NCAA Football 08 gets a patch of its own
October 31, 2007 by pastapadre
While the upcoming patch for Madden has been looming for a while, there wasn’t much expectation that NCAA Football 08 would receive one as well. Despite that one was released just recently (under the radar) for the PS3 and seems likely to be out for the 360 in the near future. I am hoping to get word on the status of the 360 patch soon. **See update below the summary for the latest news.**
Unfortunately some of the major issues such as the depth chart button lag were not dealt with, however the gameplay will be affected significantly due to the adjustments. Here is what the patch takes care of:
Gameplay: Fumble Chance has been tuned to more realistic values and logic. Fumbling has been tuned to occur during more realistic scenarios such as big hits and collisions.
Gameplay: Defense Secondary aggressive coverage has been addressed. Defensive players AI has been better tuned for only certain percentile of defensive backs have the ability to make aggressive moves that are effective.
Gameplay: Pass Lead Tuning on Lob passes has been improved.
The user has the ability to lead receivers with lob passes now.
Update 11/1: I have done some digging and found out that due to some technical conflicts there will be no patch released for the 360 version.
Update 11/2: It appears that EA is now attempting to determine if the patch for the 360 could be possible. It had originally been planned to come out for both consoles but the technical conflicts arose for the 360. This does not mean that it is coming, just that they are looking into making it happen. I’ll keep you updated as any news is made available.
Update 11/11: No news on this yet. With Monday the 12th being a holiday, I get the feeling we’ll probably hear something about the 360 version mid-late this week.
Update 11/16: There will be a patch for the 360, with initial expectations being that it will be out in December.
Great news!
I’ve been leading receivers in campus legend since the game came out. Guess I’ve just not been throwing a lot of lobs?
So all of this stuff is on the patch that’s allready out for the PS3?
good work pasta
This is great news because I felt NC08 was the best football game and this will make a good game a great game.
Any comment from the PS3 guys as to whether or not this fixes what it claims to fix? You’ll have to excuse me if I have trouble taking EA’s claims at face value these days!
Well this blows. Thanks EA for screwing the 360 owners, who bought more copies of your crappy game anyways.
And with that update EA has given them selves -2. A was going to re-buy this because of the patch. And I won’t be purchasing next years knowing they can’t fix their own ish anyway.
Pasta,
Can you dig in and find out what the “technical” issues are? I can’t believe that the PS3 gets a patch and the 360 (probably more copies sold) does not. If EA keeps up with this I’m going to have a “technical” issue with getting my wallet out for next year’s releases.
LoL, WoW…EA seems to be going out of their way to lose customers. A Patch for PS3, but not 360? LoL, that’s AWESOME. “Technical Issues” is another phrase in EA’s handbook for “We don’t feel like doing the work”. I mean, that’s cool…because it looks like they’re gonna save me, and many others, $120 bucks between this game, and Madden next year.
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lol wow did EA show their ass this year with this half bird brained lame glitched up trash of games. The funny thing is that EA tries to make all the stuff they do sound like its physics when they know for a fact that they A. rushed out this disgrace, B. knew that it was bad and was gonna be glitched up to the hill. The sad part? after all of this…9 months from now? it will all be forgotten cause at 12 am the maddenites will be back! ready to be screwed over again. Thus the vicious cycle of the consumer who never catches on will continue and EA will get away again with the same issues over and over and over and over again….
Good stuff Pasta. Please let us know when you find out a firm date.
Heard any news on the status of ncaa 08 patch for 360?
Hey pasta, great site. Been reading you for a long time. Any word on this patch yet? We would really appreciate any update you can give. Thank and keep up the good work.
Are they going to address the depth chart issues????