How important are BeaGM mode issue fixes for you come NHL 2012?

[canucksss]

Re: How important are BeaGM mode issue fixes for you come NHL 2012?

can i add:

a. AI teammates are afraid of crossing the blue line

b. sometimes your AI got stuck "somewhere" the ice facing the board as if he's mesmerized with the crowds or somethin...

these 2 are so annoying IMO.

[actionhank]

Re: How important are BeaGM mode issue fixes for you come NHL 2012?

I never liked the "chemistry" idea because I felt shoehorned into a prescribed style. Whereas the Avalanche would frequently put certain people on lines that worked well, the game would actually punish me for those same lines.

What needs to happen is each role needs to feel more defined on the ice. Putting together a team of hard-checking power forwards should net a defined style of play. And as a coach, one should need to develop a game plan around that personnel. As it stands, the game play really comes down to how fast a player skates.

I shouldn't be forced into a style of play. This will simply promote a uniform style across all teams. And forcing gamers into playstyles based on the team isn't a solution. If I, as a GM, want to transform the Wild into a fast-break, high energy team, I should be allowed to do so. However, the game needs to allow this in the first place.

I think maybe an idea could be something like "chemistry" but it was a sort of experience point system. The more players play on the same line, the more xp they develop. That was you aren't punished for placing players on any line, but you are rewarded for finding lines that work, and sticking with them.
Maybe if you had some sort of system where each point earned by the line would serve as a multiplier for that line's xp. So for each game they played together, they would get a small amount of "xp" that could be increased by a certain percentage with each goal or assist by a player on the line.
That way you aren't losing for mixing up your lines, but if you find a good mix and let them play, they can get a small stat increase. Might be a way of "simulating" players getting to know each other and how they play, and where they are.
It's kind of like how you could see watching the Blues play, how Stewart and Shattenkirk who came over from the Avs just knew each other, and knew where the other would be when which set up some nice shots on net.

[Franchizz]

Re: How important are BeaGM mode issue fixes for you come NHL 2012?

I never liked the "chemistry" idea because I felt shoehorned into a prescribed style. Whereas the Avalanche would frequently put certain people on lines that worked well, the game would actually punish me for those same lines.

What needs to happen is each role needs to feel more defined on the ice. Putting together a team of hard-checking power forwards should net a defined style of play. And as a coach, one should need to develop a game plan around that personnel. As it stands, the game play really comes down to how fast a player skates.

I shouldn't be forced into a style of play. This will simply promote a uniform style across all teams. And forcing gamers into playstyles based on the team isn't a solution. If I, as a GM, want to transform the Wild into a fast-break, high energy team, I should be allowed to do so. However, the game needs to allow this in the first place.

Oh no, I do not want he exact version NHL 07 had, just the concept. How I would implement it is a new line has a default setting of say 50, no benefits or negatives because the players have yet to become accustom to one another. They more games they play will cause this to increase steadily and in doing so they receive a slight edge, take passes better (expecting them), get into position better and so forth.