BUYER BEWARE
They've released 4 games in a row (NHL 15-18) with broken online play. The producers have stated that they know about the issues and don't know how to fix them so if you care about online play, don't bother wasting your money.
Just giving you all fair warning.
Just giving you all fair warning.
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Youtube: Madwolf Gaming
I'm guessing just about everything as usual. Skating, shooting, poke checking, body checking, and passing for starters. I'm sure all that is with a heavy helping of stuck-in-mud.
Just taking a stab in the dark here...LOL.
I would love to see this video evidence of players stuck in the mud.
Most likely it players coming to a stop and changing direction, and not understanding starts and stops tied in with players momentum.
But I guess until video evidence is provided it will be the noobs way to explain what it is they dont understand.
Hating on the NHL series has basically become a meme, like hating on Nickleback, or whatever instead of actually coming in with non pre-conceptions.
To me it distorts reality because you can't tell what is reality and what is just "meme hate" anymore. Did this guy really play the game, is there something to be learned of value here, or is this just memeing against NHL for internet karma points?
As a guy whose grown up in the internet age, starting right at it's emphasis, it's very, very frustrating to see this phenomenon going on right now. People need to think for themselves and offer insight and depth to their opinions instead of memeing to be the next internet karma king. It doesn't help EA make a better product, it just kills useful communication and doesn't change anything.
Youtube: Madwolf Gaming
Lots of lag in EASHL. It's been an issue for 4 years now; people deserve to know this before they spend $70.
As far as video evidence goes, stuck-in-mud isn't something you can see a video of. It's more or less a feeling where everything you do on your controller feels slow, heavy, or weak. I've played enough of this series over the last ten years to know what "right" is supposed to feel like, and trust me (and many others) when I say this game hasn't been right ever since it tried to make the transition to PS4 and One. So there is nothing "noob" about me here.
I'm sure internet setup has a lot to do with things. I will say in my experiences I have tried a handful of different routers, firmwares, and modems, and it really doesn't change the end experience. My ISP says there are no issues whatsoever and all of my internet stats are within spec, so I have done everything I can possibly do to remedy the problem. The only other options would be to change ISPs (monopoly here) or physically move (yeah that's a realistic solution eh?)
So it kind of is what it is until EA decides they want to change the way the online play works.
I get 20 hops from console to server in this game (according to traceroute to easo.ea.com) regardless of anything I try in my house.
The final hop shows 60-70ms latency pretty consistently, however, when I look at the network stats in EASHL it shows about 25ms. Not sure why such a difference. HUT and VS are quite variable.
Yep. Just like with NHL 15, 16, & 17, some games feel great and you feel like your player is doing what your instructing him to do, while other games feel like your fighting the controller. Part of it is lag and part of it is the excessive animations. And, just like with NHL 15, 16, 17, don't even try to play an EASHL game when you get connected to a server outside your region. It makes you want to throw the game out the window.
Basically, nothing has changed in regards to the online factors.
This has been what I have been saying for 2 years now.
Lol... I definitely do not doubt that...
but I became actively involved in forums at the start of NHL 16
Online skating/input lag delay (whatever you want to call it, is brutal.
I find that hard to believe. If your lagging your guy would have delayed reactions on the ice, that could be very easily shown in a video.
You guys say its based on what your feeling..................But no one else can see it on video.
Seems legit.
Right? If I'm playing any game and someone is having latency problems I can easily see that on my screen. If I'm having latency problems myself I can see it. It'd definitely show up on video.