NCAA Football 13 - Dynasty Mode Issues

Started a Dynasty yesterday. I had the game freeze twice. Once when I was setting up my recruiting board, then I quit for a while, and then froze again when I started to scout in the preseason. Also, the recruiting screens seemed choppy.

In my first game, I had the slow motion player glitch. I had a TE moving in slow motion before every snap. It takes him longer to line up and his motion was choppy as well. This happened for an entire drive at the end of the game.

Lastly, I do not like the decision to not let us press "x" and skip to the play call screen after the play. I am annoyed by that 2 seconds. I don't care about the game track, or in game updates. I don't even want the ticker on the bottom. I just want to play a fast continuous game. Everything else gets in the way. There should be an option to turn everything off.

That was only the negatives, if I didn't mention something assume it was good.

I had a freeze yesterday too, while trying to load a Dynasty Wire story.

FWIW, I've had no problem pressing X to proceed to the next play. It doesn't seem any different than the previous games for me.

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Originally Posted by JeffHCross

I had a freeze yesterday too, while trying to load a Dynasty Wire story.

FWIW, I've had no problem pressing X to proceed to the next play. It doesn't seem any different than the previous games for me.

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I've also ran into the freezing issue. I am the OC at UMASS and I was up 38-3 with 2:38 left to play. It was on AA difficulty. When the screen went to proceed to the sim screen, the game froze. It was very frustrating since it was
My first game in year 2. Now, last year, my game froze at least once every time I played, sometimes twice. Almost every time this occurred it was going into the sim feature after a TD or XP. My game was almost in perfect condition throughout the year, so I'm not sure what could have caused this to happen. I just hope it doesn't pose as a problem this year like it did last year.

I am having. Ad freeze issues as well I am going to try and add a recruit or something then play the game to see if that helps a all

I added a recruit and then it worked

ive noticed that after season 1 in dynasty, that several teams only have 11 games scheduled...i didnt change the conferences or the schedule in 'custom schedule' either...for example, ohio state and nebraska only had 11 games, while michigan and michigan state had 12...and there are several more that only have 11

Yeah I would like to know about the mics not working in the OD lobby. It takes the fun out of winning a big game and not being able to brag about it to everyone. If they could make it like Madden's lobby it would be sweet. Overall love the game I just wanna do some trash talking in the lobby in the meantime.

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Originally Posted by Tako 715

Started a Dynasty yesterday. I had the game freeze twice. Once when I was setting up my recruiting board, then I quit for a while, and then froze again when I started to scout in the preseason. Also, the recruiting screens seemed choppy.

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I have had the game freeze on me everytime I go into the recruitng part of Dynasty. It happens within 10 minutes of looking at prospects, scouting prospects(both letting each attribute slowly get revealed or by pressing X and having all the attributes revealed immediately), calling prospects, and searching for new prospects. This is killing the game for me and the only work around I use is to let the CPU do all recruitng/scouting which sucks. I hope all the Dynasty stability issues get fixed ASAP or I'm probably done with 13' what's the [point when the game freezes every single time.

I've had the same problem so now I play RTG. Seems to work fine

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Originally Posted by JeffHCross

I would love to know if it's 127 or 128. Because that would be awesome.

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Found out today. It's 128.

Btw, I played a 3 player co-op dynasty with some friends, and the commentary did NOT work. No Nessler, Herbie, or Rece at any time for any game. We checked all settings. Don't have a clue what's up.

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Originally Posted by TIMB0B

Found out today. It's 128.

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128 is the tackle where it resets. That is to say, 127 displays fine and 128 shows as 1, yes? If so: Bahahahaha, perfect. Means they're using a signed byte for the value, which has a value range from -128 to 127. Strange, because I would expect they'd used unsigned, which is 0 to 255.

Had some major issues with freezing last night and today in my offline dynasty. Before that occurred, I had an instance pre-snap where my LG and C were invisible on the field, leaving a HUGE gap in my OL obviously. I have a picture of it on my phone. Later in the game, playing with UMASS in my offline dynasty against UTSA in year 3, my game froze with 1:52 in the 3rd. It occurred while entering the sim feature. When I tried to re-start it it froze on the loading screen going into the game TWICE. So, I decided to just sim the game and hope for a win. To my surprise I actually won my game, BUT... while the week was advancing, low and behold, my game froze yet again. After that I decided to call it quite and just try this morning.

