Upcoming NCAA Football 13 Title Update Details | EA SPORTS

Published on July 20th, 2012 | by Shopmaster

NCAA Football 13 – Patch Details

With only a couple of weeks into the NCAA Football 13 Season, EA SPORTS is already putting out a title update (patch) and well as planning for another one. Details came out in a blog by Jason French; who is a Lead Designer on NCAA football 13, where he outlined the details of each patch. So let’s get right to the details.

Patch 1 – Arrival July 31

Problem with playcalling screen where you would lose functionality and couldn’t call a play or change the formation
Dynasty Issue where it would crash randomly while you were trying to load your Dynasty.

Patch 2 – Arrival End of August

This patch will be addressing the following issues that have been seen from our telemetry and heard about from the community:

Gameplay
- Zone Defense has been updated.
  - We improved receiver leverage logic as well as predicting when a receiver will be in or out of their zone.
  - Improved Deep Half Zone decision making about when to split between uncovered receivers. Also, allow more zone overlapping in deep half to cover more area.
  - Deep half defenders were dropping too close to the sideline or dropping outside when no receiver was outside of their position.
- No-Huddle QB Spy bug fixed. Defenders will no longer go into spy assignments while in man coverage.
- Receivers weren’t looking for hot-read passes.
- CPU QBs passing during the drop would get set passes instead of on-the-run inaccurate passes.
- Change the logic of man defenders so they don’t run into the backfield and past the receiver they are covering.
- Route running near sideline was causing issues especially on comeback routes.
- Fixed players not respecting global show blitz/press/back off coverage after handing off a receiver.
- Fixed sideline streak routes so they don’t get clamped in a way that the route would end after 10 or 15 yards.
- Drive summaries should now reset after each scoring drive.
Dynasty
- Once a promise becomes active, it was duplicating after each week advance.
- Recruit Reports & Advisory options remained even after the “Allow Time Savers” setting was turned off.
- Schools with a D+ Program Tradition could not get their grade increased through wins and championships.
- In the off-season, post season games were not shown to have been played.
Custom Playbooks
- Fixed an issue where if CPU coaches were given a custom playbook, the players were occasionally lining up close to the ball.
- Fixed an issue where the user was unable to create an offensive playbook that consisted of 1 of every formation.
- Fixed an issue where the user was sometimes losing functionality after the UI disappears in Custom Playbooks.
Increased the stability of the product by fixing various crashes.

In my opinion it really sucks that this much stuff needs to be patched. To be honest half the people don’t even see most of the problems but putting it out and it being laid out like this just makes you really think about how bad some of these things are.

I think it’s just as frustrating that the major issues with the game will not be out until Madden 13 comes out and that right there will hurt a lot. I like the fact that there is more time in between my NCAA and Madden but at the same time, I wish it was a complete success. Nevertheless I’m having fun in the EASGCCS and in the one Dynasty that I’m in but I understand those who are disappointed in the fact that some of these problems exist and have to deal with it until it’s fixed.

It makes playing in certain Dynasties no fun. For instance I’m Clemson and there are Dynasties out there that are prohibiting you from doing the Read Option because it’s broken. Some people are having problems with their Custom Playbooks, I’m not but it’s out there and for some people that aspect of the game means a lot. It’s like the No Editing Players function in Madden 13. That aspect doesn’t bother me one bit but it does for others and that’s what makes it bad altogether.

If there are other things you see wrong with NCAA Football 13, please hit me up and let me know so I can notify EA SPORTS.

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Shopmaster Shopmaster is a die-hard hardcore Madden Player. He also serves an EA SPORTS Game Changer that provides the community with help and information regarding Madden.

Christian

Hey brotha… have the addressed the issue with press coverage? If u press the lft wr when he is on a streak its a TD every time unless ur playing two man under. Plz hit me up on twitter. @ArdieCA34
- Shopmaster
  
  Ok, let me go into the lab and see. Have you tested it out with some of the better DB who have high press coverage?
http://www.facebook.com/S.Garmer Sean Garmer

I do not know if this qualifies as a dynasty crash issue. However, I am playing two different dynasties, one with Arkansas and I have no problems playing with them whatsoever. My other dynasty is with a created team I made and I edited all the players names and stats as well. When I play the created team dynasty, any time I have an away game where it has to load a real team´s stadium and not my created one. The game crashes at the loading screen every time without fail. Has anyone else had this problem?

Just for clarification, I can play in any stadium in exhibition mode and I can play home games in Dynasty and I can do anything in the menus including recruiting. It only seems to happen when loading an away game in Dynasty with my created team.
- Shopmaster
  
  I haven’t heard of that but I will pass it along, thanks for sharing.
Jhon

Why do u guys keep patching stuff… Stop helping these crybabys… Leave the Gm alone dam….
- jermasher
  
  because when u buy a game that says you can do certain things and it doesnt then it is false advertising BRO! the reason my buddy and I buy this game is too play online dynasty with each other and some features dont work and freeze while we play. We just finished our first season and we play each other in the championship game and it freezes on the load screen which makes the game a waste of our time when we get pumped up to play each other. My buddy is in another state so playing online dynasty is a great thing for us. Though we restarted it 5 times and figured out that turning off created playbooks the game loaded. So PLEASE FIX CREATED PLAYBOOKS FUNCTION WHEN PLAYING OTHER ONLINE PEOPLE. Also found that while recruiting the game froze and when i restarted it the guys i scouted have zero overalls and in parinthesis have there overalls as negative example OVR 0 (-81) and the attributes that were unlocked were reset so that was a waste of time.
Ryan

I want to know why my Legend in Road to Glory left my school? I was a QB at Auburn. Had a so so freshman year, a break out sophomore year, a stellar Jr. year and my guy was gone!! I finally got Auburn in position to Win a national title (start of season ranked 2) and I couldn’t play it with my guy. I’ve seen others in other forums with this issue but no answers yet? does anyone have one from hear? EA are you there??? and if my guy could leave after JR. year why wasn’t I asked? If it’s suppose to real and I’m suppose to be him, it should have a message stating you did so well you could enter the pro draft or you could come back for your SR season….choose one.
Ben smith

F that patch messing up the gameplay. They need to fix that cheap hitch route.