Official NCAA 12! Thread

[Sharkweather]

Too much time on my hands. Top 25 by my conference set-up, this should be interesting. The ACC needs a Clemson resurgence.

24. NC State            ACC

17. Virginia Tech       Big East

1.  Oklahoma            Big 8
7.  Oklahoma State      Big 8
16. Nebraska            Big 8
23. Missouri            Big 8

6.  Ohio State          Big 10
11. Wisconsin           Big 10
15. Michigan State      Big 10

10. Florida State       Ind
21. Notre Dame          Ind

3.  Stanford            Pac-10
5.  Oregon              Pac-10
25. Arizona State       Pac-10

2.  Alabama             SEC
4.  LSU                 SEC
12. Auburn              SEC
13. South Carolina      SEC
19. Mississippi State   SEC
20. Florida             SEC

9.  Texas A&M           SWC
14. TCU                 SWC
18. Arkansas            SWC
22. Texas               SWC

8.  Boise State         WAC

 

[Sharkweather]

New blog.

http://www.ea.com/ncaa-football/blog/custom-conferences

Talks about scheduling logic/type and stuff for differing amount of teams in a conference, pretty interesting.

 

[ryne candy]

 

[St. Francisco]

New blog.

http://www.ea.com/ncaa-football/blog/custom-conferences

Talks about scheduling logic/type and stuff for differing amount of teams in a conference, pretty interesting.

Some interesting things I noticed:

"If you aren't into the neutral site thing, go ahead and set it so that the school with the best conference record hosts the game (like the PAC-12 and Conference USA do)." That's a pretty awesome addition, and would give extra incentive to not only win your division, but also finish with the best record so you can host the conference championship game.

"4-8 schools – 7 conference games. There are no protected rivals since everyone plays everyone else. For conferences of 4-6 schools FCS opponents will play the part of your additional conference games" WTF? FCS schools? Weak...I won't be going lower than nine teams.

"You can set a conference to be tied to a specific bowl, or you can set it so that the champion of a conference is guaranteed a spot in one of the BCS bowls, but not tied to a specific one (think Big East currently)." I like this addition...it will be interesting to see how the BCS assigns them to bowls if you just make every champion an auto-qualifier with no bowl tie-in.

Nothing was mentioned about the ability to rename a conference, so I guess that's a no-go. And even though I'd like to delete a conference, I can understand why they won't allow it...but requiring at least one independent? That's dumb.

 

[SHOGUN]

We have heard feedback regarding CPU not recruiting based on their play style, so this was one of our earliest adjustments for NCAA Football 12. Previously, if you were running an option offense, the CPU would simply take the best quarterback that was available, or possibly one just interested in the school. Now, you will find that the CPU will focus upon players that fit their particular play style. That means scrambling QBs will be targeted by option teams, while air raid teams will look for pocket passing quarterbacks.

Finally, we've updated the incoming ratings for all generated prospects with a focus on ensuring they are consistent with the recruits on the default roster. Now you won't notice a drop off in overall player talent in future years of the Dynasty when the players on the default roster have graduated. I think you will find that some positions, in particular Kickers and Punters, will be far more accurate this year.

:fuckyeah:

 

[BrntO4Life]

CPU recruiting to play style is HUGE. A big part of why NCAA 11 dynasties sucked in later years was because schools like GT recruited slow-ass QBs to run the option.

 

[BrntO4Life]

Not a word about tuning the generated recruits sizes and tendencies. That's been such a major complaint I can not believe they would not have mentioned it in that blog if they had fixed it. All the tuning to how schools recruit to their schemes will not matter one bit if they still recruit 6'7 185lbs run stopping DE's for the 3-4 or 165lbs power backs for a power running game.

Couldn't you edit a recruit's weight inside of dynasty mode in NCAA 11?

 

[Sharkweather]

Why are you copying other peoples posts at OS, I feel like I'm reading everything twice.

 

[Sharkweather]

Couldn't you edit a recruit's weight inside of dynasty mode in NCAA 11?

No. And you can't in NCAA12 either.

 

[SHOGUN]

The problem here is the default rosters that come with the game already hav overrated players like crazy....

True, but I hated having absolute stiffs at linebackers and receiver, absurdly slow strong safeties and worthless kickers. I'll take the trade off.

I also want to hear whether or not they addressed the size of recruits.

 

[Bmore]

Every new addition I see or hear about gets me closer and closer to erection.

 

[FirstTimer]

:fuckyeah:

:fap: to that recruiting news.

 

[SHOGUN]

 

[St. Francisco]

Where is that, Gamestop?

 

[SHOGUN]

Where is that, Gamestop?

Yep.

 

[St. Francisco]

Yep.

Fuck...guess I'll pre-order from them.

 

[Leftwich]

I'm praying the Gamestop order has the WVU Pro Combat Unis.

 

[St. Francisco]

I'm praying the Gamestop order has the WVU Pro Combat Unis.

Are they splitting up the pro combat unis on different store pre-orders?

 

[KNUBB]

I don't think so. I was pretty sure they are doing it like they did last year and making the uni's unlockable through the demo.

 

[St. Francisco]

I'm praying the Gamestop order has the WVU Pro Combat Unis.

Just to crush your dreams real quick, from the Gamestop site:

Reserve your copy of NCAA Football 12 and receive Nike Pro Combat uniforms for TCU, Ohio State, Boise State, Pittsburgh and Virginia Tech as exclusive GameStop premium uniforms. Nike Pro Combat uniforms are Born of Tradition, Built for Speed. Available online and in-store while supplies lasts.