NHL 13 Season Ticket Impressions

[jonapaloma]

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I'm just playing on pro with default settings and the 3 penalty sliders maxed. I've had games where I've had 10 penalties called then I had 2 games where only 1 was called.

Not really sure what type of player got them. I will say like someone mentioned the penalties I'm seeing are mostly very iffy roughing or interference penalties. I actually had a play where my cpu controlled teammate hammered the goalie and pushed him out of the net by 5 feet And i scored on the empty net and no wave off or penalty Which was pretty ridiculous considering most of the interference calls i do get called on. I actually took a video of it and was gonna post it on here but I'm not sure how to do that.
I've had 2 boarding penalties 1 by me 1 by CPU and 2 high sticking double minors.

I play as close to real hockey as I can. I don't generally skate around like the Hanson brothers looking to murder people or anything.

Ok this is weird. It seems very random how many penalties you get and when you get it.

[FBeaule04]

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Played 4 games last night in BaP. Have to say that there's little annoying thing, but overall, now I have a feel every game is different and I've yet to curse like crazy about the AI sending me a pass 15 feet wide when I'm wide open. Remember, I'm playing with 45 to 60 overall juniors, so in comparison with last year, this is huge. Makes the game really fun that the flow is great.

This game, with sliders adjustments, custom music, commentators off is pretty fun. I was tempted to lock myself out, but the negotiations are going well and I might pick up the game on 11th! :-)

[bad_philanthropy]

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You know, the whole, "We've worked more on AI this year than the past three years combined line." doesn't seem apparent to me. The game is good, and it's better for sure, but I just don't see a huge leap by the cpu opponent or my own teammates. Maybe that statement refers to what they had to do to get the cpu to play a somewhat competent game with the new skating engine.

[FBeaule04]

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You know, the whole, "We've worked more on AI this year than the past three years combined line." doesn't seem apparent to me. The game is good, and it's better for sure, but I just don't see a huge leap by the cpu opponent or my own teammates. Maybe that statement refers to what they had to do to get the cpu to play a somewhat competent game with the new skating engine.

I disagree but I understand your point. For me, the AI completely ruined NHL 12, so anything that would have given me a clean game where the AI is passing the puck with more precision and don't do dumb things all over the place would have been fine.

There's a lot of improvements to be made on the AI side, but to me, NHL 13 and NHL 12 aren't in the same class as far the AI's concern. Then again, maybe it as more to do with the struggle I had in NHL 12 than NHL 13 beeing a HR! :-)

[onac22]

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I disagree but I understand your point. For me, the AI completely ruined NHL 12, so anything that would have given me a clean game where the AI is passing the puck with more precision and don't do dumb things all over the place would have been fine.

There's a lot of improvements to be made on the AI side, but to me, NHL 13 and NHL 12 aren't in the same class as far the AI's concern. Then again, maybe it as more to do with the struggle I had in NHL 12 than NHL 13 beeing a HR! :-)

The AI made 12 very tough to play at times.

I agree that the AI this year has made this game much better.

13 is a huge step forward in just about every department, from AI to the presentation. It is in no way perfect, everything has glitches. But that will change with updates and tuners.

[Rhinoboy50]

- What or who is Tim Hortons? It's plastered on the ice in every arena I've played in and it's on the boards as well. Takes away the athenticity of the different arenas.

For non-Canadians, Tim Horton's is Canada's blue-collar, non-snobby, non-hipster, less expensive version of Starbucks. They are probably the most prolific food vendor in Canada. Named for a former NHLer, they originally were purveyors of coffee and donuts but have expanded to offer other foods and beverages. A popular local hangout for small towns, big cities, and a frequent stop or hockey teams and parents during tournaments and early morning practices.

[ChubbyBanana]

For non-Canadians, Tim Horton's is Canada's blue-collar, non-snobby, non-hipster, less expensive version of Starbucks. They are probably the most prolific food vendor in Canada. Named for a former NHLer, they originally were purveyors of coffee and donuts but have expanded to offer other foods and beverages. A popular local hangout for small towns, big cities, and a frequent stop or hockey teams and parents during tournaments and early morning practices.

We have them here in the States also, just probably not where the poster lives.

Gonna try lowering the learning slider on Pro and see if that helps me maybe win a game. So far I'm 0-6.

[Spanky]

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One hugely annoying thing happening in season mode is when the CPU offers me the same trade a million times throughout the season. Even though I declined the trade, seems like the CPU keeps offering me the same deal every week.

That's nothing more than an aggressive, persistent general manager, like Garth Snow.

[jyoung]

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Another issue with the lower right corner,on top of the huge frame hit every time,players go through the boards sometimes:

One thing you can do to resolve frame rate issues with certain cameras is to make a custom camera that cuts off that part of the crowd so it doesn't display during gameplay and cause frame drops to occur.

Just fiddle with the custom camera settings and you should be able to eliminate any camera-related frame rate stutters.

[jyoung]

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For non-Canadians, Tim Horton's is Canada's blue-collar, non-snobby, non-hipster, less expensive version of Starbucks. They are probably the most prolific food vendor in Canada. Named for a former NHLer, they originally were purveyors of coffee and donuts but have expanded to offer other foods and beverages. A popular local hangout for small towns, big cities, and a frequent stop or hockey teams and parents during tournaments and early morning practices.

I noticed there are EB Games ads, too.

I believe EB Games no longer exists in the USA (they are all Gamestops). They are exclusive to Canada now as far as North America goes.

[jyoung]

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Gary and Bill are again very good but still would like to see a change next year something more fresh. This is partly due to only playing offline.

I am very impressed with the new context-specific commentary they added for replays and end-of-periods.

The commentary during live action is mostly the same as usual, though. I am already hearing many of the same lines that have been in the game for 4 to 5 years now.

And of course, there's that whole thing about Bill and Gary having not called a NHL game together since before the 2004-2005 lockout when ESPN still had the NHL's television rights.

[theaub]

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This is the first NHL game since '09 where I can enjoy playing against the CPU

If they can tune in some penalties I'll be playing this for a long time imo

[jbd345]

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Played a quick game last night. After skipping last year the game feels fresh again. The sounds during gameplay are incredible it seems both NHL and stepped it up in this department, and mixed with the true broadcast it feels like im watching a real NHL game on tv. I have season ticket for PS3 but tried the demo on 360 and hated the controller, defentally prefer the PS3 controller for NHL.

[Majingir]

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Just played winter classic. The lighting on it is great. Makes me wish EA still made MLB games lol.

2 days ago I lose on PRO 2-1.
Yesterday I won on all star 4-2
Today I lose on all star 3-1


Games have been great so far. Minus the lack of penalties, it's been good. Still need to do some slider adjusting(players on both sides lose pucks way too easily, and shot totals are too low for CPU, and need to adjust amount of goals:save ratio so that sv% end up being normal)

[kelvinmak]

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Didn't have a lot of time with it over this weekend, but overall, the AI, despite some quirky bugs, does give the game a new lease of life. Now every game doesn't feel the same, which is in and of itself a huge improvement over 12.