Share Your Impressions of NCAA Football 11

[Cipher 8]

Personally, as far as me controlling them, I prefer a speedy HB with high AGI & JKM. Using USC, I put in Gable and you can weave in & out of traffic quite easily... it honestly almost feels like NCAA10 player movement while everyone else is stuck in NCAA11.

I thought I was alone in this thinking. I've been using USC and Gable is an absolute beast. The the quick juke and he does feel like NCAA10. He has some power to finish runs also. I haven't perfected the shoulder lean yet, but I did time it right and CJ slipped right past the safety. He is my model HB for now.

Hmmm. I went and tried USC vs Oregon State and played both sides to try Gable and Quizz but I found Gable slacking. Maybe they do better on Heisman if they slow the defense down on that high difficulty but on AA I couldn't get around the edge and I'm usually rushing for over 100 yards a game with other teams (power backs) I did like Quizz but I think I prefer power backs with good break tackle stats. I'm not the best at juking or spinning but stiff arm and trucking and just regular break tackle gets me by.

[Cipher 8]

WOW so i went into practice with USC to try Gable out. I switched it to offense only so I could really just use the right stick and test his moves out, see how he juked compared to their WR and other players. Starter said his quick juke was good. Well he does juke a little bit quicker but I think that's just because he has higher agility. Really it's the same juke as everyone else though. If you have high agility it's more quick though I think.

Anyways after messing around on the right stick I think the spin move you do via the right stick is different then the one you do by pressing B. Is that right?

Also I was doing juke, spin, juke, juke etc and all the sudden my guy got stuck in place. I could spin him around 360 and his head would turn but everything else was like he was stuck in a juke, sorta looked like the heisman pose. I tried to change practice type and respot the ball but nothing worked. I had to quit and go back to main menu. Anyone else have this happen to them in practice?

[ram29jackson]

Thought this vid was appropriate for impressions. this is a cool drop ball animation- but my question is- is it canned or player ratings that cause it?

[Rudy]

Played a couple good games tonight. Lost to Arkansas with Washington 28-12. Just couldn't convert plays when I needed to with Locker. The I won the Civil War with Oregon St as J.Rodgers had just over 200 yards rushing against Oregon. I had a couple really nice runs by cutting back up the middle. Beat them 21-20 as their kicker went 2-4.

[ram29jackson]

A LITTLE CHEESEY -

you can get PSN trophies in NCAA 11 games by just simming through them.

i'm just starting a bunch of games, seeing as many teams/playbooks/stadiums /entrances as I can.

so I start a game of BYU at Buffalo. i'm BYU - I play a little and than supersim to end.

at the end of game, I get a trophy called-mix it up- get 100 or more yards rushing with a team that uses an air raid offense...hahaha the funny thing is, right before I simmed, i had about a 60 yard TD run haha

[ram29jackson]

some the distant video during game replays after in game plays ( I mean what the game shows, not when you go to pause screen to look ) in Cincinnati are blurry. I havent seen that anywhere else yet-


also the shot/camera above stadium when game is over, was blurry

[AustinWolv]

I had blurry camera occur last night during a game. Not sure what that was about.

[gschwendt]

I had blurry camera occur last night during a game. Not sure what that was about.

Yeah... I've seen that myself a handful of times, although lately I don't believe I've seen it at all.

[Deuce]

OK...I'm now 4-1 in season 3 of my cupcake dynasty (on AA). I'm really hoping I can get to six wins. After two seasons of recruiting my team has gotten worse. I've graduated 35-38 players over the last two years. The first year I recruited mostly 1* and a few 2*'s. Second year mostly 2*'s with a few 3*'s. Now 40 or so of my players are rated anywhere from 45-55.

My first 3 games were against bad teams and they were very close wins. My first conf. game I got blew out but won the second game in dbl overtime. The rest of my conf. schedule is tough. I really hope the rest of my games are a struggle. This could be the first time in my NCAA gaming life that I take a step back in my dynasty. Very exciting!

[xMrHitStickx904]

All I need right now is a patch to fix these things:

1. The freezing in the lobbies, quick match etc.

2. The random disconnects. (Server problems , I know. )

3. Getting a WIN when a person quits in the second quarter.

4. The pushout animation needs to be tuned.

5. Really optional, but i wish more presentation and online weather was in Online games, since it's so well done in Online Dynasty games.

[I OU a Beatn]

Night games would be nice, too.

[Coachdenz]

I played last night against Boise State and used Colorado, it was a great game and I lost my 1st game against the computer 20-17. So this morning I played against Alabama hoping to have another great game, so I picked Houston. I won 34-21 and threw for 434 yards.
My question is, For the people playing in heisman how do you feel the game plays? I'm playing on AA with the default sliders and feel the computer just doesnt make the plays. It seems like the QB will wait to long to throw a pass or something, maybe they wait on the routes to long.
Many times they throw a deep ball way to late and it makes for a easy pick.

