tough and they will give you some close games.

I highly suggest you use GameFlow as it seems to help make the game play a bit more realistically and it also keeps you from running money-plays like Power-O with motion, etc.

The CPU running game is terrible in Madden 13, so in this case we have made an effort to fix this through upping the speed threshold as well as taking down the Human run defense sliders.

For the passing game, you need to make sure that your players are open. Close man coverage and forced passes will often lead to interceptions.

Happy Gaming!

NTTV ALL-MADDEN SLIDERS
SETTINGS
Quarter Length	12 Mins
Acc Clock	11 Secs
Game Speed	Slow
Auto Strafe	Off
Auto Sprint	Off
Spd Thresh	90
Injury	53
Fatigue	65

SLIDERS	HUM	CPU
QB Acc	15	50
Pass Block	2	15
WR Catch	50	55
Broken Tackles	35	50
Run Blocking	15	55
Fumbles	25	55
Pass Def React	35	50
Interceptions	20	50
Pass Rush	10	45
Rush Def React	12	50
Block Shed	7	50
Tackling	5	50

FG Power	50
FG Acc	40
Punt Power	50
Punt Acc	80
KO Power	46

Penalties
Offside	100
False Start	50
Holding	52
Face Mask	53
DPI	100
OPI	100
PCI	100
Clipping	54
Int Ground	100
Rough Passer	52
Rough Kicker	100