More Broken Gameplay! ( Video Included )
Playing a sweaty HUT game against someone in Rivals. I play defensively given the fact he was just LT abusing the whole game. Get to OT and he rags my twice into his D-zone, trying to get it so my AI...
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More broken gameplay I ran into playing a HUT Rivals game. Opponent kept spamming RS all game when my player didn’t have the puck. I was up 2-0 until he tied it due to lucky One-timer bounces from the middle of the ice. I tried to poke check or play the body and nothing. He just presses A button by the boards which warps the stick so it’s impossible to poke.
Get to OT and he eats me into his own zone so my AI once again chases the puck. Get to my D-zone and I have a couple seconds of puck possession in which I have no outlets near my net even when trying to player switch.
instead he slams RS again when I’m trying to get the puck. Retrieves it. My D is cherry picking with the winger. So I’m by myself and he goes for the backhand. The goalie instead of reading the play properly knowing 2 opponents are in front of him thought it was a good idea to poke check.
I lose and call it a night. My motivation to play this game is running thin with the amount of issues. AI seems to not move in OT in the D-zone. I published another video of it. Hoping it gets sent to the Devs. NHL 24 is so far away from 23 but I’m close to being done. I can only handle so much before this becomes to unbearable to play https://youtu.be/8uIl7DlQCto
- @BIGRlTCHY Your last post was a rough watch lol. Definitely broken there.
Literally through my controller after that one. I was so mad lol. Just no outlet to get the puck moving.
Checking my Twitter feed daily and have witnessed so many bugs in regards to NHL 23... I unfortunately experienced some of these myself! Many are game breaking so you can't even enjoy the gameplay, in replacement of the lack of QOL content. The game doesn't add up to the price and it's causing outrage within the EA NHL community...
As someone who plays hockey IRL this game is basically a cookie cutter type compared to previous releases... The issues are problematic and increasing as time goes on. This is how companies fold! When their consumers start asking for after they played the game, and the expectations were not what it represented. It really is frustrating when you have been a longtime community member cracking top 100 leaderboards to not wanting to play at all. I would have been playing more EASHL but since NHL 19 I haven't since I frequent drop-in as clubs to hard to have everyone on at the same time when our schedules are different. 6's is bland for drop-in since the majority requested indoor arena's with jersey selection and that never changed.
There just isn't anything to enjoy about this years game. Sadly I paid a AAA price for this game, so I kind of play it due to my refund request from MS being denied.
I understand some changes were made to EA NHL staff. EA HQ really needs to put more hands on deck. It's not fair the community managers here and on Twitter are being put as punching bags basically, while this game collapses more and more it's played.
My personal opinion would be to cancel production on NHL 24. Fix NHL 23 add some " new " features to it like full seasons Juniors/AHL in BAP, more female hairstyles. and then copy the API/C++ coding from there for NHL 24 release. This will save time in the long run.
Just something needs to be done to fix NHL 23 or it's going to lower the population even when cross=play hits. A, AAA price game needs to have AAA content and gameplay... This is worth $20 at this point...
Since this post was moved into this category! It's very infuriating right now to play NHL 23... When you pay money for this game it's a little different compared to those who got it cheap or free! Stick and puck physics have been awful lately! Goalies can't save backhands nor the shot from the between the hashmarks and blueline in the middle when aimed blocker side!
Even with cross-play added, the population is low than you can barely get a drop-in game during peak times... Many have requested refunds because 23 is one of the worst yet! If I wasn't playing LG or my banana leagues I would have done the same! It feels painful to play this game and it's affecting majority of our mental health!
Why not take some time to fix these issues? The more they get ignored, the more the gameplay experience is ruined...
I'm getting to my boiling point of frustration! Game played well in the trial! It's one of the main reasons I bought the game... Now I regret this decision and I hardly play! This games more rewarding to the LT abusers compared to the ones who want a realistic hockey game! This direction is going more backwards than forwards.
Literally just want to play a working hockey game for once instead of all these issues!
It's gotten to the brink where I don't feel like I'm going to buy another EA NHL game! Would rather play the older games like NHL 20 which I have been doing! How is this fair to any of us? Truthfully NHL isn't worth the time considering the mountain of issues... It's like getting a cheeseburger without the burger in it. Disappointing and a rip off!
97% aren't happy with the game, so why not fix it? There a solutions to problems!
Why does this game head to head have so many penalties? My record was 2-3 and my versus ranking was stolen from me.
I started playing online in NHL 20 and drops were always full. Never had much of an issue finding a game. These days you're lucky to have a game with more than 3 people a side and they rarely finish. Game has gone downhill so fast
- @NoManuelAutoonly I really wish you could have played drop-ins back when they had the lobby system. You had about 3 rooms labelled by their regions (so like "North America", "Europe", etc.) and you could create custom rooms to play in with passcodes to get into if you wanted to set up games with a group of people.
North America for sure was filled with maximum capacity (50 people) all day so there had to be a North America 2 room put in automatically which typically had like 15 people in it which was enough to have a drop in game on its own and on good times that may even fill up to 50 as well.
When you're in the rooms you could chat so lots of guys would discuss looking for clubs and setting up club teams and organizing try-outs and all that stuff. It really made the community great for finding games and people to play with. There were enough games set up in each room to eliminate the trolls from showing up and contaminating every game.
You could see how full each game was so you could easily go to the game that was near full (10/12 players or 11/12 players) and then you just joined that, wasted like 10 seconds of your life and boom you were in a game.
Now we are forced to wait for 2 minutes for a game to not even fill because the matchmaking is segregating everybody online. Lobbies were amazing.
This is a tough watch! I wasn't to happy to say the least about this game. Hence I was up 3-0 and he scores passing to this guy. I tried to play human D as much as I could. Had a good strategy going when I scored 3 goals to lead by cycling and watching for his hits. It was an all PTW team with overalls maxed. After this game I decided to go to something else. Like why?
https://twitter.com/deathcoreritchy/status/1597805338988019712?s=20&t=stziiruuH4Hkqwim9ix78g
- @BIGRlTCHY I wonder how often this happens and we just don't even notice it most of the time.
It happened again today against an AHL player. I lost 2-0 since he ragged me for 2 periods. The toxicity in this community is brutal! It's worse than previous years. No wonder it's currently taking me half an hour to find a Rivals game. Even with cross-play on! Might just continue with NHL 20 for now in BAP.
More broken gameplay issues... ran into this twice today! Lost both games because of it. So much fun when you play winnable games just for this stuff to happen. Makes me no longer motivated to keep playing despite paying $107 for this game... Such a waste!
https://twitter.com/deathcoreritchy/status/1600596331277733889?s=20&t=Xp7ldQum46vdxdAXlwVTZw
