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Is it just me or is it a lot easier to score high glove side, especially with a lefty shooter cutting from the top of the right circle into the slot? The goalies seem to bite and slide over to the middle of the net more often than before. On the other hand, I seem to remember this being the case for the NHL 13 demo too and it got patched/tuner'd out within a few weeks. i am not so sure posted:So I wanna do another SAS GM Connected this year but what ruined it last time for me was maybe five or six players who were so absurdly stupidly good that it wasn't fun. Same few guys were in the finals every time, every time I played one of them I got blown out. I wanna do another league this year but only for players who are intermediate. Anyone up for that? I don't think I'm even going to bother getting this game until it's more clear that there have actually been substantial improvements to EASHL/GMC. Picking positions in the team select screen is the only one that seems promising right now.
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i am not so sure posted:So I wanna do another SAS GM Connected this year but what ruined it last time for me was maybe five or six players who were so absurdly stupidly good that it wasn't fun. Same few guys were in the finals every time, every time I played one of them I got blown out. I wanna do another league this year but only for players who are intermediate. Anyone up for that? I might be up for it. I'm getting it on the PS3 though. What system will you have it on?
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Aug 25, 2013 21:37
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Kragger99 posted:I might be up for it. I'm getting it on the PS3 though. What system will you have it on? Same
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Aug 25, 2013 21:39
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Perennial "good against AI but poo poo against players" playoff choker Coyotes would also like to join up.
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Aug 25, 2013 21:56
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Rutkowski posted:Perennial "good against AI but poo poo against players" playoff choker Coyotes would also like to join up. Kidding me? Other than the very top guys you were scoring like 10 goals a game against the worse players.
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Aug 25, 2013 22:19
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eXXon posted:Is it just me or is it a lot easier to score high glove side, especially with a lefty shooter cutting from the top of the right circle into the slot? The goalies seem to bite and slide over to the middle of the net more often than before. I have't tried the demo yet, but that was the super easy way to score in nhl 13 too. I had all my right wingers as lefties.
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Aug 25, 2013 23:12
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i am not so sure posted:Kidding me? Other than the very top guys you were scoring like 10 goals a game against the worse players. I did that once, other than that I only had a relatively large winning record against some players in the first season and by the second most if not all returning players had caught up with me. poo poo, the dude I beat that big won our next ge, IIRC. But yeah I probably should stay away from a goon GMC if I were considered dominant considering I got my rear end handed to me pretty much every time I met one of the actually dominant players ie Edmonton, Montreal, Rangers, Minnesota and some others.
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Aug 25, 2013 23:19
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I remember I beat bradford by 11 goals once  Hopefully GMC isn't total poo poo again. That was fun. I wish they gave the option to play shorter seasons though
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Aug 25, 2013 23:58
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Maybe I'm just used to relatively high level versus but me vig and boxc grinded the gently caress out of NHL 13. Most common score was 2-1 or 3-1. You guys were actually having 10 goal games? Can't even imagine that. e: then again we kinda defaulted to a trap + rangers style collapse in zone because we couldn't score for poo poo T-Bone fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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Aug 26, 2013 00:35
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T-Bone posted:Maybe I'm just used to relatively high level versus but me vig and boxc grinded the gently caress out of NHL 13. Most common score was 2-1 or 3-1. You guys were actually having 10 goal games? Can't even imagine that. At the end(like, after eight goals or so) I stopped trying to score but no matter what weak wrister or dumpin I sent away they somehow found the back of the net. I started out hoping to try to play a grinding game because I find it to be a lot of fun but since my hybrid goaltenders kept letting in weak wristers from the blueline(seriously, every third goal in my second season was a Cloutier fuckup) and nobody wanted to trade away a butterfly goaltender with a rating above 80 and we banned AI trading I quickly gave up that idea and bet on scoring a lot, hoping it'd help my young skaters develop nicely in that area. They didn't. Bödker, for example, went 79-80-80 in three seasons despite scoring, IIRC, 41 goals in the first season and 81 in the second.
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Aug 26, 2013 00:43
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There was this game where I rage quit because I was convinced your were cheating. I played you pretty well but you scored something like 9 goals on your first 12 shots and they were almost all point slappers. It made no sense
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i am not so sure posted:There was this game where I rage quit because I was convinced your were cheating. I played you pretty well but you scored something like 9 goals on your first 12 shots and they were almost all point slappers. It made no sense My psn name should be the same. I haven't really played much online of NHL - mostly play Pro level SP stuff. I'm not really sure what's involved in the GM Connected mode. Maybe send me a PM here so it doesn't crap up the thread (unless that's not an issue here).
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Aug 26, 2013 01:08
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THE MACHO MAN posted:I remember I beat bradford by 11 goals once That game was glorious. I think my goalies had a 0.250 SV%.
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T-Bone posted:Maybe I'm just used to relatively high level versus but me vig and boxc grinded the gently caress out of NHL 13. Most common score was 2-1 or 3-1. You guys were actually having 10 goal games? Can't even imagine that. Brad may or may have not been much drunker than I. I think. Most times, our league games were pretty competitive on xbox. I loved the playoffs. Had lots of good series and built up a lot of rivalries that way
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Aug 26, 2013 05:28
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Yeah the GMC games were fun when the lag wasn't atrocious. gently caress Menus.
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Aug 26, 2013 06:04
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Hockles and I a crazy playoff battle in my last year.
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der juicen posted:Hockles and I a crazy playoff battle in my last year. I don't think there was a single game that Pleads and I played that didn't go to overtime.
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GMC would have been fun, if not for the C.
