NCAA Football 14 Demo is Available Now, Post Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[TomSNC]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Demo is Available Now, Post Impressions Here (360, PS3)

Just pushed a RG into his QB's lap and my DE got the sack. I don't know how high I leaped in the air after that happened but I'm buying this. Don't know if that's great or pathetic but whatever

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Demo is Available Now, Post Impressions Here (360, PS3)

I meant big hits with the trucking as a RB. Have you trucked anyone? If so how? Clicking or flicking RS doesn't work for me lol

You have to hold the right stick up a few steps BEFORE you want to truck somebody. Been this way for the past couple of years now. Even easier to do this year in the demo.

[The Duke]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Demo is Available Now, Post Impressions Here (360, PS3)

Extremely minor gripe alert

I wish EA would update the generic pictures used for the players to look more like college kids. Right now some of the look old as hell, receding hairlines, bald, etc...

seconded. ive always hated this. its been that way this entire gen. 7-8 years and nobody bothered to fix it? dont expect it to be fixed anytime soon. maybe next gen.

[The_Wise_One]

Just had a nasty double juke spin with DAT. Looked like Reggie Bush in his day. Love how you can really feel the difference with quicker players.

[YungThugga08]

Been playing the demo on straight Heisman since I've downloaded it and I've won once, Oregon 13 - A&M 10.

The game was a straight defensive battle, except for when Johnny Football decides to say "F your Defense!" and takes off for a huge gain. Had a fumble recovery and 2 Ints, one for 6.

Anywho, my thoughts. I'm fairly new here so, it may not have huge importance..

The demo has me hooked. 13 just sits there beside the PS3 wishing it could be 14. The game feels so great to play now. IE2 is a gamechanger, in my opinion. The option game is very deadly when used correctly.

The defense has been ramped up too, I believe. If you go to the well too many times, you will definitely pay for it.

I have just a few issues that I hope is fixed before the game drops..

1.) When I was using Oregon, A&M had a no huddle offense going, I couldn't pick a play from the personnel that I had on the field, but the menu quickly came up and vanished after Johnny Football had already snapped it and had passed the first down marker.

2.) It may have just been me, but every time A&M went deep, I'd get beat by atleast 10 yards everytime.

3.) I wanna see more bumping at the line of scrimmage..

All in all, this is a wonderful demo and I will enjoy picking this up day one.

Woo Pig Sooie!

[muckcity]

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has anyone notices that when you run no huddle the CPU NEVER CHANGES ITS DEFENSE...SAME COVERAGE THE WHOLE WAY DOWN THE FIELD!!!

[PowerofRed25]

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I've played quite a few demo games, I'm very impressed. Mostly with the improved plays and formations. I've never really cared about how good the graphics are in NCAA. I don't play it for graphics. I am glad they made the colors better though, the last few versions of NCAA have had a washed out field color that occasionally made the pass catch indicator invisible. Nebraska's alternating light/dark green field turf was especially bad for that.

As for animations, I've seen some messed up animations like ball carriers reacting unnaturally to contact but I've also seen some really good animations like ball carriers tripping over the legs of the OL and needing to recover or stumbling down. I'm also really loving that defenders react to tipped balls and actually catch them now. I've had a few tip drill INT's that were very impressive, for both user and CPU. In '13 those would just hit the defender's hands and drop.

I've seen a couple glitchy things that will likely be fixed. A few of the automotion read option plays in OSU's playbook have failed meshes between the QB-HB where their two animations just don't meet up and the QB gets stuck with the ball. I have also seen one play where a WR dropped a ball at the goal line, the ball fell and hit a defender in the back and then got intercepted by another diving defender. It looked amazing initially but the ball clearly hit the ground. Challenged and it was upheld as an INT.

All in all, I like it a lot but can tell putting a playbook together with all these new plays will be very difficult.

[smack23011]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Demo is Available Now, Post Impressions Here (360, PS3)

Guess ill stay at AA my goodness. VT beat me and I never got across the 50 sheesh.

Then played with OSU and I could never get anywhere with BM. UM shut me down but on D my DE sucked kept getting no where or pushed back a few yards. But the other end of the line kept getting push to the backfield and the UM QB kept trying to run but would run into to many of his lineman trip and fall pretty cool.

Went back to play Ore and aTm and played AA and the DE kept going after the RB on every read draw play until the end of the fourth all the DEs stayed him it was quiet impressive but to late and it was a blow out lol.

The demo is pretty fun. Still iffy about the retail version still a day one buy for me. Ill play some more and do some ignorant stuff along the way.

Oh and the freeze the kicker never worked.

[carnalnirvana]

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I like alot of things about this demo, but

4 VERTICALS

4 VERTICALS

4 VERTICALS

by the cpu on every 3rd and 10+ is bad bad bad programming....

and while some may be impressed that the QB scrambled off the 4 verts for the first down, a pocket passer in the full game will force it for the pick 10 out of 10 times....

sad to say the playcalling isn't fixed, its worse in many regards, the cpu has gotten better at executing bad plays from bad playcalling...

playing against the AI is like playing some fool online, someone programmed the cpu to either call a screen or 4 verts on every 3rd and long....

its not hard ea just change the frequency of the screen and 4 verts to 1%... and crank up the AI punt ability

i am thinking of a provocative title for a thread about this 4 verts AI mess ea needs to hopefully see this...

this issue alone makes me not want to spent more than $30 for this game or else its a day 1 buy.....

[WWF80sKid]

In my Michigan vs OSU game, OSU had a 4th and long and ran it up the middle.

[nazzman]

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Illegal Touching penalty is in.

It was in '13, seen it twice in the past month, why do people keep bringing this up?

[RyanLaFalce]

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[bspang2]

Played with Alabama and their awesome Linebackers... 3 and 1, Middle LB #32 darts through the whole, RB tries to bounce outside and my LB dives and grabs the RB's collar and drags him down before he gets close to the first down marker.... AMAZING!!!!!

[RexDEAFootball]

Can anyone tell us if they have had a successful truck with a RB? And how? Thanks guys I'm sure someone has!

Hold RS Up to truck. You have to preload it about 2-3 yards away from the defender (very similar to how hit stick and wrap tackle has changed this year). You will know if you have done it successfully when you see a red pulse on the player ring which indicates a 'force impact' reaction.

[KUJayhawker2015]

Hold RS Up to truck. You have to preload it about 2-3 yards away from the defender (very similar to how hit stick and wrap tackle has changed this year). You will know if you have done it successfully when you see a red pulse on the player ring which indicates a 'force impact' reaction.

Thanks bro!!