Did I miss something

[TyghtWork]

Did EA skip over the playbook part of playbook I?
"Playbooks & Gameplay"

We got some info on the gameplay, but nothing on the playbooks. Well there was Custom Playbooks, but lil no real info on that.

Let me know if i missed something.

[Molarmite]

They've had two parts, Gameplay and Presentation. The title of the videos is 'Virtual Playbook' so there hasn't actually been a video about playbooks yet.

[CM Hooe]

They did mention that the user can create custom playbooks, with hard limits of 400 plays and 25 (I think? I always forget the second number) formations. It was kinda tucked away in one of the recent blogs.

EDIT: The Jon Robinson blog over at ESPN.com says 400 plays and 75 "sets", where presumably a set is something like "Ace - Normal" or "Ace - Twins".

[drlw322]

playbook meaning it's ea's playbook. Those gameplay video are consider their playbook.

[TyghtWork]

Quote: Originally Posted by drlw322

playbook meaning it's ea's playbook. Those gameplay video are consider their playbook.

NO Playbook #1 of 6 is "Playbooks & Gameplay"

Maybe thats all we getting on the "playbooks" side is custom playbooks. I was looking for more, then just that. Some info on new formations O & D. Something to go along with the new zone D.

[adembroski]

There was a brief blog on custom playbooks that was supposed to be released but wasn't for whatever reason. I'm not sure why.

Basically, it works almost exactly like 2nd gen custom playbooks, but the capasity is much higher. 400 plays in 40 formations, plus it works in concert with game-plan so you can set the weight of plays as you are going. Now, that's not combined... your offensive and defensive playbooks are seperate entities, so it's 400 offensive plays and 400 defensive plays.

I'll try to see what happened with the blog.

[CM Hooe]

AJ,

If I may pose a question about the custom playbooks for you: do playbooks that end-users build organize in the same manner that EA-built playbooks do? That is, do all the I-Formation sets group together, all the Shotgun formation sets group together, etc.? This was not the case in last-gen, every set was its own separate page in the playbook.

Thanks.

[adembroski]

Quote: Originally Posted by CHooe

AJ, If I may pose a question about the custom playbooks for you: do playbooks that end-users build organize in the same manner that EA-built playbooks do? That is, do all the I-Formation sets group together, all the Shotgun formation sets group together, etc.? This was not the case in last-gen, every set was its own separate page in the playbook. Thanks.

Yes, it groups them in the same way default playbooks are grouped. So all sets from the same "formation" are under the same tab in the play call screen.