CoyotesHFNHL
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- May 30, 2010
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A few things I wanted to mention and see if those of you that have played the game for a while feel it's improved or if i'm just wasting my time trying to get used to it.
The biggest thing is the skating. I like to move the sliders up for game speed when I play with others, but in HUT and stuff like that it can't be done. But i've found it tolerable in previous years. Now it is just ridiculously slow to skate and move around. It's supposed to be realistic, but when you have a great skating defenseman and it takes him like 5 seconds to build any speed, it's just stupid.. They always seem to say they want to take the opinions of their customers but did anyone really contact them and complain that the skating was too smooth and needed to be more "realistic" to slow everything down? I find the speed of the game really difficult to play with.
The next thing has to be the passing. When I would play I move the puck alot, I like to use hard D to D passes to evade situations, and I cycle the puck. I find in this game for one if I try to make a hard D to D pass the puck goes flying against the wall. The only pass that works D to D is a soft one which could be picked off for a goal depending on the situation. In general I find it a lot more difficult to make passes, and it makes the game really frustrating when it becomes very difficult to complete simple puck movement plays.
Third would be the checking. I can't count how many times I've had a big physical 6'4" NHL forward forward hit a 5'10" junior player in the HUT tournaments at full speed and the small junior forward being hit by the big NHL forward it ends up making things better for them?? So I try to stick check more.. and that results in penalty after penalty. So how do you get the puck from the opposition? Physicality is one of the most effective areas of real hockey. So why in the world does it seem the more physical I play the more chances the opposition gets and the more difficult it becomes for me to win? The hitting doesn't seem to go both ways either it's been laughable at times how small of contact knocks my guy off the puck.
My final issue is with the AI. It wouldn't bother me if they didn't promote it so prominently that they've improved it and it's the best ever. So why do my guys stand around and just watch the other team pick up a lose puck unless I'm controlling them. Why do they let opponents walk around them like pilons? It really doesn't seem very improved it seems the exact same from the last few years which wouldn't be an issue if they didn't promote the improvements so heavily. The difficulty in the skating and checking is what makes it more noticeable because I find that I rely on my computer players a lot more because it takes so long to be able to get going anywhere skating wise.
So I guess in part this is a vent, but this is also me wondering if I'm just wasting my time if I keep playing the game that it's not going to get any better in the end and i'm just going to keep pulling my hair out. This is really the first time since I think 2002 that I bought the NHL series and just couldn't believe how brutal it was to start. I'm kinda pissed off I spent money on it, and I primarily just play the HUT so I'd appreciate if some of you who have played for a while can let me know that it becomes more managable and you get the hang of it, or if after months it still just becomes so frustrating to deal with. Thanks.
The biggest thing is the skating. I like to move the sliders up for game speed when I play with others, but in HUT and stuff like that it can't be done. But i've found it tolerable in previous years. Now it is just ridiculously slow to skate and move around. It's supposed to be realistic, but when you have a great skating defenseman and it takes him like 5 seconds to build any speed, it's just stupid.. They always seem to say they want to take the opinions of their customers but did anyone really contact them and complain that the skating was too smooth and needed to be more "realistic" to slow everything down? I find the speed of the game really difficult to play with.
The next thing has to be the passing. When I would play I move the puck alot, I like to use hard D to D passes to evade situations, and I cycle the puck. I find in this game for one if I try to make a hard D to D pass the puck goes flying against the wall. The only pass that works D to D is a soft one which could be picked off for a goal depending on the situation. In general I find it a lot more difficult to make passes, and it makes the game really frustrating when it becomes very difficult to complete simple puck movement plays.
Third would be the checking. I can't count how many times I've had a big physical 6'4" NHL forward forward hit a 5'10" junior player in the HUT tournaments at full speed and the small junior forward being hit by the big NHL forward it ends up making things better for them?? So I try to stick check more.. and that results in penalty after penalty. So how do you get the puck from the opposition? Physicality is one of the most effective areas of real hockey. So why in the world does it seem the more physical I play the more chances the opposition gets and the more difficult it becomes for me to win? The hitting doesn't seem to go both ways either it's been laughable at times how small of contact knocks my guy off the puck.
My final issue is with the AI. It wouldn't bother me if they didn't promote it so prominently that they've improved it and it's the best ever. So why do my guys stand around and just watch the other team pick up a lose puck unless I'm controlling them. Why do they let opponents walk around them like pilons? It really doesn't seem very improved it seems the exact same from the last few years which wouldn't be an issue if they didn't promote the improvements so heavily. The difficulty in the skating and checking is what makes it more noticeable because I find that I rely on my computer players a lot more because it takes so long to be able to get going anywhere skating wise.
So I guess in part this is a vent, but this is also me wondering if I'm just wasting my time if I keep playing the game that it's not going to get any better in the end and i'm just going to keep pulling my hair out. This is really the first time since I think 2002 that I bought the NHL series and just couldn't believe how brutal it was to start. I'm kinda pissed off I spent money on it, and I primarily just play the HUT so I'd appreciate if some of you who have played for a while can let me know that it becomes more managable and you get the hang of it, or if after months it still just becomes so frustrating to deal with. Thanks.