Should I try to adjust sliders on AA or go heisman? Don't get me wrong I like the game this year, but it's going to get stale really quick if I don't make adjustments to the game.

[Rudy]

Should I try to adjust sliders on AA or go heisman? Don't get me wrong I like the game this year, but it's going to get stale really quick if I don't make adjustments to the game.

I say play a default game on Heisman - use Houston against Bama again and see which game feels more realistic to you. If Heisman feels better then stay there and potentially tweak the sliders to make it easier for you. If it's crazy hard for you then stay on AA and tweak that to make it harder.

[AustinWolv]

For the people playing in heisman how do you feel the game plays? I'm playing on AA with the default sliders and feel the computer just doesnt make the plays. It seems like the QB will wait to long to throw a pass or something, maybe they wait on the routes to long.

My impressions:
I've been playing all my games on Heisman, except for 1 on AA. AA felt too easy, in that the CPU was 'dumb' and slower to adjust than on Heisman. On Heisman, if they find something to pick on you with or you keep blitzing hard on 3rd down for example, they'll kill you with a screen.
Some aspects of Heisman feel overpowered, but the AI seems good and aggressive, while some things on AA feel underpowered but the AI is lacking.
Nothing scientific, that is based on game feel.
For me, it makes more sense for the AI to be downright nasty and aggressive and be able to tone down the inflated ratings boost that Heisman level gives rather than try to boost up a dumber-playing AI on AA.

{shrug}

Honestly, I haven't played enough AA to have solid facts or experiment results.

[Rudy]

I'm not sure the sliders work very well this year. They don't seem to be very sensitive. I've raised the cpu run defense up to 80 now and I just rushed Helu Jr. 19 times for 146 yards against Texas. I keep raising it but I don't see a lot of difference. That said, I had my worst passing performance ever. Zac Lee got hurt and Green came in and threw 7 picks! I benched him for Martinez who threw another! 8 INTs! Three were as I was throwing and one of those ended up a pick 6. But 5 were just regular picks. On a couple deep balls I don't mind it but I also forced some short stuff. Just one of those games where you seem unlucky with every bad decision. I actually forced Texas to punt 6 times but lost 20-10 in Lincoln. Sorry Husker fans.

I do like the pressure Heisman puts on you. You have to bring your A game every time. I might give that a shot once just for the heck of it.

[Rudy]

How do people feel about play action? I find it hard to execute this year. I think the pass blocking on PA may be related to run blocking (which I have toned down) because I seem to get sacked way too quickly on it.

[Rudy]

Had the game freeze on my right after I finished a game while looking at stats. Usually the game tries to load stats to Season Showdown and it fails. This time it kept trying and froze. Anyway I can just shut Season Showdown right off? I don't care 1% about that feature.

One issue I'm seeing on AA is long runs. I've been able to break quite a few of them, which I find a lot of fun, but the cpu doesn't seem to be able to. I can boost their run blocking to develop a good, consistent push and ground game but they still don't seem to bust out for long TD runs. It might be because they still cover the ball too much in the open field rather than try to turbo to the endzone. Not sure.

[mundo]

It might be because they still cover the ball too much in the open field rather than try to turbo to the endzone

I feel like this is the main issue on that. But I have finally experienced the cpu running on my teambuilder team.

[Thurgoodz]

For the people playing in heisman how do you feel the game plays?

In my dynasty as Nebraska the smaller schools kept it close in the first quarter, but then I would wear them out and win by about 30. The bigger schools would keep it close the whole game and I usually only won by five. The game I lost was a rivalry game against Mizzou and it just seemed different. Their were more big hits and the CPU seemed like it was playing a lot better.

[mundo]

So after playing my teambuilder dynasty team (that has North texas roster) as the early season warmup for the powerhouses of Nebraska, Kentucky and Indiana in AA(ok so 1 powerhouse and 2 pretty marginal teams), I have a completely different sense of the challenge (and hours of complete blast) of building up a program from the bottom in this game. I had my ass firmly handed to me in every form imaginable... running.. passing.. zero time to throw... run completely stuffed..etc. I tried to start with the pistol but do not have the personnel at all (just don't have the blocking to run much) so I switched to a "spread" playbook. The passing playbook helped but really didn't solve anything. If I pass and the first or second read isn't there I am hosed and the run game is all about catching them just right. Also it seems like they really start to lock down in the middle of the field, so sustaining drives is very hard. I am beginning to believe that he talent level and sliders will depend on the talent I have. As to recruiting, I am enjoying it quite a bit. It seems so much more succinct and adds some strategy.


I am looking forward to some serious hours lost in NCAA11 world.