NCAA Football 13 Demo Is Out, Post Your Impressions Here

[bigbob]

Quote: Originally Posted by packersfan4eva

Am I the only one who has yet to see the score ticker at the bottom of the screen? Played three games, and have yet to see it.

Like Dylan asked, are you playing Dynasty? It doesn't show up in "Heisman Mode". It doesn't leave the screen when you're playing a Dynasty.

Something unfortunate during a game when I was LSU against Alabama. Alabama ran a fake punt run on 4th and 15+. Now, it only happened once so far but I hope this doesn't happen a lot.

[packersfan4eva]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigbob

Like Dylan asked, are you playing Dynasty? It doesn't show up in "Heisman Mode". It doesn't leave the screen when you're playing a Dynasty. Something unfortunate during a game when I was LSU against Alabama. Alabama ran a fake punt run on 4th and 15+. Now, it only happened once so far but I hope this doesn't happen a lot.

See above post, but yes, I am playing in dynasty mode. Played the Alabama-LSU game straight through and didn't once see the ticker. Second game I tried changing the tempo each quarter. Nothing.

[Buckeye Country]

Seems like passing on the deep ball is too easy. The db's need to put up a fight. I am hoping the sliders do what they r supposed to do this year.

[Hoops737]

One of the main things I disliked last year: CPU playcall logic. All the plays they chose to run sucked and made playing defense hella easy

With the demo Oregon actually scored once because I committed everyone to the left and they ran right for 30 yards and the TD. Nice to see. LSU also moved the ball and hit open receivers down field. CPU WR's ran some nice routes

I'm impressed with the demo, plus the screens seemed perfect.

I also like the new catching animations. I'm excited.

[tanner75]

Try changing your tv setting for picture aspect ratio size. I had the same thing but it was because the picture was zoomed in too much, 52 inch.

[Buckeye Country]

Quote: Originally Posted by PowerofRed25

Well considering the CPU safety in Cover 2 does not continue to play his zone, any deep route is a pretty easy route. The safeties don't seem to acknowledge the widest-deepest rule and they seem to get caught flat footed a lot. I've dropped a ton of vertical, corner and post routes over coverage because no one picks the guy up after he leaves intermediate zones.

The deep ball ruined the game for me last year (among other things). I hope they fix this or I ain't buying.

[Colonel Reb]

Quote: Originally Posted by packersfan4eva

See above post, but yes, I am playing in dynasty mode. Played the Alabama-LSU game straight through and didn't once see the ticker. Second game I tried changing the tempo each quarter. Nothing.

I had the same issue. What I discovered while playing around is the ticker doesn't appear if your Xbox (if you have Xbox, don't know about PS3) is set to normal viewing mode. I don't mean it's simply not on screen, I mean it doesn't appear at all, it's gone. It's a widescreen-only feature. You have to set the Xbox to widescreen for it to show up. I have no idea why but apparently EA programmed it that way.

[Colonel Reb]

I generally like the demo. EA seems to have addressed most of the problems last year's game had but left alone the things that worked, which was good. Last year's game was generally very good except for a few major issues. Blocking still could use some work but it's not terrible.

The lighting at the night game (LSU-Bama) seems darker than it should be, distractingly so.

I've had two real issues with the demo, one being it froze on me at one point and the other being the issue I mentioned in the earlier post about the ticker not showing up because I don't have a widescreen TV to set my Xbox to widescreen. I don't understand why EA would think only people with widescreen TVs should be able to get the ticker but if you don't have one you probably aren't going to be able to see it. I know I can't.

I haven't tried the Heisman challenge yet. It seems pretty pointless to me but I'll give it at least one go soon.