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EASHL Beta Impressions: Glenn's Take

09:49 AM - August 3, 2015 by RaychelSnr

Now that the NHL 16 EASHL beta is officially out, we can see how it plays in the wild. There have definitely been some technical issues -- this is a beta after all -- but when things have gone smoothly, the action has been pretty enjoyable. Here are some quick thoughts on how things have gone for my squad so far...

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# 1 JayBillups36 @ 08/03/15 10:43 AM

Yeah the behind the net play is a disaster. Multiple times my defender even put the puck in the net but the goal doesn't count it just whistles for faceoff. The goalie flipping the puck out of bounds for penalty seems excessive, he once darts out of the net in overtime just to turn the puck over and leave wide open net.

# 2 VTKombat @ 08/03/15 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by JayBillups36


	Yeah the behind the net play is a disaster. Multiple times my defender even put the puck in the net but the goal doesn't count it just whistles for faceoff. The goalie flipping the puck out of bounds for penalty seems excessive, he once darts out of the net in overtime just to turn the puck over and leave wide open net.

I was in a game where the goalie went behind the net to get the puck and got stuck to the boards there. We checked the hell out of him but he just spazzed out and finally the whistle blew. Was funny at the time.

# 3 RevisIsland24 @ 08/03/15 11:11 AM

They NEED to add Drop in games for EASHL. It's dumb that you you need to wait for friend to get on, or hop from club to club, just to play a game.

# 4 snc237 @ 08/03/15 11:27 AM

Well my thoughts are pretty much the same. The A.I. In the defensive zone definitely needs work when they have the puck. Last night the goalie skated up to get the puck. He passed it to the cpu defender, the defender continued to skate down directly into the net and scored on himself. There was no pressure on him he just decided to keep skating down and ran directly in to the net which was 15-20 feet away when he got the puck. The cpu is a mess behind the net but for everything else it's by far the best we have seen from them in EASHL.

# 5 GrandMaster B @ 08/03/15 11:35 AM

I would like to see some stat overlays added to the games that we got in the past when your player reached a certain milestone, like 50 career goals, etc. I know they had these in 14.

# 6 LanzeraND @ 08/03/15 11:35 AM

As for the AI getting hung up on the net, it seems that your strategy and the location on ice of the forwards decide if the D-Men are going to freak out behind the net. We noticed that when playing over the last two days that if you try to keep your wingers just inside the blue line and the center is either just over the blue line or just inside the D-Men don't get hung up. We also noted that the puck movement from the AI is very Strategy dependent and if your human players are sitting back and you have the game to press the AI will make really bad choices and look horrible. Overall defensive play from the AI is not good, but once they touch the puck it seems to get better IMO. I've caught myself and virtually everyone else taking off each time the AI get the puck hoping for the NHL 14 homerun break out pass and it usually doesn't happen.

# 7 Semipro91 @ 08/03/15 12:19 PM

I couldn't make a pass or handle the puck to save my life, and I'm not talking complex passes or puck handling. I had the puck in the corner on offense with nobody on me and a clear lane to my strong side defensemen. I missed him with the pass by 4 feet. I'm not a noob either, I have been playing this game forever. The default player attributes are garbage.

# 8 norml @ 08/03/15 12:54 PM

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	I couldn't make a pass or handle the puck to save my life, and I'm not talking complex passes or puck handling. I had the puck in the corner on offense with nobody on me and a clear lane to my strong side defensemen. I missed him with the pass by 4 feet. I'm not a noob either, I have been playing this game forever. The default player attributes are garbage.

Agree 100%. I've only been able to play a couple games during the the several hours of trying. The games I did play felt pretty bad. I played defense exclusively and was pretty bummed about the controls. I was really looking forward to the precision skating feature but unless it gets some major tweeking, it's kind of a useless feature.

The biggest issue for me was controller input delay. I don't know if it's a sever issue or a game issue but it pretty much makes playing D ridiculous.

# 9 KleShreen @ 08/03/15 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by RevisIsland24


	They NEED to add Drop in games for EASHL. It's dumb that you you need to wait for friend to get on, or hop from club to club, just to play a game.

This is the biggest issue, for me. I've played a few games at RD, my usual position, and everything seems pretty good back there. But not being able to do drop-in games in EASHL is stupid. Not everyone has 5 real-life friends who play NHL on their system, and certainly you can't expect them to only play when someone else is on. The whole point of putting together a good EASHL team in the past was doing drop-in games and finding other good players you can start a team with.

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