NHL 09 PS3 Patch Released - Impressions

[Splitter77]

im loving how the puck doesnt mysteriously fly to a cpu player after you demolish them with a check anymore. Another great fix in this patch.

[savoie2006]

Quote: Originally Posted by Splitter77

that already happened to me once, so no, it wasnt fixed.

Much like the Goalie Sprawl or many other issues, they(Redshirt) never said it would be completely removed, simply improved on.

[savoie2006]

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-AI tuning for superstar. The Aggression slider now affects how intense the CPU team is on that difficulty level.

Is this the case with all difficulty levels or was it just Superstar which needed the patch?

[catcatch22]

Quote: Originally Posted by blinkfan77

Exactly. In fact, not a single EA sports game this year will be the 10th. What an awful, awful decision by the EA brass. God forbid they go back to the way it was and call it "two-thousand ten."

After thinking about this some more, did anyone have a problem with it called NHL 98? It's just a number nothing more. Maybe they can call it NHL X. X of course represents 10 in roman numerals (just in case that flew over some heads in here).

[mgkibbles]

Well played four games since I got the patch, and the penalties are a little ridiculous (32 penalty minutes in one game). For the record I only get one or two a game, but its seems like one of those is always really weak, for example I got called for roughing in front of my own net when I barely even touched the guy, and I got called for boarding when it obviously wasn't even remotely close to being worthy of a boarding call.

[mgkibbles]

Quote: Originally Posted by aBiNeR

"Oh, and there was one player who used the right stick shuffle (where you have your stick out in dangle mode and pull a bit down then fire a shot. Not sure what the technical name for it is.) to score a couple from the faceoff circle though." It's called the "curve-shot".

what the hell is that?

[Jgainsey]

Quote: Originally Posted by blinkfan77

Exactly. In fact, not a single EA sports game this year will be the 10th. What an awful, awful decision by the EA brass. God forbid they go back to the way it was and call it "two-thousand ten."

Yeah... not really seeing what the big deal is here.

[phillyfan23]

what's the general impressions on OFFLINE play for everyone ? I am sure online play has improved, but offline play is where I spend most of my times.

How is the new superstar level? is it hard but realistic? ok then....thanks for all the input