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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EA_Aljo
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@TheUnusedCrayon wrote:
@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.
The chat was also full of toxicity and offensive content. That definitely wouldn't work today. You also had to deal with racing to a position. Forwards filled up first which means you often had a forward playing defense that wouldn't defend at all. In some cases, someone who had never played goalie would take that position just so they could play and it went poorly to say the least. The trolling then was just as bad as it was now, if not worse since there were no anti-griefing measures. I agree it was quicker to get in to a game, but you often didn't get the position you wanted and still had to deal with unfortunate teammates. I know it takes longer now, but you can at least play your position. Not that this completely prevents trolling of course. It happens and will most likely always happen. This goes for just about any online game.
@EA_Aljo I used to wait for next game if I didn’t get the position I wanted and it was still far faster than what we got now. Also you could open def/goalie position first and let them fill, and forward 15-30sec later.
I also think if they implemented a system for OTP like you pick a position in World Of Chel it could work. We had this discussion back on NHL 14 with a bunch of the OTP population. Many have disbanded from this series. I haven;t played much drop-in because it's boring playing in an outdoor arena with the same 2 sweaters... Clubs aren't always an option and LG is a popularity contest and with the time frame for us older members it doesn't work since we have jobs to go to.
The trolling in drop-in now is 10x worse than it was before. Often my defensive partner decides to play forward instead. So the position lock makes no difference. Lobbies we were able to avoid them. Now drop-in the population is too small even with cross-play we can hardly avoid them since lobbies never fill up like they used to..
Not everyone has a club or has time for it. We need options! Sadly this could be the last game I purchase... Having more fun in BAP on NHL 20 right now anyways.
@BIGRlTCHY Why don’t you play BAP in NHL23 ? Just curious…. NHL23 OFFLINE with the right settings is great 😀
The answer to this question is I don't enjoy dealing with the cutscenes. Along I liked back before NHL 21 I was able to start off as a 17 year old junior player to grind my way into a draft position. Along they had an injury tracker and you could play in the AHL. It was way more enjoyable.in the sense of content.
