NCAA Football 13 Q&A: Sights, Sounds & Gameplay

[WolverineJay]

Question 1: Any new run plays, pass plays, trick plays in NCAA 13'? I would love to see some like the double reverse, hook and ladder, shotgun flea-flicker, fake reverses, and have the ones already in the game actually work like they do in real life.

Question 2: Have the defensive playbooks been expanded at all(new formations or zone blitz plays that work and/or old plays that were removed for no good reason have been added back in)? It seems like over the years many plays are removed entirely with no suitable replacement or the new plays just don't work.

Just in case you've moved past my post that I recently edited. Thanks for any impressions regarding any new plays and formations inside the offensive and defensive playbooks.

[SmoothPancakes]

what about the socks! I play high school football i won't even think of consider commiting to a collage unless they have good socks!

I really hope that's just you being a smartass. Not considering committing to a specific college (it's an e, not a, in college), unless they have good socks, is just stupid.

[gschwendt]

Question 1: Any new run plays, pass plays, trick plays in NCAA 13'? I would love to see some like the double reverse, hook and ladder, shotgun flea-flicker, fake reverses, and have the ones already in the game actually work like they do in real life.

Question 2: Have the defensive playbooks been expanded at all(new formations or zone blitz plays that work and/or old plays that were removed for no good reason have been added back in)? It seems like over the years many plays are removed entirely with no suitable replacement or the new plays just don't work.

1) There certainly are some... I couldn't tell you how many but I definitely noticed some new ones. My favorite one at least in concept is a play out of one of Malzahn's styled formations with an offset HB and a TE/FB directly behind the OL. This particular one, in a look with two receivers to one side, one will motion across like he's running a jet, but at the snap of the ball the QB can read it and either hand it or keep it and then run an option to the outside with the HB. As well, be in case you missed it in my impressions, the Army Wingbone sets are in there and also a Pro Style set in Army's playbook that runs a triple option. As far as the specific ones you mentioned, I don't believe any of those are in the game.

2) As well, there are some new defensive plays and formations. Not sure if all of the plays that were in before made it back but there have been some added and also the 236 Dime formation which is similar to the Dime 326 but one of the DEs is replaced by an LB.

I didn't go extensively into the plays but we at least got the usual number of additions.

[baseballplyrmvp]

i know you dont wanna hear sob storries G, but i'm really starting to get pissed at '12 because my shutdown corners cant press worth a shit, even though both have 95+ press ratings, and regularly face wr's with low 70's release ratings.. did you or anyone else try playing with an elite level defense and just completely dominate the cpu with it?

[Little Steve]

I really hope that's just you being a smartass. Not considering committing to a specific college (it's an e, not a, in college), unless they have good socks, is just stupid.

The first one.
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[gschwendt]

i know you dont wanna hear sob storries G, but i'm really starting to get pissed at '12 because my shutdown corners cant press worth a shit, even though both have 95+ press ratings, and regularly face wr's with low 70's release ratings.. did you or anyone else try playing with an elite level defense and just completely dominate the cpu with it?

I really didn't spend much time with that at all... I usually don't press very often as like you, I get burned with it too often. I'm hopeful that we'll get the game early again this year so if I don't find an answer for you before then, keep the question in mind for when that time rolls around.

[baseballplyrmvp]

will do, thanks for everything

[Little Steve]

Anything That blows u away in gameplay this year? makes it fun?

[SmoothPancakes]

The first one.
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Good man. I was gonna say, you haven't been part of the sock crowd, to the best of my knowledge, so I wasn't sure if it was just being a smartass or not. Carry on sir.

[baseballplyrmvp]

The first one.
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Good man. I was gonna say, you haven't been part of the sock crowd, to the best of my knowledge, so I wasn't sure if it was just being a smartass or not. Carry on sir.

you pulled one on smooth!?! it took me like 6 months to pull my first one on him.

[SmoothPancakes]

you pulled one on smooth!?! it took me like 6 months to pull my first one on him.

I gotta say, Little Steve has promise.

[gschwendt]

Anything That blows u away in gameplay this year? makes it fun?

The funnest aspects for me were the Total Control Passing (finding open holes to place the ball into) and the Shotgun Option... both make it almost a new game in those two regards.

On 12, I would run the Shotgun Option from time to time but you obviously couldn't run it as a full time philosophy because it would get blown up too easily. This year though, as long as you mix your playcall, you could potentially stay in the Shotgun Split all game long or in one of the Malzahn influenced formations (Normal Flex Wing, Slot F Wing, etc.)

As far as blown away, it's hard to really say anything puts me on my seat. In all honesty, in January I was quite disappointed just from what I was hearing but after actually getting to play with the near completed product, it's much better once you get your hands on it. The only thing I would say I was really blown away with from start to finish was the alignment changes... they essentially stripped out that logic completely and re-engineered it. Again though, that's been my pet project for several years running.

[Little Steve]

What was the feedback you gave the devs, in terms of what u wanted to see?

[steelerfan]

By popular demand...







Personally, I think Oregon should use those Passport socks. With those, the "40-60%" of their players who are chronic weed smokers could carry their stash on gameday.

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[hawk34]

Any new tackling animations? Gang tackling were defenders don't just fall off?

[Dr Death]

you pulled one on smooth!?! it took me like 6 months to pull my first one on him.

That's why he's SMOOTHPANCAKES!!! When you have a name like that... you are SMOOTH!!!

[SmoothPancakes]

By popular demand...

Personally, I think Oregon should use those Passport socks. With those, the "40-60%" of their players who are chronic weed smokers could carry their stash on gameday.

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with another touchdown strike!

That's why he's SMOOTHPANCAKES!!! When you have a name like that... you are SMOOTH!!!

You got that right Dr. D!

[JerzeyReign]

Any updates to locomotion?

[JerzeyReign]

And other thing, did y'all play on Heisman?

[David]

I'm going to start working on my full impressions write-up

Very nice write-up Tommy. I just want everyone to know that I kicked Tommy's ass in our Army vs Navy Battle-Royale

Nah, actually he did me in pretty good with that new Army Wingbone set which I was highly impressed with.

I would also like to say Tommy really did a great job finding alot of misalignment issues in certain sets and I know he had the gameplay teams ears so I'm looking forward to seeing his hard work pay off.

Good seeing you Tommy, you're a cool SIM dude.

Oh and shoutout to JB who gave me some Saki