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NCAA Football 13 Title Update Arrives July 31, Title Update #2 in Late August

03:45 PM - July 19, 2012 by BadAssHskr

EA Sports has released NCAA Football 13 title update details, which arrives on July 31st.

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	The first issue was a loss of functionality on the Playcall screen, which created a situation where you couldn't change the formation without pausing the game. The second issue was a random crash in our Dynasty mode while loading into a Dynasty game. Once we became aware of these issues, we got fixes in and submitted a title update to Microsoft and Sony. The first title update in order to fix these two issues will be released on July 31st. There is a work-around for the Dynasty crash until the patch is released. If you run into the crash loading in to game, you need to resave your dynasty file. You can do this by renaming your dynasty or making a change and triggering the auto-save feature. When you do this, it will optimize the file and you can continue playing.

They have also posted the details for NCAA Football 13 title update #2, which will be released in late August.

Gameplay

Zone Defense has been updated.
We improved receiver leverage logic as well as predicting when a receiver will be in or out of their zone.
Improved Deep Half Zone decision making about when to split between uncovered receivers. Also, allow more zone overlapping in deep half to cover more area.
Deep half defenders were dropping too close to the sideline or dropping outside when no receiver was outside of their position.
No-Huddle QB Spy bug fixed. Defenders will no longer go into spy assignments while in man coverage.
Receivers weren�t looking for hot-read passes.
CPU QBs passing during the drop would get set passes instead of on-the-run inaccurate passes.
Change the logic of man defenders so they don't run into the backfield and past the receiver they are covering.
Route running near sideline was causing issues especially on comeback routes.
Fixed players not respecting global show blitz/press/back off coverage after handing off a receiver.
Fixed sideline streak routes so they don't get clamped in a way that the route would end after 10 or 15 yards.
Drive summaries should now reset after each scoring drive.

Dynasty

Once a promise becomes active, it was duplicating after each week advance.
Recruit Reports & Advisory options remained even after the "Allow Time Savers" setting was turned off.
Schools with a D+ Program Tradition could not get their grade increased through wins and championships.
In the off-season, post season games were not shown to have been played.

Custom Playbooks

Fixed an issue where if CPU coaches were given a custom playbook, the players were occasionally lining up close to the ball.
Fixed an issue where the user was unable to create an offensive playbook that consisted of 1 of every formation.
Fixed an issue where the user was sometimes losing functionality after the UI disappears in Custom Playbooks.
Increased the stability of the product by fixing various crashes.

The NCAA Football 13 team is adding a "Uniform Store" which allows them to add updated default uniforms during the season, at no charge.

Update: Just received clarification from Justin, community manager at EA Sports.

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	Any update to an incorrect uniform in game will be provided at no additional cost.

Source - EA Sports

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Member Comments

# 141 der juicen @ 07/20/12 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by trigga58


	Its great they are fixing a set if problems instead of every problem Huge patches have crippled games even worse in the past! I think Skyrim had one.

Is it impossible for us to be glad they are patching the game. I am very surprised at the thinly veiled outrage over them patching. It really is never enough. It takes time to patch and, well, they are probably going down a set list of problems by importance. Freezing issues first, etc., etc.

# 142 87Birdman @ 07/20/12 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by shttymcgee


	The responsiveness of those animations deal with whether or not the player is looking at the ball. The user should not be able to swat, imo, if he is not looking at the ball. They seemed smoother to me when the db had his head turned, but when in a trail position is when you see the delay.

That isn't true to me. The times I see the most unresponsiveness from the system is when I am standing there looking at the ball and go to pick it my guy doesn't jump, and then they get a huge gain because of it. I actually have better luck running up under the ball then waiting for the ball to get there. I don't know if it is when your strafing the player just looks at the ground or what but that usually is where it is the worst for me, and that is when it should be an easy pick.

# 143 Skulletor @ 07/20/12 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by der juicen


	Is it impossible for us to be glad they are patching the game. I am very surprised at the thinly veiled outrage over them patching. It really is never enough. It takes time to patch and, well, they are probably going down a set list of problems by importance. Freezing issues first, etc., etc.

You don't get a gold star for screwing up and fixing your mistakes. Get it right the first time, invest in QA

# 144 Hitokiri Jinchu @ 07/20/12 02:28 PM

I understand improving zone coverage but at the same time ive seen to many dbs covering their man on the other side of the field not looking back and as soon as i throw it to the other side of the field (while still in throwing motion) theyre already converging on the that reciever. Im not trying to complain cause I enjoy this year alot more than last year but i dont want this becoming like last year when u could hardly throw the ball due to db knowing routes better than wr,. I would also hope in a future update they fix the blocking logic as well i can call in all out blitz and it seems like they get picked up by the cpu but when the cpu blitzes only 2 my line goes ******** and they come thru untouched same as run blocking. Overall tho ive had more fun with this years game in only a couple of weeks then in an entire year of last years.

# 145 Major9 @ 07/20/12 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by shttymcgee


	The responsiveness of those animations deal with whether or not the player is looking at the ball. The user should not be able to swat, imo, if he is not looking at the ball. They seemed smoother to me when the db had his head turned, but when in a trail position is when you see the delay.

Not the case...95% of the time that i have perfect position and my DB is looking at the ball he still will not swat at the ball.

