NHL 10 Title Update
Written by wildthing202   
Wednesday, 21 October 2009 03:50

We finally get a title update after going through a few tuner updates and there's a shitload of stuff that's being fixed in this update. From Inside EA:

Fixed the exploit to slap-shot a 5-hole goal from below the face-off circle.

  • Although our goalies are much improved in NHL 10, there was an exploit when shooting from below the face-off circle that resulted in a goal more often than not. The goalies are now tuned to better handle shots from this area.

Increased speed of passes with Manual passing on.

  • This year we added Hardcore Passing (manual passing) that gave you total control of your pass speed and direction. Overall, the new passing was well received but the consensus was that you should be able to pass the puck harder and that the bottom-end speed was too slow.  We've increased the bottom-end speed so the passes are crisper and also increased the top-end slightly as well.

Reduced the ability to boardplay players who are far away from you.

  • It was a little unrealistic being able to 'suck' a player into boardplay as he was skating away from you so we've made it much harder to pin a player that is skating away. The further he is from you, the less likely you'll be able to boardplay him.

Tuning of trade logic.

  • Too many superstars were being offered up for trades so we've dialed this back along with reducing how often players are repeatedly offered up for trade.

Added the ability for a user to apply boost slots to authentic helmets.

  • We've added the ability to apply boost slots to an authentic helmet so users can get the benefit of the boosts without having to wear a helmet with a design on it.

Here are some of the other main fixes that will be in the Title Update:

  • Fixed the bug that would make a player sometimes exit pass blocking (L1/LT) when they got close to their goalie.
  • Fixed the bug that would prevent offline Be a Pro player from getting ice-time in some situations.
  • Fixed a crash that could happen on delayed penalty shots.
  • Improved logic for how fighting affects teamplay scores in Be a Pro.
  • Prevent L1/LT from allowing players to bypass stumble animations.
  • Improvements to goalies to reduce 5-hole goals in some contexts.
  • Tuned thresholds for injuries from hard shots.
  • Added the ability to escape a prefight circle by pressing L2/LB.
  • Fixed the bug that made it possible to "shoot" a puck slowly out of the one-handed animation such that nobody could pick it up.
  • Improved goalie aggressiveness when poking the puck on cross-crease passes.
  • Improved the ability of defencemen are able to do puck pickups behind them to help defend cross-crease passes.
  • Reduced the ability to stuff the puck through the goalie by running into him without shooting (most common on wraparounds and reaching puck pickups).
  • Reduced accidental interference in front of net.
  • Fixed the offline Be a Pro line-change bug where the player is stuck at the bench.
  • Prevent slap passes from being deflected at large angles.
  • Fixed the bug where the goalie does not react to a shot if he's banging his stick on the ice to signal the end of a penalty.
  • Fixed the bug that makes flip dumps to the middle of the offensive zone go over the glass frequently.
  • Fixed the bug that makes CPU center win draws to the the same side all of the time.
  • Fixed the bug in the stat tracking of passing.
  • Prevent accidental saucer passes after receiving the puck while trying to poke check (because both actions are on R1/RT).
  • Tuning to reduce occurrence of tripping penalties when the player being tripped is stationary or moving slowly.
  • Tuning to game logic to make it a little easier to stay up on the NHL team during 4-game trial in BAP.
  • Many other changes to improve our ability to refine the gameplay tuning with via tuner sets.

I like a few of these such as the prevent accidental saucer passes fix since I always do that in a game because I didn't think that I would get the puck directly off a pass and the tripping fix since that's the one I get called for the most. The one I don't like but other people will like is the 5 hole fix since I score most of my goals 5 hole. I have to try that slap 5 hole one since I never try it from that close since it's an all-out brawl in front of the net in most games.

They say the patch is in testing and they hope to get it out by November 5th, so we'll most likely still play in the same style for the rest of the month.

In team news:

Team A beat Team B twice with 3-1 wins in the past few days

Team A is ranked 23rd at the time of this post, Team B is 36th

Smorjug was called up due to inactivity of a bunch players but he'll stay up for now even when the inactive players come back since he playing good hockey.

Jaos was sent to Team B for being a crappy player and will never get called up to A again since he's being a douche over it. Drunk or not, you sucked(under .500 when you played) and everyone was in agreement over your inability to play defense. So suck it up and play on Team B and cool off on the insults.

 

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