Another year, another Madden NFL. Madden NFL 25 brings some quality of life improvements to the franchise, including settings for the Ultimate Team mode. The new Ranked mode guarantees games versus players of similar skill. Here is a quick guide with tips, tricks, and pointers for Madden NFL 25.
Ultimate Team Settings
Navigate to Game Options using the relevant button prompt at the bottom of the screen to tweak some settings that are specific to Ultimate Team.
- Default Star Difficulty
Set this slider to On. This will max out the difficulty in order to receive the correspondingly higher reward for any given game.
- Event Type
Set to Quick Presentation. This will shorten your session times, ensuring that you spend as much time as possible actually playing the game. Very helpful during Coin farming runs.
- Accelerated Clock
Set to On. Another setting that maximizes your time.
- Minimum Play Clock Time
The shorter the better for the same purpose of speeding up wait times between plays.
Open Packs
Do not neglect to open all of your starter packs. Even if the contents are not worth holding on to, their trade value will help build your currency pool towards better alternatives from the Auction House or the store. However, first ensure that none of these items can be put towards completion of a Set.
OVR Band
This new system gives you some indication of what you can expect from a given pack in terms of OVR, before spending Coins on it. This is useful if you are seeking specific OVR players while building your dream team. Naturally, the higher the OVR, the lower the chance of successfully getting the card from a Pack.
Set Completion
Themed sets are a great way to net high-value card rewards that you can then populate your team with. Simply check and see if you have any sets that are close to completion, and then acquire the remaining items from the Auction House to complete the set and claim your reward. Some sets involve nothing more than completion of certain easy Challenges.
Generate Best Lineup
Once you have gathered a collection of diverse cards, it can be difficult and time-consuming to sift through them and make the right choices for player roles. Instead, rely on Generate Best Lineup to perform a variety of functions from assembling the entire team to only filling the empty slots.
Solo Challenges
These ever-evolving Challenges will test your patience with a variety of objectives and difficulties. Begin with Training Camp to test the waters and earn the initial Milestone tiers for rewards. Once done, you can graduate to Epic Challenges for much better rewards for correspondingly harder missions.
Solo Seasons
Another offline mode, this is the CPU counterpart to online multiplayer matches. While nowhere near as rewarding as Head 2 Head games, or even Solo Challenges, this is a reliable mode for learning the ropes while farming Coins and card Packs.
Solo Battles
This mode has you face-off against a daily rotating succession of CPU opponents. Playing and winning games raises your Battle Score, contributing to a progression track starting at Rookie, and going all the way to Legend. Each rank up bestows rewards in the form of Packs.
Head 2 Head
The most challenging among modes has you take on real players in a full season of games. Progression through the tiers and Divisions is made by winning games, and can net large Coin rewards in the multiple thousands.
Ranked Games
Both offline and online modes offer ranked play, ensuring that you always match up against teams of similar skill and challenge. There are 100 Ranks to rise through in order to claim bragging rights online.
Field Pass
These passes can be found under the Live tab and work just like Battle Passes. The progression track for each unlocks rewards ranging from Coins to Packs to Items. The most important pass is expectedly the Season Pass, of which there will be eight rotating over the course of the next year. Gameplay in the various modes earns the Points that go towards these various passes.
Those are all the basics covering Ultimate Team in Madden NFL 25.