Meaningful Changes For NHL 24

2/3-man teams make up the vast majority of clubs - you'd completely kill clubs removing it. There needs to be a major AI overhaul for offline anyway so you might as well tune it to work for clubs too .

Forcing anyone to play G would certainly sour NHL for them lol, the position plays like total dog poop, my dude.

I don't personally like the idea of having multiple builds to choose from at will, especially if you want forced 6v6 where everyone would have a "pure" build.

Threes Eliminator should add powerups and stuff akin to 3v3 arcade - it's current state leaves a ton to be desired.

I agree there should be more manual shots but I think people would still opt flr auto one timers - this would cause people to dump all their stats into wrister and give a good ~100 points to spend elsewhere

Remove World of Chel altogether. Stop holding that game mode back with updates that cater to the Offline and HUT crowd.

WOC should be a standalone title that doesn't require its users to buy the new version every 12 months. There are never any significant adds to it and the gameplay has noticeably gotten worse over the past five years. 

It's got a player base large enough to sustain it on its own and there's plenty of potential to market it as a tournament style game. There's very little need for NHL licensing.

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@MySPARKOFSANITY wrote:

4. Add a tip button. Could be clicking in right stick. This would need to be timed after shots, not held. This should add some skill to tips and re-directs. Could also make slap passes usefull, being able to redirect pucks.

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Are you under the impression that players on the ice aim their sticks to shoot the puck midair, hitting at just the right time?  No one has the reflexes to do that.  They hold their sticks along the path to get it to bounce off.  Why should it be made harder to do it in game than in real life?

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@VeronicatheCD wrote:

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@MySPARKOFSANITY wrote:

4. Add a tip button. Could be clicking in right stick. This would need to be timed after shots, not held. This should add some skill to tips and re-directs. Could also make slap passes usefull, being able to redirect pucks.

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Are you under the impression that players on the ice aim their sticks to shoot the puck midair, hitting at just the right time?  No one has the reflexes to do that.  They hold their sticks along the path to get it to bounce off.  Why should it be made harder to do it in game than in real life?

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Players absolutely aim when tiping pucks. They don't randomly hold their stick out hoping to make contact. Or just happen to be near a shot and throw their stick out. It's intentional, unlike this game. There is a huge timing element to tipping pucks. You see all the time swating the stick down to drop the shot. 

This timing is no different than one touch passes or quick shots when recieving the pass in game terms. What I don't want to see is players tiping pucks in without intentionally trying to.

8. 29$ price tag or lower. This is not a AAA product, never has been.

Terrible idea. 

Are we talking real players tipping or in-game? 

Tipping in it's current state seems very random to me - I basically just keep taking large circles and tilt the right stick L2 as soon as it gets near, hoping I don't get a hit/interference.

We *could* actually be choosing the direction left and right where we want the puck to go but it all happens so fast idk. Would be nice if someone from the team could clarify.

Real players can deliberately change the direction at will, not just left-right, but also up-down (and its actually quite easy if you're familiar with your teammate's shots), but I think it would be very hard to implement to the game control-wise.

Trouble with that specific area of the ice is accidentally hitting someone - we would need to remap the hit button or further tweak L2 to get the sweet spot. Regardless, more tips would make the game better.