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Originally Posted by Russic
The post whistle scrums degrade too easily into anarchy and your CPU teamates will almost always get you a penalty even if you are trying to lure your opposition into doing something dumb. I've had to turn down the reffing sensitivity to this. I also find the whole scrum takes far too long.
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And the whole time the scrum is going on the goalie continues to smother the puck. It's a little thing, but it takes away from the realism.
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Originally Posted by Russic
I'll give you the menu structure. I honestly don't think they would have this problem if they would sit down for 3 hours and hammer out a reshuffling plan. Why the hell are there multiple areas to change settings? Why are some available in certain areas while others are available all the time?
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My biggest complaint is playing in season mode and trying to start a game via the calendar. It makes you sim up until the game you've selected, reselect that game and then asks you if you want to play that game. Then you have to go through several screens of options that I rarely change, like uniforms and line changes. Give me the option to skip this and go right to the game. It's just bad design.
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Originally Posted by Russic
I will disagree with you on the innovation thing. I actually find this series innovates more than most sports games. The skill stick you did mention, but you forgot about last years EASHL addition, which is pretty unique to the sports gaming world.
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I didn't forget about EASHL because I've never used it. The only time I play online is with friends because I have little tolerance for the immature idiots you find on Xbox Live. I imagine you guys on this board aren't like that, so maybe I'll give it a try sometime, but for now I'm happy playing a season offline.
I just need to tweak the sliders to make it more realistic. The CPU team seems to make every pass, unless I intercept them. And I've played a dozen games so far and they haven't had a single offside or icing call.
I do like the new goalie animations, except when Luongo reaches back to stop Sjostrom from scoring on an wide open net.
