NCAA Football 14 Dynasty Mode Articles From Around the Web

[sportzbro]

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Wait, so the "big dynasty" reveal is just about recruiting changes? Is this it for this installment of this playbook? If so, this is weak.

It's quite obvious EA is packing it in with NCAA... Hopefully they are just gearing up for next-gen in 2014, but I wont hold my breath.

[drlw322]

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It's quite obvious EA is packing it in with NCAA... Hopefully they are just gearing up for next-gen in 2014, but I wont hold my breath.

thats what i was saying

[BLACKjersey53]

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Was hoping for a spring game or practices before the season. It'd be nice to actually use my new recruits in a game like setting (even if it's just practice within dynasty mode) so I can kind of have an idea how I want to set my depth chart going in to a season. I do like the shortened off season recruiting. I won't have to take a nap while simming through it this year and I'll actually recruit off season.

[tacosaban]

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Anyone know if de-committments are in this year? Who didn't know that recruiting was gonna be involved with dynasty mode this year? Weak announcement IMO. I do like the new coaching deal. Also, would have been sweet if they had said and this year you will be able to connect with your online opponent when you play your bowl games.

[Ziza9Noles94]

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It would have been less of a swerve if they just named the Playbook Recruiting instead of Dynasty. More to the point and people would have expected less in the way of overall changes to dynasty as a whole.

[ghettogeeksta]

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Was hoping for a spring game or practices before the season. It'd be nice to actually use my new recruits in a game like setting (even if it's just practice within dynasty mode) so I can kind of have an idea how I want to set my depth chart going in to a season. I do like the shortened off season recruiting. I won't have to take a nap while simming through it this year and I'll actually recruit off season.

Yeah it would be nice if you could actually COACH your team on the field through practices and spring training. I tired of button pressing off seasons, I remember when thay had them practice drills in a NCAA way back, wonder why they went away from that.

[tical2399]

Does anybody know if you can now control more than one school? Now that the draft classes are back I'm looking for load the 49ers up with FSU and FIU players so I want to control both schools and have tons of draft ready players for both (more work for FIU obviously).

[Wildcats302]

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Pretty underwhelmed with the dynasty info so far. Madden seems to be the much superior product IMO. If this game did not come out like 7 weeks before Madden there would be 0 chance I'd purchase it. Now I may fall into the trap or I may just try to buy a couple of non-sports game that have decreased in price like AC III and some other game.

[JerseySuave4]

I kind of feel the opposite and they are trying to put all the chips in. As well as tune some of the coding to make the CPU make better decisions.

Now my concern and how I feel about the current Madden and NCAA team is that they don't quite get the offline dynasty guys and that is why the A.I. is so "not where it should it be" and we are frustrated.

if this is them putting in all their chips then this team needs to be fired YESTERDAY. This year is more of a half-assed effort than any other i've seen in recent years. Hardly any dynasty improvements unless you consider once again changing how recruiting is done an improvement.

It's almost as if they took half the year off. Add a couple different level camera views, claim to improve the running game without fixing the running motion or making cuts and running look realistic, add Ultimate Team (because if you're an elite sports game you must have Ultimate Team), repackage recruiting and coaching staffs. Take the rest of the year off and wait for people to give you their money.

[vanderbiltfan87]

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I'm convinced that the NCAA team is super small. There just can't be that many developers working on this game for the minimal production that has been yielded year after year this generation.

[carnalnirvana]

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we need coaches playcalling upgrades EA...

the basic aggressive v conservative isn't even working anymore...

i like what i heard but PLAYCALLING needs to be fixed....

or

we must be able to assign custom gameplans or playbooks to coaches.... give us custom assignable gameplans like madden and the community will fix alot of the playcalling issues.

[Mckinley Cash]

I would've liked for them to use a calendar view and add at least 4 practices and a spring game in the 2 week off-season

[JerseySuave4]

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I would've liked for them to use a calendar view and add at least 4 practices and a spring game in the 2 week off-season

Yea I was hoping for some sort of practice/spring game to dynasty mode.

They could have turned dynasty mode into a full week thing where you have practices or perform drills (mini games) to improve your player's skill and make your freshmen, sophs, transfers, backups better so you will see them improve throughout their 4 years. Put together some sort of gameplan and then execute it in the actual game.

Instead it was like they got in a room and said, how can we redo recruiting and make it seem new? I'VE GOT IT! Instead of phone hours lets make it recruiting points! GENIUS!

There are so many different things they could have done with dynasty. Just go look at the wishlist threads and there are TONS of different ideas they could have went with or used in some way and it just feels like they went the easiest route.

[evljstr]

Is there any indication that the painfully slow menus have been sped up? I love recruiting, but menu transition is so slow its very frustrating.

[JerseySuave4]

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Is there any indication that the painfully slow menus have been sped up? I love recruiting, but menu transition is so slow its very frustrating.

Yes the menus are ALL different this year. I do remember saying that a while back which made me happy because like you, I too could not stand the menus. It was a big factor in me not playing the game more. I had no problem with recruiting other than it took so long. The reason it took so long wasn't the recruiting process, it was the menus! You could breeze through the recruiting steps with a recruit, but transitioning from menu to menu and scrolling through things was beyond ridiculously slow. The menus made it frustrating to edit depth charts, edit playbooks, recruit and edit players. I don't know how the people that do rosters each year were able to put up with it.