NHL20 GamePlay
Dear ladies and gentlemen will you manipulate the HUT Offline Game Play again, as in NHL19 ?? Kind regards dustman
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EA_Roger
EA Staff (Retired)
EA Staff (Retired)The facts that a Gameplay developer and EA Community Manager state publicly that there is no DDA should be proof enough that there is. I've been over this multiple times, as have the developers, I'm providing you with the reply above and won't go much into more detail on it as this never leads to anything constructive.
@dustmann wrote:
Prove it.
In NHL19 HUT I have VideoMaterial the opposite show.
This "Prove it" statement comes up often with this discussion, not just for NHL, also for FIFA and other EA sports games. I play other games myself and if a game developer states that something isn't or is in the game I believe them, they know the game more than most. Proving something isn't there is extremely difficult, it's like me asking you to prove that the Loch Ness monster isn't real.
I fully admit I was a total je rk on the other forums back in the day regarding similar stuff but it all came down to some very suspicious (and constant) circumstances in my EASHL. For clarification my team always hovered top 100 so it's not like we couldn't get hot or cold, we just noticed it was the super weak teams that usually ended up winning.
I understand the official response is no DDA or ice-tilt/whatever you want to call it but I wholeheartedly agree a simple 5 minute demonstration video showcasing how the coding works would go an extremely long way for players. You guys used to do a few kind of "dev-talk" videos back in the day and they were great.
We all have videos of spanking/slapping/dominating opponents amd getting nowhere and they just flub it from center and score when they need to - can you please ask the team to break those videos down? Heck, tear us right down, if our response is "nah that's still BS" instead of "I don't believe that for a second", you know you've won and we can actually put it to rest.
This is a huge issue among players that gets addressed but never really disected.
Edit: you mentioned Nessie - that's easy, you show the process of how the pictures are doctored, use radar to detect it, and debunk the idea with biology and question its food source. In these hockey videos you just need to show "well your character wasn't in position here, this backskate here made you lose speed, oh look at your stamina - it does this this and this to your stats" etc. NHLDev/Ben in the other forums sure seems to love making these statements so maybe you can put him in charge of that? I think we just need visual confirmation either way. Use lots of circles and arrows, Idk maybe some flashing gifs of cats to really drive it home
My biggest issue in offline HUT is the “ice tilt”. They can’t say it doesn’t exist. How else can I EASILY win face offs all day in any game I play... as soon as I come across a game with the objective “ win x amount of face offs” etc. I absolutely struggle to win even one face off a period... but no ice til? I can rack up 30 plus hits in a 2 min challenge game. But when I get to a game that one of the challenges is to get x amount of hits, wouldn’t you know I can barely get a few hits a period. So if you can explain why that and other fishy things happen while playing... I’ll stop screaming ice tilt!!
My "tilt" concerns relate to player v player interation; your issues are slightly different since you're directly competing with set-in-stone forumulas.
Well when it comes to faceoffs you got to remember the AI has no input lag, you do; you need to make absolutely sure your stats are up to par and you're using the correct stance.
AI has always done a good job of avoided hits (in my opinion they do pass too much), but it's especially apparent on higher difficulties. You need to bait those players into getting hit by losing the puck on purpose.
I don't know if they do it in EASHL but I know thr AI has a learning algorithum meaning it should get more and more difficult to trick them the longer you play, maybe try switching up your tactics
