NHL 17 Beta Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here!

[bad_philanthropy]

Mods, please make a beta code thread.

[TheWolf1113]

Some quick impressions

1. I love the goalie stances and the body blocking saves, this to me is finally showing visual player differential which is a breath of fresh air...(have played every NHL since inception).

2. Skating feels right and its noticeably different based on who has the puck.

3. Hitting is at a great balance as well, I love that the puck doesn't stick with the hit player anymore.

4. I love the new UI for HUT, new fresh and clean, BUT its still slow especially doing my lines, why do we still have to go through three or four button clicking menus to substitute?

5. I really hope the gold pricing for packs sticks...i love HUT but its too expensive to grind for one pack in precious years, 3000 coins for a ten card pack is a very nice change, fingers crossed.

6. I also like the sets idea...been hoping for that for so long, like madden...

7. I've never played much EASHL but I'm having some fun playing around with that, can't really do an impression for a mode I've never dove into before for comparison.

8. Your AI teammates are much smarter, more noticeably the other players Ai, looks like we may no longer need to try to switch and play as everyone all game, but its a beta so again fingers crossed.

9. I really enjoyed NHL 16 so this kinda reminds me of what the show has done, decent base and now refining what they started. The little nuances are feeling very very good. And to add to that, if the 0-100 sliders are effective then this may very well be the greatest console NHL game we've been waiting for. I'm a big offline franchise guy so I'm excited about this, I have some pretty sloppy sliders for 16, as best as it could get, but if we can get it more sloppy ill be in heaven.

10. The new audio clips are fantastic, please don't change this!!! I played a game in st. Louis and one in Barclays and the chant stuff they do was so well done....WE NEED MORE OF THIS IN EVERY ARENA...if its not already.

11. Impressions aside, with the addition of draft champions which is what I am very excited for being a huge madden draft champions fan but a better NHL player lol, and the relocation additions, I'm very excited to dive into NHL 17 this year, more so than recent years. This on top of what Madden appears to be, and NBA 2k league expansion ability, and fifa introducing the frostbite engine.....MAN, its finally a really exciting time to be a sports gamer....im hyped beyond belief these next fee months, not to mention all the non sports releases coming too....ive rattled on enough....back to the beta

Also I'm on Xbox one, GT- TheWolf1113, if anyone wants to play some games or start a club...i have the next three full days of just game time available.

[Turbojugend]

Is it just me or are the menus waaay faster and more responsive? Maybe the cleaned-up UI has something to do with it. In any case, I really hope it's the same for the final version.

Quote: Originally Posted by TheWolf1113

5. I really hope the gold pricing for packs sticks...i love HUT but its too expensive to grind for one pack in precious years, 3000 coins for a ten card pack is a very nice change, fingers crossed.

I also noticed 1000 pucks for a single season win as opposed to 600 in NHL 16. Who knows if this is inflated for the demo, hopefully not.

[Themayorofawsometown]

Quote: Originally Posted by jyoung

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[Gilu]

Two PS4 codes, quote to reveal. Have fun!

[mikeq672]

The menus were the only thing I noticed being different and improved.

Also ill reiterate, cmon mods, clean this thread up.

[havoc00]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gilu

Two PS4 codes, quote to reveal. Have fun!

Already redeemed, damn. If anyone has an extra Pm Please

[bad_philanthropy]

The menus are much better, thankfully.