NHL 18 Features New Player Overall Rating Changes

[bad_philanthropy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Turbojugend

Agreed. This is shaping up to be an improved version of 17, which is fine with me. Hopefully concepts such as player rating and separation bear fruit and aren't just advertised features that don't really impact gameplay.

It will be interesting to see indeed, but it does appear there is a concerted effort to go in a direction of differentiation between this, the difference in player skill I felt in the beta, and drafted players having a more realistic spread of ratings.

I wonder what the overalls for ECHL and junior players will look like. I wonder if we'll finally have a spread in Jr hockey ranging from high 70's-80's (nhl ready) and 40 overalls. I've always found the CHL is a great place to test ratings differentiation using teams stacked with higher end players on their top line.

[Turbojugend]

Yeah, I'm currently playing a season in the WHL as the Seattle Thunderbirds, there's a bit more diversity in talent in that league. Scoring is difficult (for me), lots of shots go wide, especially with manual shooting. I'm getting lots of 2-1 results, which is great. Scoring four in a game is a rarity.

Qeustion though: Isn't there already a player separation slider to increase the ability levels between high/low rated players? Has anyone tried cranking this up to its fullest to see if it makes any difference?

[SuperGoalies]

those ratings are good, I just hold out hope, that's it really noticeable. am really fascinated by this move, least its start in right direction. anyone else excited by this ? , cause I am!. it might just play brilliant this time.


first thing am gonna do is roll out the be a pro goalie and slider and franchises setting for NHL 18. when I get my copy on September 15th.


Just hope!, I don't have to put bigger players on front lines this time, I was really upset when I had to move bigger player on the front lines.


With these ratings... I might just be able to do balance thing, like one or two big guys and 1 small guy or 2 small guys, for speed kinda like pittsburgh penguins, then... I add one gimungous player between 6'3 and 6'4.


anyways am excited !

[TDKing]

https://twitter.com/CurtisLazar95/st...99551314481157

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[Unsung Hero]

Very good news for the series. At least they're finally acknowledging some of the problems with their ratings.


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[Steve_OS]

Updated story w/ more overall player ratings and screenshots.