I like that the dekes are harder. You don't need to deke to win. Right now, everyone is dekeing like Datsyuk, with this deke, not everyone will be able to do it. I like that. Game speed seems good. Shots are harder. Hopefully the goalies will be better. I like it.
I really miss the through the legs deke which I had become good at pulling off like a master, but now it feels like I only got the windmild deke in the middle of the ice, really annoying, same with the chop... everything felt so smooth and perfect in NHL 16. Now everything feels a lot more sluggish. And I agree, too many button combo bs things to pull off the new dekes. I doubt I will use them much because they are so situation based as well. Why would I decrease my chances of scoring when they are not the best option?
SlyCerealKiller the graphics haven't changed since nhl legacy. The programming hasn't gotten very much better since then, either. The company is trash and charges $80 for updated rosters and a few miniscule 'new' features from old games.
SGMagicGaming typical hut point of view on the game. No wonder when things aren't going his way it's because he didn't have a 99 overall to help his ass. Your boring, unsubscribe. Eashl over Ur bullshit anyday
I totally agree with the new dekeing system, love that they brought in more dekes, but the button combos you gotta do is ridiculous.. I'm sure we will all get used to it but man. Having to do 3-4 different steps to have a normal deke is dumb. Still buying and playing the shit outta it though.
Patrik _ you can't expect there to be that big of a difference tbh the only way it wouldn't look like 17 if they used the frostbite engine then the graphics would be much better but other than that not much you can do
It's like Fifa it looks the same every year only thing that made it look different this year was the frostbite engine other than that it's not that much of a difference... I saw Fifa 18 gameplay and it looked the exact same
Bacon, youre crazy. The changes are legit! I get sick of these kids that just spam that through the legs deke all over the Ice like 20 times a game...since when have you seen that in a real NHL game?! Thats not a "real hockey play". Its a rare occurence and yea really effective when its pulled off because its not that easy to do. The game feels slow because youre not using a team of 99 OVR Pavel Bures lol. Lastly, the defensive skill stick is BOSS. Like you said, you can angle off players into the boards and actually sweep the puck back to your team instead of just poking it right back to the opposing teams defensive zone for another breakout. Ive played games where the other team literally cannot get passed me in the neutral zone...its gonna force you to actually dump and chase at times when theres no other option. This is the most authentic hockey video game ive played.
austin bove yeah it's about time they made it possible to play D. I literally am EA's biggest critic. Like every NHL game they have made is terrible. This is a great game. Love how I can poke check it 20x a game without a dumb tripping penalty they better not do anything with that. Obviously it still has its flaws but huge improvement from 17.
I'm decently happy with gameplay so far. I was getting a lot of penalties called though. I'm pretty sure BACON talked about the new D skill stick being a big bait for penalties. Makes sense!
No.....you didnt, the title says NHL 18 beta and he talks about it being the NHL 18 beta the whole time? You were either born with an extra chromosome or you are just copying the top comment for likes as if they'll make up for your lack of a social life.
Theres litterally like 3 new dekes. 1. manual toey 2. one handed dekes 3. between the legs. When i saw the trailer with marner and them talking about the dekes i was excited for nhl 18 but boy have they dissapointed. Anyways its not all bad, I feel like they definitely took a step in the right direction with improving the AI but 3 on 3 mode needs more unlockables and less powerup pucks so that it has longevity and doesnt just become the game mode u play if a friends over
the reason Online VS feels so slow is because you're used to playing HUT with your 99 overall team. The game isn't slow, it's just that besides a few high rated players, the majority of the guys in vs are like low 80 ratings.
My first gripe about the beta is that we have no practice mode? New dekes but no way to test em out except for during gameplay...tryin to figure out if they've brought back being able to do the zetterburg deke
WHY DID THE CHANGE THE POKE CHECK AND STICK LIFT BUTTONS ON HYBRID CONTROLS?! I've been playing NHL on hybrid control for years and now they just change up the buttons, I'm having a very hard time adapting to these control changes! Also I agree the dekes are very complicated and rarely go through.
