prompt Wrote:Season 27 is off to a busy start with the new sim. Write 200 words about your first impressions of the games you've seen so far in the new sim. How's your player/team doing? Are you enjoying the streams? Do you have a favorite home field design?
The updated sim presentation is definitely doing a much better job at conveying the course of the play as it goes along with passes actually showing the movement of the ball and punts/turnovers showing the colored bars for where the ball ends up (though I think the delay on sacks seems weird and I think penalties should be more clear). That being said, since the streams have gone from 30ish minutes to like an hour and a half, I'm finding myself much more inclined to wait until 2 afters after the stream and then just watch my team's game. Not sure if that's a net better or worse thing, but I have noticed it. The overall quality of watching, though, I think still has a ways to go before it's great. I wonder if they're aiming to eventually go for the 'almost watching a TV broadcast' version where player movements make sense and there are 3d models so passes getting deflected or not could be seen. Clearly that would be way more work than dots, and it might still have its own madden-style collection of visual gaffes, but we'll see. I've actually been tempted to do slow-motion analysis of games before, showing how plays work out and stuff, but I don't think the current state of the sim is something that would work well with that idea.
On a smaller note, the index now having individual player pages is really a nice feature to have, though I'm unhappy that the records information was apparently not converted over from the saves. Maybe I'm spoiled from my time in PBE - that seems to do a great job of keeping league history between sim updates (though to be fair I don't know if that holds for 5 years of changes).
And best field is clearly the Silverbacks with their great font selection.
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