NCAA Football 14 Impressions Thread

[Swamp Swagger]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheBleedingRed21

I have two houses, the one I been playing on is like 20mbps, the other house is 30mbps.

Ya no wonder its not laggy lol. I hope when I move I can get faster Internet

[bgdg824]

Theres no assisted tackles in the defensive stats everything is counted as a solo tackle thats a joke does anybody know if its fixed in the retail version if not can it be fixed?

[AuburnAlumni]

Well....after playing the demo nonstop and playing about 12 hours of the early release I'll give some thoughts...


Cutting to the chase....it's the best NCAA ever and its not even close, at least gameplay wise. Even on default AA, the CPU AI is smart, saavy, and mixes up their playcalling. CPU runners are dangerous in the open field and QBs make very good decisions. I think I've seen one "WTF" moment in 12 hours where the CPU may have made a horrible decision. Very impressed.

The running game is a dream and most importantly...every play "works". Quick screens to the WRs work. PA screens work. Counters work. Toss sweeps work. If you call them in the right situations....they all can be successful. That truly opens up your entire playbook..something that couldn't be said in just about every previous iteration of the series.

Now...as for some things that need addressing..there are a few in my opinion. The ones that stand out are....

1. QB accuracy and accuracy slider. The slider isn't necessarily "broken". It's just highly ineffective. As Bob stated in the official review...true overthrows and underthrows by a QB are few and far between. Most incompletions are either interceptions, deflections...or throwing the ball away under pressure.

The slider doesn't appear to address this in an even manner. Slider settings at 0 cause the QBs to not be able to hit much of anything. The problem is...anything above 0....5 to 50....there is no effect it seems. QBs seem to play exactly the same no matter if the setting is at 5, 15, 20, 35, etc. The only true change is at 0 and that is too much IMO. This needs to be fixed.

Again..it's not a "game killer" as most QBs end up with good looking percentages off of tips/INTs/throwaways..but the number of misfires needs to vastly increase IMO.

2. Punts ALWAYS bounce forward. Always. I have yet to see a punt bounce sideways or "die" immediately.

3. The CPU tends to always "go for it" on 4th and inches to 4th and 3 in the redzone. This needs to be tuned. If the game is 10-7, there needs to be times where the CPU ties the game on a field goal instead of going for it. I like the aggression at times..but its not realistic to see an opponent ALWAYS go for it.


Those are the biggest things that stand out to me. Other than those areas...I am wowed by how well this game plays. In every facet. The options, shovel passes, screen game, etc......all play beautifully. Can't wait to start our OD.

[TheBleedingRed21]

*I need to just compile all my impressions...lol*

Anyways, playing UT vs UF. Scored with Tennessee to go up 7-0 and the announcers were going crazy, not just touchdown Tennessee. Awesome to see excitement from them.

[RebelHog]

Someone what to tell me why in God's name Gary Pinkel is tied with likes of Saban and Spurrier in Coach Rating?

[Skulletor]

one thing that really tells you about how lazy EA is or how unstable their code is, the conferences are normally in alphabetical order, but because the Big East became the American conference, now they are not

[Skyboxer]

Take back what I said about CPU screens = Auto sacks.
CPU has ran them flawlessly in the past few games, including TCU I'm playing right now.

Should have waited a bit before making a big claim like that. Assuming some setting changes did it...

Being a coach mode type player I'm very happy about it

[m1ke_nyc]

Played one game on AA defense and offense. Me(Nebraska) vs cpu(UCLA) I beat them 35-7 had 9 sacks 5 with my LE. Think I gotta up the difficulty. The thing I like most is players seem to have some weight to them when moving now.