What you "skill-stickers" don't understand is that us Hybrid users actually do use the skill stick. The controls are nearly identical, actually. We just prefer our pass button and poke check in a different spot. We still deke with the skill stick, shoot with the skill stick, play defense the same way. The dev team continues to punish us for wanting to pass with a different button...
Definitely agree on the new button combos, visually it looks exactly like 17,i wish they would go back to 14 ways and let us distribute our own skill points..
hey Bacon did you notice any new cellys in the game? I noticed in the announcement trailer there was a celebration when the leafs player scored then immediately jumped back first into the boards and ive been dying to use that one. have you seen it in game yet?
What is the thing that flies across the screen at 4:54!? Looks like a water bottle... It's been there since the beginning of NHL17, how have they not noticed it or am I missing something? Annoys the hell out of me in the replays every time
Bacon I played you last night on EASHL drop in. You scored like 4 goals lol. Highly doubt you remember but I think I fought you at the very end of the game Also, why are the Red Wings still at Joe Louis Arena? You'd think EA would have the new arena completed by now
im sorry but it doesnt play like nhl17. people that say that basically admit they dont play the game or dont know what theyre talking about. every beta has played differently than the previous years game. and every new game has played different than last years game.
I do kinda think they made it a bit complex for new dekes... couldnt we just hold l2 and it means all the one handed and l1 remains the same from nhl17?
You probably dont like NHL 18 so far because you can't do glitch goals and the same snipes over and over. I thinks 18 is awesome so far. More creativity and feels like a hockey game again
eh dub how is that a troll comment lol?? He "isn't really loving the changes" and i disagree with him. He probably doesn't like it because glitch goals are harder to score lol.
Shadow Phantom maybe you could ask him why he doesn't like the changes instead of assuming it's because of the "lack of glitch goals". A lot of people I know who played the beta are very dissatisfied with the new nhl 14. New dekes? Let's make them hit button combos like mortal kombat. Makes perfect sense, instead of just using the skill stick like previous; and like real life. If this feels like real hockey to you, then that's cool, just because you like something, doesn't negate the fact that it is garbage. #Give2KbackTheirNHLlicense
eh dub just because you dont like the dekes that returned from Nhl 14 doesn't make the game garbage. Maybe get better with the skill stick and stop complaining so much
Bacon I love the slow gameplay I just think it'll take time to get used to it. Players can no longer just speed right by you and defenders aren't flat footed
adding those dekes make it more realistic in the sense of being able to do dekes u can do in real life and let's u also try and be fancy and make your opponents look dusty i kinda like them
bacon im also a huge detroit fan and i don't know what to think about the playoff push with a good atlantic division rn (tampa boston ottowa toronto florida upcoming buffalo maybe montreal) what do you think about holland's thinking that detroit will make the post season? And what do you think about have young guys develop to the point where they r ready for the nhl but detroit doesn't have enough roster space, what should they do? I think that shehan for sprong would be a great deal pittsburg needs that 3rd line center (he had 2 goals both in last game of season) and sprong is almost un needed with guentzle there, what do you think?
I don't like how they changed the controls just to add a few useless dekes that the good players only try every now and then. Also they didn't fix anything wrong with 17, like the "Seamless puck pickups" and one-timers.
Anything to do with R3 is horrible. I hate using R3 as well. I also agree the change to the between the legs deke sucks so much. Hopefully they hear us out and change the between the leg deke back to what it was in NHL 17.
Maybe I'm bad at dekes, maybe I'm not using the right players but the dekes I use always flop and they aren't effective at all, and to say the least I'm not surprised at all.
Absolutely on point. Just changing controls for the sake of change. No reason to fix what wasn't broken. It was more intuitive as it was before. EA gonna EA.
The argument that online versus is "too slow" is so stupid to me. The reason it has to be slower than HUT is bc they're needs to be a skill gap. If Stammer and Kunitz are the same speed then the skill gap is decreased.
