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[MizzouRah]

Quote: Originally Posted by Splitter77

quick questions are there new penalties? are you seeing the cpu go offsides? are you seeing pucks go out of play?? is there a stoppage for a hand pass?? can goalies lose their sticks?? can you be called for too many men on the ice??

NOT THAT I HAVE SEEN
YES
YES
NO HAND PASSES
I DON'T THINK SO
NO

[GlennN]

I apologize if this has already been discussed (I'll admit I did not check through all the 30-something pages), but can I get more folks' thoughts on how much the player ratings matter this year. Do you really see a difference between stars and fourth line guys? Thanks!

[BL8001]

I think the ratings are terrible personally. All the teams are too close together ratings wise.

From bleacher report

[bigwill33]

Quote: Originally Posted by Splitter77

quick questions are there new penalties? are you seeing the cpu go offsides? are you seeing pucks go out of play?? is there a stoppage for a hand pass?? can goalies lose their sticks?? can you be called for too many men on the ice??

No to all of that.

[canucksss]

Quote: Originally Posted by BL8001

I think the ratings are terrible personally. All the teams are too close together ratings wise. From bleacher report

I guess this is the reason why there's not much difference vs teams and players. Pretty sad really if you are playing just the offline BaGM.

[mkharsh33]

Quote: Originally Posted by canucksss

I guess this is the reason why there's not much difference vs teams and players. Pretty sad really if you are playing just the offline BaGM.

did i hear (or maybe it's just the voices in my head) - but I believe I read this has something to do with the NHLPA who do not want to embarrass players by giving them low ratings. so it might be outside of EA's control, which is pretty pathetic...

[BL8001]

Was there a gameplay update? I got prompted about it tonight.

Just played flyers v bruins again and had a fantastic game I won in OT. Zero cpu cheating.

Edit: either they changed the gameplay for the better or collapse D is the panacea for gameplay.
I have not had one cpu cheese goal yet. Played 5 games so far with different teams. So far none of the teams I chose had collapse D.

Basically collapse D wakes your team up and says hey this is an NHL game.

[PittPens1787]

Quote: Originally Posted by mkharsh33

did i hear (or maybe it's just the voices in my head) - but I believe I read this has something to do with the NHLPA who do not want to embarrass players by giving them low ratings. so it might be outside of EA's control, which is pretty pathetic...

If true that's definitely pathetic.

I got my question answered by one of the devs on a stream last week. I asked why there's very little difference between the stars and the scrubs, i.e. 50+ players rated 89+, which in FIFA is reserved for the top 15ish players I think.

They answered that their scale involves the whole world - from Swedish leagues to CHL to the NHL. They pointed out that the very very top say 2% of players are rated 89+, they just all happen to be in the NHL so it looks like the ratings are clustered when you only look at the NHL.

This kinda sucks for GM mode which only involves NHL teams. I would personally rather get rid of the foreign leagues and stretch out the NHL/CHL scale for more realistic GM mode ratings. I have to believe that more people play GM mode than play with the foreign teams, right?