Five Things to Know About NHL 11 (ESPN Videogames)

[ch46647]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vince

In all my 17-18 years of watching hockey (I'm 22), I have very rarely seen a "jump deke". I'm just saying.... I have full confidence in Litt and his crew, but I hope that is something that we don't see too often in the game.

That is because in real life defenseman very rarely lay down on the ice unless they are trying to block a shot. In the NHL series people go diving all over the place and it has become a "defensive strategy" for many that has become very effective. The ability to jump over them just balances the game out and hopefully will greatly reduce the amount of people who go diving all over the ice.

I completely understand where you are going with this though...

[plaidchuck]

Well it looks like the horrible tripping/diving animation is still there.. I wonder why this isn't changed if everything is 'real time physics' now?

[bh446066]

I can't wait to use that hit stick on someone who's jumping over one of my guys who's flailed himself on the ice. I tend to play a wild, up tempo brand of hockey.

[Red71Star]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vince

In all my 17-18 years of watching hockey (I'm 22), I have very rarely seen a "jump deke". I'm just saying.... I have full confidence in Litt and his crew, but I hope that is something that we don't see too often in the game.

Watch more hockey. ;-) They're not really jump dekes. It's just eluding another player with a split second decision.

[FUBAR2713]

Quote: Originally Posted by 06woz

One of these new articles, maybe it was luger. Said that it is a timing thing. So you can actually jump too early and get caught up on the player or his stick.

This will interesting to see if you have to time your jumps. I would assume that if you mistime your jump and land on a player that the defenseman can get injured (offline only) or perhaps break his stick if you land on that. As a defenseman, I don't go down on the ice often but now I will have to be even more careful when I choose to do it since this seems like it could be an effective counter move. Can't wait to see this in action.

[Vikes1]

NHL'11' just keeps sounding better and better.

[CS10029]

As all these new features come out, it's kinda interesting to see how they will counter each other. Makes me worry about certain things, but for the most part every NHL from EA on next gen has been fairly balanced, I don't see that changing. With that said though... this game sounds freakin' sweet!

[TDKing]

I keep having this vision of all the kiddies online bunny hopping all over the ice. I sure hope that this jumping and deking stuff is heavly tied into a players ratings if not it will be poop! Seeing as how the player differentiation has been done in the past I have little hope.