NHL 17 Beta Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here!

[BreakingBad2013]

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Hey guys,

I decided to hop on the Beta and I only had time for one game. I was the Blue Jackets (who I noticed are still wildly over-rated) against the Minnesota Wild. I noticed in the game, there wasn't much difference between my skaters, like at all. The same went for the opponent, I couldn't really tell who was who by their skating and movement.

It's almost identical to last season but I did notice two things.

Goalies position themselves better, but their reflexes are worse. Which is kind of odd to me.

Secondly, near the end of the game without changing any setting or strategy, my forwards and Dmen stayed back playing on the defensive zone while I pushed for breaks (I was winning) and his D men pressed up and allowed easy break away for my line forward.

On thing I hated, outside of it feeling exactly the same, is that goalie passing still has that ridiculous feel to it. Where it goes through the D to complete the pass, and you can't do anything about it.

Also in my game I tried gathering a puck behind my net, and it did the weird go through the back post and into the goal, but doesn't count as a goal.

Overall I will not be paying $60 for this game unless there's a fully functional online Be a GM mode. Of all of the sports games I've played, this FEELS (in the beta) most like a $60 roster update that so many people claimed games do.

[Haeyena]

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[openicehit42]

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I have found the turning of skaters to be very slow; could have just been me though.

The beta is "alright"; get's me excited for hockey but not to to the point to where I'm dying to run out and buy this.

[gigs505]

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[Ownal0t]

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maybe its cause hockey isnt my main sport, but why are the forwards online trash

- why dont the forwards in EASHL help the defenders with 3 v 2 or 4 v2 (or 1) situations. i got hate mail in a game for apperently not being a good defender despite doing what i could to help defend our goalie on D on these 3v1 attacks. the forwards just stay at the blue line and watch.

like im sure in the real game , the forwards do help play D but here they swear they ae just playing their positions. which takes me to my next point....

- Why are the forwards just as horrible playing their natural position. they glory hog the puck and ends up screwing up a good goal or causing the 3 v 1 break i was just talking about. few people pass opening up other chances. or simply act like they dont know the rules to hockey.

this is killing the fun of the mode. the mentality of stupid players. ME playing Defender @ the blue line area seems to have a better offensive IQ than the people spaming forwards lmao

[Splitter77]

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I'm playing hut single season.
How do I change settings? Its on rookie and way too easy

[speedtrucker]

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Stop with the code stuff on this thread. Go to the beta code thread and do it there... Keep the posts to beta impressions!

[tinpanalley]

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I've gotta say... I've been playing NHL since NHLPA on the Genesis. I am not trying by any means to show off anything about my playing of the series (I can't even imagine what that would be showing off about anyway) but I can think of maybe two other times at most that NHL has changed so little within a console generation. Of course, for the past three years, I don't expect the PS3, 360 versions to change anymore. But we're now into the years when this current generation should be starting to show its reason for existing. Developers should be more comfortable with the dev tools and graphics tools. This should be when we start to see EA doing innovative or at least graphically forward things with one of the longest running sports series in gaming.

To answer the purpose for this thread: I've been playing the beta for a few days now and if you hadn't told me it was 17, blindfolded me until I was into gameplay, I'd have thought you tweaked sliders but I'd never have guessed this was NHL17. Clearly, changes will happen in game options only because at this point, there is no way they'll actually be adding any programming and development to the actual gameplay mechanics. They'll release this exact same game (I've seen it many times before), there will be loads of people saying "How can X problem from the beta still be in there?? What's the point of releasing a beta then??", and then the things people complain most about online will be fixed (sort of) with patches in January. And the same number of people will say they're not buying, and the same number will buy, and the same number will say they're not and then buy it in January when the patches start coming out and EA will look at total sales and not care that for 6 months of every year, people talk about how wrong their dev cycle is.

IN--MY--OPINION... this beta is 99% equal to the last game. Play it if you like it, don't play it if you don't. EA owes you nothing. Don't wanna get "scammed"? Don't buy the game. Games are never just roster updates ...ok, MLB 2K12 was. But personally, I WANT rookie portraits that weren't in the game last year. I want the new Leafs logo and uniform. I want the actual schedule. I'm buying it no matter what. But what helps me is accepting what the game is and not expecting more than it can be.
Hope that all helps someone.

[thedudedominick]

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AI Goalies are horrible in EASHL. They give up so many short side goals on a simple deke making them jump to the middle then giving up an easy goal when the player never had a chance to get the puck to the far side.

All it seems to take to beat the AI goalie or D is hustle past and shoot around them.

[raiderphantom]

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Already saw three huge deal breakers for me:

1. Can't adjust play time of offline HUT seasons, it's set to 5 minute periods. With delays, goals celebrations, replays, it's like 25 minutes all together. Who has that kind of time for one match? I'm married with kids.

2. Not many new face scans. How many years has Thomas Hertl been playing? Come on. Joel Ward? It's annoying to try to play a season with your favorite team when half of them have generic faces. How many more years before we can actually get a close to full league representation of these players?

3. No GameFace in create a pro, just 200+ generic faces that all look terrible. Come on! Even NBA Live had a face scan app! That worked!

But HEY those mascots look great, and I'm glad we can change the color of the seat cushions in the stadiums, thanks... NO BUY this year : (

Tbh If you can't spend 25 minutes for a game you shouldn't be playing video games. That's a pretty low amount of time, especially for a sports game...

[Rubio809]

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Tbh If you can't spend 25 minutes for a game you shouldn't be playing video games. That's a pretty low amount of time, especially for a sports game...

I was thinking the same. 25 min is extremely fast for a sports game. How in the world does he handle playing Madden, NBA 2K or the Show? He'd go crazy.

[Rhudey]

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Tbh If you can't spend 25 minutes for a game you shouldn't be playing video games. That's a pretty low amount of time, especially for a sports game...

I think he meant 25 minutes to play the 5 minute period.

[raiderphantom]

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I think he meant 25 minutes to play the 5 minute period.

If that's the case then my apologies. I misunderstood


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[Gangrel]

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Anyone that says this is the same as 16 is on crack. D is 1000% better to play. Checking is too.

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[ddt4428]

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I'm impressed that they added in the echl to the game... Finally. Should be a bit easier to manage rosters between that and the ahl, instead of players disappearing and re-appearing in various roster updates. Unfortunately; for lack of roster sharing, have complete rosters is going to be a tall task.