• NCAA Football 12: Custom Playbooks

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    JBHuskers
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    EA SPORTS has just notified us that we can both confirm and freely talk about anything that has to do with Custom Playbooks. Please feel free to post any questions, thoughts, and concerns that you may have within the comments.



    • Total plays - The max number is 377, but it varies between 370-377 based on the teams base playbook.
    • Playbooks - 15 on offense 15 on defense
    • 40 formations total
    • Can be used in Online Dynasty and ranked/unranked online games
    • Goalline and Special teams are in each playbook
    • The max number of formations will depend on the playbook.
    • Cannot edit Goal Line, Special Teams or Hail Mary. The number of plays in defensive playbooks is also dependent upon the base playbook selected so it falls into the 377-370 range as well.
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    1. morsdraconis's Avatar
      morsdraconis - 05-09-2011, 02:05 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by JBHuskers View Post
      I don't believe so.
      Then it's really not a custom playbook then is it? You still have to use the plays that are scripted for the formation, even if they aren't in your playbook.
    1. JBHuskers's Avatar
      JBHuskers - 05-09-2011, 02:05 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by psuexv View Post
      Any limitations to how many plays per formation you have to choose... low end and high end?
      By default, when you add a formation, you will have all of the plays under that formation checked. From there, you can go in and take out or reorder plays.
    1. psuexv's Avatar
      psuexv - 05-09-2011, 02:07 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by JBHuskers View Post
      If it wasn't for our early feedback last year, it would have been a lot worse. Thankfully a good amount of our suggestions and changes were put in for the playcall last year.

      This year, it's much better, it'll just take you a little time to adjust.
      Nice work guys

      BTW - can we get a pat myself on the back emoticon for JB
    1. JBHuskers's Avatar
      JBHuskers - 05-09-2011, 02:07 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by psuexv View Post
      Nice work guys

      BTW - can we get a pat myself on the back emoticon for JB
      I'll look for one, maybe I didn't say MY feedback, I said OURS
    1. psuexv's Avatar
      psuexv - 05-09-2011, 02:08 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by JBHuskers View Post
      By default, when you add a formation, you will have all of the plays under that formation checked. From there, you can go in and take out or reorder plays.
      So if I only like one play under Ace Spread Flex, I can have only one play under that formation?
    1. psuexv's Avatar
      psuexv - 05-09-2011, 02:09 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by JBHuskers View Post
      From there, you can go in and take out or reorder plays.
      I must have missed this somewhere but reordering the plays is a very nice feature
    1. champ195797's Avatar
      champ195797 - 05-09-2011, 02:10 PM
      Does formation subs work with this
    1. gschwendt's Avatar
      gschwendt - 05-09-2011, 02:10 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by psuexv View Post
      Any limitations to how many plays per formation you have to choose... low end and high end?
      The lowest you can have is 1 play. The highest you can have is all of the plays available in that formation.
      Quote Originally Posted by morsdraconis View Post
      Then it's really not a custom playbook then is it? You still have to use the plays that are scripted for the formation, even if they aren't in your playbook.
      I'm working on getting clarification as to what happens when you add/remove plays that are formation audibles. As well, if you only have four plays in that formation, what happens to the audibles? I'll let you know what kind of response I get.
    1. I OU a Beatn's Avatar
      I OU a Beatn - 05-09-2011, 02:11 PM
      At least they had enough sense to make them available online as well. Really sweet addition and one I've been waiting for for years. Nice job, EA.
    1. gschwendt's Avatar
      gschwendt - 05-09-2011, 02:11 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by champ195797 View Post
      Does formation subs work with this
      Yes
    1. JBHuskers's Avatar
      JBHuskers - 05-09-2011, 02:17 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by psuexv View Post
      I must have missed this somewhere but reordering the plays is a very nice feature
      Yep basically you press and hold down or and then arrow up, down, left, or right as your pressing down or to re-order the plays as you wish.
    1. gschwendt's Avatar
      gschwendt - 05-09-2011, 02:19 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by psuexv View Post
      I must have missed this somewhere but reordering the plays is a very nice feature
      You can see it in action here:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXWCM...ailpage#t=192s
    1. CLW's Avatar
      CLW - 05-09-2011, 02:21 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by gschwendt View Post
      Just got clarification that both the Formation count and the Play count is all dependent on what base playbook you start with. Kwizzy will be able to better answer that in regards to defensive playbooks.


