NCAA Football 12

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In Your Crosshairs

In Your Crosshairs

Spotlight a receiver and get an interception on him in a Play Now or Dynasty game (excludes co-op).

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How to unlock the In Your Crosshairs achievement in NCAA Football 12 - Definitive Guide

This method words best with 2 controllers.

choose play now from the main menu. Next choose exhibition game.

Home team (controller 1) = Alabama Crimson Tide
Away team (Controller 2) = San Jose Spartans

Once in the game have controller 2 receive and you kick the ball off. After the kick off you will choose the following play for each team.

Alabama = sort by play type. Choose MAN. Then choose man coverage. Find the play double outside. I believe its play number 24 or close to it.

San Jose = sort by play type. Choose Pass then standard pass. Find the play "Y shallow cross"

Once you are all set up at the line of scrimmage have controller 1 press and hold LT and press B to spot light that WR. Once thats done, press B to cycle through the players until you are the CB that covering the B WR. Take controller 2 and press A to hike the ball. As soon the the QB comes to the end of his 5 step drop tap B to lob a pass to that WR. Take controller 1 and press Y to intercept the ball. Presto. Achievement unlocked!

TIP:: If your DB is swatting the ball, rather than trying to intercept it, call a timeout, then press LB to pull up the coaching adjustments menu. Turn pass defense up to aggressive, which will encourage more interceptions rather than pass break-ups
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My only comment is that the Y cross play is actually a shotgun formation play. Still worked like a champ.
I didn't even press Y to intercept. I had my first controller on the CB and he automatically picked it off. Achievement popped!
Thanks!
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By Hamfam9598 on 29 Aug 2011 02:57
You must not be doing it right. I got the achievement using the originally listed method.
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By CheckSeason on 17 Jan 2012 19:49
nick, controller 1 (that profile thats going for the achievement) is on defense. hence for controller 1 to spotlight a wr. controller 2 is offense. Its clearly stated correctly in the solution

"Once you are all set up at the line of scrimmage have controller 1 press and hold LT and press B to spot light that WR"
"Take controller 2 and press A to hike the ball."
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By on 18 Apr 2012 22:43
how did you get the idea you need to spotlight with 2nd controller??
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By on 18 Apr 2012 22:44
This worked for me, but one piece of additional advice: If your DB is swatting the ball, rather than trying to intercept it, call a timeout, then press LB to pull up the coaching adjustments menu. Turn pass defense up to aggressive, which will encourage more interceptions rather than pass break-ups. Once I did that, I got the pick right away. Thanks!
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By DJP519 on 24 Apr 2012 02:04
DJP519's tip made it work. Every time the defense would swat the ball. I switched the coaching adjustment and boom interception. you mgiht want to add that to the solution.
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By WolfWood37 on 21 May 2012 23:53
How do you spotlight a receiver with a 2nd player? I've only been able to spotlight while playing single player. If I try to spotlight with the 2nd controller on, it doesn't do anything at all, and if I get an interception, I don't get the achievement.
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By BrutishMuffin on 22 Jul 2011 17:47
I have the same problem like the first comment. I can't spotlight with a second controller. I hold left trigger and pick either B X Y or A but nothing happens. Has anyone found a solution for this?
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By on 03 Sep 2011 06:14
Why are you trying to spotlight with the 2nd controller? the defense is the the one that needs to spotlight a receiver right? so the controller you are trying to get the achievement needs to activate the spotlight right? i'll try this later to confirm otherwise correct me if i'm wrong please
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By NickHawkeye on 18 Apr 2012 11:48
It doesn't show up when you spotlight the player. I didn't notice a difference, but it worked for me with the 2nd controller.

That being said, I couldn't find those plays in the playbook, so I used Double Wide for Bama (down 4, X) and Flanker Dig for San Jose State (first row, Y). Took me three times to actually intercept it, but when I did the achievement popped.

You might want to also suggest turning the settings for User INTs up to 100.
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By Sashamorning on 23 Jul 2011 04:37
I had the same problem stated above but i just went into single player mode, in expo game and just kept one one player and first time they threw to him i nab it. but i also was wondering reason why it wasn't popping up cause due to game setting.. were you playing on freshmen?
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By Your Neighbors on 27 Jul 2011 03:12
Yeah I was asking if that was what the other people having problems with were doing. Although now I do kind of see what they are talking about. When I spot light my receiver nothing shows up around them. I think it hides the "cross hairs" when you are not in single player mode however the achievement still pops when you intercept it. I got it first pass attempt. it also helps to make all the receivers "hot route" to blocking except the one your 2nd controller is throwing to. also my controlled player did not get the interception and it still gave it to me. you also know that it pops before the play is even over.
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By NickHawkeye on 25 Apr 2012 20:42
First pass attempt. Popped cheevo. NICE!
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By FLYN NE WEATHER on 25 Mar 2013 15:57
Btw it’s shotgun pass for Y shallow cross not standard but it’s an old guide so I doubt it needs to be edited
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By fighterx93chipp on 07 Jul 2019 21:42
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use 2 controllers

put it on heisman difficulty and turn interception slider all the way up. teams and players do not matter on heisman. but to increase your chances pick a team with a good d like bama or lsu.

offsides need to be turned all the way down for this

have the offensive team be on their own 1 or 2 yard line. for the offensive team select a flanker or wide receiver screen pass. you can find them in playbook by picking a certain receiver or going to play type and finding screen passes

on the defensive side pick cover 2 or some other defense that corners play man. now take the corner on the side of the screen and put him right between where the wr will stop to catch the ball and the qb. make sure to lock and spotlight.

hike the ball, throw to the reciever and your cb should intercept the ball and be standing in the end zone. Took me 3 tries doing this after an hour trying other methods
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The part about being near the end zone is not necessary unless you are going for the other achivement as well.
NCAA Football 12Lock and LoadThe Lock and Load achievement in NCAA Football 12 worth 45 pointsWith Player Lock on, return an interception for a TD (excludes co-op).


good strategy still but this achivement should pop just by making the interception
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By NickHawkeye on 18 Apr 2012 11:44
Just wanted to add that IX CaptHowdy XI solution works good, only when I was trying for this achievement and the Lock and Load achievement, I tried about 40 pass attempts and all the defender would do was drop the damn ball and not catch it. So I quit the game, and started a new one, and I guess some magical wizardry happened and the defender all of of sudden caught 3 interceptions in a row. I have no idea what happened, but if you are having problems with your defender actually catching the ball, then just try the quit, and start over method, and hopefully it will work the same as it did for me.
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23 Sep 2012 11:20

To get a receiver in your cross hairs while on defense, you need to hold and press the icon for the receiver you're covering. Again, this is done easiest with 2 controllers. Simply have player 2 throw with while you are covering him and intercept the ball.

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Refer to Locked and Loaded.

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