Re: 8/8 patch comprehensive update (will continue to update as we find more!) (2024)

Dirty_Smeegs_33

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS LIST!

I plan to continue to update this post with all the things you all find as well so we can get these issues centralized. Post them down below and I will update every few days!

• New to 8/8 patch -All new recruits are not showing up in position change screen. The first time they are showing up is "encourage transfers"
• New to 8/8 patch - scorebug disappears whenever you access playart. It also is missing when you return from super sim. The only way to get it back is to pause the game. But then when you access coach coacm or play art again, it goes away.
• New to 8/8 patch - player ratings and archetypes are changing when users attempt to change their playbooks through the playbooks/scheme screen. We must edit playbooks through edit coach. This is a problem however, because we cannot attach custom playbooks to our coaches. This must be done in the play game screen through your team settings.
• New to 8/8 patch - Tier bonus for visitsnot functioning properly for teambuilder schools. Giving lower tier bonus for much better schools and visa versa.

Will tag the following as (Bug) and (Tweak) and (Missing)

"My School" and Recruiting

• (Tweak)Playing Style - pitches are still based on a singular stat rather than being a custom formula like the other pitches (should all involve playbook style and downs played for that position plus a combination of multiple in game stats)
  • (Bug)The wrong calculation stats are being displayed for various positions, like interceptions for kickers
  • (Bug)The stats are not updating appropriately. Through 2 games I have given up 2 sacks yet my sacks allowed says 24.
  • (Tweak)QB - no separation from archetypes based on multiple factors such as playbook style, multiple rushing and passing stats
  • (Tweak)HB Power v Elusive- no separation when it comes to playbook style
  • (Tweak)OL Pass Protectors still have "sacks allowed" as stat tracker rather than a combination of playbook style and passing stats
  • (Tweak)OL Power v Agile - no separation when it comes to playbook style
  • (Tweak)DE/DT - no separation based on playbook styles and downs played for that position
  • (Tweak)LB's - no separation based on playbook styles and downs played for that position
  • (Tweak)Secondary- no separation based on playbook styles and downs played for that position
  • (Tweak)K/P - should not care about playing style at all but if you are going to include that then at least do multiple kicking stats... However, in the end, this should be irrelevant to them as prospects.... there are plenty of other factors they should care about.
• (Bug)Proximity to Home - Still not working properly. The right hand side menu "closest QB prospects" does not give me the closest and they are not in order.... I have a random A mixed in with a bunch of F's.... same things happens to all positions.
  • (Bug)proximity to home does not accurately track. At UMass I am getting B+ grades for in state kids but A+ for New Jersey kids.
  • (Bug) for Hawaii, all in state prospects recive an F grade
• (Tweak)Championship contender - the only reason this grade is not working well is because it's formula relies on poll logic and the poll logic still needs tuning. Either that or change the formula to be Blue Chip ratio = very high and media poll rank = high
• Pro Potential
  • (Bug) When switching schools, you do not get credit for your former players that go pro, but you get credit for players at your new school. You did nothing to get the new players drafted, so you shouldn't get credit for those in your coach XP goals.
  • (Tweak)still only factors in your projected picks. This should have multiple layers to the calculation. There is too much variance from year to year.
    • 10 years ago could have low impact
    • 5 years ago could have medium impact
    • last year could have high impact.
    • projections could have very high impact
• (Bug)Conference Prestige - still giving different values on right hand side menu than the middle calculation menu. I don't know which one is accurate.
• (Bug)Coach Stability - middle calculation menu says HC years at school but it appears to be tracking the entire staff.
• (Tweak)Coach Prestige - only issue is how easy it is to get high HC prestige - I am only starting my 4th year and have coach xp on slowest so I am only level 12 with a 25-16 record as an independent, 1 season in MAC and 1 season in American. 2 Winning Seasons. no bowl wins. 1 conference championship (MAC). This should not be A- prestige.

Awards/Polls/Standings

1. award/poll logic
   1. (Bug)players that didn't even play snaps get awards (like freshman all conference) - this might be because there was no freshman in the conference who actualy played so they gave it to the highest rated player. A possible solution for this would be to have awards be less position specific.... give awards for interior and exterior OL/DL, LB and S, WR, Y/F/H, RB and QB insted of the specific positions.
   2. (Bug) pro draft and award logic seem to be built off of ratings only. Is it possible to get multiple factors working here, similirly to some of the recruiting pitch grades? Rating would have a very high effect while stats have a high effect? Maybe even team performance and conference prestige having medium to low effects... Something like that.
   3. (Bug)Players win multiple national awards but do not end up being on any all american lists. It is hard to tell whether the logic error is in the all american lists or the individual awards since we cannot see season stats in the awards screens.
   4. (Bug)power conference champions are not being awarded byes in the playoffs. The playoff seeding does not appear to match up with the final CFP poll rankings
   5. (Bug) please take a look at conference standings tie breaker scenarios. It has been found that head to heads are not being used as the secondary tie breaker to overall conference record.

