difficulty levels explanation

[Chedapalooza]

does anyone know / know where there is a write up explaining boosts/reductions for the difficulty levels (ie- heisman cpu is faster than user) etc.. is there a full explanation from ea about this?

[magic247]

bump (in the night)

[authentic]

Freshman- CPU is dumbed down.

Varsity- CPU acts realistically. No physic CPU defenders pre-play. CPU is far more realistic defensively.

AA- CPU acts above a realistic number, but makes enough mistakes to make the game easy.

Heisman- CPU acts at a superhuman speed. They react and know plays before they happen.


Sorry, small writeup, I only have 6% battery life left on my Mac.

[magic247]

Thx authentic. I'm interested in a numerical breakdown so that I may even the difficulty setting to match a player's true rating. Instead of "really easy, easy, hard, very hard", I'd like to simply play on normal, or tweek the sliders accordingly.

[Chedapalooza]

Quote: Originally Posted by magic247

Thx authentic. I'm interested in a numerical breakdown so that I may even the difficulty setting to match a player's true rating. Instead of "really easy, easy, hard, very hard", I'd like to simply play on normal, or tweek the sliders accordingly.

Me too- I want player rstings to be meaningful. But I'm starting to think they never will. The more i test slider and play this game, the more discouraged and angry I become at how all or nothing CPU game play is.

[Jarodd21]

Quote: Originally Posted by Chedapalooza

Me too- I want player rstings to be meaningful. But I'm starting to think they never will. The more i test slider and play this game, the more discouraged and angry I become at how all or nothing CPU game play is.

I feel you cheda. While the made some improvements to the AI this year it's still too easy to exploit if you try to make ratings matter and that's why I have to compensate with cranking up certain areas for the CPU in order to get a competitive challenge.. Any experience gamer like myself will always have issues like this until they improve the AI..

[nuschler22]

Quote: Originally Posted by authentic

Freshman- CPU is dumbed down. Varsity- CPU acts realistically. No physic CPU defenders pre-play. CPU is far more realistic defensively. AA- CPU acts above a realistic number, but makes enough mistakes to make the game easy. Heisman- CPU acts at a superhuman speed. They react and know plays before they happen. Sorry, small writeup, I only have 6% battery life left on my Mac.

Been playing on Varsity and they still seem to know my plays.

When I call an audible (no matter what it is, pass, run or random), they know exactly which it is unfortunately.

[Heyuimintojsus]

Yeah, I can't win on Heisman at all, so I've upped All-American levels. Heisman is unreal for an average player like me.

This year's game, seems like the screens are used the most by the CPU.

Anyone knows how to get a pass rush with the four defensive linemen? I use a DL and I can never get around the CPU.