NHL 15 Patch 1.04 Available Now, Full Details Included

[Vikes1]

Quote: Originally Posted by MizzouRah

There was actually a point after my 3-0 shutout and then going up 2-0 against LA I actually felt like I was getting too good at the game.. WOW.. that was short lived.

I've had two straight, great playing games....and zero berserk to ruin things. But ya, i imagine that bs is waiting to strike again. I guess it's apart of the game you either just deal with, or not. I just wish it was done in not such an obvious way. .

[BL8001]

The thing with the getting suckered into the corners...

The issue is how rapidly the CPU brings that other side player right into the sweet spot beside the crease.

They extra hustle to post up there. So what happens is if you do miss the poke check or hit on the guy in the corner he will easily slide a pass over to the player who one times it in. Every time.

Watch your Rush into the CPU end...I can't find a single setting that will get the player into the crease spot as quick as the CPU does it. So what happens on your rush is you have to hold it up slightly to give that player time to get to the crease and when you have to wait the CPU creams you or herds you back out.

It's just one more of those EA programming can do what I cant do EA game moments.

[BL8001]

One other cpu scoring method that bugs me. You have the puck near your board in the d end with a burly defender. A tiny cpu winger skates up non chalantly and obliterates you, collects the puck that spills to them perfectly, whirls and slots a beautiful pass to a player sitting in the crease who taps it home.

1. Ain't gonna happen

2. What?

3. Why is that offensive player hanging around my net as I am bringing it out?

4. Why isn't my defender looking for that wingers head for the next 5 minutes? If this really occurred that winger would fear for his life.

[THESHAMISASHAME]

I ran a few tests in Playoff mode in a must win games by the cpu where I made the cpu goalie the worst through in game sliders and I lost both games 5-2 with cpu getting ENGs too as I basically went down 2-0 then it was 2-2 and down 4-2 and 5-2 on eng and all goals were generated and kinda strange looking.

Now I was playing against Quick ( Kings ) and I wont go through all that happened as we all witnessed boost mode but attributes as least on the goalie sliders meant nothing in these games.

Quick was about the same with normal sliders in these games and I shouldnt have to out cheat the CPU AI just to make this game play normal as it then just wrecks the gameplay experience as theres just much better options in 2014 to make the cpu play tougher then a boost mode that magically stops and starts as needed and I still dont understand why all modes in this game just dont play like "play now "does ?.

I bought NBA 2k15 for its classic teams yesterday but its not the same so Im gonna try a different Gameplay Tuner or maybe Simulation style and see if I can find a happy balance as its great to hear others are still having great games .

UPDATE : Started next series on Simulation and won 3-1 but I was just around for the ride on Defense and I only changed penalty sliders but My Crawford vs LA was amazing and LA could have had 5 goals easy ! crazy stuff but I made some great plays on Offense when the opportunity arose .

Next game is a must win ? and I try will and remain calm and react to what unfolds .

[APar2008]

how do you download the update. I have an xbox one its, connected to xbox live but I dont see any of the new features. I can play games online.

[jb1]

This is a much better game for me post latest update and tuner. The big improvements for me have been the manual passing which still doesn't feel quite right but it's much better than it was before and the fact that I haven't run into the CPU berserker mode that has been mentioned a lot here.

I play All Star Hardcore with a few slider adjustments and I've been having some great games, played through 5 Be a Gm games with the latest updates and the games have just felt like hockey, I had to put the game on the shelf for a while with the previous tuners but not anymore.

What I really like is all my games have felt different, a comfortable 2-0 win, a 1-0 loss where I did everything but score, a 4-3 shootout win in a really even game, a 4-3 OT win in game I totally dominated but yet but goaltending (or my defensive skills) let me down for the first time and a 3-2 OT loss in a game I was lucky to get anything out of.

I was a bit worried after my first two games which saw only 3 goals but then in my next game there were 4 goals in the first 10 minutes to put any fears to rest. I really love that this game has that anything can happen feel to it.

Only slight concern is penalties or more accurately lack of but even though I feel they are on the low side I like that I've had games with 4 PP's and other games with 4PK's, 5-on 3's for and against so it's not horrible by any means, I'd just like to see a few more.

At this point I'm just enjoying the game for what it is and on the ice it's a great game right now.

[Vikes1]

The ' momentum' sure got me in my latest GM game, falling to the Kings 7-0. The cpu scored on 4 of 5 pp's, and out shot me 44 to 16! Official butt kicking!

[MizzouRah]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vikes1

The ' momentum' sure got me in my latest GM game, falling to the Kings 7-0. The cpu scored on 4 of 5 pp's, and out shot me 44 to 16! Official butt kicking!

I was up 2-0 on the Kings earlier in the season and felt like I was controlling the game, then they rattled off 5 goals to beat me 5-2, don't feel bad!