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No access to the salary perks or to calendar in be a pro
There is no menu option to access salary perks in be a pro. That menu randomly popped up once but not able to access it again as it’s not under any other tab in the be a pro home screen. Also, there seem to be another bug where we can no longer access the calendar in be a pro to see when are the upcoming games especially with the new energy feature that needs to be managed but only gets replenished once every week l
Custom Roster Download Broken on PS5
EA_Aljo I am completely unable to get NHL 26 custom rosters to work on PS5 if they involve a lot of players. I downloaded 3 rosters, one that adds one player, and two that add quite a few. Only the one that adds one player works; the other two show that there are "no created players" in the creation zone. I have tried every method I can to get these rosters to work, but they refuse to. My only guess other than it just being completely broken is that I am using the 10 hour EA Play trial before the launch next week, and maybe the rosters were made by people who bought the deluxe edition. Either way, this is incredibly frustrating.Please fix
Issue #1: Franchise Mode Bug When I play Franchise Mode, the game consistently crashes after three games. I’m using Toronto, and the issue always occurs during the second game of a back-to-back against Detroit (the grudge match). The game freezes completely—you can’t do anything and are forced to close it. When you reload the save, the same crash happens again, making the file unusable. This bug repeats every time I start a new file, making Franchise Mode unplayable. Issue #2: Be a Pro – Stamina System I really appreciate the direction you’re taking with Be a Pro—it’s clear you’re trying to add realism by making players feel fatigued during tight games. However, the current stamina system makes the mode nearly impossible to enjoy. The weekly energy refill of just 5 points isn’t nearly enough. I’ve played 20 games, and in 11 of them, my player had completely empty stamina. When stamina is gone, the player moves so slowly that you can’t do anything. You get knocked around like a ragdoll, and all the fun is stripped away. As someone who only plays offline, I currently can’t enjoy either Be a Pro or Franchise Mode. I’m honestly starting to regret paying extra for early access. Please fix these issues so I can actually play the gameRoster Menus are extremely slow to navigate
Seems pretty obvious there's a problem with roster navigation. Scrolling through players results in a slight lag between loading player pictures and quick-look stats at the top of the screen. I've noticed this issue for the third year in a row on Xbox, others online have complained about this issue on Playstation as well. I've cleared memory cache and checked my internet and those don't seem to be the problem, have to assume it's a technical issue with the game. Happens in all roster screens no matter what mode, most notably in the edit roster screen from the main menu and in Franchise Mode. Makes changing lines and looking through players a slog. Again, I've done all the checks to ensure that this is not an issue with my console or my internet (I've had 2 different services in the last 3 years) and other EA Sports games do not have this issue including CFB 25/26 which hosts many more players.Poke checking too nerfed.
As of now you don’t get rewarded at all for playing positional defense and using the poke check. I see time upon time that I do a GOOD poke check that should result in a loss of puck for my opponent but it either go through their stick (bug or choice from the developers?) or it instantly goes back to the puck carrier. Infuriating to say the least and the game doesn’t reward smart defensive play.Game breaking bug in Franchise Mode
In my Franchise Mode, I finished the last game in November and tried to sim to next game at start of December but nothing happens. I can't go down in the menus or leave the game mode. Nothing. I tried to load the save again and still the same issue. I loaded an earlier version of the save and also the same problem. This has to be fixed because right now, I can't continue on my Franchise Mode!Franchise Mode freeze
Hi! I have made 2 different careers on Franchise and both times the game freezed after a game played. On first career after my game 30 and on second career after game 40. After I come back to the menu, I cannot see anything where there's usually the leaderboard and i cannot do anything. I cannot move, cannot exit the menu to main menu. Only thing I can do is to reboot the game. And if I go back to either of those careers, the same bug happens. It has autosaved the careers on the bug screen. It's frustraiting that I can't even play one season on Franchise. And apparently making a new career doesn't help, because it does the same thing again. I'll add a picture of the menu with blank leaderboard. But that's basically all I can show.Poke checks seem bugged, if they aren't, they might need a rework or a tutorial
