NCAA Football 12 News Post

Building a Better NCAA Football 12

12:36 PM - January 13, 2011 by RaychelSnr

NCAA Football 11 gave thousands of eager fans the first quality HD college football experience during this generation of consoles. But now with January already upon us, and NCAA 12 deep into development, it is only a matter of time until the NCAA Football 12 details start emerging. January is also the month that I begin my coverage of the newest NCAA game.

This first article will focus on some of the things NCAA 11 did extremely well, as well as the areas that still need improvement in order to push the game to the next level.

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# 41 da ThRONe @ 01/13/11 08:54 PM

Adding QB passing progression for me would be huge.

# 42 nosa85 @ 01/13/11 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by sportyguyfl31


	I love this game, and still play it near every day. I dont see that changing until NCAA 12 released. This is the most fun I have had playing next gen football, and it isnt even close. I think it is ahead of Madden to be honest. There are a few things that I think EA should consider. 1) They need to reclassify the Quarterback categories. You cannot use QBs in this game, like Cam Newton or Denard Robinson are used, because they are either going to fumble the ball all over the joint, or get injured. These type of QBs run like HBs, but in NCAA 11, the simply run like fast quarterbacks. College QBS need to be classified as: Pro Style: Your Landry Jones, Andrew Luck, John Brantley, Matt Barkley type Spread Balanced: Colt McCoy: He's a good thrower, with good enough wheels to hurt you, if you dont honor the QB keep. Spread Option: Your 15-20 carry a game, spread QB. They should have HB like running ratings, and be able to throw on the move, better then from in the pocket. 2) Run blocking out of the shotgun needs to be enhanced. In NCAA 11, running the ball out of the shotgun is more about tricking someone, and catching them off-guard, as opposed to being able to line up and run it. 3) Balance between man and zone coverage: Too much route mirroring in man coverage, too little assignment recognition in underneath zone coverage. 4) Ditch the gameplanning. --its silly. My players ratings and situational awarness should dictate how well they play. I shouldnt have to tell my defense to "key pass" on 3rd and long, so that the pass rushers and coverage people, dont get duped on PA Pass. 5) PLaybook creator!! --I appreciate the Run & Shoot being in the game. Its my all time favorite offense..unfortunatrly there are a ton of formations and plays that have nothing to do with the R&S (Hawaii and SMU playbooks with a TE formation??) Allow me to remove the clutter and keep what I want.

I agree with all five points that would be a huge step for the ncaa football series

# 43 Gotmadskillzson @ 01/13/11 09:09 PM

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	9. Sanctions- You should be able to go outside the box to get that top recruit, but if u get caught u should pay the price.

NCAA will never allow that in a game with their license on it.

# 44 DocKnowsBest @ 01/13/11 10:39 PM

Can't wait! NCAA 11 is probably one of the best football games I've played; definitely the best "next-gen" football game made to date. Maybe on top of patches to fix game glitches, they can offer downloads for updated uniforms and bowl game logos/locations?Just a thought.

