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Trophies not unlocking after winning in dynasty
I’ve played 1 season so far and have won multiple rivalries, awards and the playoff, but none of the trophies or awards are showing up in the trophy case. Playing on Xbox. It’s moderately frustrating. I was stoked they brought the trophy case back this year but it’s not even working.Error CE-108255-1/Game Crashing
I know there are a ton of posts on this issue as far as the game crashing (in mostly the 1st quarter) when playing online dynasty using teambuilder. My issue though is, I've followed EA's troubleshooting and have gone as far as resetting my entire PS5. While I have backed up game files, I've lost my entire archive of screenshots and vidoes that I have collected over the years which is pretty devastating. And it was for nothing. I don't get much time to play the game so when I finally do it would be nice for a game you spent $100 on to actually work. Can you confirm this only effects teambuilder online dynasty modes? At least I can start a non-teambuilder meanwhile and hope it doesn't crash? Add'l Info- Playing on PS5 Gamertag - Gnix24Game crashes
You can come help us any day now with the game crashes on different game modes. Because you know, that’s whole point of the game, to sink your teeth into Dynasty’s, RTG, etc., so please, for the love of everything holy, PLEASE HELP. DONT tell us to unplug anything, this is purely a EA SPORTS ISSUE. Your dev’s made a faulty game that’s currently unplayable. People are begging for any sort of timeframe of when this game will become playable and you guys keep hiding. [CM - updated thread title for clarity and visibility]
Dynasty still crashing
Daily crashing post because they're still refusing to acknowledge any issue or the hundreds of posts with the same crashing problems. Fix it or ban me. Its been WEEKS with no acknowledgement. Which platform are you playing on? PS5 What's your Xbox Gamertag or PSN ID? RxIFE Which game modes are you seeing the crashes in? Online Dynasty Where are the crashes happening in-game? **Is it happening in the menus or in the middle of a game? Where specifically in the menu or during a game does it crash? Middle of the game, random times ** What was happening in the game leading up to the crash? Random, just after selecting plays, penalties, TDs, etc. Did you get any error messages or error codes when it crashed? CE-108225-1 Please include the names of any Team Builder teams you were using when the crashes happened. VCU Screaming Eagles What teams, stadiums, and uniforms were you using? Teambuilder team (see above), Home stadium (Generic Stadium 4), crashes with all unis Which playbook are you using? Did you make any specific changes to your playbook before this started happening? Custom Offensive playbook. **Have tried with stock playbooks too, still crashes. EVERY GAME.Wear and tear system unbalanced
Wear and tear has a good concept but is completely over exaggerated. My half backs are set to “keep fresh” and autosub out at 90 stamina and by week 3 my starting HB’s season pool is less than 25% at 12-18 carries/game. His injury, toughness, and stamina attributes are all 85+. I get that wear and tear is supposed to add realism and it could, but it should never be able to be almost fully depleted by week 3 of a season especially when your subs are set to the max “keep fresh” setting. Now I have to waste an entire season fiddling with wear and tear sliders to fix this mess myself and most of my players for the next 4 years will feel the effects of the overdone wear and tear of this season.I have an Update on dynasty mode crashes
(see attachment) so one of the main devs is on twitter saying he has has no idea about the dynasty mode crashes despite so many people here and on twitter and reddit complaining about not being able to play a game without it crashing. all of these posts here and they’re still oblivious we have no chance and we can’t get a refund I can’t believe this is real lifeEvery Dynasty Game with my Teambuilder disconnects
I play on PS5, and I have an online dynasty with a teambuilder team, but every game I get kicked from the servers in the middle of the first quarter. I get an error message that I have been disconnected from the servers, and then sent right back to the main menu, where I am easily able to reconnect to the servers with one button press. So it’s obviously not my internet or the EA Servers, but there seems to be an issue with teambuilder teams to where you’ll get kicked out in the middle of every game you play. This was a problem last year and a big reason a lot of us wanted Teambuilder teams to work in Offline dynasty. You can’t only give us the option to use Teambuilder teams online, only for your game to have a bug that won’t even let you play any online dynasty games without disconnecting you. I really hope there is a patch coming to address this, as it’s been an issue before in last years game. I guess we can look forward to it being an issue in CFB 27 too. Lucky usDynasty Suggestions for the future
