EHM 1 Game & Patches: First Impressions / Reactions Thread

[Kopi]

any news on update? want to start a long time career and would be nice with fresh update..

[nino33]

any news on update?

no new news AFAIK

[Filip Croatia]

any news on update? want to start a long time career and would be nice with fresh update..

me too.... I will play FM 16 until update arrives

[szczepek25]

It was nice to see at least what can be found in the new update... Still waiting

[Kopi]

Update is here! I will soon start a long time career

[archibalduk]

What does everybody think about the new default small logos for teams without a user-made logo? I really like them. I'll probably remove the small logos I've got installed and go with the new standard ones instead.

[CJ]

What does everybody think about the new default small logos for teams without a user-made logo? I really like them. I'll probably remove the small logos I've got installed and go with the new standard ones instead.

They were a nice surprise. But if you're using team logos with those new rectangular logos I can see it might get confusing. But I have my small "TV" logos that works well with these new rectangular logos (as they're also rectangular shaped).

[markmck]

I was very surprised by how much I like the small logos... I didn't think I would have liked them nearly as much as I do.

Now that v1.1 is out, does anyone know what the plans are for the future of the game? I'm wondering if there will be incremental updates to the game (1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc.) for a period of time or will there be a EHM 2017, 2018, or whatever down the line?

[archibalduk]

I was very surprised by how much I like the small logos... I didn't think I would have liked them nearly as much as I do.

Now that v1.1 is out, does anyone know what the plans are for the future of the game? I'm wondering if there will be incremental updates to the game (1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc.) for a period of time or will there be a EHM 2017, 2018, or whatever down the line?

The long term future is still unknown. The idea behind the Early Access and Steam release was to gauge interest. If there is enough interest then it'll quite likely return for a regular release (e.g. something along the lines like EHM 2017, etc). For now, it's just the case of enjoying the incremental updates. I can't believe the game has been back for nearly a year now. Time has really flown.

[Fubbage]

Since the update, a few of my players are getting very tired after games. Before these certain players (eg. Artem Anisimov) might be at 85-95% condition after a game. Now they're regularly at 75-80% even after cutting their ice time and resting them in practice. Anyone else found this?

[Koekenbakker]

Since the update, a few of my players are getting very tired after games. Before these certain players (eg. Artem Anisimov) might be at 85-95% condition after a game. Now they're regularly at 75-80% even after cutting their ice time and resting them in practice. Anyone else found this?

Yes! I've checked their ice times. It happens with D-guys playing 30 minutes+ and forwards playing 20 minutes+. I do however match lines, so curious how to fix this..

[Asher413]

Since the update, a few of my players are getting very tired after games. Before these certain players (eg. Artem Anisimov) might be at 85-95% condition after a game. Now they're regularly at 75-80% even after cutting their ice time and resting them in practice. Anyone else found this?

Yes! I've checked their ice times. It happens with D-guys playing 30 minutes+ and forwards playing 20 minutes+. I do however match lines, so curious how to fix this..

Find out where the minutes are (though the home or away stats). Is it even strength, PP or PK time?

One recommendation- reduce special teams time for the offenders. My guys shouldn't cross that barrier until we end up with something stupid like 9 power plays. Then, my top guys can't stand for a week.

[Koekenbakker]

Since the update, a few of my players are getting very tired after games. Before these certain players (eg. Artem Anisimov) might be at 85-95% condition after a game. Now they're regularly at 75-80% even after cutting their ice time and resting them in practice. Anyone else found this?

Yes! I've checked their ice times. It happens with D-guys playing 30 minutes+ and forwards playing 20 minutes+. I do however match lines, so curious how to fix this..

Find out where the minutes are (though the home or away stats). Is it even strength, PP or PK time?

One recommendation- reduce special teams time for the offenders. My guys shouldn't cross that barrier until we end up with something stupid like 9 power plays. Then, my top guys can't stand for a week.

Well, Letang is playing 1st line, 1st PP, 1st PK and ends up having 31 minutes a game. IRL he's on 26 minutes a game, so I'm gonna see how I can limit his ice time

But, it looks like you're not going to get away with a top heavy squad anymore. Which is good, it means you also need to draft well for bottom-6, especially to get good PK'ers.

[Koekenbakker]

I feel like there are some flaws. I've put D-lines to equal, still after 1 period Maatta ends up having played 11 minutes, while the others only had 6 minutes. There was no PK or PP during the period. How does that happen?

[TopeHabFan]

Yeah the minutes are all a bit screwed up. For the forwards they're all spread very evenly, sometimes even seeing my 4th line wingers seeing more icetime than my top line guys even though there weren't that many penalties.

