NCAA Football 11 Patch To Be Released Tomorrow (Release Day)

[Deegeezy]

NCAA Football 11 will be available in stores tomorrow, July 13th, and a patch will be available at the same time. Based on feedback from the community on the Demo, and internal testing, we have addressed several issues after the game was sent to Microsoft and Sony. The following changes were made for the July 13th patch:

• Fixed an exploit where the QB could walk through the defense when the ball is snapped, with a guaranteed a gain of over 50 yards.
  
• Tuned QB fumbling on scrambles, resolving an issue where the QB would fumble every time if hit past the line of scrimmage.
  
• Improved deep zone coverage assignments, making it significantly more difficult to be beaten by the deep ball. In particular, deep zones have been improved against Streak routes.
  
• Tuned QB throwing out of a sack. Previously, it was too easy for a QB to throw the ball while being tackled; this has been toned down to be more accurate.
  
• Resolved an error with pursuit angles, which resulted in defenders over pursuing the ball carrier every play. The angle was fixed to be slightly more aggressive, creating a more accurate pursuit.
  
• Tuned the read and react assignment for linebackers, especially outside linebackers, before the handoff. This will make it more difficult to run the ball outside the Tackles.
  
• Fixed an issue with the CPU ball carrier being stuck in a forward lean animation. Also lowered the frequency of CPU ball carriers leaning.
  
• Resolved an issue where AI players in man coverage assignment would swerve when covering particular vertical routes, causing them to be beat repeatedly.
  
• Ball carriers will no longer go into a tightrope assignment when running along the sideline. This was causing the player's speed to decrease to 70%.
  
• Resolved an issue that was causing tackles to not matchup in online games, potentially causing a crash in online games.
  
• Footsliding will no longer occur when the ball carrier has the ball in their left hand.
  
• Tuned CPU screen passes so they will get rid of the ball faster, resulting in less sacks.
  
• Resolved a crash that occurred if connection is lost before entering a game mode.

Source: NCAA Football 11 Blog

[Brandwin]

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Good stuff. Thanks for the post.

[BooShay]

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Is it already out? Or will it be coming out tommorow?

[BlastX21]

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Jeez, they're really trying to make this game hard. I remember when they listed changes to the retails from the demo. Things like better pass rush, better man coverage, better deep zone coverage. Now they're adding even better deep zone coverage, reducing overpursuits, made LB's defend the run better, and the CPU uses screen passes better. Do they want every game to be a defensive struggle?

[Super Glock]

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I'm confused, will the QB play action glitch be fixed by tomorrow or not. I did not see that mentioned in this list.

[Deegeezy]

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The best news:

Tuned QB fumbling on scrambles, resolving an issue where the QB would fumble every time if hit past the line of scrimmage.

[gogators]

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I'm confused, will the QB play action glitch be fixed by tomorrow or not. I did not see that mentioned in this list.

I'm wondering about this as well.

[Skyboxer]

Re: EA releases tomorrow's patch details

Jeez, they're really trying to make this game hard. I remember when they listed changes to the retails from the demo. Things like better pass rush, better man coverage, better deep zone coverage. Now they're adding even better deep zone coverage, reducing overpursuits, made LB's defend the run better, and the CPU uses screen passes better. Do they want every game to be a defensive struggle?

No... They want what a lot of people want.... To have Football knowledge matter more than just dropping back and hitting a button or picking whatever D play and it working vs a play it shouldn't work against. The more the game gets to where playcalling and strategy matter...the better.

[rdfowler]

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I'm wondering about this as well.

Yeswit was posted as a change from the demo to the retail ... the stuff they posted today is about what the retail version is like if you stay offline and don't download the patch

[mdw07]

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Is it already out? Or will it be coming out tommorow?

It is already out.

[jello1717]

Re: EA releases tomorrow's patch details

I'm confused, will the QB play action glitch be fixed by tomorrow or not. I did not see that mentioned in this list.

I was shocked that I didn't see this mentioned. This is a game breaking bug.

Yeswit was posted as a change from the demo to the retail ... the stuff they posted today is about what the retail version is like if you stay offline and don't download the patch

Fowler, this glitch has been seen in the retail copies, so it wasn't completely fixed for the release.

Watch the 2nd video here:
This is from a retail copy

[footballdude1971]

Re: EA releases tomorrow's patch details

Jeez, they're really trying to make this game hard. I remember when they listed changes to the retails from the demo. Things like better pass rush, better man coverage, better deep zone coverage. Now they're adding even better deep zone coverage, reducing overpursuits, made LB's defend the run better, and the CPU uses screen passes better. Do they want every game to be a defensive struggle?

If EA games lack one thing it's defense...I'm all for more defense...the more the better...

[psumason]

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I was shocked that I didn't see this mentioned. This is a game breaking bug.

I wouldn't be too worried about it. This is something that just came to light and I'm sure it will be addressed in a timely manner.

[Skyboxer]

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I was shocked that I didn't see this mentioned. This is a game breaking bug.Fowler, this glitch has been seen in the retail copies, so it wasn't completely fixed for the release.

Jeesh...No it's not. Hit A to break out of the glitch. Annoying..yes. game breaking? Not really. Just treat it as a busted play until the fix is made.

"Game Breaking" is way overused...

[joejccva71]

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I wouldn't be too worried about it. This is something that just came to light and I'm sure it will be addressed in a timely manner.

Yea but the way the patching system works for MS and Sony is they only get so many patches for free..then it starts costing them. I think they get 3 for free so alot of times they will wait after the first patch and gather up alot of feedback for fixes. Then they will work on a big patch down the road.

So they already have used patch #1 so it may be a little while (few weeks or so) before we see a second patch (hopefully the one that fixes the QB glitch).