NHL 14 Video & Blog - EA Sports Hockey IQ

[CaptainSuperman]

Quote: Originally Posted by onac22

Ok so far so good, but will my AI teammates still take 3/4 of my penalties? Will the cpu get called for injuries commited behind the play?

Huh? In my games, all penalties on my team are called on me for slashing/high sticking and tripping when I try to poke or stick check.

[drog1602]

I like how the AI look for better passing opportunities and the shooter squares up to the pass. But...the skating still looks horrible. The AI still have issues while turning and still no explosive first steps.

[Moose24x]

Quote: Originally Posted by drog1602

I like how the AI look for better passing opportunities and the shooter squares up to the pass. But...the skating still looks horrible. The AI still have issues while turning and still no explosive first steps.

100%. They keep talking about how they've fine tuned the real performance skating to be more responsive and mimic the "explosiveness" of real hockey, but the absolute LAST thing I see in these trailers, and experienced in last years game, is explosive skating. It's a huge problem. In all honesty, there should be a button that gives you an all out burst for like three steps to get up to speed quickly when chasing a puck or to change your pace from coasting in on a defender to turning on the jets and driving wide, and it should not be pressing in the left stick (and should be a TON more effective). Obviously, it shouldn't be equal for all players and should be effected by weight, speed and acceleration ratings, but there needs to be an actual, real, effective way of getting those explosive first steps. It should fatigue you more and come at a price and such - make it as authentic as possible - but it really should be in there. It's glaringly missing.

[TDKing]

Yeah, yeah, yeah... same old crap, with a couple of new talking points thrown in. Still waiting to hear something that makes me say I gotta have this game ! Next...

[13whitebread]

Just make sure the sliders work to adjust the game. Start with that signed NHL 13.5 and come on September 10th

[Splitter77]

i just hope simmed stats are better.
they also need to make it easier to create a team and actually play a franchise with all fictional players.

they also need boxscores to be viewable from the league schedule for every game played.

then of course they have to make it alot harder to enter the offensive zone.. If anything, I hope thats improved.

But Im gonna be honest, im probably gonna get the game anyway just because nhl 13 was a good game and at worst nhl 14 will be nhl 13 with an awesome new fighting engine. And I cant wait to try out the fightin because it looks sweet.

[Fiddy]

i remember Rammer saying that they did add stick collisions, but it caused to many loose pucks and would ruin the fun for casual fans etc. so they turned it off. why cant they give us that option to turn it on for offline or online seasons with friends?

if they would turn that on under the hood, im sure it would be frustrating, but guess what? we would adapt and force people to play actual hockey. pass, dump, forecheck, cycle, etc. not just dance around, loose puck deke, spin around, start and stop, skate around etc..

i also wish they would add back that when you do any of the above that you fall down and lose the puck. buuuuuuuuuuuuut the casual whiners cried and they removed that. bah!

[Yeats]

Ramjagsing must have had to have swallowed the blue pill, seriously. As if NHL 94 arcade mode looks and plays much different from so-called simulation mode. What a company.