NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

[FSU Spear 'Em]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

So No tuning at all to zones. Great, and now man-man is weaker...

I agree it should be toned down but tone up the zones.

Everything else I'm happy with. Maybe now I canplay again online but hate to have to re-start my dynasty.

[NikB13]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

In season progression is great news. But will it effect the starters? Or the whole team?

[Deegeezy]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

This game just keeps getting better and better!

[UndeniableSkillz9]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

how do the juking,spinning, stiff arm progress the more you use it the better you get at it i use it i hate when i stiff arm or something and it don't work

[shaikio]

Do you need to restart a dynasty to take advantage of these changes?

[BigDuke]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

No fix for dynasty CPU depth charts?

[gogators]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

What about CPU depth chart problem? Still no fix for that? Hopefully the progression helps this.

[Ramminyou]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

Glad to see these things getting fixed.

But I wish we would have gotten a fix for CPU overblitzing. That's still the biggest hurdle to me having a good challenge playing against the CPU.

[dalecooper]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

So No tuning at all to zones. Great, and now man-man is weaker...

I agree it should be toned down but tone up the zones.

Maybe we'll get lucky and the game will play perfectly with pass coverage set to 100.

[QuinnMahoney]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

Great news. Gonna try to hold out on getting to my next season so Players can progress week one!!!

[dalecooper]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

Glad to see these things getting fixed.

But I wish we would have gotten a fix for CPU overblitzing. That's still the biggest hurdle to me having a good challenge playing against the CPU.

Do you turn down their def. aggression slider? I decreased that 20-25 points for every team in dynasty - didn't take that long and it's helped, although they still bring the house at times that I think "Boy, this is a bad idea." And then of course the instant touchdown results. But I get those less than I used to.

[cujo0622]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

Hey guys..anyone know a good doctor..its been about 4hrs since I read this update..kinda getting worried here. ;-)

This is faking awsome!!!!

[adembroski]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

I wanna throw this out there. I know there was more in consideration, so I don't know how much was cut or they just didn't mention yet.

Presuming this patch doesn't introduce any show stoppers, this'll be the final patch of the year (might be more tune files), so the thought process is "don't address too much and risk another major problem". Patch 2 seemed too good to be true... and it was. This is a modest patch that addresses most of the major problems and I hope was little enough to be tested thoroughly so we wont see any new problems.

So if there are things you consider big that didn't get addressed, understand it wasn't because they didn't look at it or didn't care. It was likely that they either fixed it and found it created another problem, or they saw the potential for it creating problems and decided to hold off until N12. I know the schedule issue is a pretty big deal, and I know a lot of people are going to be disappointed it's not listed here.

All that said, I have my own complaint. They're treating the wrong symptom. Progression wasn't really the issue; it was recruiting logic. The CPU teams just made stupid decisions in recruiting. They're a little better now, but they still don't get low-priority positions. It doesn't matter how much kickers improve if teams don't recruit them. They needed to increase the importance of kickers (the number of stars they show up as) so that CPU teams would actually attempt to sign them.

I've won two games in my current dynasty season (one against #2 Florida, the other in OT in a rivalry game vs. USC) because the team had ridiculously terrible kickers. Florida's kicker missed 3 extra points, USC's missed 2 (the second being a would-be tying extra point in OT!). I also beat #3 Miami in part due to missed extra points. Terrible kickers on all three rosters. I'm currently ranked #3 in the nation due to those victories (I would have beaten Miami anyways, but Florida would have beaten me and USC would have taken me into another OT). These are not recruited kickers that didn't progress, but WALK-ON kickers.

[rspencer86]

Thank you a million times over, NCAA team. This addresses pretty much everything I had an issue with.

Game on!

[KingV2k3]

Re: NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

I wanna throw this out there. I know there was more in consideration, so I don't know how much was cut or they just didn't mention yet.

Presuming this patch doesn't introduce any show stoppers, this'll be the final patch of the year (might be more tune files), so the thought process is "don't address too much and risk another major problem". Patch 2 seemed too good to be true... and it was. This is a modest patch that addresses most of the major problems and I hope was little enough to be tested thoroughly so we wont see any new problems.

So if there are things you consider big that didn't get addressed, understand it wasn't because they didn't look at it or didn't care. It was likely that they either fixed it and found it created another problem, or they saw the potential for it creating problems and decided to hold off until N12. I know the schedule issue is a pretty big deal, and I know a lot of people are going to be disappointed it's not listed here.

As usual, you are bringing a lot of backgound, insight and common sense to the party...

Well said!