Stats/Menus

1. (Bug) The reason for auto mass subs putting in redshirted players (covered below in the substitution section) could be becausethe in game depth charts functions differently than the out of game depth charts.
   1. As they currently are, you cannot tell who is a CURRENT or PREVIOUS redshirted in game depth charts (not in dynasty menus). There is no warning for substituting someone in who is redshirted and there is no visual distinction that they are CURRENTLY redshirted. All previous and current redshirts have the indicator on the right hand side of the player menu but NONE of them have the current redshirt indicator on the actual depth chart.
   2. Outside of games, in dynasty menu, both of these indicators function differently, with current redshirts getting the indicator on the actual depth chart and their player menu to the right. In dynasty menus, all previous redshirts lose both of these indicators (as they should) and instead get tagged with the (RS) in their "year" column.
   3. It appears that the in game depth charts leave the player menu indicators on for previous redshirts as well as current but the depth chart indicator is removed for all as there is no "year" or "RS" column in the in game depth charts.
2. (Bug)Depth charts auto reorder in three confirmed circ*mstances.... whenever an injury occurs, whenever a player is redshirted, and after week 0. Please give us an indicator for this and allow us to choose whether we want the depth chart to be auto reordered.
3. (Bug)Catches allowed are not counted in played games, only simmed games.This means your DBs get over-rated in awards conversations as they have 0 catches allowed while other DBs allow some number of them.
4. (Bug)When adding an action to a recruit, the hour tracker in the top right corner of the prospect recruiting tab will not update until you use rb/lb to cycle to scouting or overview. This is just a minor visual bug).
5. (Bug)yards per completion" is brought out to SIX decimal places!
6. (Bug)downs played does not show up in box score after sim
7. (Bug)pancakes do not show up in box score.... and do no track in season stats...... it looks like it only tracks for what happened while playing on the field vs what happened in sim engine.
8. (Bug)cannot attach a custom playbook to a coach.... can only use the pre made ones for simming. I know you can use a playbook when in team selection screen but what about when you sim and want to use your same playbook's logic?
9. (Bug)When you are in position changes and you view a player card, it kicks you out of position changes and into a view roster screen when you return from viewing the player card. You then have to exit that view roster screen and go back to position changes
10. (Bug)You cannot see player card or development traits when in "encourage transfers" phase because they are only available through player cards and you cannot access these in this menu.
11. (Bug) You can not view player cards of incoming freshman during position change phase.... so you have to make those important decisions without knowing dev trait because the game does not show you dev trait in any other spot besides the player card.
12. (Bug) cannot view player cards in depth chart.... but you can in view roster.... why are these different?!
13. (Bug) cannot view development traits in depth chart because you cannot see player card.... these should be added to the main screen as they are essential to team building.
14. (Bug) You can't view season stat totals or player cards from awards screens
15. (Tweak)The training results menu literally does not tell you training results... it just tells you your current player's ratings.... not how much they have progressed or regressed.
16. (Missing)Recruiting search filter does not allow you to hide committed or targeted players
17. (Missing)Recruiting search filter does not allow you to hide failed dealbreaker prospects
18. (Missing)no alerts for player level ups
19. (Missing)no alerts for assistant coach level ups or departures
20. (Missing)missing a school/coach info screen that shows you all your pipeline levels, my school ratings, rankings in various areas and most importantly all your school's rivals.
21. (Missing)No menu showing all teams in the NCAA in terms of prestige ranks, offensive and defensive and ST ratings ranks.... would be nice to sort this by conference as well
22. (Missing)no way to monitor wear and tear at the team level as the season progresses. You have to click in to each individual player.... no alerts for dangerous situations.

