NCAA Football 09 Patch 2 Info (Pasta Padre)

[callmetaternuts]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

I'm being lazy, avoiding lawn work, reading the board. But I can't answer a lot of this stuff cause I'm not at work and can't ask anyone to get answers I don't know. Actually, all of next week I'm going to be in day long training... can't wait to see all the posts of people saying I ran away!

Welcome to the club! Dont need the answers today, but if/when you get a chance at work to find out that would be great, just dont forget the questions!

P.S. The yard can wait, why arent you online balling?

[therizing02]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

I'm being lazy, avoiding lawn work, reading the board. But I can't answer a lot of this stuff cause I'm not at work and can't ask anyone to get answers I don't know. Actually, all of next week I'm going to be in day long training... can't wait to see all the posts of people saying I ran away!

Adam,

Try to track the guy responsible for allowing us 7 seconds to choose a play after the offense selects their formation. It was patched last year but it's screwed up again this year. Add this to the fact that the online lag has been God awful and it's almost unplayable online.

BTW, great work on the commentary this year! In my last game I heard the Braveheart line! Maybe it was in there last year but the commentary is better this year. Now just get rid of the "beep beep beep...."!

[DrUrsus]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

I'm really enjoying AA right now. My biggest concern on that level (offline) is the lack of the cpu rushing attack. Once the sliders are fixed I should be able to address that. Fixing the punt returns should make the game fantastic (at least for me)!

I'm right there with ya on those sentiments.

[DrUrsus]

Quote: Originally Posted by Seahawk76

This is why you guys need to improve your quality control. As a consumer, I want the game working correctly at release, not a couple of months later after a patch. I know that no game will ever ship completely bug free, but it shouldn't have the major bugs and AI flaws that this game shipped with. I'm a fan of EA's FIFA and NHL games, and while they aren't perfect, they aren't released with the types of problems that seem to constantly plague the NCAA and Madden series. That makes me wonder what the EA Canada studio is doing that Tiburon isn't in order to insure quality control.

I agree.

[DrUrsus]

Quote: Originally Posted by rhombic21

Again though, I would add this. They KNEW that the following issues were BIG problems with the game on June 1, and I know that they knew because I told several lead gameplay developers personally. - Kickoff returns/punt returns - Zones being messed up - Faulty Pass Rush - CPU never throwing deep - Bad man coverage on HBs - Stafe catching They knew they were going to release a patch that would address gameplay issues post-release (they told me this as well), and they very easily could have been working on fixing those issues in the month and a half prior to the game even being released.

Makes me think they did not agree with you, and made a conscious decision not to work on those things. Either they wanted "wide open gameplay" or were hoping everyone else would like the game as is so they wouldn't have to do any extra work on this game so they could move on and could start on 2010. But, we will not know unless they tell us what their intentions were.

By the way, how do you change your defense from locking onto a man like you could in the past? Or can you?

[jmass222]

idn why all of you guys think that the game is unplayable i mean some of the stuff is messed up but its not that bad. the only main concern with me is the lost connection to ea servers that you get online so much

[MegaHusker]

Quote: Originally Posted by rhombic21

I'm confused. Why does that take 3 months? I'm not asking why they weren't fixed in the ship version. I'm asking why the patch for NCAA that addresses gameplay issues comes out a month and a half to two months after release, while Madden has a gameplay patch, which apparently addresses a very similar set of issues, that comes out on the day of release? How does Madden get gameplay issues patched so quickly?

Because Madden is THE game for EA. It's their cash cow, and God forbid something goes wrong with that game. The NFL is the most popular sport in America today. Hence, Madden is the most popular video game EA has. You see on TV all the real athletes playing Madden. It's in movies, TV, hell its got its own televised tournament. The Madden Challenge is turning into the World Series of Poker meets The Real World. EA Sports' lifeblood revolves around that game, especially considering Madden is the only game you could say that was consistently the best title in its respective sport and genre.

In all seriousness, for a great majority of NCAA's life it has always taken a back seat to Madden. I'm sure the suits at EA still see it that way to an extent. Maybe its just me, but I remember in the 98-02 days it seemed like NCAA was a hand-me down of the previous years' Madden installment with some extra window dressing (ie: NCAA 01 was the bastard son of Madden 2000). For a long time NCAA was almost a niche game for a niche market, not as mass-marketable as Madden.

A few years ago that started to change as College Football reached an all time popularity high. NCAA was becoming its own game, different from Madden. The atmosphere, the option game, recruting, polls, bowl games and the BCS. Some of these things are what made me prefer the college game to the pros IRL, and in gaming too.

Face it, Madden has Madden as a spokesman. It's easily accessible by hardcore sim gamers and casual gamers. It has staying power. And its successes has allowed EA to become a titan in the gaming industry. This status gave them leverage to pull off the worst thing to ever happen to sports gaming: exclusive licenses. Now they can get away with releasing an inferior product. Think about it--at one time you could argue EA was #2 in the holy trinity of sports. NFL2K5 was a great game and many people preferred it to Madden. NBA 2k and College Hoops 2k are/were VASTLY superior to Live and March Madness. Don't get me started on baseball.

Now I'm deprived of College Hoops 2k, after 2k8 was possibly the best basketball game I ever played. But we are all going to have to get used to this as I doubt things will change. As long was a vast majority of the public is willing to shell out $60 for NCAA, EA won't have a reason to put out the best product possible.

[stevedrumsdw]

Does any know about the second patch containing any fixes to pursuit angles which are appalling on this game. Is that even fixable? I hope so; it is real letdown to have a saftey planning his angle of pursuit to tackle me at the tunnel entrance