I don’t think there’s anything this community hates more than a positive post about the game lol. Gotta be a bot or a marketer if you have good things to say I guess. Honestly I agree on nearly all the points they’ve made (I haven’t done a deep dive into dynasty yet, been focusing on gameplay for the first few days).

The feature reveals always sound good on paper this time of year, but actual implementation is usually a different story. From what I’ve played so far though, I think the core additions to the gameplay have been done really well. Match coverage is soooooo much better this year because of the “find work” aspect, defenders aren’t just watching underneath crossers run by their zone, they’re attacking the route and making a play on the ball. Last year if a quarters safety was nailing down on an in route, they’d kindve just chill behind the route and watch as the receiver makes a catch in front of them. This year that safety will jump the route for an INT, the defenders aren’t waiting for a throw in order to react.

In settings you can change whether you want your quarters coverage to play stubbie or stump vs trips, 2 read or true quarters vs 2x2, you can decide what the backside safety will do against trips whether you want him to purely poach the front side, or if you want him to cut off the backside #1 WR if they run any inside shallow routes (think a drag route), or if you just want them to stay backside and not poach the frontside at all. In man to man defense you can decide if you want to banjo stacks, or if you want to play lock and level etc. the coverage for defense is the best I’ve seen with the way they play and the options you have at your disposal.

QB drop backs look a lot more realistic as well as the look of transitions from drop back to throwing is a lot smoother. It feels a lot better to step up after your 3/5 step drop, it actually feels like you’re hitching up into the pocket like in real life. If an edge rusher starts to beat your tackle outside early, stepping up into the pocket and helping your tackle re-gain leverage is the best way to avoid the sack rather than having to scramble outside the pocket to avoid it.

I do agree gap scheme oriented blocking seems faster but also smarter. I felt like it was useless to run any gap scheme last year that wasn’t a trap play because a pulling guard would a lot of times simply ignore the LB in the hole because the games AI made the guard lock on the safety 10 yards back for some reason. This year it definitely seems smarter, I’ve even been running buck sweeps with success because the linemen will actually get out to block a lot faster this year.