Headlines
- NBA Elite 11 OS Exclusive Video: New Orleans Hornets @ Los Angeles Clippers (208)
- Four Keys to Success for MLB '11: The Show (45)
- NBA Elite 11 OS Exclusive Video: Oklahoma City Thunder @ Detroit Pistons (520)
- NHL 11 Hands-On: Be a GM Impressions (64)
- Out of Bounds: A Sports Gamer's Manifesto (10)
- NBA Elite 11 OS Exclusive Video: Milwaukee Bucks @ New York Knicks (566)
- Dynasty Musings: NCAA Football 11 Recruiting Tips (24)
- NBA Elite 11 OS Exclusive Video: Milwaukee Bucks @ New York Knicks (566)
- NBA Elite 11 OS Exclusive Video: Oklahoma City Thunder @ Detroit Pistons (520)
- NBA Elite 11 OS Exclusive Video: Miami Heat @ Orlando Magic (273)
- NBA Elite 11 OS Exclusive Video: New Orleans Hornets @ Los Angeles Clippers (208)
- NBA 2K11 Developer Insights: My Career w/ Video (181)
- Blog: EA's Move to Elite Will be a Test of Patience by MMChrisS (40)
- Blog: NBA ELITE 11... SO WHAT HAPPENED TO DNA? by Blak_Baki_Hanma (18)
- Blog: Thursday Other Stuff (9-2-10) by Steve_OS (11)
- Blog: Washington Redskins Roster by LHSLax_D24 (10)
- Blog: "Please don't spoil the movie by adding your own soundtrack" by Tomba (6)
Sunday, September 5, 2010
12:13 PM - September 5, 2010. Posted by Steve_OS. Written by Steve Noah
|
|||||||||
|
Saturday, September 4, 2010
10:25 PM - September 4, 2010. Posted by Steve_OS. Written by Steve Noah
Hey everybody, Andy Agostini here I am an Associate Producer on the NHL franchise here at EA Canada. I wanted to talk about my EAUHL team the Supino Mob that I have been working on. As I am not the most skilled player in terms of joystick skills I am building my team to help cover up my deficiencies when playing games. One of my biggest problems is scoring goals so I decided to work on my goalie and defense first so that if I can keep the games low scoring I have a better chance of winning a few of them.
When I started out the mode I was lucky to get David Jones from the Colorado Avalanche on my team along with a few decent European players and CHL prospects. As I said I decided to work on my defense as I don’t score much so I wanted to get d-men who could clear out the front of the net and also get some shots from the point so my forwards who are less skilled can pounce on rebounds and deflect shots.
I started with 4 CHL defensemen and a couple of them were a bit small so I took my biggest CHL defenseman David Searle from the Guelph Storm and started to train him as he is 6′4″ and 225 pounds. I decided he will be the guy I grow and train into a crushing Chris Pronger type of D-man. The new physics engine in NHL 11 really brings out the difference between big players and little players hitting wise so I wanted to use David’s size to my advantage instead of waiting for a big d-man from the NHL to appear in a pack of cards.
The first pack of cards I purchased I received a rare CHK +9 (checking) card and immediately put it on David Searle. That card was a great start to his training toward getting him to be my crusher on D I started focusing on some forwards and seeing if there were any good chemistry bonuses I could piece together. At first I had a pretty random assortment of players from all different teams. I did manage to find two Plymouth Whalers (no not Tyler Seguin) to put together as my third line and I started training them up to be serviceable 3rd liners.
I was pretty snake bitten the first 5 games I played and only scored 2 goals so pucks were a little slow to come by but I managed to get some in the following games and purchase another pack and managed to pick up a Mattias Ohlund. Just like a GM does in real life I put the veteran d-man with David Searle so that I could have someone more developed playing with him.
After getting a few pucks and working on some deals with guys around the office, I managed to pick up Maxim Afinogenov and Matt Cullen to help my first line. I also managed to pick up Zach Kassian from the Windsor Spitfires and he is now on my scratched roster being trained to become one of my first line forwards of the future. I want to save his 130 games till he is a fully trained player.
I also added a forward from the American Hockey League Mike Duco (Rochester Americans) to play with Cullen and Afinogenov on the first line. In their first 3 games together Duco had 3 points and was doing all the things that Cullen and Afinogenov have problems doing which is forechecking and getting the puck back in the offensive zone. So the line has been a godsend for my team who has struggled to score.
My strategy of building my team from the defense out seems to be working as my D now includes Zbynek Michalek, and Shaone Morrison. I also have Cory Murphy (former NHL player) who plays in Switzerland and he has helped out the powerplay quite a bit.
I am hoping to add a better goalie but I have trained up Christian Engstrand (Linkoping, Sweden) and whenever he makes a great save I like saying Great Save Engstrand. Since we sit pretty close together it always gets a chuckle from my co-workers as most of them have never heard of him.
