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CHEL small and fast backhand meta. So disappointed.
This year there was really good change this to be best hockey ever. Play hockey pass shoot one timers etc. But no. Everybody has 95 speed small winger and they fly past defenders and forehand backhand and score every time. So utterly stupid way to play hockey. Speed is still king nothing else matters. Small and lighting fast forwards are just way too OP. So sad. I really thought this is gonna be the year we get to play proper hockey.Update on Matchmaking
The EA SPORTS NHL team is actively listening to community concerns and is prioritizing the investigation of WOC matchmaking issues. We are consistently releasing tuning updates to improve the experience, and we're closely monitoring their impact. Today, we've released an update specifically aimed at addressing high ping games. We appreciate your patience and support during this time.EA_Aljo8 minutes agoCommunity Manager
Game disconnecting
I keep getting disconnected and sent to Home Screen. I have uninstalled and re staled the game 3 times. I have cleared cash, made sure my Xbox was updated. I also have followed many video steps this issue is not on my end it’s the game period. I have wasted hours trying to play and getting no where at this point I think I want a refund and will just play something else. how do I refund the game?
Fanatics jerseys in team creation
EA_Aljo EA Sports and Fanatics jerseys in NHL 25 is joke 😂These jerseys are same than Adidas jerseys, which has been in the game since NHL 20. EA Sports has only change Adidas logo to Fanatics logo 😂 I.e. we have still same jerseys missing from team creation like in NHL 24. I.e. missing jerseys: Anaheim Ducks (current) Chicago Blackhawks (home) Dallas Stars (home) Detroit Red Wings (home & away) NY Rangers (home) Pittsburgh Penguins (home) San Jose Shark (current) Seattle Kraken Utah HC Interesting notice EA Sports has removed Arizona Coyotes logos from team creation, but Arizona Coyotes jerseys will be found in the team creation. Why ? Could EA Sports add the missing Fanatics jerseys to the team creation and returned Arizona Coyotes logos to the team creation.
Snow from skates during gamplay
Just finished playing a couple of games of NHL 25 and noticed there is no snow coming up from the players skates during gameplay. Evertime I cut and stop hard there is nothing, I can see it during cut scenes and replays but not during gameplay. It was in NHL 24 since I played my finally play now games yesterday for the last time and saw it. Is it possible to let the team know? And has anyone else noticed this?
Goalie interference
https://www.xbox.com/play/media/mVLkLSxTgG Shot taken in tight, goalie makes the save, puck leaks out to the side, shooter rams the goalie, puck goes in, good goal. Over the last few years, I have made post after post with evidence of how badly goalie interference is handled in these games, and it's just never addressed. I'm really not asking for much here when I ask that players not be allowed to run straight into goalies and be rewarded with a goal. Thank you for nothing in advance.
No Respect for Macklin Celebrini, Will Smith or the Sharks in general.
Not only does Celebrini not have a team photo, his avatar looks nothing like him, his name isn't mentioned by the announcers at all, his draft status says "Undrafted". It seems like the #1 overall pick got none of the treatment that Bedard did last year. It's almost like they put him in as an afterthought, the same goes for Will Smith. They also didn't give the Sharks their teal helmets for their away uniforms. The lack of respect for the San Jose Sharks and their players is offensive considering how much they made a big deal out of Bedard being in last year's game. The right thing to do is to make sure Celebrini, Smith and the helmets are updated when they do the next roster update.
First impressions on NHL25
So threre some good, some bad... I like the L2 skating, it gives you versatility and lateral agility, for BOTH offence and defence. Feels nice! The one-timer mechanism is nice too, but seems overpowered? So generally the gameplay isn't half bad... However, there's a quite a bit of negatives, some gameplay and some QoL issues. I've played mostly EASHL, so that's where my criticism originates from. There SO MUCH flickering on the dressing room screen. The background flickers and flashes annoyingly, I just can't stand it. Sure it looks cool for a second, but if you have to stare that screen for hald an hour or more, it gets VERY tiresome. In addition , the player banners in the dressing room keep flickering as well, this isn't by design, and it was like that in the last game. Please do something about it!? Finding games is a nightmare, please return the server location options like they were. You either get a game with 120+ ping or missing players (in 4s and 6s). We spend more time in the dressing room staring at that flickering that in actual games, and it's early season too! Goalies... what can you say? They're like swiss cheese in EASHL, I can't catch a puck if it kills me. Just regular wristers from no particularily good position, and they go in. What I could be sure to catch in NHL24 no longer applies, I don't know exactly what has changed, but something seems off. If this is by design, please let us know what we need to adjust, is it angles, anticipation or what. I don't even want to play goialie anymore. Menus, why are there so many and why are they still so slow? Have you counted how many button presses it takes to achieve something in the menus, you know like basic useability stuff? I know this has been an issue forever, but let's keep bringing this up, hey? I am sure I can think of some more issues, but let's kick off with these. Your thoughts?
