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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Get tired how? thru the games natural fatigue settings? Unless you manually turn the fatigue way up it wouldn't really matter because the game's natural settings for fatigue aren't remotely realistic. Unless I turn it way up I can generally roll 2 lines with the occasional need for a third and my 4th line never, ever plays. If it is like NHL97 or whatever where you had a boost meter then that is even worse.
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Yea Cecil, I think you might be making this a bigger deal than it is. I think all your fears are already answered by the article. If you wear down your players when they don’t need to hustle they won’t have the energy left for the moment when it really would make a difference. And it's not going to have the same fatigue settings as past games. They even say endurance plays a bigger part now.
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I hope I'm making a mountain out of a molehill and this feature is basically useless because frankly in real hockey the situations in which players use that extra little boost are for icings, breakaways etc just like the article mentions. Meaning that there are very few times in any given game that this little "boost" comes into real NHL hockey.
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Like the article states this is mainly for people without the puck.
Besides the breakaways, icing etc. this feature is going to be big, especially for EASHL players trying to get open for the pass, trying to intercept a pass or breaking up a play with the back check. I guess it probably won't be as useful in offline or vs play unless you have some friends playing with you that can read the play.
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Basically this feature should have a limit of 1-3 uses per game, per player and it should last for about 2-3 seconds at a time. The developers need to make sure that the effects of using it limit the use of the function to 1-3 times per game. My gut feeling tells me EA won't have thought of this and will make it usable 10-20 times per game, per player for bursts of 10-15 seconds each burst which would completely ruin the gameplay.
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I doubt you have to worry about it being a 15 second long boost. From what I gather it seems each "boost" is a stride or one strong push off the skate....like how crosby beat his man in the vid I posted above. But I guess we won't know for sure until they show a video or the demo comes out.