I said the same exact thing to my buddies yesterday, it honestly feels like a mortal combat game with these button combinations just to perform the new dekes. Very odd
You can remap any buttons in the settings on the Xbox one. Also if you have an elite controller you can use the paddles in the back. Your on PS4 tho which sucks.
I did it when I was playing call of duty by changing R2 to R1 because I felt it was easier to fire my weapon without having to worry about my finger slipping off R2. And it felt pressing R1 was a little quicker.
I dont have online so all i do is play play-now. On 17 I adjusted all the settings to feel fast and arcadish but look realistic. thats what i think ea should do, go for fun, fast pace, energetic gameplay and make it look realistic. IMO playing ultra realistic gameplay would feel slow and boring and very frustrating because the truth is, its near impossible to capture a hockey game 100% realistically in a game. even if they did so it'd be super frustrating to play
Still don't have different refs, or actually coaches, not Just random people, and maybe checks into the bench or telling what's wrong with player who got injured
they cant change the look every year dude, you can say it looks like 17 all you want. You're probably one of the people that complains about Ice tilt and EA goals
The stride dekes you now have to hold L1 and flick the left stick right or left not sure why they couldn't leave those the way they were. Where you hit the right and left stick in whichever direction you wanted to move. Makes it way to easy when dekeing to get buried now without those being as simple as they were. and I agree with the other comments most of the advanced dekes are cool looking but not effective when it comes to scoring.
It's slower paced. The skaters were way too fast in the previous games. Breaking skating speed and hardest shot records every game. But remember, ITS A BETA!!!
The AI is 10x better I care about that waaaayyyy more then petty bullshit like small speed differences and complaints about overalls you can get used to that easy
I really like the beta, I think the new dekes are nice, they look nice, they're hard to pull off and if you don't have the hands for it then you'll lose the puck, which is good for balance. The AI is EASHL is wayyy better and they make good passes for the most part, get the puck up quick on the breakout, play a little better defense. Versus is still slow but I feel like it's a little faster than 17 which is enjoy. I don't know how I feel about nhl 3s though. Its fun but after like 10 minutes I got so bored haha. 3v3 EASHL is amazing though. Overall I think it's pretty good but we'll just have to see what everyone is saying a couple months down the line after it's released lol
You have to play in order to know if you like it or not... game looks the same but it's gonna be that way unless they use frostbite engine like Fifa but it will still look the same it's hard to make a sports game there's only so little you can do to make it better it's the same with Fifa, Madden and every sports game it looks the same but had little changes to it but I don't blame them it's not like a game like uncharted where you can do different stories it's a sports game you can't really change it... only thing you can change is the ai being better, goalies being better, better passing, and your ai being better on D
What do YOU Guys think of the NHL 18 Beta Gameplay?? (Still time for change, lets hear your thoughts)
its okay
its super fun to play but between the legs deke is awful, you cant pull it off and some of those button combos are maybe too hard
I like that the dekes are harder. You don't need to deke to win. Right now, everyone is dekeing like Datsyuk, with this deke, not everyone will be able to do it. I like that. Game speed seems good. Shots are harder. Hopefully the goalies will be better. I like it.
is the bacon clapper in it? if not then bad!
I really miss the through the legs deke which I had become good at pulling off like a master, but now it feels like I only got the windmild deke in the middle of the ice, really annoying, same with the chop... everything felt so smooth and perfect in NHL 16. Now everything feels a lot more sluggish. And I agree, too many button combo bs things to pull off the new dekes. I doubt I will use them much because they are so situation based as well. Why would I decrease my chances of scoring when they are not the best option?
Fans: we want 5-man celly's!
EA: we have replays from the bottom of the boards!
Fans that talk about these five men celly's are the same people that say EA should focus on Gameplay > Graphics/Looks
SlyCerealKiller the graphics haven't changed since nhl legacy. The programming hasn't gotten very much better since then, either. The company is trash and charges $80 for updated rosters and a few miniscule 'new' features from old games.
and yet you still give them your money? It's 80 dollars my man, you're not giving them your first born child.
