Patch 1 and 2 Info

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

Yeah. I need to talk to Craig about his patch notes which is what I posted. Actually, he needs to trim them down because the patch note file is too big! But that is confusing. I'll try to explain better... So what we did was set it so you could hear stadium sounds for the home stadium as the visiting team (does that make sense? I think that is what you are asking). So if I take a team to UCF, I can hear the zombie nation song they play while playing as the away team. The problem was that once this was implemented, the ALL feature would play for the home team when you were an away team. So if I set ALL touchdowns to some song, if I were the away team they would play when I was scored ON. We changed this so it will only play when the user is the home team. If you are going to set a global touchdown song, you probably want it for YOUR touchdowns right? That was the thinking.

Ok.. I talked to Craig tonight at the Madden party in downtown Orlando. Apparently, what I posted was the PS3 patch notes (Craig is a PS3 fanboy BTW).

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by rhombic21

Can you explain the reasoning behind not touching the pass rush in this patch?

Sorry.. it is 1 AM on a Saturday night and I just got back from the Madden release party. I know a lot of people have been asking about this, so I want to be able to explain it well. Since this is a big issue among the hardcore gamers, I want to look into this and find out why the decision was made not to change it. I think you guys deserve a well researched answer, no?

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by callmetaternuts

See if you can clarify this. So im im FSU, and i have my fight song set to play when i score a TD, i will hear it when im playing at Doak (FSU stadium) when i score, thats how it was initially set up. Now here is the question(s) 1) When i go play at the Swamp as FSU, when i score, will i hear the song i have set up (my version of fight song)? 2) Can i set up songs for UF (im still FSU) and hear their songs when they score, or on 3rd down? What we are hoping for is that i can set up all the ACC teams, so when i go play at Va Tech, i hear Metallica (even though im the away team, i want their stadium to sound like their stadium).....make sense? I guess the easiest way is to say i set up SONG A as my (FSU) TD song and SONG B as UF's song. At Doak, i will hear song A when i score (my song as FSU at home). WHen im at the Swamp (UF). WHen i score, will i hear SONG A? When they score, will i hear SONG B?

Exactly. If you set up Florida sounds and go in there as the Noles, you will hear Florida sounds. The issue in the patch notes was just referring to if you set those sounds to "ALL" instead of "Florida."

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by arichzona

I wish that EA would put out a game that didn't need three or four patches..... regardless of internet access.

Me too. But hindsight is 20/20 and all we can do is patch.

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by stoncold32

Didnt the GTA 4 patch come out like the first day or two of release? Why can't this?

That's because they knew there were some bad bugs when they submitted the game. So after they submitted a release candidate, they went to work on the patch.

We knew a couple small things, but didn't know the big issues until after the game shipped.

[ICARUS]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

Sorry.. it is 1 AM on a Saturday night and I just got back from the Madden release party. I know a lot of people have been asking about this, so I want to be able to explain it well. Since this is a big issue among the hardcore gamers, I want to look into this and find out why the decision was made not to change it. I think you guys deserve a well researched answer, no?

I applaud your candidness, but I hope my worst nightmare doesn't come true and they say the same thing that was stated at community day.

"It's all apart of the wide open game play" that would be well

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by ICARUS

I applaud your candidness, but I hope my worst nightmare doesn't come true and they say the same thing that was stated at community day. "It's all apart of the wide open game play" that would be well

Yeah, me too! What if that is what I'm told?! I don't know if I could take the flaming (unless it was AA flaming me.. cause then I could just stare at his avatar!).

But nah.. that wasn't what it is about. We brought in a new control/animation system this year, and also wanted to make the game different from Madden. Marketing took all those changes and named it "Wide Open Gameplay." It is a slogan. For you guys, we just changed missed tackle animations to include more arm tackles. The rest of the stuff is just tuning. We tuned the game play for months, but you can never release a perfect game. If we didn't release a game until we were 100% happy with the tuning, it would NEVER be released.

[ICARUS]

Quote:

Yeah, me too! What if that is what I'm told?! I don't know if I could take the flaming (unless it was AA flaming me.. cause they I could just stare at his avatar!). But nah.. that wasn't is what is about. We brought in a new control/animation system this year, and also wanted to make the game different from Madden. Marketing took all those changes and named it "Wide Open Gameplay." It is a slogan. For you guys, we just changed missed tackle animations to include more arm tackles. The rest of the stuff is just tuning. We tuned the game play for months, but you can never release a perfect game. If we didn't release a game until we were 100% happy with the tuning, it would NEVER be released.

LOL for the first part


The second part in bold I totally understand the thing is had community day been two or three weeks before the team could have fixed most of the issues in game play head-to-head related before release.

Thing is for me at least the game is very very close to being a 9.5 you get rid of all the issues in game and there aren't more than 10 and we would talking about a truly amazing game at least in my opinion.

I just hope the powers that be realize I have no idea what you guys have on the drawing board for 2010 but the boat doesn't need to rocked that hard imo.

[jmill703]

OMT you should get some patches made on some CD's for operation sports members.

[wareagle_auburn01]

When the patch comes out will it invalidate any of the Dynasty's/Campus Legends that I'm currently playing?