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Posted on 22 October 11 at 15:32 |
Among long list of tweaks, fixes and additions
The Title Update #2 for Madden NFL 12 went live a few days ago, and we have a rundown courtesy of Operation Sports on all the improvements and balancing measures that came along with it.
For achievement hunters, one of the biggest gripes was that the achievement "This One is Easy", wasn't easy at all for some people.
The achievement calls for you to simply create a new Madden Ultimate Team for it to unlock. Problem was, is that if you already have created an Ultimate Team in either Madden NFL 10 or Madden NFL 11, it carried over into this year's game, blocking you from ever being able to make a new team.
Thankfully now, the achievement is fixed. If you haven't used any workarounds and have been waiting to unlock this, those with previous Ultimate Teams just need to enter the Ultimate Team hub and it should unlock straightaway.
This is just tiny portion of the what Title Update #2 all entails. Here are the list of fixes below.
Madden Ultimate Team
- Fixed an issue where users were awarded coins when their friends quit out of a head-to-head game.
- Fixed a situation where user with a maxed out deck could get locked up in the My Trades screen.
- Fixed issue where previous MUT fans could not earn the "This one is easy" achievement/trophy for creating their MUT team in Madden NFL 12.
- Removed an exploit where a MUT player grieve another player through encroachments and other penalties but not lose contract time from their players. They would also receive coins.
Custom Playbooks
- Fixed an issue where newly added sets would create their own formation category instead of grouping them in the same Set and Formation they were being added to. This should reduce some clutter in your playbooks going forward.
- Fixed rare issue where some placeholder text would show up if you removed the last play for all game situations.
- Fixed an issue where gameplans that had 0 plays in them would cause players to bundle together on the field. This was always avoidable by not setting 0 plays in your gameplan, but in the future this is prevented.
- Fixed an issue in Madden Ultimate Team where your Ultimate Team playbook would get replaced with your default playbook (per your "My Settings").
Exploits
- Similar to an issue above, users could create a gameplan with 0 plays, which would then cause players to bundle up at the line of scrimmage and force an encroachment on the defense. This has been fixed.
- Fixed an issue where users could pause the game with three seconds left in a quarter causing a lock up to occur. When the other player left the game the other would get a win.
Gameplay
- (Cover 4) - Safeties with Inside Deep ¼ zone drop back instead of read-n-react on Run plays.
- If the CPU tries to run down the play clock (late in halves) and runs an auto-motion play, they will not start the play early enough or hike the ball before the play clock expires as the player is still in motion.
- Tuned down the frequency to block field goals by users running off the edge.
- When a two-point conversion is booth reviewed and ruled no good, the game clock will run while selecting a play on kickoff.
- Fixed issue when teams ran a QB Sneak the QB would get a speed burst.
- Fixed issue when a user aims the L-Stick in any direction and pump fakes (using RB/R1 defenders in a QA Spy assignment) that will immediately blitz the QB, leaving defensive assignments.
- Fixed issue where live balls on muffed punts that are recovered in the end zone were resulting in a touchback rather than a safety.
General Issues
- Fixed several of the most common crashes and online disconnection issues for both platforms.
- Optimized performance in "Play Now" team select to prevent slow down/hitching when scrolling teams
- Improved the online leaderboards to be more accurate.
- Fixed several issues with commentary and PA.
- Addressed issue where users with large amounts of save data sometimes could not get into online head-to-head games.
- Lowered the frequency of rain games in Franchise Mode.
- The 'recent games' section for head-to-head games uses the wrong colors for winner & loser. This issue has been addressed.
- Fixed issue where a user only appears as online in the Communities Member List if they're inside the community feature.
- Fixed issue where in Franchise, editing a player will remove their player roles.
- Fixed issue where when the maximum number of entrants for a room has been reached, after a user leaves the room, they'll be taken to a new room when they try to reenter it.If you take note to the first item that's in bold, you'll see a popular exploit has now been patched as well pertaining to the "This One is Hard" achievement.
What the exploit did was allow friends to match up in unranked matches, and purchase scouting reports on each other, which came at a hefty price of 2,000 coins (the in-game currency). Upon entering the game, you could quit out right away and both players would get double the coins back. These coins could then be used to purchase Ultimate Team card packs and build better teams without effort. The patch fixes the issue, so you'll now have to earn the achievement by more legitimate means.
