Be warned that the boost packs restrict you from several things. First, if you equip a boost pack you cannot add more boosts by individually choosing ones for skates/gloves/stick, however you may still equip a helmet and use individual boosts for it. Second, any additional attributes you add to your skater through experience points do not count with a boost pack equipped. Basically the boost packs were designed as a simple add on for new users so they could compete with experienced players who have individually upgraded all of their equipment and attributes.

One complaint I have is that you cannot view what each different boost pack upgrades until you buy/unlock it. I got the Power Forward one and it kinda sucks.

BTW has anyone noticed that some NHL players are ridiculously oblivious to hits? I have a checking attribute of 85 and tried throwing three hip checks onto Derek Boogaard and each time he was unphased and my skater acted as if he was hit and fell down. Any other skater I throw that kind of hit onto results in them being crushed onto the ice and sometimes an injury.

Yea same, it just depends on the size of your guy. If you are a small guy that's whats going to happen. ie. try using Kane lol, he just bounces off players

Thanks for clearing that up, I knew it was one of those either/or things but I guess I didn't make that too clear on my post ... Like I said above though, the Offensive Dmen boost pack is good for starters with no stats to at least compete with the people who have been playing for a bit already, its got decent offensive stats but once you start unlocking stuff, going that way is better ...

i perfected teh slap pass
fucking right

slap pass is awesome

is it the one from the goal line cross-crease? cause they fixing that in the new patch

I was surprised to see this back from NHL 08 but I'm glad they fixing it

NHL 10 seems to freeze on my PS3 alot of times it is in Be A GM Mode? Anyone else having this problem?

More specifically it keeps locking up at the same point of the game...during my first nhl draft in be a gm mode. It can't sim past round 1.

I can still access the ps3 menu but I can't navigate in the game. I've restarted the game many times, even tried new save files but to no avail. It always freezes at the draft and I can't do anything about it.

Help!

I've only ever had it mess up twice on me while loading a game (basically, it just kept looping the loading screen), but outside of that, no problems. Considering I've played every single game of both my AHL and NHL teams and I'm into November in the 2nd year plus a few months into BAP, I'd say that's a pretty low percentage (less than 1%) ... Also on PS3 ...

nope not that one lol
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I hate the online lag on this game for ps3. I played online with my friends 360 and it was fine. Ea needs to fix their shit
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tell me about it!

I don't know how many games I've had to quit because of horrible lag, where I felt like i was skating in mud, or playing the game in slow-mo.

HORRIBLE.

EA GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER.

I'm about to trade this game in just for this online shit alone... urgh!

yeah I dunno how xbox games have almost to no lag but i've yet to play a ps3 game online that doesnt have any lag. WTF?

The new patch just went live this morning ... patched it up and tried a club game and everything still seems fine, haven't read the patch notes yet but the only team we found to play us quit after a period and a half (most satisfying feeling in nhl) cause it was already 5-0 ...

it patched the lag issue? This is all I see in the patch..




Here are a couple of the key fixes that we've made in the Title Update:

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."

Its kind of a question I asked in the PS3 thread, does anyone know the difference between PSN and XBL? Are XBL servers just a lot better or something? As well are you able to play someone cross platform?

Does the new patch have any roster updates?

They could be better because the xbox users are paying for it and we get ours for free. I went onto the ea site and commented on the nhl 10 patch. Nah no roster update. They need to fix these things asap.

1. Fix the damn lag
2. When you're on a 2 on 1. The defending player can smoke the guy that will receive the 1 timer pass and not get a penalty. Alot of people abuse this online
3. Those soft shots at the goalie that leaves a wild open rebound that for some reason your dman can't get and the attacking player always gets and scores on
4. When there's a penalty shot, sometimes the view will change so the other side of the ice and you're looking at your goalie 200 feet away.
5. For players who use classic controls. L1 and square is to stick lift. Sometimes if doesnt stick lift and instead instigates a fight since L1 is used for that.

FOR ps3:


1)How do you pull the goalie without pausing?

2)How do you double team somebody that is being a douchebag and skating in circles and defending their 1 goal lead for 40 minutes?

L1 + select to pull without pausing I think.

you can't

1)How do you pull the goalie without pausing?

:werd:

hold LB +back button

Wasn't he asking how to do it on the PS3 not the 360?

The control scheme is almost the same.

Holy fuck! Just finished a rank team match game online that went over 1.2 hours
with like 8 over times.

Trying to get my rank to all A's on my skater card online. Does any one know If I get A online using my skater card but playing goalie, will those A's count towards his stats?
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Skater and goalie are separate categories.

This game is crap compared to Nhl09. One reason, people just fucking laying down or bending down in front of their net everytime you approach the net. It's getting stupid and way too many people are doing it.