@Death: I'm playing Simple Season because right now, if I want to broadcast the best quality video I can't do it with remote play. The CPU handles all of that in that mode, though I'm not sure if I was handling the basic player stats at the end of that game.

HTH.

The first rumble starts the kicking meter after pressing  A/x. THe second rumble is for power and the third is for accuracy.

Ok, so now that a full day has come and gone, I have figured out what I was doing wrong last night. Actually, it makes sense now that I think about it. I wasn't backing out all the way to the playbook screen. I used OCR to help me out, and managed to get back on-track. Now I can actually call running plays when I want. At the end of my first preseason game, score was Oakland Raiders 42 Cardinals 10. I am coaching a Raiders Franchise. This is lots of fun! Now actually need to get some work done at my day job before going back to week 2!

Jeremy

As a footnote, this happened in an online rewrite history match between the lions and saints from last sunday.
Greetings Moritz.

I would like to say to the whole Madden team a very special thanks for adding the rumble feature for the blind.
Last night I was able to do the punting, field goal and even the point after.
I never thought that I would ever be playing a video game after losing my sight nine years ago.
I can't wait until they add support for the screen reader for the xBox.
When they do this they will be the first main stream company to do this.

I was asked for instructions on how to change difficulty levels.
From the Main Menu:
• Hold down right on dpad until you feel repeated rumbles.
• Press A/X to enter the customize Menu.
• Press down on the dpad twice to get to settings.
• Press A/X to go to Settings.
• Press A/X again to go to setting adjustments.
• Press A/X again to go to game options.
• Press down on the left stick 4 times
• Press left or right on the dpad to cycle between difficulties - which are rookie, pro, all-pro, and all-madden. Unfortunately, the menu wraps and there is currently no indication what difficulty you are currently on

I wish this had a better story and I'm pushing on getting the wrapping problems fixed.

Here is a super detailed description of the game options menu, listing details on every single option.

If you are not already on the game options screen, here's how to get there from the main menu. If you just reset options, you are already there. If I put a word in [brackets] to show recommendations, do you hear it differently?

From the Main Menu:
• Hold down right on dpad until you feel repeated rumbles.
• Press A/X to enter the customize Menu.
• Press down on the dpad twice to get to settings.
• Press A/X to go to Settings.
• Press A/X again to go to setting adjustments.
• Press A/X again to go to game options.

To reset from this screen, do the following. Resetting does not make you leave the screen.

• Press A/X again to go to game options.
• Press Y/Triangle to reset all settings to default
• Press left stick up once, then press A/X to accept the reset
Your default team is now patriots, your skill level is pro, and your game style is simulation.

Details on game options.

The game option screen is laid out vertically with the following options and defaults. Pressing up and down on the left stick navigates between options, pressing left stick left-right cycles options. For on/off options, pressing right turns options off and pressing left turns options on.  Sliders move between 0 and 100.
• Favorite Team - Patriots
• Offensive playbook - Team Specific
• Defensive playbook - Team Specific
• Even teams (makes all teams have same ratings) - Off
• Skill level - Pro
• Game Style - Simulation
• Quarter length - 6 minutes
• Play Clock - On
• Accelerated clock (less time between pick plays and snap) - On
• Minimum Play Clock Time (the time play clock is run down to with accelerated clock) - 20 seconds
• Game Speed - Normal
• Auto-flip defensive play call - on
• Ball carrier special move - auto
• Defensive auto-strafe - on
• Defensive ball hawk (CPU moved player to auto-catch ball) - on
• Defensive heat seeker assist - on
• Defensive switch assist - on
• Coach Mode (auto-snaps ball if on) - off
• Injuries percent chance - 10
• Fatigue factor (0 is never) - 50
• Player speed parity scale (100 means every moves the same speed) - 50
• Coin toss first choice - receive
• Coin toss second choice - with wind

