The NCAA Next 25 v15.3 update is available now!
This update has some big changes to playbooks with the addition of the Pistol Formation! Written and designed from scratch, the Pistol Formation comes with 5 formation sets: Pistol Spread, Pistol Slot, Pistol Y-Trips, Pistol Strong H Twins, and Pistol Full House!
Each of these Pistol Formations have newly designed plays that bring a new look and feel and modernization to the game! These Pistol formations have been placed into existing NCAA Next Playbooks. The full list of the Playbooks and the included Formations is listed below. Items in red have been updated for v15.3
With the updates to the Pistol and Master Playbook, we have also spent some time tweaking the playcalling AI within each NEXT Playbook to get more accurate passing percentages based on real-world statistics from this season.
We've also added some other new features. This includes the ability for graduating seniors and players going Pro to OPT-OUT of their bowl games, just like in real-life! These opt-outs will only apply for Bowl Games and do not occur if the team is playing in Conference Championship, Playoff or National Title games.
Check out this example below, with Ohio State having most of their offensive starters and defensive lineman opting out! The list of Opt-Outs will appear at the start of Bowl season in the PROGRAM STANDARDS screen.
The post-season poll logic has been updated. Now only playoff teams will have their rankings updated, and all will fall within the Top 12.
We have also completely updated the League database in the game. This changes a lot of team and coach strategies and playbooks. We've updated the coaching passing percentages to match their real world counterpart, and picked playbooks that match their playstyle including giving teams that rely heavily on Pistol the new Pistol formations!
There's also some fixes to stats and redshirting. Stat display is improved so that it no longer shows crazy numbers if a team plays 16 games in a season, and Redshirt Eligibility status has been updated to reflect the new changes in the NCAA, where games played in the post-season do not count towards the 4-games a year redshirt eligibility.
There is a new Auto-Set Depth Chart button that replaces the Auto-Rename Button in the Roster menu. This will automatically set the depth chart for every team any time you want to run it!
Finally, we continue to tweak the sim engine. We're working on some stuff in the background to improve the use of depth chart and rotations better and to get an accurate amount of offensive snaps per game. The current game averages about 67-68 snaps per team each game in simming! This can also be replicated by playing 13-15 minute quarters with accelerated clock enabled!
TL;DR List of Updates:
- Pistol Formation Sets Added
- NEXT 25 Playbooks All Updated with Formation Changes and AI Play Calling Updates
- League Database Modernized
- Bowl Game Opt-Outs!
- Redshirt Eligibility Rules Updated
- Sim Engine Tweaks
- Stat Display Fix for teams that play 16 games
- Several Uniform and Graphic Updates!
Houston, Cal, Wake Forest, NC State, New Mexico, Tulsa, Auburn, ULM, and more!
Roadmap:
We had some features we pulled from this mod at the last second such as improving the use of in-game substitutions. This was a very well-received update in our beta-testing but it came with some annoying bugs, so we are going back to the drawing board on this and seeing if we can improve it next time.
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