Warrior General Games

if he's just slow, then he should work on his speed, har har har

that being said 3:2 is the way to go

Bort posted today on many of the ongoing problems that people have been up in arms about on the forums. Some of these changes should be interesting for speed/agi builds.



http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=754831&page=7
Originally posted by Bort

Agile WR's don't have a way to fake out equally agile CB's and get open. I'm increasing the effect of the head fake and juke SA's, and adding some reduced reaction time for defenders based on vision and agility and coverage distance. The result is that on some plays the CB will stay with the WR and on others he will not make the turn with the receiver until a split second too late.

CB's were basically getting an immediate jump on the ball when thrown. I'm adding a delay on the jump based on vision agility and coverage distance. The result is that sometimes the CB gets a great jump on the ball and knocks it down while other times he waits a split second too long and doesn't get there in time. Combined with the above = botched coverage, basically.

Risk calculations did not take the catching ability of the receiver into account as a very big part of the calculation. Being open is the major part. I'm tweaking that a little to be willing to pass to a guy if he's just way better than his defender, even if he's not wide open.

I shifted my guy from 48 agil/74 speed to 54/68 via equipment thinking that agility would be more important with the new changes, but he's having an even harder time getting open now so I think I'm going to switch it back.

My assumption (and note I say assumption) is that agility is more important in general now but not super duper important like everyone is making it out to be. If you end up not going high agility, get your first step up and that will help.

Agility also helps in YAC and route running though.

So take it for what its worth.

A question :

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=98827&pbp_id=1954143

CB got 50 speed 35 AG
WR 68 speed 51 AG ... I can buy he slow down to catch the ball, but still .. how can the CB catch him up

http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=266890
http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=382547

"I can buy he slow down to catch the ball, but still .. how can the CB catch him up"

We had this one my team as well during our last game. We can't trust the visual display; it's always going to be off, but the CB flat out came from behind by 10 yards and caught the WR. I was wondering if this is the CB SA CLOSING SPEED being increased?

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=111705&pbp_id=2113238

Originally posted by barbelith

We had this one my team as well during our last game. We can't trust the visual display; it's always going to be off, but the CB flat out came from behind by 10 yards and caught the WR. I was wondering if this is the CB SA CLOSING SPEED being increased?


Maybe, altough the CB on my play got his build open and he doesn't have any point in closing speed. Maybe shutdown coverage then ? Altough he only got 1 point there.
Well maybe as you said it's a visual innacuracy in the sim. Still weird imo

actually, it looks like your guy slows down to catch the ball and that allows the CB to get slightly ahead causing your guy to want to veer to the left, but he sees the LB coming up (who appears to have decent speed) which causes him to go into the dreaded "stutter step".

My guess is your guy has his running style set to elusive and he was too busy looking back and trying to find the perfect path instead of just stepping on the gas and going.

Stamina could also be an issue in that he has a good deal so he could be playing at his top speed, while you are somewhat diminished.

Originally posted by PackMan97
actually, it looks like your guy slows down to catch the ball and that allows the CB to get slightly ahead causing your guy to want to veer to the left, but he sees the LB coming up (who appears to have decent speed) which causes him to go into the dreaded "stutter step".

My guess is your guy has his running style set to elusive and he was too busy looking back and trying to find the perfect path instead of just stepping on the gas and going.

Stamina could also be an issue in that he has a good deal so he could be playing at his top speed, while you are somewhat diminished.

That could be a decent explication. And you're right about my WR running on elusvie style. I may switch him to combo to see how he's affected.
Thanks

^ Ya, I've seen that happen so many times when a defensive guy gets close enough to "threaten" the player...they just start making VERY small cuts that really slow them down and it kills their speed.

I've seen the same thing happen on defense. Watch the FS on this play (with 70 spd)

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=82859&pbp_id=298659

He's just making all of these tiny adjustments that just kill him.

Originally posted by PackMan97


I've seen the same thing happen on defense. Watch the FS on this play (with 70 spd)

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=82859&pbp_id=298659

He's just making all of these tiny adjustments that just kill him.

Lol true, he looks so stupid on the replay. Well, as barbelith said we also got to keep in mind the replays isn't 100% accurate.
Still sometimes your guys look so stupid you're like "wtf ?? just go straight ahead and score !!"

3:2 or 1:1.

I've noticed with some of my guys I've kept at 1:1 get to full speed nearly instantly.

Originally posted by PackMan97
^ Ya, I've seen that happen so many times when a defensive guy gets close enough to "threaten" the player...they just start making VERY small cuts that really slow them down and it kills their speed.

I've seen the same thing happen on defense. Watch the FS on this play (with 70 spd)

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=82859&pbp_id=298659

He's just making all of these tiny adjustments that just kill him.

Does he have high vision? At times it seems like the more vision you have, the more tiny adjustments you make.

Originally posted by PackMan97
^ Ya, I've seen that happen so many times when a defensive guy gets close enough to "threaten" the player...they just start making VERY small cuts that really slow them down and it kills their speed.

I've seen the same thing happen on defense. Watch the FS on this play (with 70 spd)

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=82859&pbp_id=298659

He's just making all of these tiny adjustments that just kill him.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=85570&pbp_id=1970433

Yes. My guy. Last game. Probably should have been a TD if he would've run correctly.