NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

[plaidchuck]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

I assume the hustle button will be taking the place of the "push puck speed burst button"? As long as the hustle button works a little better than the push puck ill be happy. They improved the mapping of it in NHL10 but sometimes it's unresponsive when I try to do it with the LT button.

Nope according to the chat the push the puck L2 is still there...

[akula]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

I wonder if you can use both speed burst and push puck with the puck then.. so.. I could tap hustle three times, THEN push puck and my guy would be going REALLY fast!

[The Visualizer]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

No...they said in the chat that the 'push puck speed burst' is still in.

Ok, yeah just got finished reading the full chat transcript.

I like the idea but not the implementation. 3 clicks seems 2 too many for a technique you shouldn't be using a whole lot. Would rather you click it once and the player's acceleration rating takes care of the rest. I mean with 3 clicks your basically saying a player has 4 or 5 different gears of speed.

1st gear - skating slow on purpose with the analog stick
2nd gear - skating as fast as you can with the analog stick
3rd gear - 1 click
4th gear - 2 clicks
5th gear - 3 clicks

I'm all for more options, but this is kind of over-complicating the idea of speed. The analog gives you good enough precision without needing levels. We've come this far, getting rid of a dedicated speed burst button, is rapidly pressing a button really necessary. I'm sure I'll enjoy the game regardless, just don't quite understand what they were shooting for here...

[bukktown]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

Ok, yeah just got finished reading the full chat transcript.

I like the idea but not the implementation. 3 clicks seems 2 too many for a technique you shouldn't be using a whole lot. Would rather you click it once and the player's acceleration rating takes care of the rest. I mean with 3 clicks your basically saying a player has 4 or 5 different gears of speed.

1st gear - skating slow on purpose with the analog stick
2nd gear - skating as fast as you can with the analog stick
3rd gear - 1 click
4th gear - 2 clicks
5th gear - 3 clicks

I'm all for more options, but this is kind of over-complicating the idea of speed. The analog gives you good enough precision without needing levels. We've come this far, getting rid of a dedicated speed burst button, is rapidly pressing a button really necessary. I'm sure I'll enjoy the game regardless, just don't quite understand what they were shooting for here...

I think you would only use it sparingly as it should fatigue your player in like 15 seconds.

[Vikes1]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

I especially liked the look of the puck physic video.

I hoping the new puck physic help to lesson the too perfect nature of past games. Ie, pucks that will be less glued to the players stick. And passes that can be a bit more difficult to handle etc...

Can't wait for 9/7.

[ericromain]

i'm delighted about the inclusion of changable faceoff formations. This is something i've wanted for a long time and didn't expect.

[LuGer33]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

I think you would only use it sparingly as it should fatigue your player in like 15 seconds.

Remember, it's just a short burst that gets you from Point A to Point B. As they said in the chat, you don't want to use it unless you're going in a straight line really... that is a breakaway, a backcheck, forechecking hard, trying to split the defense, etc.

It's not like you click the sticks to enter different speeds (1 click adds +2 to your speed rating, nothing like that) it just gives your skater some extra "oomph" for I believe only a few seconds in order to get to a loose puck. Also remember this fatigues your skater like you said, so you are actually a bit slower after using this "hustle" button (though I think it's more like a sprint button to be honest). This way your endurance attribute finally matters in OTP this year.

[plaidchuck]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

i'm delighted about the inclusion of changable faceoff formations. This is something i've wanted for a long time and didn't expect.

Wow I missed that, awesome!!

[JezFranco]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

Niceeeeeeee...
Looks really sweet.

However I must say that in the check against the board I think there is just no puck physics at all.
The fella with the puck is just about to shove the puck along the boards with his backhand, but when the d-man hits him, it's like the animation halts and the puck just stops there.
The puck should've kept sliding along the ice imo.


And the puck physics video... Hmmm... It's hard to tell since it's in slow motion, but like someone already mentioned the puck doesn't seem to have any weight from what I can see. The d-man hits the puck with a light one-handed backhand, and the puck goes into orbit?

But overall, god I want this game right now.

[Trevelyan]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

I've loved everything I've heard about NHL 11 until this hustle button, that has me worried, especially with 3 different clicks. Also if I read correctly, its mapped to clicking the left thumbstick? That seems very unnatural to be doing constantly.

[milesizdead]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

And the puck physics video... Hmmm... It's hard to tell since it's in slow motion, but like someone already mentioned the puck doesn't seem to have any weight from what I can see. The d-man hits the puck with a light one-handed backhand, and the puck goes into orbit?

Yeah I noticed that too, maybe they can give the puck some weight still before the release.

But all-in-all, I can´t wait for this game, loved playing as a power forward already in NHL10, but now playing physical will surely have even more of an impact on ice

[OddyOh]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

I've loved everything I've heard about NHL 11 until this hustle button, that has me worried, especially with 3 different clicks. Also if I read correctly, its mapped to clicking the left thumbstick? That seems very unnatural to be doing constantly.

Well hopefully we're not supposed to be doing it consantly. I think they're just trying to replicate the little speed bursts some players have due to adrenaline or whatever. It's not supposed to be use like speed burst was back in the day...the potential problem is people having 99 endurance and whatever and using it all the time.

I've got a bad feeling about this. And I was finally starting to play these games online too. Sounds to me like they needed an all new feature to hype. But I'll keep an open mind.

[SinisterAlex]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

Yeah.... I just wet myself. This game is going to be amazing. Mid August can't get here fast enough!

[bonannogiovanni]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

I'm not just getting the "hustle" button thing.....1 click on L3 for a bit of an increase, 2 clicks for more and 3 clicks for full burst....but how do you go back to normal? If I click L3 once do I have to click 3 more times to cycle back to normal?

I think having it mapped to L3 might be a bit awkward.....you'll be pushing forward on L stick to move and if you're like me you might be pushing down hard and accidentally activate it, or not be able to activate it when you want.

I guess we'll see when we get the demo.

Same thing I'm wondering, I hope you don't have to wait for your energy bar to get depleted to go back to normal speed.

[Section_25]

Re: NHL 11 Chat: Gameplay Enhancements & Quick Clips - Hustle Button Announced

I'm surprised nobody addressed wrist shots in the chat session. I'm hoping that goals have a little more variety this year and are not so predictable. After playing hundreds of games of NHL 10 I seem to score 99% of my goals on cross crease one-timers. I just hope they have tweaked the goalies so that more random types of shots actually score.