Football Simulator-Early Access Trailer

[DCAL4]

I like this too. No yearly release schedule, just ongoing improvements and development.

Burba:

"We want to make something heavily modable, with heavy community involvement. Something that's inexpensive, that's evergreen, that has tons of features and is moving past that idea of a yearly game"

[CM Hooe]

The graphics look good and the physics look fun. The play-by-play voice actor they recorded has a strong authoritative voice, he fits the bill. The player indicator arrow is obviously inspired by the very first NFL 2K game.

Having praised the positives - the challenge any high-fidelity independent football game is going to face is that it has to engage with the idea of playing intelligent football.

For example, one of the defensive plays diagrammed in this trailer was a 2 Man Under call, but one of the underneath defenders who should have man coverage responsibility was assigned to blitz. That's a totally nonsensical coverage call because it doesn't even begin to account for every receiver. Between this and a number of other examples - the offensive line play looked atrocious as well - I don't get the impression that the people making this football game really understand the mechanics of the sport of football.

It's early access so obviously there's a way's to go yet, so maybe embedding that knowledge is coming down the road. For now, it is going to take more than rag dolls and modding for me to give this game a chance.

[DCAL4]

Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

The graphics look good and the physics look fun. The play-by-play voice actor they recorded has a strong authoritative voice, he fits the bill. The player indicator arrow is obviously inspired by the very first NFL 2K game. Having praised the positives - the challenge any high-fidelity independent football game is going to face is that it has to engage with the idea of playing intelligent football. For example, one of the defensive plays diagrammed in this trailer was a 2 Man Under call, but one of the underneath defenders who should have man coverage responsibility was assigned to blitz. That's a totally nonsensical coverage call because it doesn't even begin to account for every receiver. Between this a number of other examples - the offensive line play looked atrocious as well - I don't get the impression that the people making this football game really understand the mechanics of the sport of football. It's early access so obviously there's a way's to go yet, so maybe embedding that knowledge is coming down the road. For now, it is going to take more than rag dolls and modding for me to give this game a chance.

Yeah the offensive and defensive line play is really bad. That is the main frustration for me at this stage.

[HesiPullupJimbo]

Quote: Originally Posted by DCAL4

I have played a little over 10 hours now. In its current state it can be frustrating but I have some experiences that I said wow on several times. That has not happened in nearly a decade for me in a non Madden football game lol. Anyone know if there is a Discord channel for this game yet? I could see a nice community building up around this IF they keep actively developing it.

I'm on the discord channel, but they don't let me send invites. You can find a link in the steam discussion board.

[DCAL4]

Quote: Originally Posted by HesiPullupJimbo

I'm on the discord channel, but they don't let me send invites. You can find a link in the steam discussion board.

Thanks. I just realized they have the Discord on one of the splash pages in the game.

[DCAL4]

Made a trailer style Football Simulator highlight vid:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ivAcqwpSbfs

[DCAL4]

I have gone a little crazy modding pop culture stuff into Football Simulator ��

https://postimg.cc/gallery/YQg9bQN

[DCAL4]

A new Football Simulator video with highlights from v0.04a

Also, devs about to drop a big performance update that will fix frame rate by quite a bit.

Some modded college teams in the second half of the video(with some other modded teams)

Florida, Georgia, Miami, Boston College, USC, UCLA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MTqEHmy382Y