07:59 PM - April 10, 2013 by Gotmadskillzson
EA Sports have posted a new NCAA Football 14 blog, which breaks down gameplay and Infinity Engine 2.0.
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NCAA Football 14 News Post
07:59 PM - April 10, 2013 by GotmadskillzsonEA Sports have posted a new NCAA Football 14 blog, which breaks down gameplay and Infinity Engine 2.0.
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# 21
mattynokes @ 04/11/13 09:04 AM
I hopeful, but skeptical. This was my favorite line:
"This year, we enhanced the running game by enabling you to make hard cuts on the field."
So...you're bringing back the L1/R1 cuts from the PS2 days and marketing it as a "new feature?"
"This year, we enhanced the running game by enabling you to make hard cuts on the field."
So...you're bringing back the L1/R1 cuts from the PS2 days and marketing it as a "new feature?"
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seriousluboy83 @ 04/11/13 09:34 AM
"Offense wasn’t the only side of the ball that got some love, this year in NCAA Football 14 you will find the Hitstick is much more powerful than ever before. Deliver bone crushing hits and tackles to the unsuspecting ball carrier."
Ugh, Really??? I just wish they'd just completely get rid of the hit-stick, it's SOOOO abusive by users it isn't even funny. Guys without high hit power now will be MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN BEFORE TOO and that worries me. Smh. Hope this doesn't jump to Madden 25 too but it probably will, smh.
Ugh, Really??? I just wish they'd just completely get rid of the hit-stick, it's SOOOO abusive by users it isn't even funny. Guys without high hit power now will be MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN BEFORE TOO and that worries me. Smh. Hope this doesn't jump to Madden 25 too but it probably will, smh.
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BLACKjersey53 @ 04/11/13 10:21 AM
Just assuming the lineman are zone blocking, because I recall seeing somewhere that zone blocking was the overall scheme for Offensive line play in NCAA games. I was always taught that double team blocks were executed with "two hands, four eyes," neither O-Lineman fully engaged with the defender. The goal is to block your man until A) you push him to the next level of defenders (with this being a zone blocking scheme, these guys should have a backer they are climbing to) or B) if your designated man scrapes over/comes down to fill gap. This is where your free outside hand comes in handy. If the backer comes over the right of his D-Lineman, the left offensive lineman engaged in the double comes off and takes the linebacker. Then, the lineman opposite to the one engaging the linebacker fully engages the D- Lineman. It becomes two man on man drive blocks. At my old school, we cut when we reached the backer. We may not take him down, but he still has to step back, over, or around us. That slows him down and gives the ball carrier more time to run by untouched.
Maybe I've been taught how to double team wrong, which means that a former SEC Offensive Lineman coached me wrong, or maybe Maryland just executes it slightly different that what I'm accustomed to, but you almost NEVER fully engage a defensive player if there is another lineman engaging him as well. The way that offensive lineman's shoulders are turned away from the field and defense would've gotten me cussed out at the JuCo level. You don't turn you shoulders, you keep them square with your outside hand free in case you have to come off the double team block to get a linebacker. It's extremely difficult to come off of a block to reach a guy running full speed at you if your shoulders are turned to him. He runs right past you and makes the play. This picture makes me wonder if the only thing improved on blocking was WHO TO BLOCK, not HOW TO BLOCK them. End rant.
Maybe I've been taught how to double team wrong, which means that a former SEC Offensive Lineman coached me wrong, or maybe Maryland just executes it slightly different that what I'm accustomed to, but you almost NEVER fully engage a defensive player if there is another lineman engaging him as well. The way that offensive lineman's shoulders are turned away from the field and defense would've gotten me cussed out at the JuCo level. You don't turn you shoulders, you keep them square with your outside hand free in case you have to come off the double team block to get a linebacker. It's extremely difficult to come off of a block to reach a guy running full speed at you if your shoulders are turned to him. He runs right past you and makes the play. This picture makes me wonder if the only thing improved on blocking was WHO TO BLOCK, not HOW TO BLOCK them. End rant.
[post piling on to a previous post]
[EA is just lazy]
[smh EA just smh]
[EA is just lazy]
[smh EA just smh]
Everyone sure is jumping to a lot of conclusions based on very little evidence. I also think people have unrealistic expectations when they say things like it looks the same. We're at the end of an era, the look of the games isn't going to change until next gen. They are using these new tools like the IE to perfect it for next gen, so we can truly have the best gameplay possible for years to come and not start all over. In the meantime I think ncaa 14 will be a vastly improved game compared to ncaa 13. I'm very confident in what this dev team is doing and Clint Oldenburg is going to get the o line stuff straightened out, that dudes working too hard for it not to be. Patience folks, the best football gaming of all time is around the corner.
JP, I used to have your enthusiam, but that is on a low level currently.
The only sliver of hope is the jump to NG.
The only sliver of hope is the jump to NG.
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Reality sets in and takes over hope.
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# 30
DorianDonP @ 04/11/13 12:17 PM
I'll still buy the game, but I will be buying used just like I did last year. I'll get a month out of it, then trade it in towards 2K, just like last year. Essentially a rental.
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But showing us that foot planting and cut back lanes are BACK in the game, when we last saw them on the PS2 and first Xbox feels like a spit in the face.
