10-26-2013, 03:20 PM
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Re: why is this happening?
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Originally Posted by NEOPARADIGM |
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See, this is my problem with this forum and even sports gamers in general: why is your first inclination to assume the answer is anything other than you? Your timing: stiff-arm, juke, spin, truck, dive, sprint - are you hitting the right buttons at the right time when the opportunity presents itself? Your vision: where are you looking? Are you looking at the OL (defense and RB in peripheral), the RB (defense and OL in peripheral), or the defense (OL & RB in peripheral)? Are you sure you're seeing what's happening? Are you controlling the QB during the handoff? Don't just hit hike and let the CPU do the work, hit hike and pull the QB down towards the back (even hold R2 or L2 or both while you're doing this) and stuff the rock into the RB's stomach. Are you making presnap adjustments your blocking scheme based on what the defense is showing? I mean I could go on and on here.
My advice for getting the ground-game going (I play on AA with AI run-defense slider maxed, by the way) is to focus on the OL. Pick out one or two guys you want to run behind (LT & LG for example) and watch them (literally look at them and the defenders they might have to engage and not the QB, RB or anyone else on D) while you attempt to execute the play and make your early read off what happens to in that specific area. Do this several times in a row, ideally until the two OL you're focusing on both get hot. Once they're nice and red, move your attention to the other side of the line and get them going.
Or, take the other approach: do what a real team would do if they were having problems running the ball: screens and short passes on 1st and 2nd and save running for 3rd and short. Pick up a few first downs with your boy Gurley to try to get him hot. Next thing you know he's got five carries for four first downs and a TD. Who cares what his ypc is at that point, yeah?
Etc.
Stop blaming the damn game for everything, look in the mirrior and play with intensity, focus, determination and for god's sake don't take it too seriously. So what if you can't run the ball. Like you've never followed a team that can't run the ball worth a lick. It happens all the time, even to really good teams. The game will reward you if you play with patience and intelligence.
Last thing: I make it something of a rule not to play this game unless I've watched some real college ball for a good hour or three first. Really helps with making reads, pacing yourself, and tempering expectations as to what most running plays actually look like.
Cheers.
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Stop trying to make it like its NOT the game. If I was having the same trouble on varisty with the sliders in the CPU's favor then I could see it may be a problem, but when I run a hb dive and I see the one and only hole the line makes on a hb dive and I hit it only to see the defender automatically slide out of his block to make the tackle EVERY time, that's not football, that's the CPU being super human. Crappy defenses don't just shut down elite runners. I guess Ill just go back to varsity and crank the sliders a little more to the CPU at least then Ill get some semblance of real play.
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