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Does it feel real yet?
Look I know I’m late to this party but it will make sense, I think. NCAA 25 has been the biggest let down since I realized college football was the biggest scam on TV. As someone who has kept their Xbox 360 running for almost 2 decades solely so he could play NCAA14, I was ecstatic when EA announced NCAA 25. Unfortunately, it’s been all downhill since. Firstly, you can absolutely get bent if you think I’m going to buy a $600 console so I can play your $70 game. You don’t want to release on PC in the current gaming environment then so be it. Spin it however you want, I don’t care it’s your loss. However, to not release the game on older generation consoles is an absolute disgrace. I hope this new generation of games fails for that reason alone. Secondly, I’m not sure EA has a single person coding this game that has ever watched a single down of a football game. There is no comparison to the real world game and what happens when playing this game. I am 100% heisman difficulty no matter the game mode but in Road to Glory it is infuriating to watch my lineman stand up, turn around, and flip the bird to my QB or RB when the ball is snapped (that’s when the play starts, so we don’t confuse the coders and programmers). Should they get beat more often than normal, of course it’s the hardest difficulty. For a computer controlled player to not perform an assignment all together is ridiculous. They just stand up and stand still while the now super human defenders DC Flash passed them allowing an average of just shy of 2 seconds for the WRs/TEs to run routes and guess who will be open. Then I’ve got God’s gift to defenses in Superman like DBs. Full sprint, stop on a dime like they know the route, high jump 360 somersault interceptions while my WR never turns around. If I'm lucky sometimes I can just bang the ball off my RBs facemask as he stares at me like he lost his parents in the grocery store. Im not asking to win games by 100 points. I simply want to be able to know that when I play the game it will feel like a true game as much as possible. No one who has ever suited up for a football game has gone out and just stood there. If they miss a block fine go find someone else. If the QB is running for his life then you should probably move the F around and come back to him as a potential receiver. You can keep your NCAA 26 because I know you won’t fix the game play aspects and you already released the game to only new generation consoles. As ridiculous as it sounds I am sad to say goodbye to a game that I’ve played since the release of Bill Walsh football in the 90s. I hope better days are ahead for those who refuse to accept the idea that this game takes a certain individual to enjoy it and is just not that good. There are changes that are positive for sure. Enjoyed the new recruiting process but it didn’t take long to learn the pattern and then that positive disappears. While there are other positives, they just don’t hold up against nor negate the overwhelming and egregious amount of negatives. If you made it this far I appreciate it. I just needed to say my piece so that I don’t break my setup here. Maybe I’m the only one who feels this way or who has as much of a problem with it. I just think people should know that this game isn’t good. It’s just the first time some people have actually seen it so they have no baseline. Others have waited years to play it again and can’t let go of the nostalgia of it. All of this is my own opinions of course.Dynasty Manually Upgrading players glitch
There is a currently a bug where if you manually upgrade your players in the offseason in Dynasty it freezes after every upgrade and makes you go back to the roster and click the player again and do this over and over. It makes it take so long to upgrade players after they get their training every season. Hopefully they fix it soon.CFB 26 Suggestion/Wish List
Just want to start this off with some gratitude that the game is back and here to stay. I think EA needs to realize that there are a lot of us who really enjoy and care more about the customization more than anything else. So that’s what I’m mainly talking about here. As far as player customization, EA should fix a few things: 1.) Please bring back the scrunch socks…why they took them out in the first place is beyond me. 2.) We should be able to change the color of our undershirts to match what sleeves we want to wear. I noticed this is a common complaint and it’s a valid one. 3.) Please add black socks to all schools. I’m tired of not being able to truly have a black out uniform because a school is stuck with the white socks option. Ex: Hawaii. 4.) Please fix the back plate exposed option. What I mean by this is the front of the jersey. The jersey number is not visible and the straps of the shoulder pads are showing. Nobody wears their jersey like that. If anything, the jersey is rolled up a bit so the stomach is showing but you can see clearly see their jersey number. 5.) I’m not sure if this is a glitch in the game but there are some cleats that have a different color than the one that is selected. For example, I want to have all black cleats and I wear the Nike Untouchables and they give a team color and black look. Some teams allow for them to be all black but most teams I have that problem with. So that needs to be fixed. 6.) Please add Create-A-Prospect for Dynasty recruiting. Miss being able to create dope prospects or myself and friends in the dynasty and being able to recruit them. 7.) Please add different leg sleeve options. They could have multiple options for leg sleeves such as the one leg sleeve for either leg and even add the half sleeve option where players have their tights half way up so they have a bit of leg skin showing. 8.) Turtleneck option would be awesome. Also, the “sheisty” look they had back in NCAA 07 would be sick. 9.) High School in RTG…Just bring back the NCAA 14 concept. That’s literally all we asked for. Playing moments in only a couple games? No thanks. Just bring back the option of importing whatever high school we want to play for and let us have the option of how many games we want to play and allow us to customize the schedule and schools we play. NCAA 14 had it perfect. Please. Those are my main issues about the game. I’m not complaining much about gameplay like everyone else. I keep my peace and mainly play RTG & Dynasty so customization is really what I’m looking for and care about. Most of these complaints could be solved with the updates they drop throughout the year and I don’t see it being that difficult for them to do. It’s really what we’ve been asking for.Triple Option Offenses 26
