NCAA 06 Next 25 - Pre-Season Beta Series: with 12-Team Playoff and 2024 Realignments

[antdroid]

NCAA NEXT 25 - OFFICIAL RELEASE



Main Site: https://www.NCAANEXT.com

Download Link: https://www.ncaanext.com/2024/09/nca...e-is-here.html

The NCAA NEXT 25 Mod is a fully integrated modification of NCAA Football 06 for the 2024 season with a ton of new features to the original game and previous modification releases. This package is a combination of our team's texture package of over 37,000 new graphics textures and modifications to the entire game's core engine, database structure, and strings to enhance gameplay, dynasty mode, visual quality, and much, much more!

Features include:

Core Game:
Modern Rosters & Coaches (310 coaches in total!)
New FBS Teams (Charlotte, Coastal, Liberty, Old Dominion, South Alabama, UTSA & Kennesaw State)
Updated Conference & League Setup
New Stadiums for existing teams and NFL stadiums added to game!
Outdoor Stadiums for teams that used to play in domes
Player Editor Enabled in all modes
Modern Playbooks including updated Coaching Strategies and Playcalling AI
ALL Modern NCAA Rules as of 2023
Upgraded Music Soundtrack (16 original + 16 new tracks)
Updated Player Number Generation Choices to match NCAA Rules, including "0" jersey numbers,
Allows Duplicate Jersey Numbers
NCAA NEXT Settings within the EASY PLAY Menu
Transfer Portal On/Off and Chaos Amount Settings
Instant Defensive Playcalling for speeding up gameplay
New Accelerated Clock Options
Play Lock functionality on OFFENSE and DEFENSE (You no longer have to play as QB!)

Sim Engine:
Improved Sim Engine for Coaching Strategies and Stats
Improved Sim Stats
CPU Coaching Progression with dynamic prestige
"Free Agent" Coach Database have prestige to start finally
Massive overhaul of Ratings Calculations and Player Recruit Database
Re-wrote entire magazine headline and captions database (3500+ lines)
Pre-Season Injuries
CPU Position Changes to optimize depth charts
Off-season improvements and optimizations
Resets Sanction Meter after Team is placed on Probation
Resets Coaching Hot Seat Meter if Coach is Fired

Game Engine:
Improved CPU Offensive Play Calling AI
Improved CPU Time Management at end of Half
Accelerated Play Clock Option
Instant Defensive Playcalling for speeding up gameplay
Play Lock functionality on OFFENSE and DEFENSE (You no longer have to play as QB!)
ALL Modern NCAA Game Rules as of 2023

Season Play:
Current Starting Year
Modern College Football Alignment/League Structure & Scheduling, including 12-Game Scheduling System and Notre Dame's rotation and rivalries
Added a neutral field kick-off game in Atlanta, GA. The Aflac Kick-Off.
Added CPU Coach Stat Tracking
CPU Coach Firing/Retiring, and Auto-Hire for CPU teams
Team Prestige, Academic, and Rankings all updated
Updated Heisman Candidates
Unlocked Pride Sticker Counter for all teams
Add an additional 4th Impact Player with user-selectable Captain/Impact Players in Off-Season
Every game will be televised now!

Post-Season:
College Football Playoff Built-In
12-Team Playoff (5 auto-bid conference champions + 7 at-large)
Conference Championships and Divisionless Conferences
New National Championship Sites (Philly, Denver, NEXT Arena, New Orleans, Houston, Detroit) - chosen each season at random!
Updated Bowl Games, Names and Sites
BCS Ranking Algorithm Fixes for Additional Teams
Add ability to have up to 12 conf champ games (with DB Editing)


Recruiting & Off-Season:
Realistic Transfer Portal Recruiting and Waived Transfer Wait Period with up to 2000 transfers per season!
Enhanced Recruiting, including NIL Pitches, Improved In-Season Recruiting, Off-Season Recruiting improvements, etc.
Improved Recruiting and Walk-On Player Generation Databases
Improved Pro Draft Declaration requirements
Shows Graduating Seniors that go to NFL Draft in display
International Recruits from many countries
New player-to-coach dialogs including NFL, NIL, Transfer Portal and more
Modern Database of 8192 First and 8192 Last names for recruits
Polynesian surnames for western state schools
Larger Recruiting Database and more Athletes
New Recruit Randomizer with Skin Tone/Face/Hair coordinated styles
Updated Recruiting Algorithm to fully distribute available scholarships for all teams

Graphics & Animations:
Over 37,000 Textures Replaced at 4K Res+ (over 13GBs!)
De-Interlacing Built-In to improve visual quality
Modern Scorebug
Uniform Expansion - Up to 20 uniform kits per team, including unique gear/accessories!
Custom Gloves per Team Uniform
New Modern Gear and Accessories
Tattoos and Single Arm Sleeves
Enhanced Faces with AI Upscaling
Significantly more faces added to game
Uniform Numbers and Decals Fixes
3D Model Body Shapes & Realistic Accessory Choices
Removed Stadium Cannon Celebrations
Added Oregon Duck Mascot
Sponsorship text updates and In-Game Text Updates
Changed Sports Illustrated to The Athletic
Upscaled Logos & Graphics

Download: https://next25.ncaanext.com

[antdroid]

Beta V6 is now available!!!

