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aidemannen9's avatar
3 years ago

Be A Pro Suggestions to NHL24

Okay, so it’s safe to say Be A Pro has been the same for several years. I fully understand EA can’t put effort into all modes at the same time, but now it’s time for an overhaul. 

Obviously they make SO MUCH MORE money on people buying packs for a few hundred bucks a year, but the loyal offline players need some love as well. Here’s a list of stuff I’d like to see or things that should be improved. 

1. NO ONE, and I mean no one, likes to have a conversation with your team mate over and over again. Same dialogues, same content. 
What I’d like to see is that you only have conversations with the coach if you do well, take too many penalties or if your agent has something new to tell/ask you. 

2. The way you reach new X-factors is quite ridiculous. “Stay in your team for 5 years to unlock Magnetic” - what’s this nonsense? Or “Don’t win the cup in the next 3 years and unlock One Timer”. 
How is that realistic and fun? 

Wouldn’t it make more sense if you unlocked One Timer if you win the Richard? Or if you unlocked Born Leader if you stayed at the same team for a longer period? 

3. Make pre game more interesting. For example:

- Play as a goalie and before the game you have team mates shoot some pucks in warmups. 
- Play as forward and skate around and shoot some pucks. 

This would make things more fun and switch it up a little bit. 

4. I know a 69 overall player doesn’t have the best puck skills, but it’s basically impossible to receive a puck with speed without losing it. Surely a 69 overall player should be able to handle the puck at least.

5. Add some extra playing styles when creating a player. For example: 

- Magician: Start with decent puck skills, but maybe decrease the strength. 
- Speedster: Start with better acceleration/speed, but less puck skills. 

Just something extra so you can be more like Patrick Kane (Magician) and have great puck skills from the beginning. 

6. Add All Star weekend and let you participate in the game and skills competition. This has been a suggestion for so many years and would make the game mode a lot more fun. 

7. Artery a goal you should be able to skate to the bench and fist bump you team mates like they do in real life. 

Can’t think of anything else now, but please add your suggestions and hopefully they’ll actually listen and give us some love next year. 

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  • drewgriffiths's avatar
    drewgriffiths
    Seasoned Veteran
    3 years ago

    I personally think the general direction it’s going is fine. There’s many things about being a player on any sports team where if you’re not there, you don’t know about. Having played another sport for teams at a semi-professional level, some things do get repetitive in real life, but some thing about the NHL 23 game’s Be a Pro should change. I’ll just go thru the things you mention with my own opinion on them

    1. Teammate conversations should absolutely stay in, they happen. The content should definitely change and what triggers them. Score your first goal, conversation….score a game winner, conversation….get first star, conversation… get thrown out of a game, conversation…. You get the idea. Also conversations on road trips to go places, yeh they happen. On one of the teams I played on, the lads wanted me to go with them to a strip club called Spearmint Rhino after practice. I politely told them where to go 😆 It didn’t make any difference to any “likeability”. I would like to see more regular conversations with the coach like if you do something key in a game like I mentioned above.

    2. I agree the way X Factors are unlocked are a bit daft. I’d have X Factors unlocked when certain criteria are met like Born Leader unlocked when you’re made captain, One Timer unlocked when the right attributes are at a certain level. And these X Factors give you a small extra boost

    3. Absolutely!. The game should start as warmups begin where you take part, practice a few saves if you’re a goalie or take a few shots as a skater and after warmups, it jumps ahead to the player walking out of the locker room and onto the ice for the game. You’ll remember the times we saw our player walk out onto the ice back in the PS3/360 days of Be a Pro. That should come back.

    4. I’m really not sure about this one. There’s many variables as to why a 69 overall player may or may not control a puck and pros do sometimes fail to do things in real life we think we could do or they shouldn’t have failed at.

    5. It’s an idea. There’s always room to expand on the type of players in the game.

    6. I’d like the all star game back… BUT, I don’t think it’s entirely necessary. Full all star weekend anyone?

    7. Yeh, skate along the bench and fist bump your lads. I’d add to it…. Skate with the cup?

    I think they’ll appreciate our input 👍🏼

  • Great Suggestions. Love the idea of the pregame shoot. Ive been suggesting Team practice mode for ever and a day. Ive been playing NBA2K 23 and they have the whole thing dialled in. They have team practice facilities. Your player can actually move from one court to the next in order to work on different drills. PLEASE EA IMPLEMENT THIS AS A FEATURE IN BAP!!!!!

  • no one from EA has responded to this post... that is where your suggestions are falling..... ON DEAF EARS.

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