10:03 AM - May 29, 2013 by jpdavis82
UTC has posted their NCAA Football 14 Dynasty Mode roundtable, which includes discussion from a couple of guys from The Gaming Tailgate.
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NCAA Football 14 News Post
10:03 AM - May 29, 2013 by jpdavis82UTC has posted their NCAA Football 14 Dynasty Mode roundtable, which includes discussion from a couple of guys from The Gaming Tailgate.
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# 1
stratospaly @ 05/29/13 10:53 AM
Wow its nice to see some highly respected guys who are almost as excited about the game as I am. Every year it seems the Debby downers come into this forum bashing the game as it is not up to their expectations.
I love the game for what I make it to be. What EA puts in front of me is a set of guidelines that I use to make it my own.
I love the game for what I make it to be. What EA puts in front of me is a set of guidelines that I use to make it my own.
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merchant1874 @ 05/29/13 11:15 AM
Also agree, really like the look of what they have done.
Although nothing major it just looks a better experience all around.
Can't wait to get it.
Although nothing major it just looks a better experience all around.
Can't wait to get it.
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TheBleedingRed21 @ 05/29/13 11:24 AM
I just feel people saw the dynasty trailer and forgot about the neutral stadiums, the small fixes that was covered in the podcast (The scheduled visits, etc.)
My biggest problem with NCAA was the recruiting was not even fun, I never could take the time to do it. The coaching was pointless because you did not get rewarded for being a good coach and the carousel did not make sense.
They have revamped recruiting, added the coach skill tree and fixed the logic for the carousel. I am super stoked for this NCAA version, fixed all my problems I had. (For the record, I am a bigger Madden player than NCAA)
My biggest problem with NCAA was the recruiting was not even fun, I never could take the time to do it. The coaching was pointless because you did not get rewarded for being a good coach and the carousel did not make sense.
They have revamped recruiting, added the coach skill tree and fixed the logic for the carousel. I am super stoked for this NCAA version, fixed all my problems I had. (For the record, I am a bigger Madden player than NCAA)
I really like the changes. I was expecting a little more, but hey, I'd rather them do it right than throw a bunch of stuff at us and do it wrong.
They pose a good question: Will the CPU also have built up skills? It would be cool playing Alabama and having to worry about the play action as much as you would with them in real life. If not, it puts a major damper on the whole thing. I don't want to have skills the CPU is unable to attain.
Yes, they do, and you can check the computer's skills somewhere in the menus. It was mentioned in the podcast.
This also plays into (not) being able to hire/fire your own coaches. While you can't hire whoever you want, you can take the points that the coach that you end up with and use them to build him up any way you want. So it's kind of a middle ground on hiring the guys you want.
This also plays into (not) being able to hire/fire your own coaches. While you can't hire whoever you want, you can take the points that the coach that you end up with and use them to build him up any way you want. So it's kind of a middle ground on hiring the guys you want.
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moylan1234 @ 05/30/13 08:26 AM
good stuff. recruiting has me very excited after reading this I agree it got very time consuming last year. Also, thank god for OneEighth our lone offline voice.
I really, really like the Dealbreaker feature. I hope that it wasn't somehow watered down at the last minute to help User teams out. If you're a new coach, at a lower tier school, with no tradition of success there should be a lot of players that you literally have no shot at getting. This will also help the CPU by providing some guaranteed checks on it's decision making in recruiting.
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Strategizer @ 05/30/13 09:18 AM
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So if I play as a coordinator (which I love to start off as) will I not be able to unlock the recruiting perks? Even as a coordinator you are the one doing all the recruiting, so that may take some of the fun away and strategy away and may have my lean towards being a head coach only.
No, you can't. But when you become a head coach, your points as a coordinator carry over to the head coach tree.
Though it is an interesting question of if your head coach has recruiting boosts, do those work with a player doing the recruiting?
Though it is an interesting question of if your head coach has recruiting boosts, do those work with a player doing the recruiting?
# 13
DorianDonP @ 05/30/13 01:04 PM
3 questions.
