Make defense great again!!
I’m sure it will be the typical “git gud” trolls when I post this, but that’s definitely not my issue. My problem with this years game is defense and Why did EA dumb down the defensive AI just to appease those slow ones out there who can’t comprehend that they’re making poor passes, resulting in interceptions? I’ve watched my defense in clips and during the game, they move around like a high school JV second string team. They don’t follow assignments, get stuck in animations, allowing wide receivers to blast wide open. Multiple guys zone dropping to the same areas when they have different assignments, leaving people open when they’re in their designated areas, and lacking any area awareness whatsoever. completely understand the no-pick if you’re not eyeing the ball; have no beef with that at all. But why not retain that same aggressive ball play from 25 with this added feature? At least make them consistently play their assignments. I understand it won’t be perfect; blown assignments happen in real life, but at the same time, players don’t just stand around and guard nothing. They actively cover someone. And on top of that, they don’t even sprint it’s been plenty of times when I switched to a player and suddenly started sprinting.,That’s another issue as to how routes magically get open so easily. I don’t understand it; it’s like EA made a super overcorrection for the idiots who couldn’t comprehend that they’re 9/10 making terrible pass decisions in 25, and the response was to make the defense dumber? I don’t get it, especially after all the hype about how they improved the logic for 26, which they completely lied about in my opinion. Then every WR and TE are almost impossible to press even with high 90 press stats. They automatically get open almost every single time you press them and don’t let them have the takeoff ability. It gets even worse. Not as bad as last year, but the problem is that the stuff works in complete opposition to the description says. just pray that EA actually does us some justice in 27 for defense, which pains me to say because that’s their excuse for not fixing the game: “They’ll add it next year.” That shouldn’t be a thing. Would be nice to actually get year-round support for these games.
CFB 27 (More Likely 28) Playbook Builder Request
I know I've brought up my want for, and willingness to help with, a build-your-own playbook addition, similar to team builder, before. But, that was long before I knew Civil's team already made one. Thus, I feel it's imperative that EA adds it to either of the next two games, more likely CFB 28 because 27 releases in a few months. As annoyed as players are that some form of team builder isn't in the game, I feel either adding a playbook builder feature to the extant site or creating a new playbook builder site and leaving the beta version exclusively online is the best way to do this. This would also throw somewhat of a bone to coach mode users by increasing their immersion. Mind you, I'm perfectly fine with the current playbook editor for those of us who don't have the time and/or energy to design several new formations/sets and plays for them. I'd even be all for Hail Mary and special teams being baked into the playbook builder by default.Please EA give us the ability to change the rankings/ pick playoff teams
IMO this would be one of the best ways to increase immersion and realism. 9-1 LSU should not be down at 15. 3 G5 teams should not be able to make the playoff. Idk if EA even reads these but that’s the one thing i’d change rn about the game if i could. Please EA 🙏TeamBuilder Stuck in Restricted Builder Tier – Need Backend Review
Hello My NCAA Football 26 TeamBuilder account is stuck in the Restricted Builder tier. May I please have this reviewed by someone with access to account entitlements? On the TeamBuilder site, my created team only shows: Preview Edit Delete I do NOT have access to: Publish Visibility Team Details Import Roster Duplicate Because of this, I cannot publish my team, and it never appears in NCAA 26 for Dynasty Mode. I've verified that all of my roster information meets the requirments such as the number of players in each position and the team, as well as no dual numbers on the same side of the offense or defense, and the team will not load to the game. This appears to be a backend entitlement assignment problem, where my account was placed in the Restricted Builder tier instead of the Full Builder tier. I am requesting that an EA Community Manager or staff member escalate this to the appropriate internal team to: 1. Verify my TeamBuilder tier 2. Reset/reassign my account to the Full TeamBuilder tier 3. Confirm that my account can publish teams and make them available for Dynasty download I have attached a screenshot showing the restricted interface. Any assistance from EA staff who can forward this to the correct internal team would be appreciated. Xbox Series S USER ID Showdawg89 Thank you :-)College 27 and beyond
Ok so I replied to a previous discussion talking about some potential gameplay and dynasty features that should be added. Now I want to expand on how to make future college games even better: it all comes down to these main topics: gameplay, presentation/equipment, and immersion/customization. I think EA devs really do care about making a good game, but we need them to improve on these. gameplay: respectfully, gameplay in EA football simulator games (Madden and CFB) is just not as great as it could be. Maybe trying a new engine instead of the frostbite engine would help. Gameplay needs to be more realistic for those who choose to play simulation style games. Pass protection is one thing that is severely lacking right now and offensive line play is not great. Please make offensive line play more realistic and allow players to make even more adjustments to pass protection. Receiver play is also very strange to me. They do a terrible job of stacking defenders and going up to make catches. Aggressive catches that should be 50/50 are more like 10/90 if even that. I’m not saying the receiver always has to come down with contested passes but the contested specialist archetype is kind of pointless right now because they won’t catch it anyways. Defensively, some upgrades are much needed for more realistic defensive play. Defenders need to be better in zone coverage and need to travel with receivers near their zones instead of just leaving them wide open because they’re not in a small zone bubble. These are just a few improvements that need to happen for gameplay. I