The patch is live now, making Madden NFL 12 closer to how the developers intended it to be.
Credit goes to biggerballblat for this story |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 15:36 |
| Too bad they made the 80 overall achievement a bit tougher, though I hear with the DLC players and things like that it shouldn't be too hard. The achievement that's been buggy for me has actually been the trade...still haven't figured that one out yet. |
You seem a little furious... |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 15:43 |
| EA fixing buggy achievements? Are we in the Twilight Zone? |
When life gives Chuck Norris lemons, he makes orange juice |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 15:44 |
| That sucks they fixed the FG block glitch I was getting them left and Right. |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 15:44 |
So glad I can finally 1k his game...
Too bad they didn't fix the "I called timeout/ ran out of bounds/ 2 minute warning" clock issues (not listed in fixes). Don't know how many times the accelerated clock kept running on me when NFL rules would have had it stopped! |
Killer Punks...all that needs to be said. |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 16:58 |
| Good now fix those damn crysis 2 achievements EA |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 17:02 |
| Son of a gun, if I had known about the friend exploit I wouldn't have spent 20 bucks this week buying BCA packs. |
Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon? |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 17:06 |
| Glad they fixed this, now I can actually try and get the rest of them. I would've been disappointed if this was the only Madden game I couldn't get 1000 in. |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 17:13 |
| If only they fixed the blocked passes. Its ridiculous how many passes get blocked in this game. The whole damn defense becomes Superman by jumping in the air 20 feet it seems. Yeah, 20 feet is an exaggeration, but it's still a problem. |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 17:42 |
| i must have gotten lucky i got it within the first week of release.... |
blues (: |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 17:45 |
xiphumbra said:If only they fixed the blocked passes. Its ridiculous how many passes get blocked in this game. The whole damn defense becomes Superman by jumping in the air 20 feet it seems. Yeah, 20 feet is an exaggeration, but it's still a problem.KP ScuzzyBunny said:So glad I can finally 1k his game...
Too bad they didn't fix the "I called timeout/ ran out of bounds/ 2 minute warning" clock issues (not listed in fixes). Don't know how many times the accelerated clock kept running on me when NFL rules would have had it stopped!if you guys know EA that's probably all they are ever going to fix for this game, i wouldn't be surprised if they aren't already thinking about shutting down the server to make room for Madden 13. |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 18:04 |
| Sounds like good news |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 18:20 |
| Nice !! good news ! |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 18:39 |
Cool but never had any problems with the "This one is easy" achievement. I created a new team since I never created one before.
But I returned the game (rented) so I never had time to get the "This one is hard" achievement. |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 18:44, Edited on 22 October 11 at 18:47 by xMidget Furyx |
xiphumbra said:If only they fixed the blocked passes. Its ridiculous how many passes get blocked in this game. The whole damn defense becomes Superman by jumping in the air 20 feet it seems. Yeah, 20 feet is an exaggeration, but it's still a problem.totally agree especially passing over the middle. I've never seen so many LB's that could jump that high.
glad i can get this achievement. I did however buy 2 card packs to get to 80, my madden 11 team was rated 73 so i spent 5 dollars for a achievement. wouldn't be the first time
CM Trance said:Cool but never had any problems with the "This one is easy" achievement. I created a new team since I never created one before.
But I returned the game (rented) so I never had time to get the "This one is hard" achievement.this was only a problem for people who had previous MUT teams on madden 10 or 11. it didn't give you a option to create a new team just imported your old one.
A fix was change your email when it asks for you to confirm your EA account email. That is no longer needed. Now i just need to rent the game again. |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 18:57 |
| Awesome. Knowing EA's track record, I expected them to never fix that buggy achievement. Now I can go ahead and go for the completion. |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 19:41 |
| i got it first day, but then again I never made a MUT before |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 20:28 |
| You'd think of EA knew how to do one thing right it would be Madden. |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 21:00 |
| All of this years EA games have been majorly buggy/patchy - disgusting. |
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Posted on 22 October 11 at 21:22 |
| How about fixing the interception in the end zone problem?? i'm sick of getting blocked passes and no interception.. |