Little Things That Can Drive You Mad in Sports Games

[Steve_OS]

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[scarface107]

There's a handful of little things that get on my nerves a bit in CFB 25

No Bald Coaches thus Can't Re-Create a PJ Fleck and various other Coaches.

Every time you Redshirt a player your entire Depth Chart resets even if that player wasn't a starter or a backup.

You have no ability to see what your coordinators preferred scheme is until the manage staff screen at the end of the season. (unless I'm missing it)

No notification or heads up that a coach left your staff. You have to manually look, IMO there should be a BIG heads up.

There's no way to tell if you previously scouted a player from the prospect list until you re add them to the board. (unless I'm missing it)

No medical Redshirts.

Computer starts spamming injury timeouts like crazy if they are losing including using your players to do so.

This might be fixed but at one point... some of the things in scheduling a visit were out of left to right order for some reason and it made no sense. minor issue but mildly annoying.

The overall menu system in dynasty, especially recruiting where you have to back out of a menu to remove hours vs 14 where all you had to do was flick the stick IIRC. When I first got the game I on multiple occasions accidently double backed out and held triangle thus removing the player entirely by accident!

Still a fun game but these things make me go bananas sometimes.

[lancdave]

You called out a specific one I had and was reviewing again today (hoping they updated the coach options in CFB25.) I'm 62, tall and thin, bald on top, and used to have a goatee...most games I can essentially make a character that clearly represents me. This game my coach stand-in looks like a 30-year-old former linebacker that's getting a little soft round the middle...and no one would ever guess that's supposed to be me, now or in the past. At least if they gave you a hat option, it would be in the ballpark.

Worse for me, though, is the fact that when my Fighting Irish play at home, a lot of our fans wear Michigan jerseys! Ugh.

Overall, loving the game though. Can laugh about these things, but it'd be a nice quality of life thig if they fixed them.

[Haze88]

The depth chart still being based in 1985 will never not irritate me. This is especially egregious on defense where the depth chart uses positions that haven't been used since about 2007 as far as left/right designations. Also the lack of a secondary position for special players is a small annoyance. I love having a Percy Harvin type on my teams but it's a bit rough to simulate in game

[Sweed]

In the era of HD and virtually all screens being wide screen, why do we still have to scroll left to right to see player's ratings? Get player info off the side of the screen and put it across the top, then use the extra width of the screen to show more data.

Lessen the space between columns so we have more columns on screen, and in games like CFB25 and Madden design the screens with each position in mind. There is no reason to have to scroll past throwing power, while looking at your DT, to find his "tackling" ability or any other ability tied to his position. By all means have every rating on the "all players" screen, but once you open position "X" you should only be looking at skills that apply to position "X".

[sherrane]

Quote: Originally Posted by scarface107

There's a handful of little things that get on my nerves a bit in CFB 25 No Bald Coaches thus Can't Re-Create a PJ Fleck and various other Coaches. Every time you Redshirt a player your entire Depth Chart resets even if that player wasn't a starter or a backup. You have no ability to see what your coordinators preferred scheme is until the manage staff screen at the end of the season. (unless I'm missing it) No notification or heads up that a coach left your staff. You have to manually look, IMO there should be a BIG heads up. There's no way to tell if you previously scouted a player from the prospect list until you re add them to the board. (unless I'm missing it) No medical Redshirts. Computer starts spamming injury timeouts like crazy if they are losing including using your players to do so. This might be fixed but at one point... some of the things in scheduling a visit were out of left to right order for some reason and it made no sense. minor issue but mildly annoying. The overall menu system in dynasty, especially recruiting where you have to back out of a menu to remove hours vs 14 where all you had to do was flick the stick IIRC. When I first got the game I on multiple occasions accidently double backed out and held triangle thus removing the player entirely by accident! Still a fun game but these things make me go bananas sometimes.

If you scouted and removed him because he is a bust, you can see a faint bust icon in the lower left area of the player window.



The first week you are recruiting (offseason, first week of Transfer Portal), the menu item is checked before you go begin to load players on your board. Add a player to your board and it will be unchecked until you assign all you your hours. This got me yesterday because I had to leave and thought I had already recruited when I got back.



Coaches are not associated with a specific playbook. Dynasty year 2 and my OC left for HC of App State and I hired an OC who runs the Spread. I only knew to use the Tulsa playbook because he was OC at Tulsa. This would be less important if we have the coach's real name.



Depth Chart resets also happen when editing a player. I renamed Isaac Tull to Jethro Tull and that change removed him as my starting 3rd Down Back.

[PPerfect_CJ]

When you are going through the national schedule and forcing wins for teams, after you pick who wins, it goes back to the very top of the screen and you have to go all the way back down and find where you left off.

[sherrane]

Quote: Originally Posted by PPerfect_CJ

When you are going through the national schedule and forcing wins for teams, after you pick who wins, it goes back to the very top of the screen and you have to go all the way back down and find where you left off.

This also happens on the Roster screen. When you open a player's card to view his attributes / abilities, it will reset to the top of the list when you close the card.