# 146 thelasthurtknee @ 07/20/12 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Skulletor


	You don't get a gold star for screwing up and fixing your mistakes. Get it right the first time, invest in QA

dont forge that qa removes anywhere from 200,000 to 300,000 issues a year for ncaa. they are in Baton Rouge doing it at huge new facility. So it could be much worse. but for our sake it could of been better also.

# 147 Buckeye Country @ 07/20/12 07:17 PM

Are they going to fix the CPU screen that gets blown up everytime? Anyword on that?

# 148 JayD @ 07/20/12 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by der juicen


	Thanks for you important information. I will really, really miss you. I'm torn up inside, really.

I love people who think they have to come back with a snarky line if they don't agree with the statement.

# 149 TastyRambo @ 07/20/12 09:47 PM

good to see they are finally updating and patching some of the issues in the game but for me it will be too late to even try them out since im trading mine in for madden 13. Safe to say this was a disappointing year imo for EA's ncaa football game. Here's to hoping madden is better.

# 150 AGG_JD @ 07/20/12 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Skulletor


	You don't get a gold star for screwing up and fixing your mistakes. Get it right the first time, invest in QA

So what is your suggestion? I'll wait!

Name one game you played in the past three years that was completely perfect on release. No patches needed. Once again, I'll wait!

The truth of the matter is that EA has deadlines to go by. You think they wouldn't want to have everything perfect when they released the game? They do their best to ensure that the game is as playable as can be by release date.

I'm just amazed at how many repeat customers are repeat complainers as well. Complain if they didn't attempt to fix issues. Y'all are hilarious.

# 151 AGG_JD @ 07/21/12 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by jayenomics


	Wow....instead of people saying "Finally, they are making an effort to get this game fixed" You get, WHY DON'T YOU FIX THIS?! WHY DON'T YOU FIX THAT?! People...you need to relax and be happy they are working on the game to improve it. They are fixing the most crippling issues first, as they should.

I'm starting to just ignore that. Most people seem to love to just complain no matter what. There is a growing number of whiners and haters on OS!

# 152 TarHeelPhenom @ 07/21/12 05:25 AM

1) It looks like they are trying to drop this patch right before the real season starts.

2) Will it affect current Dynasties or will you have to begin new Dynasties for the changes to take affect?

3) The option is not broken if you go in and edit a few things. I honestly haven't seen the matador DB watch the RB pass by defense since the weekend of the Season Ticket. I also deleted the tuner too though so...

For me, I don't mind waiting it out because I'm just editing rosters right now anyway. It'll prolly take me well into August to finish my project. I'll just keep playing Play Now games while testing the roster edits and playing in an OD League to pass time away.

# 153 TarHeelPhenom @ 07/21/12 05:27 AM

Also, it is for one my hope...and two my greates fear...that EA doesn't do to this game what it did to Fight Night Champion with all of ther tuners and patches. You fix one thing and break 3. That would really be disasterous!!!

# 154 Skulletor @ 07/21/12 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by TarHeelPhenom


	Also, it is for one my hope...and two my greates fear...that EA doesn't do to this game what it did to Fight Night Champion with all of ther tuners and patches. You fix one thing and break 3. That would really be disasterous!!!

that's what they did last year

# 155 stoncold32 @ 07/21/12 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Skulletor


	that's what they did last year

...and the year before that...and the year before that...and the year before that....

# 156 Knight9299 @ 07/21/12 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by HARTSTOPPER


	If this is the case, could you please pass along the following to get them to look at as it affects playability GREATLY: - Some counter run plays (mainly out of shotgun) are blown dead as soon as the RB takes the hand off and takes about 2-3 steps. (video example here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxj71_xnH2A&feature=plcp) - The frozen LB/CB/Safety on option plays (video example here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCYgPifIFUA) If those aren't affecting playability, i'm not really sure what is. Please pass this along as these two issues are some of the most talked about issues in the Bugs & Glitches thread that is stickied here on OS. Thank you very much.

Last year the corners in cover 3 or 4 were the only defenders frozen vs option. This year corners, safeties and linebackers are zombified and EA doesn't address it? Unbelievable

# 157 Gatorfan Frank @ 07/22/12 01:11 AM

Glad I didn't buy this. I purchased every EA NCAA Football game from 2003-2010, but held off these last two years. I haven't looked back since. All I've read about this year's and last year's games are negative. How can EA really this game with all this glaring **** wrong?

# 158 Golden Pepper @ 07/22/12 01:14 AM

Atleast EA didnt screw us over this year.... be happy with the game. u should be happy before the patch and happy after the patch

# 159 TheDirt @ 07/22/12 02:52 AM

Can someone tell me how to rename an offline dynasty file? EA says that's a workaround for the freezing issues but I can't figure out how to do it.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT - I see now how to rename - but I couldn't get into the dynasty to do it. I was freezing when loading the dynasty. I deleted my custom playbook and now I can get in FWIW.

EDIT 2 - I created another save file (which I assume is what is meant by "renaming"), and then I tried to play the game and it froze at the loading screen. lol

# 160 OaktownK @ 07/22/12 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by jmik58


	One other thing.. does anyone see where they are fixing the issue with running plays being blown dead randomly (especially on counters, etc)?

Had that happen to me as well a few times. A run straight up the middle with no one around and a catch near the sideline with no one around and just blown dead..lol

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