1. Year one in dynasty, will the coaches already have skills unlocked? For instance, if I play as Alabama, all of those elite levels of skills already be unlocked? Or if I don't play as Alabama, will the Bama CPU coach have all of the elite skills unlocked so that Bama is a beast in recruiting and on the field? Or does every coach start from the bottom?
2. How much of a ratings boost are we talking? My worry is that for some teams, the ratings boosts in addition to quick progression in the off-season will make the team play like every player has a 90+ overall rating. Will be 82 guy get ratings boost from his coordinator to bring him to 85 and a ratings boost from his HC to bring him to 90?
3. Can these skills be lost? Or once they are gained, they are always unlocked, even 25 years into a dynasty?
1. Year one in dynasty, will the coaches already have skills unlocked? For instance, if I play as Alabama, all of those elite levels of skills already be unlocked? Or if I don't play as Alabama, will the Bama CPU coach have all of the elite skills unlocked so that Bama is a beast in recruiting and on the field? Or does every coach start from the bottom?
2. How much of a ratings boost are we talking? My worry is that for some teams, the ratings boosts in addition to quick progression in the off-season will make the team play like every player has a 90+ overall rating. Will be 82 guy get ratings boost from his coordinator to bring him to 85 and a ratings boost from his HC to bring him to 90?
3. Can these skills be lost? Or once they are gained, they are always unlocked, even 25 years into a dynasty?
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I think if you're a coordinator, you might be able to set the boosts of the HC and other coordinator as well.
From what I read, I took it as the skills are randomized based on a pool of points that each coach receives at the inception of each dynasty. It'll be nice for some variance and would definitely lead to different results down the road in dynasty (hopefully in the form of realistic championships and the rise of smaller programs or dormant BCS schools not one and dones like FIU going through a weak schedule)
EA really needs to have s.o.s. factor in a big way to post season rankings, even coming from a small school fan, a school going undefeated in the Sunbelt playing WAC (now defunct) schools won't get into the NCG and likely wouldn't make it into a BCS game unless it's a down year for a power conference. I'd like to see that reflected, I love playing as mid major schools, it just feels cheap that after one season you can jump into a BCS bowl because you drew an easy schedule and the game ranks strictly on base W-L and essentially nothing else. (Rarely see a 12-0 team under a 11-1 team, even if that 12-0 played D+ through C squads and the 11-1 played strictly B's through A+'s.)
I do like the deal breaker feature as it seems that will bring those biases to the forefront at least in the recruiting spectrum, but the BCS system being fine tuned was hopefully tweaked, I don't have much time to listen to hour long podcasts so if anyone has heard anything that would be great!
EA really needs to have s.o.s. factor in a big way to post season rankings, even coming from a small school fan, a school going undefeated in the Sunbelt playing WAC (now defunct) schools won't get into the NCG and likely wouldn't make it into a BCS game unless it's a down year for a power conference. I'd like to see that reflected, I love playing as mid major schools, it just feels cheap that after one season you can jump into a BCS bowl because you drew an easy schedule and the game ranks strictly on base W-L and essentially nothing else. (Rarely see a 12-0 team under a 11-1 team, even if that 12-0 played D+ through C squads and the 11-1 played strictly B's through A+'s.)
I do like the deal breaker feature as it seems that will bring those biases to the forefront at least in the recruiting spectrum, but the BCS system being fine tuned was hopefully tweaked, I don't have much time to listen to hour long podcasts so if anyone has heard anything that would be great!
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Given EA's track record, I'm sure that type of detail is too much to ask for, but it'd be awesome if it was in the game.
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# 20
phantomremix @ 05/31/13 01:52 AM
I am stoked for the game, it seems like they really focused on catching it up to where Madden is. I will say, on a game that is so focused on the coach growing through XP, I certainly hope that they include the ability to human coach vs human coach. As in allowing you to be the play caller, but not actually use the players when playing games. It is another aspect to the game and would help people who aren't as advanced have some fun calling plays and people who are more of the strategist really get into play calling, audibles, formation shifts and game management.
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