I’m so proud and excited to bring you my 15 minutes Simulation slider set 😀 This is my holy grail of sliders and setup. I cannot tell you how this plays and feels like the real thing…
This is a culmination of all the work I’ve put in this edition of NHL23… The gameplay has never been better in my opinion. The puck is ALIVE !!! The game of hockey is fast and so is this set. I took the skating speed to 94 ! You will have everything, board battles, bone crushing checks very seldomly but when you do, you will feel such a rush. A bunch of different goals… Anything and everything can Happen !!!
Never thought this would be feasible on higher minutes because of the limitations we have with sliders and rosters, but I give you my seal of Approval on this one… I’ve never had more fun playing cyber Hockey in my life.
I hope you do too…. Enjoy !
(You can look at my main Slider Set for Rosters, Strategies, Fixes, and Recommendations on how to play them)
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Rules
Game Play Presets: Custom (Full Sim)
Game Style: Custom (Full Sim)
Post Whistle Rules: Authentic
Rules: Custom (NHL)
Fighting: 1
Icing: On ( like the good old days, go touch that puck 😉 )
Injuries: On
Offsides: Delayed
Penalties: 3 of 4 (that number does nothing when you play the games, but affects the simming part… )
Tie Break: 5 min (3 on3) then shootout
Trapezoid Rule: Off
Penalty Time Scaling: 0
Coincidental Penalty Time Scale: 0
Game Settings
Game Play Presets: Custom (Full Sim)
Game Style: Custom (Full Sim)
Period Length: 15 Minutes
Difficulty: All-Star or Superstar (Superstar is the way to go in my opinion)
Camera: ACTION Auto Zoom ( Try it on player lock, you will love it )
Goalie Camera: High
Shootout Camera: Dynamic Low
Away Line Changes: Manual
Away Shot Aim: Manual
Home Line Changes: Manual
Home Shot Aim: Manual
GAMEPLAY SLIDERS
GENERAL
SLIDER
VALUE
COMMENTS
Gameplay Version
Latest
Attributes Effect
8
Way Better Player Separation
Broken Stick Frequency
52
Game Speed
0
Fatigue Effect
99
You gonna have to roll all 4 lines
Fatigue Recovery
52
Injury Occurrance
50
User Preference…. But 50 looks good on my side so far.
SKATING (The skating has never felt so good)
SLIDER
VALUE
COMMENTS
Back Skating
68
Hustle Type
Authentic
Puck Carrier Agility
3
Puck Carrier Skating
83
Player Acceleration
49
Skating Speed
94
Skating Agility
1
You will actually feel like a hockey player on ice !
SHOOTING
SLIDER
VALUE
COMMENTS
One Timer Accuracy
9
Shot Accuracy
9
Shot Power
47
Slapshot Accuracy
72
Slapshot Power
47
PASSING ** To get the desired effect, these needs to be EXACT **
SLIDER
VALUE
COMMENTS
Manual Passing
ON
Very IMPORTANT or all your passes will be rockets !
Pass Assist
15
I play with it at 0… Try it, you will love it… Maybe not at first, lol !
