Madden 21 Couch Co-op Difficulty Reverts To Rookie

[StZillla]

Product: Madden NFL 21
Platform:PC
Which console generation do you have?
What is your gamertag/PSN ID?
Date/time issue occurred Current
What type of issue do you have? Gameplay
Which mode has this happened in? Franchise Mode
Which part of the mode? Offline
What is your Franchise League Name? N/A
Summarize your bug When playing on the same team in Franchise or Play Now the difficulty reverts to Rookie.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Start a game with 2 players on the same team in Play Now or Franchise.
What happens when the bug occurs? The difficulty reverts to Rookie instead of the difficulty in the main menu or the franchise options.
What do you expect to see? The difficulty that was set in the franchise or in the main menu.
PS4 Crash Reporting: Please copy the text you put in the crash report here.
What is the AMD or Nvidia Model Number of your graphics card?
Enter RAM memory size in GB

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Happens in Play Now and offline franchise.

If you are playing alone or playing with a 2nd player, but they're on the opposing team it works as intended and is whatever difficulty has been set.

If you are on the same team the difficulty reverts to rookie no matter what you set it as.

We tested this on both of our PCs and both of our accounts.

[EA_Kent · Accepted solution]

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*UPDATE* 10/23 

This should now be fixed.

This was fixed in the latest title update. Thank you to everyone for your patience. If you continue to see behavior like this where the difficulty is changing, please let us know. 

Good luck on the field. 

Hey all,

It looks like the Madden team is aware of this issue, and they are currently investigating. Thanks again for the reports! 

Update: 

@pmarq017 shared a workaround that may help get around this issue in the meantime: 

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@pmarq017 wrote:

Guys I found a work around while messing around with my brother. You need to have the second player, which has the red light on a ps4 controler go and change it in the in game settings. It is locked for the first player. Not sure how or why but it worked. So happy i found this.

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/Kent

[StZillla]

Done. @EA_Barry 

[WoeIsBek]

When playing franchise cooperatively offline it automatically puts the difficulty on rookie in a cannot be changed but if you play by yourself franchise mode of this settings work properly so you cannot play cooperatively I really hope that somebody knows a work around or they can fix this because me and my friend usually play franchise for hundreds of hours together on the same team and we can't play right now

[WoeIsBek]

I really hope they fix this

[WoeIsBek]

@EA_Barry  please fix this asap

[WoeIsBek]

Product: Madden NFL 21
Platform:PC
Which console generation do you have? XBOX One X
What is your gamertag/PSN ID? Woeisbek
Date/time issue occurred now
What type of issue do you have? Gameplay
Which mode has this happened in? Franchise Mode
Which part of the mode? Offline
What is your Franchise League Name? bears
Summarize your bug the couch coop only allows the rookie difficulty when players play on the same team. If me and my roommate try and play a franchise its locks on rookie difficulty even when everything is set to the All Pro settings.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? anyway to fix it
What happens when the bug occurs? The Game is stuck on rookie and other settings don't save correctly when we play on the same team. Offline mode
What do you expect to see? I want to be able to play all pro in franchise
PS4 Crash Reporting: Please copy the text you put in the crash report here. 0
What is the AMD or Nvidia Model Number of your graphics card? 2070ti
Enter RAM memory size in GB 16gb

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we just want to play a offline franchise at the All Pro difficulty and not be stuck on rookie mode.

[StZillla]

Big ups. They need to fix this. 

[bklurolln888]

Same thing happened to me today when i tried to do franchise with my bro it wouldn't come off rookie even when i changed it to all-madden

[WoeIsBek]

Do a bug report 

[alexfall862]

Product: Madden NFL 21
Platform: PC
What is your gamertag/PSN ID? alexfall862
Date/time issue occurred: Persistent since 8/22/20
What type of issue do you have? Gameplay
Which mode has this happened in? Franchise Mode
Which part of the mode? Offline
What is your Franchise League Name? Fuzzy
Summarize your bug: When two players control the same team (two player couch coop) in offline franchise play a game (not practice), the difficulty reverts to rookie. This is replicable 100% of the time, but does not happen in practice mode.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Instructions above.
What happens when the bug occurs? The Game is stuck on rookie and other settings don't save correctly when we play on the same team. Offline mode
What do you expect to see? I want to have the difficulty setting from the main franchise setting carry over into gameplay in offline franchise mode when playing with 2 users.
What is the AMD or Nvidia Model Number of your graphics card? EVGA 2070
Enter RAM memory size in GB: 32gb

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Revived my EA forums account to post that this is 100% verifiable and extremely irritating issue.