I have to admit the feel of the whole games is much better than last year. I will enjoy figuring it all out as it goes along. However, I know that developers pay less attention to these boards the older they get, so a few things I would love to see added for the next year. A full coaching staff for each team. 105 man rosters 2 portal recruiting windows (allow players to be cut during the portal windows - so they would pop up in the portal as well) Recruiting points should cost less for local prospects in more than just visits. Scouting should be cheaper for local prospects, sending coaches, etc. I know this was said, but didn't seem to have an impact with the few teams I have run through so far. winter conditioning, spring practices, summer training, and fall camp. At a minimum allow for some depth by choosing what you have players work on. Pretty sure EA did this with baseball years ago. Quit relying on the player base to adjust the sliders for a realistic play of the game, this should be the base sliders when released. This is why you have Beta and probably should be used much earlier than you currently schedule it. Coach mode. Bring back a pure coach mode where I control the plays, but do not control the actual game play. I find that much more challenging when the sliders are right. (I will admit I do like that the QB will now take off and scramble if you use current coach mode on his own) Allow us to reset coach points after the end of the season if you are not going to allow us to max it out. Keep their base archetype, but allow us to redesign what seems to work best for us. Quit adding make believe players to rosters. If they are not full then leave them that way or use one you didn't include from that team. More annoying to have a random create a player on the rosters than the players who didn't opt in. This just give more slots to recruit the next year rather than some random name appearing on your roster. Allow renaming, deleting, or creating of conferences. Doesn't hurt to have the option. NIL is a big thing with college football now and it is not in the game... Allow full customization of fake players, race, hair, etc. You are generating way too many people who hail from the mountain of the caucasus in here. Change the way you handle ATH designation. Show what positions they are capable of and allow them to stay an athlete for two way play or change to a primary position. This would allow for the player to earn experience at both, but at a decreased amount for a player who is not primarily focusing on one position. Quit making position change stagnant. We should be able to change their position at any time during the year. It happens in real life so not sure why you are trying to make it more difficult then it needs to be. SUGGESTED BY ANOTHER USER - Transition to a subscription based product with micro transactions to keep the base game consistent and with fewer bugs. It would allow the player base to buy additional roster, past or future. SUGGESTED BY ANOTHER USER - Import draft classes to Madden. Would definitely require a section in their NIL agreement. SUGGESTED BY ANOTHER USER - Dynamic Pipeline's for dynasty. I would add dynamic rivalries here as well. SUGGESTED BY ANOTHER USER- Slider adjustments in game. SUGGESTED BY ANOTHER USER - Dynamic depth charts that adjust for your team's scheme. They need to put more effort into explaining the roles of positions and skill sets for certain positions. Most teams do not have a simple WR depth, but have 3 separate and distinct positions here. Typically WR-X, WR-Z, WR-SL. Each having different traits that particular coach wants for those positions. Same with multiple different looks on defense from teams ranging from heavy DB looks to heavy LB looks, but they are not the same and I think they have made the approach to defenses way too simplistic in comparison to the offense. One 3-3-5 is not like another as LB's and backend may be more focused on specific types for their purpose. Some have 2 LBs and a safety for the backers, others have 2 LBs and an athletic edge. I feel like they have slept on the complexity of the game by making the depth charts way too simplistic for what the game has evolved into. They need to be team specific too.What's the point?
What is the point of these forums? EA doesn't seem to acknowledge anything we put on here, but let a content creator or famous person say something on twitter and EA devs quote tweet it, reply to it, or post it. There are meaningful changes that us regular people want that will make the game so much better and bring us back year after year. Do better EA2 Weeks Post-Launch, 3+ updates, still no fix to Dynasty Crashes
Hey EA_Kent EA_Barry, what happened? You have a game director saying on X that this issue has never been reported, meanwhile thousands of comments fill your forums, Reddit, X, etc. are filled with similar comments. I was told this update would fix it, as I was told with last weeks. Still nothing. 3 updates have gone by; I still haven't been able to get through a dynasty game. It's incredible the negligence and lack of clarity you have given to us. It is too late to get a refund, still can't play the game, this is horrible. One of the worst companies out there. Here's a fun game to play, O/U 10 days before one of these terrible community managers stops ignoring the issue that fills the majority of the Dynasty feed on here. We have all been scammed once again by EA.There should be more recruits with longer dreads/hairstyles out the helmet
Im about 5 years deep into my CFB26 offline dynasty and all players with hair coming out the helmet are gone. None of the generated recruits have hair long enough to come out the helmet. I’ve heard some people have gotten a couple recruits like this, but it is extremely rare. Given that college football in real life is filled with players with long dreadlocks, the computer generated recruits should reflect that. In addition, there should be more than just one generated face with dreads per skin tone to allow for more diversity between the recruits. The dreads in the game look great and I’d like to see them more often in my dynasty saves.
