Is EASHL in XB1/PS4 Versions of NHL 15?

[Redskins_Hokies]

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Honestly EASHL would be such a better mode if glitches were not in. It is nothing but glitches and spamfest that I end up hating the mode within a month

[SinisterAlex]

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Honestly EASHL would be such a better mode if glitches were not in. It is nothing but glitches and spamfest that I end up hating the mode within a month

You have to find a team where every single position is human controlled. EASHL plays at it's best when that happens. CPU A.I can ruin the enjoyment factor of EASHL at times with their horrid play.

[Cletus]

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You have to find a team where every single position is human controlled. EASHL plays at it's best when that happens. CPU A.I can ruin the enjoyment factor of EASHL at times with their horrid play.

Even then it's a battle of who can trick the physics engine more. In 14 if you had a high passing rating it didn't matter who the defender was or where they were.

[TDKing]

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I guess they were to busy working on that #1 requested feature by the " community". Layered uniforms so we can see jerseys wiggle in replays. Lol yeah that was at the top of every wish list I saw so they had no time for eashl and gm connected. Nice job!!

[pujolsformvp21]

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I see this more as a sales tactic to squeeze out the last possible profits out of last gen. As opposed to it being to hard to implement on current gen or them being "lazy". Seems similar to what 2k has done this year with bringing back crew mode in full (5v5) on last gen only (for those not familiar with nba, crew is similar to eashl and like eashl it had an almost cult following by those who took the mode serious).

This makes the die hard fans buy the last gen version also if they want to get their fix, and these ppl will also likely buy the current gen version if they are a big enough fan of the game to be able to play with the best gfx, etc. Allowing them to double dip on those sales. And even if you skip the next gen version because of this and get the last gen, EA still gets your 60 bucks that you would have spent on the current gen version HAD it included the game mode, so in the end they could careless which version you get.

Pretty smart business move on their part actually, considering the amount of people who currently own "next gen" systems is in the 10s of millions and last gen is in the 100s of millions. X1/PS4 will sell just fine to casual consumers especially around christmas time when jimmys 50 year old grandma buys it for him without even knowing what features it contains, let alone hardly tell what sport it is other than it was on his christmas list. By next year when nhl 16 comes and they inevitably introduce the mode back as a "new" feature with fancy bells and whistles ALOT more consumers will have the current gen systems.

EA 1 You guys 0.

[lions67]

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Honestly EASHL would be such a better mode if glitches were not in. It is nothing but glitches and spamfest that I end up hating the mode within a month

[Daugherity x 53]

Honestly EASHL would be such a better mode if glitches were not in. It is nothing but glitches and spamfest that I end up hating the mode within a month

Welcome to nhl. You'll find it in every game mode not just eashl

[Gotmilkman24]

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Welcome to nhl. You'll find it in every game mode not just eashl

Heres a question about glitches.. Whats not a glitch shot? Really the worse ones in 14 are the glitch shots.. But honestly what about it is a glitch? Shooting top cheese in a high percentage area? I had someone complain the other day about my club doing cross crease passes.. I mean thats just silly.

[Matt_350z]

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It gets mind numbingly boring because teams try to score the same 3 ways all game. Sometimes it works, sometimes you stop it.

That's basically EASHL in a nutshell. There is such little variety in what people/teams try and do to score goals.

I know people will counter with the ever present-

"Well we only do it if the other team does it"

"It's a viable way to score"

"We don't do it, we play "real" hockey"

Which are all fine, viable, and acceptable answers. However, in my expierience almost 99% of the people we face try the same 3 things, and it's gotten boring.
At this point, if that's how the game is going to play online, so be it. They shouldn't pull it for you guys that like that sort of thing. However, I'll revamp player rating for a week or 2 and enjoy the offline game.

[Gotmilkman24]

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Thats true, there are a few shots that teams try to repeat over and over. My club we I play in net or on D and we can usually shut that top cheese goal down if your D plays its position.
BACK TO THE SUBJECT! EASHL! I'm not sure how boring the game will get to me if its not in.
For you guys who do not play eashl how often do you play a week? Like 5 hours a week two nights of that week? Everyday for a few hours?

[netzpretz78]

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Image leak of nhl 15 menu. Not sure if legit. Old tv seems fishy, but a decent photoshop if it's not legit.

[netzpretz78]

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Sorry, trying to do this from my phone and not working. Check my twitter as the pic is there. Netzpretz78

[Gotmilkman24]

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Sorry, trying to do this from my phone and not working. Check my twitter as the pic is there. Netzpretz78

Thats actually fan made, a youtuber made that menu. I only know this because i saw it yesterday :P I'll try to find a link for you though.

here you go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4_o7NhLiGI

[acidraindrops08]

It gets mind numbingly boring because teams try to score the same 3 ways all game. Sometimes it works, sometimes you stop it.

That's basically EASHL in a nutshell. There is such little variety in what people/teams try and do to score goals.

I know people will counter with the ever present-

"Well we only do it if the other team does it"

"It's a viable way to score"

"We don't do it, we play "real" hockey"

Which are all fine, viable, and acceptable answers. However, in my expierience almost 99% of the people we face try the same 3 things, and it's gotten boring.
At this point, if that's how the game is going to play online, so be it. They shouldn't pull it for you guys that like that sort of thing. However, I'll revamp player rating for a week or 2 and enjoy the offline game.

They have to get position to do the glitch shots though. Don't them get to that area or just play with a goalie. You can't glitch on a human goalie.

[bigwill33]

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They have to get position to do the glitch shots though. Don't them get to that area or just play with a goalie. You can't glitch on a human goalie.

Yeah, but it is very deflating when you spend all of your time working to defend areas of the ice that are not realistic scoring threats in real life. That is what the problem with the game really is.

The AI is so bad that the human element is forced to play a game that is not really hockey because you spend the entire time just trying to stop a play such as a 1 on 2 in transition on the rush and a soft float shot from above the circles. Where as in real life that puck would almost never be a goal, it is nearly automatic in the series, and has been for years.

Meanwhile and conversely, cycling the puck and playing a realistic style down low that results in drawing the human opponent defenseman out of position doesn't really punish their team as the cpu goalie will then make an unrealistic side to side save where they are squared up with the tap-in that was fed far side before the puck even reaches the stick of the attacking player.

There in lies the true problem with the series. When you start defending areas that wouldn't matter in real life and start giving up or taking chances you wouldn't normally take on a real pair of skates because you know the game will react differently than what is realistic, then you are no longer playing a representation of hockey. You are just playing a video game. And that is not the point of playing; there are hundreds of video games we could play, there is no hockey game right now. Just because you slap NHL on the cover and make it look like it is on ice and with sticks and a puck doesn't make it hockey. You need to represent the actual sport of hockey.

This video game often falls far from the goal of making that happen, unfortunately. And it has been quite some time since they have even attempted to adjust it or fix any of these issues. The same money/cheese/glitch goals have been in the series for quite a few years. It is very rehashed and not fun or fresh if you are a long time player. This is our major gripe with the developers in the genre.