NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

[THESHAMISASHAME]

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I love hockey to much to quit on this game so I just decided to do what I always do and play on Allstar near default with a few tweaks to goalies and Penalties and then sink or swim and stop making excuses and try to play better .

I set it up to where I can beat weak teams regularly and struggle against good teams so Im pretty happy ! Pre 9/28 tuner happy ? no but its still a blast of a game .

If you look at the game closely it does so many things right and then if you tweak sliders slightly it does some things better but then it can also screw many things up ? .

What Im saying is if you change one thing like shot accuracy as a loose example it should then effect goals scored/shots and goalies and nothing else but thats in a perfect world and their sliders in most cases dont work like that.

All in all I still say if you wanna enjoy this game for what EA NHL has created you gotta stay near default on your level because with all the momentum and tilted ice it just to hard to balance so if you cant tweak it beat it .

Randomness as an example: I had 1 pp as Chi at the Leafs and I couldnt draw anything and lost 3-0 and in game two at Chicago I have 4 PPA in the first period and a 5 on 3 and that kinda randomness is nice to see and I do feel like I earned them through hustle and even the Coaches feedback confirmed it.

Gonna start posting some NHL 16 Playoff Mode Photos soon

UPDATE !
I won Game #2 in OT on the PP Kane to Toews on a tip in screen Chi 4-3 vs Tor my most satisfying game yet as I really felt like I earned it and beat the AI at their own game .

[jake19ny]

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You know what's funny in a "I can't believe it" type of way. We all talk about ice tilt and have our own idea of what it means. Some believe it exists no matter what, some believe it's not real, and some believe it's in the tuners but according to the EA forums, EA said it doesn't exist. The EA forum mods have decided to post a warning that anyone who creates a thread about "ice tilt" the thread will be deleted and you will be banned. Anyone who mentions "ice tilt" in any thread, will be warned once then banned. Welcome to tryannical style EA media control. Drink the kook aid or else...Hey EA...Maybe if you don't want people to discuss ice tilt, stop making tuners that create it....or at the very least don't have your in game announcers say "this ice is tilted right now"...

[Splitter77]

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There is def ice tilt on superstar and whenever you have CPU difficulty above 0.
All-star seems to be no ice tilt with CPU difficulty at 0.

But the goalies suck and the defensive ai sucks. So you have to jerk around to make games close.

[THESHAMISASHAME]

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There is def ice tilt on superstar and whenever you have CPU difficulty above 0.
All-star seems to be no ice tilt with CPU difficulty at 0.

But the goalies suck and the defensive ai sucks. So you have to jerk around to make games close.

Its obvious on Superstar and I even think EA once said the Hu is at the disadvantage on that level but whats lacking is theres no variance in cpu players as everyone becomes robotic Bobby Orrs and its a cheap way to use boosts or non responsiveness alone to increase the difficulty of the game .

You know what's funny in a "I can't believe it" type of way. We all talk about ice tilt and have our own idea of what it means. Some believe it exists no matter what, some believe it's not real, and some believe it's in the tuners but according to the EA forums, EA said it doesn't exist. The EA forum mods have decided to post a warning that anyone who creates a thread about "ice tilt" the thread will be deleted and you will be banned. Anyone who mentions "ice tilt" in any thread, will be warned once then banned. Welcome to tyrannical style EA media control. Drink the kook aid or else...Hey EA...Maybe if you don't want people to discuss ice tilt, stop making tuners that create it....or at the very least don't have your in game announcers say "this ice is tilted right now"...

Anyone can call it whatever they want but I dont know any other way to explain it ? and after those 9/28 tuners they brought it back into the game for me on default and probably only because of online play

EX: When its tilted or whatever you wanna call it my whole team cant skate , stop a simple shot, block a shot or control the puck at my feet or even make a 5 ft pass and just because Kane got hit on the 1st line it now effects my whole team and they only way to get it back to normal is to hit back or fight ?

I would prefer they use smarter AI and positioning then just boosting or cheats and then my only choice is to Big Hit back or fight to balance the game back to normal ? Seems unrealistic in 2015 NHL dont you think .

So as I said above if you try to lessen it in the game I find it wrecks the game so I just lowered cpu/hu hit power to try and limit the Intimidation factor through hitting and its funny in my 4-3 OT win over Toronto they out hit me 36 to 12 ?
I was shocked at that stat as it didnt feel like it in game but its obvious the AI was probably trying to tilt the ice with big hits but with limited big hit power I balanced it in a way.

I cant really tweak it as Im not a slider guy but I still think alot of it can be made to play pretty realistically if you know how to counteract each slider adjustment but Ill just take it like a challenge every game win or lose and Im having a good time again but I have to be ready to adjust and adapt to succeed .

[MQ91]

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How useful is the Coach Feedback in comparison to the Be-a-Pro feedback and intermission scouting reports from previous years?

[actionhank]

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Yep. I thought it was completely overblown, but as I go further and further in my season I see how annoying it is. 1 step forward, 2 steps back.



Yeah. I would have advised you to pick this game soon, but now I'd suggest waiting till it goes on sale. There are just too many old issues that haven't been fixed.

I check around every now and again to see if anyone's got it on sale for the PS4 at a cheap price. I'm sure I'll find it used somewhere.