Dynasty Feedback & Observations (Long)
Although a few of my CFB 25 Dynasty gripes were addressed in CFB 26, I'm pretty disappointed with what seems to be marginal changes to Dynasty overall this year. Most of what has been adjusted just feels like patch level changes that were purposely held back from 25 to justify talking points for 26. At any rate, I'm hoping that items below can be implemented or considered for the road map. Recruiting & Team Management 25 seemed alright as I tried to learn dealbreakers, the tactics related to points, visits, sells, etc. but it feels more tedious in 26. After playing a few seasons in 26, I'm kind of over how this is setup and the slog this has already become after just two years of the game. I propose providing players an option to switch over to a straight up, simplified point system instead of designating what activity you want to do or trying to sell or sway players, similar to the older NCAA games. If I'm spending 40 points or 65 points on a player, just let me select that point amount out of my budget rather than what feels like padding by selecting a combination of activities. I’d also be interested in even consolidating all recruiting activities to a 4–6 week window in the offseason, while keeping only campus visits during the regular season. This would streamline things by removing friction during the year with weekly recruiting, allowing for more games to be played in a single evening or weekend. It would consolidate what's essentially "admin" aspects into a dedicated offseason period you could do all at once. This would also include toggling off Dealbreakers, which are extremely annoying and in many cases result in being locked out of players that have you as their #1 choice from the start and then for weeks after, or not signing with anyone. If my school is their number one choice, wouldn't they have an idea of their playing time/spot on the roster, playing style, etc. already? This is also driving ridiculous transfer outcomes in the offseason. Further, why do any 2 or 1 star players have Dealbreakers at all in the game other than for the purpose of fitting within the game's core framework? These players are scrubs and largely serve as warm bodies to fill out a roster. They shouldn't be hung up on whether or not New Mexico State has good brand exposure. At the very least, Dealbreakers for these low tier recruits should either be off completely or have the option to toggle off. Additionally, a simplified mode of recruiting would eliminate the grade system for your school which is largely out of your control anyway outside of winning, staying at the school (coach stability), or switching to a better conference. Everything, in a simplified recruiting setup, would rely on your prestige star rating, which is effectively a culmination of your grades anyway. Persuasion system needs to be adjusted in any new Dynasty change as it's the most nonsensical aspect of recruiting by far. This just feels like an RNG with the chance a player stays (low, high, etc.) being entirely irrelevant. Change it to either: A) the persuasion attempts need to act as firm locks to retain a player B) these players need to be worked into your overall recruiting strategy and require hours to spend in order to retain them—with the players who are least likely to stay taking more points to keep on the team. Recruiting map and dynamic pipelines are a must. I want to visually see where my recruits are pinned and how many/who on my roster are already from those territories. As I recruit more (from let's say Tidewater), it should gradually go from bronze to silver to gold and so on until I'm a power in that region. On the map, I should also have some kind of visual feedback of the pipeline area that's "heating up" or "cooling off" and how many more players I need to recruit in order to have it as a solid pipeline. Visits need to be tuned so the amount that you can schedule during a season is based on your prestige. If you're Alabama, it could be 12 for one game and basically unlimited for the season. If you're Kent State, it should be 12 for the entire season so you need to make them count. Alabama can afford to bring in and put up into hotels almost as many recruits as they want for a weekend, whereas Kent State is going to be really limited. (Perhaps an expansion of the dynamic point value based on proximity that was added) This should also spill over into recruits themselves—hardly any 2 or 1 star recruits are getting visits in real life. Visits should just be omitted entirely for these low-tier recruits. Player variation specifically with tattoos, long hair, and dreadlocks. Unless I've missed something, there are once again no recruits with any of these physical traits. Ability to cut freshmen—I have no clue why we are prohibited from doing this and it was a huge problem in 25 where after a few good classes, my upper classmen that were highly rated had to be cut to make space for incoming freshmen. Fix position changes and skill cap cheese. Also show the top 3 positions that player would fit in best without me having to click into a screen with each position listed