1. Please ACTUALLY speed up the passing next time. It is still way too sluggish.

2. Please change the call for shot button to something that doesn't cause tripping penalties and a poke check.

3. Please allow us to change all of our offensive and defensive strategies in any game mode at any time.

4. Please tune the gameplay such that outshooting a team with quality chances 2 or 3 or 4 to 1 actually makes a difference on the scoreboard. I've had too many 2-1 wins or 2-1 losses where we had 35 to 40 shots and the other team has 15-20.

Other than that, a lot of the other fixes were a step in the right direction.

Thanks

xbox.Small Mountain wrote:1. Please ACTUALLY speed up the passing next time. It is still way too sluggish.

2. Please change the call for shot button to something that doesn't cause tripping penalties and a poke check.

3. Please allow us to change all of our offensive and defensive strategies in any game mode at any time.

4. Please tune the gameplay such that outshooting a team with quality chances 2 or 3 or 4 to 1 actually makes a difference on the scoreboard. I've had too many 2-1 wins or 2-1 losses where we had 35 to 40 shots and the other team has 15-20.

Other than that, a lot of the other fixes were a step in the right direction.

Thanks

Normally I don't like doing this, but:

What he said. ESPECIALLY #3. It's screwing my EASHL team.

For who dont like some things after the patch, try to play with tuner set 1.01

For next patch

Please Fix , has the end the game , often we not see the cupscene , it pass imediatement to three stars .

I gotta be honest alot of ideas for improvements are great and would make this product better but one thing that's been bugging me lately is how often people ask for them to be rewarded every time they out-shoot their opponent. Look lots of shots from everywhere do not guarentee goals, they only increase the odds of one happening slightly. Same with scoring opportunities. I don't really care if you've got a 12 to 1 lead on scoring chances over your opponent if your aiming your stick too far to the right and it misses an empty net, that's your problem. Does the randomness of shooting make this a pain ya, but nobody nails every shot perfectly every time. If you setup 12 great passing plays and the goalie stones you on each one how about try something different. Dumping the puck on net and battling for it. Or setting up shots through screens. If one of the other two aren't working focus more on passing.

Make no mistake you will dominate your opponents and lose. We all do. So do NHLers. There is some luck but if your the better team then in the grand scheme of things your win-loss record will show that. Yes some team of losers may cream you by 4 goals when they only took 5 shots and they all dribbled trough ur goalie. But if you played that same team 10 times and you are that much better then you would win 8 or 9 of those games. I love how this game plays because of the fact that each game feels different. I have to setup with my team differently to fix whats not working for us offensively. Not to mention the tension it generates when your neck and neck with a team trying to score and you know just one bounce either way and the game is over. I'll take that over... "oh my team has played 200 games and they've played 100 this shall be a sound trouncing I dare say" and then it is ala 09.

Thank you for adding boost slots to regular helmets. Those unlockable ones are GOD AWFUL UGLY! I don't want my player wearing that crap.

xbox.Small Mountain wrote:1. Please ACTUALLY speed up the passing next time. It is still way too sluggish.

2. Please change the call for shot button to something that doesn't cause tripping penalties and a poke check.

3. Please allow us to change all of our offensive and defensive strategies in any game mode at any time.

4. Please tune the gameplay such that outshooting a team with quality chances 2 or 3 or 4 to 1 actually makes a difference on the scoreboard. I've had too many 2-1 wins or 2-1 losses where we had 35 to 40 shots and the other team has 15-20.

Other than that, a lot of the other fixes were a step in the right direction.

Thanks

I forgot another one. Make it so that you don't freeze and wave at the puck when you're trying to bang loose pucks in. This should have been done better.

As for buddy talking about number of shots, I'm also talking scoring chances. If we triple or quadruple the other team's time of posession, we're throwing it around, getting chances in the crease etc., maybe there should be a point where the goalie tires out.

I do not deserve two goals when I have over 20 minutes time on attack and the goalie is flying around the crease the whole time. Maybe the settings are the way they are so that crappy players get some sympathy, but if I'm clearly dominating a game, I expect the score to show it. Same goes if someone is that much better than I am.

It's at the point where the game isn't rewarding skill. I still win about 70% of the games I play but not by as much as I should be.

I agree. We always seem to play teams that can just take random shots and it goes in somehow. While we work the puck and make good plays and get stoned by the AI goalie. We almost always have the time on attack advantage over the other team but they always get those crappy goals in that short amount of time that they are on the attack. We should not be winning by 1 goal or going to overtime when the shots are like 30 to 10 and the TOA like 10:00 to 3:00....

That's not even the only problem in this game because this game has tons of problems. It's in a mess right now and it doesn't seem like they're trying to fix anything any time soon.

Ok sorry if my post was a little aggressive it's just the whining about out chancing and possesing your opponents and still loosing is everywhere and is really tiresome. Not saying you were whining but I digress. I still guarantee everyone that if you counted all the lucky goals over 100 games for your club they would be 50:50 with your opponents. And to be fair if your not winning games by wider margins and you are possesing the puck that much longer then your opponents in that many games then yes I relent your excellent passers (or at circling, either way) but that still doesn't make you a goal on its own. Now if your setting up open nets and great feeds and the goalies are always robbing you then I don't know what to say. Puck possession works in my teams favour in practically every win.

Like I said just try mixing up the offence, when holding and passing aren't working do what real NHL teams do, simplify. Switch to firing on net from the point. Get some traffic. Good luck.

It's not like we're just having possession of the puck and not making anything happen from it. We actually set up nice chances, wide open cross creases, rebound chances, dump and chase, work the puck around, we try everything and we get stonewalled by the AI goalie. While the other team can just skate down, shoot some crappy 1 mph shot, and score like he was a sniper.

Penalty shots are called too liberally. Please fix this in the next patch. Thanks! Great work guys.

Maybe there is a way to give the normal goalie gear some slots!? Maybe in relation to the earned custom ones? For example when I got the spider blockers, the normal blockers got 3 slots as well. Please get me right, I like some of the custom gear, but most of them don't match with the teams. For example the black spider ones again. They are looking great, but the colors are looking ugly with most teams. BTW: I like to creat my own goalie gear anyway and the feature is in NHL 10, but we can't use it.

And why there is no fighting without the player is involved. As a goalie, I never see a fight.

And what's about "player in the crease" goals!? Just review and reverse them like old NHL versions.

Player in crease goals? Umm those haven't been illegal in the NHL for almost 10 years now. And yes goalie fights would be amazing.

xbox.Clarkez wrote:Player in crease goals? Umm those haven't been illegal in the NHL for almost 10 years now. And yes goalie fights would be amazing.

I don't mean goalie fights. Just fights without the player involved.

I don't know if "in the crease" is the right word in english!? I talk about the blue zone around the goal. I know that nobody be allowed to stay in this zone when he or a teammate shoots a goal.

I still don't see the authentic helmets with boost slots equipped. I absolutely hate my current helmet.