NHL 13 Season Ticket Impressions

[jyoung]

Some weird stuff is going on with simulated injuries in the offline Be A Pro mode.

I'm seeing 3 to 4 CPU goalies getting injured each week, and most of them are short-term injuries.

I'm 20 games into the season and no other position in the league is getting injured, just this bizarre rash of goalie injuries for the CPU teams.

[Leo4677]

There's lots of moments in NHL Moments live(26 as of now, if 12/13 season happens, you can download more moments)

[Minus 80]

The CPU is not getting boosts. It's adjusting strategy to get more aggressive, while you fail to get more conservative. I would also suspect that you are running your lines ragged and getting hem fatigued.

Fatigue is a great factor this year, and it does it in a good way. Aggressive strategies wear your team down faster, too. If you are using them all game, you are going to have a drop-off later.

If they didn't program the CPU to adjust strategies when behind in the third, they would fail as developers.

[duffman]

Just got my first game in, quick game NYR (me) NJD (CPU) Superstar Hardcore 8 minutes with penalty slider maxed on 360:

-Intros look the same as last year, with a different little theme song before they cut to the arena

-There were times when Gaborik was able to just blow by defenders cause i caught them flat footed, without even needing the hustle button to do so which was nice to see

-Jeff Halpern is wearing #11 in the roster update which is a retired NYR number

-CPU seems tamer on superstar/hardcore than previous years. Last year if I played SS HC, there would be times when the CPU would pull off some nasty one timer goals unless i spent my whole time focusing on taking that away. Seemed more varied and realistic in their attack this time but could be the Devils strategy settings too if teams actually play differently from each other.

-Scored on a wraparound with Callahan where i shot back to the short side, but Brodeur did this weird sort of flopping-butterfly move which slid him almost halfway out of the net on the far side leaving the net wide open. Hope this was just a flukey thing.

-Saw a few too many times where i could just skate the puck all the way up with one of my d-men from behind my own net and weave around defenders all the way up to the opposing slot and take a shot, no dekes or fancy tricks required just skating with the L stick. This may just be due to the Devils strategy settings or something, but it was somewhat concerning.

-Wound up with 3 PPs to the CPUs 2, they scored on both of theirs. Both of my penalties came from my CPU teammates

-Had a couple instances where Lundqvist had the puck covered and one of the CPU players just barrelled into him with no penalty called. Hopefully this doesn't cause the puck to come loose in some situations otherwise this could be easily abused on online play.

[seasprite]

Been playing it since Friday night and I am enjoying it. There are penalty issues......especially goalie inteference not ever being called.....but overall, I like the game. Definitely different but I am starting to get used to the new skating physics. The one problem that I hate is that they pretty much made cross creasing impossible. You make great passes and move the puck to get a great shot and the goalie always make an impossible save......................then all I have to do is take the puck up the ice and go up on the right stick short side and seem to have a 80% success in scoring. I will say that I am really enjoying the Connected Career mode.+

[ChubbyBanana]

Remember I was having trouble adjusting to the game since I skipped out on NHL 12 basically? I was getting my backside handed to me by the CPU on Pro.

Well I went in and adjusted a couple things. I took the CPU AI Learning Slider down 2 clicks from full and I think this has made the most difference for me. I like the idea of CPU AI Learning but I think having it learn from everything I do was making it way to hard for me to adjust.

I'm still not able to get off a reasonable amount of shots. I won a game 4-2 Rangers (me) vs. Sens but I was outshot like 22-7 or something like that. And faceoffs even though I reduced the difficultly slider (to the left) I still am not very good.

[mike24forever]

Quote: Originally Posted by DJ

Why do even bother playing these games?

So he can complain about how "trash" the game is. There are issues with this title, however they are no where near as bad as he claims. I'm seeing 3 to 6 penalties a game. I have never seen a player go through the boards. That being said, I'm not looking at replays to look for visal problems.

[mike24forever]

Quote: Originally Posted by jyoung

Goh, you can fix the stuttering issues by making a custom camera that crops out the crowd from the image. When a lot of the crowd is on-screen, that's what causes the stutter. If you zoom the camera in tight enough, the crowd won't ever appear on-screen and the game will run smoothly.

He said he deleted the game. This was suggested to him before, however he only looks for the negative. Hopefully, he will not buy the game and save himself $60, and save us from his complaining.