Thread: Likes/Dislikes in NHL 10

I like Be a Player mode where I just became Anze Kopitar.


I hate that I win about 1 out of 100 face offs.

likes:
boardplay against CPU. You actually have a chance at stopping them before they make a no look behind the back pass cross ice straight to a teamate for a wide open net.

scouting. i had trouble remembering to scout prospects.....now it always notifies me that i am ready to scout a different region

dislikes:
tripping penalties....and no calls whatsoever on the cpu for interfering your player.

cpu always manages to knock me down no matter what i'm doing yet i can only knock them on their rear ends ONCE IN A WHILE ....and when i do, i get called for a charging penalty.

the boost packs are the obvious.

TOO MANY ****ING UNREALISTIC CPU TRADES!

i have to overpay in a trade (most of the time)

whenever the cpu rejects the trade.....why can't they just keep the same players in the proposal so i won't have to waste my time putting those players back in the proposal to modify it? and is it just me or is it impossible to trade for draft picks? i offered Justin Williams for a 3rd pick while he was tearing it up and still had a year on his contract and the cpu said they don't want to deal picks.....

i NEVER get offered a deal for a player that i put on the trading block.....NEVER. its always Brown or Scuderi.

Neutral:

the blackberry/trade offers you recieve.
i keep getting offered the SAME deal involving Brown for some overaged crappy player(s).....i get silly offers like Gagne or Hossa for Handzus.

what i would like to have added to the game:

RFA rules
injured players that ACTUALLY SIT OUT GAMES DUE TO INJURY
not drafting a Michael Ovechkin from HUNGARY.....might as well draft someone from Liechtenstein.
trading up/down during draft day.
players actually coming to YOU asking for an offer (like NHL 2K)
add the Training camp.....get some camp invites and get reports on all the players (all though this may get tiring after a while)
get rid of the "overall" ratings.....it's ridiculous how i keep having to sign players to 1.8 million dollar contracts when they're overall 78 and haven't played a single NHL game! and Frolov is NOT going to sign for 3 million a year.....
home-team discounts/ franchise players that want to stay with your team
extend the years you can put on a contract.....i want the Islanders to suffer from a Yashin-type contract.(although if this happens, EA will just piss us off by having all these teams keep on signing players to horrible contracts and leaving all these great young stars as free agents throughout a season(s)


.....but obviously EA is just make a replica of NHL 10 for NHL 11 like they always do....

Oh also I hate that the cpu will hit you 4 or 5 times after you got rid of the puck...no call. But if you go and hit them back, PENALTY!

i still have rookies scoring almost at a goal per game while playing on the 4th line......my rookie had 19 goals and ZERO assists in 23 games(and he's labeled as a playmaker with an 88 passing rating).

Originally Posted by Palffy3314

As in pretty much any NHL game, there are a lot of things that bug me...but I wanna post some things that really bug me about this game in no order (keep in mind I am playing on Superstar.)

Loose Pucks- over 75% of the time, the cpu will get the loose pucks. When your AI get them, you end up getting checked and knocked on your ass or poke checked because you are stunned you actually got the puck.

Rebounds- Goes with loose pucks, except the percentage isn't as high. I don't have much of a problem defensively, but offensively they get the puck like nothing or once again steal it from my player like nothing. Or my players go to shoot the rebound and they miss the puck like a bunch of retards. Also, a lot of the time I'll press up to shoot and my player waits until another player is in his way and decides that it's a good time to shoot.

Hitting- Hitting was pretty unrealistic and stupid in 09, but it was one of the best parts of the game. I don't have a problem with not being able to knock out Zdeno Chara with Oscar Moller, but what pisses me of is in the game I just played, I was charging full speed at Kovalchuk with Scuderi and I just bump him. I don't care who the player was, he should've been knocked on his ass!

Faceoffs- I can win faceoffs no problem on any difficulty but Superstar and online against cpu. I can win a fair amount against most human players online, but Superstar and cpu online seem impossible to win against. I have Stoll...one of the best faceoff men in the game taking faceoffs and losing 90% of them. How the hell is that even possible? I try timing it different times, yet I still lose them.

Shot Amounts- Some games there will be shot amounts like 16-12 final. Come on now, even in the most defensive real NHL games they get more. I don't want to put more time in games, because they are long enough now with this after the whistle thing. Which bring me to another point, why can't we change the amount of time that is on there? And in the EASHL, why is the after the whistle crap even on there? Hardly anyone fights then, mostly everyone just runs around hitting each other which makes it take even longer. Put it back to how it was in NHL 09 for the EASHL.

Speed Boost- I can only use it once I hit the red line now? WTF is that ****, if I'm on a breakaway, I want to push the puck up before some ******* steals it! I guess it's better online that way, but still annoying.

Goalie Stats- Goes with the shot total thing. Thanks to shot totals being lower, Quick's GAA as well as Sv% ect. has become pretty embarassing. And the scores aren't even that high, so wtf EA!.

All of these sound like issues that you can fix with the sliders. It's something that 2K had last year that i'm really glad they added. There are sliders for loose pucks, interceptions, blocking shots, etc for both human and CPU. If your shots aren't getting through, turn those sliders down.

Maybe try moving the difficulty to All-Star and tweaking the sliders to make it hard enough for you...

The people who make the game can't possibly account for everyone's playing style and make the perfect game. Tweak the sliders a bit and I bet you'll have a better result.

Originally Posted by Palffy3314

Game Freezing- Never had this problem with a game before and I hear it's somewhat common in sports games (and I've owned every NHL game since 03,) but this one freezes. Not during gameplay, but in Be a GM when I'm doing something on it. Annoying!

Hasn't happened to me yet, but that would piss me off. Most of my time in that mode is doing things that I wouldn't necessarily save right after (or get an autosave), so chances are I would lose a lot of stuff.

As with everyone else, I'm pissed that EA decided that $60 wasn't enough for the freakin' game, and then made the free ways of getting the boosts so mundane and time-consuming that no one would want to do them. Weak sauce....

I love how the loading screens have a purpose now. I like scrolling through the goalie stats and "Players to Watch" instead of being reminded how to poke check for the 15,000th time.

I like the soundtrack a lot too (not quite as much as last year's). Seems they get that right every year.

They still haven't perfected the trading system, but I think it's better than any previous one (which isn't saying too much).

Overall a great game.

No sliders in this game that I've seen,

The franchise (be a gm) mode isn't very realistic, on draft day I got offered Martin St. Louis for Michal Handzus lol.

Overall though, a great ****ing game.

Lol they love Zeus in this game. I got offered Gagne for him.

I traded Zus for Gagne too