[THESHAMISASHAME]

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Some more impressions as I normally only play playoff mode but I just think the 3 on 3 in play now and season mode in OT is a blast.
Im more a purest and even prefer ties as I dont really care for the shootouts but kudos to the NHL on this new rule and for EA implementing it so well

[BL8001]

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Yep they need an online 3-3 mode.

The entire game 3-3. Hell, let us set it up 2-2, 3-3. 4-4, whatever way we want.

It would even be wild to play someone 3-4. Options, they make everything better.

[shogunofharlem3]

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Some more impressions as I normally only play playoff mode but I just think the 3 on 3 in play now and season mode in OT is a blast.
Im more a purest and even prefer ties as I dont really care for the shootouts but kudos to the NHL on this new rule and for EA implementing it so well

I also like the 3 on 3. But in my franchise or whatever, I like to do continuous overtime. I hate shootouts, not ea shootouts, just straight up real NHL shootouts.

So I usually do 5 on 5 continuous. Would love a 3 on 3 continuous option. So much open ice!

[THESHAMISASHAME]

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Hey is anyone offline noticing the horrible puck/environment detection ? I didnt notice it on release other than two guys battling for the puck on the boards and it goes through the bottom of the boards sticks too ? and then the announcers said it hopped over the glass .

Goalies going through nets and it looks really bad on saves and those I havent noticed early on but who knows as I see it alot now .

[speels]

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I am getting tired of 3 things.

1) Going into the a battle along the boards and never coming out with the puck against the CPU.

2) Having the CUP skate through all five defenders with even bobbling the puck, but when I try to go through 1 guy he always ends up with the puck.

3) When I poke check the CPU the puck is loose and anyone can retrieve it, although the CPU recovers it 99% of the time. Then when the CPU poke checks the puck off my stick it is never loose as it always sticks right to their stick for a quick pass outside the zone.

[THESHAMISASHAME]

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I am getting tired of 3 things.

1) Going into the a battle along the boards and never coming out with the puck against the CPU.

2) Having the CUP skate through all five defenders with even bobbling the puck, but when I try to go through 1 guy he always ends up with the puck.

3) When I poke check the CPU the puck is loose and anyone can retrieve it, although the CPU recovers it 99% of the time. Then when the CPU poke checks the puck off my stick it is never loose as it always sticks right to their stick for a quick pass outside the zone.

I play hybrid and if I play default Allstar I rarely win those battles regardless of players skills so I dropped to pro level for a while and the battles on the boards were more fair .
I really miss how this game played originally out of the box that was so organic and less boost as it just comes off robotic on higher levels were it seems attributes mean little so I find making Pro level tougher a better option .

[Vikes1]

Re: NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

I am getting tired of 3 things.

1) Going into the a battle along the boards and never coming out with the puck against the CPU.

2) Having the CUP skate through all five defenders with even bobbling the puck, but when I try to go through 1 guy he always ends up with the puck.

3) When I poke check the CPU the puck is loose and anyone can retrieve it, although the CPU recovers it 99% of the time. Then when the CPU poke checks the puck off my stick it is never loose as it always sticks right to their stick for a quick pass outside the zone.

Yes,yes and yes. Playing vs the cpu just feels so.....well, robotic. That one early tuner seemed to take the robotic feel away. But the last one brought it back, imo.

[jake19ny]

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I play hybrid and if I play default Allstar I rarely win those battles regardless of players skills so I dropped to pro level for a while and the battles on the boards were more fair .
I really miss how this game played originally out of the box that was so organic and less boost as it just comes off robotic on higher levels were it seems attributes mean little so I find making Pro level tougher a better option .

Fortunately I'm back to out of the box tuner and may be able to salvage a season after all. Sham check out my thread on my idea to get the good tuner back. Hopefully someone steps forward.

Though I'm enjoying the game with default tuner I'm constantly reminded of just how little EA cares about the offline gamer. Some examples:

The latest tuner for starters.
No season stats showing for players in game, two years now.
Failure to address goal celebration.
Failure to address the same AI issues that have been there for years.
Play by play name list not updated for YEARS.
Poor roster updates with missing players, pictures, and wrong data.
Very few goalie mask changes for years.
Failure to patch in the latest goalie gear.
Failure to address roster edit crashing.
Failure to incorporate a simple roster share.
Doc and Eddie say things that just are not happening in the game, lazy.
Second year in a row, slider bug where change something in General move to the other categories like Checking and AI, go back to General and things have changed by themselves.....

This list is incomplete for sure. Some things may seem trivial but they are all things most online players and HUT lovers care very little about. So frustrating.

[shogunofharlem3]

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Just played a great game on Pro with the new tuner. I had a thought. When the AI locks on to you they never ever miss a check, and when you go to hit them at times they have that invisible wall around them.

SO, I put hitting assistance all the way up. I was able to stand them up and force them to dump the puck at the blue line a lot. And with hitting power down at 0 or 1 bodies aren't laying all over the ice.

The AI has that type of assistance, why shouldn't we? And what I saw with board battles, if you wanted to bump you had to hold the right stick and that would actually loosen the puck.

Going to play another one in a minute. But that seemed to help with their side stepping and their lack of dump. Because now they know we gonna get them with that much assistance. So they get rid of the puck. Give it a whirl.