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
Therefore I can't share any thoughts about this game.
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.
Let me know what you think of that. I have never gotten into ultimate team in the ea games. It's an interesting concept though.
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.
This is the first time ive ever played ultimate team, i dont play madden, and its awesome, been playing ultimate team all day and already have a 86 rated team and beat all the weekly challenges...
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.
pastapadre steals his rosters
...Well, he does a good job stealing his rosters.
I call bullshit if you have a 360 we can play later
nvm I see you have a psn. Someone with ps3 smack this guy for me, I can't stand liars
I'm liar? That's intense but ok. I mean I can screen shot all of my games if you want. if your member over at wolverine nation you could ask the guys over there what I use to do to them on NCAA 12 (Xbox tag was philbert05 but made the switch to Psn). I probably should have noted that I play religiously like 30+ years of online dynasty per game with my buddies.
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'm not doubting he's good I'm calling bullshit on 70-0 on heismen with Toledo vs Bama
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.
Where I'm from we call that LDS
Why don't you two take this outside.... Or in both of your cases, some virtual outdoor environment that you can pretend to kick each others ass.
The computer sucks. It falls for the same strategies no matter what difficulty you're on, you just have to run plays smarter and more precisely. I did the same thing in last year's game with EMU. I beat bama on heisman like 49-7 and the seven was because I felt like sending nine guys after Mccarron to see if i could injure him.
You sound like you play very similar style that I do. I won't lie, I took advantage of glaring holes in all the past NCAAs.. Power running, short over the middle routes, and retarded option defenses.. Defense was a joke. I got in nickle and would just send the front 4 and the 2 linebackers. Be one of the ends and line up out side the tackle and then kill the qb. That game had holes. I haven't found much on this one yet other then the really poor option defenses.
I was just wondering how you and your buddies set up your OD? Curious what is the best way for a long term one to start in terms of starting team stars, coordinator vs head coach, users in same conference vs different conference, if in different conferences do you play user games, do you stay with same program or bounce around jobs, and if you bounce jobs do you stay in same conference as other users? My buddies and I are starting one and I was just curious what a good, long term dynasty like yours had done
I've been playing ultimate team all day, probably will continue to untill the community roster are finished. I like the new running game however.
What's everyone think of the new recruiting. I was a fan of last year. Not sure how much I'm going to like this leveling up thing. It will be interesting.
Last years recruiting was super easy if you put a little bit of time in. So far this years recruiting is very difficult to get a lot of top talent. If you dont want to put a lot of time into it then it's probably better this year. I finished right behind ohio in third place in recruiting rankings and only had 3 players above a 73 ovr.
has its glitches but its more fun then the past few years. I've been playing a few days already. wish there was a complete ps3 roster out by now but close enough for now. AUScott7 has about 70% done for names only.
Yeah I saw that over at operation sports. From what I gathered its just names. He hasn't messed with numbers and attrition. I don't think he's done much with the coaches either. From what I have been reading the official OS rosters should be up Friday or Saturday.
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.
I did, haven't received the big ten ultimate team pack is it emailed?
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.
arrived at 6pm finally. I was mostly making sure its an email deal, I opened the box, checked the receipt and saw nothing. thanks
It's a different email from the pick up email, mine came about 10 min after I picked up my copy and got the first email..
It was like only one pack of like 5 or 6 guys from the big, not all them, unless I did something wrong...
how do you get 650 rushing yards on heisman? do you change the quarter length or do you just juke everybody?
There are variations of the option and the one that you can give to your hb on the first read, then pitch to your wr is just unstoppable. Terrance Owens just ran through the secondary most plays. I had 4 or 5 plays of 60 plus. Also had some stupid fumbles.
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...
Nothing against Jamison, but how'd he make the ultimate team!?
they do average guys so its not top heavy in 80-90 rated players.
So its more of an "alumni" team than an "ultimate" team?
Suppose to build an ultimate team playing, I'm not to familiar buy I believe you earn more packs over time and choose your ultimate team.
Junior Hemmingway, Desmond Howard, and Denard.
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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Rather than playing NCAA 14 in an indoor kiddy pool like I'd prefer, I'm currently in a traffic jam on the freeway with a broken AC and an hour to go. It's hotter than Spike Albrecht in March in here. If I expire before I get home, I wanted my last words to be Go Blue, Beat Ohio.
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.
It's not fair when you consider incoming freshmen are rated higher than Kalis.
Yea, once I noticed Bosch and Magnuson were rated higher I knew it was worse than I thought.
Add you on psn? After hearing how good you are, why would any one want to that and thus subject themselves to the possibility of such a massive virtual ego bruising?