NHL 10 Roster Update 7 and Tuner Set 1.03 Available, Post Impressions Here

[ComaFaction]

I've been playing mostly online lately and I am enjoying 1.03.

First thing, the stick lift effectiveness is WAY down...thank you! Players recover from it much more realistically too, so you can have your stick lifted and retain the puck.

I was losing a lot at first, but began to change my style of play and am scoring quite a bit now. You can score more ugly, scrappy goals and I have been able to score on plays I could never set up in the past.

My main worry is that the point might be TOO effective now - but I'll take it over 99% of goals being scored downlow. I have noticed most players look for shots from the high slot exclusively now, so there must be some exploit from that area that I haven't seen yet.

All in all, I'm digging it so far.

[Millennium]

Quote: Originally Posted by dorismary

Because we play the same way Steven I pretty much agree with what you say did you also notice the Cpu speed upgrade ? As I said earlier the Cpu seems to have gotten a overall boost across the board on this tuner and when they wanna score they will . I guess people have to remember these tuners are really meant to deal with online issues first and foremost .

Are we really going to get back into the mythological "CPU Speed Upgrade" again?

[Millennium]

I've actually gone back to default Hardcore All Star with no slider tweaks. It gives me a good feel speed wise, retains the challenge, and I no longer have to worry about going through 20 million slider threads and decide who is seeing what, and what theories people come up with are actually tried and true, or just figments of their imagination.

I'm currently 7-5-3 in my Caps BeAGM since the tuner update. Love it.

[Money99]

Quote: Originally Posted by Millennium

Are we really going to get back into the mythological "CPU Speed Upgrade" again?

Didn't redshirt admit that the CPU gets a speed burst advantage on Superstar, though?

[dorismary]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

Didn't redshirt admit that the CPU gets a speed burst advantage on Superstar, though?

Of course he did and like I said before the V3 or any other tuner will also blend differently with whatever sliders and skill level you use and right off the bat the cpu had a speed and overall advantage in my humble opinion .
If im remember correctly Pro HU advantage , Allstar Even , Superstar CPU and I think he said that was by boost as it was the only way they could do it .

[Juiceman612]

Someone asked for my sliders, here they are. I'll post a thread in the sliders forum as well.

5 min periods
penalties 3
post whistle authentic
penalty scaling maxed
fighting 1 or 2 doesn't matter

all-star
tuner latest
cpu aid hardcore
game speed 1
attribute effects maxed (stars shine and I like that - seems realistic)
fatigue effect 5/6
fatigue rec 1/1
injury 3/3
puck control 2/2 (increase hum one click if having trouble)
Acceleration 0/0 (1/0 or 1/1 works well too)

AI learning maxed
cpu diff zero
facoff diff maxed
fight diff 5
cpu penalties 5
cpu teammate penatlies maxed

pass assist n/a (off)
manual pass on
pass speed 2
saucer pass maxed
pass accuracy 4/2 (4 for human is key for v1.03 imo)
pass int 4/4

shot acc 1/1
shot power 4/4
slap acc 2/2
slap power 3/3
one timer 1/1

hit diff maxed
aggression maxed
hit power 0/0
stick lift 2/2
poke eff 3/3

goalie pass 1
cover puck 5
screen maxed
reaction 5/2 (5 is key to combat crazy CPU powerplay on 1.03)

I'm getting good games with 1.03 on all-star in my BAGM. Still outshooting CPU, but I am shot happy and I really think once I got the right pass accuracy I'm getting great results. game speed on 1 is hard for me to enjoy as it feels so slow, but it definitely plays out accurately. It's hard to score goals, but not impossible. I have been getting very realistic fight-in-the-crease goals. I'm sort of up in the air about which I like better 1.01 or 1.03. I'd be curious to know if anyone else enjoys these sliders.

[CS10029]

I've played a lot of NHL. Probably 300 games on 09 and creeping on 200 or passed it on 10. With that said, this is easily the best a hockey game has ever been. It's just tight, goals are coming when they are supposed to. Last night I took a wrister at Lundvquist, he had to make a a desperate save and it kicked it below the net. Grabbed it with one of my players and did a back hand wrap around through his legs. What was brilliant was he made the initial save, but just couldn't recover in time to get to the other post, even though I went behind the net.

Loving what I am seeing, beat the Rangers 4-1 in that game.

[jsquigg]

Quote: Originally Posted by Millennium

Are we really going to get back into the mythological "CPU Speed Upgrade" again?

Lol, not until you posted this ;-)