NHL 16 Available Today For Xbox One & PlayStation 4, Post Your Impressions

[THESHAMISASHAME]

Quote: Originally Posted by Splitter77

There is def ice tilt on superstar and whenever you have CPU difficulty above 0. All-star seems to be no ice tilt with CPU difficulty at 0. But the goalies suck and the defensive ai sucks. So you have to jerk around to make games close.

Its obvious on Superstar and I even think EA once said the Hu is at the disadvantage on that level but whats lacking is theres no variance in cpu players as everyone becomes robotic Bobby Orrs and its a cheap way to use boosts or non responsiveness alone to increase the difficulty of the game .

Quote: Originally Posted by jake19ny

You know what's funny in a "I can't believe it" type of way. We all talk about ice tilt and have our own idea of what it means. Some believe it exists no matter what, some believe it's not real, and some believe it's in the tuners but according to the EA forums, EA said it doesn't exist. The EA forum mods have decided to post a warning that anyone who creates a thread about "ice tilt" the thread will be deleted and you will be banned. Anyone who mentions "ice tilt" in any thread, will be warned once then banned. Welcome to tyrannical style EA media control. Drink the kook aid or else...Hey EA...Maybe if you don't want people to discuss ice tilt, stop making tuners that create it....or at the very least don't have your in game announcers say "this ice is tilted right now"...

Anyone can call it whatever they want but I dont know any other way to explain it ? and after those 9/28 tuners they brought it back into the game for me on default and probably only because of online play

EX: When its tilted or whatever you wanna call it my whole team cant skate , stop a simple shot, block a shot or control the puck at my feet or even make a 5 ft pass and just because Kane got hit on the 1st line it now effects my whole team and they only way to get it back to normal is to hit back or fight ?

I would prefer they use smarter AI and positioning then just boosting or cheats and then my only choice is to Big Hit back or fight to balance the game back to normal ? Seems unrealistic in 2015 NHL dont you think .

So as I said above if you try to lessen it in the game I find it wrecks the game so I just lowered cpu/hu hit power to try and limit the Intimidation factor through hitting and its funny in my 4-3 OT win over Toronto they out hit me 36 to 12 ?
I was shocked at that stat as it didnt feel like it in game but its obvious the AI was probably trying to tilt the ice with big hits but with limited big hit power I balanced it in a way.

I cant really tweak it as Im not a slider guy but I still think alot of it can be made to play pretty realistically if you know how to counteract each slider adjustment but Ill just take it like a challenge every game win or lose and Im having a good time again but I have to be ready to adjust and adapt to succeed .

[MQ91]

How useful is the Coach Feedback in comparison to the Be-a-Pro feedback and intermission scouting reports from previous years?

[actionhank]

Quote: Originally Posted by AdamJones113

Yep. I thought it was completely overblown, but as I go further and further in my season I see how annoying it is. 1 step forward, 2 steps back. Yeah. I would have advised you to pick this game soon, but now I'd suggest waiting till it goes on sale. There are just too many old issues that haven't been fixed.

I check around every now and again to see if anyone's got it on sale for the PS4 at a cheap price. I'm sure I'll find it used somewhere.

[THESHAMISASHAME]

Some more impressions as I normally only play playoff mode but I just think the 3 on 3 in play now and season mode in OT is a blast.
Im more a purest and even prefer ties as I dont really care for the shootouts but kudos to the NHL on this new rule and for EA implementing it so well

[BL8001]

Yep they need an online 3-3 mode.

The entire game 3-3. Hell, let us set it up 2-2, 3-3. 4-4, whatever way we want.

It would even be wild to play someone 3-4. Options, they make everything better.

[shogunofharlem3]

Quote: Originally Posted by THESHAMISASHAME

Some more impressions as I normally only play playoff mode but I just think the 3 on 3 in play now and season mode in OT is a blast. Im more a purest and even prefer ties as I dont really care for the shootouts but kudos to the NHL on this new rule and for EA implementing it so well

I also like the 3 on 3. But in my franchise or whatever, I like to do continuous overtime. I hate shootouts, not ea shootouts, just straight up real NHL shootouts.

So I usually do 5 on 5 continuous. Would love a 3 on 3 continuous option. So much open ice!

[THESHAMISASHAME]

Hey is anyone offline noticing the horrible puck/environment detection ? I didnt notice it on release other than two guys battling for the puck on the boards and it goes through the bottom of the boards sticks too ? and then the announcers said it hopped over the glass .

Goalies going through nets and it looks really bad on saves and those I havent noticed early on but who knows as I see it alot now .

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I am getting tired of 3 things.

1) Going into the a battle along the boards and never coming out with the puck against the CPU.

2) Having the CUP skate through all five defenders with even bobbling the puck, but when I try to go through 1 guy he always ends up with the puck.

3) When I poke check the CPU the puck is loose and anyone can retrieve it, although the CPU recovers it 99% of the time. Then when the CPU poke checks the puck off my stick it is never loose as it always sticks right to their stick for a quick pass outside the zone.