It's slow cause he has a 99 speed team in NHL 17
SGMagicGaming typical hut point of view on the game. No wonder when things aren't going his way it's because he didn't have a 99 overall to help his ass. Your boring, unsubscribe. Eashl over Ur bullshit anyday
Josh Nagy please bitch elsewhere
So true
Josh Nagy facts
U guys are sheeples, went back to eashl 17, its noticeably faster in 17
Everyone knows this is Bacon Jrs gameplay. He's a pro and a great trash talker
Busted.
BaconCountry I want a rematch, he glitch wrapped me 8 times the last game we played!!!
The new dekes are really making me mad. I find myself just spamming and hoping for the best. And poor Saad every year he seems to get worse...
saad peaked when skill stick was introduced. it wasnt much of a peak though.
so he peaked when he was 14?
I totally agree with the new dekeing system, love that they brought in more dekes, but the button combos you gotta do is ridiculous.. I'm sure we will all get used to it but man. Having to do 3-4 different steps to have a normal deke is dumb. Still buying and playing the shit outta it though.
You know there is something wrong when you're looking at the boards to find out if he's playing NHL 17 or 18..
Patrik _ you can't expect there to be that big of a difference tbh the only way it wouldn't look like 17 if they used the frostbite engine then the graphics would be much better but other than that not much you can do
It's like Fifa it looks the same every year only thing that made it look different this year was the frostbite engine other than that it's not that much of a difference... I saw Fifa 18 gameplay and it looked the exact same
Bacon, youre crazy. The changes are legit! I get sick of these kids that just spam that through the legs deke all over the Ice like 20 times a game...since when have you seen that in a real NHL game?! Thats not a "real hockey play". Its a rare occurence and yea really effective when its pulled off because its not that easy to do.
The game feels slow because youre not using a team of 99 OVR Pavel Bures lol.
Lastly, the defensive skill stick is BOSS. Like you said, you can angle off players into the boards and actually sweep the puck back to your team instead of just poking it right back to the opposing teams defensive zone for another breakout. Ive played games where the other team literally cannot get passed me in the neutral zone...its gonna force you to actually dump and chase at times when theres no other option. This is the most authentic hockey video game ive played.
austin bove finally a competent comment
Couldn't agree any more!
austin bove yeah it's about time they made it possible to play D. I literally am EA's biggest critic. Like every NHL game they have made is terrible. This is a great game. Love how I can poke check it 20x a game without a dumb tripping penalty they better not do anything with that. Obviously it still has its flaws but huge improvement from 17.
Bacon what do you think is gonna be the best way to score in this game? Kinda how NHL 16 had the one timer, and NHL 17 it was the slap shots.
wel find out after the game comes out, the real game is usually quite a different then the beta
U should have used a bacon clapper
I dont even have to be early bacon answers anyways...
smh fiddler
I'm decently happy with gameplay so far. I was getting a lot of penalties called though. I'm pretty sure BACON talked about the new D skill stick being a big bait for penalties. Makes sense!
Y forTurbo NHL18 IS TRASH
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The reason there are different camera angles are because EA said "We want the game to look like an actual broadcast"
i thought i was watching nhl17 for almost all video LMAO
AimUP ITS so differend game, worse way ITS FUCKING TRASH
badwarrior 5 boohooooooo
same lmaoooo
I mean he did say at the start it was nhl18 but ok
No.....you didnt, the title says NHL 18 beta and he talks about it being the NHL 18 beta the whole time? You were either born with an extra chromosome or you are just copying the top comment for likes as if they'll make up for your lack of a social life.
There's too many dekes to learn for my simple mind
lol same
There point less anyway you're not missing much
😂
Theres litterally like 3 new dekes. 1. manual toey 2. one handed dekes 3. between the legs. When i saw the trailer with marner and them talking about the dekes i was excited for nhl 18 but boy have they dissapointed. Anyways its not all bad, I feel like they definitely took a step in the right direction with improving the AI but 3 on 3 mode needs more unlockables and less powerup pucks so that it has longevity and doesnt just become the game mode u play if a friends over
What are you talking about?!?!?There are 8 new dekes and there are 2 variations for most of them, basically 20 completely new, unique moves lol.
the reason Online VS feels so slow is because you're used to playing HUT with your 99 overall team. The game isn't slow, it's just that besides a few high rated players, the majority of the guys in vs are like low 80 ratings.
