r/EASportsCFB

Do the rankings for toughest places to play change each season in dynasty or is it locked to original season rankings? This was a feature on all old school NCAA CFB games and should still happen. My team sucks so bad I haven’t noticed any difference 😂.

I really want to like this game but at the moment, I'm so frustrated. I used the sliders to try to help with the pass blocking but have no time. Also when I am able to pass, my WR just drops the ball over and over. Passing as a whole is broken. I was wondering if there will be a patch soon to address these issues?

I’m mainly just griping here, but does anyone else only seem to get game crashes very late in the game? It doesn’t even happen that often, but it’s really annoying when you’ve played a full game, no sim, and the game crashes with 1 minute left in the 4th. Just experienced it again and that’s the only time it happens. Never early in a game when I wouldn’t care, no only after I invested an hour of my time.

Is it just me or does the AI never throw to anyone youre even near, like I have to be 5-6 yards off of someone for them to get the ball and obviously I cant do anything at that point. Not to mention if its a team like Oregon, better be ready for Run > RPO > Run > Short pass > RPO, genuinely want to play defense but this is making me lose my mind

The game in H2H is based entirely on who can cheese the hardest. Almost everyone you play beyond the lower levels uses the same "meta" defense which consists only of an all out blitz with man press coverage, complimented by either an outside or inside commitment from the dbs depending on how the other play likes the throw. They run one play all game and it more or less shuts down the pass game every time. It's not even remotely realistic and it is infuriating to play against. Offense has a little more diversity, but it still consists of guys running a handful of plays a game over and over because they are broken and unstoppable.

Even worse, people take advantage of outright broken mechanics in the game. For example, I just played a game where I was talked, hit the ground, and then "fumbled". The other guy recovered it, but I wasn't concerned because it would obviously be overturned on review. The problem was that the other guy knew a glitch. He called a timeout immediately after the play was over. As a result, the game would not allow me to challenge the previous play, which was obviously not a fumble. It's broken, it's unfair, and it's unfun.

Real football doesn't have "meta" plays that get spammed 40 times a game. If EA can't make a football game without broken plays, then there should be a limit to how many times you can call a play in one game or half. If man press blitzes shut down any semblance of a pass game, they need to make receivers beat the press more often and let blockers hold up in one on ones better. It isn't hard, but this has been the "meta" for years and no updates have fixed it. This game is, fundamentally, a broken one that you have to brutally exploit if you want to win H2H and that is deeply unsatisfying.

Never played a single football game in my life, but I decided to give it a try because my frat bought it. I've been learning a lot by playing, even though I've been stomping my head against the wall trying to understand the "why" behind what happens in-game.

But there's something that feels really off about RTG. I'm currently playing as a QB and decided to raise the difficulty a bit (one below Heisman, I can't remember what it's called), but it feels like every decision and play I make is a 50/50.

I've played some games with my friends and in Dynasty, and RTG feels like the AI is 99% cheating. My WRs don't seem to know how to catch the ball, constantly choosing the worst type of catch possible (like going for an aggressive catch even when the ball is coming directly to their chest). And even on easy passes, they sometimes can't hold onto the ball after making the catch, yet I still get blamed for the incompletion in-game.

Not even going to talk about the interceptions that sometimes the AI gets (I swear one of them got super speed to reach my WR one time)

Am I missing something here, or is this just the current state of the game?