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Re: College Football NCAA25 is Broken

I used to love recruiting and simulating through seasons with NCAA 14

I have just turned off my game, NCAA 25. It will stay that way for a while. Dynasty mode is utterly and completely broken.

What is the point of going through all the time and effort to recruit the best team when luck is the only determining factor for wining?

In just spent all day going through 7 seasons recruiting the best team in the country. Overall was 94. Not a single team was better. Anyone want to guess what the final record was? 6-7. Yup, SIX and SEVEN.

Lost the first game to a 79 OVR. Them game 2 to and 81 OVR. 3 other random ones to mid 80 teams, and lost the "Here's Your Worthless Bowl Game" to another 83 OVR.

When Alabama plays Liberty do the fans worry about the coin toss, since that obviously decides the game? When OSU plays Kennesaw St do they hold their breath hoping against hope for Heads to show on the coin?

No.

But here in crazy town it is literally a flip of the coin on every singe game to determine the winner. EVERY. SINGLE. GAME. Record doesn't matter. OVR doesn't matter. Ranking doesn't matter. Only the Random Number Generator matters from 1-100. And if it comes up 1-50, well, you lose.

This has happened multiple times but today was the most egregious example.

If the next update does not completely eliminate the ridiculous upsets not only will I never play. this game again, I don't plan on buying another game from EA again either.

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BGS27dan
1 year ago
So, I bought the digital version of this game at the beginning of September and felt like it was decently balanced when I first started playing it. However, they must have had an update since then. I won 3 nattys as Purdue in Dynasty mode, then switched to Tulane and had one. Then, I maxed out at Level 50 and couldnt really do anything I wanted from there. When I simmed games with those two teams, I felt like the simulation did a fair job of not having me lose to 1-6 teams frequently. However, I started a new Dynasty (Arkansas State) with a new coach whom I've built up considerably.
It seems like with the new dynasty, I have to play the ENTIRE GAME every single game in order to have a snowballs chance in hell of winning. AND, if the defense is playing any type of Zone coverage, passing is impossible - like, literally impossible (and I'm playing on FRESHMEN difficulty) even though all of my receivers are 90 plus speed. I have to run HB Toss on almost every play like I did back in the mid 90s on Madden to gain any yards.
It's been years since I've rage quit a game. I've rage quit this game at least 10 times. My offense can't ever seem to get above 24 points (even at a 92 rating) and the CPU qbs suddenly become 98 speed power backs when being chased. WTF EA?