No, Perkele.!
SUOMI torille!!!
JALKA KOKKI
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I've never struggled to do one handed dekes until this literally just switch back to NHL 14 which it feels like and bring back that dekeing system
Haven't played since 16 and got to play a 3's drop in with bacon and I still got it with teal
Hey bacon do you think Little Caesars Arena will be in NHL 18?
BACON! What's up man, just put those notifications on!
My first gripe about the beta is that we have no practice mode? New dekes but no way to test em out except for during gameplay...tryin to figure out if they've brought back being able to do the zetterburg deke
WHY DID THE CHANGE THE POKE CHECK AND STICK LIFT BUTTONS ON HYBRID CONTROLS?! I've been playing NHL on hybrid control for years and now they just change up the buttons, I'm having a very hard time adapting to these control changes! Also I agree the dekes are very complicated and rarely go through.
They do this shit every year. They still probably haven't given us line changes back. Literally the WORST dev team in gaming...
Fuck hybrid, why don't you use skill stick?
What you "skill-stickers" don't understand is that us Hybrid users actually do use the skill stick. The controls are nearly identical, actually. We just prefer our pass button and poke check in a different spot. We still deke with the skill stick, shoot with the skill stick, play defense the same way. The dev team continues to punish us for wanting to pass with a different button...
Definitely agree on the new button combos, visually it looks exactly like 17,i wish they would go back to 14 ways and let us distribute our own skill points..
I'm prepared for micro transactions in 3v3
Stay Alive Booster, $3.99
Small Net, $2.99
Big Bobble Heads, $1.99
hey Bacon did you notice any new cellys in the game? I noticed in the announcement trailer there was a celebration when the leafs player scored then immediately jumped back first into the boards and ive been dying to use that one. have you seen it in game yet?
What is the thing that flies across the screen at 4:54!? Looks like a water bottle... It's been there since the beginning of NHL17, how have they not noticed it or am I missing something? Annoys the hell out of me in the replays every time
So what is the button combo for through the legs deke now?
Bacon I played you last night on EASHL drop in. You scored like 4 goals lol. Highly doubt you remember but I think I fought you at the very end of the game
Also, why are the Red Wings still at Joe Louis Arena? You'd think EA would have the new arena completed by now
SIA Airport they haven’t updated the rosters yet. This is basically NHL 17 with different fonts and new features for now. It will be better on release
im sorry but it doesnt play like nhl17. people that say that basically admit they dont play the game or dont know what theyre talking about. every beta has played differently than the previous years game. and every new game has played different than last years game.
you can waste your $60 then!!
so what are the controls for the through the legs deke? ( the one from chel 17) it doesn't tell me in the controls menu.
last time i was this early "last time when i was this early" wasnt a thing in comments
Can you still chop the puck? I can't figure it out and I loved doing that in race battles for the puck.
Can somebody explain to me why Competitive mode in Head to Head is so damn unrealistically fast??
The one thing I did notice was graphics got an upgrade but Gameplay wasn't much better
Do you have to actually pre order game for 79.99 in PlayStation store in order to play the beta for NHL 18 on PS4.
I do kinda think they made it a bit complex for new dekes... couldnt we just hold l2 and it means all the one handed and l1 remains the same from nhl17?
Can we still do an hip check?
Philippe Smith yes you can still do the hip check but it's a different button combination. It's left bumper + R3
I know I'm not the only one that noticed the Red Wings were still playing in Joe Louis Arena as they should be in their new arena right?
You probably dont like NHL 18 so far because you can't do glitch goals and the same snipes over and over. I thinks 18 is awesome so far. More creativity and feels like a hockey game again
Shadow Phantom great troll comment.
eh dub how is that a troll comment lol?? He "isn't really loving the changes" and i disagree with him. He probably doesn't like it because glitch goals are harder to score lol.
