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  • Sheik
    Rookie
    • May 2004
    • 253

    #1

    Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

    I'm not going to lie. I haven't been fully involved with NCAA Football for a few seasons now. I'm a dynasty player, and for a while now, I just didn't feel the need to step out and get NCAA. That changed with the demo this year. I held off and eventually took the plunge. First few days were great. I was enjoying my purchase and saw no issues.

    Welp, with school and all..there will be times when you have to hit the books. All the sudden, I come back and there are patches and now this game does not play like what I thought I was purchasing at all.

    Did I miss something? Or did these patches really screw the pooch?

    Is there a setting that I'm not using?
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  • Hellisan
    Fan of real schools
    • Jul 2002
    • 1893

    #2
    Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

    What are the issues that you are having with the game?

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    • Armor and Sword
      The Lama
      • Sep 2010
      • 21798

      #3
      Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

      Originally posted by Sheik
      I'm not going to lie. I haven't been fully involved with NCAA Football for a few seasons now. I'm a dynasty player, and for a while now, I just didn't feel the need to step out and get NCAA. That changed with the demo this year. I held off and eventually took the plunge. First few days were great. I was enjoying my purchase and saw no issues.

      Welp, with school and all..there will be times when you have to hit the books. All the sudden, I come back and there are patches and now this game does not play like what I thought I was purchasing at all.

      Did I miss something? Or did these patches really screw the pooch?

      Is there a setting that I'm not using?

      Game is playing awesome. I have all the patches and game tunings.

      If you don't like the patches...delete them. But they improved the incoming classes and in-season progression as well as off-season.

      This game is a gem.

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      • Deegeezy
        All Star
        • Jul 2002
        • 5265

        #4
        Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

        From everything I have read, patch #3 is the one that screwed the pooch.
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        • Yeti_2009
          Rookie
          • May 2010
          • 262

          #5
          Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

          yeah patch #3 really loosened up the D. Check the sliders forum. I use SECelite's AA sliders and they work very well for me....

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          • Sheik
            Rookie
            • May 2004
            • 253

            #6
            Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

            That's for the advice guys..because when I first got it..I was loving it..
            but all the sudden..
            something just feels off.
            gonna go try out some sliders tonight..

            thanks again

            oh, and my biggest issue is qb pass accuracy...
            when i first got the game...teams would actually run the ball..
            now??
            not so much..
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            • Yeti_2009
              Rookie
              • May 2010
              • 262

              #7
              Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

              yeah if you leave the sliders as is, QBs completion % is crazy high...I have the CPU accuracy at 10 now and it seems to be as close as you can get to real numbers. I tried at 5 and they just throw it in random places....

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              • jello1717
                All Star
                • Feb 2006
                • 5721

                #8
                Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

                Look at the coaching tendencies thread in the sliders forum. This makes running CPU teams (IE. Oregon, Wisconsin, Auburn, etc) run the ball.
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                • ODogg
                  Hall Of Fame
                  • Feb 2003
                  • 37953

                  #9
                  Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

                  The patches and tuners made the game go from good to great IMO. But as has been said, if you don't like them the solution is simple, get rid of them.
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                  • cr00v
                    Banned
                    • Aug 2010
                    • 115

                    #10
                    Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

                    I sold the game because of the tuners, it completely ruined defense. I'm an online dynasty exclusive player, but I don't give two $#!^'s about the dynasty problems if the gameplay sucks. No respect for defense. Sadly this is probably EA's best football game to date, too. Shame.

                    WR mirroring days: 6.5/10
                    After defensive ruining patches: 4/10

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                    • ODogg
                      Hall Of Fame
                      • Feb 2003
                      • 37953

                      #11
                      Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

                      Can't please everyone, I think those who dislike the game are most certainly in the smallest minority ever in the history of this title though since 2002.
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                      • huskerwr38
                        MVP
                        • Mar 2009
                        • 1549

                        #12
                        Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

                        Originally posted by Yeti_2009
                        yeah patch #3 really loosened up the D. Check the sliders forum. I use SECelite's AA sliders and they work very well for me....
                        I think everyone was complaining about the DB's mirroring the receivers routes so they tried to fix it. So I think that is what you are seeing.

