NHL 17 Adds World Cup of Hockey, Team Relocation, Many Customization Options & More

[jack72]

Re: NHL 17 Adds World Cup of Hockey, Team Relocation, Many Customization Options & Mo

We get it.

How about we give them a chance at least. This was the first info released about the game and it actually had substance behind it - a big step up from the past.

You're right. Lets all forget the EA pre-release promise of improvements and hype followed by the disappointment and bugs that was in the final product in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.


I'm sure this year will be different.
Perhaps I can interest you in a time-share beach front condo in Arizona.

[kyussmanchu]

Re: NHL 17 Adds World Cup of Hockey, Team Relocation, Many Customization Options & Mo

Yes! My precious hartford eagles shall return! This makes me happy, which is saying a lot for this franchise of late.

[Simple Mathematics]

Re: NHL 17 Adds World Cup of Hockey, Team Relocation, Many Customization Options & Mo

You're right. Lets all forget the EA pre-release promise of improvements and hype followed by the disappointment and bugs that was in the final product in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.


I'm sure this year will be different.
Perhaps I can interest you in a time-share beach front condo in Arizona.

Can't you be constructive at all? Instead of saying that the game has sucked since 1995, can't you give suggestions or ideas instead? If you haven't liked the product since 1995, maybe it's time to give up.

[Freakywwe]

Re: NHL 17 Adds World Cup of Hockey, Team Relocation, Many Customization Options & Mo

Who the heck wants to relocate their favorite team out of the city that they play in? Come on EA, give us something we actually care about

It'll be the first thing I'll be doing when the game comes out

[actionhank]

Re: NHL 17 Adds World Cup of Hockey, Team Relocation, Many Customization Options & Mo

You bring up an interesting topic.
Will tie-ups work the same as the board pinning? I don't want suction, and I sure as heck want size and attributes to play a role.
It would really help to distinguish the large power forwards in the league.

It would be great if it worked the way it does in real life. Guys get angled towards the boards, and then the opposing player has to be able to stop their momentum and push them to the boards. They don't just skate in next to them and magically suction cup them to the boards.

Similarly, you'll see forwards chip the puck ahead, and then try to skate by defenders, who them skate over to try to slow them down, without hitting them so they don't get called for interference.

There are so many little things that could make boardplay not only fun, but useful. As it stands now, you take yourself out of the play more than you hurt the AI's ability to create a scoring chance, because they have laser precision with the skate passing. What's frustrating is that when you're pinned to the boards, no one really knows what to do.

It would be nice to see an organic type of boardplay, where players can come and join in the fray and everyone starts digging for it. Or, when you are in the 1-on-1 situations, as a defender you can do something like hold RB and use the right-stick to try and dig at the puck, while holding the left-stick in the direction of the player, and maybe double-tapping it to kind of shove them. Too much use of the right-stick, or abusing the double-tapping of the left stick can lead to a penalty. But, if you're a smaller player (like a Shattenkirk) pinning a bigger player (Thornton) and you just kind of skate over, try to hold him, but don't apply any pressure, he'll be more able to kick the puck to his skate, shove you aside, and make a straight skate to the open slot, where your defender is now forced to cover the pass and the oncoming shooter.

[redsox4evur]

Re: NHL 17 Adds World Cup of Hockey, Team Relocation, Many Customization Options & Mo

hell yeah!!!!!!!! custom music a la mlb the show

Good luck...the SCEA development created the coding for that themselves and I doubt they will be telling other development teams what exactly they did to do it.

[KidShowtime]

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Good luck...the SCEA development created the coding for that themselves and I doubt they will be telling other development teams what exactly they did to do it.

I really wish EA would adopt a similar approach.

Watching this tutorial for MLB16 the Show.. their custom music feature includes editing MP3's as well.. which would be awesome.

[redsox4evur]

Re: NHL 17 Adds World Cup of Hockey, Team Relocation, Many Customization Options & Mo

I really wish EA would adopt a similar approach.

Watching this tutorial for MLB16 the Show.. their custom music feature includes editing MP3's as well.. which would be awesome.

Oh yea I have used it before. I just don't know how feasible it is going to be for any company to get the SCEA to say exactly what they did with the code so that it can be used in games not made by SCEA. I wish it could happen because I love being able to listen to my own music while in the menus.

[KidShowtime]

Re: NHL 17 Adds World Cup of Hockey, Team Relocation, Many Customization Options & Mo

Oh yea I have used it before. I just don't know how feasible it is going to be for any company to get the SCEA to say exactly what they did with the code so that it can be used in games not made by SCEA. I wish it could happen because I love being able to listen to my own music while in the menus.

Just lookin at it quickly, I assume they're simply importing MP3's from an external drive to the game's provisioned storage on the console itself.

It's a very simple concept... something I'm sure the NHL guys are aware of. The big feature that's likely the most proprietary is the Music Editor itself, which I'm not sure is THAT important - with the community that's here doing much of the editing themselves prior to import.

[actionhank]

Re: NHL 17 Adds World Cup of Hockey, Team Relocation, Many Customization Options & Mo

Good luck...the SCEA development created the coding for that themselves and I doubt they will be telling other development teams what exactly they did to do it.

I don't think they need to get code from SCEA. They've got their own talented team of programmers, and I believe had custom music on the PS3. It's just a matter of EA slowly adding back in things they had before the NHL15 disaster, and then improving on the decent foundation they made in NHL16.