# 45 bigbuck @ 01/13/11 10:45 PM

PLEASE EA SPORTS HAVE DREADS, MOUTHPIECES, CHIN STRAPS HANGING, EYE BLACK, TEAM SKULL CAPS, HELMETS OFF, UNIFORM GETS DIRTY DURING BAD WEATHER AS SOON AS THEY HIT THE GROUND, HAVE THE SHOULDER PADS AND BACKPLATE SHOW DURING GAME PLAY, WEAR AND TEAR ON JERSEYS, CHEERLEADERS WITH PONCHOS DURING RAINING GAMES AND DRESS WARM FOR COLD WEATHER, THE BANDS PLAYING MORE THAN JUST THE FIGHT SONGS CAN THEY PLAY UP TO DATED SONGS, HOW BOUT ADDING THE 1AA SCHOOLS AND BLACK COLLEGES AND THEIR STADIUMS LIKE THE PS2 VERSION, SHOULDER BRACES, FANS RUNNING ON THE FIELD AFTER A HUGE UP SET, SHOES COMING OFF DURING GAME PLAY, I DOUBT THIS MAY HAPPEN BUT TATTOOS, HELMETS POPPING OFF AFTER A BIG HIT LIKE THE OLD PS2 VERSION, IN CREATE SCHOOL GIVE US MORE COLORS TO CHOOSE FROM OTHER THAN BLACK AND WHITE, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE TEAM COLORS PRESENTED FOR MATCHING CLEATS AND SOCKS AND WRIST BANDS AND SKULL CAPS, MORE UNIFORM SELECTION FOR CREATED, ADD LONG TEAM COLOR SOCKS NOT JUST WHITE, TEAM COLOR SPAT, BRING BACK ILLEGAL TOUCHING AND THE REF THROWS OFF HIS HAT, BRING THE WHISTLE BACK TO START PLAYS AND WHISTLE THE PLAY DEAD, MORE CELEBRATION PENALTIES, DIFFERENT TD'S CELEBRATIONS, WEAR AND TEAR OF THE FIELD AND THE FEEL GETS CHEWED UP AFTER BAD WEATHER, DOUBLE HITTING, LIKE IF SOMEONE BREAKS A TACKLE AND ON HIS WHY DOWN SOMEONE COMES AND CLEANS HIM UP, OR IF THE DEFENDER IS HOLDING A PLAYER HIS TEAMMATE COMES AND FINISH THE TACKLE OFF, TAKE MASCOT GAME OFF WASTE OF TIME AND SPACE, THROWING GATORADE ON THE COACHES AFTER A BIG WIN, MORE COACHES ON THE SIDELINE, PLAYERS MOVING ON THE SIDELINES, SHOW THE COACH GETTING ON A PLAYER FOR A STUPID PENALTY, FIX THE PUNT RETURNS, SHOW THE TRAINER TENDING TO A PLAYER FOR EXAMPLE SHOW HIM GETTING STRETCHED OR GETTING SPATTED, SHOW THE BLACK RUBBER ON THE TURF, SHOW GRASS POPS UP WHEN BEING TACKLED OR WHEN RUNNING, UNPREDICTABLE WEATHER, STARTS SUNNY THEN BEGIN TO DRIZZLE OR A HEAVY POUR AND RAIN STOP DURING A GAMES. OR RAINS OFF AND ON DURING THE GAME, THE WEATHER CHANNEL SAYS CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN BUT DOESNT START RAINING TELL THE 4TH QUARTER EXAMPLE. SHOW A PLAYER LIMPING, THERES MORE I'LL BE BACK.

# 46 xBaBaBooeyx @ 01/13/11 10:51 PM

1. Custom playbooks!!!!!
2. New announcers or at least revamped dialogue
3. They need to give the user more control over off-season training. Like an in-season point system that gives you training pts to use off-season e.g. True freshman makes a catch = 1 point.
4. Allow some recruits to be able to enroll early so they can earn training pts

# 47 bigbuck @ 01/13/11 11:11 PM

WISHLIST FOR NCAA 12- PLEASE ADD THESE

1.DREADS,

2MOUTHPIECES,

3CHIN STRAPS HANGING,

4EYE BLACK,

5TEAM SKULL CAPS,

6HELMETS OFF,

7UNIFORM GETS DIRTY DURING BAD WEATHER AS SOON AS THEY HIT THE GROUND

8HAVE THE SHOULDER PADS AND BACKPLATE SHOW DURING GAME PLAY,

9WEAR AND TEAR ON JERSEYS,

10CHEERLEADERS WITH PONCHOS DURING RAINING GAMES AND DRESS WARM FOR COLD
WEATHER,

11THE BANDS PLAYING MORE THAN JUST THE FIGHT SONGS CAN THEY PLAY UP TO DATED SONGS,

12HOW BOUT ADDING THE 1AA SCHOOLS AND BLACK COLLEGES AND THEIR STADIUMS LIKE THE PS2 VERSION,

13SHOULDER BRACES,

14FANS RUNNING ON THE FIELD AFTER A HUGE UP SET,

15 SHOES COMING OFF DURING GAME PLAY,

16 I DOUBT THIS MAY HAPPEN BUT TATTOOS,

17 HELMETS POPPING OFF AFTER A BIG HIT LIKE THE OLD PS2 VERSION,

18 IN CREATE SCHOOL GIVE US MORE COLORS TO CHOOSE FROM OTHER THAN BLACK AND WHITE,

19 I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE TEAM COLORS PRESENTED FOR MATCHING CLEATS AND SOCKS AND WRIST BANDS AND SKULL CAPS,