and 95% of them make zero sense to move that player to. Abilities in my opinion just seem like complete fluff that have no bearing on performance. I’ve seen the "Heisman moment" green thing on the player reticle and they can’t break a single tackle on the play. Just provide the ability to toggle these off and instead rely the overalls/ratings + basic star player designations for occasional boosts… limit to 3 on offense, 3 defense. This was done so much better in NCAA 06 and has been way over engineered in CFB (and Madden for that matter). Coaching & Jobs Provide the ability to retire as a coach, then return at a later time in Dynasty while retaining their records, ratings/skills, and awards. There are some seasons where I want to take a break or I’m not getting the jobs I want so I’ll sit out a season or two, then come back and select a new team to rebuild. There should be continuity when doing this online or offline unless you choose to start as a new coach. I'd even be open to a slight debuff to the coach stats if you decide to retire then come back. More emphasis on the importance of coordinators. As it stands, they just feel like window dressing more than anything. I should be able to take my coordinators with me to a new job, retain the existing coordinators at the new job, or offer any coach in the league (HC/OC/DC) to join my staff. There also needs to be a toggle that forces me to use my coordinators playbooks as well as let me preview the playbook they intend on bringing. There needs to be some kind of point system related to hiring these coordinators. Right now, you just select from a list of 5 or 6, wait a week, and it's again an RNG whether or not they will sign—even if they have 3 other top opportunities listed you seem to be able to sign them no problem. If I start as a coordinator, then limit the user to just that side of the ball. If I'm an OC, then I only play offense and only recruit offense and only get graded on offense performance. Having played numerous seasons, there's no noticeable difference between user-controlled OC/DC and HC. Coaching carousel needs to be overhauled. NCAA 14 was extremely compelling and felt like an actual carousel as jobs were taken and rotated through in real time, forcing you to take a chance or miss out. The current system, unchanged from 25, is totally stagnant. There are too few options offered and I can’t select other schools that are open. If I'm good enough to get Ohio State, I should be able to select Bowling Green if it's open. On the other hand, if I'm at Ohio State, why are so many offers for OC/DC jobs? As you get closer to becoming the CFB version of Nick Saban, you should be able to basically hand pick any job I want. When considering a school, there needs to be a toggle or comprehensive overview screen that shows: top players returning, projected ratings in next season, current recruiting ranking, previous year stat rankings, uniforms, stadium information/screenshot of stadium. These are all things I have to back out and check in various ways—rosters, depth chart, play now, open practice, etc. before making a decision. Presentation Multiple score bugs and broadcast packages are a must in order to replicate the feel of Fox, ESPN, CBS, etc. as games should to look/feel different. This needs to come with at least one or two more commentary crews to round it out like Sean McDonough, Joe Tessitore, Gus Johnson, etc. In the "primetime" game of the week, there should be enhanced camera replays like you’d see in Madden/NFL—close up in end zone, drone shots, exterior stadium shots, and the coin toss. There has to be a halftime show and a weekly summary. No excuse this isn’t in CFB 27. This should include highlights, scores from around the country, and standings/big games ahead. This should include some kind of Top 25 reveal similar to what ESPN does weekly. You already have the audio for the team names and overlaying that with logos popping up would be great. A bowl selection show should be included too with the final CFP bracket reveal...I'd be thrilled with just a little commentary over this as the team logos are slotted into the bracket and bowl matchups. Crowds/fans need enhanced significantly although I assume this will not happen until next gen (PS6). Dynamic sidelines based on game size with more people, players, and activity. This has been an issue for probably 2 console generations now. There aren’t enough people or density on the sidelines. If you watch any top 10 game, every space out of bounds is filled with people. Crowds need to be dynamic—if you are blowing out a team or getting blown out, people should leave the game. More realistic crowds for bowl games and lower-tier conference title games. Almost none of these games are ever sold out. Seeing Ford Field at capacity for the MAC championship is just not happening ever. In the real game, they can barely fill the lower bowl and it’s that way for the majority of bowls, too. Crowd movement and density improvement as it looks sparse at most angles and they all sway in predictable patterns. Ability to select crowd themes. If I wear all black, the crowd should either