# Full List of New Features

https://next25.ncaanext.com

**Dynasty Mode**

* 2024 Roster Update
* Kennesaw State Added to FBS with fantasy roster and real coach and stadium
* Updated 2024 Realignment FBS configuration
* Updated Scheduling system
* 310 Coaches Database*
* Updated Head Coach Database
* Pre-Season Injuries
* CPU Position Changes to optimize depth charts
* Off-season improvements and optimizations
* Changed Sports Illustrated to The Athletic
* Transfer Portal On/Off and Chaos Amount Settings in EASY PLAY MENU
* Resets Sanction Meter after Team is placed on Probation
* Resets Coaching Hot Seat Meter if Coach is Fired
* Shows Graduating Seniors that go to NFL Draft in display

**Post-Season**

* 12-Team Playoff (5 auto-bid conference champions + 7 at-large)
* New National Championship Sites (Philly, Denver, NEXT Arena, New Orleans, Houston, Detroit) - chosen each season at random!
* LA and Sun Bowl Added (35 bowls total now)
* Add ability to have up to 12 conf champ games
* Added a neutral field kick-off game in Atlanta, GA. The Aflac Kick-Off.

**Recruiting**

* Larger Recruiting Database and more Athletes
* More Transfer Portal Updates. Can get over 1000 portal entries per season now!
* Redshirting carry-over for portal fix
* New Recruit Randomizer with Skin Tone/Face/Hair coordinated styles
* Updated Recruiting Algorithm to fully distribute available scholarships for all teams

**Game Play**

* Improved CPU Offensive Play Calling & Time Management at end of Half
* Improved Sim Engine for Coaching Strategies and Stats
* Tattoos and Single Arm Sleeves
* New Accelerated Clock Options (EASY MENU)
* Play Lock functionality on OFFENSE and DEFENSE (You no longer have to play as QB!)

**Miscellaneous**

* Polynesian surnames for western state schools
* Increased general surname database
* CPU Coach National Title & Conf Championship Stat Tracking Fixed
* Every game will be televised now!
* Face Mod added to FBS/FCS and Recruiting Rosters
* Massive overhaul of Ratings Calculations

# Textures Updates

* Nearly 12.5GB of texture graphics!
* Added new stadium and graphics
* Lots of new Uniforms Expansion Updates!
* Updated Fields for 2024-25 Season
* New Scorebug coming soon!

[antdroid]

As an FYI on the Roster for this mod:

It is guaranteed to not be accurate. Here's how it was created:

We used our base roster from last year, which is credited to the OperationSports NCAA14 PS3 Roster team and ported to our mod using a tool i made many years ago. Then we did a scrape of recruiting data from various sources, transfer portal data from various sources, and compiled it all together into a few CSV databases.

I then wrote a DB Editor series of modules to take the old roster, graduate and make real-life NFL underclassmen leave the database, and then using the Transfer Portal data, move players around to their new teams. Then the code gave each player a small boost in ratings and made their class year go up 1.

Then using the recruiting data, I wrote a new module that created rookies based on their position, height, weight, and recruiting ranking. The higher the ranking, the more random factor was given to boost their recruit skills data. Then they were given a random skin, face, head, etc. So you'll have real players, with real positions and generally correct weight/heights, but their skin tone may be a little off, and their attributes are randomly generated.

Then I wrote a final function to fill in team rosters with randomly generated players to make sure they have the right amount of players at each position and to fill out their roster. It deletes their worst player off the roster if there is no space....

And then finally, i wrote another set of code to create depth charts automatically based on their ratings.

I did come back and manually edit some players but not everyone. I dont have that much time!

[antdroid]

Official Release is out along with a patch!

https://www.ncaanext.com/2024/10/nca...-released.html

[antdroid]

First Post has been updated with full information on the mod!!

[esayem]

Quote: Originally Posted by antdroid

New Stadiums for existing teams and NFL stadiums added to game!

How did you add NFL stadiums and can you incorporate them in Dynasty? Can you schedule neutral site regular season games yet?

I am having a blast with NCAA 25, but 2005 and 06 are fun to mess around with still.

[antdroid]

Quote: Originally Posted by esayem

How did you add NFL stadiums and can you incorporate them in Dynasty? Can you schedule neutral site regular season games yet? I am having a blast with NCAA 25, but 2005 and 06 are fun to mess around with still.

You can easily pull in madden stadiums into NCAA, but there will be no crowds. A couple guys figured out how to hex edit the stadiums to add back in the crowds from NCAA series. (Madden and NCAA use of stadium crowds differ)

The default neutral site games in the DB is limited to just 4 games. We removed the CU-CSU one and modified the code to have the Game of the Week in Week 1 be the Aflac Kick-Off Classic game at a new neutral site stadium we created.

It would be great to add more neutral site games, but I think to do that, we'd have to do significant hex edits. No real easy way to add more. You can modifiy existing ones in the STRMDATA.DB though.

[antdroid]

We are also testing the next version of this mod. It will include the Pistol Formation sets! I've been working on this project for a couple of weeks now and it looks like its fully working now! It'll include 5 pistol formation sets as well as a series of new playbooks and changes to existing ones. Very excited for this modernization of the game.

We also are updating the way subs are handled in simulation and within actual played games too! This will make stats more realistic!