Custom Conferences and Schedules

1. This is what has been breaking many online dynasties and offline dynasties that try and make custom conferences
   1. (Bug)conference rules allow you to play more conference games than you actually can once you get to the custom schedule screen
      1. I tested 4 conferences and moved a bunch around randomly
         1. SEC - 16 teams - set rules for 10 conference games - actually schedules 10 - 2 non conference options - 12 total games max
         2. ACC - 16 teams- set rules for 12 conference games- actually schedules 9 - 3 non conference options - 12 total games max
         3. Big 12 - 20 teams- set rules for 12 conference games- actually schedules 11 - 0 non conference options - 11 total games max
         4. Big 10 - 12 teams- set rules for 10 conference games- actually schedules 9 - 3 non conference options - 12 total games max
2. (Bug)unbalanced road/home conference schedules
3. (Bug)choosing conference championships doesnt always work. Sometimes you will get one even if you set to off and sometimes you may get multiple as some users have reported. This seems to happen after year 2 and beyond.
4. (Bug) after using custom conference realignment, regular season conference games have been reported to occur after conference championship games.
5. (Bug)when you create divisions among conferences, the games menus (like top classes and team stats) do not acknowledge them and instead only show you the initial division as representing the entire conference.... so if you care about a team on the other side of the conference you are out of luck as far as comparing amongst the conference.... no recruiting class ranks, no team stat ranks, no coach stat ranks
6. (Missing)Protected Rivals from custom conference rules even though Rece Davis has the voice over telling us we can.

1. Substitutions - Please give us more control
   1. (Bug)Auto subs flat out do not work when simming.... your subs will not play. I even set my QB to 90 sub out and 89 sub in because I wanted to do a two qb option system in sim..... nope. Backup never sees the field even though my starter was out there running the option every play and should have been subbed out at 90%.
   2. (Bug) auto mass subs are currently pulling players on to depth charts from our redshirt lists. If this happens more than 4 times in a year, this could result in unintentional use of that player and a burn of their redshirt year.
   3. (Tweak) auto mass subs are currently putting starting players on special teams instead of removing them from the depth chart.... this way they could get hurt on special teams when the user doesn't want them on the field in the first place.
   4. (Tweak) auto mass subs are currently putting backups at other positions that they are highly rated at rather than following the user defined depth chart.
   5. (Tweak)mass subs are currently designed to automatically work for the user. Unfortunately, this means less control for the user. Either set this is a toggle or let us customize when we want it to trigger.
   6. (Tweak)Please remove the red t-shirt logo on the right hand side of a player menu once their redshirt year is over.
2. Miscellaneous
   
   1. (Bug) Coach XP goals not properly counted, such as "sign a prospect". Through 3 seasons it says I've signed 4 3-stars. I've signed 30+
   2. (Bug)Time does not appear to pass in the offseason.... injury recovery time does not improve. If you have an injury that lasts past the last week of the current season you will then see it at the start of the next season with no recovery progress.... plus the player does not train (but that part at least makes sense IF he was actually injured that whole time.... the problem is time does not appear to pass in the offseason so injuries cannot recover.
   3. (Bug)xp sliders have little to no effect on player progression. I have put all of my position players down to 2 on the xp scale and there are still monster gain up to the low 80's, and then they taper off. This is why we have so much parody in the league and why there are no dominant teams and why upsets are happeneing so much..... ratings are all watered down and everyone is a high 70-low 80 at minimum..... oh and this is with coach xp at slowest.... if I turn that up at all we start to get ridiculous levels of training boost stacking for the entire league.
   4. (Tweak)coach carousel with offers that logically make sense.... if i go 2-10 at 1 star NIU, I am not going to get a HC offer at 3 star Indiana as a level 4 coach over other level 25+ coaches who are also on the interest list.
   5. (Tweak)no proper cpu v cpu coach mode..... and yes i know its in the settings but have you tried it? The QB's lose all of their pocket movement, scrambling and will only hand the ball off on read options.... EVERY TIME! It's like there is different logic being used for the USER AI and the CPU AI..... it makes no sense. We see AI QB's are able to do these things for the CPU but for the user in "coach mode" they cannot.
   6. (Missing)no general run v pass coach preference settings when simming
   7. (Missing)no formation subs
   8. (Missing)no editing of player numbers or rating for generated players
   9. (Missing)Ever wonder how the engine selects which moments you play? There are games out there that let you customize which types of moments you would like to jump into. This would be fantastic for keeping that game loop going while in long term dynasty.
   10. (Missing)you cannot change the length of simmed games so that your user experience can match up to the world you have created. This matters for folks who want a chance at awards and stat comparisons, but only have time for quick 5 minute quarters. We understand that "play the moments" is an option but that takes control out of the user's hand and into the questionable sim logic.

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