NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Available, Impressions Here

[Sebmono]

Re: NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Available, Impressions Here

Endless thanks to Dan, Chris, and Jeff!

this kind of programming dedication and customer support is very rare these days (especially in EA) and does not go unnoticed or unappreciated by us fans!

if those guys don't read the forums, please pass along our thanks Josh

[Mauler97]

Re: NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Available, Impressions Here

Thank you Team HC!

Josh, are we able to now manually re-negotiate with our players and even ask them to take a pay cut? I tought I read that a couple of weeks ago.

[Dan_Bekins]

Re: NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Available, Impressions Here

• Fixed the Bug that caused players to remain injured when you go into play creator.

• Fixed the ability to call plays within the two minute drill.

• Fixed the Brett Favre career stats issue.

• Fixed the ability for us to change team philosophies in the roster update. If you have the previous roster update, you should see some major changes in ratings.

• Fixed the bug that caused low rated players to ask for a very large deal when re-signing.

• Fixed the Draft Day trading issue that allowed the user to force every team to trade their pick to another team.

• Fixed the ability to change a QB to WR and change him back to QB again.

• Fixed the bug where teams would not kick a FG at the end of the half.

• Fixed fumbles. We put in a fix that should make these much more realistic.

• Fixed CPU fatigue subbing. Running backs will now come out of the game more quickly and be replaced by their backup.

• Fixed FG distance. Kickers will be able to kick longer FGs now.

• Added the option to turn off CPU Downloaded Plays.

• Fixed the bug that was causing RFAs to not show up after year 1.

• Fixed the bug that wouldn't take a player's current salary into account when figuring out if you had enough cap room to re-sign him.

• Fixed a big issue that we believe was causing 99% of the crashes or more.

I think that's it. I hope I'm not forgetting anything.

Enjoy!

A few other things we fixed:

* Players will no longer lose fatigue when you sit them out of practice (already mentioned in another post).

* Players will be automatically subbed back in during a game once they regain full fatigue.

* You can now view your next year salary cap penalty on the Salary Cap Status screen.

* You won't be able to trade away Training Camp invites until the regular season begins (after all of their grades are unlocked).

[Dan_Bekins]

Re: Patch is Live and here's the change list...

The patch will go into effect even if you're in the middle of a career.

I'd restart if you've lost games because of the 2 minute warning issue, had players be injured for years, etc.

Otherwise you should be fine.

The only other issue we've run into that might require a career restart is related to your current save file. If you crash right when you reach Training Camp or the Preseason, you'll probably need to restart. Hopefully this will be rare.

You might want to try simming to the preseason before continuing your career. If you make it through with no problems, you should be good to go.

[x1Blumpkin1x]

Re: Patch is Live and here's the change list...

Yeah, you'll see a huge difference in fumbles, too. I played three games with LT and had one fumble.

Bekins did the 2 minute drill fix.

Staymates handled kick power and fumbles.

Thanks to Dan Bekins, Chris Staymates and Jeff Keyek.

[Matrix-Monkey]

Re: NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Available, Impressions Here

=] Awesome.


Ugh, 5 more hours of work. This is excruciating considering I have very little work to do but can't leave early.

[chickenhed]

Re: NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Available, Impressions Here

Wonderful work guys, thanks a bunch for this. I know we all appreciate the work you put in. I have never enjoyed a sports game (of any genre) more than I am enjoying this one right now.

[JoeMimic]

Re: NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Available, Impressions Here

I just had a run of 10 yards....I don't ever remember a gain that big before the patch. I'm crossing my fingers!

Gore gets hurt on his 4th carry. Foster comes in and on his 2nd carry scampers for a 44 yard touchdown...

Loving the Sub In coming up on the clipboard now. I've fumbled twice in two quarters one was legit and the other I got overturned.

Michael Robinson with a 59 yard counter play to the left for a touchdown! You can tell the difference in power on FGs now for sure. Janikowski missed a 43 yarder that hit the left goal post but that kick got up there in a hurry.

[KevinM]

Re: NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Available, Impressions Here

Josh,

Great work indeed to the three main guys Dan, Chris & Jeff. Superb work. Can't wait for the PS3 version.

One quick question, did you ever take a look at the defensive penalty ending a half bug? or did I get that in too late?

It's obviously not going to happen that often, but could be the difference between winning & losing a game.

Thanks again to all the team for the extra hard work, and a superbly designed game.

Kevin.

[nickaepi]

Do you have an official Patch release date/time for the Ps3 version?

[canes2008]

Re: NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Available, Impressions Here

I hope the ps3 version comes next week

[Matrix-Monkey]

Re: NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Available, Impressions Here

Yay! Had time on my lunch break to get to my apartment and download the patch, ran through the contracts real quick and the scrub players asking for huge contracts is gone, and my star players that I need to resign even asked for less money.

=]

[JoeMimic]

Re: NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Available, Impressions Here

So I finished a preseason game, it's preseason but still I'm encouraged as hell. 49ers win 31-21 over the Raiders.

49er QBs - 9-16 165yards 1td
Robinson/Foster - 22 carries 137yards 2tds! Never had a running game like that pre-patch. This is with Martz' playbook as well.

McFadden had 9 carries for 32 yards and Fargas had 10 carries 59yards and a touchdown.

Also Nedney with a 54 yarder.

I'll be playing another game real quick. Stay tuned!

[AgustusM]

Re: NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Available, Impressions Here

Played my first post patch half and I can already see the improvements.

My running is still not that good, but the sample size is so small I am not concerned...

especially becasue the other team is running the ball and I have yet to see the previously all too familiar play where 3 guys hit the RB 5 yards behind the LOS.

I haven't been in FG range yet (my one good drive resulted in a TD) but my opp has made a 39 and 43 FG. I have never been so happy to see the other team score.

Also both teams are having a much more difucult time passing. I don't think I am going to throw for 4,000 yards this season, and that is a good thing.

Also - I absolutely LOVE the new toggle to turn off CPU play download. I can see where some people might like to have the other teams download plays, I was always in the camp of enjoying the idea of teams having a specific philosophy. So when you played the Colts and watched them run stretch 20 times, it felt like playing the Colts. Allowing them to d/l plays took away from that a bit and now being able to turn that off is great. Developers can almost never go wrong with allowing people toggle and customize the game to the way they want to play. Great, great addition.

Overall I am very happy with my first post patch half, even though I am losing 13-7.

Great job Josh and co. thank you!

[DreadedSteeler]

Re: NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Available, Impressions Here

A big thank you to everyone at EA involved in the making of this great game and to those that went the extra mile on this patch. Unfortunately can't check it out till tonight as I got the RROD last night.