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There has been a lot of good change in this game from the last time I played which was 12 or 13. It's no longer a dive fest in front of the goalie, but the game is still way too spastic. It's almost impossible to set up in the offensive zone and cycle the puck mainly because of the lack of stamina online. 

 
So, I may or may not have just amused myself for the past 30 minutes with text to speech in Moonbase Alpha. Stephen Hawking was doing some crazy shit talking. You guys should have heard him. :lol:

And yeah, the game is free to play, and is only about 800mb to download. Everybody get on that. Fun will be had, haha.

 
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Yeah...and if anybody has any sound problems (which I did at first), you have to make sure your audio device on your PC is set to stereo. For whatever reason (ahem...free game) it freaks out if you have it set to 5.1 or 7.1 and you won't hear anything. My default motherboard audio was set to "quadrophonic" or some shit. But when I changed it to "stereo", it worked fine.

You also have to go into the game options and check "text to speech" to enable it.

At any rate, I should be on for evening festivities in about 30-45 minutes. Rocket League and dirty chat messages. Sounds like a great Saturday night, haha. :)

 
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Wow...I just snagged Patrick Sharp for 4000 coins and Marc-Andre Fleury for 5650 (seller was Bacon Country...wonder if it's actually him). He started the Fleury auction at 5000...and it had no bids until 3 minutes left. I ended up going back and forth with a guy, and somehow won on my last bid. I only had 75 coins left. If he had gone up one more time, I would have been screwed, haha.

Previous sold price on Fleury was 12000...so I'm happy with my bargain shopping. :)

 
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Annnd...I need a break from HUT. I just outshot a guy 31-24...and lost 6-0. He had Bobrovsky standing on his damn head stopping everything. One timers, point shots, breakaways, etc. Meanwhile, he's scoring on basic wrist shots (not even douchey shit...just regular fucking shots).

I'm relegated back to division 7, and I'm tapping out.

Eat a barrel of dicks, EA. I hate you.

 
Haha, that's awesome. Saitek really goes all out with their peripherals. They've got so many control panels and gauges for flight sims, you could probably actually reconstruct a real cockpit if you spent enough money.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=saitek+control+panel

The guy in the video basically highlights why the game needs VR support though. It's cool that the wheel has analog sticks on it...but steering while trying to look around has to be like patting your head and rubbing your stomach.

 
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Ehh...not sure if I can (I mean, I probably can...just not sure what time). I'll have to see what my wife's plans are. She's done with work for the week, so she might want to watch a movie or something.

In NHL related news, however, I think I figured out how to cause that "only have 4 skaters" glitch. What happened was I took a slapshot at the goalie after being offside (I was up 2-1 and wanted to piss the guy off). He actually challenged me to a fight...but instead of my shooter taking the fight (Forsberg), Justin Faulk stepped in and fought. So, the panalties were doled out as 2:00 roughing for Forsberg, 5:00 fighting for Faulk, and then 7:00 for his guy (roughing + fighting).

So, after the 2 minutes are up, Forsberg is let out of the box...but his guy can't leave because he has to serve his fighting penalty as well. What SHOULD happen, of course, is the game should let somebody come off his bench. But EA is fucking stupid and doesn't know how to program anything...so nobody ever came off the bench...and the player never got let out of the box for the final 10 minutes of the game (and yes, we did have several faceoffs).

So, if anybody wants to test that, go for it. shoot at their goalie, have somebody else step in to fight, and see what happens, lol :lol:

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It's interesting timing since this past Monday Night Raw was held there, and seeing their usual peek into Tootsie's when returning from one of the commercial breaks gave me that idea.
 
Wow, so the new Indie Gala bundle has all 3 BloodRayne games for $2.49 (price goes up in 14 hours). I didn't even know the first 2 games were on Steam. I used to play the hell out of those. Before anyone ever thought of Nazi Zombies, there were Nazi Vampires, lol. :)

https://www.indiegala.com/hump

 
Ok...so cycling my router actually made my speeds worse. Not sure if this is going to happen tonight for me. I'll keep trying, but unless it clears up, the outlook is doubtful.
 
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family as well Nate!! Happy Thanksgiving to everybody else as well!! Except Dr. Pizza.

Looking back, it's been almost 9 years since we started. We are quite a family!!
 
