NCAA Football 09 Patch #1 Available

[GearsX8]

Quote: Originally Posted by jdrhammer

It would be nice if us PS3 guys could get the first patch. I can't believe this.

LOL! I keep saying the same thing.

[Flo]

Quote: Originally Posted by Flo

When a team gets a delay of game penalty, the game clock continues to run. Therefore, if you get the ball and the lead, run a play to start the clock. then take a delay of game penalty over and over until the clock runs out. Of course, if you are in the 1st or 3rd quarter, you will have to run a second play to start the clock running in the 2nd or 4th quarter, but you then just keep taking penalties until the half or game ends. The PSP version seems to work correctly, stopping the game clock, but the PS3 keeps the game clock running. The reports are that the xBox 360 version has the same issue as the PS3. Nobody left from the 2000 version, eh? Flo

OMT, did you confirm this delay of game issue yet?

Flo

[rudyjuly2]

Quote: Originally Posted by jdrhammer

It would be nice if us PS3 guys could get the first patch. I can't believe this.

Don't worry. Sony will realize the error of their ways and after seeing the sales numbers (360 much higher for NCAA) will escalate the second patch to the top of the list and we'll have it next week!

[callmetaternuts]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

Don't worry. Sony will realize the error of their ways and after seeing the sales numbers (360 much higher for NCAA) will escalate the second patch to the top of the list and we'll have it next week!

I wonder how many people will take that as truth!!!!!!!

I dont feel too bad for PS3 people bc the first patch doesnt touch gameplay and unless they plan on re-doing all rosters, only a few people get benefit of it (although they cant get started on new rosters)

[kestrel]

Quote: Originally Posted by callmetaternuts

I wonder how many people will take that as truth!!!!!!! I dont feel too bad for PS3 people bc the first patch doesnt touch gameplay and unless they plan on re-doing all rosters, only a few people get benefit of it (although they cant get started on new rosters)

I want it for the depth chart reordering bug fix. I'll go in sometimes to make some corrections, mid-season in my dynasty, such as number changes or equipment changes (rarely), and have to redo the depth chart. This gets especially annoying with the returners.

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

Adam, has anyone identified the defense formation bug? Its the same as last year where even when I select 3-4 defense in my coaching strategy, it still comes up 4-3 when I go to my game and I always have to change it. I think you guys list Bama as having a base 4-3 defense as well. I'm not sure if the cpu is just automatically making some teams 4-3 when they should be a 3-4.

I believe what you are talking about isn't actually a bug. What you set in coaching strategy is saved to the dynasty file and will be used when simulating games. However, once you hit the team select screen it will load your playbook options from your profile, not from dynasty coaching strategy (this is because this screen is shared amongst game modes).

By default, your profile is looking at Team Specific for playbooks. I believe this pulls from the Team database on the disk, not the dynasty database on your memory card. What you might want to do is go My NCAA > My Settings > User > Preferences and set your default playbooks there to what you have in Coach Strategy and you won't have to change them every time.

[OkieTC]

Whats the latest word on patch #1? Will it be out today?

[rudyjuly2]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

I believe what you are talking about isn't actually a bug. What you set in coaching strategy is saved to the dynasty file and will be used when simulating games. However, once you hit the team select screen it will load your playbook options from your profile, not from dynasty coaching strategy (this is because this screen is shared amongst game modes). By default, your profile is looking at Team Specific for playbooks. I believe this pulls from the Team database on the disk, not the dynasty database on your memory card. What you might want to do is go My NCAA > My Settings > User > Preferences and set your default playbooks there to what you have in Coach Strategy and you won't have to change them every time.

I use the Clemson playbook for offense and I thought it was automatically defaulting to their defensive playbook (4-3) as well. It would be nice if I changed my default defensive playbook to 3-4 in the Coaching Strategies section that it would work as well though. I will go to these setting tonight. Thanks.

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by Flo

OMT, did you confirm this delay of game issue yet? Flo

I'm not an expert on the rules or what have you, but from what I can tell the issue was identified but we didn't fix it because this only happens if you are losing. If you have the lead, it doesn't happen.

Bascially, you can't take a lead and then take delay of games to run out the clock and exploit the game.

Is this the official rule? I don't know... but it sounds wonky to me. But fortunately this can't be used as an exploit from what I can tell.

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

I use the Clemson playbook for offense and I thought it was automatically defaulting to their defensive playbook (4-3) as well. It would be nice if I changed my default defensive playbook to 3-4 in the Coaching Strategies section that it would work as well though. I will go to these setting tonight. Thanks.

I agree that it isn't ideal. This is just one of those things that often happen due to the functionality of the interface. While it probably is doable to put some "special sauce" (as we call it) in the code to make an exception for dynasty mode, it probably isn't really worth what we get out of it. Especially with workarounds of changing your user settings or manually selecting the playbooks. We aren't preventing you from using your coach strategy playbooks.