NCAA Football 14 Impressions Thread

[duffman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Matt10

Zone aggressive adjustment is screwing a pretty great game up. It's always just one thing with EA. I thought someone interviewed Josh H about the DB Glitch - well the formula for the DB Glitch stems from the nucleus that is the Aggressive Zone coverage adjustment.

*Fingers crossed* Day 1 patch? Maybe? Hopefully? Otherwise I'm really enjoying the game so far, but I'm apprehensive about getting too involved if I'm going to start seeing wide open deep passes again like I did in 13.

[bad_philanthropy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Matt10

Zone aggressive adjustment is screwing a pretty great game up. It's always just one thing with EA. I thought someone interviewed Josh H about the DB Glitch - well the formula for the DB Glitch stems from the nucleus that is the Aggressive Zone coverage adjustment. Try for yourself: Around the 3rd quarter, pause game - settings and select sides. Switch to CPU and then in the play select screen press L1 (adjustments) and see the defense is set to Coverage = Aggressive. Notice it is the only value that has been changed, nothing else. I'm still testing for a fix - but this is the exact reason the DB glitch occured in NCAA 13 - and has been around in NCAA 12 (possibly 11). I'm posting this in the bug thread - doubt it will be looked at, but hopefully it will gain ground before the next damn game is out.

If it's not in the day one patch we'll really have to make sure Tiburon hears us.

IMO the whole adjustments thing (minus the tempo which allows me to use an accelerated clock late in games) is poorly implemented, and just trash game design.

[therizing02]

Quote: Originally Posted by bad_philanthropy

If it's not in the day one patch we'll really have to make sure Tiburon hears us. IMO the whole adjustments thing (minus the tempo which allows me to use an accelerated clock late in games) is poorly implemented, and just trash game design.

Tiburon knows about the bug. For some reason over the course of the development cycle they FAILED to address it.

It blows me away that people let them get away with this garbage. I have to say that, while thankful for the pre release interviews, podcast, and videos, I have to blame a lot of the creators of those releases. When is anyone, anywhere, from any site gonna man up and ask these devs the questions that need to be answered and not let them dance around them.

Ben, the new features and IE2, and everything sound great, but what has been done to fix the problems with the GOD AWFUL zone defense???? It was a problem last year and it's STILL a problem in the early release this year! WHYYYYY?!?!?!?!?!?!

Ben: We are aware of the issue and hope to address it in the next patch.

Huh? It's been an issue for OVER A YEAR and you guys ignored it! Why should we think you're going to fix it now?!?!?

[ClemTiger]

Zone defense is so useless. I will get this game because I love college football, but the lack of the ability to play defense ruins the experience for me. I'm sick of getting shredded on D because the player's AI is so stupid and ineffective.

[The JareBear]

BenG, JeremyM, or anyone using a heisman offense AA defense hybrid, please advise

I love the idea of a split set but after one game I worry this feature is not working as intended

I had been on AA for both, so what I did was leave the sliders that relate to CPU offense (users defensive and CPU offensive) on the AA settins and then put the sliders relating to user offense (user offensive and CPU defensive) to default 50, except user QBA at 5, which is where I wanted to start on heisman

Well, I played am exhibition vs Michigan and it felt terrible. It felt like the whole thing was on default AA. I averaged 12 yards a carry and went 12/14 before turning it off.

Are you playing in exhibitions or dynasty mode? Is the way I'm setting the sliders up for a hybrid set wrong?

[Swamp Swagger]

Well after playing on Heisman some more another thing that bugs me is your D-Line never gets pressure with just 4 lineman.

I also see people say zone is useless, but with man you're Db's get beat on out routes and other routes just like it on a regular basis. Florida's top 2 DB's have 95+ on man to man rating and 90+ on zone coverage.

Zone has seems to work alright except against the over the middle passes its pretty bad.

[ClemTiger]

Quote: Originally Posted by Swamp Swagger

Well after playing on Heisman some more another thing that bugs me is your D-Line never gets pressure with just 4 lineman. I also see people say zone is useless, but with man you're Db's get beat on out routes and other routes just like it on a regular basis. Florida's top 2 DB's have 95+ on man to man rating and 90+ on zone coverage. Zone has seems to work alright except against the over the middle passes its pretty bad.

My defenders RARELY get the proper depth that they should and don't drop out of their zone responsibility, even if there's no threat there. That's football 101 for any person who knows football.

And back to the defensive pressure thing. That is where all this useless zone and man defense stems from. If you have to constantly blitz and be left in one on one situations, most of the time you're going to get burned. There's no way an 80 rated OT should be able to block a Clowney consistently. If EA would allow front four pressure to be as effective as it was on the PS2, the game would be 10X better.

[kc10785]

Just played online a good game back and forth Clemson vs Kansas State. Right before halftime I throw a hail Mary with 5 seconds left he picks the ball off in the back of the end zone and goes out of bounds. Instead of the game giving him a touchback and go to halftime, they reward him with a Touchdown. I couldn't believe it. It change the whole game instead of me being down by one TD and getting the ball back at half I end up being diwn by 14.

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