No Huddle "Glitch" Costs Guy the Game

[bruinkid626]

I'm did not create this thread with the purpose of reporting a glitch I ran into, but to instead just share a story about an online ranked game I just played. I'm sure everyone is familiar with the no huddle receivers 'can't hear you' animation, and the workarounds to it.

Dude was Alabama and I was using Michigan for the heck of it. He gets the ball back with just under 2 minutes left in the 2nd quarter (Michigan 7, Alabama 3). He then orchestrated a beautiful 2 minute drill and made it down to my goal line with about 20 seconds left.

Here's where things get frustrating. He had two timeouts remaining and on 1st & goal, he decides to run it. I stop him, so now it's 2nd & goal. He calls timeout and runs it again. I stop him again. 3rd & goal, clock still running. He proceeds to use his last timeout. He runs it again, I stop him again.

So now he no huddles with the clock at just under 12 seconds. Of course he's going to try to pound the ball on 4th & inches, but his running back does the 'I can't hear you' animation (he's at home, btw). Basically the clock runs out on him and the half ends. He had a microphone and I could just hear him screaming all sorts of expletives at the top of his lungs, I just felt so bad.

I go on to win the game by a touchdown, but it just felt terrible. I know that EA apparently put this in so that people wouldn't cheese online, but what just happened to him totally sucked. Yeah, he could've probably reset the play, but I guess he didn't know.

I have the video of it, but I don't think I should share it for his sake. That's my story guys lol.

[tomymac23]

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Yeah I just saw this and did an experiment online while playing a guy and I can call a play and get the play off 2 seconds faster than running the no huddle. LOL. Isn't the no huddle just that a no huddle causing people to have to rush to get there defense set up. It just seems like the no huddle gives too much of an advantage to the defense and simply doesn't make since for a team like Oregon to run it. LOL that's a crazy funny story. Been there though. Its a little frustrating, but I have truly learned not to call no huddles at the end of the half or game. Thanks for the laugh though at someone elses expense. ROFL!

[BA2929]

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I wouldn't feel bad. He shouldn't have ran it on 3rd down with no time outs left. True, the no-huddle thing stopped him from running another play, but he could have avoided that by passing on 3rd down.

[Pezell04x]

I don't feel bad. His play calling was garbage. Also people need to do some research on what patches do.

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[XSmooth]

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Bad play call...and you can watch a game in real life with the same situation...3rd down no TOs end of a half..***n or pass play doesn't get them a first down, TD, or run out of bounds with 8-10 seconds left...most likely they don't get another play off. In EA Sports universe before the patch you could line up with an entirely new play in 4 seconds or less. That's way more unrealistic than a running back being confused.

[afurry91]

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What bothers me with this is that in real life in college football teams are able to no huddle after a first down and spike the ball, only losing 1-2 seconds of clock time. Now when you do it you lose 5 to 6 seconds every time. It's completely unrealistic and makes this game that much more frustrating to play.

[jeremym480]

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Poor clock management, especially if he the knows of this so called no huddle "glitch". Because if you know about it, you have to be smart and plan around it.

[tomymac23]

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Poor clock management, especially if he the knows of this so called no huddle "glitch". Because if you know about it, you have to be smart and plan around it.

That's really nice of you to not demand it from the company you just spent 68 bucks on a simulation football game. Work around it guys so what. LOL you homers kill me. How about talking about a no huddle being just that a no huddle. Teams run the no huddle to trick and work against any norms of a planned defensive attack. EA needs to put that back in no doubt. The real work around is setting up your defense faster by pushing the buttons faster, period.

[BA2929]

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That's really nice of you to not demand it from the company you just spent 68 bucks on a simulation football game. Work around it guys so what. LOL you homers kill me. How about talking about a no huddle being just that a no huddle. Teams run the no huddle to trick and work against any norms of a planned defensive attack. EA needs to put that back in no doubt. The real work around is setting up your defense faster by pushing the buttons faster, period.

Either you work around it or you stop playing the game if the no-huddle issue is that bothersome. It's basically that simple. The no-huddle animations are here to stay until the next patch at least, so you either work around it, or you don't run the no-huddle. He wasn't being an EA homer. He was stating fact.

