Hey College Bowlers!
Now that the game is out in the wild, we've had more time to analyze feedback on gameplay and other issues reported by our community.
With that said, we focused a lot of our time on Defense, in particular the AI gameplay logic to help manage all of the various offensive and defensive combinations that can occur during a game. That's one of the downsides to having SO MANY plays in our game, your engine needs to be bulletproof.
Choosing the best defense to combat the offense is crucial and we feel confident the game is in an even better state that it was before and that's saying something. In addition, player ratings have a significant impact on how games function. We also have to navigate difficulty levels and sliders. So yeah, many variables and football is not the simplest sport to replicate! 😊
In short, we were seeing offenses pummel defenses at times and we're hoping this update helps nerf some of those exploits. Please let us know how you like the changes? We're very interested in hearing your thoughts!
Be sure to read below to get all of the details included in this update.
Bug Fixes
- Defenders in short and deep zones now strafe toward closest man, instead of just standing in one spot.
- Defenders react faster when ball is thrown to receiver.
- Blitzers no longer finish initial route when Quarterback is trying to run the ball.
- Run blocking effectiveness decreased.
- Roll out QB's no longer tend to throw it across their bodies towards the other side of the field.
- Deep zone coverage AI heavily improved for better coverage.
- Kick return blocking success decreased to try and reduce the frequency of kick returns.
- Pass and Run blocking got a boost and sliders tuned for more impact.
- New plays added to playbooks.
- Fixed crash that can occur when enabling auto replays during a game.
- Dynasty bowl trophies fit page better when more than 14 trophies owned.
- Custom trophy logo image centering issue fixed.
- Reordered graphics settings menu items.
- Fixed crash bug that would occur during spring training progression.
- Updated patch notes link.
- Miscellaneous fixes and updates.
Thank you
We are approaching the 150 review mark! Let's see if we can get to 200 before our next update? That would be special! Please share the game with friends and family! We need all the help we can get!
If you experience any bugs or issues please report them here or more preferably on our Discord server where you can chat with the community, report bugs, or give feedback on the game.
As always, if you've enjoyed the game so far and like what you're seeing out of the game it would be great if you can leave us a review on Steam! 🙏
Patch Version 1.0.0.4
