NCAA Football 13 - Dynasty Mode Improvements

[JBHuskers]

Did he confirm sleepers and busts?He said a 3 star could be rated higher than 5

Sleepers will be called Gems in-game.

[gschwendt]

BTW, they haven't really said it yet but all of this is also available in Online Dynasties.

[JBHuskers]

Athletes are now skilled at up to potentially 3 positions, so they're more useful when recruiting them.

I absolutely LOVE this. Gonna make it more fun to recruit ATH's now.

[SmoothPancakes]

20% scouted vs. 64% scouted is just based on the # of ratings you have unveiled. For example, an ATH has a TON of ratings, you're not going to get every rating unlocked if you do the max on him as opposed to doing the max scouting on an OL.

And you're correct, you can just skip it if you don't want to do it.

Ah, alright. Thanks for the correction/info fill in on that. Still something that I'm not sure if I'll use a whole lot (I like the feeling of unknown) but it's still a nice add to the game and one that I do like.

[JBHuskers]

There's a new option, Prospect's Choice, where they will choose the topic (so they should only pick the topic they are highly interested in). The phone call screen is much cleaner this year.

Regardless of how good or bad the pitch they choose, you still will get a little bonus. But this year, if you have a poor grade, and they have a low interest, you won't get 30 or 40 points like in the past. You'll be lucky to get any, or you could lose points this year.

[JBHuskers]

A living ESPN Bottom Line ticker. Priority alerts, upset alerts, final alerts. Happening in real time along with your game. Previews for upcoming games. Has the score tick, with the score changing over like what is really on ESPN.

Yeah this is sweet. This year, the way they got this to work was to sim all of the games ahead of time, so they can progress them throughout your game.

[SmoothPancakes]

I absolutely LOVE this. Gonna make it more fun to recruit ATH's now.

Oh yeah. Athletes are now actually worthwhile going after. Before, based on their grades, you could tell what position he'd be used for. Now, with them being able to play up to 3 positions, and it being a mix of both offensive and defensive positions, athletes are now going to be a more valuable player to recruit.

[JBHuskers]

From the dynasty blog EA released and that G linked to above.

Thanks

Most likely it'll remain static. Or barely raise or drop. Nothing to really get upset about.

[SmoothPancakes]

They just played a preview of the studio update with Rece Davis. Sounds good and looks good. That's gonna be a nice addition. I'm gonna have to keep my finger off the A button in between plays so I don't inadvertently skip these.

[JBHuskers]

Ah, alright. Thanks for the correction/info fill in on that. Still something that I'm not sure if I'll use a whole lot (I like the feeling of unknown) but it's still a nice add to the game and one that I do like.

I like it somewhat because you can scout out 20 guys right away in the preseason (though it's hard to remember to do so. at CD in April there wasn't a reminder to do the preseason scouting yet, but they were going to work on getting it put in).

Originally you were going to get 5 hours to scout, but they dropped it to 3; which I like better because there is still going to be an unknown factor during the season as you most likely will only get maybe a quarter of the 20 guys you initially scout in the preseason. It'll still take 3-4 weeks to fully scout an ATH if you use the max (60 minutes) for scouting.

[SmoothPancakes]

Oooh. I like the pregame clip they just played for Oklahoma-Oklahoma State. Pregames are gonna be much sweeter now from the presentation side.

[JBHuskers]

They just played a preview of the studio update with Rece Davis. Sounds good and looks good. That's gonna be a nice addition. I'm gonna have to keep my finger off the A button in between plays so I don't inadvertently skip these.

IIRC they're going to work on something to where you don't accidentally do this. I.E. you have to hold down A to skip instead of just tapping it.

[gschwendt]

They just played a preview of the studio update with Rece Davis. Sounds good and looks good. That's gonna be a nice addition. I'm gonna have to keep my finger off the A button in between plays so I don't inadvertently skip these.

They made changes to where you essentially will intentionally have to press the A button in order to skip those quarter flashes and/or studio updates. They know how easy it was to accidentally skip them last year.

[Kwizzy]

They just played a preview of the studio update with Rece Davis. Sounds good and looks good. That's gonna be a nice addition. I'm gonna have to keep my finger off the A button in between plays so I don't inadvertently skip these.

We gave feedback to make sure that shouldn't happen. Same with Game Tracks. I will shoot off an email to get confirmation on that.

[SmoothPancakes]

Damn, no mentions at all about changes or additions made to custom conferences or coaching carousel. I really hope they did work on both this year and they just didn't mention it in the webcast, but are going to talk about it in blogs.

[beartide06]

Will the in game updates update accordingly? For example, the in game updates won't occur in a situation where I'm trying to nu-huddle for a game winning drive will it? Also, did any CD guys get information on medical red shirts by chance? Just curious about these things. Thanks in advance.

[SmoothPancakes]

IIRC they're going to work on something to where you don't accidentally do this. I.E. you have to hold down A to skip instead of just tapping it.

They made changes to where you essentially will intentionally have to press the A button in order to skip those quarter flashes and/or studio updates. They know how easy it was to accidentally skip them last year.

We gave feedback to make sure that shouldn't happen. Same with Game Tracks. I will shoot off an email to get confirmation on that.

Nice. 3 confirmations on them working to help that problem. Thank you gentlemen (all three of you) for your replies to that problem.

[JBHuskers]

Nice. 3 confirmations on them working to help that problem. Thank you gentlemen (all three of you) for your replies to that problem.

Yeah ... pretty sure you won't be skipping them this year

[Kwizzy]

Nice. 3 confirmations on them working to help that problem. Thank you gentlemen (all three of you) for your replies to that problem.

And here's a response directly from a dev to boot...

Yes, when one is cued up we’re ignoring input for a small amount of time so you can see it happen before deciding you’d like to skip out.

[gschwendt]

Damn, no mentions at all about changes or additions made to custom conferences or coaching carousel. I really hope they did work on both this year and they just didn't mention it in the webcast, but are going to talk about it in blogs.

Sorry to say, no changes to how coaching carousel functions. A little bit of tuning but no other changes.

Same for custom conferences... only change really in that area is dynamic conference prestige.