Exclusive NHL 12 Producer Blog: Online Innovations

[jyoung]

All they need to do is let the team captain choose which 4 players he wants on the ice in OT and then let him set the shootout lineup if it gets that far.

Right now captains don't do anything useful aside from picking jersey colors in the pre-game screen.

[Pezell04x]

Quote: Originally Posted by mondoguitar

Speaking of shootouts, that's something I'd like to see in EASHL after 1 or 2 OT's.

No way. In NHL 09 (I Believe) they had it where there would be 4 on 4 and then a shootout, which usually ended up with each human doing the same automatic goal move and then letting the CPU win. It was bull****.

The only true way to play is continuous OT.

[KillHammer]

Quote: Originally Posted by wEEman33

All they need to do is let the team captain choose which 4 players he wants on the ice in OT and then let him set the shootout lineup if it gets that far. Right now captains don't do anything useful aside from picking jersey colors in the pre-game screen.

I think it should just cycle through all the human controlled players for shootouts. leave the cpu out.

4 on 4 ot is a bad idea imo. It would suck to be left out. Although it is very rare to get through an entire game with all 5 skaters still playing.

[jyoung]

I should add here that when I say bring shootouts back, they should give the captain the option to assign someone on the team as the human goalie for shootouts.

That would take care of the problem with "automatic" shootout goals against the easily fooled CPU goalies.

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by Millennium

Did you seriously just say that the dev team leaves glitches in so they can have an advantage online?

He does this alot. The fact that he hasn't gotten banned yet for bashing the NHL devs in a slight way is astounding with how quick the OS ban hammer usually falls.

[stew514]

If they made a separate league for 6v6 I would fully support the idea of a single 5 minute OT (in real time) and then a shootout that allowed the captain to set the shootout lineup and if you were still tied after 5 shooters it would just reset the order with humans rather than let the AI decide the game.

[gator3guy]

Doesn't look like we have too many HUT fans in here, but with them updating some cards, does that mean they will be adding cards too or is that a stretch? It would be nice to get some of the young Europeans or CHL guys into HUT.

[Retropyro]

Are we ever going to get a proper online franchise mode?