What does Awareness do in Madden?

[@Hj2k80]

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[@floopysports]

Thanks for the heads up twenty3, basically in that part I just say that I will be comparing awareness at LT, MLB and Safety! Apologies

[@danielpauletto1139]

Play Recognition affects how players respond to plays. Awareness affects how players respond to THE BALL. WRs with 70 or below awareness and DBs with 80 or below won't always make plays on the ball if the CPU is controlling them. They'll literally let the ball hit them in the facemask and not make a play on it unless you user them and hit catch. Players with low awareness won't try to pick up fumbles that are right in front of them. Things like that. I think it also affects which animations a player is awarded. Players with elite awareness will get "lunging" animations when they make plays on the ball. Players with trash awareness will just kinda lazily put their hands up or jump.

[@danielpauletto1139]

I'm guessing the LBs would play decent pass coverage but wouldn't actually make plays on the ball while it's in the air as well unless their awareness was higher.

[@aaronlail4722]

So does QB AWARENESS NEGATE a defenders awareness?

[@MoreMonarchy]

The problem here is if you don’t know what awareness does, it’s hard to make a video showing people that awareness is pointless without looking really stupid

[@SunDVL08]

Not sure if it’s still the same, but in years prior, the center’s AWR rating replaced the lowest rated lineman’s awareness attribute, essentially making the “dumbest” guy on the line as smart as the center. Wondering if that’s what’s happening here.

[@floopysports]

Oh wow.....that's interesting, I didn't know that!

[@N7Soap]

I wish they’d have detailed descriptions for shit so we’d know this kind of thing

[@SpankinYaBoy]

That's a feature they confirmed was previously in the game? Or was it hypothesized

[@redbulloo7]

Its true devs confirmed that

[@zugz_]

6:40 The “unaware player” and aware player still have 99 Play Recognition, which is what gets the AI to pick up the play. They’re the same player essentially. The pass game is where it gets shady

[@derrickwilson5562]

This is a fire video. I know it’s old but I would definitely watch it again if you did it for 23? Maybe with play recognition and other ratings as well

[@MrChef2def]

Do this again with both play rec and awareness. We need these videos every year

[@CAxxDRIFTER]

You'd prob need to put play recognition up or down. That is technically what you're showing is if they are recognizing a play or not

[@floopysports]

I'll try that next and see!

[@bsnacks9101]

I was wondering what you do when you get deep in a franchise and all the teams have a ton of cap space and the salary cap is no longer an issue because the players don’t ask for more money over time like how the salary cap increases over time.

[@mrsinister8943]

That's one of my biggest gripes with maddens franchise modes throughout the years ever since the ps2 era. The cap eventually becomes irrelevant and no challenge at all. Also teams drafting players they don't need and making weird and unrealistic off season moves was a big problem in franchise mode.

[@duckiejay5839]

Old video I know, but maybe notice slight difference. Maybe not but figure I add a thought. Possibly the Awareness actually means Ball Awareness Projected. Maybe the LT can block but isn't aware of where Darnold/ball is. The MLB is running at mccafrey vs where he is projected to run. The FS looks like he's running to the WR in his zone but not to where the ball is projected to go. Just a possible observation

[@duckiejay5839]

The angles they each take, make me think the Aware player is playing the ball, and the Unaware player is playing the assignment no matter where the ball is. Awareness is Essentially giving the player the ability to follow the ball or cut off the angle. The other player is just "doing what he's told" regardless of where the ball is going to be

[@Corvilux52]

Awareness is kinda weird now because there's so many other things layered on top of it. Like now you have Play Recognition which layers on top of it, Zone Coverage, Man Coverage, so soooooooo many things. It almost makes the Awareness attribute antiquated in a way, but it used to be a big deal. On older Maddens a player with low awareness would fall for hard counts more often, they'd fall for play actions, fall for draws, and in the days of the QB Vision Cone, a QB with shit awareness had to be locked on to a WR to throw an accurate pass as to where Peyton Manning you could basically just look dead ahead and he'd see the whole field. Made playing against him hard because even if he was locked onto a receiver, that might not even be who he's throwing to and he can bait safeties off a receiver.

[@Mikejones011990]

It's long been hypothesized that awareness only really matters for offensive. I would like to have seen if it affects QB play. Could his awareness impact other offensive players, especially the O-line?

[@floopysports]

I might have to look into that 🤔

[@JDsport1212]

Thanks for the good info

[@seangramling7148]

You have to take into consideration of playrec. You have there play rec at 99

[@dylanteet7074]

What about for QBs

[@AjDaDon21]

Should definitely be some absolutes when it comes to ratings

[@chrisbaca4039]

I was thinking maybe sim their seasons and then compare their stats

[@floopysports]

Good idea!

[@rhythmjones]

M22 zones were broken, so the safety might be better in M23

[@rhythmjones]

Both of these guys had 99 play recognition so...

[@TishJam]

Damn my mans you couldn’t just google how to spell AwarEness

[@DeeJayBanz]

Play recognition 😅

[@mickhahayeah]

Maybe it’s just a bad game and poorly designed? Players seem to do unprecedented things and it’s buggy as hell. I know for sim awareness doesn’t matter at all but I could see how in gameplay it could matter. Still I think it’s just a poor game and the fans deserve a better product.

[@floopysports]

AGREED!