NHL 2K10 Q&A: Part One

[Scottdau]

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Duh-oh, no pinning frequency slider! The big thing for me is, as I stated in another thread, can the game sliders be adjusted to have the game flow and play realistic, yet have a cpu that is threatening and can score? My general experience has been once you slow the game down to a realistic speed, the cpu becomes harmless.

A big slider to check will be the defensive aggressiveness, since WWTC's gameplay vids are exhibiting a rather passive retreat and collapse cpu defense.

Well WWTC said that they have pinning. They were in the ign videos they should a while back.

[tabulaRasa]

They have pinning, even showed in a gamespot movie, and they have always had it. Funny that so few asked for pinning (when 2k have had it for years) in the sim department, but after Littmans movies all "sim-heads" require pinning....haha....so funny....

Anyhow, the movie over at 2Khockey looked good.

[original6]

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Well WWTC said that they have pinning. They were in the ign videos they should a while back.

Yeah, I know there's pinning in the game, but no slider to adjust the frequency of it like there has been in the past. Watching WWTC's vids just didn't seem gritty enough for my liking. I expect to see more board scrums and all. Perhaps his game lacked in boardplay due to the constant puck movement.

[Scottdau]

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Yeah, I know there's pinning in the game, but no slider to adjust the frequency of it like there has been in the past. Watching WWTC's vids just didn't seem gritty enough for my liking. I expect to see more board scrums and all. Perhaps his game lacked in boardplay due to the constant puck movement.

I think if you turn up the dump slider that will help it.

[original6]

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I think if you turn up the dump slider that will help it.

Good call. :wink: Other possibilities that could help would be checking effectiveness or defensive aggressiveness (more likely to pin near the boards rather than check?)

[Scottdau]

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What I really love this year is the hip check animations and the hitting in general.

[Scottdau]

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Good call. :wink: Other possibilities that could help would be checking effectiveness or defensive aggressiveness (more likely to pin near the boards rather than check?)

The other thing. If it works this year. It would be cool to set all four lines the way they should be in real life. I know the Sharks first line don't really dump and chase. That would be cool to have all the lines act like they do in real life.

[original6]

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The other thing. If it works this year. It would be cool to set all four lines the way they should be in real life. I know the Sharks first line don't really dump and chase. That would be cool to have all the lines act like they do in real life.

You actually can do this with 2k9. The trick is setting all of them up before starting a season/franchise and then saving the roster file. Then load that roster file when starting a season/franchise and all of your strategy settings will still be there for each team. I used daflyboy's strategy settings suggestion and applied it to each team except my user-controlled on and it worked brilliantly. So, I'm guessing you'll be able to do the same with 2k10.

[Scottdau]

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You actually can do this with 2k9. The trick is setting all of them up before starting a season/franchise and then saving the roster file. Then load that roster file when starting a season/franchise and all of your strategy settings will still be there for each team. I used daflyboy's strategy settings suggestion and applied it to each team except my user-controlled on and it worked brilliantly. So, I'm guessing you'll be able to do the same with 2k10.

I did it, but it did not really work. Even one of the devs said it is much better this year. They also, said the teams play like their real counter part team. If that is the case that is SICK!

[original6]

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I did it, but it did not really work. Even one of the devs said it is much better this year. They also, said the teams play like their real counter part team. If that is the case that is SICK!

Hmmm, didn't really work? It worked fine on my 360 console.

I wonder what they mean by "it is much better this year"? That's a pretty vague statement

[Scottdau]

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Hmmm, didn't really work? It worked fine on my 360 console.

I wonder what they mean by "it is much better this year"? That's a pretty vague statement

That is cool, maybe it work for you. I ask them and they told me it didn't work like the way they wanted it too. It wasn't real response. I think because they still attack the net too much. They say it works better now. Who knows.


Read this.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...oved-ai-4.html

[slickdtc]

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Disappointing to see that the PS3 gets the shaft yet again on custom soundtracks.

That ****ing blows, man. I missed out on custom soundtracks with the XBOX in the last gen, and now that the PS3 can get songs straight off an iPod or MP3 player, I was very hopeful that custom soundtracks would make it into the game. Plus, with MLB 09 The Show doing a great job with soundtracks, I was pumped for what could be. Alas, I am let down. I was really looking forward to hearing some of my favorite songs playing after goals, during breaks in the action, etc. Very disappointed in this. It was one of my favorite little features of MLB 09.

[original6]

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That is cool, maybe it work for you. I ask them and they told me it didn't work like the way they wanted it too. It wasn't real response. I think because they still attack the net too much. They say it works better now. Who knows.


Read this.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...oved-ai-4.html

Ah, I see. I thought you meant that the way I was able to set each teams' strategies in a roster file and have it work in franchise/season mode didn't work. You're saying daflyboy's dump and chase strategies in general didn't work for you. Got it.

One year they did have team preset strategies that supposedly played like their real-life counterparts. I think it might have been 2k6? Anyone?

[Scottdau]

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Ah, I see. I thought you meant that the way I was able to set each teams' strategies in a roster file and have it work in franchise/season mode didn't work. You're saying daflyboy's dump and chase strategies in general didn't work for you. Got it.

One year they did have team preset strategies that supposedly played like their real-life counterparts. I think it might have been 2k6? Anyone?

Oh yeah it work that way in franchise, but the game did not play that way enough. The fourth line was still attacking. I hope dump and chase is played more by the 4th and 3rd lines this year. Yeah I believe it was 2k6.