[CeeBee]

Centers still seem to get way too few points. Have not played a lot with the update but looking at stats for the U20 4 nations cup after 3 games player per team I have 1 center with 5 points, 1 with 2 points and 7 with 1 point. Wingers have 6 with 5 points, 1 with 4 points, 2 with 3 points, 6 with 2 points and 12 with 1 point. Defensemen have 2 at 4 points, 2 at 3 points, 3 at 2 points and 6 with 1 point. It's like the centers are just all garbage yet many were 1st round draft picks and highly rated.
That works out to 12 points for centers, 64 for wingers and 26 for the d-men.
I was really hoping this would have been properly fixed by now.

Edit: this is an older save that I've been playing for a few months but the above stats are from today.

[Koekenbakker]

It's really hard to get the icetimes right. I've set all lines to equal, no PP forward is on the PK, but still Malkin and Crosby ended up dropping from 100% to 65% with 22 and 17 minutes played. Also Kessel (18 stamina!) went to 79% with just 16 minutes...

[Saapas]

I would like the draft situation to be more responsive. For example when you check the profile of the latest player drafted and come back to the draft screen it takes a while to get going with the draft (for me like 2-3 clicks to the "Next pick" button before anything happened.) Also during the draft i was hoping that the trade propositions should be made more visible, for exaple there could be the same icon as with other news instead of the small text in the top right corner changing from "News" to "Trade" or maybe even so that you cannot continue with the draft until you have answered to those proposals, like in simulating past the day and have trade or contract to accept . But I have to say that even this small change has made me more aware of the trades proposed (in EHM 07 I usually noticed these trade proposals after the draft was completed)

Just few thoughts of mine

[Galaga Galaxian]

Since the update, a few of my players are getting very tired after games. Before these certain players (eg. Artem Anisimov) might be at 85-95% condition after a game. Now they're regularly at 75-80% even after cutting their ice time and resting them in practice. Anyone else found this?

I registered just to say I've noticed this as well. I've got a couple of players who absolutely tank in condition after a single game where they get even modest ice minutes, despite having pretty average stanima. Being new to the game I wasn't sure if it was intended or not until I saw this thread.

[neuralhandshake]

Since the update, a few of my players are getting very tired after games. Before these certain players (eg. Artem Anisimov) might be at 85-95% condition after a game. Now they're regularly at 75-80% even after cutting their ice time and resting them in practice. Anyone else found this?

I registered just to say I've noticed this as well. I've got a couple of players who absolutely tank in condition after a single game where they get even modest ice minutes, despite having pretty average stanima. Being new to the game I wasn't sure if it was intended or not until I saw this thread.

Ditto. My players definitely seem to get tired a lot faster after the update. I know the changelog said that players will be affected by practice schedules more, but even regular games and general schedules wear them the heck out. I've shuffled around lines a lot to be more balanced and I don't have them on demanding tactics--aside from 'barrage' shooting. Maybe that's my issue?

In my ECHL play through that I paused to get back to my NHL career, I could have my entire team on Intensive training in all categories and everyone except two, maybe three guys would handle it fine with only needing rest days here and there and not suffering injuries.

[Kobrakay]

I wish I could experience that...but so far I am unable to even play the game. I go through the days but as soon as a game comes up the game crashes and exits.

I haven't tried starting a new game only to play older games that I had started before the 1.1 (that Im heavily regretting doing right now ). I've checked the change log and cant seem to find anything related to incompatibilities with previous saved games. Are you people playing new or old careers? Anyone facing similar problems?

[Tasku]

I wish I could experience that...but so far I am unable to even play the game. I go through the days but as soon as a game comes up the game crashes and exits.

I haven't tried starting a new game only to play older games that I had started before the 1.1 (that Im heavily regretting doing right now ). I've checked the change log and cant seem to find anything related to incompatibilities with previous saved games. Are you people playing new or old careers? Anyone facing similar problems?

I'm still playing the save I started when the very first version of EHM EA came out, and have had no issues or crashes (in single player).

Hard to say what the problem could be. Have you tried going on vacation to sim past the first game. Maybe it won't crash on the next one?

[Habfan1972]

I get the same error playing as gm for montreal, st. johns(ahl), brampton(echl). I can sim through the days without a problem, but as soon as I go to play a game, the game crashes on me.

[Tasku]

Just a shot in the dark, but have you guys tried changing something in the Preferences prior to a game. The score display, game clock, switching off the sound... Especially sound. We've already had a crash regarding the initiation of DirectX sound, so it may well be that having sound on causes the game to crash in some cases, and switching it off might help.

... like I said, just a shot in the dark, but you never know.

[Kobrakay]

Thanks for the replies guys. In another thread someone mentioned that Riz is already aware of the issue and a fix should be in the works (I hope).

Till then, I'll take a break from EHM and will just go bananas on the editor