Friend found way to cheat vs CPU, advice to stop it

[boxboy99]

I know what you mean as I have been in the same situation forever now. I have been playing with the same group of people since the Bill Walsh days. They won't budge from default all-amercian. There were 2-3 people in our dynasty last season that had 70 sacks with a single player. Then they complain the computer is too easy. We have a great dynasty going but some times I would rather play my own game with sliders or just do another OD with people on OS that use sliders. Then I face of the problem that changing sliders can hinder your game. Pretty much a gaming catch-22.

[NutsackII]

The only thing you can do is up the Pass blocking slider for the computer...


Complete trial here:

You could also try (completely off the top of my head, I didn't get the game this year) make him change his Coach Philosophy sliders and make him either turn his Defensive Aggressiveness to 100 or 0 and maybe that would change the way the computer plays against him playcalling wise. Other than that you don't have any other options off the top of my head.



Also ask him if he can do it using any defensive play call or does it just work under a certain playcall. The computer mathematically (code) plays vs certain plays different ways and maybe this one play just screws up the code.

[NutsackII]

Boxboy - nothing worse than unrealistic stats in a sports game. Ruins the whole dang thing, I feel for ya.

[boxboy99]

Quote: Originally Posted by NutsackII

Boxboy - nothing worse than unrealistic stats in a sports game. Ruins the whole dang thing, I feel for ya.

Yeah, double edge sword. I love playing with my friends and talking trash but I also like the computer games to be meaningful. Thinking of doing a coach mode maybe on the side, but trying to just hold off until Madden.

[BadAssHskr]

Tell him cheesers arent allowed in your league, and give him the boot.

Then, get out your notebook and jot down the lesson you learned. "dont mix business with pleasure."

[Tovarich]

Have the sack totals gone down after the tuner? I have 15 sacks with my MLB through 5 games in one of my dynasties. I get that's nowhere near 7-8 a game, but almost all 15 of those were either that the MLB got there first on a screen (which seems to have improved at least somewhat since the tuner) or because I use the MLB to spy on QB's who are prone to scrambling and they get him before he gets past the LOS. But it's mostly the screens.

[montesixpac]

Definitely hate when people play like that, but I understand why you don't want to just tell him not to do it. I have a similar situation, where someone in my dynasty has a really fast running back that he just lines up as a receiver and runs him down field and lobs up passes to him once he gets passed the secondary. He could overdo it more than he does, but he still overdoes it. We just restarted a season and he has 18 catches for over 800 yards and 12 tds already, in a dynasty with sliders made to make it difficult to move the ball. I could change the speed threshold, but I also don't want to make it unrealistic to where slow guys are running down your fast guys.

I also realize that if a play works this well in real life, then a coach would likely run it until the other team finds a way to stop it, so that sounds to be why he doesn't want to just tell this other guy to stop doing what he is doing, and help the CPU improve to stop it.

I would agree that you need to play on heisman if you are not and bump up cpu pass blocking. The speed threshold idea could be helpful. I just wonder how much you would have to turn up the blocking to stop him (if it works) and how much are you going to hurt your own defense because they never get pressure on the quarterback?

Good luck.

[stratospaly]

I have yet to see a description of the cheat or cheese here. If he user controls a MLB to blitz every play how is that cheating? If his defense is shutting down the opposition, why make him change tactics? Against a player he would get destroyed by slants.

I can see how having a MLB with 7-8 sacks a game would make an online dynasty have unrealistic stats, and basically hand him the Heisman every year. Just up the blocking to 100% and watch his stats fall.

[gasoldierboi]

I'm having that issue as well. My friend and I are D created schools and our MLB are rated low 60s and in 2 yrs his MLB lb lead the league with 35 and 28 sacks but he says its no shifting or moving them closer to the line and he only controls the DT

[thehardknoxlife]

It's a glitch, and I know how to do it. It will work vs users as well. I've seen it a bunch in the lobby. I hate to tell people how to do it, but it's the only way it will get patched. Basically what they do is pick any defender in a blitz that's not a lineman and move him close to the LOS, doesn't matter where (straight up the gut with the MLB is a instant sack/tackle and the reason ppl use him the most). Anyway, before the snap they use the jump snap and let the defender jump and reset being sure not move him, then let the CPU control him until like a second after the snap. It makes them have this huge burst of speed at the snap.