NCAA FOOTBALL IS BACK MFers

[Derka 5968]

are you able to edit players during an active career mode, or does it have to be done to the main roster before you start up a new career?

edit- never mind, i just found it.

doubt edit- i found where i can do it, but it’s not letting me do it. 

Edited September 25 by Derka

[Derka 5968]

it’s impossible to explain how bad my o linemen are at blocking on screens. two guards and a tackle vs one db and my trio loses every time. three ole’s, every. single. time.

[Derka 5968]

opening drive of the next season:

 i quit the game to go and make sure my setting were correct. my settings:

again, i don’t lose, or struggle, or have close games because the settings are awesome and sometimes you just get beat, i lose, and struggle, and rage quit, because no matter how much i manipulate ea’s fucked-up ass factory settings, the game. is programmed. to fuck me. and you. and everyone else stupid enough to buy the game. 

i don’t understand how anyone can defend this game, and trust me, im looking forward to the day where i can shelf this game 100x more then you are. FAK.

[Derka 5968]

On 9/24/2024 at 9:24 PM, Derka said:

it’s impossible to explain how bad my o linemen are at blocking on screens. two guards and a tackle vs one db and my trio loses every time. three ole’s, every. single. time.

 

i didn’t anything wrong; i didn’t mess up; there was no user error. in fact, i called the perfect play. ea has simply told me to go fuck myself. i am not in control of this game. my play calls, and execution, and which buttons i press at which time often have absolutely nothing to do with what ends up happening on the field. this is every single ea sports game in a nutshell. seriously- stop buying these games.

[Derka 5968]

after raging so hard last night i made one change: i dropped it from varsity to freshman. here’s what happened:

that was game one of the season. i was going to drop 150 in smu. so for game two i simply moved it back up to varsity. and as you can see, on varsity, i find myself down 7-0 to miami, with the computer unabashedly boning me. that’s the difference in going up or down one difficulty level. there’s a whole gaggle of threads on the ncaa 25 subreddit telling people who play on AA to avoid going up to heisman for the sake of their mental health.

im so serious: stop buying this game. let ncaa 25 be the last one you buy/play until ea takes it seriously. they had a decade to make this game and they literally just copy/pasted the last shitty game with a newer but equally terrible game engine. ea took a huge hit a few years ago with that bullshit star wars game they tried to put out. the same thing needs to happen with this title. it’s such a slap in the face to the people who buy and play the game.

[Deej 76584]

Can we move this to the video games board?

[Derka 5968]

my fumble rate has increased by 500% since turning fumbles off. btw, the computer never fumbles…or commits penalties, or misses easy tackles, or any of that fuck shit that my team spends all game doing. same as it is in fifa; same as it is in madden; same as it ever was, and same as it always will be.

stop buying this game.

[Derka 5968]

7 minutes ago, Deej said:

Can we move this to the video games board?

there’s already another thread here there that nobody posts on.

[Deej 76584]

And you're essentially the only one posting on this one at this point. Merge them under video games. 

[Derka 5968]

you don’t even have a video game console, why are you even in this thread or concerned with its location?

[Derka 5968]

i summer my next two games against scrubs, and am now playing my game against georgia. first two drives have both ended with cj baxter fumbles. i don’t think i need to tell you that i turned fumbles off days ago, or that the cpu never fumbles. 

stop buying this game.

[Derka 5968]

after two offensive drives cj baxter has twice as many fumbles as he has carries.

again- fumbles have been turned down to 0. 

[Derka 5968]

i’ve had three drives against uga and every one has ended with me losing a fumble.

[Derka 5968]

just fumbled a punt return. fourth fumble of the 1Q vs georgia. AGAIN- i turned fumbles down to 0. 

[Derka 5968]

my team has had three offensive drives and four fumbles. and people defend this game.

[Derka 5968]

pass catching is set to 100. after two straight drops, i quit. you win ea. i quit. 

but not permanently. oh no. i’ll be back later tonight. you’ve got your hooks in me, and no matter how badly you abuse me, my trick ass will keep coming back. what else am i gonna do? where else am i gonna go? you’re the only one who truly loves me.

[Derka 5968]

literally just had my fifth fumble of the 1Q, run back for a TD. four possessions, five fumbles. no exaggeration or hyperbole. just a truly evil corporation that preys on children and the mentally ill. those of you who are neither a child nor mentally ill should be ashamed of yourselves for continuing to patronize this company and defend this game.

Edited September 27 by Derka

[Jkwellborn 6656]

Do you play anyone or just the computer?

[DreadHead 110]

I just play quick games against the computer, the game is fun as hell. It took a bit to get used to, but Revamped Passing is amazing, I really like the different ways you can throw the ball in tight windows.

