NCAA Football 11 Live Tuning Pack 1, Available Now

[Kobalt]

Re: Live Tuning Pack 1 is Live

Thanks a lot

[Cpre5]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Live Tuning Pack 1, Available Now

So no tuner patch for us poor gamefly people?

[Amoo316]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Live Tuning Pack 1, Available Now

Russ,

There has been a lot of buzz around here about another football game's great handling of a new patch. I have to say, you guys are doing an excellent job yourselves of maintaining a good balance between keeping us informed and showing you do care how the game plays long after our $60 is gone from our pockets. Keep up the good work and thank you.

[rhombic21]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Live Tuning Pack 1, Available Now

^This. There is a difference between Live Tuner Packs and Title Updates (patches). Double check Roy's Blog for some more details.

http://ncaafootball.easports.com/blo...logId=ThankYou

A number of you have already noticed that we do a check for "Online Gameplay Tuning" when connecting to our online servers. Some of you may also have found a new "Tuning" category in the Files menu. This is a new technology for NCAA Football 11 that allows us to not only live update and tune core gameplay parameters -- like fumbles, throw accuracy, and juke success ratings -- but it also allows us to rebalance certain core features such as recruiting logic, blocking, even control the intensity of shadows cast by the football on a sunny day!

This suggests that many GAMEPLAY issues should be able to be adjusted in a tuner set. Things like defenders in man coverage breaking on routes before WRs do, the outside running game being over-effective (because defenders take bad pursuit angles), and zone coverage not matching up to receivers in the correct areas would all appear to fall under the scope of things that should be able to be tuned.

[Rashad19]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Live Tuning Pack 1, Available Now

Russ,

There has been a lot of buzz around here about another football game's great handling of a new patch. I have to say, you guys are doing an excellent job yourselves of maintaining a good balance between keeping us informed and showing you do care how the game plays long after our $60 is gone from our pockets. Keep up the good work and thank you.

^^This^^ Great job to you and your team Russ!!

[Solidice]

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You have so many strawman arguments in that post I don't even nowhere to begin. Did I ever say they should be a 75?

I was simply comparing them to what they were rated before the tuner and the fact they seem to be the exact same or very similar. The tuner was supposed to increase all recruits, but the lower ones needed the most help.

Every single 2* player brought in was rated 50 in below. Even the 3* was a 54. That is almost identical to what we were seeing pretuner.

But you know what I apologize for a testing to see what the tuner did, honestly man no need to jump down my throat just reporting what I am seeing.

Maybe it was an anomaly of some sort, I will test a for a couple more years and see what I get, but a major the concern before the patch was how horrible the lower teams would become. I am just testing that to see if it's better.

And no it was not a previously loaded dynasty, never even used Mid Tenn State. Not that it would matter anyways since they said it would apply to dynasties that were already started.

some positions look different. FB for one. had a 1* come in at 70, and a 2* at 75. most 3* players for me are in the mid to high 60s. had some 2* in the 60s as well.

[mavfan21]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Live Tuning Pack 1, Available Now

This is what the progression looked like for the #19 WR I got in year one with a 3 star / 2 star prestige school.

Freshman 70 ovr / 93 speed / 58 awr / 71 catch
RS Soph 81 ovr / 95 speed / 66 awr / 80 catch
RS Sr 90 ovr / 97 speed / 72 awr / 88 catch

Guy had horrible juke/spin/elusiveness ratings. He also came in with 62 acceleration which didn't make sense. Low awareness too but he did finish with 99 in route running.

Uh oh. Do all the WR recruits still have horrible juke/elusivness and spin ratings or do some come in as agile as the default players?

Please tell me this is fixed....I know the kickers aren't be fixed until the patch.

[BadAssHskr]

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So no tuner patch for us poor gamely people?

no need to bring income into this discussion.

[dan_457]

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Uh oh. Do all the WR recruits still have horrible juke/elusivness and spin ratings or do some come in as agile as the default players?

Please tell me this is fixed....I know the kickers aren't be fixed until the patch.

russ made a post earlier stating that CB's already had lower Tackle ratings, so it evened itself out, apparently.

[SteelerSpartan]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Live Tuning Pack 1, Available Now

so the tuner sets can't adjust any cpu AI on the field??? Nothing for Pursuit?? or CPU Ball Carrier Vision???


we still have to wait for patches a month or more after release for gameplay fixes like that moving forward with the series????


I just got a different impression of what these things were.....looking at what NHL did with them....to me they focused more on gameplay in NHL

Does this tuner pack just not have many gameplay changes because theres a patch coming or does the tuning technology not allow it

[rudyjuly2]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Live Tuning Pack 1, Available Now

We don't release the game anywhere outside of the US. But the above might solve your problems.

-Russ

You mean outside North America.

[Cpre5]

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no need to bring income into this discussion.

Should have said gamefly not gamely

[Russell_Kiniry_EA]

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This suggests that many GAMEPLAY issues should be able to be adjusted in a tuner set. Things like defenders in man coverage breaking on routes before WRs do, the outside running game being over-effective (because defenders take bad pursuit angles), and zone coverage not matching up to receivers in the correct areas would all appear to fall under the scope of things that should be able to be tuned.

To be fair you are making assumptions on what can/can't be looked at...

like fumbles, throw accuracy, and juke success ratings -- but it also allows us to rebalance certain core features such as recruiting logic, blocking

None of those say anything about coverage or pursuit. The majority of gameplay issues NEED Title Update (patch) 2. We have not released what is in Title Update 2, and will do so as soon as it's ready.

-Russ

[Stacks]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Live Tuning Pack 1, Available Now

We don't release the game anywhere outside of the US. But the above might solve your problems.

-Russ

That's funny because I see it for sale everywhere in Canada or is Canada a part of the US now?

[poopoop]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Live Tuning Pack 1, Available Now

Going into year 6 there's 14 D- overall teams. Not sure how many there are on the default roster. Only two teams A- or above.

My final count is:

Default roster
12 teams A- or above
19 teams D+ or below
0 D- teams

With tuner year 6
2 teams A- or above
35 teams D+ or below
14 D- teams

Dynasty i started pre-tuner, year 6
1 team above A-
49 teams D+ or below
25 D- teams

The tuner is definitely an improvement in terms of teams' letter grades and progression is better. It still strays far from the default roster though. I also still see the computer doing things like loading up on QBs and other annoyances. So some good things, some things still bad. Looks like it'll take a few tuners/patches to get the dynasty to stay in line with default rosters.