Rhaegar Targaryen
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Any good HUT tutorials out there? I'd like to know more about all of the different player variants I am seeing in the auction, what they do and mean. General stuff like that. Does a casual gamer have a chance to get any of the rare stuff or is that reserved for the professional gamers and folks willing to spend real money on packs? Saw a Darren McCarty Heavy Hitters cards on a checklist. I assume this is a rare card.
I’m sure there should be some stuff on YouTube, but I can do my best to answer questions. The basic player cards are regular Gold cards, Team of the Week (based off real life performances over the week), Primetime (based off real life performances the last night). Then there’s always an event going on that produces cards.
As a casual player your best bet to get good pulls are completely the weekly tournaments. There’s HUT Rivals and HUT Champs online modes, but also Squad Battles which is all offline. Rewards come out every week and include packs.
The heavy hitters event was a long time ago, so while the card might be a little rare, it shouldn’t be too expensive for you to buy on the Auction House.
Last night I did find good content on YouTube. One guy in particular had a series of tutorials that he put together back in September. He was showing the one-handed tuck in practice mode. He was able to execute successfully over and over and over again. When I tried it worked possibly 3 or 4 times. One video was a compilation of goals he scored and it looked like it was all CPU controlled. I will never be at that level. New games are too far advanced for me. I remember when it was just a d-pad and two buttons (pass & shoot). That stuff I can handle. Needless to say, I won't be online anytime soon.
Thank you for the brief rundown on the card types.
Yeah save your coins. Packs aren't really worth it. And if you play Rivals you'll get some kind of reward regardless of where you finish. You have to play 5 "placement" games first which puts you in a division closest to your skill level. I'd say play your 5 Rivals placement games, then play a few regular rivlas games to get rewards. Worst case, you get smoked but get a few packs in return. Otherwise, definitely stick with Squad Battles for now and try to get as high as possible.Sounds like it's best to save the coins for the auction house? Are there any rewards for lower tier players in online modes? I'll be dusted by anyone I play. I've seen it mentioned that if you cannot defeat the CPU on the hardest settings you will have virtually no chance head-to-head.
Yeah save your coins. Packs aren't really worth it. And if you play Rivals you'll get some kind of reward regardless of where you finish. You have to play 5 "placement" games first which puts you in a division closest to your skill level. I'd say play your 5 Rivals placement games, then play a few regular rivlas games to get rewards. Worst case, you get smoked but get a few packs in return. Otherwise, definitely stick with Squad Battles for now and try to get as high as possible.
Also fwiw, I'd consider myself a pretty good player, and I don't ever mess with superstar difficulty.
With the game being out for so long now, a lot of teams you run into will have better cards. If you only have limited time then just go all out on squad battles. But yeah if you can spare the time to get Rivals games in, there's no downside really (unless losing is really gonna grate on your nerves )Good to know there's still packs given to the losers. I've been reluctant for H2H because all of the teams I am seeing are loaded with 90+ rated players with special cards. One tutorial I was watching on YouTube was dated from early September and the dude already had a full squad of silver & gold Icons. My highest rated card (non loaner) is an 85 Larionov and my lines still have cards below 80. I will be dead in the water but if there's still packs to be had I'll give it a go.
Good to know there's still packs given to the losers. I've been reluctant for H2H because all of the teams I am seeing are loaded with 90+ rated players with special cards. One tutorial I was watching on YouTube was dated from early September and the dude already had a full squad of silver & gold Icons. My highest rated card (non loaner) is an 85 Larionov and my lines still have cards below 80. I will be dead in the water but if there's still packs to be had I'll give it a go.
Good to know there's still packs given to the losers. I've been reluctant for H2H because all of the teams I am seeing are loaded with 90+ rated players with special cards. One tutorial I was watching on YouTube was dated from early September and the dude already had a full squad of silver & gold Icons. My highest rated card (non loaner) is an 85 Larionov and my lines still have cards below 80. I will be dead in the water but if there's still packs to be had I'll give it a go.
