@Jagavekov wrote:You can give me your wonderful settings and I will play with them and capture clips of the AI letting me into their zone, letting me skate around their zone uncontested, and taking horrible angles at puck carriers all over the ice.
I can capture small clips all day long and I can make real NHL player look bad or look like a superstar… Even the AI in the NHL makes mistakes, lol !
Capture a full unedited period with my settings AS IS and we have a deal 😀 When I emphasize on AS IS, it’s because everyone that loves hockey is an expert when it comes to sliders, and they wanna tinker with them… But trust me, I’ve put more than 200 hours and sometimes just changing one value can put the gameplay in another direction fast 😉
Used your sliders for a period, 8-1 me:
Here are some Highlights:
This one is long with a low frame rate but I wanted to capture how bad the defense was and for how long
I could do many more of these but it would be beating a dead horse.
Its nothing against you, the sliders are fine, the AI is severely broken in this game and sliders won't fix it.
You played with the sliders and setting AS IS and on Superstar ? It was 8-1 after 1 ?
WTH !!! Maybe I’m super bad and everyone playing with my sliders are also, lol !!!
I play player lock and try to play like hockey…. Not looking for glitch goals and I’m also passing the puck…
These clips are awesome BTW, how do you make these ? It’s a gif of a video ?
And no offence, but all I see in these clips is a guy not passing, hanging on to the puck looking for glitch goals… Same thing I see when I look videos of online… If you wanna have fun, try playing player lock, not look for glitches, pass the puck and never ask for passes. Put each team on (Puck Side Attack) in the team Strategies and maybe, just maybe you'll see what I see 😉 Then post a video of a whole period 😀
Aren't all of us gamers playing some sort of simulation, or at least an abstract version of reality?
Personally, I've been gaming since the mid-80s, and my gaming library has many classics and memories. In fact, not only is my PlayStation library full of reminiscing, so is my Nintendo Switch (OLED) library. B'ye crikey, mate, I love gaming!
Okay, I'll now add to what you're pointing out. Yes, there's plenty of "simulators". And as an almost 3-decade (gamer) fan of the NHL series, this series needs more interjection from the current and lackadaisical development team that's supposedly taking pride in what they're selling. At this point, and over the last several iterations of this series, their stance has been quite the opposite. Why? Because they know full well that the supposed small demographic will buy this game, regardless of the platform, hype, past transgressions, and most importantly, whatever the price point is. Ha, and yes, they've already, long before release, have factored in that the supposed small demographic will tirelessly complain on this forum. Pride? Nope. Integrity? Nope. Care factor? Nope. Profit? Most certainly.
Bottom line, I'm also a part of the supposed small demographic, and I could have done something better with my $94 CAD.
@TheUnusedCrayon wrote:
@Jagavekovonce I perfect my sliders I'll try handing them to you. One of the reasons why PernellKarl's sliders are allowing you to do that is the stark contrast in backskating speed, aggression and in general skating speeds that he has. The biggest one being the backskating speed.
I've got my sliders set up for position lock on G but I was gonna end up doing another set for skaters. The AI is improved from previous games, but it takes A LOTTTTT of tuning to get them to become challenging but not cheap.
That's fine, I will try them, but there are two main defensive AI problems that sliders can't solve:
1) They take the wrong angles towards puck carriers - they seem to target the back shoulder of the player, causing them to skate where the puck carrier WAS rather than where he IS GOING.
2) They prioritize covering open players and staying in position too much, at the expense of attacking the puck carrier. This leads to offensive zone play that looks more like an ISO play in basketball, where one player skates around with the puck (like in my clips), and if (more like when) he beats his man, no one else is concerned with stopping him.
Hey Hood. Couple years back you shared your sliders. Thought they were awesome.
Think you could share em again when you're done? Paid for this game ,may as well have as much fun as I can with it.
Happy Holidays man.
