It’s been a long handful of months as we’ve been building the game while listening and reading everyone’s feedback from anywhere we could find. I’ve been waiting to start diving into all the improvements and new stuff we’ve been working on here at Tiburon.
Well let’s dive right in, even though we are releasing these details a little later then we would have liked:
New Equipment
Part of keeping things authentic on the field is what equipment each player is wearing. And frankly part of the fun for me is making sure my players I create or recruit all have the look to match the player, for example I love having Visors on my number one running back.
Well this year we added some new equipment to help keep your players looking how you feel they should:
· New Revolution Speed Helmet
· A few new facemasks for the different helmet styles in the game
· Some injury gear
o Knee Brace
o Ankle Brace
o Elbow Brace
o Elbow Guard
· New sleeve lengths
o 3 Quarters Sleeve
o Half Sleeve
· Towels
· Hand Warmers
Also we added the ability to set Left and Right Sleeve separate, so if you want one sleeve to be team color and full length and the other to be half length and black you can do that.
Single Week Bowl Season
This is a very nice improvement for all you Online Dynasty fans. As you know in last year’s game we had 4 different “weeks†for the bowl season; what this meant was is you could have up to 4 week advances so everyone could play their bowl games. This caused everyone in the Dynasty to wait for those people to play their games… not fun!
Well in NCAA Football 11 we have combined all the Bowl Games into one “Week†Advance, so everyone can now play their bowl games at the same time. This speeds up the process of finishing the Season in Online Dynasty by a lot, and should help keep things moving along.
Dynamic Conference Logos
Another upgrade for Dynasty players is about when a team switches Conferences either through last year’s new feature Custom Conferences, or though just playing Dynasty and getting a conference invite. This year when you change Conferences the conference logo on your team’s playing field will now update.
The best part is not only does the logo update, but they end up getting colored as if the team had really made the conference change. So for example if you move Alabama to the Big East you’ll see the logo look crimson and white.
Helmet Numbers During Game-Play
Speaking of Alabama, we’ve finally got the numbers on the side of the helmets to show up during game-play. It really is one of those things in the game that once you noticed you could never ignore again, and I’m glad to say it’s been addressed. Not only will they work for Alabama, but any team you create using TeamBuilder with numbers on the helmets will work as well.
Well that is just the start of what is to come about NCAA Football 11 there are way more (and BIGGER) things to talk about. It’s going to be a fun few months as we make the push to launch day and the release of everything we’ve worked on.
-Russ
Designer NCAA Football
