NCAA Football 14 Impressions Thread

[prototype561]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gotmadskillzson

They changed that last year. You can only hot route to a fade when you are in the red zone.

Ok, not the fade but the outside release go route, when the guy goes toward the sideline and then up the field, it was in the demo.

[K0ZZ]

I got to play one game and I absolutely enjoyed it. Only one game so I can't say X and Y were ironed out and it could be entirely placebo but I genuinely had fun playing with NIU against Akron. Only thing I notice is that it's extremely hard for home run plays in this game and CPU players seem to always be able to catch up. Not too huge because I rather have few home runs than too many.

There were a few graphical hiccups where the players would start to fall after a collision than rest on the ground than stand back up. It looks odd, but it really is just a graphical error.

Graphics were kinda average from what I've seen but the game play seems so much better, and dare I say it but ratings seem to matter a little more? Noticed the Akron quarterback mis reading the defense more often and throwing more incompletions away from the receiver due to poor accuracy.

I'm too busy naming rosters to get much more than a game here and there in, but it definitely feels much improved, can't wait to dig into it!

[The JareBear]

Year one, one star LA tech, level one created coach

Simmed thru the year, only had 4 guys I targetted stolen from me and I was trying to sign as many as possible just to see

Team went 7-5, bowl against NIU, kept simming, won. Coach ended up level 5

Got offered a HC job at Hawaii, DC job at Ohio state, OC job at Ohio State, DC at Florida, OC and DC at Texas, OC at A&M and Braska, a bunch more were up and I was getting non stop offers so I declined them all and moved on to offseason recruiting. Basically, if you have a good first year as a HC you will get coordinator offers from almost anywhere you want first year

72 LE from Arkansas transferred to Tech

Off season I poured in 5000 points to a guy I was behind all year and stole him. Not sure how I feel about no limit to off season recruiting points.

Ended up with 53rd best glass, 16 3 star guys 6 two star guys and 1 one star.

[StoneCalf]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gotmadskillzson

They changed that last year. You can only hot route to a fade when you are in the red zone.

Since you could answer that one, what about how to hot route to a blocking assignment? I think that was changed and I can't figure it out yet.

[m1ke_nyc]

Through 4 games played I've had only 1 penalty called.

[StoneCalf]

Quote: Originally Posted by ratedmoney

Through 4 games played I've had only 1 penalty called.

Hmm, I've had a few per game. I've had to slide clipping down some because I was seeing too many of those.

What I've found curious is that I've seen much fewer injuries on 14, compared to 13. I wish we could get an injury slider, rather than the on or off toggle.

[Chedapalooza]

Quote: Originally Posted by StoneCalf

Hmm, I've had a few per game. I've had to slide clipping down some because I was seeing too many of those. What I've found curious is that I've seen much fewer injuries on 14, compared to 13. I wish we could get an injury slider, rather than the on or off toggle.

Easiest solution to this is to reduce your players injury ratings in edit roster. One by one. U could do it for all teams u play as well but I find that too time consuming. Then when u add freshman in recruiting u only have to change their ratings.. First year takes the longest doing your whole roster. There is a table I used for '13 to reduce the positions injury ratings. It never seemed to cause any O lineman injuries though. I like doing it tho bc it makes u really focus on having quality depth on your roster

[StoneCalf]

Quote: Originally Posted by Chedapalooza

Easiest solution to this is to reduce your players injury ratings in edit roster. One by one. U could do it for all teams u play as well but I find that too time consuming. Then when u add freshman in recruiting u only have to change their ratings.. First year takes the longest doing your whole roster. There is a table I used for '13 to reduce the positions injury ratings. It never seemed to cause any O lineman injuries though. I like doing it tho bc it makes u really focus on having quality depth on your roster

I agree, and I have modified player's injury ratings in the past, but not across the board as you suggested. Good idea- I may do that if I continue to see a dearth of injuries occurring.

Yea, Oline injuries are *super* rare. I only had one in my 12 year '13 dynasty.