Well, this morning I wake up, pop in the game, and go to select my dynasty and while it is loading to enter the dynasty, it freezes AGAIN. At this moment, I am infuriated with all of the freezing and problems, but I was suggested to delete the game from my hard drive and get rid of any unnecessary online dynasties. After doing this, I turned the game back on, and again, while entering the dynasty, my game froze. So, apparently I am going to have to just give up on the dynasty after 2 1/4 seasons. Not sure why it is freezing this much.

Beartide, can you post any further details?

What week? Are you using a custom playbook? Have you played UTSA before this season? Are you a coordinator or just chose to super-sim? Did you try making a change (add a recruit, change the depth chart, or something else) before starting/simming your game?

Add any details that you can and I'll make sure to pass it long to the devs... since it's re-occurring for you, I want to document whatever we can. Added, since it involves two brand new teams, I'm curious if it's related or coincidental.

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Originally Posted by JeffHCross

128 is the tackle where it resets. That is to say, 127 displays fine and 128 shows as 1, yes? If so: Bahahahaha, perfect. Means they're using a signed byte for the value, which has a value range from -128 to 127. Strange, because I would expect they'd used unsigned, which is 0 to 255.

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Haha, Jeff, I thought you weren't a programmer?

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Originally Posted by JeffHCross

128 is the tackle where it resets. That is to say, 127 displays fine and 128 shows as 1, yes? If so: Bahahahaha, perfect. Means they're using a signed byte for the value, which has a value range from -128 to 127. Strange, because I would expect they'd used unsigned, which is 0 to 255.

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Yes

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Originally Posted by JeffHCross

128 is the tackle where it resets. That is to say, 127 displays fine and 128 shows as 1, yes? If so: Bahahahaha, perfect. Means they're using a signed byte for the value, which has a value range from -128 to 127. Strange, because I would expect they'd used unsigned, which is 0 to 255.

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Wow, that's pretty mind boggling. Nobody at EA had enough foresight to realize somebody might get more than 127 tackles in a season?!? LOL.

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Originally Posted by gschwendt

Beartide, can you post any further details?

What week? Are you using a custom playbook? Have you played UTSA before this season? Are you a coordinator or just chose to super-sim? Did you try making a change (add a recruit, change the depth chart, or something else) before starting/simming your game?

Add any details that you can and I'll make sure to pass it long to the devs... since it's re-occurring for you, I want to document whatever we can. Added, since it involves two brand new teams, I'm curious if it's related or coincidental.

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Sure thing, gschwendt. It was in week 3 of my offline dynasty. It was my first instance playing UTSA with UMASS. I did my recruiting and everything as usual before the game. No changes. I am not using a custom playbook. I am the OC at UMASS so it automatically went to super-sim after they made a defensive stop on third down. I was winning 59-7. I am playing on AA with them with Heisman recruiting and default custom AI sliders on AA. Now, my penalties are set differently and my player speed threshold is at 15. I was 0-1 going into the week after losing to ole miss 48-41. I had a bye week in week 1 and week 4. I was playing 7 min. quarters, too. Sorry about the lack of details.

Last year, I had many issues with the game freezing when going to a super-sim after an XP primarily, and sometimes it would happen at various other times.

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Originally Posted by ebin

Wow, that's pretty mind boggling. Nobody at EA had enough foresight to realize somebody might get more than 127 tackles in a season?!? LOL.

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My average seems to be around 134 a season. Perhaps I should bench my LB for a game. :D

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Originally Posted by beartide06

Sure thing, gschwendt. It was in week 3 of my offline dynasty. It was my first instance playing UTSA with UMASS. I did my recruiting and everything as usual before the game. No changes. I am not using a custom playbook. I am the OC at UMASS so it automatically went to super-sim after they made a defensive stop on third down. I was winning 59-7. I am playing on AA with them with Heisman recruiting and default custom AI sliders on AA. Now, my penalties are set differently and my player speed threshold is at 15. I was 0-1 going into the week after losing to ole miss 48-41. I had a bye week in week 1 and week 4. I was playing 7 min. quarters, too. Sorry about the lack of details.

Last year, I had many issues with the game freezing when going to a super-sim after an XP primarily, and sometimes it would happen at various other times.

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One last question... do you play any of the CPU games? I've seen reports of playing CPU games out of order (ie playing a 8pm game first and then playing your 3pm game after) causes issues similar to what you're experiencing.

So... should I even bother starting my Coaching Offline Career or wait/hope for a patch?

