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NCAA Football 10 Exclusive Interview Week #1

07:50 PM - May 22, 2009 by Steve_OS

Welcome to week #1 of our interview with the Producers of NCAA Football 10. Every week until release, we'll be posting an interview. This week we have Ben Haumiller, designer of NCAA Football 10, answering the questions.

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	Operation Sports: "What kind of defensive gameplay enhancements/tweaks have been implemented into this year's game? What has been done to tone down the wide open gameplay?" Ben Haumiller: "Here are a few things we�ve done (obviously not everything): Pursuit Angles, Defensive line tipping passes, Man Coverage has been improved, Press/Release enhancements (from WR/DB interactions), and Adaptive AI all make a really big impact. I should also point out that players in deep zones (depending on zone coverage rating) will be more aggressive in going after passes. So examples: � Just taking a speed back and running outside does not equal a score (pursuit angles) � "Elite" Corners make a bigger impact between the abilities to jam receivers and simply cover better in Man � Adaptive AI can force you to change up your play calling. I say can because if you are a way better team, all the reaction ratings in the world will not always help the defense � And just more incompletions in general help defense (tip passes and more realistic misses on passes)"

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# 81 Bwnarrow3 @ 05/23/09 02:23 PM

Wait what are formation subs?

# 82 Crimsontide27 @ 05/23/09 02:30 PM

I commend the guy on the interview, at least he didnt lie. Even though all the information given seemed like a let down, at least he gave info.

Having said that, its time for whoever it is that calls the shots on the NCAA dev team to step down and do something else.

I dont know who is in charge of what does or what doesnt happen in this franchise, but its time for them to go. College football has gone from a must have game since I started playing Bill Walsh football back in 92 I think, to pure garbage.

Strides have been made in every imaginable way in all other sports games, yet the NCAA series is as stale as 10 year old moldy bread.

Take a look at all the advances that have been made in the FIFA and NHL series. Look at MLB the Show....I hate baseball and the things that game has accomplished is amazing. Look at how 2k introduced presentation and player interactions on a scale that hasnt been matched in the almost 6 years since it was released.

The 2010 season is releasing soon and we STILL havent gotten back the same options in next gen games that we had 10 years ago on other sports games. Create a team? ...I remember creating teams in Play action football on the Super Nintendo. Highlights as part of presentation? I remember having that back in 92-94 or so on Madden. Commentary? It changed more on a yearly basis on Sports talk football from 92, 93, 94 than it has changed on NCAA in the previous 8 years. Played NCAA 02 religiously in Korea on Xbox since we had nothing else to do, 90% of the commentary from 09 can be heard on 02 as well.

NCAA team, whoever is in charge of what yall do or dont do is a disgrace to modern video game developers.

The reason we still post is because we care so much. If I didnt like college football I wouldnt even post here, however its my most beloved sport and it frustrates me to no end that you continuously release a subpar product and if I want to have a college football game, your the only one avaliable.

The most frustrating aspect to all of this is that you have all the information you need from communities on the internet availible to you for free. You know what the customer wants, and have known for years...yet every year you ignore the community and break aspects of the game only to fix it in the yearly update and call it a new feature.

# 83 sportzbro @ 05/23/09 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Crimsontide27


	Having said that, its time for whoever it is that calls the shots on the NCAA dev team to step down and do something else. I dont know who is in charge of what does or what doesnt happen in this franchise, but its time for them to go.

That man would be named Jeff Luhr, who (not surprisingly) has made ZERO appearances on the OS NCAA board..

# 84 sportzbro @ 05/23/09 02:52 PM

Just to fuel the fire a little bit. This is a quote I just saw from Phil, one of the main guys on the Madden team.