[Jkwellborn 6656]

I just play quick games against the computer, the game is fun as hell. It took a bit to get used to, but Revamped Passing is amazing, I really like the different ways you can throw the ball in tight windows.

I haven’t messed with it much even though I’ve played a fair amount. It’s hell to stop.

[Derka 5968]

4 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:

Do you play anyone or just the computer?

dynasty mode. just the cpu.

 

 

legit question:  is it possible that turning fumbles to 0 somehow makes fumbles turn up to 100 in ea’s fucked up world? for me it’s completely feasible. i’m fumbling at an insane rate since turning fumbles to 0. 

Edited September 27 by Derka

[Derka 5968]

ok i’m thronging fumbles up to 100. i just fumbled again. it’s the only explanation. 

[Foosters 17754]

I'm 25-1 over my last two seasons on AA with the sliders turned up. Not really experiencing the same issues you are. Maybe edit each player to have 99 carrying or something 

And yes, that's possible with the 0 or 100 thing

[justinjc7 153]

Yeah, I'm thinking maybe you need to stop messing with the sliders and try putting the fumble back to 50?  I have no idea why you're having that issue because I've been playing since the early launch date and I don't recall ever fumbling, I've had maybe 1 or 2 fumbles ever.  The only sliders I've slightly adjusted are CPU interceptions.  I'm just playing the moments so not playing the full games but I've still had a lot of play time. 

[FloridaHorn 4735]

8 hours ago, Derka said:

ok i’m thronging fumbles up to 100. i just fumbled again. it’s the only explanation. 

I play only in dynasty mode, same as you. I don't have any of the issues you are having. Either your game is borked, or you really, REALLY, suck at this game. 

[Chooky 13302]

9 hours ago, Derka said:

ok i’m thronging fumbles up to 100. i just fumbled again. it’s the only explanation. 

Put the fumble slider back at 50. Make sure you aren't accidently hitting the lateral button. 

[Derka 5968]

yeah, so it turns out that turning fumbles down to 0 means you’re actually turning fumbles up to 100. beyond how obviously stupid that is, the fact that this game is designed to where you can adjust a slider that makes you fumble the ball on every single possession is just classic ea. i’m just gonna have to reset all sliders and go from there.

also, im having a tough time right now, and i appreciate y’all putting up with me. aside from my usual sleep and mental health problems i currently have torn ligaments in both of my knees which has seen my video game playing time skyrocket. not a lot else to do for me right now. i’ll try and do a better job of not spamming this thread when im in a rage. that’s not cool. that’s my b. 

Edited September 27 by Derka

[Longboard Horn 40164]

So not only is Jamie Benn the captain of the Dallas Stars, but he’s now one of my captains for this upcoming season lol 

[gernblansten 3189]

I'm guessing there's a huge group chat with big time college and pro coaches who just constantly post to each other: "I called the perfect play Saturday and instead of the players doing it like I drew it up where every defender was blocked and the back runs it untouched for a 97 yard TD, two fucking guys missed their block and we only gained one yard. WTF guys!!!!! The motherfucking Xs and Os on the Ipad clearly shows it'll be a TD and somehow the players on the other team didn't get blocked by all our guys!!!! And guess what? Every play I draw up shows how it will be a TD, and only 3 times out of 68 plays called during the game resulted in TDs!!!! COMPLETE BULLSHIT!!!!!"

[Horn of Gabriel 1590]

50 minutes ago, gernblansten said:

I'm guessing there's a huge group chat with big time college and pro coaches who just constantly post to each other: "I called the perfect play Saturday and instead of the players doing it like I drew it up where every defender was blocked and the back runs it untouched for a 97 yard TD, two fucking guys missed their block and we only gained one yard. WTF guys!!!!! The motherfucking Xs and Os on the Ipad clearly shows it'll be a TD and somehow the players on the other team didn't get blocked by all our guys!!!! And guess what? Every play I draw up shows how it will be a TD, and only 3 times out of 68 plays called during the game resulted in TDs!!!! COMPLETE BULLSHIT!!!!!"

Yep.  People who bitch about "the game is fucking me!" have definitely never watched actual humans play college football.  18-21 year olds do stupid shit and aren't robots and sometimes (gasp!) receivers don't cut off a route when the ball is mid-flight and the DB does, because the DB is facing the QB and the receiver may not be - this is not shocking behavior.

