Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

[NDFan1029]

here's why patches take time

First EA have to go through the process of identifying the problem, determining a fix, implementing the fix, testing the fix to insure there no new bugs, then submit it to Microsoft/Sony. Then wait 2 weeks for Microsoft/Sony to test it to make sure it's certified and then it's released to us gamers.

Or they could've gotten it right the first time and avoided the trouble of releasing a major bug fix patch right after the game comes out.

[ODogg]

Re: Staff Roundtable: How Are We Feeling About NCAA Football 12 Now?

This will probably be the first year I don't buy an NCAA game since I started buying them in 2004. I was already pretty lukewarm on this game after seeing they didn't add a ton of new features in this year's game, but after reading about all the issues this game has, some features advertised not even working properly, I've pretty much made up my mind on this one. I used to get very excited for this game, even when the new features were lame like in the NCAA 10 version, I still bought it because I was a colossal football fan and thought maybe just maybe the game would eventually be great, but now I realize that this game will never be where i want it to be, so until they come out with something drastic, either on this gen or the next, I will withhold my money for a different title.

Your choice but if you skip NCAA 12 based on what you are reading here at OS you are really missing out on a great football game. And in the future if you plan to use the forums as a gauge on a game you will find you buy very few sports games anymore. Come in here a week after just about any sports game releases and you will see the entire forum in an uproar about all sorts of issues, some legitimate, others not so much...

[buckeye02]

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Your choice but if you skip NCAA 12 based on what you are reading here at OS you are really missing out on a great football game. And in the future if you plan to use the forums as a gauge on a game you will find you buy very few sports games anymore. Come in here a week after just about any sports game releases and you will see the entire forum in an uproar about all sorts of issues, some legitimate, others not so much...

Its a solid game. One of NCAA's best imo as far as gameplay goes. But this roster glitch must be fixed ASAP. When it gets patched and the game still plays the same.......i dont think i'll be getting 2013. I'll just make 2012 season rosters for this game. The ability to edit players in dynasty was huge.

[KINGLAX25]

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Its a solid game. One of NCAA's best imo as far as gameplay goes. But this roster glitch must be fixed ASAP. When it gets patched and the game still plays the same.......i dont think i'll be getting 2013. I'll just make 2012 season rosters for this game. The ability to edit players in dynasty was huge.

Thats no good man!! Whos gonna make rosters next year?? Regardless of all the complaining most people appreciate you and gators hard work!!!!!

[SGMRock]

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Me neither and I've played over 50 games. Its a glitch and must be a pretty rare one at that.

I have had it happen in games as well only the movie I posted was the first time it was the entire DB's body passing through my WR's body. In games I have seen arms go through heads and shoulds through shoulders and so on.

All these would be interference if the bodies actually made contact like they should because the DB would have hit the WR before the ball got there. Lets face it how many times have you passed the ball thinking your WR had position on the DB only to have the DB warp speed in front of your WR somehow. Its like body position in this game does not matter.

Also lots of times DBs are contacting your WR's downfield but they don't have illegal contact penelties in the game so you just have to deal with the fact their routes get all messed up.

[bkrich83]

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I have had it happen in games as well only the movie I posted was the first time it was the entire DB's body passing through my WR's body. In games I have seen arms go through heads and shoulds through shoulders and so on.

All these would be interference if the bodies actually made contact like they should because the DB would have hit the WR before the ball got there. Lets face it how many times have you passed the ball thinking your WR had position on the DB only to have the DB warp speed in front of your WR somehow. Its like body position in this game does not matter.

Also lots of times DBs are contacting your WR's downfield but they don't have illegal contact penelties in the game so you just have to deal with the fact their routes get all messed up.

You do realize in college football there is no 5 yard chuck rule though right? DB's can hit WR's all the way down the field until the ball is in the air.

[Old School SD Fan]

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Now? 10 seconds left in my OD season 2 Bowl game, Arkansas kicks a FG to take the lead over my team. I go to create a highlight, LOCKUP. Lost an entire Bowl Game.