I coach football in real life. In the 25 version of the game the triple option was bad but somewhat tolerable if you narrowed your play selection. HOLY CRAP IS IT BAD IN 26!!! rocket toss is a TOO (triple option offense) big play. The ball should be pitched later than in the game and the HB should be running full speed. With a proper block at split end the a back should have no problem hitting the edge untouched. Instead when I run it I have an OLB over the top outside of me containing and a FREAKING DT running down the LOS preventing a cutback. Absolute dog crap. Inside veer triple option is just a hair to fast on the initial read. What happens is I make my read but the QB is already locked in to give instead of the pull I wanna make. If you don’t press and hold the pull button immediately after the play then it will be an automatic give every single time. That read needs to be slowed down just a little bit. read key- the read key is totally random on his responsibility. Realistically teams tend to protect against the triple option by containing the quarterback rather than tackling the fullback. Typically your full back is going to have more than 15 carries a game an average about 3 yards per carry. The triple option plays are going to be your boom or bust plays. The read keys use no logic they simply just randomly pick bite or contain every play. These are just my 3 biggest complaints, but I could list pages of crap that they don’t get right. There’s even plays where it’s a full back dive to the left and the fullback gets the ball in the B gap on the right side. EA did such a sloppy job with the triple option playbooks. They thought adding a bunch of pass plays would make everybody happy but the reality that EA does not understand is the average player is not going to play triple option. The people who are going to run triple option on this game are high school coaches possibly players and division 2/3 coaches and players. The only people who are going to run these playbook on this game (except for the maybe 2%) are people who are familiar with how it is supposed to run, play, calling strategies, who to double team, when to replace the red key on quarterback pulls or bounce it outside, and how to Game manage this offense. I understand the EA wants to make the game inclusive to all people of different skill levels but frankly, the triple option offense is not for an idiot or a 10-year-old boy/girl. This offense is very sophisticated and requires advanced knowledge to run successfully. EA seriously needs to get on top of this. I know that only a small percentage of people are going to run this offense but that doesn’t mean EA should skimp on all of their playbook and tell us that the playbook got so much better when all they did was add stupid, empty, pistol packages and one or two shotgun formations to every playbook. EA should be ashamed of what they’ve done with these playbooks.UTEP update
UTEP doesn’t come out from the big entrance tunnel where the locker rooms are at. They come out from the stands through a tunnel called ‘The Mine Shaft’. With smoke and the head coach carrying a Pick. Please it would be amazing to see this entrance with an update in the future. And also the mascot Paydirt Pete as well. And throw in their military camo uniforms please.Marching 100 Trumpet Player
I’ve never really been into sports video games like 2K, Madden, FIFA, or anything like that—they just never excited me. But the thought of having actual marching bands in a college football video game? That would completely change things for me. Growing up, I always wished video games included the band side of things, because that’s where I truly connected. Now that I’m in college, I’ve been able to appreciate football more—talking about it, watching it with others—it’s a big part of the culture. But for me, the band has always been the main event. I currently march in the Marching 100 at FAMU, and I’m a music industry major. I really believe FAMU would be more than happy to help pioneer something like this. Including bands—especially HBCU bands—would be groundbreaking. FAMU has a rich legacy, and we even won Band of the Year last year. Putting us in the game would bring massive attention to both the Marching 100 and the game itself. As someone who’s loved video games my whole life, I’d absolutely buy College Football 26 on day one if bands were in it. I felt strongly enough about this to make sure I wrote this message—because this is a very real opportunity. It’s innovative. It’s needed. And I know I’m not the only one who feels this way. Let’s make it happen. 🎺🔥A Year in Review ... CFB25 will always have a special place in my heart
As we get closer to the launch of CFB26, I thought it might be nice to list a few things that have made CFB25 so AMAZING! When I played my first games of CFB25, my running back was taking a long run to the house for a touchdown, I saw the sideline get excited and start jumping up and down and celebrating as he got closer to the endzone ... gave me goosebumps. In another game, I was amazed when my running back pointed to the blocker for his teammate to block. I had to watch that over and over in slow motion, it was AWESOME! Another slow-motion replay, a player dove into the endzone and got hit right as he began his dive. He literally spun in a circle and landed in the endzone. SO COOL! This was from just today. I turned down the music in practice mode and I could hear players saying things I hadn't noticed before. Here's a couple things I heard them say. "Let's get that swagger, ya'll. Let's get that swagger!" and "It's prime time, baby!" Wow! Thank you, EA for making a great game!!!! I look forward to another great season.4 Dynasties Ruined
Today, I lost my 4th dynasty to the glitch that removes all recruits, hours, and progress of all players on my board. I’m beyond fuming. I’ve already decided not to get Madden this year, breaking a streak since Madden 11. EA has monopolized the sports gaming industry and it seems that sub par is even a stretch for any ea game at this point. How it has been a full year and there is no fix for this blows my mind. It’s so frustrating that I’m forced to play football games made by a company that I truly despise. And they will still get me. If I don’t at least get cfb 26, I wouldn’t have anything else to play with friends. EA has consistently ruined my gaming experience for years now. UFC 5, and madden 25 are exact copies of the previous years games. Cfb 26 is my last hope for EA. They have continuously shown that they are the worst gaming organization to date. Even beating out Activision and 2k that activity try to bankrupt its users. How many 2.5 star (and below) reviews do you need to change? Why do you not focus on the little details? I’m so infuriated with this franchise. If somebody made a physics based football game (like Backbreaker) please let me know because I will happily pay hundreds of dollars to never touch an EA game again.
