Does This Qualify as News? NCAA 09 Plagued With Bugs

Posted Jul 18, 2008 3:33PM By Brian Cook (RSS feed)

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Ryan Ferguson brought you a first-glance review of NCAA 09 that was generally positive, but some words of warning if you're still thinking about buying the game: it's plagued by an unusually high number of serious bugs this year. A sampling:

Sliders are broken. CPU sliders do nothing and human sliders affect both the computer and the player.
Roster editing remains enormously problematic, though EA says there is a patch coming in the next week.
There are reports the online dynasty mode is broken and sometimes simulate games that have been played by human players.
The new speed model (where a 99 speed is significantly faster than a 98 speed, which is a stupid change to make... just change the distributions of speed) causes major problems with CPU pursuit angles.
SuperSim is still broken: if you use it to fast-forward through the end of a blowout and you're on 7 or 8 minute quarters it will pack in 60% more plays than would happen in an actual football game and you'll end up winning 120-17 or something. The sound you hear is my friend Anthony looking for a gun and a pen to write his suicide note ("DEAR EA: I HATE YOU SO MUCH") with.
Kick returns are so, so broken.

EA is promising an emergency patch for the roster editing and a second patch down the road. Last year, that second patch took two months. I'm going to hold off until the patch and see what the internet says.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-18-2008 @ 6:21PM

AnthonyC said...

Haha thanks for the shout out.

Actually, last year there was 1 patch and that came out on December 17, 149 days after the game was released. I'm officially waiting for NCAA 2010.

7-18-2008 @ 10:48PM

Wade said...

I may be waiting for eternity.

7-19-2008 @ 1:15PM

Jason said...

Wait, kick returns are broken? I'm not just really good? I have two 90+ yard KR for TDs on the second-hardest level in the three games I've played thus far.

7-20-2008 @ 4:01PM

ryan said...

ea is blowing donkey chunks

7-21-2008 @ 1:41AM

Brian (GenSarc) said...

Whoaaaa. Brian linking OS posts?

Big time.

7-21-2008 @ 10:58AM

wynams said...

Sliders work, but fine-tuning them will take some time to personalize as they do not operate the same in practice mode as they do during a real game.

Roster editing is bugged, however the bug only happens once you edit the 118th team. Stop at 117/120 and generate names for the rest.

Dynasty ... who knows how many of these bugs are a result of being data corrupted with roster edits ... also heard tales of online dynasties being deleted.

Speed/bad-angles and ghost jukes ... yep they happen (in-game and in real life :])

Super sim the kicking game only fixes the last two gripes.

So far my biggest frustration is in trying to fine tune sliders. There are valid concerns you list, there are also workarounds that will either suit the player or not. However, I think once I dial in my sliders that single play dynasty will pack quite the enjoyment punch.

ymmv