NHL 12 Patch 1.04 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3, 360)

[BlackXEyes]

LOL!

[jake19ny]

Quote: Originally Posted by gopher_guy

Just played my first game with the update. 3 PP and 2 PK's in the game

Well I was finally able to play a game after 2 freeze ups, but I didnt have the same luck....it felt just like it did before no matter what I did no matter how hard I tried to take a penalty I only had one called against me for boarding. I also tried to bait the CPU into taking penalties all game and only had 1 called late. So in the end back to 1 pp for me and 1 for the CPU.....I will to be fair try another game or two, but I have a feeling I'm going back to playing without any updates installed. I would get 4+ PPs for both sides every game and a nice variety too.
The update did fix one annoying thing though...now when you tie someone up on the face-off your teamate gets the puck unlike before. Meh!

[BleacherCreature]

In 3 games I have seen maybe 2 more powerplays per team per game so I guess I can live with that.
It also seems the puck is a lot looser, especially in front of the goals. The goalie doesn't appear to be a vaccuum like before, the puck actually will bounce around a bit in front.
Poke check seems better now as it looks as if the puck can be poked away into open ice, rather than be poked away onto the magnetic stick blade.
I use a far away camera so the numbers on the helmets don't mean much to me, and I don't play online so none of that stuff matters either.

[BlueNGold]

Quote: Originally Posted by jake19ny

Well I was finally able to play a game after 2 freeze ups, but I didnt have the same luck....it felt just like it did before no matter what I did no matter how hard I tried to take a penalty I only had one called against me for boarding. I also tried to bait the CPU into taking penalties all game and only had 1 called late. So in the end back to 1 pp for me and 1 for the CPU.....I will to be fair try another game or two, but I have a feeling I'm going back to playing without any updates installed. I would get 4+ PPs for both sides every game and a nice variety too. The update did fix one annoying thing though...now when you tie someone up on the face-off your teamate gets the puck unlike before. Meh!

Try a different slider set. I'm using DJ's and get 2-3 penalties a game for each side.

[BlackXEyes]

okay i got the patch

[jake19ny]

Quote: Originally Posted by BlueNGold

Try a different slider set. I'm using DJ's and get 2-3 penalties a game for each side.

Thats just it....Im burnt out from tweaking this game. I have no energy to start trying new sliders and to tweak them to my liking just to play with this update only to find that I hate it in the end anyway. I have good sliders that I have been using with my season with no update installed and my games have been great so I'm going to stick with that. This update is a joke for all intensive purposes and shows EA will only cater to the casual hockey gamer. After 4 games with it here is how things played out
Game #1 - Froze on load up
Game #2 - Froze 5 minutes in and no PPs for either side....was only 5 minutes though
Game #3 - 1 PP for me 1 PP for CPU
Game #4 - 0 PP for me 0 PP for CPU
Impressions are as follows;
The Good - Puck is looser and CPU teamates play the puck after tying up on face off. Numbers on helmets nice touch, but you only see them during cut scenes not a big deal to me.
The Bad - Still no penalty fix....even if some of you are getting 2-3 a game its way to low over the course of a season. Way too many breakaways...in the 2 games I managed to play I had 3 breakaways in one and 5 in another. I noticed that I was not getting called for the goalie interference and even scored a goal after a CPU teamate bowled the goalie over. CPU guys hit and tried to start fights with my goalie everytime he covered the puck.
The bad makes the game seem so arcade like that it makes the few little good things insignificant. I'm sorry if I am in the minority here, but EA took a long time for this update and outside of the Dive issue on-line, clearly did not listen to the community in this or any other forum when they developed the patch. Consider this update uninstalled.

[canucksss]

Quote: Originally Posted by gopher_guy

Just played my first game with the update. 3 PP and 2 PK's in the game

how this translate to BaGM?

[gopher_guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by canucksss

how this translate to BaGM?

I don't understand, what do you mean?

I played a game in my Be a GM and got 3 PP and took 2 penalties in the game.