
Draft Auto-Pilot: Assign auto-pilot during the draft.The second set of Franchise updates announced post-launch have arrived, check out the Madden NFL 21 Gridiron Notes for more info:.With this fix, any player on the receiving team who recovers a kick or punt following a fair catch will be able to get tackled. Fair Catch Exploit – Fixed an issue causing the ball carrier to enter a state where he couldn’t be tackled after fielding a kick or punt off the ground following a fair catch.Now the playclock will run down as it should and force the kickoff to be called when it expires. This has been used as an exploit to force the receiving team to quit in order to get out of the game.


1 (Outside) Receiver too long even when the receiver was no longer a deep threat. Fixed an issue causing outside Deep Third defenders to leverage the No.Extended the distance that a Deep Third can look inside when anticipating Deep Crossing routes coming from the opposite side of the field.Tuning to allow faster top-end strafe speed for defenders in Deep Zone.Tuning to improve ‘turn and run’ to better anticipate vertical speed threats.Added Gen 5-specific Change of Direction animations to locomotion which will improve a defender’s ability to transition from strafe to run quicker and smoother to help defenders get into position to play the ball quicker.This change prevents defenders getting faked out during this early segment of the route. There was significant separation resulting from this release and cut when close to the line of scrimmage. Tuning to fakeout logic on Inside Release Post Routes (S-Posts).Updated the facing direction of Deep Zone players so they’ll face the ball rather than just the line of scrimmage, which will help Deep Zone defenders turn in the appropriate direction when covering deep routes.Tuning to Deep Zone logic in Cover 1 to react quicker to Deep Over, Post, and any other deep crossing routes.Tuning to Deep Zone defender logic to focus more on deep threats in their zone and less on shorter routes approaching their zones.Second set of post-launch Franchise updates.

Your favorite NFL teams’ playbooks are updated in Play Now and Franchise based on new schemes and new plays utilized during the real-life NFL season.

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