NCAA Football 14 - General Discussion

[souljahbill]

I'm not sure if I mentioned it before but I restarted my dynasty and I play in coach mode. Leaving everything in the hands of the CPU is extremely frustrating but when they execute, it's more rewarding.

Anyway, I got upset last night. Game 1 of the 2019, I play Tulane as #23 Southern Miss. Lost 14-13. My O-line play was shitastic. Drove me insane. My QB didn't make things better. He's constantly running to the right to be sacked by the LE. He also threw 2 "WTF" picks. Hopefully things go better in game 2.

[GatorfanStovy]

an I tried to start a new dynasty. It is really hard playing NCAA after playing madden 15 on the x1 for so long. I don't know if i can go back last gen any more. The new engine on Madden really makes a big diffrence. NCAA feels way more slow.

I just hope that madden can really get good on scouting and drafting to make CFM really deep next year ..

Plus it was really hard to even focus on the graphics of NCAA compared to Madden15. It's gonna be hard to retire NCAA but it might be time too.

[SmoothPancakes]

I'm still enjoying NCAA, but that may very well be due to Madden generally pissing me off the last two or three years with some of the BS in it and me not even bothering to play or buy it anymore.

I can still play through games and seasons with no issues, just have to take breaks after so long to avoid burning out on NCAA and losing the drive to play the next game in the season.

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[souljahbill]

I haven't jumped to next gen yet but since NCAA Football was an annual purchase and 14 is really good, I can go deep into this dynasty.

[SmoothPancakes]

I haven't jumped to next gen yet but since NCAA Football was an annual purchase and 14 is really good, I can go deep into this dynasty.

Exactly. I can get super deep into my dynasty and maybe very well hit the 60 season limit (if that was still in 14), something I've never done because the next version had come out before I even got past season 5 or 10.

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[JeffHCross]

I imagine jumping to the next-gen is going to make it hard to go back to NCAA, which is one (of several) reason why I'm probably not going to next-gen anytime soon.

[GatorfanStovy]

I try to play the 360 once in a great while, sadly I can't get back the graphics is just outdated if you on last gen.. It sucks to cause I wanna play ncaa more but can't stomach the horrible graphics and slow gameplay ,,

[SmoothPancakes]

I try to play the 360 once in a great while, sadly I can't get back the graphics is just outdated if you on last gen.. It sucks to cause I wanna play ncaa more but can't stomach the horrible graphics and slow gameplay ,,

I don't know about Madden next gen to NCAA last gen, but I've had no problems at all going back and forth between the Xbox One/PS4 and my 360. I've actually been playing my 360 more lately as I've dug out a couple of good old games (RDR, Split/Second, etc) that have been out for years. Graphics really aren't much of an issue for me. As long as they are reasonably close, I either won't notice or won't care about a difference. As long as it's not Playstation 1 or 2 era graphics, I'm good.

[SmoothPancakes]

What the hell is the problem with this game when it comes to running backs? Every single game, I have my starting running back for the first three quarters, then once I hit the fourth quarter, it's like he disappears off the face of the earth. Every game, I never see my starting running back the entire fourth quarter. Right now, playing against New Mexico, my first stringer is already out with an injury. My second stringer, my current starter, was having a career rushing day, then up and disappeared late third quarter. Now in the early fourth quarter, my entire rushing attack consists of my true freshman third stringer and my fourth string running back who was actually my goddamn fullback! Now my rushing attack is teetering between still being successful and being completely neutered with an entire quarter still to play.

I've tried making switches and changes on the depth chart, trying to force the game to put my starter back in, but nothing works. This is getting annoying.

[xMrHitStickx904]

are the servers still up on NCAA?

[gschwendt]

are the servers still up on NCAA?

Yeah... at least were as of a couple days ago. We're still running two ODs in full swing.

[gschwendt]

What the hell is the problem with this game when it comes to running backs?

I've tried making switches and changes on the depth chart, trying to force the game to put my starter back in, but nothing works. This is getting annoying.

Smooth, what are your substitution settings at? There was a time if you had the Sub-In setting too high, the player would never get back to that level and thus never come back in. In other words, the more a HB runs in a game, his best possible stamina drops and thus he can never get back to 100%.

[xMrHitStickx904]

Yeah... at least were as of a couple days ago. We're still running two ODs in full swing.

I think I'm gonna fire up my old 360 & give it a shot. I wish we could have gotten NCAA 14 on XB1; my 360 sounds like a jet plane still.

[JBHuskers]

Still in 2 OD's they haven't shut it off yet

[SmoothPancakes]

Smooth, what are your substitution settings at? There was a time if you had the Sub-In setting too high, the player would never get back to that level and thus never come back in. In other words, the more a HB runs in a game, his best possible stamina drops and thus he can never get back to 100%.

I just actually turned off my 360 a little bit ago after I got my latest dynasty stuff posted, but I'll check real quick later tonight after I get home from work and see what they're set at.

[SmoothPancakes]

And yeah, I was just literally playing a dynasty (offline, but still connected to the servers) game just an hour ago. So servers are still up. With people still playing ODs and I'm sure still some decent numbers of people playing both offline and online, I can't see EA turning the servers off anytime soon.

[souljahbill]

What the hell is the problem with this game when it comes to running backs? Every single game, I have my starting running back for the first three quarters, then once I hit the fourth quarter, it's like he disappears off the face of the earth. Every game, I never see my starting running back the entire fourth quarter. Right now, playing against New Mexico, my first stringer is already out with an injury. My second stringer, my current starter, was having a career rushing day, then up and disappeared late third quarter. Now in the early fourth quarter, my entire rushing attack consists of my true freshman third stringer and my fourth string running back who was actually my goddamn fullback! Now my rushing attack is teetering between still being successful and being completely neutered with an entire quarter still to play.

I've tried making switches and changes on the depth chart, trying to force the game to put my starter back in, but nothing works. This is getting annoying.

Raise the sub out and drop sub in numbers for your RB.

[SmoothPancakes]

I just looked at my auto-sub settings. My RB Sub In/Sub Out is 85 In/80 Out. Not really much more I can seemingly do with that, unless I lower both down by 5 or 10 so that my sub in is down to 75 or 80, hopefully giving my starter a chance to come in above the sub out limit.

[souljahbill]

You're probably gonna have to use the sub-HB package more often.

[Rudy]

It is definitely a fatigue issue Smooth. The game has long term fatigue for games where their top end slowly reduces. If your sub in setting is too high they disappear.

I miss NCAA Football. Not as much as some of you guys but I like it as a change of pace from madden. Both games were always a bit different and the franchise modes were a lot different. Kept it fresh by having options.