NCAA 14 open thread
The game has been available for 14 hours now and wanted to see what the rest of you were thinking so far.
EA suckered me into the season ticket a few months ago so I have been playing it since the 5th and have had a pretty positive experience. I'm one of the die hards that plays on Heisman and destroys teams by 70 with the likes of Toledo and UTSA. I had always felt that the past games were a little glitchy but overall a "good" experience. So far this years game has a lot of promise but I'm seeing some glaring holes while playing the CPU. I created my own playbook filled with I-form, pistol, and shotgun with a ton of read options. It's really fun to run but its becoming almost to easy. Just for kicks I played and entire game with toledo against bama running variations of the read option. Had 650 yards rushing and won 42-10. I found that to be a joke.
I have noticed it to be more difficult to run out of the power. Last year there was a money play out of ifrom twins where it was a power to the opposite side of the twins and if your fb lead through the lb or saftey, you were gone. That sequence is gone now but counters seem to have a little pop to them.
Passing is still a pain but doable if you know what your looking for. Short underneath routes are high percentage still. The deep ball seems more difficult to hit this year but I haven't messed around with that very much as I have been playing with the option to much to care yet. I'm not going to comment much on this.
Defense has been a lot harder vs the CPU and I've had more then a few, "I probably shouldn't whip my controller off the ground" moments. The Blitzs don't hit home nearly as much as they use to. CPU no huddle offense gives you absolutely no time to change forms or call press coverages. The ball carrier recovery feature is cool to watch unless its when your saftey is on an island and a TE just runs through him like a Mac truck. Overall its more realistic but the hair pulling moments are going to drive me nuts for the time being.
I have lightly skimmed over the dynasty so far and thought it looked pretty good and like the new concepts but I haven't dove in yet. I'm waiting for the Operation Sports rosters to come out before I go hard into that.
Whats your thoughts so far? Like? Dislike? best cover are ever? (answer is yes) Whats your money play (formation and primary reads) any rosters that are worth downloading yet?
add me on psn if you would like: Poshea49
I am in the middle of an Ultimate Team game right now. You basically are given cards with former NCAA players and you go out there and play ball. Up 7-0 on Arkansas State at the half.
So far this game seems pretty good.
Yeah, this is my first time trying this out. It's kind of fun, you get weekly challenges to do. I am about to play Miami in a "weekly challenge", but it's a stacked Miami team with Edgerrin James.
I guess, with all the rosters not available yet, this is one of the modes which has all names, so I decided to give it a shot until the rosters with names come out.
I didn't buy the game yet, but will eventually. I have a feeling this will be my last NCAA Football game because I just don't play it as much as I used to. If it were not for Denard's being on the cover, I likely would have just kept my '13 version, but I already traded that to an exchange store because I know I will get the '14 version by year's end. I'm just going to wait until it's about $30 or less.
If you like to download shared rosters, the username PASTAPADRE does a pretty good job. Might take a few days/weeks to get up though.
...Well, he does a good job stealing his rosters.
He won every season he was invovled in the league (all NCAA 2012 on xbox ) and never lost a game. He and I never played through a couple of flukes (so I don't have first hand knowledge- only being in the same league with him) but he pretty handly beat every human he played and always beat the computer by 40+ and sometimes 100+ if he wanted to. (As a baseline, I probably played 40-ish human games on 2013 and only lost once. I am certainly beatable, but not a scrub. I view him as MUCH better than I)
Edit- it was all played on heisman difficulty so he wasn't smoking the computer (or humans) on All American level.
Basically take my word for it or not. It doesn't really matter, but he is very very good.
I obviously can't vouch anything past 2012, but he played as PSU in our dynasty (obviously a much better team than Toledo) and I think he won every game against the computer by more than 100 the first year- I think just to show he could.
I haven't bought a copy for several years but picked one up today (360). I haven't seen any sites with rosters up yet, but can I start a dynasty and then upload a roster or once I start it do I have to stick with the fake names?
Yeah, can't switch names once you've started a dynasty. I usually just play religiously online until named rosters come out, then I start my dynasties.
Yes and yes. I got my email early this morning (about 7 am pacific time). But then again for some reason my game isn't actually going to be delivered until Thursday.
Joy, I did a in store pickup, got the email that I picked it up already but nothing on the code.
I picked mine up around 11 am and received my code email right when I got home from best buy.
how do you get 650 rushing yards on heisman? do you change the quarter length or do you just juke everybody?
Hope these are not spoilers but who have you seen?
Charles Woodson, Chad Henne, Tim Jamison, Braylon Edwards, Jake Long
Thats all I can confirm, anyone else?
I have seen Jamison and Henne. Most of the cards I have are Badgers and Buckeyes...ugh...
good news is I'm Michigan and winning by 3........bad news is I'm playing 2 players and I'm the only one with a controller! Watch out guys Urban & crew are going to be scary good!
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just got ps3 version - played M vs. Wash, both teams had grey cages. Silly complaint really, just don't know how something like that gets screwed up?
are caca. Rawls is faster than Fitz and Green. In fact, Fitz is Michigan's lowest rated tailback. Kalis is only a 75 (I guess, having not played a down yet, that could be fair). James Ross is still slow as hell. Norfleet is still on defense. Brink, Jones, Robinson and Ringer(?) are still on the roster. Shipwreck as far as UM is concerned, m'afraid.