Shadow Phantom maybe you could ask him why he doesn't like the changes instead of assuming it's because of the "lack of glitch goals". A lot of people I know who played the beta are very dissatisfied with the new nhl 14. New dekes? Let's make them hit button combos like mortal kombat. Makes perfect sense, instead of just using the skill stick like previous; and like real life. If this feels like real hockey to you, then that's cool, just because you like something, doesn't negate the fact that it is garbage. #Give2KbackTheirNHLlicense
Stalin enjoyed killing his own countrymen, just saying.
eh dub just because you dont like the dekes that returned from Nhl 14 doesn't make the game garbage. Maybe get better with the skill stick and stop complaining so much
The buttons is your only gripe with the game??
Year of the backhand??
Bacon I love the slow gameplay I just think it'll take time to get used to it. Players can no longer just speed right by you and defenders aren't flat footed
Do they not let you use the adidas jerseys so they don't show to much of them
Believe it or not I'm enjoying nhl 18
Can you turn off the little messages on the screen?
Lol at Sheahan, was glad to watch him get 2 at the final game though.
Are slapshots as strong as they were in 17?
adding those dekes make it more realistic in the sense of being able to do dekes u can do in real life and let's u also try and be fancy and make your opponents look dusty i kinda like them
bacon im also a huge detroit fan and i don't know what to think about the playoff push with a good atlantic division rn (tampa boston ottowa toronto florida upcoming buffalo maybe montreal) what do you think about holland's thinking that detroit will make the post season? And what do you think about have young guys develop to the point where they r ready for the nhl but detroit doesn't have enough roster space, what should they do? I think that shehan for sprong would be a great deal pittsburg needs that 3rd line center (he had 2 goals both in last game of season) and sprong is almost un needed with guentzle there, what do you think?
Fucking laughed so hard when you said that his name is a verb lmao!!
I don't like how they changed the controls just to add a few useless dekes that the good players only try every now and then. Also they didn't fix anything wrong with 17, like the "Seamless puck pickups" and one-timers.
Anything to do with R3 is horrible. I hate using R3 as well. I also agree the change to the between the legs deke sucks so much. Hopefully they hear us out and change the between the leg deke back to what it was in NHL 17.
use the elite controller for the R3 button
It's good to have long and difficult dekes in a fast paced game. (sense the sarcastic tone)
I agree with everything you said. I noticed the between the legs deke as well and I'm not impressed.
great everything I pre-order a game Bacon comes along and makes me regret it
You should change the settings on the puck to authentic to get rid of the incredibly unrealistic huge shadow.
Havent bought NHL game since 13. Should I buy this or 17?
Maybe I'm bad at dekes, maybe I'm not using the right players but the dekes I use always flop and they aren't effective at all, and to say the least I'm not surprised at all.
Absolutely on point. Just changing controls for the sake of change. No reason to fix what wasn't broken. It was more intuitive as it was before. EA gonna EA.
That moment when you see Bacon outshot Saad by 32
The argument that online versus is "too slow" is so stupid to me. The reason it has to be slower than HUT is bc they're needs to be a skill gap. If Stammer and Kunitz are the same speed then the skill gap is decreased.
i already got NHL 14, i'll check back for NHL 20, maybe it'll be more than a roster update.
I said the same exact thing to my buddies yesterday, it honestly feels like a mortal combat game with these button combinations just to perform the new dekes. Very odd
You can remap any buttons in the settings on the Xbox one. Also if you have an elite controller you can use the paddles in the back. Your on PS4 tho which sucks.
I've got tears in my eyes from laughing over all the Sheahan Shade, or as it's better known, Sheade.
Bacon.. I think you can remap the button configuration through the settings. That's what I would try if I was uncomfortable with the changes.
I did it when I was playing call of duty by changing R2 to R1 because I felt it was easier to fire my weapon without having to worry about my finger slipping off R2. And it felt pressing R1 was a little quicker.
Flawless analysis!
