NCAA Football 13 Features New Passing System, Enhanced Commentary and More

[aerovt]

Quote: Originally Posted by johnnyg713

the new defensive "read and react" system needs a few things to really be successful in my opinion. First, there needs to be realistic foot planting and momentum. Second, there should be a "read and react" rating for every player to separate the smarter players from the rest.

They have enough ratings. Most of them are meaningless. Just use the ones already there. Awareness or play recognition comes to mind. Part of their problem is they just keep adding ratings to players when ever they update something or add a new feature, so some ratings are obsolete and others are duplicates of another similar rating. I really dont think the programmers know what the exact effects of each of the ratings are TBH.

I do find it funny they have 'new entrances' as a main feature every year for going on 3-4 years. And every year you can watch all of them and be bored with them before the game ever comes out.

I really hope the new wr/qb dynamic is route based passing instead of that silly stuff we have now. Knowing EA though its probably just 2-3 more animations.

[TarHeelPhenom]

Not getting my hopes up. Couple of questions:

1) What would a new passing system entail? Different throwing motions...added QB attributes for short,medium and long ball? Cone?

2) Scouting players in recruiting. Does that mean, you get to watch a high school football game? Or does it just mean you spend time/points scouting recruits and you get back letter grades? How in depth is the scouting report?

3) Enhanced commentary and in-studio analyst. Does this mean a halftime show running down scores form across the nation? Or just a recap of the 1st half of your game?

4) Heisman Challenge...who cares!!!

5) Pregame traditions...such as?

[Leon Sandcastle]

Holy Schnikes! New commentary and new recruiting already makes a game a buy plus fixing passing animations my goodness if there is no bugs this game could be awesome...

[BigDuke]

Quote: Originally Posted by DJACK

Only thing that worries me is with having 2 heisman winners on the cover and this new heisman game mode similar to nba 2k12, it makes me worry that they spent too much time on this mode. I would much rather them focus their resources on gameplay and dynasty because I feel like that is probably where 95% of peoples time is spent on these games.

EA already knows this is where most people spend their time. But rather than going all out on dynasty mode, they decide to add yet another useless game mode nobody asked for.

[johnnyg713]

Quote: Originally Posted by aerovt

They have enough ratings. Most of them are meaningless. Just use the ones already there. Awareness or play recognition comes to mind. Part of their problem is they just keep adding ratings to players when ever they update something or add a new feature, so some ratings are obsolete and others are duplicates of another similar rating. I really dont think the programmers know what the exact effects of each of the ratings are TBH. I do find it funny they have 'new entrances' as a main feature every year for going on 3-4 years. And every year you can watch all of them and be bored with them before the game ever comes out. I really hope the new wr/qb dynamic is route based passing instead of that silly stuff we have now. Knowing EA though its probably just 2-3 more animations.

Not every player reads and reacts to the play the same way or at the same speed. Get rid of the other ratings and use new ones that make sense to how the game plays now.

[SoulAssassin]

April 17th is going to be an important hype day for '13.

At least for me.

[Pezell04x]

Everything sounds good, but it always sounds good in March.

[edaddy]

Quote: Originally Posted by carnalnirvana

the read and react has me intrigued, without a physics overhaul i dont see how it can work but april 17th will be a big day for my wallet.... they tried locomotion and we still see the warping and skipping so its going to be a big day for me to see how they are going to fix these issues. no head tracking= fail cant wait....

That's what's puzzling me as well..Wasn't the whole locomotion/head tracking/procedural awareness billed as read and react?.. How could there be much of a difference in such a short developmental timeframe?..While I would love this read and react feature to be featured I can't see it being a major overhaul..I would much rather just see better wr-db interaction along with some realistic PI animation penalties based on ratings..that actually would go a long way in starting the process of improving gameplay IMO..I also am personally wishing that new camera angles are implemented ..don't know we shall see!!