NCAA Football 09 Demo Available: Discuss Here

[Dudd]

Play calling end of game AI needs work too, the CPU will only take one knee and then runs a regular play even if you are out of timeouts and they can run it down to zero. They just went play action with ~25 seconds to go, just absurd.

[Memberz_09]

Quote: Originally Posted by Psyblast

You can put the chant in the game yourself with the Stadium Sounds feature.

Nvm I see it. Man this game is going to be the best of the series!!! Really!

[gator3guy]

Imagine if this demo came out a little sooner and EA used us (the consumers) as game testers. I mean we have 113 pages of impressions. That kind of feedback would certainly help the final product. Just a thought.

[OMT]

Quote: Originally Posted by drlw322

these bugs are on the ps3 version none are on the 360 demo 1. when your QB walks up to the line. he would get behind the center and all of a sudden slide slightly to the left or right of the center. so the animation shows the QB in a ready to rec'd the snap pose but in between the center and the guard. ( it's a little irritating). 2. during any auto replays, it looks like the replay is so compress that on passing plays, while the ball is in the air there is no rotation to the ball and it warps to the receiver's hands. 3. while in auto replays, when all the player run they look like string puppets with tangling legs moving back and forth. i love the demo by the way i thought you guys did a great job this year. love all the new animation you guys put in. and my last game i heard corso say even william wallace from brave heart can't motivate those guys. that was pretty funny

I'm sure they also happen on 360. I don't see why they wouldn't. All the PS3 specific work was to get it 60 fps. The guy who got that task is freaking brilliant BTW!

The stuff in the replays... I have learned recently from Simon Sherr (he has posted on the OS Madden forum) that we drop frames and do silly stuff for the replays. I'll take a look at it, but removing the ball rotation animation in replays may have been done on purpose.

I have never heard the William Wallace line, but I do remember seeing it when I was auditing the speech script. I'll take a look at when it plays cause if it is a common situation, it has to go. It is funny to hear once... twice it is a "well, it is a video game" thing... after that, it is a problem. Lines like this are what I mean when I refer to "memorable lines."

If Kirk says "the quarterback made a good throw there" that is a line to keep. If Kirk says "Can we get Tye or Josh in there at quarterback?" this is a line to remove. That was a line we added this year at Kirk's request. Tye and Josh (or maybe it is Jacob) are his twin boys. This line will play 20% of the time if it is the second half and you just threw your 6th interception. I figure if I post that here... ONE of you guys will try to get it to play! That will make Kirk happy.

[drlw322]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

I'm sure they also happen on 360. I don't see why they wouldn't. All the PS3 specific work was to get it 60 fps. The guy who got that task is freaking brilliant BTW! The stuff in the replays... I have learned recently from Simon Sherr (he has posted on the OS Madden forum) that we drop frames and do silly stuff for the replays. I'll take a look at it, but removing the ball rotation animation in replays may have been done on purpose. I have never heard the William Wallace line, but I do remember seeing it when I was auditing the speech script. I'll take a look at when it plays cause if it is a common situation, it has to go. It is funny to hear once... twice it is a "well, it is a video game" thing... after that, it is a problem. Lines like this are what I mean when I refer to "memorable lines." If Kirk says "the quarterback made a good throw there" that is a line to keep. If Kirk says "Can we get Tye or Josh in there at quarterback?" this is a line to remove. That was a line we added this year at Kirk's request. Tye and Josh (or maybe it is Jacob) are his twin boys. This line will play 20% of the time if it is the second half and you just threw your 6th interception. I figure if I post that here... ONE of you guys will try to get it to play! That will make Kirk happy.

well just wanted to give you a heads up, i played the 360 demo all day prior to downloading the ps3 demo. at no time did i see the QB line up to the side of the center. also the auto-replay for the 360 were all fine. ball had rotation and no footsliding in fact i was impress with the foot pinning.

thank you for your help and answer Adam

[OMT]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dudd

Play calling end of game AI needs work too, the CPU will only take one knee and then runs a regular play even if you are out of timeouts and they can run it down to zero. They just went play action with ~25 seconds to go, just absurd.

HAHA! When I was a tester I put this in as a bug. The engineer ran it against the AI script and said it called to take a knee again and he invalidated my bug! Yes, this is totally wrong! Our AI script needs a lot of work.

[drlw322]

OMT also one more glitch on the ps3. when your running with the ball and switch ball to the other hand the ball disappears and the arms flickers in and out.

[dkrause1971]

Quote: Originally Posted by drlw322

well just wanted to give you a heads up, i played the 360 demo all day prior to downloading the ps3 demo. at no time did i see the QB line up to the side of the center. also the auto-replay for the 360 were all fine. ball had rotation and no footsliding in fact i was impress with the foot pinning. thank you for your help and answer Adam

I saw the same thing on the PS3 version with the QB off center but its not everytime and not on the 360 version in the games i played.

However, i think the 360 scoring summary was wrong on TDs- summary only showing the extra point and the PS3 version had it correct (i am pretty sure that is correct).