NHL 17 Beta Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here!

[jasonthenicest]

Okay, so I opened a pack in HUT, added the players to my collection, and I can NOT for the life of me bring them to my active lineup; did they change something this year? There used to be a substitute with collection, or when you went to collection you could 'send to active roster'??

EDIT: Just re-started my game and Aaron Ekblad appeared, we good. If you have this issue its an easy fix.

[mikeq672]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gosens6

I'm seeing the SAME, cheap BS goals this year that Iv'e seen the past few years. I can play D just fine, My AI teammates still can't. Board play is still a complete joke. Passing, still tape to tape. I can go on and on and on and on. I honestly can barely see the minimal improvements. The game is near identical to 16 for me. I see absolutely no reason to upgrade.

I couldnt agree more. Sure there are a few minimal changes. Maybe its a slightly different process, but 2+2 and 2x2 both equal 4. Different process, same results as every other year. Just an ugly cluster**** of a game where the more broken plays there are and the more times you skate into your teammate and lose the puck, the better chance you have to score.

[raiderphantom]

Slightly smarter AI and easier to score. Those are the only differences I really see. I want EASHL to be good but it still seems very unbalanced. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I always feel at a disadvantage physically vs other users. Probably pass on 17.


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[Walbeb]

Man I'm really disappointed. I used to take a few days off for the yearly NHL release and I haven't done that in a while. Seems I won't be doing it this year either.

I think my biggest complaint is every other sports title has been knocking it out of the park with every new year (Madden,NBA,MLB, granted MLB has seen very little change the last year IMO) but NHL EVEN AFTER taking a year off is still too far behind.

I know about the 'small dev team' but I think this series really needs a new vision. Kind of like when a successful head coach gets canned because he lost the locker room, dev teams need to be changed to prevent series stagnation.

The changes in this Beta are so few and far between it's the first time I've ever used the cliche 'It's the same as last year!'. I played a few games of the Beta and then played 16, it was sad how similar they were.

Hell for the few things they improved (hitting and poke checking really stuck out) goalies somehow become worse by letting in more 'dumb luck' goals then last year. Puck pickups are an embarrassment, my beer league team can pick up the puck better than the guys in this game.

I'm glad some of you guys are enjoying it but IMO if you've been playing other sports titles you'll realize just how little this series has changed since the current gen systems dropped. This game will sell just enough to not get anyone fired and we'll see the same exact thing in 18.

[voodoo_magic]

I don't enjoy the speed setting for EASHL, it's too fast. All I see is guys running into each other with no time to set up plays like real hockey.
Some nice improvements to the mode but it's not fun for me game play wise.
Played HUT though I never waste my time on it during the season,just to get some time with offline single player. On default settings it's pretty bad, very arcade like.

I was happy to try the beta because I thought I might spend some time with EASHL this year but not now. Instead I can focus on season mode so it's ok for me.

[1OOT_Frost]

Can someone send an extra Xbox1 beta code to [email protected].
I'm desperate to play!!

[speedtrucker]

Quote: Originally Posted by mikeq672

I couldnt agree more. Sure there are a few minimal changes. Maybe its a slightly different process, but 2+2 and 2x2 both equal 4. Different process, same results as every other year. Just an ugly cluster**** of a game where the more broken plays there are and the more times you skate into your teammate and lose the puck, the better chance you have to score.

That is a really great example, the 2+2 is same as 2x2...

It feels different in ways and there are some additions but the changes but for what they added, they also mucked up some other areas.

The goalies in EASHL are bad, we played again for another 5 or so games... Same results. To the point that 2 of us were excited for a 1-2 loss we had because somehow only 3 goals were allowed unlike the 25+ goals scored on the other 4 games.

[Ruffy]

I have to say the NHL series is so polarizing on OS.

Either hate or love.