agosto 2024

Major Update for College Football 25: New Plays & Gear

🟣 Content Overview :

EA College Football 25 is a major game of 2024.
New free update adds uniforms, plays, and changes abilities.
Over 713,000 players during early access launch on console.
Gameplay updates include new formations and logic enhancements.
Recruiting update fixes issues and balances strategies.

EA College Football 25 is one of the biggest and most popular games of 2024.

It's no surprise that the game is continuing to receive a lot of support, including a new free update that adds new uniforms, plays, and makes a bunch of changes to abilities, athlete recruitment, and more.

The last major college football game developed by EA, NCAA Football 14, was released all the way back in 2013 on PS3 and Xbox 360.

So there was a lot of hype surrounding EA's new College Football 25.

After a decade of modding and hacking those older versions of the game to keep them updated with new players and teams, we now have a big new college football sim to enjoy.

Many are enjoying it with EA College Football 25 hitting over 713,000 players during the game's early access launch on console.

Gameplay Updates

Included 8 new shotgun formations to a total of 35 teams.
Tuning and logic enhancements to pursuit angles.
Introduced new behavior that further differentiates players with high pursuit ratings vs lower pursuit ratings.
Reduced frequency of broken tackles from trailing defenders.
Fixed various instances of rare broken play bugs.
Adjusted AI QB behavior on shot plays to make more lob throws vs bullet passes.
Increased the speed penalty for running out of stamina during play.
QB scrambles behind the line of scrimmage will lose stamina at a faster rate.

Abilities

Updated the coloring of Platinum tier Abilities to further distinguish the look vs Silver Abilities.
Rebalanced the Gold and Platinum tiers of the Juke and Spin abilities like 360 and Side Step.
Rebalanced the Platinum tier of the extender ability which includes not firing on QB-designed run plays.

Dynasty

Fixed an issue where players were unable to have more than 20 created coaches at one time in an online Dynasty League.
Various fixes around score summaries and Box Scores.
Introduced a new Playoff Bracket Screen.
Updated Texas-Oklahoma Rivalry data.
Reduced dynamic attendance penalties for playing FCS teams.
Increased dynamic attendance in rivalry games.

Recruiting

Our primary goals for this update were to remove most of the recruiting strategies that were discovered during early access and to smooth out the pain points our players were reporting.

Recruiting is a delicate balance as we want to try to make things as realistic as possible while also allowing players to live out their football fantasies.

Fixed an issue where teams were pursuing too many quarterbacks in High School Recruiting.
Reduced the number of unrecruited 4 and 5 stars early in the season.
Increased the number of players that the AI will pursue at one time.

Visits

Fixed an issue where you could not schedule visits for recruits in certain situations.
Fixed an issue where a visit remained scheduled even if a recruit was removed from a board.
Fixed an issue where the allowed number of visits scheduled for a week exceeded 4.

SuperSim

Increased hand off rate for simulated RPOs to increase the number of running plays across the country, especially for teams with a lot of RPOs in their playbook.
Various tuning fixes to increase the gap between good and bad teams/players.

Polls

Increased the loss penalty for schools with more than 1 loss.
Increased the weighing of Conference Prestige in the poll calculation.
Reduced variance in CFP poll logic vs Media/Coaches.

Custom Conferences/Custom Schedules

Fixed an issue in Conference Rules where Divisions were changed to off even if those Divisions were previously turned on.
Fixed an issue where the Independents Tab disappeared when removing all teams from Independents.

Road to Glory

Added an additional scenario and NIL content.
Fixed rare issues where you'd get a scenario reward screen that did not align with your received bonuses.
Fixed an issue where users were getting Skill Points maxed out after completing a practice.

College Football Ultimate Team

Generating Best Lineup no longer changes your equipped visuals and playbook.
Player Portraits will no longer appear on non-player items after filtering or sorting.
Fixed a crash that occurred during kicking off at halftime when playing Champs.

Presentation

Added new uniform pieces for Baylor, Oregon, Iowa State, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, Bowling Green, Northwestern, UTEP, Boise State, New Mexico State, App State, Texas State, Louisiana, New Mexico, and South Alabama.
Adjusted uniform pieces for the 2024 season: TCU, Arkansas, Missouri, Baylor.
Various improvements made to teams' uniform pieces for authenticity.

Updates have been made to the following stadiums: