NCAA Football 12: Title Update #2 Thoughts

[MrC]

No, my point was not "yeah, it's broken..."

My point was that this "glitch" is a myth, and if you feel the least important defenders to stopping an option are not responding the way you want, then user control them or blitz them. If you are on the offensive side of the ball, don't exploit the secondary on option runs if you think it gives you an unfair advantage.

Seriously now, you can't claim that DB behavior against a triple option/flexbone-normal is the most important thing in this game, can you?

Also, to be "broken" requires more than just a few posts complaining on the OS forum and a video or two showing one defense. I run a PJ-style offense offline and online pre-patch and post-patch and have not witnessed a problem in the secondary executing their assignments. In fact, they respond too good (in an unrealistic way) on option passes... But you don't see me posting videos of CBs covering go routes like Champ Bailey or something on a speed option pass after 6 or 7 straight option runs to set up that pass.

[ZouDave]

I'm confused as to what the OP is referring to when he says the no-huddle glitch doesn't appear on the 360.

I'm not an overly-frequent reader of this forum, but when I heard about the problems Patch #2 had introduced I avoided it like a dog with rabies. After reading this, I thought "Oh, it's just a PS3 issue? Very good, I'll download it."

And doing so completely ruined the game for me.

I and a friend of mine play the game together, me running the offense and him running the defense. We had created our own playbooks with everything exactly where we wanted it and were more than happy with the way the game was playing. There were bugs/glitches like all video games had, but it was working and we were being challenged and having fun so that's what mattered. After patch #2, we tried to start our next game and it told us we had to go re-save our playbooks. I loaded up my offensive playbook, and to my surprise found that my plays were in all different locations. After further inspection, I found that the playbook had altogether been changed to something really not resembling my original design. Extremely frustrated that I had to re-create it, I set out to do that. I then found that I couldn't remove certain formations that I had no interest in using, not because those formations contained audibles but because I had "reached the minimum number of plays for my coaching style" or something like that. It didn't matter how many other plays I removed/added, there was no getting ride of those formations.

More and more frustrated, we just wanted to play the game so we went with what we had and started it up. There, I found even more problems by seeing that there were formations in the playbook that I had never chosen, nor had been unable to remove plays from. I also now only had one option for a kick return, which did not include the ability to call for an onside kick return, and my co-player found his only options on punt return were a punt block.

At this point, the game became unforgivably unplayable for me. I don't understand how these bugs can make it into the game, I don't understand how we're 2 weeks into having this patch where these bugs are known and EA (to my knowledge) has said nothing about it, not confirmed that they are even aware of it, and have certainly given no indication that they plan on fixing it in short order.

What I also find unforgivable is that this site would publish what appears to be a staff-supported article extolling the virtues of patch #2 and claiming the presence of bugs is a myth. There are a lot of us that don't have the time to read the forum all day, every day, nor keep up with every bit of news that comes out about these games and we rely on places like OperationSports.com to be a reliable source for the information we need. To see this, which honestly just looks like a piece of wishful-thinking fiction, is disconcerting.

I think I'm done with NCAA '12, and will certainly give a lot of thought to buying NCAA '13 until patch #2 has been released and a trusted source has verified that nothing major is completely broken. I am sad that EA Sports has failed so miserably with the game that I used to look forward to more than any other, but that's just the way it goes I guess.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

I've been fortunate enough not to experience many of the show-stopping bugs that others have been complaining about, but a lot of my OD mates have. They pretty much lost interest in the game when the patch failed to fix many of the problems that it promised to, and so most of my ODs collapsed. With Gears of War coming in the mail today, its an open question whether I'll pick this one up again before Patch 3, if at all. Complete disaster.

[Maitreya]

The custom playbook issues are unforgivable. That should have been found within minutes of testing. I am really sad about this feature being so broken. I hope there is a patch to fix this.

[edscott]

I'm a little behind here, I quit playing this game after I played a game post patch and noticed all that they messed up. Have they still not fixed the problems that this patch caused? If it's not been fixed yet, I'm definitely not buying the game next year. This is a slap in the face considering I paid 60 bucks for this game.

[Steel Pitt]

Add me to the list of people whose interest is seriously dwindling. Last year I ran a 12 man Dynasty for the entire season and this season our group was amped to run two Dynasties ( a traditional and coaching carousel). We held back the start of the Dynasty until the Roster Tendency was fixed (we were waiting for luvtotha9s roster set anyway). The post patch issues, especially the no huddle, has seriously waned interest as its not worth it (in my eyes) to start a Dynasty with no huddle, option and custom playbooks issue. Not to mention that the Transfer Failed issue still seems to be a major problem. The window is quickly closing for us to even have the interest in getting these Dynasties started (if interest hasn't already been lost).

Uuggghhh.

[Spanky]

Quote: Originally Posted by edscott

This is a slap in the face considering I paid 60 bucks for this game.

Exactly. This is pretty much what I just wrote in another thread. The people responsible for this mess are basically saying "Those idiots will buy anything.''

[skinsfan703]

I voted this patch bad. It made my game worst. I play as Virginia Tech, in year one of my offline dynasty(before the patch came out) I could play all the games fine. Then when the patch came out in year 2 of my dynasty I can't play the boston college game. I click on it and then it takes me to Indiana vs Iowa that the computer controls.

The EA website said that they fix this bug, I never had a problem with it before the patch. This bug is ridiculous, when I can't even continue my dynasty. don't want to start over because I already imported my draft class into madden.

"Fixed an issue with the schedule that prevented entering the Virginia Tech vs. Boston College game (fixed for both Dynasty and RTG)."