NCAA Football 13 - General Impressions Thread

[SmoothPancakes]

As I am going through coaching carousel I can't help but appreciate how ALL coaches who are TOP candidates have a D+ for prestige even if they are listed as a A. There are some really annoying bugs in CC this year.

This may sound like whiny-baby complaining but what's up with the injuries? I'm playing Play Now trophy rivalry games until the August patch comes out (so I can officially start my dynasty) and EVERY game, either the starting RB or QB gets hurt. EVERY game. Sometimes both and occasionally, one of the starting WRs gets hurt too.

No, it's not whiny baby complaining at all. I've experienced the same issue, but in dynasty. My starting RB, and I kid you not, got hurt EVERY game of the season, more than once per game. His injury rating was at about 82 I believe. I'm sorry, but even with an injury rating like that, there is no way a player would get hurt that much unless his bones were made out of glass.

I lost my 2nd-string RB for the entire season in Game1 of the current dynasty season, followed by losing my starter about 3-4 games in for the rest of the season. He *might* be back for the conf championship game. My starting QB has been hurt at least once every game, pretty often he sits out a quarter. He was knocked out for the last 3 quarters in the game. Injuries certainly seem more frequent than in the past.

In my short time with the game I noticed my starting QB (especially if using Michigan or Oregon) and my starting RB got hurt a lot as well but they were mostly minor injuries that they would come back. Can only speak about play now games. I thought the injuries were over done last year, especially for the QB. It is still very disappointing that Madden will have an injury slider for 3 years now and NCAA still refuses to add it (along with fumbles and fatigue). EA needs to take a deeper look at sliders, how they work and adding new ones imo.

(knock on wood)

I still have yet to experience a freeze within the game, but I have now had at least four freezes on the initial "Press Start" menu, as it is transitioning to "Please Wait". And it's always at the exact same point too, just as the camera is starting to climb vertically. It's a full system freeze too -- have to shut off the PS3 via the power button.

Okay, now I am a little concerned. To end season 2 my game froze in the Beef O'Brady Bowl. Now to start season three my first gameright at the end just before you see the final score box... boom... the game freezes. That is now two straight games where it has frozen and at the exact same spot... once the game is over. I can live with the other stuff but this is a game killer. I will try again tomorrow and I guess we will see how it goes.

My QB in the SBCOL dynasty has been hurt 2-3 times if not more every game I've played so far

Great, looks like it's official. No dynasty for me until at least the late-August patch that hopefully fixes half of this.