My Opinion on NHL 25. Top 100 ranked player iAINTgotYOmoney
Ok so to begin, this years edition of NHL is a vast improvement over last years game. So many things that were broken in ‘24 have been clearly worked on and refined. But because the game last year and the year before was so terrible, I’m definitely keeping the $70 in my pocket and running a couple trials until I see the things that are wrong with this game get improved. It’s not like there’s a point anymore with the world championship being scrapped. First off, the bread and butter to every player is the ability to put the puck in the back of the net when you’re alone. Any good player can do it and the top rank players never miss on breakaways. So it makes you play with defense in your mind whenever you have the puck offensively. But in this game, it is incredibly hard to score. Which is fine and an actual improvement over last year when about half of my games lost, the other player had multiple lucky pucks rolling under the goalies legs. But the thing about it is, is that the breakaways are almost impossible to score on now. ButI see myself at the top of the zone scoring on top shelf snappers. Going in at a pretty high rate too. That’s gotta get fixed. That’s because a lot of casual players just love to overload the goalie with a shot as soon as they step across the blue line. And then when I’m playing a good player that cannot make a pass against my defense in the zone it seems like they revert to that style too. That’s going to be even more maddening for people like me that hold the puck and torture the defense with crafty passes until I can go on a moonwalk with the goalie. No I’m not saying to jack it back to last year, but there needs to be an adjustment, especially with breakaways. Second off, why did you do anything to the energy levels? Energy was fine. You had to be smart about how much you sprint, don’t get blown up. And you should be in the green for the entire period. Now if I run the ice one time the player goes into red, and it is impossible to recover from. Get blown up you’re going into red. Recovery takes way too long To the point where I see myself softly icing the puck at least twice just to get my energy back without allowing them to get a chance. This is even worse when it comes to the computer players because they’re staying full green the entire period and just blowing past me In a little Ford focus. I even tried player locking with Nathan McLaren. It doesn’t work. That’s gotta get fixed too. Like I said earlier, the game is actually pretty good overall and has a chance to be great with a few adjustments. But I’m not changing the way Ive played CHEL for the past 10 years. Even with last year‘s game being completely random at times I still was 900-150 in versus and threes online. I already know here’s no way I’m gonna be anywhere close to that this year. The only thing that I’ll be able to hang my hat on is with my team on WOC but we all feel the same way about this game. So I won’t be buying this one until these areas are improved, because while the weak goals sucked. Bottom line is I still won most games in ‘24 just like I have since NHL 15. And I’d rather win games. And if it stays this way this year EA is more than likely going to lose more good players this year than the past couple years because enough is enough. Were at the point that we are literally begging 2K to make an NHL game again. GO CATS! Edit: Removed mention of ice tilt. This has never been in any of our sports games and does not exist in them currently. It is against the rules here to discuss this as it is purely misinformation. -CM
Can’t Find A Game 60+ Minutes
EA_Aljowhat is going on with the matchmaker? I’ve tried quick play and dropin 3’s there are no matches. We just sit there and it times out 3 times after 3+ minutes. But after waiting 10 minutes with no matches I can leave while that team is still searching and instantly find another group of people. Then I can leave them while they are still searching and find anther one. And another. It takes less than 30 seconds to find another group of people and I can hop rooms like crazy finding more people searching. But none of those groups are getting matched up because then I’ll wait another 10 minutes with one of them and same thing despite me being able to bounce at any time and find a new group. Why are all these people sitting in lobbies not playing each other? There’s no reason I should be waiting 10 minutes then leave and find a new group of people to wait with in 15 seconds . That makes no sense.
EASHL AI Goalie Delay of GAME
I am currently uploading a vid to YouTube, as I have never seen this before (for an AI Goalie in EASHL), the AI goalie went out of the net to get the puck and play it in the no play zone. https://youtu.be/jor_9dR5XAQ?feature=shared Around 16:53 in the vid. I know this happened in versus, but I’ve never seen it in EASHL.
Goalie Review NHL 25
I want to start by saying I have been a goalie in chel since around 2015, have a couple thousand games, and around a high 7, low 8 hundred save %. Being experienced enough in this category I thought I would bring to light key issues surrounding goalies. 1: Overall save ability is extremely weak, I am being beat cleanly in locations where I have allocated most of my attritutes, and SHOULD be making saves. Goalies feel way to much like swiss cheese right now, despite being in proper position (and the game emphasizing this through the on-ice feedback) I am being beat way too frequently, so much so that I feel absolutely zero reward for playing positionally sound, which was a key selling point. 2: Goalies are bobbling pucks/hitting pucks into their own net way too much. This is an issue that has been plaguing goalies for many years, in around 4-5 games, I had knocked in a goal after the puck had hit me, and my goalie overreacted and the knocked it in to my own net. I understand that this happen on occasion, but the rate of this is simply way too high. And yes I have my rebound control stat as high as I can and with the extra +2. This is also an issue specifically on the high blocker (yes I have a 93ovr high blocker) where your player will seemingly swat the puck down into the net resulting in an own goal. This has also been an issue for a couple years now. Finally, I play nhl because I LIKE to play goalie, I do not like, however, when a supposed "top tier" nhl goalie is scoring on himself every game and looking like my sunday beer league goalie. This games purpose is to mimic the unattainable, the high level elite plays that we cannot do, yet I feel as though I could be making these saves in real life with little effort that my supposed elite goalie cannot.
