XBox 360 NHL 10 Thread (EASHL)

Wow...I forgot how full of FAIL OTP was. The next time I'm stuck on the same team as a pair of dumbass defensemen who think they're forwards I might just have to invent a way to travel through the internets and choke a bitch. The only satisfaction left is to listen to them whine after you absolutely NEVER under any circumstances pass to them no matter how open they are.

An extra special Eff-You to our computer goalie who let three fricken' unscreened slapshots in while theirs warps from one side of the net to the other to stop a deke. My +/- thanks you, oh genius goaltender AI programmer.

Cheers!

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Originally Posted by wasabinuki

I finally finished my German league games to unlock my +3 pass boost

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Where do you play the German league games to unlock the boost?

OK... so, what is the secret to winning a face off? I didn't see it in the booklet that came with the game. Do I push a buton? Do I move a stick? Is it a timing thing that Im not getting? help!

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Originally Posted by Maximus

OK... so, what is the secret to winning a face off? I didn't see it in the booklet that came with the game. Do I push a buton? Do I move a stick? Is it a timing thing that Im not getting? help!

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Timing online and offline differs because of latency, but offline you'll notice that if you pull the right stick back your player will drop and pull his stick back as well. You want to time it so the puck hits the ice as the player is pulling back.

Online, I almost never play center, but everything I have heard indicates that you pull back as soon as the ref moves his hand to make up for lag.

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Originally Posted by Maximus

OK... so, what is the secret to winning a face off? I didn't see it in the booklet that came with the game. Do I push a buton? Do I move a stick? Is it a timing thing that Im not getting? help!

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I play center a lot, and face offs in 10 have irritated the sh** out of me. Off-line I can win 95% easy, on-line is completely different. If you are going against another human controlled center, and you have a high FO attribute you should win 60% or more of the face offs (unless the other center is good too). If you are going against the CPU then you will lose your ass. For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to beat a CPU center more than 40% of the time. Pisses me off.

All in all it is a timing thing. And instead of pulling straight back on the right joysitck, pull the puck back toward your LD or RD - it seems to help, especially if your strong side is the other centers weak side. I hope this helped a little, all I can say is mix it up until you find what works for you.

A few "tips" for unlocking boosts and equipment: To unlock the goodies associated with the Euro leagues simply play the team in Shootout mode. This is way quicker than playing full games, and you should be done with all 5 leagues in less than an hour. Just make sure to play them in this order: Czech, Finnish, German, Swedish, Swiss. If not the boosts/equipment might not unlock properly.

Another easy unlock is the +3 cammo stick (get all A's as a Tough Guy in Be A Pro). Create a new Be A Pro, and play the rookie came on rookie level - straight A+ is a simple assist away. After you get you A's just hit the "B" button to make a line change as soon as you get put back on the ice. You can do this with every player type to unlock more stuff.

Get 70 pts with your created Be A Pro player is my next unlock (for a 3 boost helmet) - and after playing a full season of Be A Pro on rookie level I should have a lot of +5s unlocked as well. Rookie is sooooooooo easy, and you get to practice dekes and moves you would never get a chance to on harder levels. Once I get all my stuff unlocked I probably won't pay offline any more.

With the above unlocks it should help your player quite a bit, and will help our squad compete better with all the people that purchased their boosts, whom I despise - especially when it's a whole team that has the stuff.

The new EASHL season starts today - lets call September pre-season where it doesn't really matter how well we did. I think wasabinuki ended the season 6 games under .500

How did the other 360 teams do in season 1?

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Get 70 pts with your created Be A Pro player is my next unlock (for a 3 boost helmet) - and after playing a full season of Be A Pro on rookie level I should have a lot of +5s unlocked as well. Rookie is sooooooooo easy, and you get to practice dekes and moves you would never get a chance to on harder levels. Once I get all my stuff unlocked I probably won't pay offline any more.

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Didn't work for me on PS3, so good luck with that

EA's servers went down as we were winning 6-1!

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Originally Posted by Palffy3314

Didn't work for me on PS3, so good luck with that

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You need to play 40 complete games, or sim to the last 5 mins and intervene. You cannot sim the 40 games. If you make it to 70 points in those 40 games, then you can sim until the last game of the season, then play that. Once the season has ended and playoffs are about to start - then the helmet unlocks. A few other things unlock as well, but I assure you it does work.