NCAA Football 11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[leetdemon]

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Why do players just fall over whenever a tackling animation runs into them?
It looks stupid.

Also, the running hardly looks like running, they look like they are sliding around out there, also when players are running routes they go faster turning that just running plain, looks very ugly.

New no-huddle is nice, graphics are stellar, but gameplay is THE SAME GARBAGE!!
Locomotion is like trying to plug a hole with a needle, it feels better, but it looks worse, players sliding around all the time in this game. And the lack of gang tackling is awful! And it feels very underwhelming after playing the backbreaker game.

You must not be playing the same demo I am, The one ive been playing is nothing like that. Only gripe I have is that the cpu will run toward the middle of the field when they could bounce it outside on a pass reception etc and no defenders are on the outside.

[White Out]

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I just roll my eyes when I see people praise the graphics. It's almost unfathomable to me. The graphics are years behind every other game and sports series out there, and yet people have the nerve to give ea a pat on the back for this mediocrity. Jeez.

[JayBee74]

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tried it a few more times-TOO EASY TO PASS ON ALL LEVELS-for all BackBreaker's shortcomings I think several hours of playing that game have made me a much better passer in these types of games. You can see all the rushers coming in and all the receivers going out. It's boring on offense.

[BLACKJ414]

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One thing that I hope they add in the future are animations for more contact when you run into or bounce off your offensive lineman. There still are situations where you get the handoff on a run and you are stuck running in place.

I think All American is the mode I will rock with this year. I get mixed results between games. I'm also struggling to stop the CPU when they go into the no huddle. I'll probably limit the amount of ranked matches I play because of everyone going no huddle up and down the field every snap.

[Kingspadee]

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I just roll my eyes when I see people praise the graphics. It's almost unfathomable to me. The graphics are years behind every other game and sports series out there, and yet people have the nerve to give ea a pat on the back for this mediocrity. Jeez.

Yeah go look at All Pro Football and Tiger and MLB The show

[stevedrumsdw]

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I want you guys to do a little test:

put the difficulty on Heisman:

Be Florida:

Go into SHOTGUN 5 WR TREY:

run the play " FOUR VERTICALS" and see how many times the crossing route is open. The computer can't stop a pass play on here, the demo is completely broken as far as AI pass defense. Not only that, but what ever happended to adaptive AI? This feature cleary is totally inept. The retail version may be better, but I doubt it. They are going to have to tweak something else to fix this, which will subsequently effect other aspects of gameplay.

RHOMBIC of NCAA strategies scored 68 points on this demo by abusing this horrific pass defensive AI and recovering droves of onside kicks which is far too easy.

Cheers

[Playmakers]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

I want you guys to do a little test:

put the difficulty on Heisman:

Be Florida:

Go into SHOTGUN 5 WR TREY:

run the play " FOUR VERTICALS" and see how many times the crossing route is open. The computer can't stop a pass play on here, the demo is completely broken as far as AI pass defense. Not only that, but what ever happended to adaptive AI? This feature cleary is totally inept. The retail version may be better, but I doubt it. They are going to have to tweak something else to fix this, which will subsequently effect other aspects of gameplay.

RHOMBIC of NCAA strategies scored 68 points on this demo by abusing this horrific pass defensive AI and recovering droves of onside kicks which is far too easy.

Cheers

The only problem is how does Rhombic come to a conclusion based on the demo something is broken?

I think more guys need to take into consideration this is just a demo instead of going full speed ahead and assuming this how the game will be in the retail version. Now i know EA has a history of releasing certain games broken.....but this game IMO appears to be really solid

I would also like to point out on the retail version you can fine tune the pass defense with sliders....you know like jack up the CPU to 100 awareness if you like.

There's like several things you can do to make the pasing game more difficult if you so choose.....but I think the best thing we can all do is just waite for the retail version 1st instead of attempting a deep pass on every play or trying on side kicks every kick off

[HokieB]

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I was playing as Clemson against Mizzou's no huddle, on I noticed on several occasions that Mizzou would bring in as many as 4 CBs at wide receiver late in their drives.

Seemed to me they would sub in their CBs when their WRs were tired. Seems pretty dumb, but hopefully it's not that way in the final retail version. I guess substitution sliders could fix this as well.

[White Out]

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The only problem is how does Rhombic come to a conclusion based on the demo something is broken?

I think more guys need to take into consideration this is just a demo instead of going full speed ahead and assuming this how the game will be in the retail version. Now i know EA has a history of releasing certain games broken.....but this game IMO appears to be really solid

I would also like to point out on the retail version you can fine tune the pass defense with sliders....you know like jack up the CPU to 100 awareness if you like.

There's like several things you can do to make the pasing game more difficult if you so choose.....but I think the best thing we can all do is just waite for the retail version 1st instead of attempting a deep pass on every play or trying on side kicks every kick off

I find it absurd you think something as complicated as pass defense would be tweaked still with the game out on demo and likely being printed

[moylan1234]

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I find it absurd you think something as complicated as pass defense would be tweaked still with the game out on demo and likely being printed

we heard today that they are able to tweak the game even after it releases without using patches

[White Out]

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we heard today that they are able to tweak the game even after it releases without using patches

how would that be done?

[moylan1234]

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how would that be done?

via the internet like the NHL series is doing

[White Out]

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thats adjustment to sliders, not code. bad code requires patching.

[moylan1234]

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thats adjustment to sliders, not code. bad code requires patching.

either way it affects game play

[Sting]

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either way it affects game play