There are significant moments in EASHL, even with a 6'2 DD, mid-high 90s Stick checking, high strength, elite stick em up or elite NC, I'm seeing poke checks as basically a useless strategy as a D main in a D1 club who regularly reaches Elite (I've tested on a bunch of builds as well). I loved D in the last game except in the case of L2 spam, well L2 spam is almost gone so kudos, but you've demolished the rest of the smart positional D archetype so now I've just been cycling to FWD throughout sessions as to not lose my mind. A detailed list of poke issues: The punishment for poking is way too severe, even if I do get extremely get lucky and a poke works, my guy is so broken after that the 5000 fwds with wheels will just get the puck back anyway, so it's a useless strategy for D in most cases. Stick lifting falls into this category, it can trigger but the FWD kits are too good to make it viable due to the punishment you get for executing the lift. Without stick em up, even with high stats on a good d build, throwing a poke out looks like I'm under pressure, the animation is so goddamn slow that anyone with any semblance of reflexes can EASY work around it. If me and the FWD are face to face in medium range, I can poke the puck and have many moments of collision and actually hear the stick check sound repeating over and over again, and no animation cue is happening showing they are losing the puck, they never actually lose the puck in the end. If the FWD is breaking past me and I successfully poke and the blade of my stick makes collision with the blade/puck, same thing, tons of sound cues and no animation cues that a poke has taken place, the FWD will never lose the puck no matter how much audio indicates a poke should have happened. These issues frequently result in goals and really makes playing D suck. Poking successfully when face to face sometimes just pops the puck up in the like half a foot off the ice and the FWD will ALWAYS get it back, even if I have elite NC. When poking when off foot, speed bursting or turning, my guy will just fall over sometimes, this is just another thing making pressing the poke check button, a staple in NHL D play just a really sketchy feeling strategy. I've made an effort to smoothen my inputs compared to last game but it makes no difference in the end because of all the other issues affecting the pokes, it's not worth it. Sometimes you can get a perfect poke and your stick basically collides with the blade & puck of the FWD and your stick stops dead in it's tracks, like there's a force field around their stick. When I play fwd and I'm face to face with a D i can just casually go left, right, left, right on the right stick and I can literally see them freaking out poking and colliding with my stick and absolutely nothing happens. Poke checks seem to be easier to execute in the neutral zone for FWDs on other FWDs, I think it's just because wheels might not have proc'd yet, or they haven't chosen a side to stick handle on, but as soon as a FWD doesn't want to be poked, he can't be no matter what. As a result of this I've changed my D builds to be a lot like a power fwd and I go on rushes, we play 6s like 3s and it's terrible hockey. I use NC and truck, I've never been a truck player, I've always been the best on my team at pokes and clean Lidstrom style d play using pokes and position and now it seems impossible. The only viable strategy is really lame big hits out of position high risk trash, or I just switch to FWD, which is crazy based on long I've been playing only D. If I'm missing something, please enlighten me. I've tested so many different things with it and it's not usable in game against a bunch of players with Wheels, Warrior, Big Rig, etc. I'm not sure if they are bugged or wrongly tuned or just fundamentally implemented to be a different game mechanic than all other NHL games, but maybe you should tell people wtf is going on. In conclusion, an entire beloved archetype of hockey, the smart positional D man has been kitted out of the game.
Most Interesting Person Alive trophy unattainable
The trophy for “Most Interesting Person Alive” is not unlocking on Playstation. It currently sits at 0.0% of players earned. Xbox players seem to have no problem unlocking it. I’ve had both my Be a Pro and World of Chel player highlighted in an offplay highlight package in quite a few games. Since the first day of early access, up untill today AFTER the update. It’s clearly glitched. Will it be fixed at any point?Gameplay sliders not saving/loading in game
Hi, This is unfortunately a classic bug in the game but the games gameplay sliders presets (customizing the gameplay, skating etc) do not save when you click on play next game (in be a pro). It gives you the 3 options of game length but it was previously fixed in the past year by adding custom to then be able to load your custom gameplay sliders. The only way to have the gameplay sliders loaded into the game is to simply the game and Jump in mid game. Now I have to redo all the settings before eveygrame… Can we please have this fixed asap as it’s a real pain in the **bleep**!
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