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family as well Nate!! Happy Thanksgiving to everybody else as well!! Except Dr. Pizza.

Looking back, it's been almost 9 years since we started. We are quite a family!!
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Yup. It's kind of funny how the CAG Hockey Team was fledgling for the first couple years, and it was just kind of this cool thing that we all wanted to do. Now...we all suffer through it...and the cool thing to do...is each other.
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And I, for one, am thankful for that.

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Hope you guys had a great turkey day! I'll be back for NHL next week, prepare yourselves!

Also, saw Rocket League is on sale on steam, so I'll probably get it there too.
 
Just opened a mega promo pack. Probably one of the best packs I've had at least in terms of multiple cards.

Pulled a Movember McDavid that sells for 40k, a golden ticket worth 25k, and a puck bonus of 1k. Oh and a fucking Ivansky.
 
Just lost a HUT game 1-0...to a guy with this roster

Backstrom

Beauchemin

Bure

Datsyuk

Ekman-Larsson

Fowler

Josi

P. Kane

Kronwall

Malkin

McDonagh

Modano

Nash

Tarasenko

Thornton

Toews

Voracek

Zetterberg

Rinne

Schneider

All he did was go for cross creases all game until one pass finally got through. Meanwhile, Rinne stood on his head at the other end.
 
This is a very good watch on how Valve approached in game purchases in regards to CS:GO. Its interesting to see the level of thought they put into it. She later talks about how the went about actually masking the skins, but the first 10 minutes are about they why's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd_QeY9uATA&feature=youtu.be

 
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For a good laugh, here's a post in that "This game is dreadful" thread in the NHL 16 forums I was talking about last night. This was posted yesterday by EA_NHLDevs.

As you have said, there are a lot of things going on, so I can't really get into all of them situation by situation. All I can say is that the intention is for them to play like living and breathing hockey players.

They have standard positioning based on strategy and they will react to where the puck moves, etc.. Sometimes based on who the player is and their ratings/player type/tendencies, they may be more aggressive to step up into the high slot for a one timer (if you passed earlier, it may have been a good closer one time option since the defender was skating away from him - hard to say). Sometimes you will even see a weak side defender sneak in back door if they feel the chance is there.

If the AI isn't doing something you expect it is probably as you said, the same reason a human isn't doing something you expect, they read the play wrong (or different from you) and end up backing up when you thought they should stay, or driving in further when you thought they should back up. It would be great if you could yell at them from the bench but that is a feature we have yet to implement.

An AI team will change it's strategies based on situation and urgency levels but not based on anything else.

You can give your team an energy boost by winning a fight but that is clearly shown in the line change energy meters. There isn't anything else in there.
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So...basically, they're delusional about what they think they programmed. He seems to legitimately believe the AI does things with intent and reacts to situations. If this were true, we'd see consistency in it. Like if you're down 2-0 late in the game, the AI would naturally get extra aggressive...making them more susceptible to penalties or giving up breakaways...but also going all out trying to score. When do they think this happens?

 
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CDkeys has Just Cause 3 for the pc for $30 or $28 with a face book promo.

That's funny how delusional they are. We saw it last night where the Wingers was digging the puck out in the corner while Rob covered his point.
 
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So, I just played a guy in HUT whose team name was MLG2POOKY4U and his abbreviation was 420 (I'm really hoping this was a joke). HIs team was loaded with high dollar guys. Ray Bourque, Ryan McDonagh, Dustin Byfuglien, etc. (i would have noticed more had it not been for the game's outcome, lol)

Anyway...I ended up outshooting him 34-11 and won 8-0, lol. I've played two games since picking up Frederik Andersen, and both have been shutouts. Obviously, this guy sucked...but Andersen actually looked prepared for every shot in both games.

On that topic that we were talking about last night, Alan...with goalies trying to make too many desperation saves, I had started putting boosts on my goalies (Dubnyk, Fleury, Varlamov)...and it did almost seem like it made them play shittier. Like they were almost TOO GOOD so they tried for stupid saves when it wasn't necessary. I wonder if there's something to that. Because Dubnyk used to be a beast for me...but hasn't been the same lately. Considering EA logic, I almost wonder if boosting them is hurting their fundamental ability.

 
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