      By this do you mean package subs or formation subs? Package subs should be yes (meaning you'll still have all of the same package subs that you have now), formation subs I believe is no but I'm not positive on that one.


      Yes. You will still be able to used the linked plays, obviously so long as both plays are in that formation.
      Actually I didn't even think about formation subs. That's a little "odd" that you wouldn't be able to use formation subs after you created a custom playbook.

      I was simply referring to the packages where you can go "big" in ace bunch for example (I cannot recall the exact terminology) or in some cases a HB or CB package for the 5th WR in 5 wide sets.
    1. JBHuskers's Avatar
      JBHuskers - 05-09-2011, 02:21 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by psuexv View Post
      So if I only like one play under Ace Spread Flex, I can have only one play under that formation?
      Yep!
    1. gschwendt's Avatar
      gschwendt - 05-09-2011, 02:23 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by CLW View Post
      Actually I didn't even think about formation subs. That's a little "odd" that you wouldn't be able to use formation subs after you created a custom playbook.
      Sorry, I misunderstood what you were asking. Yes, you can certianly use formation subs. I thought you were asking was if you customized your formation subs for the default Duke playbook, then created a new playbook based off of Duke, would it carry over your formation subs that you made to the default. The answer to that is no. BUT, yes you can certain use formation subs with your custom playbook.
    1. Solidice's Avatar
      Solidice - 05-09-2011, 02:24 PM
      I know the goal line formation is locked, but can you choose which goal line formation to use? in NCAA 11 there were about 2 or 3 different goal line formations(tight, normal, power I, etc..).
    1. gschwendt's Avatar
      gschwendt - 05-09-2011, 02:25 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by Solidice View Post
      I know the goal line formation is locked, but can you choose which goal line formation to use? in NCAA 11 there were about 2 or 3 different goal line formations(tight, normal, power I, etc..).
      No. The only way to choose which goalline formation you wish to use would be to start with that team's base playbook (ie start with Florida to get the Wishbone goalline).
    1. CLW's Avatar
      CLW - 05-09-2011, 02:25 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by gschwendt View Post
      Sorry, I misunderstood what you were asking. Yes, you can certianly use formation subs. I thought you were asking was if you customized your formation subs for the default Duke playbook, then created a new playbook based off of Duke, would it carry over your formation subs that you made to the default. The answer to that is no. BUT, yes you can certain use formation subs with your custom playbook.
      O.K. we are on the same page now.

      Just to make sure:

      If I take Duke's playbook and they have Ace Bunch with a "Big" Package (that puts a 2nd TE and I think FB) in instead of WR in the bunch that "Package" will also be available to me in my Custom Playbook?
    1. gschwendt's Avatar
      gschwendt - 05-09-2011, 02:26 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by CLW View Post
      If I take Duke's playbook and they have Ace Bunch with a "Big" Package (that puts a 2nd TE and I think FB) in instead of WR in the bunch that "Package" will also be available to me in my Custom Playbook?
      Yes, the package subs are universal to that formation so those will carry over when you add that formation to your playbook.
    1. CLW's Avatar
      CLW - 05-09-2011, 02:27 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by Solidice View Post
      I know the goal line formation is locked, but can you choose which goal line formation to use? in NCAA 11 there were about 2 or 3 different goal line formations(tight, normal, power I, etc..).
      Quote Originally Posted by gschwendt View Post
      No. The only way to choose which goalline formation you wish to use would be to start with that team's base playbook (ie start with Florida to get the Wishbone goalline).
      So the answer is actually Yes. Just make sure to pick the team's Base playbook with the goalline formation you want. The way I understand it you could then delete the rest of the entire playbook and insert an entirely different playbook and still keep the "special" goalline formation.
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