NHL11 complaints and glitches
by JackAvsFan on Sep 13, 2010 4:53 PM MDT
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PrintThis'll be my last NHL11 thread. Promise. But I have too much to say to jam it into the old thread...
OK, so here's what I've noticed so far:
1. The Pre-Unipron Avs jerseys are still screwed up. The zig zag stripe on the arm isn't wide enough, and it just ends up looking like a plain burgundy stripe (like on the arms of the uniprons) when it gets moved around on the bodies of players.
2. Letters on nameplates still stretch and peoples' pants sometimes poke through their jersey again.
3. The hair textures still suck.
4. Elbowing and interference penalties don't look right.
5. They've recycled the end-of-game cutscene, the Stanley Cup cutscene, and the ejection cutscene. Again.
6. They recycled the commentary again, and since it's Gary Thorne that would usually be alright with me, but this is the second year in a row they've failed to take out the bit where he talks like Joe Sakic is still playing.
7. They have the wrong headshot for Ryan Wilson. Either that, or he's had some major plastic surgery done this summer. Hey, don't discount it totally... I mean, who has actually seen a picture of Wilson taken within the last 2 months?
8. I'm getting alot of trade offers in Be a GM, but they're stuff like Matt Duchene for Joe Thornton, and Paul Stastny for Derek Morris and a low draft pick. I mean, come on...
9. Sometimes my player freezes in the faceoff circle when I lose the draw. I would expect this from Sidney Crosby, who would no doubt be yapping at the ref about how the other guy cheated, but it happens to everybody.
10. They only have 3 available centers to use online. For the 4th line, you have to use Koci. Apparently they aren't smart enough to make at least Stoa available.
11. They made the time between when it finishes loading and when your team steps onto the ice shorter, so now I have to completely remake my Avs intro, because the siren isn't timed right anymore.
12. No Cohen or Shattenkirk. I have to wait for a roster update.
13. They already had a mandatory game software patch on release day. It's a real buzzkill to put your game into the PS3 for the first time, hit start, and see "There is a software update available for this game. You must download the update to play the game online."
Plus, Down Goes Brown got a bunch of glitches too.
So, what have you noticed?
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I said it in the other post but the thing that really ticks me off is the lack of being able to fight back after the whistle when someone starts pushing you around. sometimes your dancing the dosey doh instead of beating each other back and forth.
No Shattenkirk ticked me off, he’s kinda important to us!
Theres a ton of others but all in all I like the game, its entertaining.
9601, pissing off Canuck fans since 1995.
Shattenkirk, Cohen, Olver, etc
are not EA’s fault as they don’t have the rights to use them until they play an AHL game under a player contract (rather than try-out contract) because they are from the NCAA. Maybe we will see the NCAA included in the future. What you can get upset at EA about is when they do include the NCAA graduates, like Shattenkirk, and their ratings are in the 60s. Then again Mueller, Stewart, and Duchene are all very high with HUGE upside. I was kind of shocked that they all had potential around the 90’s. Not that they couldn’t be that good… its just that EA, THN, and the rest of the world always rate the Avs low.
I still think they should get rid of Thorne. I am to biased but Doc wouldn’t be bad. But I do like that Avs guy on altitude I think.
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by RolliePollieKovy on Sep 13, 2010 7:15 PM MDT up reply actions
Really?
I’ve come around on Doc, but only because most hockey announcers are terrible (looking at you, Joe Beninati and Sam Rosen. God, I hate Sam Rosen, both on hockey and football.). Gary Thorne, though, is the best in the business, in my opinion. He’s great on hockey, and he’s also great on baseball radio calls.
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Well things have changed some since the early days, but there's still a thread of character and tradition that runs true from one generation to the next. You can see it in the way folks out here set a horse; you can hear it in the way they talk. And when the work's all done, there's nothing they like better than to get together at the one room schoolhouse under the red wall for another down home, homegrown, Western Saturday night.
Actually, they still have the Avs low overall
Apparently, the Leafs are a better team overall than the Avs…
Dear Colorado Avalanche: Thank you for the excitement, see you in October.
What bugs me about Be A GM
Is the rookie handling. Again.
I like the changes, but what pisses me off is you have to give them a contract right away, or you declare them an FA. Add with this the max roster spots, means most rookies you draft are just tossed away. No waiting for them to grow in the minors.
For example, take Hishon:
In reality, Hishon doesn’t have a contract with the Avs, but he is still Avs property. No other team can touch him for now.
In game, if you don’t sign Hishon in the first week after the draft, he becomes a free agent. Any team can snatch him up.
Pissed me off cause it made me choose between Pickard/Attikaillo due to only one available goalie roster spot. So Pickard was immediately taken by another team.
I ragequitted at that point until they release the roster update with Shatty/Cohen.
