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9 years ago

NHL 18 BETA Improvements

I love EA NHL and have played it every year since NHL Hockey (93).

However, just created a list of music, art, game play, technical  issues you guys might find useful to improve for the NHL 18 Beta.

MUSIC:

I'm not sure since it's a work in progress, but goal horn soundtracks get cut off when pushing x to go to face off. It's not a smooth transition. Also adding more cool NHL soundtracks always makes the game epic. I also miss the feature adding your own soundtracks to the game as in NHL 14.  The NBC music is cool but also adding some opening them music specific for the NHL teams would be great.

ART:

NHL 18 added new camera angle zooms after goals or before face-offs. There really cool and makes one feel more part of the game. However, I think it might be occurring too much for my liking. I have a little camera sickness.....i.e  if you score a lot of consecutive goals these camera angles will occur frequently.

Also, most of the fans look good but some angles have zoomed up on some lesser quality characters. Making the game feel not as good quality in artistic appearance.

Some behind the glass camera zooms have some flickering boards, so I'm assuming this is a 3d render issue.

Adding another gameplay camera angle between ICE and ACTION would be great.

Controls and game play:

When the puck is shot down the ice, it's quite annoying that I can't access my goalie sometimes to bring him out to get it. Please fix this issue.

I like how skaters can still skate even after the other team can has got the momentum, However, I'm not sure if I am a big fan of momentum. I think It's good for a time limit after scoring or opening of a period, However, it's about the user playing against the other user and if he or she tries harder that should be enough momentum in itself. Often the game feels to controlled.

Technical:

NHL 3 on 3 mode: When playing a friend in 3 on 3, during intermission when I clicked ready and my friend was still choosing his substitutions, I couldn't press circle and go back and change mine.

This could be my own WIFI issue but playing reg. online NHL, during a penalty shot, I think my opponent paused the game. I still was in the game and about to shoot, but I completely lost control over my player....it went 20 times faster right out to the corner.  

I'm a huge fan of the world cup jerseys. Hopefully they can still maintain the rights to keep them in the game. Adding some winter classic stadiums would be cool too and adding more NHL 100 themes in the UI menus would also look great.

NHL 18 looks great for the most part. NHL 3 on 3 looks like a fun addition to the game too!

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