Gang Tackling Challenge Response (from Ian Cummings)

[BrianFifaFan]

I was watching the vid on YouTube in High Quality and you can see where the new IK system is in effect. The players arms really reach out and grab and turn more realistically now. Nice little touch.....

[Ian_Cummings_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by Kev5890

this guy for a split second stops when running to the ball carrier:

Great example image of the big issue I was talking about...this was happening all over the place (until Ryan fixed it). Hoping in the video tomorrow I can show some plays run back to back to back.

[Kev5890]

Sounds great Ian,

Just so you know I edited my post and added 2 more images..I think theres more suction blocking on 1:34.

Im not trying to nitpick, but suction blocking ruins a football game for me.

[adub88]

This is good stuff. Ian, you're the man. The OS forum should be on the credits for Madden 09 lol.

A little off topic here, but hopefully Ian you'll answer this. Will the sleevless look shown in some of NCAA 09 screens be in Madden 09? It's a good look for WR, CB's, and athletic looking DE's.

[CowherPower]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheFuture15

Yeah that guy switched his post out on me...it originally talked about suction blocking. I am working on a big update to post about uniforms...I might actually get one of the guys on the Madden team to get here and post all the updates (there have been a lot). I am pretty sure the Jets logo was fixed in this batch.

The Steeler single digit #'s have been put on the helmet stripe??...lol,please say it has...lol.

I just wanted to say,a big thank you,to not only you Ian,but LBz as well.
As already been pointed out,if it wasn't for LBz doing his 2k vids,this issue would have probably gone unnoticed.

Also...I think it's a great thing that we now have a Madden "dude" here to interact with the community. I feel this will be a great interaction between the 2 sides.
I will admit,I have been very critical of the Madden series on this gen of consoles,also at this point in time I'm not able to see any gameplay vids,so I will have to take cats words for it. So far,I'm starting to get a little better feeling towards Madden.

I do however have one question.
Since I'm not able to view any vids,I like to control a LB,will I be able to actually get off the block and not be "suctioned" to the blocker?

Again....a very big thank you to Ian and LBz

[Shockgeez04]

lurker checking in...

I approve of this thread.

[pimpycraig]

I also appreciate the honesty and sincerity of this post, its great that they are interacting with the hardcore gamer community, to get positive/negative feedback.

[K_GUN]

ian-


good stuff



what is that 'naturalmotion' software you speak of?

what takes its place now?

[Ian_Cummings_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by CowherPower

The Steeler single digit #'s have been put on the helmet stripe??...lol,please say it has...lol. I just wanted to say,a big thank you,to not only you Ian,but LBz as well. As already been pointed out,if it wasn't for LBz doing his 2k vids,this issue would have probably gone unnoticed. Also...I think it's a great thing that we now have a Madden "dude" here to interact with the community. I feel this will be a great interaction between the 2 sides. I will admit,I have been very critical of the Madden series on this gen of consoles,also at this point in time I'm not able to see any gameplay vids,so I will have to take cats words for it. So far,I'm starting to get a little better feeling towards Madden. I do however have one question. Since I'm not able to view any vids,I like to control a LB,will I be able to actually get off the block and not be "suctioned" to the blocker? Again....a very big thank you to Ian and LBz

I am not sure about the Steelers stripe/number issue.

With our new tackling/interaction engine, it does mean that you're pretty much guaranteed to find and play animations when they exist. The bad news is this means that OL will basically always find "get engaged" moves. The good news is that our "disengaged special moves" also get found by defensive players. These are activated with LB/L1 on defense BEFORE you get engaged with a player. I have talked with Sean Bailey (the lead gameplay designer now) on possibly trying to find ways to tune the "stickiness" of getting off of blocks once you do get engaged...getting you off faster (at least as a user controlled player maybe?)

[ODogg]

Quote: Originally Posted by Kev5890

Thank Ian..But thank Lbz Lbz knows the ins and outs of many different aspects of the game. I have had the priviledge to talks to him a lot over the past years..He should be categorized as a genius haha.

I actually met the legendary LBzrule once...