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                        • Yeti_2009
                          Rookie
                          • May 2010
                          • 262

                          #13
                          Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

                          Originally posted by huskerwr38
                          I think everyone was complaining about the DB's mirroring the receivers routes so they tried to fix it. So I think that is what you are seeing.
                          yep agreed. It'll never be perfect for everyone but I am fine with the way it is...add sliders...adjust to the O and after patch 3 you now have to use strategy on D instead of running 3-3-5 all the time

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                          • franko3219
                            Pro
                            • Jul 2009
                            • 788

                            #14
                            Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

                            I think that a lot of problems can be fixed with sliders, but I still see a couple of big issues with the game that I hope they either fix this year, or be #1 priority next year.

                            1. Pass Coverage - Specifically the press; I get tired of calling a man, pressing the receivers only to see my DB's lunge at the receiver, miss the press, and end up 10 yards behind the receiver. DB's are never taught to press in this manner, you always have your feet moving, with your weight balanced so that if you miss your press you can recover. I understand some DB's are not good at running press coverage, but I have never (and yes I played in college) seen a receiver break a press and end up 10 yards away from the DB. When a receiver breaks a press they usually will get a 2 yard seperation and the speedy corners can recover. This pretty much ruins man coverage because if you call man and do not press, the slants and crossing routes are wide open every play.

                            2. CPU QB Decision Making - Other than the issue above I honestly think that coverage is pretty good. What makes coverage seem horrible is the fact that every QB is Peyton Manning (Robo QB). It does not matter if you are playing Florida or FIU, the QB almost always finds the hole in the coverage. Of course good QB's are going to pic zones apart more times then not, but not every QB in NCAA football can read defenses. Also the fact that when you are going to sack the QB they magically get the ball away 80% of the time, even if the pressure is coming from the back side.

                            3. CPU Defensive Playcalling - Coaching sliders help this, but I will go nutz if EA does not fix this for next years installment. I am getting so tired of coming out in a shotgun formation to run a zone read and the defense coming out in a 4-3 and running a blitz with the outside backer and inside backer, then coming out to pass and seeing the defense in a nickle or dime coverage. I understand and support the idea of the defense catching on to what I am calling if I consitantly call the same plays over and over, but if I am mixing up play calling within the formations that I run, the defense should not be able to differentiate whether I am passing or running. This basically leads to an exploit because if you call a run out of shotgun you just audible to streaks and/or deep passes and you have receivers wide open. This really is what leads to the game getting old for me because you end up being constricted to running the same cycle of 10-12 plays a game.

                            4. Playaction Pass Blocking - This is frustrating as EA knew that this is a problem and has done nothing to fix it. There is no reason that I cannot even fake the hand off before I have 3 defenders in my face. With a good running attack, the playaction pass should be a good part of your offense, but not in this game. I do not even call a playaction pass but maybe 2x a game because of this.

                            This are my main frustrations with this game. I have tried many different sliders to fix the above problems, but it seems like you can't fix one of those problems without making something else worse, or you have to dumb down the CPU so much that you never get a real challenge.
                            Last edited by franko3219; 10-28-2010, 12:59 PM.

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                            • Pogo27
                              MVP
                              • Jul 2009
                              • 1632

                              #15
                              Re: Confused: What The *#&# Did I Buy

                              Originally posted by franko3219
                              4. Playaction Pass Blocking - This is frustrating as EA knew that this is a problem and has done nothing to fix it. There is no reason that I cannot even fake the hand off before I have 3 defenders in my face. With a good running attack, the playaction pass should be a good part of your offense, but not in this game. I do not even call a playaction pass but maybe 2x a game because of this.
                              When I first got the game, I was extremely irritated with the futility of the PA Pass plays, generally speaking. As time went on, I learned to just not call them. As more time went on, I forgot about not calling them, and would eventually mix them in. Now, in my run-heavy offense, I call the occasional PA pass and have good success with it.

                              I think at first glance, and compared to previous iterations, the PA seems completely broken. Upon further inspection though, perhaps not so much.

                              I would be interested in seeing the stats of REAL football teams' effectiveness with play action and at what rate they're calling play action, and compare that to people's game habits.

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