[quote name='MasterAwesome']Wow just played a ridiculous head-to-head game...of course I fumble it in the red zone when I'm up one touchdown with 2 min left in the 4th quarter (which is fine, I don't really consider that b.s.) and then the guy bombs a 50 yard pass to Reggie Wayne with under a minute left (also fine) to get to within one point and then of course he goes for 2 and converts it. So I'm down by 1 with under a minute to go and 3 timeouts...no problem...but he does a normal kickoff STRAIGHT up into the air (I think he aimed it as far up as possible) to the point where there's an insane hangtime but the ball falls down to my 30 yard line. No one is there to catch it (I guess Jonathan Stewart was still trying to run to the ball since he was back at the goal line to receive the kickoff) and it bounces back to my own 3 yard line literally 1 inch from going out of bounds and stops. Somehow Jonathan Stewart is still nowhere in sight and finally one of HIS players runs up and recovers it at my 3 yard line...a normal kickoff turns into a recovery for him somehow on my 3 yard line...what a depressing ending to a game. Then of course this guy who basically just ruined my life sends me a message "man i got lucky" and then even has the nerve to friend request me after the game...which, going against the wishes of my dignity, I regretfully accepted because I am such a lonely guy :'[
Oh and sorry Deuce, you messaged me right in the middle of all this mayhem, I kept trying to message you back but then the ridiculous plays just kept piling up until that kickoff (the climax) and then I didn't have the morale left in me to even muster up a reply. I'll try to catch you sometime tomorrow I guess.
And sorry...this isn't supposed to be one of those emo rants, I just wanted to share in a painful way that it is possible in this game to recover a normal kickoff so maybe you should try that out for some of those harder Madden Moments.[/QUOTE]
That kickoff method is all the rage these days. It seems that half of the online games I join, if people fall behind or feel insecure about their lead, they will pull the stunt you just mentioned. I played with a guy (we were on the same team) in Online Team Play that did this every single kickoff and we quickly ran the score up 41-7 by the end of the first quarter. The AI just doesn't respond to it (and much else, for that matter) for some reason.
This is a gamebreaking move, and really shits all over the online experience unless you have a group of people that wholeheartedly agree to play by the rules of the game (ex. CAGFL!)
Oh and sorry Deuce, you messaged me right in the middle of all this mayhem, I kept trying to message you back but then the ridiculous plays just kept piling up until that kickoff (the climax) and then I didn't have the morale left in me to even muster up a reply. I'll try to catch you sometime tomorrow I guess.
And sorry...this isn't supposed to be one of those emo rants, I just wanted to share in a painful way that it is possible in this game to recover a normal kickoff so maybe you should try that out for some of those harder Madden Moments.[/QUOTE]
That kickoff method is all the rage these days. It seems that half of the online games I join, if people fall behind or feel insecure about their lead, they will pull the stunt you just mentioned. I played with a guy (we were on the same team) in Online Team Play that did this every single kickoff and we quickly ran the score up 41-7 by the end of the first quarter. The AI just doesn't respond to it (and much else, for that matter) for some reason.
This is a gamebreaking move, and really shits all over the online experience unless you have a group of people that wholeheartedly agree to play by the rules of the game (ex. CAGFL!)