360 Patch is live!

[original6]

This just posted by WWTC at 2khockey.net:

"I can verify that the patch is live. It is live.

The changes are pretty subtle, so I wouldn't judge it by your first games with it. With the changes, any slider sets you are using will need to be altered, because the game has been made faster under the hood.

The biggest things that help the sim game are one timers in front being mostly redirects now, more pinning, collision detection on defensive stick sweeping, and movement changes. And goalies not doing frequent diving pokes really helps them out."

So, it wasn't me imagining things! I thought the game speed was noticeably faster, skating more fluid, board pinning much easier and frequent, stick collisions better, defensemen turning improved, and a looser overall feel. Very awesome news.

Hopefully positive feedback from this will prompt 2k to patch the PS3 and Wii versions.

[Fiddy]

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lol.. you better get back to work on your sliders.

[original6]

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lol.. you better get back to work on your sliders.

Yeah, I haven't played the patched version yet with mine. I was trying out DJ Neo's which I had also played last night. Definitely a surprisingly noticeable improvement. The only thing I think that will have to be adjusted initially is the skating speed. The patched version is significantly faster.

[phillyfan23]

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played one game..... calgary at nashville (me).....

calgary d-men didn't back up like idiots at all. Don't wanna get my hopes too high....but it's promising so far. Will play a bad team next and see what happens. Hopefully they hold up

the better pinning also adds a lot to the game.

[RealmK]

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played one game..... calgary at nashville (me).....

calgary d-men didn't back up like idiots at all. Don't wanna get my hopes too high....but it's promising so far. Will play a bad team next and see what happens. Hopefully they hold up

the better pinning also adds a lot to the game.

That is promising coming from you Riz, as you pretty much had the same opinion as I did pre patch. O6 when you get some time in and update sliders toss me a pm if ya would be so kind.

[plaidchuck]

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Played it at a friends house, not too impressed. Goalies were still flopping all over the place.. can't say much about the controls since I'm not used to the 360 controllers. Who knows it may be better but the sliders probably need major tweaks right now because with the default speed I was skating into the offensive zone with NHL09 ease. The animations did seem less choppy which gave the players less of that ant-like feeling, but I didn't see any improvements in the defensive play.

So don't fret fellow PS3ers.. you're not missing too much (in my opinion)

[CelticHeart]

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this patch rocks!

[Scottdau]

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Played it at a friends house, not too impressed. Goalies were still flopping all over the place.. can't say much about the controls since I'm not used to the 360 controllers. Who knows it may be better but the sliders probably need major tweaks right now because with the default speed I was skating into the offensive zone with NHL09 ease. The animations did seem less choppy which gave the players less of that ant-like feeling, but I didn't see any improvements in the defensive play.

So don't fret fellow PS3ers.. you're not missing too much (in my opinion)

It is funny how others are saying different.

[Fiddy]

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what a party pooper above.. lol.

im gonna load up 2k10 tonight after the pens game.

[original6]

Re: 360 Patch is live!

Played it at a friends house, not too impressed. Goalies were still flopping all over the place.. can't say much about the controls since I'm not used to the 360 controllers. Who knows it may be better but the sliders probably need major tweaks right now because with the default speed I was skating into the offensive zone with NHL09 ease. The animations did seem less choppy which gave the players less of that ant-like feeling, but I didn't see any improvements in the defensive play.

So don't fret fellow PS3ers.. you're not missing too much (in my opinion)

All I can say is..........whaaat?

[cookusu]

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Cool

[phillyfan23]

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ok just finished another game....

wild ( me ) at the sabres

won 4-1

they scored the first on a point man wrist shot

i scored the next 4

rebound goal
deflection goal
2 on 1 goal
one timer point

shots finished 28-27 wild

What I did in this game was I tried to see how the cpu reacted on 2 on 2s and 1 on 2s. Before the patch, a lot of times the d-men retreated all the way to the goalie when the user just rushed in straight ahead.

i did the same move this game a lot of times, and i am happy to report that the d-men not once in the game retreated all the way back to the goalie and in all instances they tried to make a good defensive play. Most they succeeded, and some they failed, but at least when they failed it was much more natural and realistic looking.

rangers (me) at flyers next.....hope this thing holds up. I am kind of stunned that i haven't seen any d-men retreating.

[Scottdau]

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I wonder if the sliders kings can make the D even better. I have notice the same thing Philly. I notice also that on the PP the Defense come after you in your zone more too.

[daflyboys]

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No XBox Live currently.... how does one apply a patch without XBL?

[Scottdau]

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No XBox Live currently.... how does one apply a patch without XBL?

I don't know if you can. Maybe you can flash drive it, but I thought i read some where you can't do that with patches. I could wrong though.