ARGH!

[roadman]

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So this is one of the things I would really like to see EA fix. I was just in practice mode and saw this blatent issue. I have seen this before in other places were elbows go through my WR head and stuff when you think they should have gotten pass interference instead the clip right through your WR. This video I just recorded has to be the worse of it I have ever seen though. This is the reason I set the INT slider down to like 5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NGoQSU7_LM

I think I saw this video in another thread titled Psychic DB's. Anyway, same as Odogg and Bkrich, haven't seen this in over 50 games.

I used to see it in Madden when I hit the instant replay button several times, but I don't have time to hit replay every play to find "ghosting" issues.

Plus, I just don't see it in regular game play.

[SGMRock]

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When I get picked off or a pass gets batted down I sware should have been good I sometimes replay them. I have more time to do that as I play only offline.

[sarlndr]

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I have had it happen in games as well only the movie I posted was the first time it was the entire DB's body passing through my WR's body. In games I have seen arms go through heads and shoulds through shoulders and so on.

All these would be interference if the bodies actually made contact like they should because the DB would have hit the WR before the ball got there. Lets face it how many times have you passed the ball thinking your WR had position on the DB only to have the DB warp speed in front of your WR somehow. Its like body position in this game does not matter.

Also lots of times DBs are contacting your WR's downfield but they don't have illegal contact penelties in the game so you just have to deal with the fact their routes get all messed up.

Could not agree more with you on that statement, this crap makes me an angry person.

I've also seen the body part/matrix warp from the vid you posted. Also, it grinds my gears when others post and say something to the effect of "well, I've played X amount of games and I haven't seen it". So what if you haven't seen it, SGMRock has and it needs to be addressed.

[ODogg]

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Could not agree more with you on that statement, this crap makes me an angry person.

I've also seen the body part/matrix warp from the vid you posted. Also, it grinds my gears when others post and say something to the effect of "well, I've played X amount of games and I haven't seen it". So what if you haven't seen it, SGMRock has and it needs to be addressed.

So what? Because if three other people have played 150 to 200 games without seeing it then it indicates it's a very, very rare issue. You don't go hunting down and fixing every single issue in a game. In a perfect world maybe but in the real world developers have to fix bugs that affect a lot of people, not just 1% or 2% of those who buy their games.

All games have bugs and weird things happen in them, you don't go and form a patch party every time it happens.

[ODogg]

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Oh and btw - just so we're clear here, I'm not saying if *I* say I haven't seen it that it's not worthwhile of being fixed, I'm just reporting what I found. If a large portion of other people are seeing it too then by all means, it needs fixed.

That's why everyone should post in these bug threads as to whether or not they are seeing issues, both if they are seeing a problem and also if they are not. Then, and only then, can the devs get a clear picture as to whether or not something is really a wide-affecting issue and needs addressed or whether it's a random fluke.

[sarlndr]

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Who said I was talking about you? Jeez...

And just because a few people with some games under their belts haven't seen it, doesn't necessarily make it rare.

It's not a game killer. It's an annoyance that gets worse every time you see it. That's all.

[JalenTigh]

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How am I feeling about NCAA 12 right about now?

I feel its got a nice spot on the used games isle if there is not a patch to fix it soon. And it will be the last NCAA I buy... Over two weeks since released and NOTHING in the way of fixes for problems that there is no possible way EA did not know about before it released the game. Some of these bugs are so obvious a 5yr old could have spotted them.

[ODogg]

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Who said I was talking about you? Jeez...

And just because a few people with some games under their belts haven't seen it, doesn't necessarily make it rare.

It's not a game killer. It's an annoyance that gets worse every time you see it. That's all.

Because I fit into the group of people you were talking about, I was one of the ones who said I hadn't seen it. As for how rare it is, that's the point I was making, everyone should weigh in on issues so that the devs know how big of an issue it is, even those who aren't seeing the issue.