NHL 17 Q&A - Skating Improvements, Crease Battles, EASHL, Creation Zone & Much More

[Money99]

Quote: Originally Posted by spidertour02

I assume that if you can't use a created team in Franchise, it's because of AHL and ECHL affiliates. They may have some kind of system for changing affiliates in the game to more geographically-appropriate ones. (For example, moving the Arizona Coyotes to Hamilton could automatically move your AHL team from Tucson to, say, Kitchener.) That would have to be fixed to the relocation cities.

I wonder if that's the case too.
If it is, you would think the easy solution is to simply keep the affiliates regardless of where the parent club relocates too.

At least they gave us 15 cities to choose from.
I'm going to laugh if Hamilton isn't one of them. If it's not, then you know it's because the NHL wanted to screw Ballsillie again.
You just know he's got NHL17 on pre-order and can't wait to move the 'Yotes, haha.

[bad_philanthropy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

I wonder if that's the case too. If it is, you would think the easy solution is to simply keep the affiliates regardless of where the parent club relocates too. At least they gave us 15 cities to choose from. I'm going to laugh if Hamilton isn't one of them. If it's not, then you know it's because the NHL wanted to screw Ballsillie again. You just know he's got NHL17 on pre-order and can't wait to move the 'Yotes, haha.

I believe in the trailer they released a couple weeks ago Hamilton was actually shown as one of the options.

You just know the NHL didn't want this sort of mode in (it took forever to get actual money salaries), but EA was like the NBA and NFL let it in their games and it's killing it with the customers.

[Hockeynut99]

If it has no incidental contact and five players hug I will pass on this game. Hope the skating feels fuild. I truly hope they have. Full stick on stick contact. It will take away a lot of goals but it will be more real.

[csamuelsvt]

Hey if you guys want some more information on the game, go to here.

http://wegotthiscovered.com/gaming/n...eview-e3-2016/

https://www.twitch.tv/jayoh30/v/72404022

This forum really doesn't have much information lately, which is disappointing. The EA forums have much more feedback/discussion.

[spoofrice11]

Quote: Originally Posted by HartmanTeets6

Create a team vs. relocation. Obviously the relocation only has 15 cities, and he said for Franchise mode. Is everyone thinking that means our created team, can't be played in franchise, but that we'll have to relocate? I was looking forward to creating a new team, sub them out for a crappy, existing team, and play that way.

I hope that is not the case on having to relocate after a year and mess with that. I just want to be able to replace teams with my created teams.

It needs to be like MyLeague in NBA 2K16 where you can upload images and then replace teams in the League. (One thing 2K16 needed was though to be able to create your team before starting your Franchise and being able to use your logo/jerseys/stadium instead of having to create all of that after you start and re-doing it if you want to start over.
- Also, they need to have it where you can edit draft classes.

I am trying to decide on if I want to get NHL or Madden this year and was leaning towards NHL, but that could get me to change my mind.

[Mr Leth]

Not too sure about the whole relocation thing.
Obviously they wanted to add some form of reality to the process but is that what we really want?
I mean, let's say I want Florida out and Hartford in.
That'll mean I have to not only play with Florida for a while (how long?) but I also might end up with a screen like this.
I'm not even allowed to talk to the peeps in Hartford.
Well that's great...guess I'll just keep up with Florida for a few more years, that'll be fun, right?!

[spidertour02]

Quote: Originally Posted by csamuelsvt

This forum really doesn't have much information lately, which is disappointing. The EA forums have much more feedback/discussion.

Of course it does. The haters on this board have effectively chased away anybody that likes the game and wants to talk about it. I suspect that most of us just enjoy the game quietly and rarely appear on the boards anymore.

[csamuelsvt]

Quote: Originally Posted by spidertour02

Of course it does. The haters on this board have effectively chased away anybody that likes the game and wants to talk about it. I suspect that most of us just enjoy the game quietly and rarely appear on the boards anymore.

It's a real shame. I love this series, but for more information such as developer interaction and GameChangers' feedback, the EA boards as immature as some of the responses are, is the place to go