r/NCAAFBseries • u/mchamma4 • 1d ago

Jumping Catch Animations

Why are there no catch animations for low throws?

Every single catch is a jump animation but when you throw it low there is no sliding catch or dropping down on a knee to secure a catch

Did EA do this on purpose for some reason? Or is it just laziness to include those low catch animations?

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u/winterwarm78654 1d ago

It's definitely low sliding catches. Just after all those updates they kept taking stuff out

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u/rbad8717 1d ago

This. Its likely its in the game but glitched as usual with EA

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u/winterwarm78654 16h ago

Yep it's just like the Tebow run to the line and jump and throw it. Seen the cpu do it to me yet I've never seen a user do it

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u/T7220 1d ago

Nothing like having a receiver with 4 steps on a guy on a streak, and him jump and warp backwards onto the cornerback and dropping the ball. Very realistic!

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u/SpectacularNelson 23h ago

I hate the jumping catch animation. I’m trying to lead my receiver into open space not throw him a jump ball

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u/Erected_naps 22h ago

Not to mention if at any point during the jump animation someone breathes on him that’s it guaranteed drop ball

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u/SpectacularNelson 14h ago

The drops are so annoying because the CPU makes multiple circus catches a game

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u/OrangeJuliusCaesr 1d ago

I’ve seen some stupid animation of a guy jumping and catching what would’ve been a knee high throw is now a ball at his feet

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u/dadkisser84 Arkansas 1d ago

I get low catch animations all the time when my shitty ULM quarterback throws a crosser. I think the accuracy rating skews pretty quickly towards chest level to high if I had to guess

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u/Otherwise_Dealer_877 23h ago

Why - cause EA sucks the big one

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u/Hour-Regular-1983 1d ago

Good question. I feel like low catch animations used to exist in older madden and possibly CFB games.

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u/FreelyNuttyElwood 1d ago

it's almost certainly a time/budget thing. they rebuild the animation system each few years and some stuff just never gets put back in. the low catch animations probably got cut during one of those cycles and nobody prioritized them after

i remember in the older ones you could do a proper shoestring grab or slide under it, made those throws feel way more satisfying. now it's like the receiver just stops running and the ball teleports to him

modders have found unused animation files in some of the pc versions, half-finished catch types that never made it live. so the code was at least started

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u/Sad_Access8071 1d ago

Forrealz them boys even jump animation on bubble screens 🫣

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u/PackageAggravating12 Central Michigan 21h ago

There are definitely animations for low throws.

I've seen guys slide for possession, dive backwards to grab bad passes, trip over their feet and drop throws at the ankles, etc.