wear all black automatically or I should be able to select from a list of options (striped, checkered, black, white, primary, secondary, mix/default) just like uniforms with a preview. Dynamic weather and better snow similar to Madden and much improved rain. Rain games just suck and are depressing in this game mainly because it looks awful. When you break a record, it should show in the game broadcast UI seamlessly in a stat overlay or lower third. Just having that as a popup screen takeover in the Dynasty menu with tiny font seems like an afterthought. Heisman ceremony—this doesn’t need to be complicated, just show the 3-5 top players in the first row of the event, a little commentary and comparison of stats of each player (maybe a replay highlight or two), then an animation of the winner being announced and accepting the trophy. User Interface One of my biggest issues... the UI simply needs to be overhauled completely. I can understand a basic framework being used for CFB 25 as there were clearly other priorities in order to get the game out, but using the identical structure for 26 is extremely lackluster. The flat 2D, sharp edges, rough brush effects and retro stuff just feels super dated. The sound effects are also slightly delayed and sound terrible, making everything feel more sluggish. All the menus should make users feel like it’s an ESPN CFB show with bold, aggressive fonts, stylized logos, wipes, etc. CFB 25 was a fun/cute aesthetic to get us going, but that aesthetic is already severely outdated. My brother and I joke that almost every popup or notification is like a PowerPoint slide. It just feels rushed and uninspired. If no changes are made, the tab system in the main menu needs to be reworked. It doesn’t feel intuitive, it's not customizable, or organized around the info users access most often—like Play Week, Top 25, Standings, Stats, and Settings. For example, having “Members” as the second option creates an unnecessary click and would be better placed as a submenu under Dynasty Central or shown only to the commissioner. Weekly Summary and the end of week recap is the most useless screen in the game. The recruiting update is irrelevant as I'm headed there immediately after I click through these "updates". Coach XP bar/update—who cares? Just move this to the top right or in the XP submenu. I don't need to see this every week and it doesn't need its own slide. The coach level is displayed anyway in the top right. School grade updates seem pointless as well—half the stats don't update week-to-week or they just go up/down by half a letter grade which doesn't really matter and only a handful of categories are shown anyway. It's unnecessary to see the exact same players who might transfer based on these grades each week. As an update—just give the user the ability to customize what's shown on this screen, or at the very least, more relevant info like: New Top 25, team record, last game's result/stats/highlights, next week's game, conference standings, etc. Top stories, team schedule, etc. slides that are selected with right stick still show irrelevant/incorrect info. At the very least, if you’re going to keep this framework for next year again, throw in screenshots/highlights from games. Just having the helmets and text is very barebones and contributes to the very real issue of Dynasty feeling soulless. The coach off to the right is also unnecessary—we don’t need to see someone at all times who has a generic head swaying back and forth. This would be somewhat cooler if we could create custom faces, but you barely show the coaches in game so what's the point of showing them here? It's a waste of space. Fonts in general are way too small especially in all the charts. The handwritten/rough typeface used in a few locations (including the team record in the scoreboard) is illegible. If you change your coach’s name, it only updates in the card under "Coach Stats", but it remains the original name in the list to the left. Miscellaneous Ability to add Teambuilder teams to Dynasty past the 136 instead of just swapping them out. You could even cap it at like 144 total or something if you need a framework max for scheduling. I just want the ability to bring up a few FCS schools via Teambuilder rather than trading out an FBS school. At the least, it’d be great to insert Teambuilder teams in place of the generic "FCS West" schools. Teambuilder team helmets in the team select screen and other locations should appear just like default teams. It looks goofy with these teams being just the logo in every location whereas all other default teams have the helmets (if the UI isn’t completely changed anyway). Stadium rankings list—Include a list of the top 25 stadiums, their records, current streaks, attendance, and a visual of the stadium that we can look at somewhere in the menus. There is no way to see how these fluctuate and I'm almost convinced that they don't at all. When building your schedule, show the opponent team ratings off to right. Team stats need to have rankings next to them or this needs to be in some kind of pre-game matchup screen. I get you can go to the team stats