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THE MACHO MAN posted:Brad may or may have not been much drunker than I. I think. Oh man, now I remember that. Yes, I was indeed drunker than you. When sober most of the Goon games went to OT or were settled in the final few minutes and laden with hits, with a couple of exceptions where goalies were just dumb.
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Aug 26, 2013 23:14
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All games, sober or not, were packed with hits. I had a number of games where both teams combined for 80+ hits haha. The playoffs were the best. I would switch my lines around to make sure I had lines full of speed and hitting. I had a line of Kreider-Brule-Boyle that just loving destroyed people. Kreider must have injured at least 3-4 Capitals in his career. Whenever I was losing, I'd just roll my big checking lines heavy and try to hurt people. Good times.
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Aug 27, 2013 18:09
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In case you give a poo poo about attributes: http://www.easports.com/nhl/news-up...-player-ratings
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Aug 27, 2013 18:11
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They put PK Subban at #38 behind the likes of Kronwall and Seabrook.
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What this list tells us? a) at least 50 players, i.e. something close to 10% of the league's regulars, are 88 overall or better b) if overall ratings are what determines the value of a player in EA's eyes, EA does not know how to value players vs. one another at all. as a corollary... c) overall ratings are garbage and you shouldn't pay attention to them. I mean come the gently caress on. Kronwall and Seabrook are in no way shape or form the 30th best player/s in the league and better than every single one of those guys. For starters.
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Aug 27, 2013 18:23
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John Tavares was already revealed to be at 86, so he doesn't even crack the top-50. I guess he is no Voracek or Pacioretty. My assumption is that they have upgraded him since the demo was released. They have to, right?
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Twin Cinema posted:John Tavares was already revealed to be at 86, so he doesn't even crack the top-50. I guess he is no Voracek or Pacioretty. HUT ratings are not the same as normal ratings.
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Aug 27, 2013 18:34
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Yeah, HUT only has like 5 stats so that can cause some players to fluctuate quite a bit. The top 10 is going to be Crosby, Ovechkin, and like 8 goalies.
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Aug 27, 2013 18:37
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Hockles posted:HUT ratings are not the same as normal ratings. Oh good. Why is that? I never played HUT extensively enough to notice any difference. e: Answered above.
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Aphrodite posted:Yeah, HUT only has like 5 stats so that can cause some players to fluctuate quite a bit. HUT OVR = literally the mean (average) of these 5 stats
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Aug 27, 2013 18:38
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if Girardi is 88, McDonagh's gotta be 90 yo
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Aug 27, 2013 18:54
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Anders posted:They put PK Subban at #38 behind the likes of Kronwall and Seabrook. Seabrook over Subban is slightly bad, but Kronwall can maybe compete for the top 250. Top 50? Really?
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Robo-Pope posted:Seabrook over Subban is slightly bad, but Kronwall can maybe compete for the top 250. Top 50? Really? If you look at the full stats for Subban/Kronwall it makes a little more sense. They gave Subban a comically low discipline while Kronwall got super high blocking and checking, which throws off both of their OVR. Then if you break down the areas where Subban is rated higher, it's only a 1 point difference. But in the stats where Kronwall is higher, he has a 2 or 3 point advantage. Out of 25 stats, the two players have the same number for 11 of them. I know bitching about player ratings is an annual thing for EA sports games, but this specific case doesn't seem too bad.
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I think another reason why the HUT ratings are different is that they probably trend them down a little bit, to encourage you to use booster cards to get their stats higher.
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Overall ratings are stupid. Crosby is not a big hitter but to make sure he's in the top 3 overall his physical category will be high for an example. They should drop the overalls and just focus on the right stats for the player type.
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Aug 27, 2013 23:03
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Joink posted:Overall ratings are stupid. Crosby is not a big hitter but to make sure he's in the top 3 overall his physical category will be high for an example. They should drop the overalls and just focus on the right stats for the player type. Or to keep the OVRs accurate while making those corrections, they could improve the OVR formula. Nobody is expected to be great at everything. It should account for that somehow. Or just add some weight to speed and skill and take some away from size and grit. Not that the latter isn't important, but it's clearly exerting more weight on OVR than it should.
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Aug 28, 2013 02:52
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Crosby should have nothing but 99's since he's the successor to Gretzky.
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Aug 28, 2013 04:29
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Vigilance posted:Crosby should have nothing but 99's since he's the successor to Gretzky. Gretz was what in '13...a 95 or 96 overall? 1985 Gretzky would probably be like 130 OVR.
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Finally got around trying the demo and it seems like good update to 13. Not 60d good more like 20d but what can you do. Played on superstar scoring seems to be harder, shots fail much more often than on 13 if someone is anywhere near the shooter, which I think is better than before but sometimes you'd think the player would get better shot off even when pressured. Three little improvements that I liked. No more just blowing past the defenders, I din't get one easy breakaway when on 13 there would have been atleast one goal per game. Players seem to be able to take saucer passes down. NHL 13 saucer pass was some magical thing that could not be touched no matter how slow it was coming even if you were nick lidstrom with great positon to take it down. Getting pinned on boards is now worse deal to the attacker which is I think is good. AI still sucks like always in situations that aren't really clear cut. They don't seem to have any idea where airbourne puck is going to land or where they should positon themself on many situations.
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I wouldn't mind if they dropped OVR completely and just did letter grades. All the "Superstar" players are A or A+, and you can go into their profile to get specific numbered stats. Obviously they'd never do that, but it would help cut a lot of the bullshit.
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Its more so the fact that guys doing OVR are stuck in this "ALL NHL PLAYERS MUST BE 80 OVERALL". There is maybe 5-10 players who deserve to be 90+. 100 who maybe deserve to be 80-90. 100-150 who classify as 70-80, and the rest 60-70.
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