Well have to get back to adding to my team have a couple of guys getting close to retirement so I have to start figuring out what I will be doing with their spots on the roster. Might have to go and buy a few more packs of cards to see if I can get any help for the team or great training cards so I can start training a few more CHL’ers to replace my aging NHL’ers. See you on the ice.
Source - NHL 11 In the Crease Blog
09:14 PM - September 4, 2010. Posted by SwinginAs12.
Thanks to DSgamby from Crashthenet
07:15 PM - September 4, 2010. Posted by Steve_OS. Written by Steve Noah
06:14 PM - September 4, 2010. Posted by Steve_OS. Written by Steve Noah
|
|||||||||
|
03:35 PM - September 4, 2010. Posted by Steve_OS. Written by Steve Noah
The 2K Sports Facebook page has released another NBA 2K11 My Player update.
|
|||||||||
|
01:04 PM - September 4, 2010. Posted by Mossfan8480.
Friday, September 3, 2010
04:58 PM - September 3, 2010. Posted by Steve_OS. Written by Steve Noah
The 2K Sports Facebook page has released some more NBA 2K11 My Player news.
|
|||||||||
|
04:52 PM - September 3, 2010. Posted by Steve_OS. Written by Steve Noah
- The pump fake exploit was resolved. The entire defense will no longer rush the QB after a pump fake.
- Resolved an issue with setting SS/ FS to QB Spy and then blitzing, virtually unblocked.
- Increased the Overall rating for incoming freshman. This resulted in one and two star freshman coming in at a higher overall rating.
- In Season Progression is back! Players once again have the ability to get a slight boost to their ratings during the season.
- There was an issue with Hawaii's home schedule causing conflicts with particular teams. This has been resolved. In particular, teams in the Pac 10 and the WAC will now have the correct number of conference games.
- Resolved an issue with the Rush Defense slider where they were only impacting defensive line special moves. They have been adjusted to also impact win/loss chances for blocking.
- Kick Power/Kick Accuracy progression for Kickers and Punters was adjusted to be in line with the new incoming freshmen. Kickers and punters will now progress in line with other players, but will start with a higher average overall due to the improved recruit ratings in the patch.
- Increased Awareness progression for all positions.
- Increased progression slightly for Elusiveness, Spin Move, and Juke Move for Wide Receivers.
- Increased progression of the Tackle rating for Corner Backs to be in line with WR skill ratings (Juke, Spin, and Elusiveness).
- Reduced the frequency of defenders successfully jumping the snap. Also adjusted how frequently they would jump early when the offense performed a fake snap.
- Tuned Man Coverage so defenders will not jump in front of routes so early. They will still jump the route, but not as early, or frequently, as before.
- Adjusted in season progression to be in line with higher rated incoming freshmen.
- Tuned Incoming freshman to better match the spread on the default rosters.
- Tuned team prestige progression to be in line with the changes to incoming freshmen.
03:14 PM - September 3, 2010. Written by MMChrisS
I'm typically not one to call a game dead in the water a full month before release, and I'm going to try my best not to through the next 300 words or so -- although you could argue I just did.
Back in June, I wrote an article about the move to Elite was a last-ditch desperate attempt by EA to spur sales in the face of an opponent which was beating EA down at every corner.
Because, when you have a highly recognized brand which is 15+ years old, you just don't dump it if things are going well.
And now that we're seeing some gameplay video and some general impressions, I think things might just be worse than I ever thought. I'm not saying people should start piling in the lifeboats just yet, but you'd better be getting in line.
To me, the move to Elite was a move to try to garner some additional buzz to try to make up a huge sales deficit not only with NBA 2K, but with what the series used to garner. It was an odd move considering Live had been steadily improving in quality for a few years up to the point of the name change. In fact last year Live was pretty close to being a very competitive option with NBA 2K in quality, it just got trumped in sales.
The problem EA now has put themselves in is that they need an excellent game to go with the name change and by all accounts, the game very well might have actually regressed this year. I don't think EA is about to cancel the Elite series, but I also don't think fans of the series can rest easy knowing they have a guaranteed game in future years.
The series has seen a marked decline in sales, as they are down almost 75% from their peak back with NBA Live 2005. That is a giant decline, but almost every sports game has seen a decline from previous generation platforms to the current generation -- just NBA 2K has seen a far softer decline.
So my outlook is basically this: barring a disastrous retail life for Elite 11, we will see Elite 12. But unless things turn around, the series is not as profitable as it used to be and I think the suits are panicking at EA.
The real question is quickly becoming not whether Elite 11 can produce quality and sales but rather: can the suits be patient enough to allow the old Live series to be reinvented over a period of a few years?
Either way, this year is almost certainly going to NBA 2K11, and it's not even close.
Working...