Draft Day Sports: Pro Football 2024

If you're searching for the "Football Manager" or OOTP Baseball of (american) football like I was, this is it. BUT! You should know about the agonizing lag. Each click between menus takes 2-4 seconds and the animated play-by-play in actual games is so laggy it's almost unusable. A quick search shows this has been an issue for this brand of sports management game for a long time, and there has been seemingly little to no improvement. This may very well be a deal-breaker for you, so if it is, this is not recommended. However, if you intend to sim through the games and can tolerate a few seconds delay constantly, this is the game you're looking for.

First off: the game is very fun if you know what you’re doing. However, knowing what you’re doing is the hard part. Documentation covers only very high level details, leaving the rest to discover on your own through trial and error. The problem, however, is that in this game (as well as the real sport) there are so many variables and options that it’s hard to isolate if your changes had any meaningful impact that weren’t due to the inherent randomness of the game itself. Devs are scared to divulge any additional info in fear that people will break their engine (instead of welcoming it to build a more robust one). Second: Loading time between major screen changes. It may be 1-2 seconds, but it starts to add up as you’re going back and forth between menus Third: broken UI elements the devs have no intention of fixing this version. Transaction pages are all out of order, highlights page only loading 1/4th of the screen and 2 big ones that stand out in my head immediately. Very early on the devs said there weren’t going to be any more patches except to fix “critical” issues, which I’m assuming only included crashes. I have reviewed this game as a thumbs down, however there are two …

You can tell its a small team that is dumping out a ton of games without putting love into them. This is a good core to a game however I'm afraid the devs will move on to Draft Day Sports: College Football or Draft Day Sports: Basketball or Draft Day Sports: Pickleball and so on... Biggest issues I've seen is there is no dead money, so sign everyone you want on backloaded contracts and then cut them when they dont fit your salary cap any more. There is also no instruction whatsoever, literally just clicking around learning things with no help. Example, you have too many players on your team after the preseason so you get a warning that you cant progress. However instead of saying you are 4 players over the roster limit it just leaves you to do the math to figure out how many players above 53 players you are. Third problem I've started to notice is that the computer doesnt care about their star players, Bryce Young is a 89 QB who lead the Panthers to 4 straight NFC championships only for his team not to want to pay him, so I ditch my 84 Jordan Love to make room for him and sign him to a back loaded contract saving me money to improve the most important position in the game. I…

Initially, after playing the demo, I was not going to upgrade from my 2022 version and that was mainly due to my continued frustration with the speed (or lack there of) with screen loadings. It's awful, there's just no other way to describe it. Up to 5 seconds running Windows on Parallels for Mac and still 1 - 2 seconds on a native Windows gaming rig. But eventually I caved, got over my deep frustration with the loading times and decided to see the game for what it is and what it does well. What it is and what it does well is provide (in my estimation) the best all round, in depth, fully featured American Football sim game on the market. I own all the football sim games available and enjoy them all. But at the end of the day I always return to my DDS football titles and when you add in the NFL mods and face pack mods there's no better game IMHO. I typically play "offline" so my Steam hours are not representative of my actual game hours. I'd say I'm now fully 300+ hours in to this 2024 version and enjoying it immensely. PROS: -Ability to customize the league and play in online leagues if that's your thing. -Real world mods and face packs add to the immersion. -Ability to u…

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Great management sim. The online functionality of it is a great system as well