NHL 13 Season Ticket Impressions

[Majingir]

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Any suggestions for me? I am playing 8-9 minutes quarters and giving up 5 goals a game while I score 1 or 2 if I am lucky.

Quarters=Periods in hockey lol(quarters makes no sense in hockey anyways)

If you're new to the game, try veteran or rookie(though even I gave up a goal on rookie mode and I play all star lol)

And try adjusting sliders. If the game is good, except the other team just scores too much, either reduce their shot accuracy or increase your goalie settings(so make your goalie reaction on the sliders higher and/or make the screen effect on your goalie lower)

And the do exact opposite of what I just said, for the AI if you're not scoring enough(meaning increase your accuracy or decrease the CPU goalie reaction)

[Panicshade]

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So basically I will have to play on rookie? Damn that is embarrassing. My CPU seems to be dumb on defense while the CPU team I am playing is really tough. They double my shots easily. If anyone has tips please let me know

I am having to play on Pro like you and once I adjusted the sliders I am doing better. My sliders are probably far from perfect but they work for me. The main thing that has helped has been lowering the effectiveness of the checking/poke checks and goalie reaction. I lowered both the Human and CPU to stay even and I am having better games.

You may still get games where you get ran off the rink (damn you Tampa Bay...lol) but it has worked for me.

But my main struggle is defense as well.

[buddy321813]

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Thanks a lot all of you guys I will try and take everything everyone said into account!

[buddy321813]

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I am having to play on Pro like you and once I adjusted the sliders I am doing better. My sliders are probably far from perfect but they work for me. The main thing that has helped has been lowering the effectiveness of the checking/poke checks and goalie reaction. I lowered both the Human and CPU to stay even and I am having better games.

You may still get games where you get ran off the rink (damn you Tampa Bay...lol) but it has worked for me.

But my main struggle is defense as well.

Yeah I know the defense is rough. My problem on offense is trying to do the same thing and not really knowing how to control the puck and deke. I haven't even got close to a hint of a goal with Stamkos lol.

[FBeaule04]

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This game feels and plays better than last year. The skating engine and the AI intelligence is so much better that it's just making the game more fun.

EASHL is fun so far, but it's always like that at the beginning of the year, before people find glitches. It's just plain funny seeing guys trying everything that worked in NHL 12, NHL 11, NHL 10 and just falling short. At least, that part is fun.

This beeing said, the EA NHL Dev. team can be considered the best at one thing. Taking something that was working and break it. I'm talking about the inception of the "Sim to your next shift" in NHL 12 that was a charm. Ok, stats weren't normal, your teammates wouldn't score to save your life, but at least you didn't have to watch all the game sitting on the bench.

In NHL 13, forget about it. You end up on the bench, and be prepare for a long, long, long period of time without seeing the ice. To make matter worse, you'll see your linemates go on the ice while the guy you should replace will skate in front of you 10 times. I'll call this they Kovalev's features.

Maybe I'll get warned of even ban for saying this, but I've said numerous times that EA Sports NHL Team don't know hockey. NHL 13 just proving my points. Would you find it normal after hitting a homerun in baseball that guys who were on the base ignore you while you get home? Would you find it normal that no one would come to you after a TD to congrats you??? In NHL 13, it's just the case. The guy who scored raise his hands while teammates are gliding around, making table hockey best impersonation! Euh, Houston, we have a problem! I know we live in a Me, Myself and I world, but for God sake, there's a limit of making a team sports something like that!

Not talking about some goalie animations that we're off last year and still there, post-game wins celebrations that are exactly the same as last year...It's just amazing!

Is there someone testing this game at all except online? Just plain funny to see my BaP with #4, skating side by side with a teammate wearing #4! While, let's make it clear, #4 is already retired and I had the Retired Jersey ON in the pre-BAP menu.

I have to say that I'm disappointed. For all the efforts EA's putting in to make the game better, they are just shooting themselves in the foot with simple things that shouldn't be there.

I don't know if I'll buy the game. I think I'm going to wait for a month after everyone beta tested the game, and then see if it's worth it.

