Any indication that Psychic play calling is gone?

[feeq14]

For anyone that doesnt know or didnt notice. Psychic playcalling was basically when the computer would clearly indicate that they knew when you were running a pass or run play ALL THE TIME.

This was most evident when running the spread option and would constantly have the opposing team put out a 4-3 defensive formation even though you have 4 wide just because they somehow knew that you were running the ball.

It would be so bad that you might call 10 run or pass plays in a row and run constantly into 43 or nickel defenses until you finally call a run or pass play and they would immediately switch to the appropriate defense to defend.

Now of course you could easily audible every time and catch a slotback on a linebacker. But that obviously becomes monotonous and boring after a while. It was the only real reason why i put down Dynasty mode last year.

So does anyone have any news about this "features" disapearance?

[mgoblue678]

Quote: Originally Posted by feeq14

For anyone that doesnt know or didnt notice. Psychic playcalling was basically when the computer would clearly indicate that they knew when you were running a pass or run play ALL THE TIME. This was most evident when running the spread option and would constantly have the opposing team put out a 4-3 defensive formation even though you have 4 wide just because they somehow knew that you were running the ball. It would be so bad that you might call 10 run or pass plays in a row and run constantly into 43 or nickel defenses until you finally call a run or pass play and they would immediately switch to the appropriate defense to defend. Now of course you could easily audible every time and catch a slotback on a linebacker. But that obviously becomes monotonous and boring after a while. It was the only real reason why i put down Dynasty mode last year. So does anyone have any news about this "features" disapearance?

That is good question and something that bothers me as well. The problem with that happening is exactly what you pointed out, it puts you in a situation where you can stick with your called play and likely get stuffed or call an audible to easily abuse the CPU. I did notice this issue was somewhat lessened by playing on Varsity using Playmakers sliders, but the CPU should call plays based on your personal on the field most of the time, regardless of difficultly level. I hate the idea of having the CPU be psychic, just to artificially increase the difficulty.

[feeq14]

I want to try to keep this thread bumped so that this becomes something of note for people to pay attention too, so anyone/everyone who has dealt with this issue please keep the thread bumped so we can keep its news in the system.

[TheRealCar10ck]

I HATED this. This was by far the worst thing in NCAA. I play on Heisman with no sliders because I don't like to mess with anything but it was very annoying, I had sets off audibles that would, like whoever said, abuse the CPU because they lined up a certain way, COMPLETELY based off your original playcall. This is a HUGE mistake on EA's part and will hopefully be fixed or I'm in for another audible every single play dynasty. I really hope this is fixed. Maybe if we can make enough noise about it, they can tune it before the game comes out. PLEASE EA. and by the way great thread.

[poopoop]

I doubt it's gone. It's just how they represent difficulty in the game, either making players psychic or giving them super-human abilities.

[K0ZZ]

The issue is games are best balanced at the default difficulty level. Very few games are designed with the hardest difficulty at mind.

Issue is unless you find perfect sliders, the game is very beatable at the easier difficulties. Really there is only so much EA can do to simulate difficulty. Countering your offense is one of them.

[moylan1234]

they can be in my huddle for all I care they ain't stopping me anyway

[NDAlum]

Quote: Originally Posted by moylan

they can be in my huddle for all I care they ain't stopping me anyway

You are missing the point.