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
He did all but 29 teams, updated it today. This is for ps3.
I downloaded this roster, but it seems to be incomplete for Michigan with only a few players named (if I recall correctly, just QBs). Is this still a work in progress, or am I missing something...aside from the names of all the other players?
Thanks for the heads up though...
Okay...had some time to play some more Ultimate Team.
The team I have compiled is so bad they got blown out by Miami (14-0, 31-6 the second time) in the weekly challenge twice. Arian Foster gets hurt every time. Ryan Tannehill is my starting QB, and Mark Sanchez is the backup.
I think I might have to practice some more before I try those challenges...or make some kind of improvements to the team. I shouldn't be this bad at the weekly challenges, on Varsity mode. That Miami team is damn good.
At least Kirk Cousins is not your best QB like me.
yep, Cousins is my starter as well with Henne as the backup. Cousins ended up getting injured against Miami. Now Henne is my starter with Ponder as the backup. At least Bo Jackson is a beast even though my line is a sieve.
Completely agree. My secondary is getting torched right now. I have a bunch of scrubs in at CB and and mike. I don't give up big plays, but teams are able to drive right down the field with 8 yard passes at a time.
Seven Nation Army and pre game stuff is more fine tuned. I've been impressed thus far.
Yeah, I figured it out right after I posted. The directions that they sent with the code are so wrong it's not funny.
Played my first online game last night. Got beat. It was a little laggy though so every time I'd go after the ball as a db the game wouldn't react in real time.
Still an awesome game and the first one I've gotten since 2009.
the demo, but I have reading on a couple other sites about how defense (run defense and zone passing defense in particular) is severly lacking regardless of sliders or difficulty being used. That was the one aspect of the demo I didn't like, the run game seemed to be completely overpowered on both sides. Even on Heisman I was easily getting 5+ yards a pop against Alabama's D using VT on Heisman. Many aspects of the demo felt like an improvement, but I think I will wait and see what more people have to say about defense in the game, and if EA balances things more with tuners/patches. Can't really enjoy the game if every game turns into a scoring fest, and good to great defenses don't show any teeth regardless of slider or difficulty adjustments.
At this point I have been dissapointed too many times by NCAA Football this gen,(last year was the first year I waited for a price drop before buying),to rush out and buy it right at release. It just seems like EA works in extremes, they finally improve the poor run blocking logic and option game, but may have gone overboard and made them overpowered.
I would. I wasn't too enthusiastic about it at first, and I was reluctant to trade in '13. But after trying out Ultimate team and Franchise mode, I'm sold. It's a solid game.
Plus, those physics look pretty good.