[Panicshade]

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regular dekes are simple...when you have the puck move the right stick to the right and left

I don't mess with the advanced dekes because I usually just lose control of the puck and I do enough of that just by playing regularly..lol

[Drakar]

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They actually got 1 thing right : Gomez is in the minor with the default rosters.

[SJYS]

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With a few slider mods, this thing is butter. Best NHL yet, by far.

1. Poke-check effectiveness down 2 notches
2. Puck control up 1
3. Player acceleration down 1 (So Grabner doesn't achieve Mach 2)
4. Hitting assistance down 2 (makes hitting way more consistent and realistic)




Also, this is the coolest steelbook+semi-clear cover I've ever seen... Looks awesome!

[mjarz02]

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Yeah, don't pull your guys out of posistion. I'm still doing it but when I stay solid it works. Also you need to adjust to how the CPU plays and match your d according.

Funny penalty, both my CPU guys slashed a CPU player at the same time and broke his stick. 5-3 advantage and i gave up two goals! 2-2 so far but I think I'm figuring it out. Game is definitely fun

[SlyBelle]

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That means it's a tuner for a different part of the game. I had to download two tuner updates, nothing has shown since.

Not sure what you mean....every time I start the game it prompts me with these tuners and I download them......so not sure what other parts of the game they would be for and even if they were, I still download them every time I start.

[SlyBelle]

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I get tons of penalties called. If people are having trouble with this be aware there is 3 different penalty sliders. 1 under rules which is just the general penalties slider and the other 2 are under gameplay settings then right bumper to AI. CPU penalties and CPU teammate penalties is located there. I have those 2 maxed and the main penalty to 3 quarters full and I get 2-4 penalties a period on 8 minute periods. Probably too many.

Yep, very aware of all the penalty sliders and have them maxed all the time and still usually see limited penalties. Just curious, what skill level do you play on? I just played one game on superstar/hard core and I did have 9 penalties called, but I had to hit the CPU quite a bit to draw penalties.

[Panicshade]

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Not sure what you mean....every time I start the game it prompts me with these tuners and I download them......so not sure what other parts of the game they would be for and even if they were, I still download them every time I start.

I thought the same as you about having to download the tuners all the time but I checked my settings stuff and as long as it says you are using the "Latest" tuners and not "V1.00" you are fine.

I made sure not to download the tuners after I had restarted to test this out and it still said "Latest" for the tuner setting.

[bwiggy33]

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Has anyone tried using the Custom AI? It does make a difference in how the Cpu players behave folks.

This is what could make this game great. I just want to try and figure out a way so that each team replicates how they play in real life. If I achieve that I will be satisfied with it even with the other issues I have with the game that I know can't be fixed until 14 or beyond.

I did play an online match for the hell of it today and boy was it brutal. I got called for two penalties that were absolutely laughable. The fact I even got penalties called in the game is laughable, but the situations of them are even more. One of them was goalie interference where PMB was planted outside the crease waiting for a back door pass. Well Halak comes zooming with his glide all the way out to PMB and knocks into him. Sure enough PMB gets called for goalie interference. The other penalty my CPU teammate got called for roughing. The opposing players CPU teammate was going to the front of the net and bumped into my guy and of course I got a penalty. The hands weren't thrown up for a check or anything. I mean the two guys literally just tapped into each other.

Another issue with online is the goalies flopping. Every single back door pass was stopped by a goalie flying across the crease with a desperation save. I don't play online very much anymore so the online problems won't affect me but holy crap if I was a straight up online player I wouldn't be too happy. Online is going to need some serious tuning. It's going to be nothing more than a who can put more back door chances in the net from what I can tell because the goalies stop just about everything.

I haven't been able to really dive into this game yet. Hopefully tomorrow after the Vikes game I'll put a bunch of offline time in to get more of a feel of the game. I'll probably start a fantasy draft Be A GM as well to see what that is like.

[savoie2006]

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Yeah, the penalties that are being called (interference especially) are questionable at best. I've seen interference called that would never be called in reality.

[MMan]

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Anyone know if the Stanley Cup edition will be available in stores or only online? I was going to just head to Target in the AM but not sure if they will carry the special edition.