NCAA Football 11 Screenshot and Nine Changes Listed and Detailed

[GlennN]

Cool! No need to buy NCAA 11. I was hoping I could get another few years out of NCAA 10 . . .

[SageInfinite]

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Screen shot looks nice but I'm not getting my hopes up.

[vrabbit]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Screenshot and Nine Changes Listed and Detailed

ok my teambuilder heads if i read this right this means that during building your team you should be able to use a new team and the old team stadium stuff would be gone.

I don't think that's what it means unfortunately but I really REALLY hope I'm wrong

[J-Unit40]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Screenshot and Nine Changes Listed and Detailed

Well, after a crappy day, this is some good news! I like what I have read so far. Can't wait to see what gameplay improvements (outside of gang-tackling) have been added for '11. I love the equipment additions. I know it's pretty small for some, but I like it.

Formation subs = Yes!

Finally! My favorite franchise is moving the ball forward.

That screenshot looks fantastic. So much popped out all at once; team-colored cleats, new helmet, ref, cutback, lighting, etc.

Oh wait, just noticed the leg bands. Wow! Details. Nice!

[mcpheje]

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I wonder if that's a juke on the picture or if the player is actually making a cut without the right stick. I'm hoping the latter so it will mean the end of the 90 dgree running.

Same thing I noticed about the pic. It looks like a plant and cut. Could be a sign of physics improvements.

[CreatineKasey]

Hopefully they slow the game down and focus on some basic interactions in the front 7.

Double team pass blocking?!

[SageInfinite]

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Same thing I noticed about the pic. It looks like a plant and cut. Could be a sign of physics improvements.

I wouldn't bet on it. EA is known for capturing good screenshots at the right moment. I won't totally rule out such a significant improvement, but I will remain doubtful.

[statum71]

Probably saving the bigger announcements for later. But this is a really good start.

I like what I'm seeing so far.

[BigRed24]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Screenshot and Nine Changes Listed and Detailed

well dynamic is faster to say than "conference field logos change based on what conference your team is in" feature.

notice in the pic, the SEC logo in orange on Clemson's field who is normally in the ACC.

Are you sure that is the SEC logo?

[splff3000]

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Still, I love new info on football games, despite me never owning a NCAA Football game .

Me too, even though I actually DO play NCAA. I can kinda get an idea of what's gonna happen in Madden by the NCAA info. For instance, since Pro-tak is tweaked for NCAA, you can bet that it's gonna be tweaked for Madden as well. As far as NCAA only info, I like the logo changing when teams switch/swap conferences. One thing I hope they change as well is if you swap 2 teams, their rivals swap as well. For instance, if I swap UCLA and Ohio State, UCLA's new rival should be Michigan and Ohio State's new rival should be USC. That doesn't happen on 10. The rivals stay the same. This is all good stuff, I hope it get's better though.

[TheCreep]

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Good read. Didn't really surprise me though. You already know that whatever Madden implemented, NCAAs going to have it the next year.

Looking forward to it.

[Tovarich]

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1. Refs-meh. I was ok without them.

2. Gang tackling-I thought tackling was ok enough as it was. It's not like NCAA 04 where your entire defense would stop once the first defender touched the ball carrier causing absurd touchdowns because they'd all stand around and watch as a tackle was broken.

3. Autosave is nice. I'm curious why everyone says they want it off. Unless you're lame and re-play every time you lose because you can't handle it, I don't see what the problem is. It only takes a few seconds. Impatience over that doesn't seem like a problem to me, but hopefully you guys have better reasons than not being able to handle losing.

4. Auto-Load Rosters is a good idea, especially for people who like me who did rosters last year. Almost lost many hours of work over this once. But I'm not sure I'm doing them next year so meh.

5. Formation subs-please EA, do not even attempt to advertise this. We had this 5 years ago. Taking forever to put something back that we already had and should have had returned long ago is not to be praised.

6. Equipment-this just doesn't matter to me. That's for Oregon fans to care about.

7. Single week bowl seasons-very nice for online dynasties to move more quickly. Great idea.

8. Dynamic conference logos-very nice.

9. Numbers on helmets-See formation subs. We had this forever, it somehow became broken, and now it's rightly being given back. Not to be praised in any way because it never should have left in the first place.


These are just bells and whistles though. Schedules were broke again, and there are glaring gameplay issues mostly concerning defense. Let's hear about fixing that, especially if some of this stuff turns out like the bells and whistles last year, i.e, field goal nets coming up in stadiums that don't have them, or coming up in the wrong place, or the ball going through them anyway, or camera flashes illuminating the night sky...on unreturned punts...in games between Western Kentucky and North Texas...

[jdrhammer]

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Recruiting needs to be fixed as well where there are less players in the database and CPU teams recruit quality to fill their 70 spots and not sign 25 each year.

Also, the CPU position changes for depth chart purposes isn't happening either.

Also, get sizes right. Too many 6'1" and less DE's. etc.

[mercalnd]

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Although I gotta ask, why does EA put dynamic in front of everything?

This year's new dynamic feature, CONFERENCE LOGOS

Dynamic is just the proper software term to describe a graphical element/or interface that changes depending on some other data. On the other hand something that doesn't change would be described as static.

3. Autosave is nice. I'm curious why everyone says they want it off. Unless you're lame and re-play every time you lose because you can't handle it, I don't see what the problem is. It only takes a few seconds. Impatience over that doesn't seem like a problem to me, but hopefully you guys have better reasons than not being able to handle losing.

In the past in other series, turning that feature off has often been a miracle solution to some freezing issues...

[BUCTD3]

The picture looks great. I am really excited about this game. However, I felt this way about the game last year so I am not going all in on it yet but so far everything sounds good and looks good.