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Originally Posted by Phil_Frazier_EA


	I'll give you a new comment. Superstar wasn't a focus for us this year. You all have seen the heavy focus on gameplay (Pro-Tak and much more). We've got some big stuff in online that will be announced soon, and Franchise is getting a lot of tuning, bug fixing, and a new show called The Extra Point. On top of all this, lots of time spent on presentation this year. Simply put, we tried to focus on the fundamentals and what is core to the Madden NFL Franchise. I wouldn't expect any big Superstar feature announcements this year but the feature is of course included in Madden NFL 10. Phil

Imagine the buzz on this board if someone with this mentality were working on the game..Its also funny that Campus Legend is going to be one of the main things getting upgraded in 2010..

Simply baffles me. Each game has done the exact opposite of the other.

# 85 prowler @ 05/23/09 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Bwnarrow3


	Wait what are formation subs?

Basically you can go through all the formations of your playbook and sub in players for that particular formation. For instance if your primary back is a speed back but you want your lower rated power back in for goaline plays you could set it up with formations subs. Or as Windsocks mentioned, if you want to handpick which players are on special teams, you would do it through formation subs.

# 86 madskills291 @ 05/23/09 03:04 PM

FORMATION SUBS WAS IN 09 YOU IDIOTS. WHY WOULD THEY TAKE IT OUT FOR 10? THEY DONT HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT STFU NERDS

# 87 moylan1234 @ 05/23/09 03:17 PM

wow your first post and you use it to call everyone idiots. way to make a good first impression! Formation subs were in madden 09 not NCAA 09 and they won't be in NCAA 10 either

# 88 coogrfan @ 05/23/09 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by madskills291


	FORMATION SUBS WAS IN 09 YOU IDIOTS. WHY WOULD THEY TAKE IT OUT FOR 10? THEY DONT HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT STFU NERDS

You're thinking of package subs, which is limited to certain preset options (i.e. flipping wr's, subbing in the backup rb or qb, etc.). Formation subs means being able to go in and substitute at any position as the user sees fit.

# 89 Lava @ 05/23/09 03:33 PM

Great first post madskills. You are obviously well educated and know exactly what you are talking about. I appreciate you utilizing your experience to enlighten all of us.

# 90 WolverinesFinest @ 05/23/09 03:44 PM

Formation subs was not in 09 and hasn't been since last gen. Sorry if it was already said but when asked the question about random plays in practice mode he completely misunderstood or dodged the question. What we have now is the ability to choose random play from a SINGLE formation or TYPE of play. A TRUE random play feature is when you can click random play and every play in the book is eligible to be used. And for those that ask why this is important, when your practicing and know what the D is runnning against you it doesn't help as much as if it was random and unkown

# 91 JAYMO76 @ 05/23/09 03:47 PM

I really hope Upper Management for EA SPORTS is paying attention to these boards. NOT HAVING FORMATION SUBS... YET AGAIN IS A COLOSSAL MISTAKE. Gamers are turing on EA/Tiburon for another gimmick fest insult to NCAA FOOTBALL (NCAA 10). The developers of NCAA 10 must be held accountable for their misdirection of this title. A once great game has clearly lost its way and it's time to implode the development team and start from scratch. Mediocrity cannot be tolerated. Clearly I suspect that the NCAA team has to see the writing on the wall with all of the backlash for this years game. They blew it; they know it... I guess there's nothing left to say.

# 92 sportzbro @ 05/23/09 03:50 PM

Ha, I would vote to keep Adam & Russ.

# 93 jfsolo @ 05/23/09 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by BORN4CORN


	That man would be named Jeff Luhr, who (not surprisingly) has made ZERO appearances on the OS NCAA board..

He seems to be taking the position that the new big features will draw in a bunch of new casual players while maintaining an overwhelming majority of the hardcore fans, despite their anger toward the continued absence of so many long requested smaller features. Unfortunately for us, he's probably right.

I'd say that when push comes to shove 95% of the people around the Net who are upset will still break down and buy the game day one. NCAA 09 was the first NCAA game I didn't buy, but many people who seemed to be even more upset then I was at some of the design decisions still caved in right away.

Much of OS will be at a fever pitch, with complaining, name calling, and trolling running rampant, but the key part of the equation is that those folks will still have bought the game at retail price.

