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NHL 16 |OT| Allegedly What's Old Is New Again
- Thread starter TheVisualizer
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It is a better offering. Gameplay improvements across the board and all (most?) of the modes are back.
About HUT, a companion app for phones would be perfect to keep an eye on the auction house.
TheVisualizer
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Seems like a minor improvement overall compared to NHL 14 which is equivalent to a massive improvement over NHL 15
Anyone wants to give me a short introduction to faceoffs? Haven't played since like 4 or 5 installments and I have no idea what I'm doing, and there's no in-game help and/or training (or I'm blind). Online I'm like 2-40 faceoffs for the enemies. I pick a direction with the left stick and as soon as the ref drops I tilt the right stick down in hope to pass to a player of mine in the direction of the left stick.
Also, haven't touched any Ultimate Team (neither Fifa nor NHL) in any EA Sports game yet. Are there guides which also cover the basics?
Also, haven't touched any Ultimate Team (neither Fifa nor NHL) in any EA Sports game yet. Are there guides which also cover the basics?
Mike Works
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Google "NHL 15 HUT guide" and I'm sure you'll find stuff. But if you have any specific questions you can ask me.
As for faceoffs, it's supposedly a rock/paper/scissors scenario, and it's part dependent on your player's faceoff skill. So if you do the same thing every time, you'll win more faceoffs if you're Jonathan Toews than if you're the concussed ghost of Eric Lindros.
The way I take faceoffs is I move both sticks either left or right (or one left, one right). Then when it comes time to "take" the faceoff (when the ref starts to move), I do a quarter circle motion on each stick...
So if I want to push the left stick up (picture the face of a clock here), I hold my left stick either at 9 or 3 (on a clock) and then swivel it up to 12. If I want to push the left stick down, I move it from 9 or 3 down to 6. Same with the right analog stick.
Different directions do different actions. Try out combos. Some will tie up the opposing player. Some will lift his stick. Some will push him out of the way.
bumpkin
Member
That's a bummer... Surely EA knows this and will fix it.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
On the PS4 homescreen, it showed the old one, and then the game updated and now it changed the thumbnail.
Tie-up beats backhand
Forehand beats tie-up
Stick lift beats forehand
Backhand beats stick lift
Then get the timing right. 3 or 9 o'clock to pick your grip and roll 1/4 circle up for a stick lift or down for a normal faceoff. Up on the left stick is tie up. The rock-paper-scissors -knowledge is useless if you don't time it right. Timing is everything, and you can routinely win faceoffs against a superior grip if your opponent doesn't time it better than you.
bananafactory
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Anyone? I just spent an hour searching everywhere and can't find any information on resolution at all
Anyone? I just spent an hour searching everywhere and can't find any information on resolution at all
User 479360
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I had that at first, but then it became a close-up of Toews.
Kudos on the great OT, too!
Pestilence11
Member
I think it'll likely end up like last year; EA Canada will be silent and it being basically a niche title will mean nobody investigates too hard.
I'd like to know as well, mind you. It does seem crisper to me from what I've seen but it could be imagination.
I tried doing comparisons between 15 and the 16 beta in True Broadcast camera at centre ice face-offs but the angles and camera distance were different.
User 479360
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I don't get the one-timer requirement. As long as you're controlling both players, they should be manual?
Is it just me or is it tougher to win faceoffs? Granted, I just finished the Blackhawks/Lightning game that the game starts you off with, so maybe it's just that one game. Or maybe the guides popping up are messing with me. lol
Menu looks nice, and definitely a lot smoother this time. I'm waiting on the update to install, so I'm just messing around with offline stuff.
Menu looks nice, and definitely a lot smoother this time. I'm waiting on the update to install, so I'm just messing around with offline stuff.
Nope, just whatever PSN Trophies are tied to that mode. There are NHL Moments in a separate section which let you try and re-create history from the previous season. They used to give you HUT pucks for doing them, I'm not sure if they still do that. EA will also add new Moments for the current season as they happen, for free of course.
Nope. Goalie gear is really the only stuff that can be fully customized.
cr_blah_blah
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pausEASHL
That......fucking sucks....