You can bitch about all that, or do what I do, turn the game on Freshman mode and then every play is an actual touchdown and the game-within-the-game becomes "how much can I score?"  I think my max so far on default Freshman settings is 138 or so that I put on OU.  Of course that was with several pick 6's, onside kicking every time, etc.  I had 3 receivers over 300 yards each and Baxter ran for 350.  Trey Moore won the Heisman that season with about 70 sacks.

Life is too short - why add extra frustration?  Just turn off your brain and enjoy the fun of pounding OU and A&M by 17 touchdowns.

[Derka 5968]

this isn’t about humans making human errors, it’s about a game literally being programmed screw you. there is no excusing the blocking in the video above, or worse, the fact t that it happens over and over and over again. or how about how often you call a running play where there’s a gigantic hole for your rb to go through and, against your direction, your rb runs straight into the back of your center for a loss of yards. same for when your rb actually does head for the wide open hole only to have some fat turd of a utsa d lineman immediately shed kelvin banks’s block to fill that hole for a tfl. i could go on. 

this has absolutely nothing to do with regular human error. it’s about a company with a long and well documented history of creating games that are at best incompetently made and worst game that are cynically designed to screw over the customers. check the reddit threads; nobody is complaining about routine human errors, it’s about actual, obvious, cynical flaws in every sports game made by ea.

Edited September 27 by Derka

[Derka 5968]

i just reset all of the settings and it didn’t change shit. if you say you don’t experience this shit you are lying. just threw a pass to a wide open wr who simply needed to make a play on the ball to catch it, and instead he just kept on running his route as if he had no idea that the ball was heading his way. meanwhile the db who was five yards behind the play actually broke on the ball and went and got it. the route was good, the player was open, the pass was on line, and it ended up being picked off. my wr literally did not lift up his hands to catch the ball until after the db had intercepted it. it’s 100% typical ea programming/cheating. it’s a staple of every sports game they make. 

Edited September 27 by Derka

[Derka 5968]

btw i have asked for help and advice in this thread and nobody has responded to those posts. so for the third time:

what type of passing are you using? i’m using the classic passing because it’s all i know. is there a better option?

[Jkwellborn 6656]

btw i have asked for help and advice in this thread and nobody has responded to those posts. so for the third time:
what type of passing are you using? i’m using the classic passing because it’s all i know. is there a better option?

Mine is set on the default. I didn’t adjust any sliders.

[Derka 5968]

i’m about to upload two videos from the game that i am unsuccessfully trying to play, and i would LOVE to hear someone here explain this away as anything other than pre programmed cheating bullshit. you have never in your life sat down to watch football and seen the things i’m about to show you. 

and oh yeah, this stuff only happens in favor of the cpu. you will literally never see your own cpu controlled teammates make similar plays. ever. i keep telling you the game is programmed this way and you keep arguing. we’ll see about that.

Edited September 27 by Derka

[Horn of Gabriel 1590]

21 minutes ago, Derka said:

i just reset all of the settings and it didn’t change shit. if you say you don’t experience this shit you are lying. just threw a pass to a wide open wr who simply needed to make a play on the ball to catch it, and instead he just kept on running his route as if he had no idea that the ball was heading his way. meanwhile the db who was five yards behind the play actually broke on the ball and went and got it. the route was good, the player was open, the pass was on line, and it ended up being picked off. my wr literally did not lift up his hands to catch the ball until after the db had intercepted it. it’s 100% typical ea programming/cheating. it’s a staple of every sports game they make. 

This is where we need that fake Surly newspaper screenshot that people post: "Surly's Derka Makes the Perfect Call - Computer Fails to Execute!  Theories abound as to why, but experts agree the most likely reason is a deep and vast wide ranging conspiracy to cheat and screw Derka!  EA executives did not comment for this article, but sources say that they are preparing an apology for their lack of programming competencies and plan to present it to Derka soon!"

[Derka 5968]

there’s a reason that ea gets voted the worst company to work for every single year, and there’s a reason that reddit has zero shortage of forums dedicated to how lazy, incompetent, and cynical ea is. there’s a reason that youtube and twitter are filled videos of people destroying their controllers and tvs over ea sports games. it’s not a conspiracy, it’s just a greedy, evil company that makes terrible, user-unfriendly games because no matter how shitty they are they know that everyone will buy their games anyway. 

this was the first ea game i’ve bought since 2019, because eve try single one of these issues are old issues that have existed in ea games for years. i will not be buying another ea game ever again. i just wish more people would boycott the company as well.

Edited September 27 by Derka

[RichUT 1791]

36 minutes ago, Derka said:

what type of passing are you using? i’m using the classic passing because it’s all i know. is there a better option?

Revamped passing.

