NCAA Football 13 - Dynasty Mode Improvements

[Treadstone6700]

Any updates/tweaks to coaching carousel?

Do coordinators matter at all?

[SmoothPancakes]

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

Excellent. That was always my problem last year. I wanted to watch the new stuff, but I'd be so used to tapping A to skip through the replays and stuff and get back to the playcall screen, and I would blow right through all the extras.

[JBHuskers]

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.

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? No, it won't interrupt a no-huddle. It'll just kinda be like a reply cutscene on a first down or big play if you are not triggering a no-huddle is when they'll occur.

Also, did any CD guys get information on medical red shirts by chance? Not in unfortunately.

[JBHuskers]

Any updates/tweaks to coaching carousel?

Do coordinators matter at all?

Unfortunately Carousel if mainly untouched this year outside of the grading changes that will affect carousel somewhat. But as for any functional changes, there are not any this year, but I assume it will be near the top of the wishlist tourneys later this year.

[JBHuskers]

Excellent. That was always my problem last year. I wanted to watch the new stuff, but I'd be so used to tapping A to skip through the replays and stuff and get back to the playcall screen, and I would blow right through all the extras.

Ditto, I don't remember the last time I saw a Game Track I can probably count on one hand the number of times I saw it in 12.

[SmoothPancakes]

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

Excellent. A good move with that there. That will definitely keep me from skipping over them.

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.

Damn. That's a slight downer after all this great new stuff today. Hopefully they have plans to expand on it in the future and not just make it a "well, it's added, we're done" feature. There's so much potential with both modes (especially custom conferences with how conferences are changing so much and the WAC seemingly about to be on it's deathbed). I'm still very much looking forward to dynasty in NCAA 13 with these new additions and changes to recruiting, just wish they would have worked on the carousel and conferences some.

[JBHuskers]

Excellent. A good move with that there. That will definitely keep me from skipping over them.



Damn. That's a slight downer after all this great new stuff today. Hopefully they have plans to expand on it in the future and not just make it a "well, it's added, we're done" feature. There's so much potential with both modes (especially custom conferences with how conferences are changing so much and the WAC seemingly about to be on it's deathbed). I'm still very much looking forward to dynasty in NCAA 13 with these new additions and changes to recruiting, just wish they would have worked on the carousel and conferences some.

We're definitely just as disappointed that it was untouched, but just the same we're going to make sure to push for it hard in the future.

[SmoothPancakes]

Unfortunately Carousel if mainly untouched this year outside of the grading changes that will affect carousel somewhat. But as for any functional changes, there are not any this year, but I assume it will be near the top of the wishlist tourneys later this year.

Oh I know it's gonna be near the top of my wishlist this year (along with in-game saves).

Ditto, I don't remember the last time I saw a Game Track I can probably count on one hand the number of times I saw it in 12.

Yep, that was always my problem. I'd be pressing A immediately after the play and before I knew it was happening and could stop pressing A, I was skipping right through the beginning of a Game Track. Happened constantly every game.

[gschwendt]

Damn. That's a slight downer after all this great new stuff today. Hopefully they have plans to expand on it in the future and not just make it a "well, it's added, we're done" feature. There's so much potential with both modes (especially custom conferences with how conferences are changing so much and the WAC seemingly about to be on it's deathbed). I'm still very much looking forward to dynasty in NCAA 13 with these new additions and changes to recruiting, just wish they would have worked on the carousel and conferences some.

Trust me, we gave them hell that Coaching Carousel especially went untouched. They know that we want it to expand a great deal further.

[cdj]

Trailer:



In case you guys missed it, 360 version of NCAA 13 now listed on Amazon for $44.99.

[JBHuskers]

Oh I know it's gonna be near the top of my wishlist this year (along with in-game saves).



Yep, that was always my problem. I'd be pressing A immediately after the play and before I knew it was happening and could stop pressing A, I was skipping right through the beginning of a Game Track. Happened constantly every game.

Well 95% of my games I usually have the sound on the other TV I have on, and not in-game....so I don't even know when it's coming and I just always instinctually hit A or X.

[JBHuskers]

Trust me, we gave them hell that Coaching Carousel especially went untouched. They know that we want it to expand a great deal further.