These are things that should have been in since NCAA 06 for the Xbox 360. They wasted our time this gen, they know it, we know it. For the life of me I don't understand how more people haven't figured it out.
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SageInfinite @ 04/11/13 01:06 PM
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thelasthurtknee @ 04/11/13 02:34 PM
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its really gonna come down to this next gen and if they do like they did last time and try to get the game out within the year of launch instead of building a good base for a few years, there will be a good chance we just get small upgrades every year with alot of marketing hype. but of course this is just my opinion after going through this a few times already with NCAA/BILL WALSH since the 90's
# 34
SteelerSpartan @ 04/11/13 02:46 PM
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I mean thats saying something EA....I have been an admitted addict to video game football since 05
I tried and tried to fall in love with their games. I was the kind of guy who would spend months fiddling with sliders to find that perfect formula every year. But by last year it just finally broke my spirits
Whats the saddest part is that, the thing I missed most about not getting the game last year was not being able to participate in the
"Photographic Side of NCAA" Great threads/pics guys
Im still trying to hold out hope that maybe once I see the full gameplay vids/play the demo then something might click. But that OL/DL non-news news just really socked the air out of me
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I am hoping the reason for this is they have now shifted a majority of their focus on the Next-Gen consoles. Personally, I am completely over this gen and the horrible engine they have been trying to build on for 8 years. Hopefully the developers, and suits at EA feel the same way and are planning on wow'ing us with an all new experience next-gen.
This is EA's chance to (semi) right the wrongs they have brought to their football fan base over the last 8 years. I will never forget how horrible this gen was for football gaming, but I will certainly forgive EA if they can put together a GREAT football game for the upcoming consoles.
They certainly have the money, tools and man power to make a great game. Lets see what they do.....
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I don't think there is much they can do with the engine they currently have.
It's been a loooooooooooooooooong wait.
Every year, we in the OS community get a little smarter BUT there will always be new people who come along and get immediately sucked into the hype just like we all did when we were the noobs. The cycle remains the same:
Noob> forgiving> hopeful> frustrated>optimistic >angry> clinging to hopefulness> see same issues for 5 years in a row> give up> do not buy on release day anymore> rent> throw out window> get smart and trade in> divorce EA > DONE.
Noob>forgiving............................
My 16 marriage to Ncaa football ended 2 years ago but there is still a part of me that hopes someday the old NCAA football will come back. Ncaa 06, why did you grow up and change? I dont even know who you are anymore.
Noob> forgiving> hopeful> frustrated>optimistic >angry> clinging to hopefulness> see same issues for 5 years in a row> give up> do not buy on release day anymore> rent> throw out window> get smart and trade in> divorce EA > DONE.
Noob>forgiving............................
My 16 marriage to Ncaa football ended 2 years ago but there is still a part of me that hopes someday the old NCAA football will come back. Ncaa 06, why did you grow up and change? I dont even know who you are anymore.
# 38
SageInfinite @ 04/11/13 04:03 PM
If we finally get a football game next gen worth all the hype and disappointment of this gen, that will be one glorious day. I'll probably run around my block twice.
The pick doesn't really tell me much it looks very similar to the other years. I'm excited about this game and hopefully the changes they made will make for a better experience.
There is always a group of "this games sucks before I played it" on this board. Which is fine. But some of the post to me seem like ppl expect this game to be as real as football on Saturdays and that will never be the case. Ben Hamiular had a great point in his ign video. he said "fumbled snaps happen in real life, but if you fumbled a snap in the 4th quarter down 7 in your opponents redzone you wouldn't like that gameplay and would hate us for adding that." No matter what EA adds there are certain groups of ppl that will say, the line will never block perfect enough, the socks are not long enough, The numbers are too big, the jersey color is not right.
I'm not saying their latest offering was perfect. But they are making progress.
Ppl talk about the glory days of PS2 and all these older football games as if they were without glitches and flaws. The difference back then was that there was very limited online play and there was no youtube and ebook to help ppl learn glitches and money plays to circumvent the A.I. You had to find that on your own.
For all the ppl complaining about Divsion 2 schools not being in the game ....where they ever really? 90% of the division 2 rosters were a joke they were all generic with maybe the correct number and position. White players were black and vice versa. I think perspective is the key here.
There is always a group of "this games sucks before I played it" on this board. Which is fine. But some of the post to me seem like ppl expect this game to be as real as football on Saturdays and that will never be the case. Ben Hamiular had a great point in his ign video. he said "fumbled snaps happen in real life, but if you fumbled a snap in the 4th quarter down 7 in your opponents redzone you wouldn't like that gameplay and would hate us for adding that." No matter what EA adds there are certain groups of ppl that will say, the line will never block perfect enough, the socks are not long enough, The numbers are too big, the jersey color is not right.
I'm not saying their latest offering was perfect. But they are making progress.
Ppl talk about the glory days of PS2 and all these older football games as if they were without glitches and flaws. The difference back then was that there was very limited online play and there was no youtube and ebook to help ppl learn glitches and money plays to circumvent the A.I. You had to find that on your own.
For all the ppl complaining about Divsion 2 schools not being in the game ....where they ever really? 90% of the division 2 rosters were a joke they were all generic with maybe the correct number and position. White players were black and vice versa. I think perspective is the key here.
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That statement is nothing but a cop out from him. One of his many lame cop outs that he's been using this entire console generation. He's a joke..
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