EA Sports NCAA Football 14 Dynasty Mode Improvements - What it all means

There's always been a random play option in NCAA.

 

Where lol and if I'm controlling offense will it chose random play for me?

 

Lol if I missed this after 250 hours of NCAA 13 I'm gonna be so pissed

 

Go to your formation screen and instead of picking a play, push "select" to get a random play from that formation. I don't know if that works if you select plays by another method as I only pick by formation.

You can do this for both offense and defense. Then every time you snap the ball, the offense and defense both have a new play randomly picked for them.

EDIT:
I just checked and you can also get random plays if you select them by Play Type instead of Formation, but it seems like that'd be dumb to me. If you randomly select "inside run" then you'll randomly get plays from 4WR to goal line and what's the point of running a goal line dive play when the D randomly picks a play from quarters?

 

There has always been a random play option by formation. I don't know about random play option.

Why would you want that anyway? You have to select a defensive formation and do you really want to practice 4-3 against a spread and a I-form? Or just do double random on both sides. Kind of stupid.

 

Na I didn't mean random overall was looking for by formation or personnel (which I heard we can do this year).

 

I'm not sure if you saw my post (since Drifter and I posted at the same time), but if not, here it is:

 

So since we don't have control of our coordinators, lets say that I start as a Level 1 Coach, both my OC/DC are at 15. When I'm building up the OC/DC points, is it only for the CURRENT staff, or does it carry over? For instance, I build up everything on the DC upgrade options. If that guy leaves to become a head coach, and the school 'hires' another guy, who may be a Level 2, do my upgrades stick or do I have to boost them up for each different coordinator?

Also, if a guy is 'maxed' out his DC points, is there a difference between the DC being hired if he's a Level 4 or Level 14?

 

The level goes with coordinators when they leave/arrive. You can spend them however you want, but they only have the amount of their current level. Also, your HC level will determine the level of your new coordinators. So, say you take over Bama and your new coach is level 1 and you have level 20 OC/DC. You level yourself to level 5 and your OC leaves to go to another school. He'll still be level 20 at the new school. Because you're a low level, maybe your new OC will be only level 3. You can spend his 3 points however you want, but you will only have 3 points (you won't have the 20 points from your old coordinator to spend).

*This is all based on my understanding from reading posts by various game changers and I have never touched any version of NCAA '14 personally.

 

Have there been any changes to the player pools?

Meaning, will I still see tons of white CBs? Black Ks?



Also, have they expanded the amount of player models (as far as ratings are concerned). There wasn't much variation in these, and it really made recruiting boring after a while. You just get so many of the same types of players. 5'8 171 HB with A SPD A ACC D CAR.

 

While there certainly isn't anything wrong with a white CB peace to Jason Seahorn or a black place-kicker word to Kemar Scarlett or punter like my man Marquette King I'd like to see the names fit the players this year. Are there still six foot two white guys named Jamaal Jenkins or 5'10 black dudes named Peter Mackowski ?

 

I wanted to do a lot of work with the recruiting database (similar to last year), but I ran out of time.

I know the FCS and High School teams are fixed.

 

What about custom custom conferences? Is it the same?

Can you choose how many conference games are played?

If you choose the week conference games start does it actually work?

Can you create/delete a conference?

 

Totally forgot about this one. Think it's been broken last two years IIRC

 

Surprised no one has asked this yet but do you know if the devs are working to fix/fixed the 11 game schedule problems?

 

Same.

No.

Not sure. This has worked in my experience with the only exception being made for protected rivalries. Would love some examples.

No.

 

I thought this was patched last year?

 

Masler can likely give some examples here. In the E we had a custom ACC and I don't think the conference games ever started when we wanted. I think he had them set to start at week 4 but we always had ACC conference games before that.

This is likely specific to Notre Dame, but in my B1G offline I moved ND to the B1G in 2022 and they always play conference games in week 1 or week and their first 6 or 7 games are all conference games. This is despite me having the B1G set to start in week 4.

 

It's definitely not fixed, but it can be reduced if you sacrifice custom schedules. When you start changing games in your schedule other teams get 11 game schedules. If you randomly regenerate the schedules with the option (I think it's called "use real world schedules") set to "no" then you get a lot fewer 11 game schedules, but you get stuck with some random schedule. You can regenerate as many times as you want, but you'll never get quite what you're looking for.

 

I have always had the conference games set to start on(or does the game say after?) Week 4....ACC always ignored it and it would seem the Big 12 followed it. Now that we merged the ACC user teams into the Big 12, they all seem to follow it. So maybe it's conference specific?

 

ACC had a lot of protected rivals (GA Tech v Georiga, Fla v Fla st, etc) that could have been jacking it up.

 

Slightly off topic but if you have CC turned on and you go to a new school will any of your staff or staff upgrades come with you ? I would assume not

 

Protected rivals were only in conference. I could have removed Florida and Georgia from the ACC schedules if I wanted (left them on for recruiting purposes of course).

 

Already been asked and addressed.

The answer is yes for your own position. If your coordinators leave then they take they stuff with them, I believe.

 

My apologies , over looked that lost in the 6 pages I guess