09 probably had the second most complaining ever(05 is number one) about an NCAA game, and we see what the big focus was for this year.

A serious reduction in sales is the only thing that will(may) cause Luhr to get the gate. Despite not a lot being said about gameplay, I expect the improvements to be strong enough to warrant a purchase from me this year, therefore I not going to whine if things remain status quo seeing as how I will have contributed to the sales numbers.

# 94 Ziza9Noles94 @ 05/23/09 04:26 PM

I'm still very excited for this year's game. But other than the defensive line issues, pursuit angles, and slider problems (all of which seem to have been addressed this year) I thought '09 was a heck of a lot of fun. Things like Season Showdown, much like the Mascot thing don't get me riled up in the least because I'll likely just choose not to do it and focus on Online Dynasty, regular Dynasty and Teambuilder, you know, to make those fake FBS teams.

# 95 Palo20 @ 05/23/09 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by WolverinesFinest


	Formation subs was not in 09 and hasn't been since last gen. Sorry if it was already said but when asked the question about random plays in practice mode he completely misunderstood or dodged the question. What we have now is the ability to choose random play from a SINGLE formation or TYPE of play. A TRUE random play feature is when you can click random play and every play in the book is eligible to be used. And for those that ask why this is important, when your practicing and know what the D is runnning against you it doesn't help as much as if it was random and unkown

I actually like the way the random play works right now. If you select a 3 WR play, the defense will probably come out in some kind of nickel formation. Right now, it's easy to go to Nickel and pick random play and that's probably most realistic.

With a random play feature that includes all plays you could be practicing a 3 WR play against a 5-2 defense or a goaline play against a Quarters defense.

# 96 Ziza9Noles94 @ 05/23/09 04:33 PM

This. +1

# 97 marcoyk @ 05/23/09 05:22 PM

back to madskills... what makes the entire OS community that comments on things nerds but his commenting isn't nerd-like?? and plus you were completely wrong with what you said.

# 98 stoncold32 @ 05/23/09 05:27 PM

wow, I am mostly upset that the sliders are just like last year. To me, they were basiclly non effective and inconsistent even after both patches.

Unacceptable considering all the other stuff the other depts added. What is the gameplay team doing??????

# 99 Potatoes002 @ 05/23/09 06:28 PM

After reading that Im dissipointed. But none of those were game breakers. The main problems last year were the pursuit angles, FIXED. No pocket, FIXED. Pass rush is back, FIXED. They also added wr and cb interactions and TUNED DOWN THE SPEED. Ya the sliders are still the same post update but after the gameplay was fixed from unplayable I believe they will actually have an effect this year. With teambuilder, gameplay, windsocks and field goal net (Ya!?), plus bowl game endzones and custom conferecnes (I will be using this in OD as me and my friends can all be in a BCS conference), and other additions I think this game will be great. No formation subs who cares all it does is lead to cheesing and I would probably ever use this. Anyone else feel like this too?

# 100 Crimsontide27 @ 05/23/09 06:49 PM

[quote=jfsolo;2039604125]He seems to be taking the position that the new big features will draw in a bunch of new casual players while maintaining an overwhelming majority of the hardcore fans, despite their anger toward the continued absence of so many long requested smaller features. Unfortunately for us, he's probably right.

I'd say that when push comes to shove 95% of the people around the Net who are upset will still break down and buy the game day one. [/b].

[quote]

I believe you are right. Each year the NCAA team breaks something significant in the gameplay area that everyone would be MUCH happier if it was fixed. Then next year, as long as whatever X game breaking problem is fixed, the NCAA faithfull will buy it again.

They know this, and its the reason I think this series is so stale now. One year, every QB was at 85-90% passing accuracy. Then the next year, wide open recievers would drop everything tossed to them. Next thing you know the QBs never pass the ball further than 10 yards deep.

Each year its the same forumula. Break something so that the next year people will buy it if whatever they broke the previous year is fixed.

Main question now is what game breaking feature will be included in 10?

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