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I've played a heck of a lot of online versus games in NHL09 (933 games played), NHL10 (1800+ games played) and now NHL 11 (287 games played). I've gone from being a bad player to learning lots of techniques people use online. However something has been alluding me in this game for a while. Sometimes you play online and for some reason the game plays totally strange. You play someone and they take one or two penalties a game, they skate circles around your players without ever losing the puck, they steal the puck off you with ease, they seem faster than your players and worst of all can win 95% of face offs.
Has anyone here ever played a online game like that where there was nothing you could do? feels like it was a different game right? I have, and it always seemed strange until now. It always seemed like the opponent was playing with some hidden controls, or cheating in some way that you didn't think was possible. Well technically speaking they ARE!!!
This is something I'd like EA to address quickly as it completely ruins the online game. It not only ruins it, but it's completely broken and unfair. It's probably also the reason we have people with over 4000 points online and 300 + wins with 11 or less losses.
It's the nhl94 controls built into the game!!!! If you get good with them, you can totally dominate other players using the advanced controls. I tested this theory last night. if you switch to using the NHL94 controls a bunch of things become easier:
1. I started winning 95% of face offs in a game. All you have to do is hit the A button to win every face off.
2. Your players seem to skate faster ( ever play a game where your opponents players are on you before you can do anything with the puck?). Since there is no push puck or hustle. It also seems they get tired less quickly. For some reason they are harder to body check too.
3. You can spam poke check and rarely get called for a penalty. On advanced controls doing this results in regular penalties being called.
4. You can turn left or right incredibly fast without losing the puck. Doing this on advanced controls results in your player blowing a tire or you just losing the puck off your stick altogether (unless you have someone with a high dangle rating). regardless you can spin around down low in the attacking zone in a way that is idiotic, and if you're good at it, you become unstoppable.
5. You don't really need to aim to shoot. So I'm assuming there is some sort of aiming assists happening with these controls.
6. Your best offensive play is cross crease one timer. However if you get good with these controls the inside outside deke is even easier than normal.
7. You hardly ever loose the puck!
Basically using these controls makes the game play in a way that gives the player an unfair or distinct advantage, and a difficult one to overcome if you're not expecting it. The worse part is that you hardly take any penalties and can win nearly every face off easily. Winning face offs is the best way to control the flow of the game. if you almost always have the puck, and it's harder to get the puck off you, it's a huge advantage.
I want EA to do something about this. At the very least if they can display what control scheme a player is using when you get matched up with someone, then you can choose if you want to play them or not. There's some players with really good records and it's not because they are good, they are exploiting an unfair advantage in face offs, speed, and holding onto the puck. It would be great if you do something about this and reset these players stats.
This really needs to be fixed and I decided to blow the lid off this nonsense!
Has anyone here ever played a online game like that where there was nothing you could do? feels like it was a different game right? I have, and it always seemed strange until now. It always seemed like the opponent was playing with some hidden controls, or cheating in some way that you didn't think was possible. Well technically speaking they ARE!!!
This is something I'd like EA to address quickly as it completely ruins the online game. It not only ruins it, but it's completely broken and unfair. It's probably also the reason we have people with over 4000 points online and 300 + wins with 11 or less losses.
It's the nhl94 controls built into the game!!!! If you get good with them, you can totally dominate other players using the advanced controls. I tested this theory last night. if you switch to using the NHL94 controls a bunch of things become easier:
1. I started winning 95% of face offs in a game. All you have to do is hit the A button to win every face off.
2. Your players seem to skate faster ( ever play a game where your opponents players are on you before you can do anything with the puck?). Since there is no push puck or hustle. It also seems they get tired less quickly. For some reason they are harder to body check too.
3. You can spam poke check and rarely get called for a penalty. On advanced controls doing this results in regular penalties being called.
4. You can turn left or right incredibly fast without losing the puck. Doing this on advanced controls results in your player blowing a tire or you just losing the puck off your stick altogether (unless you have someone with a high dangle rating). regardless you can spin around down low in the attacking zone in a way that is idiotic, and if you're good at it, you become unstoppable.
5. You don't really need to aim to shoot. So I'm assuming there is some sort of aiming assists happening with these controls.
6. Your best offensive play is cross crease one timer. However if you get good with these controls the inside outside deke is even easier than normal.
7. You hardly ever loose the puck!
Basically using these controls makes the game play in a way that gives the player an unfair or distinct advantage, and a difficult one to overcome if you're not expecting it. The worse part is that you hardly take any penalties and can win nearly every face off easily. Winning face offs is the best way to control the flow of the game. if you almost always have the puck, and it's harder to get the puck off you, it's a huge advantage.
I want EA to do something about this. At the very least if they can display what control scheme a player is using when you get matched up with someone, then you can choose if you want to play them or not. There's some players with really good records and it's not because they are good, they are exploiting an unfair advantage in face offs, speed, and holding onto the puck. It would be great if you do something about this and reset these players stats.
This really needs to be fixed and I decided to blow the lid off this nonsense!
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