NCAA Football 13 Video - First Look at Scouting, When You Start Your Dynasty

[illwill10]

Re: NCAA Football 13 Video - First Look at Scouting, When You Start Your Dynasty

Recruiting is what sells this game for me. Alot of times last year, I wanted to skip out on playing the games and get right back to recruiting. I can get lost in recruiting.
I like that playstyle is a pitch for recruiting. And that is based on stats. Imagine trying to rebuild a team and needing a QB and RB, do you run alot to get the RB or pass to get the QB. I think it will add another element to recruiting

[TDenverFan]

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At first I thought it seemed you could recruit way too quickly, but I usually have 20-30 prospects, so I guess that will slow things down. Seemd like there were more drops than rises, but might just be a coincidence.

[cparrish]

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Why in the world does a WR have a carrying rating of 94 and a spin move rating of 46?

[goravens2052]

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Imagine being the coach of a team like Kentucky and you hit big on a 3 star QB, RB and a defender in a season or two, by their JR year your team could be almost turned around. It could also help your Pro Potential if the gems are drafted high

Sure I do play with some of the power teams in NCAA and Madden but the fun of Dynasty and Franchise is to take a struggling team or school and turn them around into a contender. I always liked finding that prospect that would be an impact player right away and immediately make your team better. Then moving on to the next season when you can finally play with that player and see how things go and start turning the team around.

[StoneTomcat]

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Did anyone notice the 5* Tackle?
I am glad you at least have some kind of great lineman you can recruit.

[sportzbro]

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I still can't believe this and studio updates were the main additions to dynasty. The scouting feature is nice, but I thought recruiting took too long already.

[illwill10]

Re: NCAA Football 13 Video - First Look at Scouting, When You Start Your Dynasty

Sure I do play with some of the power teams in NCAA and Madden but the fun of Dynasty and Franchise is to take a struggling team or school and turn them around into a contender. I always liked finding that prospect that would be an impact player right away and immediately make your team better. Then moving on to the next season when you can finally play with that player and see how things go and start turning the team around.

Yea is a very fun playing as a 1-2 star school and turning them around. I plan on starting with Texas State and turning them around and leaving and coming back and staying there.
in NCAA 12, I was with Memphis. I was able to get a speedy WR(3 star). He made big plays. I want to do that this year.

[J-Unit40]

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Why in the word does a WR have a carrying rating of 94 and a spin move rating of 46?

Maybe he can tote the rock, but gets dizzy when he spins and falls down. :wink:

I am really liking all the tweaks. Bring on July!

[mestevo]

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Wonder why you can't have the option presented to go straight to your recruit board after adding recruits. Less menu, more function.

[JerseySuave4]

i don't know how i feel about seeing their ratings revealed. I think i'd rather see the weight lifting numbers, 40 & shuttle times, etc. and have to judge a prospect off of that + the scouting system which can tell us how he plays instead of just revealing the ratings.

[cparrish]

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i don't know how i feel about seeing their ratings revealed. I think i'd rather see the weight lifting numbers, 40 & shuttle times, etc. and have to judge a prospect off of that + the scouting system which can tell us how he plays instead of just revealing the ratings.

While I agree with you, the casual fan would have no clue what those numbers mean.

[berad88]

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This is looking to be a fun game.

[Skull]

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i'm not sure why EA loves the RNG so much in trying to turn things like recruiting into a meta game. this is another minimum effort by EA, how does "time" in any way simulate scouting? i send my scout to look at a guy for 30 minutes? somehow he can tell he's strong, but can't tell how slow/fast he is?

maybe i have 3 or 4 scouts instead? and i can send them to a single state each week to look at recruits to look at maybe 2-3 recruits at the most. after a few (4?) visits i get an actual few of what the recruit should look like

here they just decided to reuse the time component from phone calls, and i'm stuck finding out that my WR falls over if a fly lands on him (43 trucking/47 stiff arm) instead of knowing more about his speed - how does any of this make sense?

"hey mr. scout, was he as fast as we think?"
"i don't know, i watched him for 30 minutes, didn't see him run, but he tried to run over the punter and it looked like someone running into a brick wall"

[Vaporub83]

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i don't know how i feel about seeing their ratings revealed. I think i'd rather see the weight lifting numbers, 40 & shuttle times, etc. and have to judge a prospect off of that + the scouting system which can tell us how he plays instead of just revealing the ratings.

There are only so many number differences. Meaning if you have 3 DE on your board you wouldn't see much change...
DE#1: 330 Bench 4.82 40 yard dash
DE#2: 340 Bench 4.87 40 yard dash
DE#3: 350 Bench 4.92 40 yard dash
Numbers don't show who a player is it is game film that shows that.

[BA2929]

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Things I liked:

1) Only 20 hours of scouting. That'll make it nearly impossible to get a 100% reveal on multiple recruits. If you noticed, it'll take a good 2-4 hours to get 100% on every recruit. You *might* be able to get 100% on 5 guys, and that's if they're all QBs or Safety's - guys with fewer "scoutable" abilities. I mean, the guy only has 7 guys on his list and has only 13 hours left. Hopefully that 20 hours doesn't reset every week though. That'd be horrible.

2) You can see your position needs in the Search area. I don't remember if it was there in NCAA '12 or not, if it was, my bad. I haven't played '12 since March.

3) It's going to feel really good scouting a 3-star QB and hearing the "green arrow noise" over and over again when you're at a small school, showing that you found a gem.

4) They show you the 40 time, the Bench Press and Squat numbers on the Recruit List. I don't believe that's been there before. Once again, haven't played NCAA in a few months and my memory sucks.

5) I do like how that first ATH he scouted was good at both Route Running AND Zone/Man Coverage. That's probably one of those "Triple Threat" guys they talked about. Hopefully every ATH isn't a Triple Threat guy.....


Things I didn't like:

1) The same song is playing that has played for the past few years. BRING BACK FIGHT SONGS IN THE MENUS. I don't enjoy having to turn on my own music while gaming.

2) SPARQ. I hate SPARQ. I don't like seeing a bunch of ATH/WR/HB on the top of the list every season due to SPARQ rating on athleticism. But at least there was a Tackle up there and he was 6'7". I got tired of seeing 6'3" Tackles.

3) Menu Loading. Can't I go from the "Find a Player" area directly to the Recruiting board? Hopefully the loading time goes down when I download the game to the XBOX.