[SmoothPancakes]

We're definitely just as disappointed that it was untouched, but just the same we're going to make sure to push for it hard in the future.

Yeah, I know it was two of the top things I was looking forward to hearing about today. But I am also very much approving of the changes made to recruiting and addition of scouting and those alone are enough to make dynasty mode in NCAA '13 worth it for me. Recruiting has needed some work done to it for years now, so I am very happy about today's webcast. A little sad nothing was done with those modes, but the changes made to NCAA '13 will easily allow me to manage and deal with it, and hope for some big news about the modes next spring.

[Kwizzy]

Excellent. A good move with that there. That will definitely keep me from skipping over them.



Damn. That's a slight downer after all this great new stuff today. Hopefully they have plans to expand on it in the future and not just make it a "well, it's added, we're done" feature. There's so much potential with both modes (especially custom conferences with how conferences are changing so much and the WAC seemingly about to be on it's deathbed). I'm still very much looking forward to dynasty in NCAA 13 with these new additions and changes to recruiting, just wish they would have worked on the carousel and conferences some.

While we were all fairly disappointed about this too, I can promise you they don't feel that it's in & that's good enough, end of story. As I've said with other things that have been announced, they simply chose to place their focus elsewhere for this dev cycle. Though it's not necessarily what we all would have chosen, there are some really impressive changes made here. Personally, I would rather have this feature set than coaching carousel changes. Now that's only my opinion as I personally never had coaching carousel all that high on my wishlist in the first place. I'm really excited about all of these additions.

[gschwendt]

A handful of new images uploaded to Flickr/Info Central
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegamingtailgate/

[SmoothPancakes]

Trust me, we gave them hell that Coaching Carousel especially went untouched. They know that we want it to expand a great deal further.

Excellent to hear. Keep up the good work guys. One reason I love this community, you guys keep on the EA team about what features are wanted and try your damnedest to keep them from losing sight of that.

In case you guys missed it, 360 version of NCAA 13 now listed on Amazon for $44.99.

$44.99? Hello! Preordering that baby right now! Pay only $45, probably get $10 or $20 credit like Amazon usually puts on NCAA, plus their other preorder bonuses. It's automatic for me. Only thing that would keep me from preordering from Amazon with something like that is if the entire dynasty mode was a preorder for Gamestop or something. (don't get any goddamn ideas EA. )

[JBHuskers]

I'm not sure they'd do BOTH the $45 and the credit. But it's hard telling with Amazon.

[WolverineJay]

I like the small changes to recruiting(R.I.P. slot machine recruiting) and the addition of scouting (I would love to see an option to let the CPU scout for the players on your board(maybe have it set-up in your recruiting strategy section like what minutes you want to spend on each position and then let the CPU simulate it for me).

[SmoothPancakes]

While we were all fairly disappointed about this too, I can promise you they don't feel that it's in & that's good enough, end of story. As I've said with other things that have been announced, they simply chose to place their focus elsewhere for this dev cycle. Though it's not necessarily what we all would have chosen, there are some really impressive changes made here. Personally, I would rather have this feature set than coaching carousel changes. Now that's only my opinion as I personally never had coaching carousel all that high on my wishlist in the first place. I'm really excited about all of these additions.

Oh yeah, I'm just as much loving these changes to recruiting and addition of scouting as any changes to conferences or carousel that we might have seen, so definitely don't get me wrong. EA has done a great job with these changes this cycle. I think it was more I was under the assumption/hope that carousel and conferences were going to be a yearly work for them on their cycles. But I can easily deal with waiting another year with the changes to recruiting that were made.

And thank you to you, Kwizzy, G, JB, cdj, and everyone else on the CD program who help pass along our wishes for the series and are the eyes and ears for us when with the developers, as well as the time you put in on here to answer everyone's questions day after day. I always value the time, effort and work you guys put in to help get our desires, wants and wishes passed along and help make this game better and better each year.

[SmoothPancakes]

I'm not sure they'd do BOTH the $45 and the credit. But it's hard telling with Amazon.

Well, I'm assuming this $45 is temporary and it'll eventually go back up to $59.99. At that point, we could see a credit tagged on in late June or beginning of July. Hopefully. But I'm definitely locking in that $45 price.