I dont have online so all i do is play play-now. On 17 I adjusted all the settings to feel fast and arcadish but look realistic. thats what i think ea should do, go for fun, fast pace, energetic gameplay and make it look realistic. IMO playing ultra realistic gameplay would feel slow and boring and very frustrating because the truth is, its near impossible to capture a hockey game 100% realistically in a game. even if they did so it'd be super frustrating to play
Sooooo why are the Red Wings at the Joe?
stan_marsh97 is that at all important? How can you even tell?
Still don't have different refs, or actually coaches, not
Just random people, and maybe checks into the bench or telling what's wrong with player who got injured
will this game have playstation pro enhancements?
whats r3 on xbox?
should i still get nhl 18?
I literally thought this was 17.... what a joke lol.
Vincenzo Santoro You're fucking dumb and you dont know how to read 👏
I VenoM I Lmao at the EA fanboys butthurtiness
they cant change the look every year dude, you can say it looks like 17 all you want. You're probably one of the people that complains about Ice tilt and EA goals
They really need frostbite to improve the graphics
They should've switched to frostbite this year but looks like we have to wait one more year for that
The glitch this year is short side snipe with leftys
I've been playing for a couple days and some of the deke's are to complicated for how simple the deke actually is
You can see the connection at the beginning
how do u get beta
they need to fix the through the legs deke. its impossible to do. they should keep it as the way it was in 15, 16 and 17
Eas got to fix the through the legs deke it's so annoying when I play nhl 18
LOL Riley's inability to score. EA Sports: It's in the game!
what button is r3 on xb1
Anonymous In on the Right stick
The stride dekes you now have to hold L1 and flick the left stick right or left not sure why they couldn't leave those the way they were. Where you hit the right and left stick in whichever direction you wanted to move. Makes it way to easy when dekeing to get buried now without those being as simple as they were. and I agree with the other comments most of the advanced dekes are cool looking but not effective when it comes to scoring.
Agree with everything you said they made the new dekes controls way to complicated
I'm just waiting for the year they finally say if you quit a game, you're locked for 10 minutes
It's slower paced. The skaters were way too fast in the previous games. Breaking skating speed and hardest shot records every game. But remember, ITS A BETA!!!
The AI is 10x better I care about that waaaayyyy more then petty bullshit like small speed differences and complaints about overalls you can get used to that easy
For thru the legs, i mean L1 L2 and up on the right analog would have been better lol
Still haven't gotten my codes yet!!
I really like the beta, I think the new dekes are nice, they look nice, they're hard to pull off and if you don't have the hands for it then you'll lose the puck, which is good for balance. The AI is EASHL is wayyy better and they make good passes for the most part, get the puck up quick on the breakout, play a little better defense. Versus is still slow but I feel like it's a little faster than 17 which is enjoy. I don't know how I feel about nhl 3s though. Its fun but after like 10 minutes I got so bored haha. 3v3 EASHL is amazing though. Overall I think it's pretty good but we'll just have to see what everyone is saying a couple months down the line after it's released lol
I was expecting NHL 18 gameplay by the title... oh wait
It's so similar that youtube thought it was NHL 17!
Anyone else get an ad with bad and boujee playing to some low def pixel ass dudes dunking basketballs?
It only feels slow because your'e used to having all 94 overalls in HUT.
It wouldn't be a year of NHL if bacon didn't score with Kronwall in his first game
Does anyone have an extra PS4 Beta code for me i really need one 😬
There's no competition for EA so people will buy it anyway, no matter how shitty it is. It has been basically the same game for years
You have to play in order to know if you like it or not... game looks the same but it's gonna be that way unless they use frostbite engine like Fifa but it will still look the same it's hard to make a sports game there's only so little you can do to make it better it's the same with Fifa, Madden and every sports game it looks the same but had little changes to it but I don't blame them it's not like a game like uncharted where you can do different stories it's a sports game you can't really change it... only thing you can change is the ai being better, goalies being better, better passing, and your ai being better on D
Seriously why did they stop using a speed burst for offense the last few years....it's so slow now