NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Available, Impressions Here (PS3)

[Bluesman]

I simmed through training two times before downloading the patch/tuner update (whatever 1.03 was) where I simmed through it once. There does appear to be slightly more progression across the board, with higher AWR totals and WR's getting boosts in ELU, BCV, etc. However these boosts aren't terribly high, maybe +1 or +2. I had DL getting +1 boosts to SPD and AGI which I didn't have before.

For recruiting I found "super" players who had AWR ratings of A or B who all seemed to be JUCO players. Otherwise AWR ratings of D or D- still were the norm. This was only one class, however.

I have no idea what the actual gameplay effect is as I wanted to play my bowl game and test before/after results for progression.

[MWit28725]

Just got home from work so I havent gotten to try out the gameplay yet. However, I was waiting til today to start the next season in my dynasty so that the recruits would be affected by the patch/tuner, in particularly the WR skill attributes. Now I know the blog said "slightly increased progression to WR skill positions" but I was hoping they would increase their starting skill in ELU, JUKE, and SPIN, but they havent. I mean it just sucks when recievers come in with 30's in these ratings. A "slight increase in progression" still wont fix this issue. Oh well. I'll just continue to create a few WR's each year to try and balance it out a little.

Don't get me wrong, I do LOVE this game and play the hell outta it. It just sucks that WR recruits are all jacked up.

[baumy300]

How is the Robo QB after the patch?

[SECElit3]

360 is still not up

[iellingson]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bluesman

I simmed through training two times before downloading the patch/tuner update (whatever 1.03 was) where I simmed through it once. There does appear to be slightly more progression across the board, with higher AWR totals and WR's getting boosts in ELU, BCV, etc. However these boosts aren't terribly high, maybe +1 or +2. I had DL getting +1 boosts to SPD and AGI which I didn't have before. For recruiting I found "super" players who had AWR ratings of A or B who all seemed to be JUCO players. Otherwise AWR ratings of D or D- still were the norm. This was only one class, however. I have no idea what the actual gameplay effect is as I wanted to play my bowl game and test before/after results for progression.

I found this too in one quick sim which is really neat because with Freshman coming in pretty low you are really only likely to play/start a handful of Freshman and let them develop while the So./Jr./Sr. start and finish. Which replicates NCAA pretty accurately. The example I saw was real quick but looked to be about 4 OVR points per position which equates to the following.

FR	FR (RS)	SO (RS)	JR (RS)	SR (RS)
60	64	68	72	76
63	67	71	75	79
65	69	73	77	81
68	72	76	80	84
70	74	78	82	86
73	77	81	85	89
75	79	83	87	91
78	82	86	90	94
80	84	88	92	96

This was once again 1 quick sim but you can see that a lower rated 2/3 star who comes in at a 65 or even 60 can develop into a lower level starter by Jr./Sr. year. If this example were to be true a 65 OVR FR by his JR year would be 77 and would beat out that 75 OVR 4* FR which is more often the case in most programs.

[Jenkins]

Anyone seeing screwed up depth charts?

[BTLSBubbaArmy]

Quote: Originally Posted by SECElite3

360 is still not up

I'm willing to bargain on it being another week at least...

[wsboan11]

i believe since we've gone today without any word on the 360 patch from m$ it Must be still coming today. otherwise, you would think there would have been some announcement to the customers with an explanation.