NHL 16 EASHL Beta Available Now For Xbox One and PlayStation 4, Extended Until Aug. 7

[ricky24]

Yeah goalie controls were much better in nhl14. Not sure why they felt the need to change them.

[Turbojugend]

I got in two games last night as a Defensive Defenseman (and let me apologize to anyone who had me as a teammate, I'm terrible on EASHL!):

+ Skating in general seems much improved, "smoother" if I had to choose a word. It's hard to say exactly how much as I was playing D and on my heels most of the time.

+ It's harder to pile on the big hits, which is a good thing (15 was a bit too NHL Hitz). I was constantly trying to line guys up and not having much success, then again the new camera (for me) and skating controls may have been a factor.

+ If the menus run this fast in the full game, then they are much improved over 15.

+ No goalie interference in either game!!! I was averaging at least one or two a game in 15.

+ OS'ers probably couldn't care less about this stuff, but I have to admit I did enjoy seeing the mascot riling up the crowd (albeit through the glass on the opposite side of the arena as I was serving a penalty at the time).

- Both games I played featured CPU goalies, and in both instances they seemed fairly clueless. I kid you not, on one play the CPU goalie went for the cover, then immediately passed the puck to the opponent directly in front of the net for the easy score. Frustrating.

I was generally pleased with the beta, I managed to have fun even though I've never played EASHL and never use the default camera.

[elgreazy1]

Quote: Originally Posted by elgreazy1

On Xbox One, I keep getting errors when it comes to downloading. From the NHL 15 menus it'll state the servers are unavailable. From the Dashboard the tile to download is grayed out with "Unavailable". I even tried the Rammer34 Friends process and that didn't work. What gives?

Quote: Originally Posted by BL8001

I have this same problem on my xbox one. I have rebooted it by holding the power button. No difference. I am looking for it the exact ways you described and I am getting the same results. Error or Unavailable. I did get an email from EA thanking me for joining the beta...

Anyone?

[chrisphil1724]

Quote: Originally Posted by SinisterAlex

No drop in for the beta. Just club matches. Are you on the PS4 and west coast? I want to get in on a game but none of my friends are online to play. I've created a club just need some people to play with. Sent from my A0001 using Tapatalk

No drop-in games for the full release of NHL 16 as well. You'll have to play OTP with NHL players/teams for drop-in.

[TDKing]

Quote: Originally Posted by elgreazy1

On Xbox One, I keep getting errors when it comes to downloading. From the NHL 15 menus it'll state the servers are unavailable. From the Dashboard the tile to download is grayed out with "Unavailable". I even tried the Rammer34 Friends process and that didn't work. What gives?

I'm getting a different error when I try to download it. "Payment option cannot be displayed properly try again later". Or something like that

[Money99]

Quote: Originally Posted by Turbojugend

- Both games I played featured CPU goalies, and in both instances they seemed fairly clueless. I kid you not, on one play the CPU goalie went for the cover, then immediately passed the puck to the opponent directly in front of the net for the easy score. Frustrating. .

I've never played EASHL, but could one of your teammates have pressed the 'request pass' button when the goalie had it?

[Turbojugend]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

I've never played EASHL, but could one of your teammates have pressed the 'request pass' button when the goalie had it?

I didn't even know that was an option to be honest. Hell, I'm an EASHL n00b, it was probably me.

[GrandMaster B]

bigwill pretty much summed up everything that myself and my friends are seeing as well. I also noticed last night and this morning that they tuned the collision detection and poke check. It is now almost playing like 15 with guys running into everyone and you can get poke checked from 10 feet away. It's hard to cycle and get shots from the point with computards if you are playing with only a few people.
This game will obviously get tuned all year, but you really have to ask where they are getting their feedback from.