20 MORE UNIFORM SELECTION FOR CREATED,

21 ADD LONG TEAM COLOR SOCKS NOT JUST WHITE,

22 TEAM COLOR SPAT,

23 BRING BACK ILLEGAL TOUCHING AND THE REF THROWS OFF HIS HAT,

24 BRING THE WHISTLE BACK TO START PLAYS AND WHISTLE THE PLAY DEAD,

25 MORE CELEBRATION PENALTIES,

26 DIFFERENT TD'S CELEBRATIONS,

27 WEAR AND TEAR OF THE FIELD AND THE FEEL GETS CHEWED UP AFTER BAD WEATHER,

28 DOUBLE HITTING,LIKE IF SOMEONE BREAKS A TACKLE AND ON HIS WHY DOWN SOMEONE COMES AND CLEANS HIM UP, OR IF THE DEFENDER IS HOLDING A PLAYER HIS TEAMMATE COMES AND FINISH THE TACKLE OFF,

29 TAKE MASCOT GAME OFF WASTE OF TIME AND SPACE,

30 THROWING GATORADE ON THE COACHES AFTER A BIG WIN,

31 MORE COACHES ON THE SIDELINE,

32 PLAYERS MOVING ON THE SIDELINES,

33 SHOW THE COACH GETTING ON A PLAYER FOR A STUPID PENALTY,

34 FIX THE PUNT RETURNS,

35 SHOW THE TRAINER TENDING TO A PLAYER FOR EXAMPLE SHOW HIM GETTING STRETCHED OR GETTING SPATTED,

36 SHOW THE BLACK RUBBER ON THE TURF,

37 SHOW GRASS POPS UP WHEN BEING TACKLED OR WHEN RUNNING,

38 UNPREDICTABLE WEATHER, STARTS SUNNY THEN BEGIN TO DRIZZLE OR A HEAVY POUR AND RAIN STOP DURING A GAMES. OR RAINS OFF AND ON DURING THE GAME, THE WEATHER CHANNEL SAYS CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN BUT DOESNT START RAINING TELL THE 4TH QUARTER EXAMPLE.

39 SHOW A PLAYER LIMPING,

THERES MORE I'LL BE BACK.

# 48 SonOfEd @ 01/13/11 11:31 PM

-Custom Playbooks w/ play creator

-Coaching Carousel, w/ coordinators

-Editable Rosters in Dynasty

-Improve sidelines. I will admit it has gotten better, but I hate seeing my team on the sideline jumping up and down clapping their hands like a fat cheerleader when I overthrow a reciever, or in the background during a penalty called on me.

# 49 BlastX21 @ 01/13/11 11:39 PM

Custom playbooks (NOT available on online random or lobby matches though)

Higher ball arc

Increase 4 man pass rush. A lot. Please.

Adaptive AI that will run routes ahead of the wide receivers if they run the same play enough times.

# 50 rromer @ 01/13/11 11:44 PM

I can't believe gameplay isn't the first thing on everyone list. Why are tackles still dynamic even though pro-tak promised to change that? Why is my forward momentum being stopped by a player that isn't even looking at the ball carrier? Things are still too animation heavy, balls that are going right through body parts.

# 51 jsou4646 @ 01/13/11 11:55 PM

Gameplay for me is always at the top, cpu logic on defense (too many all out blitzes on 3rd down). The huge glitch that was never adressed and caused me to sell the game. The glitch were the cpu would attempt 58 to 65 yard fg's EVERY time only on the heisman level ruined the strategy of the game. It was well stated among heisman level players but never adressed in any patches. The graphics and responsivness of the players were great. I really hated that the fg glitch made this game unplayable for me. This has to be fixed in 12.

# 52 elementz09 @ 01/14/11 12:40 AM

Outside of NCAA 11, The most fun that I have had playing a college football game had to have been NCAA 06 or 07 (I draw a blur between the two for some reason). Bring back the full college experience! Examples are:

1. Sports Illustrated covers - nuff said.

2. Weekly practice - an ACTUAL practice mode that let's you play defense or offense against a formation used by your upcoming opponent.

3. NCAA Rules/Penalties - It was really a lot of fun and a huge challenge having to deal with your players getting into trouble and you having to decide what the punishment would be. This should also be tied into your personality coach wise and how the relationship between the coach and the players determine any outcome.

4. Better presentation! - Pre-game predictions, NCAA score updates from other games, more dynamic weather (like really? is there EVER an overcast or rain at night?), halftime show, key matchups in-game, etc.