Dear Colorado Avalanche: Thank you for the excitement, see you in October.
One thing I noticed about the trades
It’s heavily based on what you chose as surplus in the Trading Block.
Choose Offense, you’ll get offers for Duchene/Stastny.
Choose Defense, you get lots of offers for Wilson/Quincey/Hannan.
The ones for defense are way better it seems, to the point I slightly altered one offer for Quincey(This year’s 3rd rd instead of next years) and the deal as a whole was a major steal.
Quincey + next year 2nd + 4th - Lepisto + 3rd + Lunden + Gormley + next year 4th
Dear Colorado Avalanche: Thank you for the excitement, see you in October.
Got rid of Quincey? We so aren’t speaking. ;)
Sandie
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by Sandie Gauthier on Sep 13, 2010 9:18 PM MDT up reply actions
I honestly believe the game can’t tell the difference between friend or foe when attempting to complete a pass. Far too many times I’ll be bringing the puck up in ice in my own zone, then attempt to hit a streaking winger, only to have my guy center the puck directly to the defenseman in the slot.
My neighbors probably wonder what the hell is going on.
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The worst glitch
My issue is that $60 price tag on it. Being a poor college guy still, I’m enjoying my copy of NHL 10 at the moment.
In all seriousness though: I tried a few games at a friends house playing solo, and the passing AI sucks, like Dixomatic said. I still hate the lack of a physical, position based way to play in front of the net. The game is amazing when you’ve got a friend or two to plat alongside, but the AI in a solo game is still spotty
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NHL 11 is not released in the UK until Friday
But got an email this morning saying that they had posted it :) Can’t wait.
I always miss a year when getting EA games, so that it feels like I’m getting my money’s worth. This is my first new hockey game in two years, so I am really looking forward to it. Although in NHL 09, Sakic and Forsberg are still playing :)
Not happy that they are trotting out the same old commentary though. A lot of what was in 09 had been recycled. Can they not just record some fresh stuff, cos the commentary is almost the worst part about that game now. I’ve been hearing it for about five years now.
My opinion is worth about what you paid for it: Nothing.
Actually, noticed this in NHL 11
You can sign Foppa to a 2-way contract, for 500k.
Damn right I signed him to a 3 yr, 4mil contract. Having Foppa in the Monsters roster is awesome. Only because he’s a 73 overall. Worse than Koci.
Dear Colorado Avalanche: Thank you for the excitement, see you in October.
Found somethin neat
Depending what system you’re playing on if you press X (or A with XBOX) while celebrating and skating towards boards your player jumps into them like Ovechkin (and others)
Nice touch!
9601, pissing off Canuck fans since 1995.
Each face button has its own celebration.
Dear Colorado Avalanche: Thank you for the excitement, see you in October.
I know
if you press that button normally you slide down the ice, just giving the heads up that theres a new celebration if you run into the boards whilst pressing it.
9601, pissing off Canuck fans since 1995.
Wait, so you slide down the ice if you’re not close to the boards and press that button? Didn’t know that…I’m usually standing next to the boards after I score lol
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Yup
Usually after I score I quickly turn to avoid the boards and press the down button and X (or A). Your guy will slide down the ice, preeeetty neato!
9601, pissing off Canuck fans since 1995.
Unfortunately
You don’t have enough time to recreate Hejduk’s centre ice slide…
Dear Colorado Avalanche: Thank you for the excitement, see you in October.
Does the game and system costing 500 dollars combined so I can’t afford it count as a glitch?
Is it hockey season yet?
No seriously, is it?
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Mine has that same glitch, except my current tv is so shitty that I’d have to upgrade to make it worthwhile, making the total glitch something like $1,000
by MalachiConstant on Sep 15, 2010 8:15 AM MDT up reply actions
You poor souls.
Makes me feel spoiled for having what I do.
Now we have nothing to bitch about!
Besides marketing, ticket prices, depth at LW, ice girls…~ Mfured20
Not a glitch but a defect..
When negotiating contracts and you don’t offer them exactly what they want, but they still take it, one of the responses is “It was a touch decision”, oh and also as I mentioned before in another thread. Ryan Wilson is not Ryan Wilson, at least picture wise. It is J.D. Watt as Ryan Wilson apparently.
Now we have nothing to bitch about!
Besides marketing, ticket prices, depth at LW, ice girls…~ Mfured20
Is it a glitch when...
…I am not very good at this game? Wow I am going to need practice before I even think of showing my face out in on-line world.
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My least favorite glitch is that your teammates in drop-in games don’t pay attention to the play and go offside every trip up the ice. Or if they can find their way into the zone, they take a wrister from the boards right in front of the blueline instead of passing it to someone who can actually do something with it.
That said, if you’re playing NHL11 by yourself is like having sex by yourself.
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