Make Online Versus more interesting & fun
I think something the NHL series should adopt from their UFC brethren is the concept of having 'Seasons' and ranked fights that have certain weight classes you need to fight in during periods of the ...
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Hardcore Sim gameplay settings in online versus would disrupt the kiddos who just want to wheel-snipe-celly. EA would be flooded with complaints from the vocal majority that the game 'sucks' and to 'revert back to normal settings' after they begin getting destroyed by a META that rewards skill versus abuse.
@KidShowtime1867 wrote:Hardcore Sim gameplay settings in online versus would disrupt the kiddos who just want to wheel-snipe-celly. EA would be flooded with complaints from the vocal majority that the game 'sucks' and to 'revert back to normal settings' after they begin getting destroyed by a META that rewards skill versus abuse.
Yeah, I hear you big time on this… But the fix is easy… You would have 2 choices available when you go online.
1. Arcade
2. Hardcore Simulation
So no disruption there. I mean, all the majority of complaints I've seen for the past 10 years, is that EA's NHL doesn’t resembles real Hockey…
Slowly but surely the Hardcore Simulation Gameplay will take over Online and at the same time, this company will be taken seriously that they want the best representation of the sport… Win-Win, no ?
And on top of this, @EA_Aljo and @EA_Barry and company would have an easier job in the process 😉
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The problem with 2 different modes is that it means 2 different leaderboards and stat tracking for each. Which, isn't as easy as it sounds to implement. Not that it's particularly challenging, but would take more time and resources that could be applied to more popular areas of the game. Online Versus is seen as a little more casual. I think making it sim would disappoint a large part of the playerbase. However, there are more hardcore players that don't enjoy HUT. In some ways, Online Versus can already be a challenge just due to having players closer to their real world abilities as opposed to the inflated HUT overalls. I always play with Arizona. When using a team with lower overalls, it can be pretty challenging. I'll pass on the feedback. Thanks!
@EA_Aljo wrote:The problem with 2 different modes is that it means 2 different leaderboards and stat tracking for each. Which, isn't as easy as it sounds to implement. Not that it's particularly challenging, but would take more time and resources that could be applied to more popular areas of the game. Online Versus is seen as a little more casual. I think making it sim would disappoint a large part of the playerbase. However, there are more hardcore players that don't enjoy HUT. In some ways, Online Versus can already be a challenge just due to having players closer to their real world abilities as opposed to the inflated HUT overalls. I always play with Arizona. When using a team with lower overalls, it can be pretty challenging. I'll pass on the feedback. Thanks!
Thanks for your input on this…
I don’t think that having 2 different leaderboard is that big of a deal… Once it is programmed (the leaderboard) it should run by itself, no ?
Im gonna share my first and LAST ONLINE experience in EAs NHL about 5 years ago….
I don’t exactly remember the mode, but I played against a kid that screamed in my ears the whole time. He scored 5 or 6 goals that were exactly the same. And when he scored, he would do a celebration where he went sliding face first on the ice 😳 So it was 6-0 in about 5 minutes… Let me tell you that it was the worst online experience of my whole life in any game… Never went online ever again…
That kid that probably used the META over and over all day long against other people too…. Is that suppose to be fun ? Challenging ? Is that the sport of Hockey ?
@EA_Aljo wrote:I always play with Arizona. When using a team with lower overalls, it can be pretty challenging. I'll pass on the feedback. Thanks!
Take another feature from the UFC games - if you use a lower rated team/fighter, you gain more CR/XP for winning and lose less CR/XP for losing against a higher rated team.