5. Intangibles - bring back the Senior Game. Bring back ACTUAL training for players.

# 53 BearClaw @ 01/14/11 01:05 AM

Remove "jump the snap"

# 54 khaliib @ 01/14/11 01:13 AM

My 2 cents:

Where is this developement team? Ian and company is tweeting an everything with gamers. But for NCAA, little to nothing. Hope we don't get the old "It's too late in the developement cycle..." response when info is put out.

The team must address the Special Teams problem that plagues this game.

As an Intern at a major University, we spend most of our time gaming for Special Teams. That's how much of an "Impact" this area has on the game.
-Dangerous Returners need to have an impact outside of being the fastest on the field
-Such players should increase the blocking of those on the return teamj to help in this area.
**It's 2011, we should be able to set/edit our ST Depth charts by now

-Some teams make you hold your breathe during PAT/Punt Block because they are so good at it.
**Would be nice if this was included in 2012, but maybe 2017

Contact physics is killing this game.
-300 lb OL doing the 2-step dance with 180 lb DB's during blocking animation

-Just look at some of Backbreaker's contact animations, enough said!!!

Different throwing animations, which causes different release times, which help with sacks instead of increasing ratings of Def player's so that it mimmicks pressure (ratings have gotten to the point that true representation can't be seen)

Attach playbooks to coach's/coordinator's instead of to the school
**Current method voids the need of a coach or carousel, because although coach's change schools, playbooks still remain the same.

-Get rid of the Pro style hand catches and include shoulder/stomach/pouch catches, as 97% of college players currently use to make a catch.
**Way too many hand catches, this is suppose to be College, right?

ESPN/CBS intergration
-If this is not in this year, it just shows what's really going on
**Why purchase the exclusive license, if your not going to use it

Editing, Editing, Editing!!!
-The problem with EA is it's reluctance to open up more editing features (other than ratings/uniforms etc...) to gamer's as NBA 2k11 has demostrated.
-Tuning sliders (like speed threshold etc...) that allow gamers to adjust aspects of gameplay to their liking.
**Ball velocity/distance, Weather affects (falling/slips etc...), Fan Attendance for each school

Maybe the quiet auditorium we're (NCAA Gamers) sitting in means that the Dev team is going to step from behind the curtain and WOW us

# 55 BlastX21 @ 01/14/11 01:50 AM

I would like to add pressure improvements. Particularly against the CPU. There are two problems.

1. The CPU auto-finds open receivers once the pressure gets there. They are more effective when pressured immediately than when given all day. Sometimes, if you get instant pressure, the CPU will throw it perfectly to a receiver that isnt looking and isnt even close to making his cut, but will catch it anyway.

2. QB's, especially CPU QB's, make way too perfect throws under pressure. I am seeing perfect 20 yard strikes when the DT is just about to slam them, sometimes even while the sack is being made. Pressure makes QB's less accurate. This needs to be represented.

# 56 EVILFACE @ 01/14/11 03:20 AM

A lot of good suggestions so far.

I'd add:

point spreads before the game.

Easier create a prospect option, instead of having to change the points, you can select a default 5 star, 4 star ect.

# 57 Gotmadskillzson @ 01/14/11 03:28 AM

I would also like them to go back to talking about the history of the school you choosing to play as or if it is a rivalry game, the history of the rivarly. They use to have this in the past NCAA football games last generation.

# 58 blkprince04 @ 01/14/11 09:52 AM

everything you guys have said is spot on from gameplay to uniforms so i dont need to comment on that ,also we must have the chain gang back also..............

# 59 jethrotull @ 01/14/11 10:44 AM

Coaching Carousel

In real college football certain coaches are known for certain things, and will attract certain players to the program. I hate that in order to drop a team in OVR DEF rating you have to make the players bad. The defensive scheme is bad not every player. Take DT#68 on Michigan. That player is a stud, but in a 3-3-5 he is almost rendered useless because he is only 6-2 295lbs. Ideally in a 3-3-5 you want a 6-5 330lb beast over the center. If DT#68 played in a 4-3 he would be dominant.

My point is that coaches should have traits, say at least three traits we can edit, so a D-Cordinator, say Mich D-Cordinator would read this way

Mich D-Cordinator
1)ALL DEF AWR -5
2.) ALL DEF MAN COVER -10
3.) ALL DEF TCKL 10

I think you see my point.

# 60 jethrotull @ 01/14/11 10:45 AM

ALL DEF TCKL Should read -10

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