User 479360
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Seems easier to me.
Way easier for me. I think I had a 5% win percentage in faceoffs last year. I'm over 50% at least this year.
User 479360
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Yeah, I haven't had much of an issue. I win them without trying, and got the five in a row reward almost as soon as possible.
Nope. It's pretty quick this year.
Used to love the NHL series way back in the day. Controls turned me off several years back, and every once in a while I'd try again but I've never liked it since the stick controls. I know thsyy added NHL 94 (I think) controls a few years back and that was nice, but have they ever added fully customizable controls in addition to it?
User 479360
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I don't think NHL 94 controls are in this year either. I never noticed them.
The skill stick is so much better, though.
User 479360
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I got a copy on Friday, and had issues installing it that night. Or, at least what I perceived to be an issue.
It asked to update from the get-go, so I pressed A as soon as I could. The download should've started right away, but when the install got to around 85%, it became very sluggish. Pausing it and then resuming it seemed to help, but it was a definite crawl in places from then on. Even from 98%-100%.
Thankfully, it let me play before it was finished and the install didn't fail. It installed the final few percent, slowly but surely, as I played.
I've had two games end in overtime like this...
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/DamnBoxes/video/9635442
Very very very frustrating.
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/DamnBoxes/video/9635442
Very very very frustrating.
Yup! I got the crawl 98% crawl but I didn't want to play until it was done. It's done now. Time to game!
Chuck the Bean
Member
I was afraid of playing online EASHL because of the critics but I played three 3 vs 3 games and no hiccups whatsoever. I really enjoyed this first evening of play.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
Holy shit this game can be super frustrating when playing EASHL.
manfestival
Member
is this the worst rated NHL series game in a while? Was considering getting this one but the reviews be scary
What in particular? I'm having nightmarish experiences with AI defenders, completely unreliable. When they have the puck behind the net they're getting it stuck and giving it up constantly.
Feel the need to always have five user skaters online but that isn't always possible.
The more I play the more it feels like nhl 14. Played eashl tonight and every team just tried to do the same shot every time. My team was passing and setting up nice plays and wasn't getting rewarded at all. Cpu goalies were stopping cross creases every time but wrist shots from far out were going in. This is the game we should have got 2 years ago. There has been no progress at all.
Mike Works
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Dunno if people in this thread are playing HUT or not, but I literally just spent 10 minutes in the auction house, spent 3,000 coins (which I'll get back soon) and wound up getting this:
If there's any interest in me giving a mini-sermon on HUT collections, let me know and I'll type one up.
If there's any interest in me giving a mini-sermon on HUT collections, let me know and I'll type one up.
Ardenyal
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metacritic for NHL 15 is 60, NHL 16 is at 79 right now. Its not a bad game but its not what I would call a leap to next gen with fancy new mechanics just a last gen hockey game with new paint.
User 479360
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Hmm...that's good to know in a comforting kind of way. I wondered if something was wrong.
It sucks that it's doing that to people, though.
I was sent a physical version, too.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
Constant puck juggling or can't get the puck off of someone. AI is total shit. Goalie controls have to be some of the worst controls I've ever experienced in gaming history. Feels like you're a shopping cart when turning.
Pestilence11
Member
Did you play much of 15? Just curious since I'm still waiting for my copy and only played a bit of the beta.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
I only played a tiny bit of the NHL 15 beta. I skipped 15.
Eclectic Jabber Monkey
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While I didn't have that happen, I did have something similarly annoying happen. I intercepted the puck in front of my net and the puck touched the goalie when it was on my stick and bounced into my own net. Why would they change the behavior when you have the puck by the net, it makes contact with the goalie now? There are going to be ton of garbage goals based on your vid and from what I've seen thus far. Ughhh...
The AI seems not much better than last year, very dumb at times. There has been so much lag in certain games and I've lost my connection to EA a few times as well. Its not my connection as I'm on wired 1Gbps and Live did not go down. I'm pretty sure EA is at least part of the issue here, but I wish everyone had to go wired, so many people with shitty wi-fi connections out there.