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

[jmurphy31]

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

Played 1 Game Mich vs Ohio St on AA. Won 28-7

Good
- CPU Read Option...1st Drive struggled vs it. Seems like they made the right reads. (They went away from it once I got up though)
- Feels better. I know it sounds generic saying that, but it the game just has a better feel to it.
- I ran a play action pass after it said SET UP and the CB bit tried to adjust and slipped and I scored on a long TD
- Stats attached to the Score Bug
- Offensive PI called

Bad
- Replays still awkward (Do I really need a replay angle looking up from the ground at a hand off)
- QB takes off too much. I know he is a mobile QB, but I feel once he takes off once, he takes off too many times
- Commentary is still bad. Too much dead space and really just seems like its just there to be there.

[Bushido]

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

I just beat Oregon in 5 OT's with Texas A&M, 51-48, on Heisman.

Never had a game that competitive against the CPU in YEARS!!!!

Oregon did a fantastic job of mixing up their plays, and called plays just like Oregon would in real life. The black mamba owned me, he had 95 yards receiving (screens), and 82 yards rushing on 8 carries. He was a one man wrecking crew.

Mariotta had some success on the ground too, but hit me up with 4 TD's through the air and 0 interceptions.

It felt like it was a real life game with how it flowed, there was no cheesiness to it, and the AI for the CPU was the best I've EVER seen in an NCAA title.

[YungThugga08]

Have anybody noticed that when you first start up the demo, and it ask you to confirm your account info, it still says NCAA Football 13?

Anyway, I'm loving this demo so far! Did they use black magic or something? 13 have nothing on this..

Also, they have injuries off in the demo, but you can turn them on.

[GiantBlue76]

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

Threw a late pass out into the flat to my WR who ran a short curl. The SAM backer was lurking in zone about 10 yards away flirting with the passing lane. I threw the pass and he broke on the ball very realistically. No warping, super speed burst or anything stupid like past EA games. He reached up and caught the ball in stride. Would have been a pick 6 but I was able to chase him down and make a beautiful shoe string tackle at the 5.

Getting my *** kicked was never so enjoyable with EA football. Not bad... Not bad at all...

[jmurphy31]

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

Also, noticed when you click the Right Trigger button, it asks you to select a WR and then it gives you some stats. Not sure what they mean, but I think this is new. (note: I havent really been following NCAA this year)

[The JareBear]

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

Default heisman is a blast, holy cow. The Oregon tamu game might be the only one I play its awesome

[Reggie16]

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

i played on all american and got 3 picks on manzel. but overall i love this game. cant wait to see what slider geniuses can do with this. Love it.

[SageInfinite]

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

Gotta be something with my 360. The game has frozen on the loading screen 3 times. Have to turn the system off if I want to get a back to back game in.

[Bushido]

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

One thing that is worrying me a little bit is that I'm getting an immense amount of sacks. Anyone else?

How?

I may have got 2 or 3 sacks in two games.

[IUxHOOSIERS]

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

I'm curious what everyone thinks of the "Wide" camera view as well. The coordinator cam is new and looks very nice, but I think the excitement over it may take away from a more "on the field, see the entire stadium" view like Wide can offer.

I'm not a fan of the wide camera so far. It looks a lot like NCAA Football 10's camera, and I didn't like that game.

This demo is fantastic so far

[DJ]

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

How is the CPU playcalling? Are you guys noticing a lot of screens on 3rd down by the CPU?

Really looking forward to downloading tonight for both systems, although the PS3 demo will probably take 12 hours to complete, lol.

[RebelHog]

Is RBs running into Oline still?

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[TDenverFan]

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

Played 2 games, one as VT one as Oregon.

Good
- The intros are actually pretty cool. I noticed Bama's had some music that sounded more southern, a small but cool detail
- WR Matchup is really cool. As Oregon, my TE had a decent advantage over the LB, and A&M paid the price
- Coordinator cam is nice
- Cuts, spins, stiff arms etc. all feel really cool
- Kick returns are a lot of fun
- Deep balls seem mostly ineffective
- Great clock management by the CPU. Bama faced a 4th and 15 on their own 45, but there was only about 6 seconds on the clock. Rather than punt, they tossed up the Hail Mary
- Gameplay as a whole is smoother


Bad
- No penalties
- Sidelines look bad
- There was a glitch where the ball carrier was brought down on top of a defender, and the game did not count him as down. The ballcarrier got back up and continued running.

[EMbow513]

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

Also I love how I played as a defensive tackle and i totally drove the lineman back into the running back with a bullrush. Damn I might mess around and buy this game. The run game is SICK with the hard cuts

[khaliib]

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

Some quick thoughts:

**Were did the Pass Rush slider go?

- Am I crazy, or does the QB's seem to have different throw styles?

- QB actually threw the ball on a roll-out closer to the LOS as I left my man to make the tackle (really cool to see that)

- As advertised, the AI seems to go to it's Stars and mis-match's

- Must max out the Pass Lead Sensitivity to enable throwing to an area (default is at 50)

- Will need to max Impact Blocking to get more cut/decleat animations

- Must tune Def PI to be greater; actually got called for an Illegal Touching of all calls!!!

- Height actually means something for WR's (will still need to lower Jump for DB's a little

- Acceleration looks to mean more than actual Speed (prob controls how long burst will be)

- Will have to lower Speeds across the board so that the Black Mamba's can stand out a little more in this dept

-STAMINA: just love it; got hawked down because I used it too early

- Turned down tackling for both to "10", opened the door for more animations to trigger

- Got my TE killed going across the middle (pretty animations through out this interactive sequence, he should've been carted off)

- Still need to adjust the PAT/Punt Block to occur more frequently as well as ball physics

- Momentum is definitely in play in some good and bad ways
**the only bad is that WR's are slow to animate after the catch back up-field (will need to test if higher Agility rating will improve)

- Simply can't wait to get under-the-hood with this game!!!