NCAA Football 13 - Dynasty Mode Improvements

[gschwendt]

Lots of nice stuff but as many of you know, in-game saves is wishlist #1 for me. Can that be confirmed as not being in the game this year? Any insight if it will ever make it in?

It's not in this year.

No idea if/when it would be added but I know that there's more request for it since apparently NBA 2K has it in (not sure how long they've had it). That said, I could see them adding a "bookmark" feature for online user OD games so that if you lose connection, you wouldn't have to restart... if they ever do that, then I would assume they could piggy-back it to give some kind of in-game save function as well. This post is 100% speculation though.

[gschwendt]

Oh, another big thing is that with these new athletes, you'll definitely finally see the Cam Newtons and Denard Robinsons. You can definitely find a mix of explosive athletes that can also throw the ball. Should be very interesting combined with the new option attack.

[WolverineJay]

gschwendt I know I have seen you mention that the Spread Option game has seen a very nice upgrade with faster option meshes and quicker QB's when they decide to keep it, but what if any changes were done to the quicksand effect when running QB Powers or Blasts or Draws from Shotgun 5WR sets?

[gschwendt]

gschwendt I know I have seen you mention that the Spread Option game has seen a very nice upgrade with faster option meshes and quicker QB's when they decide to keep it, but what if any changes were done to the quicksand effect when running QB Powers or Blasts or Draws from Shotgun 5WR sets?

Yeah... those were quite a bit better. They sped-up pretty well all of those animations so you should be able to have a better running game attack with the QB. I didn't test out the Wildcat, but I imagine it will impact those plays as well.

[SmoothPancakes]

In addition to the roulette wheel gone and the changes to the recruiting system, I also love that finally, we can take leaps on recruits who don't have us in their top 10 to start the season and try to legitimately recruit our way onto their list and gain their interest while those top programs that don't even spend 10 minutes on them all fall off the list as that recruits loses interest in those programs since they aren't showing any interest in him.

[WolverineJay]

Thanks gschwendt that is very nice to hear since I always end up running a Dynasty with my 5WR Golden "O" offense and last year it was almost impossible to call any designed QB runs thanks to the slow-mo starts to QB run plays.

[WolverineJay]

In addition to the roulette wheel gone and the changes to the recruiting system, I also love that finally, we can take leaps on recruits who don't have us in their top 10 to start the season and try to legitimately recruit our way onto their list and gain their interest while those top programs that don't even spend 10 minutes on them all fall off the list as that recruits loses interest in those programs since they aren't showing any interest in him.

I completely agree. I called for something similar in my wish for sending out letters to gain interest in new recruits and this seems to be along the same line of thinking that I had with being able to pop into guys top 10. I never liked that the game decided all of the recruits' interest in my school.

[Kwizzy]

In addition to the roulette wheel gone and the changes to the recruiting system, I also love that finally, we can take leaps on recruits who don't have us in their top 10 to start the season and try to legitimately recruit our way onto their list and gain their interest while those top programs that don't even spend 10 minutes on them all fall off the list as that recruits loses interest in those programs since they aren't showing any interest in him.

An undersold aspect of this too should be increased CPU recruiting effectiveness. Now recruits will not sit around waiting for their top schools who aren't interested. They will start to pay more attention to the smaller schools that do have interest.

[gschwendt]

Additionally, CPU chooses their targeted recruits more effectively. You should see less (possibly none) instances of the CPU having 8 QBs on their roster. Now they'll take into account needs for that season, recruits that really like them, and then will start looking at the junior class to determine needs for the future. That should be a big help in making sure that they build a solid roster so that when you take over for them in Year 5, you're not stuck with more QBs than total OL.

[FoleyLions]

is it really only 19 minutes long??

[gschwendt]

is it really only 19 minutes long??

No... they had storms during the broadcast and for a brief period it was cut-out. You're probably only seeing the last portion of the broadcast. In all, it was around 1.5 hours or so.

I sent a note to the guy that produces these segments to give him a heads up. Hopefully they'll upload the full thing.

[FoleyLions]

is there anywhere to see a replay of the show, the livestream plays the last 19 mins over and over agian and on youtube its only the last 19 mins.

[morsdraconis]

Could I get a link to the archive for this? The link in the main post doesn't appear to have the video in the archive (or, at least, I'm an idiot and don't see it)?

[FoleyLions]

http://www.livestream.com/easports at the bottom is the archive but it isnt archived yet

[NatureBoy]

I'm very excited on the things I saw today. Can't wait to fire this thing up on the 360.

[gschwendt]

Going back through the thread, I saw discussion on whether or not you have to scout players. You don't have to scout players yourself, however like recruiting, if you have time remaining in your scouting bucket, the CPU will use it for you to scout the players on your board. So far as I'm aware, there's not a way to turn off the scouting function but I could be mistaken.

[souljahbill]

So is it too late to get EA to change gem/bust to under/overrated?

[gschwendt]

So is it too late to get EA to change gem/bust to under/overrated?

Probably... we gave that suggestion in April but it didn't sound like it would be changed.

[JBHuskers]

That's really good to hear. Is it fair to say that this will make recruiting tougher for 1star teams?


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It absolutely should. I didn't get to dig in very deep with the Dynasty stuff but based on what I saw, it definitely should be tough if you're going up against one of the big boys.

Yeah this is the case because if you're a small school with low ratings, you're not going to earn many points. That's where carefully selecting promises is going to be big because that is where your biggest points are going to lie in a call.

For example the pitch is a D+ and they have a low interest in that pitch, you're going to only get points in the single digit range, or even negative.

[JBHuskers]

So is it too late to get EA to change gem/bust to under/overrated?

When I looked at things in April, it seemed like the bust overlay was removed (I believe CDJ saw it in March). I only saw gems. Tommy, did you see a bust overlay on the player card?