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

[Solidice]

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

Any idea what this means?

"- Tuned team prestige progression to be in line with the changes to incoming freshmen."

team prestige plays a part in player progression. I guess they just tuned how much it effects it since they raised the starting ratings for incoming freshman.

[goalieump413]

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

This is great news! I just started a new dynasty, but will now wait until the patch is out to play the first game...

They didn't mention the CPU recruit logic or depth charts, probably because this issue would only be addressed by admitting that the player position change for the CPU is either not working, or the AWR rating ABSOLUTELY DOES affect every player, which contradicts their earlier statement.

Still no mention of the number of passes batted down by DL and LB's, (which in an AA level, 8 min quarter game can reach over 10). And it's likely not to change since the post mentioned man coverage route jumping, not zone play. Most of the batted balls I've seen come from LB's in zones who happen to be "perfectly placed".

But all in all, this is very welcome news and just shows that even though EA has a monopoly partnership with ESPN and college football, they still need it to be right by us.

Now, it's going to be a tough weekend of either shelving the game or playing RTG.

[youALREADYknow]

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

team prestige plays a part in player progression. I guess they just tuned how much it effects it since they raised the starting ratings for incoming freshman.

Thanks! That actually makes sense.

[Timeetyo]

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

Yes!!!!! C'mon guys, I half kid but do you really have to ask if the patch will effect in-progress dynasties?? All the previous ones have.

Forgive my ignorance, but I thought I had read that people had to restart dynasties before. Is it standard for NCAA to force a restart to get an update or is that unusual? I m very interested as I was planning on picking up a 1 start new team (go army...) this weekend, but I may stick out 1 more season with USF.

[Solidice]

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

Forgive my ignorance, but I thought I had read that people had to restart dynasties before. Is it standard for NCAA to force a restart to get an update or is that unusual? I m very interested as I was planning on picking up a 1 start new team (go army...) this weekend, but I may stick out 1 more season with USF.

to my knowledge/memory, no patch this gen forced you to restart dynasties. so I don't think you will have to.

[NINJAK2]

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

Guys? do you know if I really need to download the tuner pack if I download the update? Shouldn't the update include everything the tuner pack has? I only ask this because when I first went online with the game I did it on my kid's xbox. Now I can't get access to the tuner set on my xbox. I can get the updates when I go online because that's automatic but u need the EA account to access tuner pack(I think). If the tuner set fixes elements from an under the hood standpoint, shouldn't that be accessed similar to the update?

[Spanky]

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

I'm glad to see the things they're addressing, but surprised at the mostly positive comments. After reading the list, I was disappointed more fixes weren't included.

-- No mention of the play-action ineffectiveness because of the CPU pass rush.
-- No mention of better blocking on punt and KO returns.
-- No mention of toning down the CPU defense aggressiveness so they don't blitz so often.
-- No mention of better run blocking.

Maybe some of these things will be fixed by some of the other fixes they mentioned.

[Von Dozier]

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

"Tuned Man Coverage so defenders will not jump in front of routes so early. They will still jump the route, but not as early, or frequently, as before."

Does this mean mirroring has been fixed? :O

[Dashdagreat]

NCAA is the best game of the year ( as far as football ). I play NCAA religiously everyday and i had fell out of favor with it. I didnt buy a NCAA game for 2 years before this year. Its so good, i didnt buy madden for the first time in my life. Im 26 and been playing Madden since i was 7 and i didnt buy it or even think too. I used to buy NCAA and play it until Madden came out but this year i was too into NCAA. Im like 8 yrs in on my Dynasty in everything. Big ups to the crew who doing NCAA this year.....if only they can get double hit tackling next year and some better physics we will have a almost perfect experience.

[PrettyT11]

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

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.

You might have missed it but they did input that.

There was an issue with Hawaii's home schedule causing conflicts with particular teams. This has been resolved. In particular, teams in the Pac 10 and the WAC will now have the correct number of conference games.

[spit_bubble]

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

Now please just stop with the patches and tuner updates, so I can get my sliders straight and start a dynasty already.

Being facetious here...

But seriously... No more updates.

[ghettoqball]

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

Sounds great. Wish they would have fixed the CPU depth chart problem, but the rest of it sounds awesome.

[canes21]

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

So what is being done with CPU depth charts? Are the freshman going to be rated so much higher that the CPU teams will be using correct players or is this issue going to go unfixed. If its the latter, this patch is useless for dynasty players.

[bnoe1023]

OK so sounds like the consensus is that we won't have to re-start our dynasties...

My question is, I'm nearing the end of my second season, so will the updates to the recruits overall ratings immediately affect the class I'm currently recruiting for next season? Or will it not take into effect until the next season begins and I start recruiting the next class?

[canes21]

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

They won't come in with higher ratings since those are already set once the class is generated, but they will have the new progression. And if you get the patch then start the next preseason, those recruits will have new ratings and everything else.