canes21 College Football 25 Sliders

[Daonlyjmo7]

Quote: Originally Posted by canes21

I have seen the go become more efficient since the drop to 50 speed parity. I try not to abuse the mechanic and only throw it when it is there, but the hit rate is too high even then. I've contemplated raising it back up to at least 95, but I've been scared of killing what little CPU rushing attack I see at the moment. Raising it back that high may lead to other areas needing some slight tweaking, but it would help with balancing the deep passing game. I don't think there is really a diminishing point with the threshold slider. I do plan to play my next game in my dynasty soon, and while I usually avoid tweaks mid-season, I may pump the threshold back to 95 along with the reduction I am doing to roughing the passer and see how it plays out. If I do, I'll cross my fingers that the CPU can still run the ball and it doesn't knock the other areas out of balance.

I honestly find the go to be fine with these sliders. As mentioned in previous comment, this is the only set where I find it balanced enough. Seems the combination of high coverage and low QB accuracy + lowered catching does it for me. Even when it's there, it's often underthrown and incomplete.

The only adjustments I am rocking with right now to the OP LAHC set is User Run Block down to 5 (irrelevant to this discussion) and CPU interceptions up to 25. CPU was dropping pretty much every pick, now there is some more risk/reward involved in lobbing it up into coverage.

That also helps discourage me from throwing the deep ball, as it can now be underthrown and picked more often with interceptions raised.

We were trying to find a subtle way to increase the difficulty a tad while keeping the great gameplay that these sliders give, and early results are promising for me although we are just two games each into the adjustment we made in our 2-man dynasty

[Swano516]

Would moving down cpu reaction and coverage to 70-75 negatively impact any other aspect of gameplay? This slider set is amazing just a little too challenging for me to pass the ball at times. Wanted to see how it plays between 70-75

[canes21]

Reducing their reaction could potentially make it slightly easier to run the ball, but other than that you should be fine. If it does do that, you can always negate it by reducing run blocking slightly.

[Emblem8375]

Quote: Originally Posted by canes21

Alright, I had mentioned previously I've had an urge to create a new set to try and get the game playing a little different. I finally found the time last night to create an initial test set and got 1 full game in + 1 additional quarter in. Not a large sample size but at least I got the ball rolling. The idea behind this slider set is that although I've really enjoyed the post-patch set in the 2-3 years of Dynasty we've gotten out of them, I wanted to see if I get more variety in the gameplay. I wanted to see if I could make it so the difference between good and bad was even larger. At times it has felt like due to some values being where they are that there's been a floor for performance for both the user and CPU that could be lowered so the worse players and teams truly felt like it. I wanted the game to be a bit sloppier like college football often is leading to the bad, average, and good players/units/teams all standing out in the right regard. To do this, I need to drop values all around from QB accuracy to coverage to tackling to blocking. Basically nearly everything is getting a nerf almost, but with it happening simultaneously across the board it can hopefully be balanced and lead to sloppier gameplay for the worse teams while keeping the good teams performing well. Essentially, we're trying to keep the performance ceiling where it is for the good teams while lowering the floor for the bad teams. Maybe we can do it, maybe we can't. Either way, we're going to find out through some testing. We'll either see we can do it and be happy or we'll see that we can't lower the floor without also bringing the ceiling down with it. All that said, here's what I am initially testing at the moment. I want to get in a decent sample size before deciding one way or the other with these. If I can get a nice sample in and feel confident in the sliders, then we're going to implement them into our current dynasty and roll with them in year 4 and onwards. If after a decent sample I don't think I can dial them in then we'll keep rolling with the current post patch LAHC set since they do give an enjoyable experience. It's not a bad place to be, we have a set we enjoy now, so we're playing with house money. Either this experimental set makes the game even better or it fails and we're still sitting here with a set we already know we like. It's a true win-win. For real this time, here's the set I am testing. User - CPU Accuracy 17 - 21 Pass Block 48 - 56 WR Catching 43 - 40 Run Block 7 - 100 Bell Security 15 - 12 Reaction Time 62 - 70 Interceptions 18 - 18 Pass Coverage 42 - 48 Tackling 32 - 38 Everything else is unchanged from the post-patch set. If any of you guys end up testing these out, I'd love to hear how they play for you. I am really crossing my fingers these can open up the game even more and make the variety in talent standout more between teams and players, but I also worry it will just end up giving us similar levels of parity with everyone just being worse overall in general. There's only one way to find out, though.

Trying out the experimental set for a year in my small league, here's our first 2 games (users are Nevada and Minnesota). We're in 2026.

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[Newlegacy]

Been getting better games out of the Experimental Set, rocking with 9 min/25 accel, and back down to 50 for RTP from 51 as well as playing with Revamped. At times the sloppiness aggrevates me but hey that's the beauty of CFB right there. Have won games easily, have lost shootouts, have had defensive struggles with low scores. Similar feel to the other set that is Set in Stone, maybe I just had a bad run at first but yeah, solid set. Liking the drops in weather, feel more pronounced