Insane CPU passing performances

[h0sti1e17]

Has anyone had an issue with the CPU passing game never throwing an incomplete pass? Twice in my season I have had similar passing performances. And they were not by great teams or QBs. I play as Florida, and have defense on Varsity, with CPU passing accuracy at 10, WR catching at 50 and my pass coverage at 80. I generally play DE until the ball is thrown. I mix up blitz, man, zone, cover 2 ect. So they aren't exploitng a defense I use over and over. And of lot f these are down field, not racking up those on screens.

Kentucky went 16/16 to start the game and finished 21 for 24 and Missouri went 28 for 29 and finished 31 for 35. In the Missouri game the only incompletion was a pass when I was about to sack the QB.

Neither team is a passing juggernaut and Florida has a pretty good defense. My other games have been somewhat normal. 16 for 25 in one game, Miami was 19 for 32. I have always been worse at pass defense than run defense in NCAA but not like this. It just seems some games the CPU is crazy good.

[LewisCAVS]

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It's a big flaw in the game and there are a lot of flaws this year. The worst QB's seem just as good as the games best in terms of accuracy and velocity. Currently I'm doing a Michigan dynasty and playing old dominion and their QB seems to be unstoppable, he's 17 of 19 at the moment.

[jejones]

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This may sound weird, but I'm playin on default heismen sliders and the CPU teams always have trouble completing 50% of their passes. Especially the bad teams.

[buickbeast]

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Check out the sliders forum. Playing defense is pretty realistic w/ most of them

[NateDogPack12]

I'm a big proponent of sliders, but the OP states he's tweaked them a little bit. The thing is we really don't know what's going on in those lines and lines of code. When you have roughing the kicker altering the quality of run defense, that's indicative of a real problem. So beware when you use sliders because you could be creating a bad situation. Wouldn't be surprised if that's what happened to OP somehow.

[USCRob]

Re: Insane CPU passing performances

Has anyone had an issue with the CPU passing game never throwing an incomplete pass? Twice in my season I have had similar passing performances. And they were not by great teams or QBs. I play as Florida, and have defense on Varsity, with CPU passing accuracy at 10, WR catching at 50 and my pass coverage at 80. I generally play DE until the ball is thrown. I mix up blitz, man, zone, cover 2 ect. So they aren't exploitng a defense I use over and over. And of lot f these are down field, not racking up those on screens.

Kentucky went 16/16 to start the game and finished 21 for 24 and Missouri went 28 for 29 and finished 31 for 35. In the Missouri game the only incompletion was a pass when I was about to sack the QB.

Neither team is a passing juggernaut and Florida has a pretty good defense. My other games have been somewhat normal. 16 for 25 in one game, Miami was 19 for 32. I have always been worse at pass defense than run defense in NCAA but not like this. It just seems some games the CPU is crazy good.

I think it has to do with the style of offense/offensive philosophy. For example, in my dynasty I started off as D Coor. at Washington State and the quarterbacks (in a Mike Leach air raid offense) would routinely complete high percentage games with plenty of yards. Missouri is a spread passing team and i believe it reflects in game; same with kentucky.

[mushtaq]

Started a Hawaii dynasty on Heisman and in first two games against USC and Oregon State the opp. QB was something like 20/21 and 24/25, and those incompletes were an INT and throw away.

Admittedly an average team against two good teams but I just could not stop passes being completed. Hopefully it's just me being average on pass defence. Anyone got any tips to improve?


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[Buckeye Country]

Re: Insane CPU passing performances

Try lowering your pass blocking without getting a crazy amount of sacks. I have been playing on AA and noticed when the QB is pressured he will make some arrant throws. I also have QBA at 10, Wr catching at 40, pass coverage at 100, int at 30 and pass blocking at 65. Not done testing and not perfect, but I am getting okay completion percentages. I also have threshold at 0 and penalty sliders at default. I noticed if you increase the threshold slider pass coverage gets tighter so at 0 it opens it up, which is what your not looking for.

Makes you wonder if ratings even mean anything.

[dghustla]

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The CPU only throws to an open Target. They will never challenge coverage and don't ever make a bad read. If no one is open the CPU will sit in the pocket, throw it away or attempt to scramble and possibly get sacked. The only way to get ints and swats is to play as a LB or DB in coverage and try to guess where the CPU is going and bait them into an interception. If you pay close attention to the cpu when they are passing you will notice that the only consistently throw 3 routes all game. I will not say what routes those are but it'll be easy to figure out.

[apoulton1]

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Be a man and play on Heisman. The CPU will reward you once in a while.

[apoulton1]

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This may sound weird, but I'm playin on default heismen sliders and the CPU teams always have trouble completing 50% of their passes. Especially the bad teams.

Im with you man, everyone is always complaining about how they have to change sliders and different skill levels. Just play Heisman and get used to it. Game is much better that way.

[bobtrain]

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Playing on Heisman in an Online Dynasty and it seems to be that the CPU is cheating to stay competitive. I noticed a few times where I had the QB going to the ground and threw a perfect pass to his target while halfway to the ground. It's frustrating to say the least. And on some of the throws my defenders seem to run in the wrong direction to allow the CPU room to make throw on about 80% of the passes. I don't mind the CPU beating me, but it's the AI glitchiness and cheating that makes it not enjoyable.

[apoulton1]

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Playing on Heisman in an Online Dynasty and it seems to be that the CPU is cheating to stay competitive. I noticed a few times where I had the QB going to the ground and threw a perfect pass to his target while halfway to the ground. It's frustrating to say the least. And on some of the throws my defenders seem to run in the wrong direction to allow the CPU room to make throw on about 80% of the passes. I don't mind the CPU beating me, but it's the AI glitchiness and cheating that makes it not enjoyable.

Heisman is frustrating, but id take that over winning every game by 40 on All American.

[dghustla]

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Heisman is frustrating, but id take that over winning every game by 40 on All American.

3 post in this thread about playing on Heisman and being a man. It's not about getting the W. it's still easy on Heisman to beat the CPU and beat them by 40 at that. This thread is about the CPU being able to go on historic passing accuracy runs. How is the OP not "a man" because he doesn't want to have a stretch in his dynasty where the CPU was 50/52 over the span of 2 games? It also kills your recruiting being unable to get any deflections or ints. Not to mention that the mechanics built in for the CPU only to throw to wide open targets with a certain amount of separation can lead to crazy 13 sack games because the CPU refuses to put the ball in the air. It also leads to poor end of half/game management as the CPU will take a bad sack instead of putting the ball in the air.


The game being much better on default sliders is your opinion. If you prefer unresponsive run defense by your guys and the cpu. If you prefer no pass rush by either side. If you prefer to have QBs duals with WKU and UTSA completing 90% of their passes then yeah default is the way to go.

[bobtrain]

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This thread is about the CPU being able to go on historic passing accuracy runs. How is the OP not "a man" because he doesn't want to have a stretch in his dynasty where the CPU was 50/52 over the span of 2 games? It also kills your recruiting being unable to get any deflections or ints.

This is an excellent point. Challenge aside, if CPU is passing with unbelievable accuracy how is anyone going to gain bonus recruiting points to land DB's? More so for small school's trying to land those 4 and 5-star recruits.