It all looks great but it all comes down to gameplay for me. They can make it all pretty and what not.. But if gameplay sucks dank fuck this game lol

There is no challenge to HUT and it's too complex for noobs ...

Demo to be released Aug 21 for Xbox and Aug 22 on PS3.

Incorrect ... Demo out Aug 21 for XBOX and PS3 except in Europe, where it is Aug 22 for PS3.

https://help.ea.com/en/article/nhl13-faq

some info about hut / eashl there, just explaining questions about features


nhl13 gameplay

Demo out tomorrow at about 2 AM Pacific for XBOX and about 2 PM Pacific for PS3

DEMO TODAY!

Playing demo right now and I must say I'm impressed with the new skating engine

I like how sticks are more active in poke checking and actually trying to intercept passes! Plus I noticed that there's a new chopping on the puck feature when you are chasing the puck down low

PS3 Demo live! Search NHL instead of sifting through Demos (not listed for some reason).

I'm calling it now. The backwards skating is going to be the new exploit. It's way too fluid and too much control.


If you watch at 8:40, Elias is going full speed then does TWO backwards skating moves.

1) no one would do that in the slot

2) it's waaaaay too fluid and has way too much puck control especially given he was going top speed. It's as if the new skating engine doesn't play to backwards skating.

This is why I always thought that a new skating engine isn't enough, there needs to be a new puck control engine. If anything, I think a new puck control engine is more important because with the puck on a string, it's ridiculous what impossible things people can do online.

Hopefully NHL 14 will fix it!

Some old glitch goals still working from NHL 12

which would those be? People on forums were talking about the toe drag wrister not working anymore, in fact, it resulted in a turn over pretty much every time.

I'm off work in 15 mins and will be downloading the demo when I get home. From viewing forums, people are impressed with the AI. The versus AI has always been good, I really hope they're the same quality AI for EASHL. My team plays 6's as much as we can but if there's one person missing, it usually a D man, people have said that the D men will clog the lanes for passes and get in your face if you try to skate in and shoot at an angle. A glitch/exploit free game would be great. They just patched up that backwards skating goal that someone found this morning :thumbsup:

YUPPPPPPPPPPPPP

If there's a lockout this season, we'll have to make our own hockey happening this year.

First impressions I like it overall.

AI is better and Goalies are a LOT better.

Johnny Superb had a much easier time scoring in that than he did on me at Community Day haha Shutout! :fullofwin:

my friend was in free skate and he did this move on the goalie where he skated backwards and scored almost every time.

^ yup only works if you get a penalty shot like in NHL 12.

Passing off the boards is much better in this game now, I also like how the players burst to spaces to get open for passes. It was also nice to be able to exploit a quick release to beat a goalie.

Really liking how it feels. AI goalies have greatly improved. Very impressed!

No they didn't, I still shoot 50% on superstar
instead of one timers it looks like wrist shots are the new way to score

The way it should be. As long as the wist shots seem mostly random then it's all
Good.

They've already fixed this for the launch.

Looks like I'll be stepping out of retirement to rejoin the team! I played the demo and the new system fits my playing style. Cycle cycle cycle! So where is the best place to pre-order the game?