could think of a few more such as the “no eyes no picks” feature needing improvements to make it so qbs don’t throw 5 interceptions a game when trying to layer a football in between zones. There is more but I need to start talking about other aspects as well. presentation/equipment: presentation is really important for the game because it adds needed depth to the game that makes it fun. First, it’s time to start using AI commentary. Commentary in the game is pretty dry and gets old after a few play throughs. There are content creators who have made demos of what it would be like if there were AI announcers and it is awesome. There’s so much energy and creativity with every line and it doesn’t dry out. Additionally, we need pregame shows like college gameday where other games could be previewed and expert picks are made. I also believe we need a playoff selection show and awards ceremony where the finalists for awards can go and receive their awards when they win in real time. Equipment is also very important because the players in current games just don’t look real at all and the style looks bad. We need more equipment options and improvements to equipment models. There are guys on media who have made amazing images of what equipment could look like and it would make the game look so much better. Along with equipment, player builds needs to be better. Every player looks like 30 year old men with unrealistic hair styles and body types. We need customization for non nil players that are similar to 2K where we can edit all the face details like hair, eyes, mouth, facial hair, etc. we need to also be able to customize body types similar to how Madden 20 worked where you could edit arm size, chest size, belly size, rear size, thigh size, and calf size. Please bring this back and expand on it a little bit to make every player feel different. Immersion/customization: Our dynast/RTG is our world so we need full customization (for non nil situations of course) to play the game how we want to. Let us choose the weather we want to play in. Let us edit everything about the non nil players, let us add conferences, allow us to add team builder teams without replacing real teams. Add commitment flips that we can turn on or off depending on how we want to play. Add a feature for offline dynasty to force commitments for players who want absolutely stacked teams. Allow us to override players who lock us out because of deal breakers. Allow us to make custom playoffs for people who want 4 team playoffs back or maybe they want a full NCAA tournament. Maybe they want 8 teams or 16-20 teams. Maybe they want to change playoff criteria and they should be allowed to. Bring in a social media tab where we can keep up with all the news going around. Make coaching carousel better and allow players to mass exodus and follow their coach. Add spring games and off season features to make the off season feel alive rather than a bunch of buttons being mashed. Add position coaches. Make a ring of honor for all legendary players so they don’t just disappear and never mean anything again. Allow us to import non nil players to Madden, allow us to save highlights and have player highlights saved to a highlight tape in the ring of honor so we can go back and watch legendary moments from out favorite players. There are so many things that can be added to make the game dynamic and stop it from drying out. This is our dynasty, our road to glory. We should be able to play the game how we want to play it. If any devs are reading this, thank you for your time and I’m rooting for y’all going forward, but we need more from y’all to warrant us paying $70 every year, respectfully. You guys have the technology to do these things and you guys have my full support if you are actively trying to do them. As long as you guys are trying I will continue to support these games. Thank you.Excessive Injury Timeouts
Last night, I sat back and watched the CPU literally rob a game from me in broad daylight. I'm playing dynasty on heisman mode under your standard settings, and I had a 20 point lead going into the fourth quarter. During crunch time trying to burn clock, the CPU stops the clock on every single play for 9-10 plays straight for an "injury timeout" while preserving all 3 of its timeouts and a 2 minute warning still factored into the quarter. After a fumble, interception, and a one play strike, I lose this game 42-41. This would not have been the outcome if I was able to drain the clock like a normal realistic football game would have gone. Are there any sliders I can use to remove this nuisance from the gaming experience? I enjoy the game but the frequency of these injury timeouts are not realistic and just flat out annoying tbh.Dynasty Top 25 Rankings Broken
Im the OC at FSU for the 2027 season. My schedule is absolute gauntlet. We started the season unranked. We are now 6-0 and have beaten #7 ND, #11 Bama, #17 UL, #6 Clem, and #16 Miami...and we are still not ranked! Meanwhile there is 1 team (OU) with 3 loses sitting #25 and 8 teams with 2 losses in the top 25.give the ball hawk users chance for ints in 27 and remove delayed dB switches
What's good EA I just check n I play this game daily, in dynasty mode but the worst addition in my opinion as far as gameplay to me is the defender no look feature when pursuing the ball in the air on defense. For real life I understand this but it's makes no sense as far as a game for the people who still pride themselves on playing great defense. This feature allows poor throws and poor decision-making to be rewarded for the offensive users and often times for me on defense it's more of a glitch not allowing me to select nearest defenders or not allowing me to jump when I do select the defender. Second issue is the delayed switches for secondary when changing match ups for wr with speed route running ect. I played college football once upon a time and honestly a DB would get pulled from a game for that late switching presnap. College football players film studying and go through assignments weekly with coaches. If a DB was late preplay they would try to cross the field chasing a wr late Preciate yall time 27 gone be litty with these fixesFundraiser Challenge In UT did not pay out.
In the Eggstras challenges, I unlocked the fundraiser challenge and completed it. I scored 52 points and when I finished the game it said that I had an egg worth over a million coins, but when I open the egg I never got the coins. I got a 95 overall safety. Please help, EA. Gamer tag: sentientdust402, playing on XBox.