and scroll to your team, but I need to see something like "PPG: 37.5 (#16)" somewhere more prominent. Little things like this build connectivity amongst the league. Ability to schedule neutral site games—ideally at any NFL stadium from Madden although I realize this is probably a licensing thing. At the very least provide more context into how things like the Duke’s Mayo kickoff works, for example. Get rid of the generic rock music that’s used in Open Practice mode. It’s terrible, too loud and abrasive. Also, hoping we can just get generic practice jerseys for all teams (primary solid top, white pants) for immersion. Conference stickers on helmets still don’t change when updating conferences as far as I can tell. There are no Captain patches and assigning them seems pointless. Would love to see these show up on a jersey and the coin flip return. Updated player models/pads. Everything is way too bulky still. When selecting uniforms at the mix & match screen, update the numbers to "26" or whatever the game year is or randomize the numbers. It’s currently "0" which doesn’t reveal enough about the number style.Dynasty updates not enough
HeyEA_Blitz those updates today would be great if we could actually play online dynasty without the game crashing every single time. This game isn’t worth $70 at this point. No where close. A main part of the game still doesn’t work after over a week of many people complaining about it. It’s getting ridiculous at this point.Two-Way Player dynasty stats don't show up
This was an issue that sort of went under the radar back in 25, but it's prevalent here in 26 now as well. When you play a dynasty game with a wide receiver at corner, or a corner at wide receiver (or even a kicker at quarterback), they have stats for both offense and defense for THAT SPECIFIC GAMES STATS SCREEN ONLY. But if you click back to the dynasty menu, those stats are gone for good. Meaning that the only stats that do show for those players is the side of the ball their position already plays for. The only way you can make them a Two-Way Player is if you change their position after the season. But even then, that defeats the purpose because their stats are still only going to show for the position they are already listed as. Not to mention they will take a massive dip in overall most of the time when you fo change their positions. I just want to be able to play a Two-Way player and keep track of their stats in my dynasty. Travis Hunter was literally on the cover last year and his stats only counted for Wide Receiver. If you see this, please fix this.
Progression of players are not happening
I just finished my 3rd dynasty game & am in the 4th week. I have my game set on manual progression with a 25% penalty, I went to "view rosters" & clicked on 20 plus players & every single one have zero points to progress them. So as far as I am concerned, they are not progressing at all & are not getting points. This is a HUGE deal. You are not able to use dynasty mode like this. None of your players would ever progress. My friend & I are both running offline dynasties to see if we see major bugs before we start an online Dynasty before we play against each other. My friend in his dynasty is experiencing the same issue & he had his set to automatic progression. So it is happening whether you manually or automatically progress your players. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? This is a biggie!!! Playstation 5 Spill_R_tm Dynasty mode. All other information is above. No screen shots because there is nothing to screen shot other than a bunch of players with zero coins to progress themselves. I can take a game screenshot if you need me to but it's pretty self explanatory.
EA rather talk about Hot Routes then BUGS !!
It absolutely blows my mind that after near a month, this forum is still flooded with players who can’t even finish a single game across multiple modes — and yet the game director is out here entertaining fluff topics like everything’s fine. How the hell is that even real? How can someone in that position be this naïve — or worse, this willfully clueless — while their game burns down around them? At this point, it’s not incompetence. It’s soulless, corporate greed in full display. This isn’t just a dev team missing the mark — this is a leadership team so disconnected, so insulated by PR spin and shareholder nonsense, they’ve lost any shred of care for the actual players. And it shows. We’ve gotten nothing but the same dead-end “try this” garbage they know doesn’t fix anything. I took a gamble last year — and yeah, it wasn’t perfect, but it fed the itch. I knew better, but still bought into the EA hype machine and their army of overpaid hype men. That’s on me. I should’ve stayed away, and now I regret every **bleep** penny. I haven’t bought an EA title in years — and this just cements it. I don’t care if the messiah himself comes down and codes the next one — if it’s under the EA banner, it’s a hard f***ing pass. INB4 — still got that bet going: we’ll see multiple CUT pack updates roll out before EA even acknowledges this dumpster fire, let alone fixes a dang thing.
