For all the joking Coldforged and I did about the "Pokemon" nature of the Ultimate Hockey league, it's pretty frickin' fantastic. I had to start over once because I got myself stuck in a "pay real money for cards or you can't continue" situation, but with the second play through and a little bit more foresight, I'm doing alright so far. My first line has 3 NHL players, two of them being "rare" cards and I think I have a good strategy to avoid running out of contract cards again.
Has anybody else given this game mode a whirl?
I have only played one game online for the reasons you state. I'm having a blast with it offline though. It's hard for me to believe I will ever be able to afford the Jumbo packs. I got up to about 5000 before, but I was so strapped for cards I had to splurge to keep going. Maybe when I get a decent enough team to play in the higher level tournaments I will earn enough for those packs.
I think the main problem I have with winning the higher tournaments is goal tending actually. My highest rated goaltender is about 65 I think. It's incredibly frustrating to have to play near-perfect defense in order to give myself a decent chance to win. That's why I usually stick to the one and two star tournaments.
I got Tim Thomas pretty cheap on the trading block. I think it was like 850, or something. It is worth your time to target certain needs every now and then and see what you find. You never know when you hit it at just the right time. I think other 80+ goalies were going for 3000 or more.
Another thing to keep in mind is that your back-up goalie also loses a game every time you play. So keep all of your 50+ goalies around to throw in as a back-up.
I noticed that about the back-up goalie, which makes total sense since they'd obviously have to be under contract to sit on the bench. Not much of a choice for me as I have exactly 2 goalies in my entire collection.
Y'know, i'm sure there's some legal hoops to jump through, but does anyone else find it silly that EA doesn't have rosters through the first 2-3 games, and won't for another week or two?
Yep. All I'm waiting for to start my Be A GM Franchise.
/Toronto 3-0 - Woohoo!
This game is too good to die on the vine.
Yep. Hit me up anytime if you see me online. Pretty much the only game I play right now.
I'd like the new jersey code. Any word on when that's coming out?
I say we plan a night soon to play some games against each other.
Well dudes, just picked this up. I'll get back with my thoughts once I have the game on Thursday, but hopefully we can play each other!
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I should be finally picking this up, especially with Black Friday Best Buy deal of $34.99. Looking forward to getting back into hockey, since I passed on NHL10. ESPN3 thru XBL is pretty awesome, so I can keep up with the NHL action. For me, real life and the game feed into each other until I have an all-consuming addiction.
Crap! You're right. ESPN streaming on 360 only has highlights of NHL games, no live events or archived games. That sucks hard. I am now a sad panda.
Geeze I'm a lagging fool in sports right now. After pm'ing Jay' about hoops and I got College Hoops 2k8 (with file share real rosters) and playing it. That and Madden 2k11. NOW NHL 11. I was on the verge of NHL 10 after some talking to Jay', but with Black Friday around the corner maybe I'll try and get the Best Buy deal. But then I'll be up to my eye balls in sports games with hardly enough time to be proficient in any if I play them all! Gadzooks...I'm doomed. (maybe I'll just settle for NHL 10 and play when I can in my corner). I've not really played hockey on-line (or otherwise) for 4 years or so (I think we all had something going with Certis, Mr. Green, Swampy and Jay' at one time (and others...probably Coldforge for sure).
Anyway, am I understanding correctly that you Jay' and others are actually thinking of playing on-line now?
Is it bad that I'm much more likely to play NHL today because of the alternate jersey code finally being released?
I haven't really been playing much NHL because I'm finding it increasingly difficult to score. Maybe it's an aiming issue, as I prefer manual aim, but I used to be able to be competitive against All-Star difficulty, and now I'm hopeless. I played a game against Pro difficulty AI last night, and won in overtime, but scoring still seemed too hard. Did they change the tuner sets or something? Maybe I'll try auto-aim, but it sure seems like something is different.
I haven't really been playing much NHL because I'm finding it increasingly difficult to score. Maybe it's an aiming issue, as I prefer manual aim, but I used to be able to be competitive against All-Star difficulty, and now I'm hopeless. I played a game against Pro difficulty AI last night, and won in overtime, but scoring still seemed too hard. Did they change the tuner sets or something? Maybe I'll try auto-aim, but it sure seems like something is different.
I just started playing NHL 11 this week and I'm finding it really hard to score as well. I'll outshoot my opponent about 3:2, get open shots from the slot that get saved every time and when the computer gets the same (or even a point shot) they'll ring it in off the post. I might have to move the game off the default sliders.
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