His and Her Battlestations - My new PC Winterfell on the Right

breakingwest · 21 days

I think that's around what I paid as well, not sure if you'll find it any cheaper, maybe $20 off during a sale at most. But definately worth it at $150, if you can squeeze it in your budget.

mwilcox · 21 days

Commenting for when I get home from work. Thanks!

breakingwest · 22 days

I have a GTX 560ti, with tons of room to spare. I believe the 560ti may even be an inch longer than the 570. So even with 2 570s, you will have lots of room to work with.

breakingwest · 22 days

Best case I have ever owned. Extremely high build quality. If you are in the market, don't even think twice about it.

Rauxbaught · 22 days

Do you notice any difference with 99 passing? I've tried it out, and really don't notice any difference at all when I have my passing at just 80.

Rauxbaught · 24 days

Power forward lets me maximize what I consider my most important stats for my playstyle, even though my game isn't really much of a true power forward type.There are a lot of stats in the game that have an effect in more than one area. For example, deking improves your 1 on 1 dekes, ability to score goals in tight, and deking speed. Strength gives you better hits, harder shots, more balance. Offensive awareness improves ability to handle passes, make better passes in the offensive zone, better nose for the net, etc. Hand-eye improves ability to accept hard passes, knock pucks out of the air, gain control of loose pucks for rebounds, and improves accuracy and ability to pull off solid one-timers.

If you can maximize stats that "double dip" (especially early on), I think you'll find the game a lot more balanced when you play against guys that you feel you aren't able to keep up to. If you are just starting out in club you likely have a ways to go before your legend card.

Oh, bonus question: is leveling up your EA SHL pro solely to do with wins?

Solely? No, you also need to maintain certain grades, but simply not being horrible at the game you should have no problem maintaining a B+. Games played is the other big factor. You can gain every card simply by playing drop-ins, however, you cannot unlock boost slots through drop-ins (the +1,+3,+5 boosts you can put in your gloves, helmet, etc). If you read the description, some of them have "Play 150 club games" in the description, so drop-in games do not count towards that.

samanthakm9 · 24 days

peacefulcommunist · 1 month

commenting so I remember to do this on May 15 :)

Rob_C · 1 month

Exactly, but you have to be extremely good to do that. They should cater it a bit more to less experienced goalies, to encourage more people to actually use them in less than a full 6v6 match.

Rob_C · 1 month

It is much better than it's ever been, but it has a ways to go. Needs to be more catering to goalies that haven't played over a thousand games.

Rob_C · 1 month

Agreed. I think if EA really wanted to improve it, there's tons of way to get creative about how to do it. A system like Madden could work, but it shouldn't be completely on a path, or it would feel too arcadey. It's very frustrating that I can't make simple plays that any beer-leaguer could do easily. I really hope they are looking into this issue though. I may be a little biased as a pass-first player though. :)

Rob_C · 1 month

Everyone hates them, but no matter what EA does, somebody will always find a way. Just the way it goes. Human goalies need to be able to make those "routine" saves that an AI goalie would stop 9 out of 10 times. Goalies will always be a rarity online until they can make that happen.

Rob_C · 1 month

If they left the game exactly as it is but implemented a more intuitive passing system I would be thrilled. Slap-passes, hard long passes, full control, stretch passes..better bank passes, ability to actually make short 3 foot passes, etc. would be awesome.

Also there should be a way to "chip" the puck, not quite flipping it out but also not just tapping wrist shot, I mean an actual off the glass and out, would really make playing D more satisfying.

Rob_C · 1 month

I might be, that was just a guess based on the numbers I've seen in lobbies, and the drop-in games I've played. I still don't think the playerbase would allow for this type of format, even if I am grossly underestimating it.

Rob_C · 1 month

I don't think there is enough player-base in drop-ins/lobbys to make this happen.

Life1sBeautiful · 1 month

Gardiner has all the tools and natural skill that Schenn will never have, even in his rookie season when everyone loved Schenn, we all knew what he was our there to provide and he'll never have the tools that Gardiner already has. He's going to be a top 10 dman in the league.

Cogsy16 · 2 months

Chances are we finish 9th even if we win 10/10. They need to lose. I know it sucks to say it but it's for the best.

If we don't draft in the top 5 this year, it goes from being a disastrous year to a complete and utter waste of time.

DZ302 · 2 months

Let's give it more than 1 game before we call it "beast mode". But I agree they looked good last night.

predsErat · 2 months

Trying to showcase our other scratched D for possible steals like the one we got for Franson when we unloaded Lebda.. ;)

NHLVet · 3 months

These presentation ideas sound mostly like something that is cool to think about, but even if EA did implement it, it would be crappy as hell and everyone would hate it. There's tons of ideas I could come up with like this that sound awesome in my head but EA would manage to make it absolute crap.

If you are going to call out Rammer/EA, the thing everyone should be aiming for is gameplay improvements. Passes going through sticks, no collision detection, horrible AI teammates, limited customization on faceoff formation, passes being "programmed" to go to whichever teammate is in better line of sight, terrible animations ("the backhand", intercepting a pass by reaching one handed, hip checks, etc), locking ons, no way to avoid hits, impossible to make short 2 foot passes, unlimited agility, beast mode AI when players quit. I could go on forever but my point is, I love your presentation ideas but if they really want to improve the EASHL the overall gameplay needs an overhaul, possibly the entire engine. But we will not see that until the next console if we're lucky.

fissionmailed777 · 3 months

I was hoping this was going to be a video of Gustavasson's last game...

Taffer · 3 months

Sweet, looking forward to the stream..GL everyone!

jigatone · 3 months

Haha, he was interviewed at the end as well, and said something along the lines of how great the fans were, another subtle chirp.

gclark411 · 3 months

Cool.

huginn · 4 months

Good games! Coulda gone either way with those late goals though.

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