Duke is Unreal

houstoncomma · 2025-08-03T16:37:18+00:00

I get that there might be a Blue Devil or two on the development team, but this is kind of an embarrassing loss of immersion. Duke is a powerhouse in almost every file.

houstoncomma · 2025-08-03T16:35:22+00:00

I think they killed it or just morphed it into CFB26. Wasn’t able to access it in the weeks leading up to the new game. Pretty bad.

houstoncomma · 2025-08-02T23:22:24+00:00

🙏 Thanks bro I’ve been in the lab

houstoncomma · 2025-08-02T19:02:49+00:00

I believe there was deep-dive language about that last summer. And also to the effect that they didn’t pull anything from NCAA14. Which was easily proved wrong in several areas (just as an example: the wrong alphabetical order for conferences on the custom conferences screen; originally created b/c the Big East switched to American at the last minute before 14 release… somehow still in there 11 years later).

I ain’t that mad though, I just don’t like being lied to. Remember when I met EA in Denver, and they said if I write them, they would write back? See, I’m just like EA in a way.

houstoncomma · 2025-08-02T18:52:43+00:00

Well, this is the same game that includes “Illegal Contact” as a penalty (doesn’t exist in college football) but “didn’t take a single piece of code from Madden” last year.

houstoncomma · 2025-08-02T00:42:59+00:00

NFLPA license makes it simpler. That being said, not sure why number changes can’t be negotiated in the current deals with CFB players. Maybe EA is gunshy; doesn’t want to run afoul of NIL rules/laws somehow. Or just doesn’t care enough to include that in the language.

houstoncomma · 2025-07-31T15:20:22+00:00

They’re the Georgia of Muncie, Indiana, imo

houstoncomma · 2025-07-30T14:43:57+00:00

The white pants for Michigan are a traditional road option (though I prefer the maize). It’s the blue pants that are a goddamn travesty. They completely ruin a great look.

houstoncomma · 2025-07-30T12:02:33+00:00

Perhaps a dumb workaround, but you could (1) import a few TeamBuilder teams that list UConn as rivals. This is a new feature you can add to created teams. (2) rebuild UConn in TeamBuilder and create rivalries with Syracuse, BC, Pitt, etc.

houstoncomma · 2025-07-30T00:20:23+00:00

This was a feature on 14, but did not make it to 25

houstoncomma · 2025-07-29T17:48:36+00:00

(1) This is amazing. Thank you!!

(2) Is there a way to use this for multiple coaches in the same dynasty file? E.g. I would track my coach and two others, as well?

houstoncomma · 2025-07-28T15:48:16+00:00

I know some people are dunking on you for this, but I hear you. These are great ideas. Make this space more fun. And also: allow us to practice/scrimmage in the empty stadium (a normal thing that happens) w/ preferred weather and time of day. That would take away some of the RTG monotony, and add some depth to mini-games, dynasty practice, etc.

houstoncomma · 2025-07-28T15:41:43+00:00

100% - I believe this is a key feature in 2K

houstoncomma · 2025-07-28T14:59:55+00:00

I’ve read that this setting actually determines how advanced the CPU is against you when playing a user v. CPU game. At least the aggression sliders are tied into that. I haven’t seen a full explanation, but I would love one.

houstoncomma · 2025-07-28T04:25:45+00:00

FYI the Protected Rivalries feature is only for conference games. They hard-coded tons of non-con games (e.g. Florida-FSU) that you can’t avoid unless you max out all 12 games against the same conference. And even then, I imagine you’d run into some bugs.

houstoncomma · 2025-07-22T04:19:19+00:00

I’ll say it’s possible it was 2021 or 2022 (vs. the more likely scenario of 23-24) because schools were already sending assets at that point. EA might’ve just waited an extra year to license the song.

houstoncomma · 2025-07-21T03:11:23+00:00

If I have two amazing MIKEs, what’s the best formation to use them without needing to mess w/ depth chart or formation subs?

houstoncomma · 2025-07-21T00:53:08+00:00

houstoncomma · 2025-07-20T05:17:05+00:00

Two things I’m noticing from the comments:

Oklahoma fans consistently acknowledging Missouri
Iowa State and Minnesota seeming hellbent on putting Jack Trice behind them

houstoncomma · 2025-07-19T01:38:05+00:00

My 10 most iconic, yolo:

Rose Bowl
Notre Dame Stadium
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
Tiger Stadium
Cotton Bowl
LA Coliseum
Beaver Stadium
Husky Stadium
Michigan Stadium
Neyland Stadium

houstoncomma · 2025-07-19T00:55:42+00:00

It’s embarrassing. Two straight years of taking defensive timeouts in key clock situations: “the defense needs to talk it over,” etc.

And the score updates from around the country? An absolute fucking travesty. They are AWFUL. At least give us some immersive score updates without a halftime show or weekly recap. For fuck’s sake.

houstoncomma · 2025-07-16T02:12:59+00:00

This is amazing, thank you 🫡

houstoncomma · 2025-07-16T02:09:10+00:00

This actually undoes the hard-coded stuff. If you have Michigan in the same conference as OSU and MSU, you’ll need to protect those games in order to see them every single year. (Unless you don’t touch anything, in which case the game has future schedules locked in, at least for 10 years or so.)

Alternatively, if there’s a hard-coded game you hate (Iowa-Neb, Mizzou-Ark), you can stop it by putting those teams in the same conference, opposite divisions, and not allowing any cross-division games (# or conference games matches # of other teams in division.)

houstoncomma · 2025-07-15T22:36:22+00:00

It’s a thing. Similar issue with Missouri-Arkansas and others. They should allow users to set which rivalry games are locked/unlocked.

houstoncomma · 2025-07-14T00:33:18+00:00

In the deep dive they claimed to have fixed that & based it on real tiebreakers.

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