Re: gameplay, on defense keep good gap control and focus on getting in shooting/passing lanes. Then go for the poke/stick lift when the chance arises. Especially against the computer. Online you can begin to guess and anticipate where a guy might go so it's easier to line someone up. Against the cpu just get in lanes.So I got this game a week or so ago and I followed the advice of some of the posts in this thread to play the rivals mode and team of the week. I’ve gotten some decent rewards from that but I’m struggling pretty hard with losing 95% of games I play. It’s frustrating losing so much.
Any gameplay advice for me? I pretty quickly got my team up to all 80+ players thanks to the loans and offline games that give you coins. Most team’s I face are better than mine but not crazy better because I’ve been relegated a lot. I really struggle with defense in this game. The poke check is a penalty almost every time so I never use it. The stick lift is good but you have to be so close to them it’s hard to use. People go around or pass so easily when you go for the hit. When I defend the puck carrier my other dman leaves a forward wide open. When I defend the open guy, my dman lets him walk right in and score. I just don’t know what to do to defend better.
Then my other question is the exchange sets. I understand the silver for gold players and gold for premium gold ones but the rest confuse me. Tried looking online but didn’t get a good answer. For example, what is an icon collectible? Or a gold collectible? I’ve got 12 of the April cards now but I’m saving them until I understand what I’m getting back a bit better.
Re: gameplay, on defense keep good gap control and focus on getting in shooting/passing lanes. Then go for the poke/stick lift when the chance arises. Especially against the computer. Online you can begin to guess and anticipate where a guy might go so it's easier to line someone up. Against the cpu just get in lanes.
Icon collectibles can be traded in for Icons. 1 collectible gets you a choice pack of one 85 icon. 12 collectibles get you 91 ovr mario/gretzky. They released upgraded icons as well, so you can trade in normal icons+colectibles for an upgrade of that player. For instance they just released 99 mario/gretzky So trade in the 91+collectibles and you get his 99.
Gold collectibles are used for events or to upgrade certain cards. For those/icon collectibles just go into sets and read the headings on everything. They'll explain it well enough
As a beginner it's not the worst idea. Coming in this late to the game, you'll be behind the 8 ball regardless. I got mario pretty quickly but I play every day. Just keep playing squad battles and get as many rewards as possibleThank you for the advice. I think I’m starting to understand the exchange sets now. 12 for Gretzky is crazy. Going to take forever.
I was a fool for trading in my gold players for premium gold players.
How do you convert players to collectibles?Updated team:
Marner (98) - Lemieux (99) - McDavid (99)
Selanne (88) - Barkov (94) - Gretzky (99)
MacKinnon (90) - Sakic (88) - Dadonov (90)
Hirano (90) - Pageau (90) - Vrana (91)
Karlsson (94) - Coffey (97)
Fox (89) - Hughes (95)
Petry (90) - Gunderson (89)
Murray (90)
Rittich (90)
Saving up Icon Collectibles to upgrade Selanne to his 97, but this is pretty close to my end game team. All team synergies are activated. Not a huge fan of Dadonov, Sakic and Gunderson, so they'll probably be the next to go.
The great thing about online play is there's always packs up for grabs. Even lower end players do get a reward, which will help you get a good team (even if you don't get good pulls, the gold players can be converted into collectibles).
I wouldn't fear online play! Most of the modes are skill-based matchmaking to a certain extent, so you'll be playing beginners as well. And while higher overall cards can be intimidating, not everyone can use them well. You'll get used to habits of online players and learn how to combat them really well, just takes some practice.
Under sets. Icons sets has an option to trade 50 gold players for a collectible and the event sets have a 50 player set for a gold collectibleHow do you convert players to collectibles?
As a beginner it's not the worst idea. Coming in this late to the game, you'll be behind the 8 ball regardless. I got mario pretty quickly but I play every day. Just keep playing squad battles and get as many rewards as possible
Honestly your position, where your team is kinda meh, is one of the more fun parts of the game. Each upgrade you make is awesome and if you pull a great card it feels amazing.
Yeah the collectible prices are high because it's so rare to pull a tradeable from the packs. Right now gold player prices are high because of the Mario and Gretz upgrades. Best time to buy players is usually when the packs are rewarded from Rivals (Thursday 5pm est) and squad battles (Friday 5pm est).