[Deej 76584]

16 minutes ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

This is where we need that fake Surly newspaper screenshot that people post: "Surly's Derka Makes the Perfect Call - Computer Fails to Execute!  Theories abound as to why, but experts agree the most likely reason is a deep and vast wide ranging conspiracy to cheat and screw Derka!  EA executives did not comment for this article, but sources say that they are preparing an apology for their lack of programming competencies and plan to present it to Derka soon!"

I heard from a friend of a friend's friend's brother that the head programmer posts here and has it out for Derka. 

[Derka 5968]

i’ll post those videos some other time. for now i’m walking away and cooling off. i’m not in the right place to be playing a game that upsets me this much. i’ll come back and ask for advice at a better time. try and find a way to make the game fun again. again, i apologize for littering the thread with whiny complaints. i gotta do better.

Edited September 27 by Derka

[Zeus 5950]

SEC play starts soon!

[Hook1997 5291]

I’ve haven’t had that many issues with the game as many have posted.  Lots of EA is the worst talk, then why do they make more money than any other console game maker by far?  Everyone is evidently complaining but still buying the games and this is before NCAA 24 numbers. 

[Chooky 13302]

10 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

I’ve haven’t had that many issues with the game as many have posted.  Lots of EA is the worst talk, then why do they make more money than any other console game maker by far?  Everyone is evidently complaining but still buying the games and this is before NCAA 24 numbers. 

They rely on their licensing. Without competition, there's really no incentive to dedicate toward a complete game. They do chincy bullshit like remove features that everyone liked in one iteration. Then the next year they'll market having the feature they shouldn't have removed in the first place. If Ubisoft or Rockstar spent 3 years building a detailed, high graphic and expert audio college football game they'd probably blow EA's tits off. Exclusivity is EA's wheelhouse. They can put out a clunker and not be punished for it. This game made a killing mainly because of nostalgia and a dearth of any college football game for 11 years. They fed a cracker to the starving masses. 

[Dark Horse 2263]

12 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

I’ve haven’t had that many issues with the game as many have posted.  Lots of EA is the worst talk, then why do they make more money than any other console game maker by far?  Everyone is evidently complaining but still buying the games and this is before NCAA 24 numbers. 

Dude are you for real? No one else can make a NFL game, it’s literally the only choice people have. And they microtransaction people to death. 

[Zeus 5950]

1 hour ago, Chooky said:

They rely on their licensing. Without competition, there's really no incentive to dedicate toward a complete game. They do chincy bullshit like remove features that everyone liked in one iteration. Then the next year they'll market having the feature they shouldn't have removed in the first place. If Ubisoft or Rockstar spent 3 years building a detailed, high graphic and expert audio college football game they'd probably blow EA's tits off. Exclusivity is EA's wheelhouse. They can put out a clunker and not be punished for it. This game made a killing mainly because of nostalgia and a dearth of any college football game for 11 years. They fed a cracker to the starving masses. 

if the college football teams were smart they would just open the licensing up to multiple companies 

rockstars 18 year old ping pong game is better than anything EA has copy pasted the last 5 years

[Derka 5968]

played my first game after resettling and slightly tweaking the sliders, and it was nuts.

Arch threw five picks and we still win the turnover battle lol.

and i still have no clue how or why these balls are getting picked. i went to the practice mode but none of it is an actual tutorial on the different passing modes, so i had to stick with classic. only this “classic” passing does not play at all like the classic passing i’m used to. four of the five interceptions were to open guys where a)the ball was inexplicably and severely under thrown, and b)where the db broke on the under thrown balll while my wr just kept running his route, totally oblivious. the game is still frustrating as hell and always will be, but changing the sliders did improve it some.

[The Hot Dog Buffet 1291]

On 9/26/2024 at 6:01 PM, Derka said:

my fumble rate has increased by 500% since turning fumbles off. btw, the computer never fumbles…or commits penalties, or misses easy tackles, or any of that fuck shit that my team spends all game doing. same as it is in fifa; same as it is in madden; same as it ever was, and same as it always will be.

stop buying this game.

How the fuck can you expect the CPU to fumble when you turn the fumbles off?

[Huckleberry 32710]

I switched to placement and accuracy passing recently, I like it because you can still treat it as classic if you don't want to use the left stick on that throw. 

Edited October 1 by Huckleberry

[Foosters 17754]

39 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

I switched to placement and accuracy passing recently, I like it because you can still treat it as classic if you don't want to use the left stick on that throw. 

same. i also discovered that pressing L2 (PS5) when you throw puts more arc on the ball. Perfect for go routes when your WR has a step or two.

 

[Derka 5968]

1 hour ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:

How the fuck can you expect the CPU to fumble when you turn the fumbles off?