NCAA Football 11 Locomotion Live Chat (Replay Available Now)

[SaintsNATION32]

wow if this the case playin with guys like reggie bush & percy harvin should be sweet!!!

[Reggie16]

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This game sounds like it can be sweet! but lets see how this transfers from paper to when it goes gold!

[TreyIM2]

We were just speaking on how the NCAA 11 crew stated that the trip and fall deal with the use of the new locomotion would be too much, basically. That goes for either side of the ball.

I was thinking that they should mix in some stumble animations for when u don't quite gun the sprint button then try to cut yet come close to falling but not quite falling so that people start to guage how to better utilize sprint/turbo and their controls for particular player types so that they don't fall...as much. Lol.

[MSchneider84]

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I wonder if big RBs like John Clay will still be effective with low agility?

[Palo20]

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I like this part:

what effect will locomotion have on spread offenses who utilize the read option?
Wednesday April 14, 2010 4:44 LetsGoEers
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</TD><TD class="chatmsgtext altcaster_text "><TABLE><TBODY><TR vAlign=top><TD></TD><TD>NCAA Football Dev Team:
You'll see a more natural flow by the defense which will allow you to make reads appropriately.
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[Pokes404]

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I wonder if big RBs like John Clay will still be effective with low agility?

It'll depend on how you utilize him. You're not going to be able to make a bunch of cuts and try to change directions several times. You've got to get him going downhill and keep as much speed as you can. There's somewhere in the chat where one of the devs says something along the lines of, "if you use a power back with low agility, you'd better keep him going North and South."

[gator3guy]

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I like this part:

what effect will locomotion have on spread offenses who utilize the read option?
Wednesday April 14, 2010 4:44 LetsGoEers
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</TD><TD class="chatmsgtext altcaster_text "><TABLE><TBODY><TR vAlign=top><TD></TD><TD>NCAA Football Dev Team:
You'll see a more natural flow by the defense which will allow you to make reads appropriately.
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That caught my eye too. The way the read plays have been in years past I sure hope it would be a priority this year. And since they plan on doing team specific playbooks and schemes, the Read Option is such an integral part of a majority of college offenses. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but the way the developer answered the question, it sounded like they knew they needed to address it. I sure hope I'm right. It just seems funny to play a college game and not be able to properly execute a Read Option.

[Champ24]

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This game really does sound promising this year. I'm not looking for a perfection but if it's solid football with some minor flaws I will be pumped!!!!

[noplace]

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Why does EA always have to name real physics something like "Locomotion"? That has cheese and gimmick written all over it. Need to see it in motion 1st but it concerns me. Is this feature gonna put the defense at a disadvantage?

Meaning will there moves force defenders to go into some kind of miss tackle animation? Will I be able as a defensive guy to make a play without this happening? I see a lot of slip and fall animations coming out of this but I hope I’m wrong.

[shad_moss93]

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Why does EA always have to name real physics something like "Locomotion"? That has cheese and gimmick written all over it. Need to see it in motion 1st but it concerns me. Is this feature gonna put the defense at a disadvantage?

Meaning will there moves force defenders to go into some kind of miss tackle animation? Will I be able as a defensive guy to make a play without this happening? I see a lot of slip and fall animations coming out of this but I hope I’m wrong.

It depends on defensive ratings

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...87-post20.html

[lgxjames]

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After that I wonder does madden even need to do a chat

[noplace]

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It depends on defensive ratings

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...87-post20.html

Hopefully, EA will have to really do there homework this year on teams & player ratings. If they release a roster like they did last year its not gonna be good. Whose doing rosters anyway?

[blazer003]

I do think Madden was quite a bit too slow last year. Here's an idea for speed. Make it like real life! Wait, no, stop laughing, I'm serious. I said stop laughing!! Seriously, take the fastest players 40 times and make the fastest guys run the 40 in the same time in the game! I know, weird, right?

Here's another doosy. Time how long it takes a bullet pass to go 10 yards, 15 yards, 20 yards. Yes, watch a video clip, time it out, and make a bullet pass take that long to travel that far. Make that the default speed, and the speed used for online play, then people can use the sliders for offline stuff if they want it faster or slower.

Madden last year felt much slower than real life, and bullet passes were the worst (though maybe I was just used to super bullet passes of NCAA.)
I should do an analysis my self on NCAA and Madden and see what the actual times really are.

[rudyjuly2]

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In the Madden chat they said their locomotion will be a bit different than NCAA as they are going for a stronger sim element. Not sure exactly what that means but if that means NCAA jukes, spins, and cuts are a little over the top then I will like the NCAA style better. Many of us loved the PS2 versions and you could pull off some great moves that were fun. This is an example of fun > sim.

While sim is important, sim isn't perfect and many times I see sim = snob. It's overused imo.

[mgoblue678]

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^^^ Couldn't disagree more, I want the movement to be realistic and not be over the top. I really hope they implement locomotion right and don't over do it with defenders being made to look silly to often. Personally if locomotion worked similar to the momentum in the 2k games I would be very happy.

The whole point of implementing something like locomotion in the first place is to make the game more realistic, seems rather counter intuitive if offensive player movement were over the top. Besides great moves should be hard to pulloff and be rare, kinda kills the excitement if they happen to frequently.