NCAA Football 11 Demo Available Now! Share Your Impressions

[ebin]

Don't recall anybody explicitly mentioning it, but when the CPU went no-huddle, you have access to your defensive playbook for the set you were in at the time, so you have all the blitzes, coverages, etc. to pick from in that set as compared to being stuck with your previous play call and audibles in previous versions.

Good to hear. Sounds like this will at least give the defense a fighting chance against the no-huddle.

[gschwendt]

Lol perhaps we have all learned to block out his now "painful" lines which have been the same since lord knows when. It would be interesting to know when the last time he actually did "work" in the EA studio to add to their commentary library. It has to have been years ago.

They've added new lines with him every year up until now. The problem is that his are so unique that they easily become repetitive.

[CLW]

Nice vid CDJ! What difficulty level were you playing on? It was nice to also see the Draw actually work quite nicely.

[lilheavy]

Ha, the sponsored ad caught my eye too.

Don't recall anybody explicitly mentioning it, but when the CPU went no-huddle, you have access to your defensive playbook for the set you were in at the time, so you have all the blitzes, coverages, etc. to pick from in that set as compared to being stuck with your previous play call and audibles in previous versions.

I'll have to double check to confirm but I believe I was able to switch to a different formation also....

The Draw play is deadly, especially Lead Draw out of I-Form. Just beat Texas 22-10. No fumbles in this game either.

Yes...that play is deadly, and it looks beautiful when everything goes the way its supposed to. I also like the Ace spread set...it has the bubble screens on both sides with blocking, the bubble slants play, and then a draw play with the wideouts running the bubble slants routes. Thats a deadly combination right there. Also on option plays the pitch man actually maintains his pitch relation with the qb instead of running behind you to go block someone like he did last year. It felt good to pitch the ball about 25 yards down the field for a TD.

[CLW]

They've added new lines with him every year up until now. The problem is that his are so unique that they easily become repetitive.

Wow that is somewhat surprising to me. However, you are probably right, his lines are so...... corny/over the top that after you hear it once you will undoubtely hear it a billion times until you would rather go through a SAW trap than to have to listen to it.

[cdj]

I have it on All-American.

Going to work on Qtr 2, but here is the demo opening video with Kirk Herbstreit:

[rhombic21]

Enjoying the video, CDJ. If you get a chance, explore the defensive playbooks some. That's something we haven't heard much about, and I'd be interested to see if there are any changes, especially in the Nickel and Dime formations (which are likely to be more important than ever with all the new spread offensive plays/formations).

[gschwendt]

Enjoying the video, CDJ. If you get a chance, explore the defensive playbooks some. That's something we haven't heard much about, and I'd be interested to see if there are any changes, especially in the Nickel and Dime formations (which are likely to be more important than ever with all the new spread offensive plays/formations).

Granted they weren't complete but my experience with them at CD was that they were largely the same. I believe at that time they mentioned they'd be visiting the defensive playbooks but not sure how much they were touched. I will say though that I sat down with one of the gameplay guys and showed him specifically the issues with 425 & 335 man coverage.

[iBrandon]

Sounds promising although the "high" scores (for 2 min qtrs) concern me.

High scores shouldn't concern you... that's a problem every year until you mess with sliders.

[iBrandon]

Ha, the sponsored ad caught my eye too.

Don't recall anybody explicitly mentioning it, but when the CPU went no-huddle, you have access to your defensive playbook for the set you were in at the time, so you have all the blitzes, coverages, etc. to pick from in that set as compared to being stuck with your previous play call and audibles in previous versions.

I haven't seen this mentioned either, but I love this.

[AustinWolv]

I'll have to double check to confirm but I believe I was able to switch to a different formation also....

I don't recall seeing it, but what with the new playbook menus I might have missed that. Seems an argument could be made either way for that capability being included.

[gschwendt]

I don't recall seeing it, but what with the new playbook menus I might have missed that. Seems an argument could be made either way for that capability being included.

Yeah, we went back and forth on that one for our feedback at CD. The end result being though that since the offense has their full playbook, so should the defense. However, with both of them, there are no player substitutions so if you were originally in 4-3 and after a no-huddle call Dime, you'll have OLBs as slot CBs.

[AustinWolv]

Good deal, thanks for the confirmation.

[Flav]

Just got home from school, about to dig in and finally enjoy a game without feeling rushed.

[Flav]

Sort of having trouble running the read option.. When I pull and run the QB still follows the path that the RB is supposed to take. help?

[ChiCitySports]

About to start downloading, from this thread I am very excited.

[Solidice]

Sort of having trouble running the read option.. When I pull and run the QB still follows the path that the RB is supposed to take. help?

yeah, I'm having the same issue. I read the unblocked defender crashing down, I keep it with the QB, it seems almost like the QB completely stops for a second which allows the defense to pounce on my QB.

[JBHuskers]

You guys will have to let me know what you think of the QB Player Lock / Road to Glory camera .... I worked on tuning it with Jeff Luhr back in March

[Kingpin32]

Is there no more bluff playcalling? I couldn't really tell in CDJs video of the demo.

[JBHuskers]

You guys will have to let me know what you think of the QB Player Lock / Road to Glory camera .... I worked on tuning it with Jeff Luhr back in March (posted this in the other thread too)