Min Pass Speed
20
Max Pass Speed
80
Saucer Pass Speed
59
Pass Accuracy
0
Pass Interceptions
0
Pass Reception Ease
12
Reception Reaction Time
44
Puck Control Rating Effect
12
Puck Speed Reception Effect
48
Pickup Type Effect
53
Bouncing Puck Reception
17
PUCK CONTROL
SLIDER
VALUE
COMMENTS
Stick in Physics
—>
Stick, Legs and Body
Incidental Contact Puck Loss
—>
Stick, Legs and Body
Stick Contact Immunity
0
Puck Control
19
Deeking Impact
100
Spin Deke Impact
100
Skating Impact
45
GOALIES
SLIDER
VALUE
COMMENTS
Cover Frequency
88
Passing
17
Cross Crease Reaction Time
14
Save Reaction Time
9
Deflection Reaction Time
9
Screen Effect
91
Screen Persistence
91
CHECKING
SLIDER
VALUE
COMMENTS
Board Effect Non-Puck Carrier
0
Board Effect Puck Carrier
0
Hitting Assistance
0
Stumble Treshold
49
Fall and Stumble Fall Ease
32
Aggression
74
Hitting Power
0
You'll have to earn your destroying checks like in the NHL ! When you do, you'll be smiling for days 😉
Size Effect
67
Speed Effect
67
Checking-Balance Rating Effect
83
Preparedness Effect
59
Incidental Contact Effect
20
Poke Checking Accuracy
0
Poke Checking Power
0
Stick Lift Effectiveness
15
PENALTIES (Averaging 7-8 Calls per game in my last 20… Also better variety)
SLIDER
VALUE
COMMENTS
CPU Penalties
27
CPU Teammate Penalties
27
Tripping
24
Slashing
16
Elbowing
97
High Sticking
97
Cross Checking
97
Boarding
97
Charging
24
Delay of game
48
Holding
49
Hooking
84
Interference
29
AI
SLIDER
VALUE
COMMENTS
AI Learning
4
CPU Difficulty Adjustment
0
CPU Faceoff Difficulty
50
Fight Difficulty
50
CPU Strategy Adjustments
4
User Strategy Adjustment
4
Put at 0 if you like to do it yourself
BAP Strategy Adjustment
4
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Hope you enjoy them as much as I do and most of all, HAVE FUN !
Not to disrespect the Dallas Stars fans, but I’ve started a Stanley Cup Finals with the Panthers vs the Golden Knights 😀
Here’s the complete 3rd. Period of game 1 😀
Setup:
Panthers are trailing 2-1 after 2.
I’m controlling Ekblad 5, Montour 62 and Mahura 28 for the Panthers.
Playing with my new 15 minutes Slider Set and roster tweaks.
All in beautiful 4K…. Enjoy 😉
I can see that it takes away the arcade play that you get when you use the default sliders.
What I find most interesting is that the game speed is 0 but the skating speed is 94. Super fast skating just like in real life but without all the rocket CPU passes that come when you increase the game speed.
Last edited by HeadCoach2.0; 05-27-2023 at 04:03 PM.
I can see that it takes away the arcade play that you get when you use the default sliders.
What I find most interesting is that the game speed is 0 but the skating speed is 94. Super fast skating just like in real life but without all the rocket CPU passes that come when you increase the game speed.
Thanks Coach ! Means allot 😀
Yeah, I remember in past versions of the game you really had to lower the skating speed to get tighter gameplay… That was my biggest worry when upping the skating speed to where I found it to be NHL like…
Lots and lots of tweaking here and there to get the gameplay I’ve always dreamed of… Yeah, I’m in hockey heaven right now 😀
I’m trying to get the Panthers to their 1st Stanley Cup playing LD right now, so I will post more gameplay clips soon 😀
I just looked at the video and the speed of the game matches what you see when you look at a game on TV.
The body language and physics of the players matches what you see the players do. It is kind of surreal looking at the video because you see exactly what EA Sports got wrong. Its like I cant be looking at the exact same game that I have been playing for a year.
You also have the puck physics correct also because its looks like how the puck moves from what I watch. The pass speed range is dead on.
I'm still not very good at this game so I think 94 might be too fast for me.
Something in the 60-75 range should work for me at least for now.
You have it correct...fast skater speed...big pass speed range...with the game speed turned down from the rocket action nonsense. This is how the game should have been from the jump. As a newcomer to the sport the game is unplayable to me at higher game speed levels.
This is good to know going forward with this game. I'm sure that NHL 24 will bring more EA nonsense but now I know how to adjust. Thanks for posting this set.
Thanks for the sliders, they play very good but I’m to tweak these even further for 20 minutes. I think I almost have it by lowering skating and passing speed but no matter what I do the shot count is always too high. I wish EA would just make these games realistic out of the box for those who want real simulation games without having to tweak sliders for weeks before you can actually enjoy the game. I had the same issues back when I played NBA Live. I wonder about the design decisions from the developers, no matter how much the players complain they don’t listen or seem to care.
Another thing is your rosters uploaded for the Xbox? I’m playing this through game pass and tried finding them but there not showing up.