Here are options available for some of the cycle options, in the order they cycle using left stick pressing right, starting from default.
• Teams (top option) - Patriots, Raiders, Rams, Ravens, Redskins, Saints, Seahawks, Steelers, Texans, Titans, Vikings, Bears, Bengals, Bills, Broncos, Browns, Buccaneers, Cardinals, Chargers, Chiefs, Colts, Cowboys, Dolphins, Eagles, Falcons, 49ers, Giants, Jaguars, Jets, Lions, Packers, Panthers
• Skill level (4 down) - pro, all-pro, all madden, [rookie]
• Game Style (5 down) - simulation, competitive, [arcade]
•  quarter length (6 down, all in minutes) - [6], 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
•  minimum play clock (9 down, all seconds) - 20, [25], 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
•  game speed(10 down) - normal,  fast, very fast, [very slow], slow

For toggles, I suggest turning the following on (left on dpad left)
• even teams (3 down)
• coach mode (17 down)

Holey shit I did?

and I thought I sucked.  I keep getting the crud kicked out of me.

I have a quick question about something that hasn't really been mentioned here, at least to my knowledge.

When a game ends in Franchise Mode, we have the option to "upgrade" players. OCR doesn't do a great job on this screen, but I did see that on Xbox, pressing y will choose auto upgrade. From there, if I press y, there is another dialog that I think says a auto upgrade. So I press a to auto upgrade, and from using OCR again, it looks like I am put back on the upgrades screen? A bit confusing.

All that said, I am now 3-0 with my Raiders franchise. Still in preseason, but it is a start.

Jeremy

Does anyone know how to do victory formatin so that the player can take a knee?
I would like to do this when there is only a minute left on the clock.

Alright, folks, time for me to hop, skip, and jump in here, and throw out a few things.

First, I have played and completed the Longshot story mode, and have a few things to say here. I actually thought I also had a couple of corrections to the Quicktime Event guide for it, but it turns out, um, I don't. It is in fact just me who was dumb, for like 20 minutes, reading the wrong quicktime event. So... Woops. Still, I have a couple things to throw in.

1:  I absolutely have to continue to campaign for a list of the dialog choices, and probably an expanded quicktime guide if there are any significant changes to events based on those choices. What lead me to the decision to bring this up again actually isn't the fact that I don't necesarily know what choice I'm making for the big decisions. It was a little thing. The questions the coach asks you... I hated looking dumb for always picking the answer on the left even if it was wrong. Haha. So if that is ever done, we shouldn't be told which ones are right, (we should really pay attention on our own), but we should be told which option is which. Thanks!
2:  There is a significant difference between playing as Devon during Longshot and playing a regular game. That difference is more than just the fact that you strictly control Devon, it's the way passing works. In a regular game, our accessibility instructions tell us to tap the face buttons in sequence until we get a vibration indicating an open receiver. This seems to work in a regular game, but in Longshot, I eventually figured out that it does not. Devon will, in fact, throw at whichever receiver you press the button for first. This, I believe, is what lead to so, so many dropped passes for me in story mode, and initially caused my confusion about whether I had to try and catch the ball or not. It would be pretty sweet if this mechanic worked the same way universally.

3:  There is a moment in story mode, (no spoilers), where you are challenged not to throw to a certain receiver. However, the buttons the receivers are assigned is determined, I assume, based on their positions. It would be nice if, just for that moment, the receiver the challenge says not to throw to could be specially identified somehow, either with a warning rumble instead of an immediate throw, or an audio cue that warned us which one they were at the time. While I understand this might be seen as a minor concern, I believe we should have the option of completing or not completing that challenge the way a sighted player would.

4:  There are 2 points where things have to be thrown at targets in a competition-style event. I would seriously love to have an audio or rumble-based targeting system for these, as I sort of hated just tossing everything away until I could skip the event.

5:  I would also love it if this same targeting mechanic were applied to Steer the Ball quicktime moments, despite the fact that i somehow managed to complete them in story mode. It did take some trial and error, and some luck, and it'd be nice if we could have an indicator of the proper direction as we steered the ball as well.

6:  Speaking of skipping events, it should be noted that not all quicktime events are skippable. The one I got stuck on for no reason because I was looking at the wrong event was actually one of these. No matter how many times I tried it, there was only ever a retry button. Also, the moment where you throw things at targets had to be skipped with the circle button after you had failed, not by going down to skip and pressing X. Just something to toss in there.

I get that these things may take some serious work to do, but if we don't ask, they definitely won't happen. No matter what, thanks for listening, and thanks for all this. We seriously cannot thank you enough for your dedication and hard work.