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dsmckaughan
Seasoned Novice
3 months ago

Custom Playbooks have bugs

I have seen that the custom playbooks are not working correctly. But was disappointed that a Fox was not coming on the next update. I see advertisements about the extra playbooks coming but nothing if the playbooks are going to be fixed.

The custom playbooks does have something buggy going on with them. The default to onside kick and the coach suggestions do not work has been mentioned before. 

I have trouble finding a play when the playbook gets too large. CFB25 wouldn’t let me rate anymore plays at a certain point but that hasn’t happened in CFB 26 as of yet. 

Also, when I select a stunt on the custom playbook I think it breaks the favorite mechanic. I have not tried it on a non-custom playbook as of yet. But during a game I lose the ability to favorite a play. I will double tap the button to add it to favorites and when I use a stunt it will no longer work, it will just select that play. I use that to put my favorite plays on top of the favorites category, so the best are seen first.

I really liked the coach suggestions when I have all my plays rated for situation. That gave me a mix of plays to call to keep my opponents guessing but now I have to look for them and really cannot remember them all. 

Lastly I tried free practice in dynasty with my team and custom playbook. It did not give me the option to respot the ball, etc. at the pause menu. I think only half of what is usually at the pause screen was there.

I love using the custom playbook and tweaking it until it’s perfect but for now it doesn’t work and it needs some attention.

 

 

10 Replies

  • zkiesel93's avatar
    zkiesel93
    Seasoned Scout
    3 months ago

    Yeah, it's super disappointing. Worked fine for the most part last year, and now they've broken it with seemingly no plans to get it fixed.

  • I cannot acces all the plays in my set, here is a link to Reddit with the video

     

    https://www.reddit.com/r/NCAAFBseries/s/HD5QdfHafL

  • zkiesel93's avatar
    zkiesel93
    Seasoned Scout
    3 months ago

    I noticed this at times last year as well. Guess they never fixed that, either.

  • It is a shame we can't use them in regs, and even in Dynasty mode they aren't compatible with formation subs which is insane. 
    Also no formation subs for kick coverage at all...

  • I have noticed missing plays and formations in my offensive playbook. Some of my favorite plays to run have been completely removed, but they appear as normal in the custom playbook editor.

  • ch5pnav2a37g's avatar
    ch5pnav2a37g
    Seasoned Traveler
    3 months ago

    Yeah this is super disappointing. Go through all the trouble of building a custom playbook and rating every single play one by one for 500 plays. Just to find out coach suggestions don’t work properly like they did in 25. I hope this is fixed asap

  • My screen freezes almost every time I try to pick kick return formation and then they don't line up in the formation I selected. I am not even sure what type of kick return formation they are in but there never a return man in the back. I specifically always make sure I do not pick onside kick return but seems that what I get. 

  • What is truly starting to become disappointing, is that the playbooks are even more buggy now, after two updates, and it doesn’t appear like EA wants to even acknowledge the issue, state if they are working on it, or just expects us to play the game with obvious broken features. 

    I don’t even want to use the 3-3 defense sets now, because it never counts when a play is used. 

    and it also seems like in the offensive playbooks, 3-4 players from each set always say “used zero times”, no matter how many times you use the play. 

    Another big issue; is when a player gets injured, the game keeps suggesting to substitute another player for that player…..over and over again, no matter if you substitute the guy in the depth chart, in a formation, or any way possible. The game keeps suggesting play after play, to substitute the same guy. 

    The screen asking to substitute, just keeps popping up and it’s ruined two games so far, where I couldn’t stop the defense because a substitution screen popped up. 

  • Jojo2141's avatar
    Jojo2141
    Seasoned Rookie
    3 months ago

    I am having this issue custom playbook as well although my issue is I can rate the place and it does show up in the game plan on the custom playbook screen however, going into a game my rated place does not show up in my Coach suggestions. However, the players are still in my playbook. I just have to dig and find them.

  • _gLaDe8r_337's avatar
    _gLaDe8r_337
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 months ago

    I'm having the same problem as well....it's super annoying.....i can't pick middle return and then when i select right or left return, they come out in onside return....i'm weary to even use a custom pb in user game because if they notice this on more than 1 occasion they're going to take advantage of it 

     

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