Okay, I won a HUT offline game. It was fun :). I admit, I'm a shmoe with chemistry and contracts so I will likely lose a lot and end up with no players... but it could be a fun diversion.
Here's a goal I dig. I could see my forward moving with a purpose so I figured I'd go for a homerun pass off the end boards like Stillman used to connect with Cole. Whatdya know, it worked!
I saw this posted over at OS. Talk about, "If it's in the game..."
Just had funny moment happen to me and some buds during some EASHL games tonight. Some guy on the other team was hitting people like crazy. Well, he absolutely hammered this guy into the boards and got called for hitting from behind. The funny thing was, he got a game misconduct and literally got kicked out of the game.God I love this game :)
Seriously, EA Canada have taken the mantle as best sport game developers, ever.
HAH! That's classic.
For Psycho, here's Semin's "fight" I referenced during our game.
I saw this posted over at OS. Talk about, "If it's in the game..."
Just had funny moment happen to me and some buds during some EASHL games tonight. Some guy on the other team was hitting people like crazy. Well, he absolutely hammered this guy into the boards and got called for hitting from behind. The funny thing was, he got a game misconduct and literally got kicked out of the game.God I love this game :)
Seriously, EA Canada have taken the mantle as best sport game developers, ever.
That. Is Awesome. Still having a blast with the game. Only stupid work interrupting me from playing it. Still outshooting the CPU by a lot though. I might up the difficulty level one more notch to see if that changes things. Awaiting Bill Harris slider set...
Still outshooting the CPU by a lot though.
Odd, I'm not, and I'm on Pro. I'm not throwing a whole lot of rubber at the net. Maybe I'm trying to get too cute. The CPU is quite good at shot blocking me, though. I know I outshot the CPU last year.
Then again, maybe I'm just old and slow. That's likely.
Donkey Konga fight
Haha! He's doing it wrong!
Then again, maybe I'm just old and slow. That's likely.
We may need to test that theory online. I'm taking a football break tonight, but will be playing most of the afternoon / evening tomorrow and then be on the couch the rest of the weekend thanks to a perfectly scheduled minor surgery.
I didn't get to play last night.
I didn't get to play last night. :-(
Ditto. I'm jonesing!
this game owns my soul.
Yep. Online and off. Played my first two online games vs. Jayhawker just now.
I apologize if I'm being a filthy skimmer, but I have a question to ask that's pertinent to me buying this game soon, possibly. Did EA fracture the "Be a Pro" again with paid progression? I remember hearing people complain about that and I was wondering if DLC broke that mode again this year.
Wow. I'm intrigued.
Thread tagged.
I'm ready for another year of NHL addiction and have just talked myself into buying NHL 11 (360) instead of Civ5. I'm ready for Columbus to go absolutely nowhere in the standings. I skipped 10, so hopefully my NHL skills remain.
So here's the question, then. I'm seeing complaints on the NHL message boards about Be a Pro being broken. Honestly, that will be the difference between me buying NHL 11 or buying NHL 09 for dirt cheap. Basically I don't want to play a broken mode where it requires far far too many games to get called up. I remember it being very organic in 09. You would play good enough to eventually get called up and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I'm hearing that in 11 it's like huge milestones like playing 40 games in X league and 40 games in Y league and on and on. I don't think I'd have fun with that.
The other mode sounds interesting, though, but for me personally I loved playing those low level games in Be a Pro. So it has to be at least similar enough to 09 to be worth me buying the game.
I haven't played a single minute of BaP yet. Having way too much fun with Ultimate Team.
I really, really, really want to learn manual shot aim. I feel like I should, and I want to.
But two games, 89 shots and one measly goal later, I am giving up.
Pred, don't give up. The payoff is there. Hit me up for a game sometime and I'll show you some tricks. There are no easy goals yet this year that I've been able to find, but there are higher percentage shots available.
My thumb hurts.
Pred, don't give up. The payoff is there. Hit me up for a game sometime and I'll show you some tricks. There are no easy goals yet this year that I've been able to find, but there are higher percentage shots available.
My thumb hurts.
The difference when I jumped up to auto-aim was immediate, but in a few games, it seems the real skill players really are dangerous, finally. Being a blueshirts fan, much like in real life, Marian Gaborik is the only Ranger anyone should feel scared of with the puck on his stick.
Give me until the end of the week, I think i'm going to have to buy this from GameFly.
So what does this mean, then? If you're not a huge hockey fan (me) and are frustrated by the inability to score is it kosher (both in terms of getting good enough at HUT to enjoy it and as a gamer) to play with auto-aim? Because I have to tell you that my experience bordered on maddening. I wasn't awesome in 09, but I could score. And those goals were exhilarating in their infrequency. However, to play 3 or 4 games and not even come close to scoring is not quite as exhilarating.
Well, I'll just watch the forums here and walk away for now. Pity.
I too am interested in people's thoughts on BaP mode. I loved it in 09 but thought it took too long to really beef-up your player. I got called up pretty quick, but I wasn't too happy with how long it took to get attribute points. I played the demo like crazy and liked HUT, but online co-op with friends and BaP are the big draws for me.
Note: After only playing the demo, I was able to score a few times with a 72 rank player (manual aim). The hard part was getting near the goalie because the AI is always watching those passing lanes.
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