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Originally Posted by CLW

So... should I even bother starting my Coaching Offline Career or wait/hope for a patch?

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I'm waiting on the patch and just playing rivalry games with trophies (and Mass Effect) until then.

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Originally Posted by sl8b

Haha, Jeff, I thought you weren't a programmer?

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You may be being sarcastic, but if so it's going right over my head :D By trade, no, I'm not, I'm a tester (though that may be changing soon). But my degree was focused in software development.

TIMB0B, you should probably post that over in: http://www.thegamingtailgate.com/for...t-amp-Feedback. I'd post it for you, but you deserve the credit.

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Originally Posted by ebin

Wow, that's pretty mind boggling. Nobody at EA had enough foresight to realize somebody might get more than 127 tackles in a season?!? LOL.

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I'd imagine that it's less "lack of foresight" and more "unintentional oversight". There's no reason to intentionally set it to a signed byte -- except I'd imagine that most of the other statistics are signed. So they probably just kept the setting consistent.

I also wonder if that's something new. I don't remember that limit existing in the past.

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Originally Posted by JeffHCross

You may be being sarcastic, but if so it's going right over my head :D By trade, no, I'm not, I'm a tester (though that may be changing soon). But my degree was focused in software development.

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No, not really sarcastic. I've just noticed that you go out of your way to be humble when it comes to your knowledge of anything software related. When in fact you know quite a bit. Plus, anyone that would post 'bwahahahaha' about a data type has probably written a script or two in his day. In what little message boarding time I have these days, I'm pretty much spending about 95% of it here, so I'm just trying to mix it up a little bit and get to know the regulars. Once I get the CM online dynasty guys to migrate from the other site, that 95 will change to 100.

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Originally Posted by gschwendt

One last question... do you play any of the CPU games? I've seen reports of playing CPU games out of order (ie playing a 8pm game first and then playing your 3pm game after) causes issues similar to what you're experiencing.

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No sir, I sure have not been playing the CPU games. I have been playing strictly mine. However, I was able to advance the week after deleting a couple of online dynasty files. Not sure if that has anything at all to do with the issue, but could it be possible that it does have something to do with it?

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Originally Posted by sl8b

Plus, anyone that would post 'bwahahahaha' about a data type has probably written a script or two in his day.

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And has made that mistake (or similar ones) himself a time or two :D

I thought you might be being sarcastic because, while you're right that I do downplay the knowledge (because it's textbook knowledge rather than on-the-job knowledge), I thought I did make it clear that I know a thing or two about coding. And occasionally I've gotten myself in trouble by being overly cocky about it. So I was surprised you knew enough about me to ask that question, yet didn't know the answer. Sometimes I forget what I talk about with whom :)

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Originally Posted by beartide06

No sir, I sure have not been playing the CPU games. I have been playing strictly mine. However, I was able to advance the week after deleting a couple of online dynasty files. Not sure if that has anything at all to do with the issue, but could it be possible that it does have something to do with it?

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The only way I could see that being the issue is if you are really low on HDD space but even that shouldn't be the issue.

I'll gather all of this up and send it to EA tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by JeffHCross

TIMB0B, you should probably post that over in: http://www.thegamingtailgate.com/for...t-amp-Feedback. I'd post it for you, but you deserve the credit.

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By all means, Jeff, go ahead and post it. I don't need credit (unless you mean EA reads this and are looking for people to hire by what they post. :) ).

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Originally Posted by gschwendt

The only way I could see that being the issue is if you are really low on HDD space but even that shouldn't be the issue.

I'll gather all of this up and send it to EA tomorrow.

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Well, I have 182GB left on my hard drive, so that's not the issue :D
Maybe EA can figure out the issue. Thanks, man!

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Originally Posted by JeffHCross

I'd imagine that it's less "lack of foresight" and more "unintentional oversight". There's no reason to intentionally set it to a signed byte -- except I'd imagine that most of the other statistics are signed. So they probably just kept the setting consistent.

I also wonder if that's something new. I don't remember that limit existing in the past.

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You're right, oversight is probably a better word for it, but man, it seems like pretty straightforward cause and effect: "What are the limitations of storing the tackle statistic in a signed byte? Oh yeah, max value of 127. Yup, better make it unsigned, especially since you can't have negative tackles."

It's one of the basic tenets of database design. You've got to think about what's possible within the constraints of the system when deciding what data type to use in a given situation.

And yeah, it does seem new. I've definitely had seasons in the past where a guy ends up with 130-140 tackles.

