NHL 16 Trial Available Now For EA Access Subscribers, Get 10 Hours of Gamplay

[The Visualizer]

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I've been trying to get an answer from EA forever!



I'm hoping someone here knows this for sure: can you play a full season/playoffs offline with a friend (offline co-op)?

I know the season mode can be played this way. It includes playoffs as well.

For Be A GM I think u can play with up to 4 local players on the same team, but your buddies cant have their own teams. Someone will need to confirm this Be A GM stuff tho.

[TDKing]

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Does anyone know if I can buy the game online and just continue playing after the ten hours are up? Or do I still have to wait until the official release date? Thanks!

You have to wait for release

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[actionhank]

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The full team practice mode from the Xbox 360/PS3 version is back:

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As before, you can practice breakouts, rushes, and offensive zone setups against any number of players.

It's disappointing though that there's still no way to start a practice scenario from a faceoff. I think that would help people finetune their faceoff skills and provide a way to practice faceoff plays.

It would be nice if practice scenarios would lead to actual in-game improvements. Maybe encourage players to use practice mode to find line combinations that work, and then use them in game to take advantage of that.

Also, I'm a bit bummed to see that it seems like the morale system may end up being like the scouting system. Something that doesn't really do much, and just ends up being frustrating to work around.

I'm hopefully going to be able to get it on Redbox before too long, but I have no idea what their game update schedules are like.

[rodneytasm]

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I know the season mode can be played this way. It includes playoffs as well.

For Be A GM I think u can play with up to 4 local players on the same team, but your buddies cant have their own teams. Someone will need to confirm this Be A GM stuff tho.

Do you know this from the Early Access? If so, that's great news! This is the only way my friends and I play Thanks

[bad_philanthropy]

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Anyone tried manual passing yet?

[jake19ny]

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Watched that video of Chicago vs Minnesota that was posted earlier and the CPU D did look to play better. Again only one penalty called and that was with 25 seconds left in the game. So I have watched 2 full games worth of NHL 16 and have seen just that one penalty call.....Sounds like others are getting 0-1 as well. Really makes me wrestle with whether or not I can play my full offline season with the game missing this integral part of the sport. Mind blowing how this never gets addressed.

[jgarrett]

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Has anyone tried out EASHL yet?

[Don Jon]

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Can you practice with your BEaGM team or Season mode team?

[jyoung]

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Watched that video of Chicago vs Minnesota that was posted earlier and the CPU D did look to play better. Again only one penalty called and that was with 25 seconds left in the game. So I have watched 2 full games worth of NHL 16 and have seen just that one penalty call.....Sounds like others are getting 0-1 as well. Really makes me wrestle with whether or not I can play my full offline season with the game missing this integral part of the sport. Mind blowing how this never gets addressed.

So far I've played 4 games:

Online Versus, All-Star/Simulation -- 3 penalties (users)
Play Now, All Star/Simulation -- 1 penalty (AI)
Be A Pro, All Star/Hardcore -- 1 penalty (AI)
Be A GM, Superstar/Hardcore -- 1 penalty (user)

That's with 5 minute periods and default sliders.

[jake19ny]

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So far I've played 4 games:

Online Versus, All-Star/Simulation -- 3 penalties (users)
Play Now, All Star/Simulation -- 1 penalty (AI)
Be A Pro, All Star/Hardcore -- 1 penalty (AI)
Be A GM, Superstar/Hardcore -- 1 penalty (user)

That's with 5 minute periods and default sliders.

So it appears albeit early to call that the offline penalty calling is indeed messed up again. It also appears reading other posts that the slider controlling penalty calls does nothing once again. Shame because despite all its flaws I was able to tweak NHL14 to be enjoyable but this problem made it really hard to enjoy playing a full season and if its present in NHL 16 I don't know if I can play through it.

[MizzouRah]

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Played another game with the game speed down one click and had realistic SOG totals. I lost 4-3 vs Carolina but they had 27 shots and I had 26. There were 3 total penalties called with the penalty slider maxed on 8 minute periods. I haven't touched the other two penalty sliders under game settings for CPU and CPU AI teammates, I'll max those out my next game.

Anyone try the game speed at 1 or 2 and notice a huge framerate issue? I'm fine on 3 and above (4 is default) but if I try 2 it's fine for a little bit and then it's so choppy I can't even play and have to turn it back up to 3. I even cleared the XB1 cache, same issue.

Not much music being played during the game on stoppages in play or in the menus.. maybe that's a trial thing?

It's a cleaned up NHL 15 - defense seems to be better and goalies seem better. Going to wait on a roster update before trying BeaGM.

[HypoLuxa13]

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I saw the player editing issue (makes the player 1st round pick) on the Bugs and Glitches thread, but a follow up question: Can we actually edit player ratings this year? Or just equipment and such?

I'm a lifelong Blackhawks fan, and I love Marian Hossa. But he should not be one of the top wings in the game anymore. I'm hoping to be able to edit him (and other players) to make their ratings a little more realistic.

[Arrowhead21]

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You can edit player ratings from the main menu, but you cant do it within GM Mode.

[CupCrazyManiac]

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Anyone tried manual passing yet?

Yep, way better then 15.

[Gerg04]

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Played another game with the game speed down one click and had realistic SOG totals. I lost 4-3 vs Carolina but they had 27 shots and I had 26. There were 3 total penalties called with the penalty slider maxed on 8 minute periods. I haven't touched the other two penalty sliders under game settings for CPU and CPU AI teammates, I'll max those out my next game.

Anyone try the game speed at 1 or 2 and notice a huge framerate issue? I'm fine on 3 and above (4 is default) but if I try 2 it's fine for a little bit and then it's so choppy I can't even play and have to turn it back up to 3. I even cleared the XB1 cache, same issue.

Ya know what I did have that framerate issue with it down 2-3 notches. I had thought it was because the game was still installing (only played before it finished because the download was going so slow! Which ironically after I'd started it went faster?).

Anyway that's disappointing if it's still like that with the game fully installed... Hope that gets fixed because slower speed makes for much better gameplay imo, minus those fps issues obviously.