NCAA Football 14 Impressions Thread

[kwilliam]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Available For Season Ticket Subscribers, Post Your Impressions H

I played one rain game and the jerseys were perfect after 4 Q's at 7 minutes. Idk what type of field USA ha. Does turf not make jerseys dirty?

USA has field turf. We haven't had too many rainy home football games.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Available For Season Ticket Subscribers, Post Your Impressions H

Main problem with the game right here, CPU ball carrier falls down way too much from the slightest touch:

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[leathrneck34]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Available For Season Ticket Subscribers, Post Your Impressions H

Main problem with the game right here, CPU ball carrier falls down way too much from the slightest touch:

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I hear ya on the falling down. But you do realize you ran full speed into your linemans *** when you fell down. And on top of that you had a giant hole right next to you on your right. So you really you had no reason to run straight into your lineman at all.

[cubby blue]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Available For Season Ticket Subscribers, Post Your Impressions H

I'm having a lot of fun with this game so far. Of course, there's some issues with the game. I think running the ball might be a little too easy. Nice to see the AI run the ball good this year. The blocking has improved. So far not been able to sack the qb that many times. I've only played 2 games on heisman level. I won and lost the second game. I think the coverage is a little better this year, but needs to be tightened up a little. Overall fun game to play.

[BallinVol]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Available For Season Ticket Subscribers, Post Your Impressions H

I hear ya on the falling down. But you do realize you ran full speed into your linemans *** when you fell down. And on top of that you had a giant hole right next to you on your right. So you really you had no reason to run straight into your lineman at all.

If you didnt notice, this is the CPU ball carrier, not him.

[The JareBear]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Available For Season Ticket Subscribers, Post Your Impressions H

GMSS, I think you said you are on 100 CPU RBA but what is your user tackling at?

At 80 RBA CPU and 25 tackling for user I don't see those happen often at all on AA

Changing gears:

I'm observing that slowest is by far the best way to go for coach progression

[AuburnAlumni]

Not sure how much I'm actually going to veer from default this year. The only thing I've seen that's caught my eye so far is QBA for the CPU, and I think I've found an answer for it.

Difficulty: Heisman (O)/All-American (D)
Speed: Normal
Threshold: 50

Sliders:

QBA = 5/5
CPU Run Blocking = 60
HUM Rush Defense = 45
KOP = 40/45
FGA = 5/45

Florida (me) vs Toledo

Score: 23-20 (Overtime)
Passing: 20/27, 228 yards, 1 TD, 2 INT's (UF), 23/33, 214 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT
Running: 40 attempts, 149 yards, 2 TD's, 1 Fumble (UF), 34 attempts, 64 yards, 1 TD, 0 Fumbles

Notes:

• Easily one of the best games I've ever played. I was down 10-0 at first, but slowly felt the momentum shift back in my favor. I was up 17-10 before Toledo put together a drive with a minute or two to go.
• Each team had four sacks a piece. Most of theres were via their QB trying to scramble.
• I was great defensively. A fluky pass at the end of the half for about 60 yards + OT boosted their passing numbers, but I thought I defended it well for the most part.
• Turnover's almost cost me the game. I gave them the ball twice in my territory, both leading to scores.
• The last play of the game was awesome. It was a pitch play from the 2 yardline to Kelvin Taylor. He lowered his shoulder and knocked the defender to the ground, and put his hand down and reached for the endzone to score.
• I'm going to do my best to find a sweetspot for the CPU Offense. It's somewhere between Heisman and AA for me. Heisman is great for the running game, AA is great for the passing game.
• The game is finally fun again. I found myself worrying about absolutely nothing outside of winning the game. Everything else looked fine.

I'll give these a whirl. I agree that staying close to default is the best route. Outside of QB ACC, game plays really really well right out of the box.

[prototype561]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Available For Season Ticket Subscribers, Post Your Impressions H

Who has the digital PS3 version because I want to compare it to my retail version.

The retail version still has the same problems/bugs as the demo, most noticeably hurry up play calling lag.

[mrprice33]

Who has the digital PS3 version because I want to compare it to my retail version.

The retail version still has the same problems/bugs as the demo, most noticeably hurry up play calling lag.

It's. The. Same. Game.

[m1ke_nyc]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Available For Season Ticket Subscribers, Post Your Impressions H

I have to give EA credit. They have cleaned up alot of the animations, the players dont appear to move so robotic anymore. However you will still see some herky-jerky movements. If they can clean that up, and clean up some of the sudden burst wheres guys kinda float forward really fast then movement will be tight.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Available For Season Ticket Subscribers, Post Your Impressions H

25 tackle does wonders for the CPU ball carriers. Now they don't fall down as much and the amount of shoe string tackles is toned down as well.

[moylan1234]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Available For Season Ticket Subscribers, Post Your Impressions H

Got to play about a game and a half on AA default sliders. By far the greatest NCAA and maybe one of the best games I"ve ever played. Running game and blocking are just about perfect.

Only disappointment is teambuilder really thought they were going to find a way to give us at least TC cleats downstream. I like the new gloves and I think they may have fixed some of the jersey stripes, but was definitely hoping for a little more.

Overall though a great game that will keep me busy and away from these boards for a very long time

[Pappy Knuckles]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Available For Season Ticket Subscribers, Post Your Impressions H

I took a little break from my CPU battles to test out the online a bit. I was beating some guy using Washington with East Carolina 13-0 in the 4th quarter before he quit on me. The game ran smooth though and I didn't encounter any hiccups. It's weird though, when you're in the lobbies on 360 it shows every single user as having a one bar connection. I'm sure that's something that will be ironed out though.

[Corliss X]

NCAA 14 was quite fun. I enjoyed the Spread offense very much. It's fun to pull the ball for Inside Zone Read's and WR Screens/WR Bubble Screen's. The screen game is pretty fun and exact with the aiming.

[Strategizer]

Re: NCAA Football 14 Available For Season Ticket Subscribers, Post Your Impressions H

Got to play about a game and a half on AA default sliders. By far the greatest NCAA and maybe one of the best games I"ve ever played. Running game and blocking are just about perfect.

Only disappointment is teambuilder really thought they were going to find a way to give us at least TC cleats downstream. I like the new gloves and I think they may have fixed some of the jersey stripes, but was definitely hoping for a little more.

Overall though a great game that will keep me busy and away from these boards for a very long time

I played a quarter on varsity and I think it is mankind's most significant achievement to date. Take that, wheel.