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Old 10-28-2009, 04:11 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Hit SQUARE for more sacks!

I've had a hard time getting sacks while playing this game. Most of the time I'll get right up on the QB and use the hit stick to try and sack him but he always seems to somehow get rid of it. An incompletion is all good but I want a SACK! Force a fumble.. Injure the QB. Lead the league.

Now I am doing those things and its simply by diving at the quarterback.

Maybe a lot of you do this already and this might not help you but it has made this game more fun for me.

I use DE or DT and use the stick at the line but when I break free towards the quarterback I hit square to dive at the quarterback and have been getting a lot more sacks. If you dive too early then you screwed yourself out of the play. You dive at the feet of the QB and he will fall, or if you're closer, you will dive at his body for a hard hit (very satisfying). I found that diving at the QB will result in much less of those plays where you could swear you're about to get a sack but the QB manages to throw the ball away. Those situations are sacks now.

Here is an example:



QB is about to release the ball as I dive and take his legs out. SACK!
Probably wouldn't have got to him otherwise.



Again, as Palmer was about to release, I dive and get the big sack. Good solid hit on the QB.

Both of these situations would have probably resulted in an incomplete pass if not for diving.

Play the game how you want, but if you are having difficulty with getting sacks... this works.

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Old 10-28-2009, 04:49 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Hit SQUARE for more sacks!

Sounds like good advice. I will give it a try.

Seems like I always just miss sacks
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Old 10-28-2009, 04:54 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Hit SQUARE for more sacks!

I have been trying the X button on the 360, but it doesn't quite work correctly. It looks like if the passing animation has already triggered, then the dive gets converted into a fall down. Worse, there's a definite visible lag between when you hit the dive button, where the player doesn't move at all, before the fall down animation is triggered. Definitely needs some tuning on the XBox 360.

What makes this even crazier, is I have video footage recorded of a DE making a 6 yard Dive from touch point to touch point from a nigh standing position. heh
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Old 10-28-2009, 09:40 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Hit SQUARE for more sacks!

I have seen the fall down and the dive to make the sack. I have not noticed if the throwing animation started or not. I think its a crap shoot.
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Old 10-28-2009, 09:44 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Hit SQUARE for more sacks!

someone else had mentioned this before, but i didnt try it. i guess ur post has persuaded me into doing it now haha.

it does get a little frustrating when u miss out on sacks.
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Re: Hit SQUARE for more sacks!

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I have seen the fall down and the dive to make the sack. I have not noticed if the throwing animation started or not. I think its a crap shoot.
It happens when the throwing animation is just starting.

Throwing animation starts.

Defenders has a slow pause (no movement, looks weird)

Throwing animation continues.

Defenders just falls down, instead of diving at the QB.

Quarterback completes pass as if nothing happened. (which it didn't... because the game didn't let it happen)
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Old 10-28-2009, 10:49 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Hit SQUARE for more sacks!

I use R stick up.
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Old 10-28-2009, 10:51 AM   #8 (permalink)
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It happens when the throwing animation is just starting.

Throwing animation starts.

Defenders has a slow pause (no movement, looks weird)

Throwing animation continues.

Defenders just falls down, instead of diving at the QB.

Quarterback completes pass as if nothing happened. (which it didn't... because the game didn't let it happen)
This does happen on occasion, but I've seen plenty of times where the QB will start the passing animation, I'll hit square to dive and I'll end up taking out the QB's legs (which is roughing the passer nowadays isn't it?) and he'll pull the ball back in and take the sack instead of throwing a lame duck.

It seems kind of cheap, but it is the only way to consistently get sacks, and it finally makes it worth spending money on a quality pass rushing DE/OLB.
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Old 10-28-2009, 10:56 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Re: Hit SQUARE for more sacks!

alot of the animations are probably meant to keep things more realistic. I am playing a season with the bills and so far i am averaging 1.5 sacks with maybin. as a whole i get about 3-5 sacks per game. After maybin starts getting throught the line alot, ive noticed that they pay more attention to the strong side and so it lightens up the preassure on the weak side for schobel and stroud. Maybin leads my team in sacks with schobel 2nd and stroud 3rd. I can't recall what the average team has in sacks per game in real life but i feel that the amount of sacks im getting and the pressure is enough to keep the game feeling more realistic. Oh also the even if your not getting all the sacks, the preassure that is created when rushing the passer leads to alot of forced throws and picks.... Just like in real life. So just because the animations might be shotty, it is nice that it keeps the stats somewhat realistic, Unlike the 73 sacks in one year with D.Ware in madden 08(barley played 09, thought is was the worst madden ever.)
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Old 10-28-2009, 12:09 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Re: Hit SQUARE for more sacks!

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It happens when the throwing animation is just starting.

Throwing animation starts.

Defenders has a slow pause (no movement, looks weird)

Throwing animation continues.

Defenders just falls down, instead of diving at the QB.

Quarterback completes pass as if nothing happened. (which it didn't... because the game didn't let it happen)

I'm pretty sure this happens when you are too far away when you dive or have no momentum going towards the QB. IF you dive a little bit closer to the QB he will do the dive where he takes the QB's legs out. A little closer than that and it will be a dive to the body and I've seen the dive interrupt the throwing animation for the QB and transition into a sack animation. (I know for sure that there have been plays where if I would have used R stick, the QB would have gotten rid of it cause the animation had already begun, but when I hit dive, it seemed like it trumped the throwing animation into a sack... which was nice

Anybody have any success?
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