NCAA Football 11 Patch #2 Available with Details, Post Your Impressions Here

[JOakman]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #2 Available with Details, Post Your Impressions Here

Installed Patch #2, have had the tuners already and am continuing my 1st year of my Dynasty. I finish the 1st season and go into training and it shows nothing happening. No + or -'s for anyone, basically shows my whole roster.

Anyone have this problem too? Simmed through it 2 times to see if anything changed.. nada. Sorry if this has been mentioned, but kills my dynasty with a young 1 star school.

EDIT: Didn't know about another tuning set, my apologies.

[kingcrumb]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #2 Available with Details, Post Your Impressions Here

That's the part I don't get. Everyone was happy with QB accuracy, WR drops on default, etc. Post patch they boost those things along with kicker legs and accuracy. Why? Then the normally weak cpu running game on default was made even worse and can't be fixed because the sliders are either broken or so watered down you can't fix it on your own. I'm also finding the zone defenses, which were not that great pre-patch, to be awful post patch and I don't want to call them vs. the cpu at all anymore. Just calling a few different man to man defenses now on defense has become boring.

I'm actually going to delete the patch and play for a bit without it. The one thing I will miss is EA tightening up the outside running game for the human. It was too easy before but I think I would rather deal with that then all the new problems they introduced. I'll re-download the patch and tuning file when it comes to the offseason for progression and recruit ratings but during the year I think I'm going to go back to basics.

EA rushed this last patch out and it shows. They need to do a much better job of testing during the development time and when they release patches. I think they need more diverse testers because I swear these guys must all play a similar way on a similar difficulty set so they don't see the variety of issues that a larger group on OS sees.

There has NEVER been an EA football game where the cpu can rn the ball,and how bout those in game saves we where told would be in 200--------? Oh I can hear it now "next year"

[Spanky]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #2 Available with Details, Post Your Impressions Here

I didn't think it was going to be that huge a deal, but the dirty uniforms really add a lot to the immersion factor in what was already a great-looking game.

I just played a great ACC championship game, beating Clemson 28-21 with Georgia Tech in Charlotte. Tech's blue jerseys with the gold pants and Clemson's white jerseys with the purple pants look great with patches of mud and dirt streaks, as well as the helmet scuffs.

I had considered deleting the second patch because of the problems it created, but I'm not going to do that now. I've managed to adjust the sliders well enough to negate most of issues the patch created.

[jbdeuce]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #2 Available with Details, Post Your Impressions Here

dirty unis are nice, but now the ankle braces turn white as the game goes on.

[WWF80sKid]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #2 Available with Details, Post Your Impressions Here

I've played well over 100 games on this game, and out of all the times the computer has won the coin toss, they've decided to kick maybe four times.

They always pick to receive...which is fine, because I always choose to kick anyway.

[Emac]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #2 Available with Details, Post Your Impressions Here

The sim engine is really messed up for the sim games resulting in some crazy outcomes. The QB completion percentages are way too low. I remember back in NCAA '09 the problem was that the QB percentages were too high on the sims and nearly every QB at the end of the year had an incredible touchdown-to-interception ratio. Now since NCAA '10, the percentages are way too low.

Another issue that reared its ugly head in NCAA '10 was that QBs were having really high rushing attempts. I mean like over 20 carries. Sometimes more than their running backs and this is on standard offenses. That kind of stuff really takes the realism away for me. And I don't see why it would be so hard to correct either.

These sim issues are kind of a big deal for me since I like to watch games of the weeks in my dynasties. But each game really loses its importance when I know it is only a matter of time before the sim engine screws the top teams into losing games they have no business losing on a routine basis. NCAA '09 was completely opposite of that. The sims were very predictable and major upsets were really rare which made the game of the weeks more interesting since those games were going to impact the BCS picture at the end of the year. EA needs to find a happy medium with their sim engine.

As far as on the field, the defensive linemen shedding their blocks on running plays like they are all Suh is making this game really frustrating. I haven't been able to find any remedy to fix it with sliders. The option offenses are pretty much broken the way they are now, and the A.I. already has a hard enough time executing those plays. So spread offenses and triple option offenses are at a significant disadvantage compared to pro-style offenses. If these two issues and the kick returns were fixed, this game would have a ton of potential.

[rudyjuly2]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #2 Available with Details, Post Your Impressions Here

The option offenses are pretty much broken the way they are now, and the A.I. already has a hard enough time executing those plays. So spread offenses and triple option offenses are at a significant disadvantage compared to pro-style offenses. If these two issues and the kick returns were fixed, this game would have a ton of potential.

It would be really nice if they could boost the blocking on option runs and shotgun runs.

[billysims]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #2 Available with Details, Post Your Impressions Here

Patch #3 has to make the blocking sliders more powerful.

Havent been on here in awhile: is there another patch forthcoming?

[rudyjuly2]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #2 Available with Details, Post Your Impressions Here

Havent been on here in awhile: is there another patch forthcoming?

No official word on it but I'd say there is a 99% chance on that happening.

[Dirty Turtles]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #2 Available with Details, Post Your Impressions Here

What in the world did they do to this game? This game was awesome pre-patch/tuner, now I can't even get through a game without wanting to break my controller. My kicker can't even make a 25 yard field goal. The entire defense is still Michael Jordan, leaping around like Peter Pan and knocking balls down that they have no business getting to. The worst part is, I've changed my sliders, so now I have no idea what they were pre-patch/tuner set. Sigh, guess it's back to Madden.

[rudyjuly2]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #2 Available with Details, Post Your Impressions Here

What in the world did they do to this game? This game was awesome pre-patch/tuner, now I can't even get through a game without wanting to break my controller. My kicker can't even make a 25 yard field goal. The entire defense is still Michael Jordan, leaping around like Peter Pan and knocking balls down that they have no business getting to. The worst part is, I've changed my sliders, so now I have no idea what they were pre-patch/tuner set. Sigh, guess it's back to Madden.

I don't understand this because they boosted the kicker's legs and accuracy with the second patch imo.

[ScarletandGrey2011]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #2 Available with Details, Post Your Impressions Here

I think If they fix the effectiveness of the play action after setting up for it, then i think i will be much better. because the play action isn't always effective, but the defense cant blow it up every time you use it. i mean rite after I do the fake, the D-lineman is in the friggin backfield b4 i even have a chance of doing anything. Thats wat they need to fix. also defensive lineman have no business catching a QB like Terrelle Pryor, or any QB who is faster from behind. And also LB's should not be jumping as high as cornerbacks to knockdown passes, espcially when u throw a bullet across the middle. So i feel that they should fix this and it would make the game so much better.