I had my first freeze tonight in offline dynasty.

No super sim, but a few things happened that are firsts for me:

• I had 10 minutes of scout time left before the game, all previous weeks were used entirely
• Before the game I played around with uni's, mixing and matching, another first this year in this dynasty
• I chose garnet jersey's and white pants (I'm So. Car. playing UGA)
• When the game started, we had on all white at home and Jawja wore home uni's
• This is the first game where I've used stadium sounds this year

The game froze in the 2nd quarter right after a TD, but I don't have sound attached to a TD, only for the XP because I don't like the fight song getting cut off just to play again. If the WR didn't score, it would have been a 1st down, which triggers a sound, but the game doesn't recognize 1st downs on scoring plays IIRC. He barely got in, so maybe it was a "bad call" that would have been overturned and the system didn't know what to do with the custom sound? I'm reaching, but who knows.

I don't use custom playbooks.

If you need any other info, let me know.

Damnit. I was all ready to get my coaching carousel career dynasty resumed after moving to '13, just had to get sliders sorted out, and I was gonna start it up. Now you're all making extremely scared and hesitant to even create one with all this discussion now of offline dynasties freezing. :(

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Originally Posted by ebin

And yeah, it does seem new. I've definitely had seasons in the past where a guy ends up with 130-140 tackles.

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Well, what is new is the ability to sort Total Tackles now, instead of it aligning with Solo tackles. Maybe that has something to do with the oversight.

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Originally Posted by Kruszer

ive noticed that after season 1 in dynasty, that several teams only have 11 games scheduled...i didnt change the conferences or the schedule in 'custom schedule' either...for example, ohio state and nebraska only had 11 games, while michigan and michigan state had 12...and there are several more that only have 11

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Does it let you add a 12th game?

So... I attempt to go to my recruiting board Week 1 and the damn game just locks up/freezes. I see allot of reports of freezing. Is this the transfer fail equivalent for 13?

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Originally Posted by CLW

So... I attempt to go to my recruiting board Week 1 and the damn game just locks up/freezes. I see allot of reports of freezing. Is this the transfer fail equivalent for 13?

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That is something I was pondering myself. The freezing issue seems to have escalated to a higher degree this year. Hopefully, with the new patches coming out in the next month, they will eliminate most of these issues.

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Originally Posted by TIMB0B

By all means, Jeff, go ahead and post it. I don't need credit (unless you mean EA reads this and are looking for people to hire by what they post. :) ).

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I wish that was the case :D

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Originally Posted by Lohusker

Does it let you add a 12th game?

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You can add a 12th game for yourself, and if you're willing to put in a lot of work you can trick the game into granting 12th games to the CPU teams, but there's no simple way to grant a 12th game to CPU teams.

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Originally Posted by JeffHCross

You can add a 12th game for yourself, and if you're willing to put in a lot of work you can trick the game into granting 12th games to the CPU teams, but there's no simple way to grant a 12th game to CPU teams.

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What are the steps do that? I had that issue my last season on NCAA '12, where Illinois and someone else only played 11 games. Personally I have never worried about it, but it makes my final conference standings post look bad with a bunch of 11 game records for teams, forcing me to either just accept it as is, or "edit" the win-loss record for the team to make it appear as though they had played 12 games in my post.

It's actually merely a theory in my head, but I know when you swap an opponent on your schedule for OPEN, that's one reason that some schools have 11 games - because they swap opponents with you, so now they're playing OPEN. So the theory would be to go through and schedule all the teams that are missing an extra game, then swap them with other teams that are missing games. I've never tried it, but I think it would work if you could pull it off.

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Originally Posted by JeffHCross

It's actually merely a theory in my head, but I know when you swap an opponent on your schedule for OPEN, that's one reason that some schools have 11 games - because they swap opponents with you, so now they're playing OPEN. So the theory would be to go through and schedule all the teams that are missing an extra game, then swap them with other teams that are missing games. I've never tried it, but I think it would work if you could pull it off.

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Interesting. I remember hearing that before, about swapping opponents on your schedule for OPEN possibly causing issues. I may test that theory over the next couple days. With all this talk of more and more dynasties freezing (it seems almost like the Offline Dynasty version of Transfer Failed issues that ODs had last year), I'm becoming more and more hesitant about starting my dynasty over these next few days like I had planned. So instead of getting my dynasty going, if I wait for a potential fix in the patch coming out in August, I may test out your theory and see if it works.