Request: Send in your L1 footage!

gzell60 · August 30, 2017

Hi all,

as some of you might know, NHL 18 was touring in Stockholm and Helsinki on Monday/Tuesday and we as NHLGamer had some interesting talks with two of the game's producers, Clement Kwong and Evan Dexter (we will publish an interview soon - keep an eye out for it).

One topic was the infamous L1/LB spam glitch that surfaced at the end of NHL 17 and also made its way into the NHL 18 beta, where it turned out to be even more effective. Please refer to this video:

While we believe we were already able to point out how this negatively affects gameplay in our discussion, we now ask all of you to provide more footage that we can submit to the EA SPORTS NHL dev team for further analysis:

1) ANY footage will be helpful: NHL 17, NHL 18 Beta and NHL 18!
2) Preferably, we would love to see REAL-TIME footage (no replay slow-mo) to highlight missing speed penalties while spamming and to show off the influence on gameplay better
3) Spamming FROM BEHIND needs to receive special attention, as you would likely draw a tripping penalty if you were to use regular poke checks in these situations
4) Upload to any external platform like YouTube - if you are facing issues, feel free to ask!

We were following some of the discussions in the past closely and are very well aware of the fact that there are many players who would love to see this either fixed or prohibited in ECL and other NHLGamer tournaments. However there is also a legit component to using L1 which makes it very difficult to find a clear-cut ruling on this.

As a platform with arguably the very best players in the world, that are constantly looking to improve and take the game to a whole new level, we should join our efforts to reach the target of having clean, competitive and exploit-free gameplay.

Note that this thread is not intended to be another debate (do not call out other players, specifically). Please keep it a clean collection of videos related to exploiting L1, and feel free to explain why the use in your particular scenario is an issue. Of course, we won't prosecute any players that are visible in the clips.

@gzell60