Also, the EA haters need to stop piling on every post that even seems to back up EA. It's getting really tiresome. Don't even come at me with the "we want a better game and the only way to get that is to complain" pile of garbage either. I've heard enough of that too.

[jello1717]

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I agree with pretty much everyone else in this thread. Even though I don't like the no huddle "fix" and am against it, that didn't cost this guy the game. His stupid play calling cost him the game. You can't run the ball on 3rd down in that situation unless you're content with getting stuffed and not being able to get another play off.

[XSmooth]

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That's really nice of you to not demand it from the company you just spent 68 bucks on a simulation football game. Work around it guys so what. LOL you homers kill me. How about talking about a no huddle being just that a no huddle. Teams run the no huddle to trick and work against any norms of a planned defensive attack. EA needs to put that back in no doubt. The real work around is setting up your defense faster by pushing the buttons faster, period.

Let's face it, the people who have a huge problem with the new animations are online cheesers who were used to playing one way for years and now that EA changed it those cheesers have lost their ish.

[scottyo60]

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Let's face it, the people who have a huge problem with the new animations are online cheesers who were used to playing one way for years and now that EA changed it those cheesers have lost their ish.

Look up my gamer tag and see ive never had a game online in 13... I don't like the process, I'd rather they look at the sidelines that do their animation thing that takes longer than actually just calling a new play. I'm not a fan of it, but it is what it is.

[tomymac23]

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Also, the EA haters need to stop piling on every post that even seems to back up EA. It's getting really tiresome. Don't even come at me with the "we want a better game and the only way to get that is to complain" pile of garbage either. I've heard enough of that too.[/QUOTE]

I'm not for sure if you are referring to me or not here but if so just so you know. The company makes a game that it patches and it looks at these forums and its own as well as others to get a good vibe of whats working and whats not. I've personally spoken with the producers at E3 and stressed some of the very same issues I've spoken about in this forum. If we don't discuss them and let it be known how we feel about them EA will never know its an issue. I personally like NCAA for the record however there are certain aspects of the defensive passing game I personally dont think is sim. (ie. DB's running in front of wr and TEs on their routes. etc...) This issues is widespread and well known and I'm going to voice my opinion on it as a matter of fact and nothing else. For you and people like you that dont want to hear about the garbage coming from others. Its really simple "DONT READ IT" and especially "NEVER RESPOND" Lol!

[Haze88]

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Let's face it, the people who have a huge problem with the new animations are online cheesers who were used to playing one way for years and now that EA changed it those cheesers have lost their ish.

Or people like me who solely go online to download patches and rosters and have to completely re-tool their offense because of something that had no effect on them at all. I feel like I'm being taunted when the CPU flawlessly executes their no-huddle offense on the road in Autzen and at home I cannot. Seeing as I don't particularly agree with most things defined as "cheese", the fate of my game is determined by a few people online who can't stop something I have no issue with and I now deal with a comprimised game for $60 or a bug-filled one if I don't get the patches. Plus the way it is set up is unrealistic. Most teams get the play on their way to the line of scrimmage from a board on after a big play or look to the sidelines (an animation that is in the game and is quicker) if the previous play was a shorter gain so they can maintain an up-tempo pace.

[Wilson16NCSU]

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That's really nice of you to not demand it from the company you just spent 68 bucks on a simulation football game. Work around it guys so what. LOL you homers kill me. How about talking about a no huddle being just that a no huddle. Teams run the no huddle to trick and work against any norms of a planned defensive attack. EA needs to put that back in no doubt. The real work around is setting up your defense faster by pushing the buttons faster, period.

It is a no huddle, do you see the teams get in a...huddle? No. With the way the game was you could pick a play while you were running down field and call hike as soon as you lined up and the magically knew the play which is unrealistic. No huddles are not just about making you call plays faster and trying to get set up faster it is also done majorly to wear the defense out and prevent time from teams getting subs on which it still does.

This is a atrocious example of this thing being a problem, that play-calling is play-calling that not even pop warner coaches would call.