NCAA Football 09 Demo Available: Discuss Here

[cdk10]

Re: NCAA Football 09 Demo Available: Discuss Here

Just saw a glitch where the RT lined up inside the RG. They looked like Siamese twins. Once the play started the RT warped to where he was supposed to be. Has anyone else seen this?

Anyway, just had a great game. OSU(me)21 LSU 0. Had a WR screen go for 71 yards. There was some great blocking on that play. I wish I could have IR that play just to watch the blocks. Overall the def. played awesome. D-line got pressure all game and the DBs were all over the WR. Almost had 2 blocked punts also.

Overall I'm loving the gameplay. I do like the weighty feel of the players.(maybe it's a little too much, but better than last year) And the feeling that you could break one on any play. Can't wait for the 15th.

[ODogg]

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has anyone seen any bobbled catches yet like in the trailers?

I did in the mascot game, my Gator guy did a bobble, then a dive catch, it was awesome!

[ODogg]

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I played the PS3 version quite a bit over the weekend and saw the QB slide bug. This has only happened to me once on the 360 and it was very, very subtle. It's quite obvious on the PS3 though. By QB slide bug I mean when he goes to line up behind center he slides off slightly to one side of the center, left or right. Very annoying.

[coogrfan]

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Yea, I had a bobbled catch that ended up as an interception..

I had a bobbled interception in the end zone that wound up as a td for the offense.

[Pared]

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Ohio State should be tOSU abbreviation in the game. That is how they are known to distinguish them from Oklahoma State.

lol yeaaaaah....

OH ST

OK ST

[ODogg]

Re: NCAA Football 09 Demo Available: Discuss Here

lol yeaaaaah....

OH ST

OK ST

That is not how they are abbreviated. It's OSU for both. Everyone knows Ohio State and their followers like to emphasize the "THE" (not sure who started it but everyone's familiar with it) and if you've ever read many college football forums they are nearly always identified as tOSU so the solution is simple. Just use the real abbreviation for both and for OSU add the small t to separate them from Oklahoma State University.

[coogrfan]

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Btw, as someone posted a couple days ago I reset my 360's internal clock to a date in Nov. It was just like the guy said-when I played the demo it was night instead of dusk.

[jdrhammer]

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I did in the mascot game, my Gator guy did a bobble, then a dive catch, it was awesome!

I was playing defense against Ohio and I deflected a pass that the cpu player bobbled, then another LSU player bobbled, then a different Ohio player slid onto his knees from out of nowhere to catch in the endzone for a TD. Four players touched the ball after the QB released it.

I've noticed the QB slide as well as one instance where, I believe it was my RG, was off of the line a yard or so back. It could have been the RT, but I believe it was the RG.

[Skyboxer]

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As far as bobbled catches: I had a TE on a seam rt that the pass was slightly overthrown. He raised one arm up a tipped it up, grabbed it but while trying to gather himself he was tackled. A better pass would have resulted in a TD.
Good stuff!

[Teddy_Long]

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anyone noticed the slip screen is a money play every time?

btw, is anyone having success running the ball against LSU?

[Scott]

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I can run it against LSU...Just use Wells' strengths (Stiff arm, Truck)

[volsman]

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I can run it against LSU...Just use Wells' strengths (Stiff arm, Truck)

I can not run using either team. The only way I can get any running yards is the option and I fell cheap using it.

[therizing02]

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anyone noticed the slip screen is a money play every time?

btw, is anyone having success running the ball against LSU?

Yep. When the playing the demo I use the Ask Corso feature for playcalling so I can run as many plays as possible. He must have called for the Slip Screen 5 times.

He called for it on the first play of the game and Wells took it 71 yards for a TD. The other four times I ran it resulted in gains of at least 8 yards.

I played a game of 08 last night before playing the 09 demo, and it seems as if the 08 players have more weight to them and the animations are less jerky. The player models don't look as good, but the animations seemed better.

[OMT]

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I can't find the original post asking this, but someone had said they couldn't find the pistol in LSU's playbook, but saw the CPU run it on them.

I took a look at the demo and retail and I think I figured out what was going on here.

First off, the playbook in the demo is totally different from the LSU playbook in the retail.

In the final game, there will be Pistol - Ace.

In the demo playbook, they have one formation called Shotgun - Spread Flex. In this formation, the QB is a step or two closer to the center than all the other shotgun formations. This is probably what they were using when you saw the CPU come out in the pistol formation.

Spread Flex isn't in the final LSU playbook, but they do have Shotgun - 4WR trio str in the final playbook that has the QB a little closer to center than all the other shotgun plays.

The playbook blog has all the formations from the final version for LSU. I just copied them out of there.

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[dkrause1971]

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Yes, but they were testing demo specific stuff. The bugs you mention should have been found by the gameplay test team. These two I read here over the weekend, and on monday I am going to check the bug database to see if they were found, and if so... when they were fixed. I know the date that the demo was branched, and based on when they were fixed, I'll be able to say if they are in the final product.

So wait until Monday and I'll see what I can find out.

Did anyone notice if Adam checked this today?