NCAA Football 09 Patch #1 Available

[OMT]

Quote: Originally Posted by Flo

OMT, did you confirm this delay of game issue yet? Flo

I'm not an expert on the rules or what have you, but from what I can tell the issue was identified but we didn't fix it because this only happens if you are losing. If you have the lead, it doesn't happen.

Bascially, you can't take a lead and then take delay of games to run out the clock and exploit the game.

Is this the official rule? I don't know... but it sounds wonky to me. But fortunately this can't be used as an exploit from what I can tell.

[OMT]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

I use the Clemson playbook for offense and I thought it was automatically defaulting to their defensive playbook (4-3) as well. It would be nice if I changed my default defensive playbook to 3-4 in the Coaching Strategies section that it would work as well though. I will go to these setting tonight. Thanks.

I agree that it isn't ideal. This is just one of those things that often happen due to the functionality of the interface. While it probably is doable to put some "special sauce" (as we call it) in the code to make an exception for dynasty mode, it probably isn't really worth what we get out of it. Especially with workarounds of changing your user settings or manually selecting the playbooks. We aren't preventing you from using your coach strategy playbooks.

[Solidice]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

I believe what you are talking about isn't actually a bug. What you set in coaching strategy is saved to the dynasty file and will be used when simulating games. However, once you hit the team select screen it will load your playbook options from your profile, not from dynasty coaching strategy (this is because this screen is shared amongst game modes). By default, your profile is looking at Team Specific for playbooks. I believe this pulls from the Team database on the disk, not the dynasty database on your memory card. What you might want to do is go My NCAA > My Settings > User > Preferences and set your default playbooks there to what you have in Coach Strategy and you won't have to change them every time.

setting the offensive playbook in coaching strategy works though, the defensive one doesn't.

also, i can not use the New Mexico State playbook unless I'm playing with that team, no matter how i set it in my profile. at the team select screen i can select New Mexico State's playbook for offense, but in-game it will be back to the teams default. its the only playbook i have tried that did this.

[threefortywest]

is the patch going to be available today?

[JRdaTruth]

Quote: Originally Posted by threefortywest

is the patch going to be available today?

im going to be safe and put my money on IT WONT BE AVAILABLE TODAY/TONIGHT...get your copy of madden 2009 tonight/tomorrow!

[CDowns430]

My magic 8-ball says "Outlook Not So Good"

You are all familiar with Murphy's Law, right? "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way." Well, Murphy seems to be out in full force when it comes to this patch. We got the patch to Sony Friday, they were ready to test it and work overtime during the weekend to test it... and then our test servers went to hell right at the end of the day. Sony was unable to download rosters, preventing them from testing that aspect, so they didn't end up working the weekend. We have people working on the issue now and if we are lucky they will be able to fix it in time for Sony to complete testing tonight (3 hour time difference may pay off).

At the rate things are going, I'm probably going to get hit by a bus on my way in to work after the patch is finally approved

[GoVols1985]

I wonder why Microsoft approved the patch when Sony didn't? I thought the games were identical on both systems, shouldn't the patches be too?

[OkieTC]

Thanks for the info. At least knowing whats going on makes waiting a little easier.