NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Details

[Jukeman]

any fixes to the audio???(PA) It seem like its a bug becuz you can barely hear him even with PA slider at 100, but sometimes he magically speak up...Just curious

[gatorelk]

Quote: Originally Posted by badboywes

For everyone having freezing issues try playing it in Fast mode and see if that helps. It seems to have fixed the sound going out issue as well as the freezing issue for me.

i always play on fast. plus the majority of the freezing problems happen in the play creator (which ive stopped using altogether) and durring games. i havent noticed sound problems but i dont pay much attention to it either. im on the 360 too

[Dan_Bekins]

Quote: Originally Posted by bcruise

Can you elaborate on how we're going to be able to call plays in the two-minute drill? Is there still going to be a no-huddle during that time or will it just go back the playcalling window? Anyway, thanks a lot for the update and the forthcoming patch!

It actually turned out to be pretty solid.

Once the AI decides to go no-huddle, a Play Call item will pop into the Clipboard like normal, but it will say "Hurry!" in the subtitle.

If you dismiss this quickly, you will run no-huddle with a new play selected by the AI. I made sure the QB will spike the ball when it makes sense.

If you decide to select a play, you will run from the huddle as normal and you'll get the right personnel subbed in. Choosing to select a play will obviously take more time, so there's a risk/reward element there.

On defense, you will not get to call a play, but CPU audibles will be enabled for your team. They'll call an audible once the offense gets to the line.

[fleaflicker]

Kudos to to you guys for acting so fast.
If you can fix the PS3 freeze...this game will be awesome!.......unfortunately.....I'll have to wait until the patch comes out to enjoy it's awesomeness!

[MissionMaximus]

Quote: Originally Posted by Josh_Looman

I got the Ok to officially say that we are doing a patch. I've wanted to say that for a week, but we had to make sure of a few things first. Here's an update on our progress with the patch: We have fixed the Play Creator/Injury Bug. We have added the ability to call plays during the 2 minute drill. You guys better thank Bekins for this. Normally, this would have been a feature that would have taken forever to get in, but the kid killed himself to put it in there to help everyone out. We have added Favre's stats back in the game. We fixed a bug you guys didn't know about that allows me to change team philosophies in the roster update. Woo-Hoo! This lets me get the teams where I think they should be and correct some ratings issues that way. We fixed the contract bug (where scrub players would ask for a ton of money when re-signing). We fixed the Draft Day trading bug (where you could force every team to trade their pick by asking them to trade and then backing out) We fixed the ability to change a QB to WR and change him back to QB again. We fixed the bug where teams would not kick a FG at the end of the half. We are investigating a fix to make fumbles better. Staymates found out that a fatigued player would be getting larger penalties than expected to their attributes, including their carry rating. We are greatly reducing this so that fumbles should happen less. This is going to need some more testing since a lot of different factors influence fumble chances. We are also investigating a fix for CPU teams subbing out fatigued players quicker in-game so that backups get some carries. Our thresholds for subbing a guy out were too low, so we are raising those. This also needs mucho testing. We are fixing any crashes we can reproduce including the issues found on PS3. I don't have a date for when this will be delivered to you (we are working very quickly). Once we are done with it, it typically takes a couple of weeks to get through everybody else before it makes it's way to you. As I've said before, I'm sorry for these bugs. As you can see, we are making it right.

Fantastic news! You guys are on top of your games thanks for the heads up.

[karmageddon28]

Great new! Just one question for you, though. Have you had a chance to look into the switching of CPU personel in the play calling screen. Like when it says the CPU team is coming out on offense in a big formation, but the end up coming out with 4 or 5 wr. It makes calling defense a pain in butt. I can't count how many 3rd and <4 situations where I called a 4-3 to match up with a big CPU personel package, only to have one of their many wideouts blow past a linebacker for an easy TD.

[adembroski]

Thanks, Josh. For the record, I'm not giving up on this game yet:P Hopefully I can find some sliders or something that'll help the passing game. It's too good otherwise to not try.

[ofdman]

I didn't go through all the pages here but is ANYONE ELSE having the "Announcer" not working? I had him for ONE GAME and now he is GONE and I can't get him back!

I have tried everything. Turning his volume all the way down and then back up, clearing the 360's cache and nothing works.

Also, the stadium announcer is gone as well.

Anyone?