NFL Head Coach 09 Patch Details
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NFL Head Coach 09 producer Josh Looman has confirmed that a patch will be coming for the game via a post on the official forum. The patch is still being worked on which essentially would put it at least a month away from going live.
Among the issues being addressed are the two widely seen as the biggest, that is the play creator bug within career mode that led to injuries never healing and the ability to call plays during a two minute drill. Continue on to view the full details.
Here’s an update on our progress with the patch:
We have fixed the Play Creator/Injury Bug.
We have added the ability to call plays during the 2 minute drill. You guys better thank Bekins for this. Normally, this would have been a feature that would have taken forever to get in, but the kid killed himself to put it in there to help everyone out.
We have added Favre’s stats back in the game.
We fixed a bug you guys didn’t know about that allows me to change team philosophies in the roster update. Woo-Hoo! This lets me get the teams where I think they should be and correct some ratings issues that way.
We fixed the contract bug (where scrub players would ask for a ton of money when re-signing).
We fixed the Draft Day trading bug (where you could force every team to trade their pick by asking them to trade and then backing out)
We fixed the ability to change a QB to WR and change him back to QB again.
We fixed the bug where teams would not kick a FG at the end of the half.
We are investigating a fix to make fumbles better. Staymates found out that a fatigued player would be getting larger penalties than expected to their attributes, including their carry rating. We are greatly reducing this so that fumbles should happen less. This is going to need some more testing since a lot of different factors influence fumble chances.
We are also investigating a fix for CPU teams subbing out fatigued players quicker in-game so that backups get some carries. Our thresholds for subbing a guy out were too low, so we are raising those. This also needs mucho testing.
We are fixing any crashes we can reproduce including the issues found on PS3.
August 22, 2008 at 11:38 am
Awesome!…Madden who?
August 22, 2008 at 11:42 am
pretty cool they’re doing a patch for this game. People complain about buggy releases but with how deep this game is its impressive that this is one of the most polished games ive played in a long time.
August 22, 2008 at 12:11 pm
PS3 Audio crash is annoying.
August 22, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I would prefer the game to work properly when released, but totally encourage what EA is doing by releasing patches to fix game flaws and tweak gameplay
August 22, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Hey Pasta, I read that EA may purchase the rights to the Euphoria engine that NaturalMotion was using for Backbreaker. Do you have any info on this??? Here’s the link.
http://www.gameplayer.com.au/gp_documents/EA-Buys-Euphoria.aspx?catid=Features
August 22, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I tell you what, if EA can fix Madden like they’ve showed they wanna make fixes to Head Coach, then maybe EA will get me off their back…
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August 22, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Has anyone else noticed qb’s on kickoff coverage? On just about all the games I’ve played I’ve seen Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Brian Griese, etc on kickoff coverage. Does that have something to do with the inactive players or is their something with the game?
August 22, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Was there already one patch? I downloaded an update to the game a few days ago, which then helped reduce the load times during gameplay between plays.
But I’m glad they’re doing this. It’s a deep, good game!
August 22, 2008 at 3:05 pm
will this go into effect on a already started carrer?
August 22, 2008 at 3:38 pm
To help with QB’s on kick coverage, carry 3 TE’s.
There wasn’t a patch, it was just standard MS stuff.
And I seriously doubt that this will effect already started careers.
August 22, 2008 at 4:23 pm
i really hope the injury bug fixes current careers.
August 29, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Will this bug fix the injury problem if a career has already been started or will we have to start a new career for the problem to be solved?
September 3, 2008 at 5:47 am
What about the patch for the HORRIBLE frame rate?!?
September 9, 2008 at 4:53 pm
When will this patch come out????
September 21, 2008 at 7:06 pm
CAN ANYONE PLEASE TELL HOW DO I DOWNLOAD PATCHES??? SORRY IF THATS A STUPID QUESTION BUT I’M KINDA NEW TO THIS
September 22, 2008 at 4:04 am
I have had the game for XBOX360 for about 3 weeks and I was able to go into the actual games for about the first two weeks. But now whenever I get to the games I get a disk unreadable message. I originally thought it was because of all the dust (I’m in Iraq) but it has occured on multiple machines. Machines which run other games just fine. Anyone else have these problems? Any thoughts?
May 28, 2009 at 5:53 am
Hey Andrew and Zak, I had the same problem (pops up late in the 3rd quarter) it is some bug with the game. But if you erase your head coach profile (not your career-can resave profile after loading the career) the game continues to work and will stop that annoying message.
September 23, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Update on patch from official site:
http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread.jspa?threadID=439377&tstart=0
October 19, 2008 at 8:03 am
Hey andrew i am getting the same problem your are. And other games play just fine. My diskk has no scratches on it im going to contact ea sports about this iit must be a coding issue any one else have this problem.
December 18, 2008 at 11:27 am
If that was the case and the patch is fixed? then why in my orginal franchise mgahee is on the team but is not in the game?
May 28, 2009 at 5:52 am
Hey Andrew and Zak, I had the same problem (pops up late in the 3rd quarter) it is some bug with the game. But if you erase your head coach profile (not your career-can resave profile after loading the career) the game continues to work adn will stop that annoying message.
August 17, 2009 at 9:08 am
where is the patch at? Tried finding it but couldn't with my ps3.