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ThoughtParadox0
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2 years ago

Coach mode

A real coach mode (not the useless toggle in in EA football 25) was in all previous NCAA football titles. Not only that, but all of the pieces to implement a real coach mode in CFB 25 are already there. There is a slow-sim where the AI effectively carries out plays in broadcast view, just like in previous titles. All that's needed is to let us call plays.

The gameplay is fantastic, and I love playing it in RTG and play now, but when I'm a coach I want to actually be a coach and take my own skill out of the equation when recruiting and playcalling. It's a small thing that makes a huge difference in immersion. If incentive is the issue then please note that one of the biggest CFB 25 youtubers (Not the Expert) has a running series exclusively in Coach Mode of NCAA football 14 that is getting hundreds of thousands of views per episode.

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  • This is exactly what I’m saying!! I thought that would bring back the old simulation sliders where you can decide how much you want to run or pass the ball when you simulate the game! I used to actually have control over my team that way! I cannot believe they didn’t go back to the old games and see how they used to do that! You used to could look at your opponents depth chart that week, and see if they had weaknesses on the offensive line, or the defensive line, or the cornerbacks, and then you could decide how much to run the ball, how much to pass the ball, what percentage you wanted to blitz the other team! I mean what the * is this Dynasty mode other than recruiting players? And even it is boring! It doesn’t even have their 40 times, it doesn’t have their GPA, the other games had all that stuff and incoprorated that into your coaching stats. U could end up recruiting a player who had bad grades and then they ended up missing games for it. . This Dynasty mode is so boring! You can’t even simulate games one by one if you want to see what happens in the big games that week. You just have the advance to the next week option and then you have to see what happens later. It just makes it so repetitive.. it goes like this… recruit. Advance week, recruit, advance week… that * gets old fast! I can’t believe I spent $90 on this * . I actually love the way the gameplay is when you are playing the actual game. But if I’m the coach, I shouldn’t be playing the games…. I should be choosing plays, I should be trying to get big upsets by our scheme’’n the other team . 

  • I was so excited for this game. Played it for a while, but I've always played using the coach mode. This makes no sense that they would not put that in this game. I haven't played in a while because of that. Hopefully they will add it to the next release. 

  • Auto-pass being relabeled as Coach Mode is extremely misleading to those of us who have played every iteration of the game (and still have an XBox 360 only to play 14). 

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