Considering switching from MUT. Some questions.

I'm a 10 year+ MUT veteran and can't stand where the mode is at. I'm considering changing to CUT but wanted to ask a few questions of you experts. 

The things I'm tired of in MUT are the following: (1) overpowered OOP players, (2) Abilities completely taking over, (3) Complete lack of scheme and realism in online H2H. First question is: are these issues in CUT as well? Second question, how viable are theme teams in CUT? I'd be interested in building an Oklahoma or possibly Wisconsin theme team, would they be competitive in online H2H?

Many thanks!

I am changing to CUT this year for same reasons

Slower power creep seems to be much slower. Proper rated and speed cards are viable longer

Cant stand what MUT has become.

The 99 speed and cards I cant stand. I want team building to be rewarding amd teams to have strengths and weakness.

Cajun said:

I'm a 10 year+ MUT veteran and can't stand where the mode is at. I'm considering changing to CUT but wanted to ask a few questions of you experts. 

The things I'm tired of in MUT are the following: (1) overpowered OOP players, (2) Abilities completely taking over, (3) Complete lack of scheme and realism in online H2H. First question is: are these issues in CUT as well? Second question, how viable are theme teams in CUT? I'd be interested in building an Oklahoma or possibly Wisconsin theme team, would they be competitive in online H2H?

Many thanks!

I think you'll be happy with the switch, especially if you're a college football fan. By theme team do you mean making a team of Wisconsin or Oklahoma alumni, not just paying 25K to change team chemistry?  I do not think a Wisconsin team could really compete, I do think  Oklahoma team could potentially especially with all their great QBs. If you use the resources here you can look at all the players by school and if you just look at the first page Wisconsin goes from 99 to 90 on the first page of 15 players, whereas a school like Texas is 99-98 almost all the way down the page.

I was new to CUT this year and I didn't even know or use abilities for  a while and I was still consistently winning games, I was even winning games for awhile with the 78 OVR Julian Sayin card  haha. I'm sure a lot of people who know about abilities will chime in too.  I'm still playing with different ones that work better than others. For example, I was convinced Knockout was fake but my last couple of games I swear it was working for my opponent.

I don't think overpowered OOP is a problem yet, and I did like the What If... series I just hope they don't add on to it with other OOP programs so it becomes overwhelming. I think the lack of scheme and realism isn't always the games, fault that is more the human element and people ruining games. I think things like the Speed Glitch and FG Block Glitch type things will always be in the game as well as glitchy eBooks and plays.  Hopefully, with all the new features in CFB27 they can be mitigated.  Even with that said I had a lot of great H2H games this past year. 

The one thing I wish they would do is institute longer seasons to add more realism, instead of the win 5 to get to the next level model.

I think you definitely should come over to CFB27, I did buy both games for crossover and I was Bills season ticket holder for years before I moved away from Buffalo so I love both leagues (I just love college more). Judging by the Opening Drive it feels like they will be doing more crossover events for these games in my opinion.

Like my fellow buckeye fan above stated bro CUT is a way better experience and abilities end game do take over but not like X factors and abilities in MUT no way and for theme teams they won’t be as valuable next year as you won’t get a speed increase as they are moving to the EVO system next year but you can make any player apart of any theme team by paying 25k coins to change it but it’s not OP or anything and will be less OP next year

Like everyone is saying CUT is much better than MUT. My worry is that it soon will be MUTs clone. They did What if? Promo which is OOP players but they played there at some point during their football career. You will be much happier switching to CUT because I feel like there is a counter to every ability in the game that needs one

ragingrichyt said:

Like my fellow buckeye fan above stated bro CUT is a way better experience and abilities end game do take over but not like X factors and abilities in MUT no way and for theme teams they won’t be as valuable next year as you won’t get a speed increase as they are moving to the EVO system next year but you can make any player apart of any theme team by paying 25k coins to change it but it’s not OP or anything and will be less OP next year

Question is will they ramp up the abilities as they are the money maker. Answer is likely yes. But who knows how bad.

I played a bit of CUT early season, and the biggest thing I liked over MUT was the variety of playbooks and plays.

I will echo what others have said (obviously we're a bit biased since we're on a dedicated forum for CUT/CFB) but I definitely think you'd enjoy this game more than Madden. 

I left Madden for similar reasons. I got sick of the overpowered "super hero" type of abilities they'd add. Not to mention how often they release a card who can, somehow, get 15 abilities for a total of 4 AP or something insane and I just got sick of it. Not to mention that Madden is very hard to compete in without a top team unless you're a top tier player, which I definitely am not.

CUT has it's issues. Zones not playing like they should, random bad overthrows with QBs with near perfect accuracy ratings and abilities, fumbles that feel like they only happen to make the game more "interesting", etc.. but overall, the experience is a lot more enjoyable as the game isn't entirely dictated by abilities (at least for most of the year) since they feel like more of an added bonus instead of a necessity like Madden.

OOP players are also not really an issue over here. We did start getting them towards the end of the year with the What If? promo, but they tried to make the cards somewhat realistic and/or at least had them in spots they most likely played in real life at some point. No 6'9" 350 pound Strong Safeties or anything like that. 

Your 3rd point, unfortunately, does bleed into CUT but I feel like that happens with any game where there is bugs and/or exploits that can be found and taken advantage of by people who learn how to beat it. We had things like speed boosting, agg catching (this was toned down quit a bit but was still doable by people who know how to do it), play flipping to screw up the defensive lineup and leave hug gaps, etc... So that is definitely stuff you have to deal with in CUT as well but the game doesn't feel as goofy and OP as MUT.