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 decide to take a bite at chasing the puck carrier rather than sit back like the strategy I have set for them. So I'm constantly player switching since they always want to jump up! Try to switch the my forward to attack the puck carrier but instead I can't even manual switch to him. He skates for a little bit to the top of the circle in my D-zone and stays still. I thought maybe this was my controller but it wasn't! We had this happen in 6's club also when our AI D-man wouldn't move. In this case I'm trying to human control my forward but nope doesn't work.Games riddled with bugs and broken gameplay! I'm so close to going back to NHL 20 permanently...AI Forward Will Not Move Even When Switching To Them In OT - YouTube

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

For nearly a decade it feels like we have been in a fight to get what we want in these games! Since NHL 14 much of the regulars from OTP have given up on the franchise. I used to have over 30 friends from my former hometown he played this game everyday on both Xbox and PSN until NHL 20. The drop-in community isn't as populated as it used to be for 6's. Even with cross-play you can barely get a full game... I think we just miss having the option to select a team jersey, play in an indoor arena. It used to be so much fun to be able to use a team jersey from different leagues with our EASHL player... Most of us back then only played club when we had the time. Now with us being older we don't have the luxury to play it like we did a decade ago.For 3 years now majority of the drop-in community has been asking for 6's to get back to it's old roots...never happened and I doubt we will ever get it back! Now BAP same thing we have been preaching since NHL 21 for full season CHL, and AHL back! Along an injury tracker! 23 it was hardly touched other than contracts... Franchise mode the trailer made it look interesting with full presentation for some teams, custom league addition. Sadly it was an utter disappointment...Then we get to HUT and Rivals was changed. When we asked for something different we meant a Battle Royale Elimination, or Comp. Seasons returned Not this arcade style gong show! This is why HUT Rush is a thing! Adding women into the game was an awesome idea IMO. Yet you can only use them in online versus, HUT and tournaments. Can't bring them to an NHL Roster unfortunately! Also there is a lack of creative options like hairstyles for created players...All of the above ^ we have been fighting for! Bad enough Tougie and Endo had to fight for correct height, weight and overalls for Rosters... Now the bugs! These are literally making the game unplayable! First one that is irritating is when someone decides to pause after a goal is scored. Instead of the Face-off being at Center ice it gets put in the right side of the D-zone! Stick and puck physics are broken! When making a pass to the wing in the O-zone it for the majority goes to the D-man... , The stick warps through the goalies body when the skater skates towards the 5-hole making it a goal 99% of the time with no goaltender interference called... , stick lift is still not working correctly! Another issue with stick physics is a bug that was once removed because Ben himself said it shouldn't have been in the game. In 23 it's back and I'm annoyed by it! It's the stick behind the back self-sauce... Example: stick goes through the puck carriers body, and then can self-sauce behind their back. You can't poke check or do anything because it's like a force field in NHL 23.LT is way too OP this year! If you LT often, puck control should be lost! Other bugs! The lights off issue that has been a problem for SB competitors mostly! How has this not been fixed yet? BAP issue when simming! You get an own goal scored on and pretty much lose the game! In Franchise mode if you injure a after a charge, you sometimes can't proceed to play the game. Opponents won't pick up the puck and you are forced to quit... I have video of this!In OT the one Forward AI doesn't move to help you out. Instead they stand there looking at the crowd like they just started their first Tim-bits hockey game... Even player switching they still go back and do it! Goalies still can't cover the corners properly or stay square to the net when someone shoots glove side by the hashmarks... They don't cover the puck and give up easy rebounds no matter the overall!AI Defense after the face-off at center ice don't skate to cover the middle of the ice. Instead they skate towards the boards letting your opponent skate right in the middle. By the time you player switch you have to back check. Can't poke though or you lose speed so you're stuck just trying to out skate them to the net... Another issue is one we are dealing with more in Rivals is that instead of you player skating, they don't into this glide skate. I have video of it happening to myself! Was almost like table hockey....I have uploaded numerous videos to my channel and will continue... Why most of the game breaking bugs aren't being fixed is frustrating! Maybe take the servers offline for a few days and get this fixed! Who cares if people are mad they can't play online! At least the game will be playable and these toxic cesspool players wouldn't abuse the mechanics like they are now since this games basically catered to them...$107 is a pricey cost! I didn't pay that much to have a game worth $20 at lowest! This isn't fair to any of us!

The support for this game has been terrible. Glaring issues and no Fs given by EA.

Maybe people are just tired of seeing the same broken game year in, year out. I know you're just the messenger, but there have been legit concerns on the path this game has been going for some time.I joined a friend's squad to play and had to play through this crap because the developers don't know, or don't care, about ways to combat the rampart trolling in their games. I'm not even going to say how long it took to get through this slog, only for the only team to purposely glitch the game out at the end, so it wouldn't count. It's been going for as long as I can remember years prior. Throw in the lack of tuners and real issues that need to be addressed as we're heading into the new year, and there shouldn't be any wonder why there are so many complains.

Playing online versus and this bug popped up in the 3rd period! I was laughing at it more than being frustrated as I was already up on the scoreboard. Anyways I have seen this happen before in HUT in some dire situations! https://youtu.be/7ym2a5iUo74 The game itself is becoming more unplayable as time goes on. The bugs are game breaking in my opinion which makes it not fun to play. My $107.51 what I paid for isn't adding up to the problems NHL 23 has. My drive to even click launch this app to play this game is running thin each day! NHL 22 sadly was better than this trash! Not worth what I paid for and I'm upset! Thanks!

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TheUnusedCrayon
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@BIGRlTCHY It blows me away they still haven't re-implemented the lobby system for drop-in's.

How is a game with cross-play less than 2 months after release dead already with majority of its users being die-hard buy the game every year type of fans???
BIGRlTCHY
3 years ago
It's brutal! I only had played the trial for NHL 23 on PSN. My friends club I play on we haven't even bothered with buying the game. Much rather wait until it eventually goes on down in price. $50 CDN still is hefty for us given the state of the game right now.
PernellKarl027
3 years ago
I don’t know why you guys play ONLINE anyway ?
I never, ever play online and to me 23 is a blast to play right now…. Been playing since it came out.
Nasher355
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
@BIGRlTCHY Well they know people are still going to buy it no matter what. It's insane they charge 70 bucks for it. Yea it's industry standard but this game isn't up to industry standards. It's worth 15 as deluxe and 10 standard. The best thing you can do is not buy it off release and buy it pre owned so EA doesn't get anymore money
TheUnusedCrayon
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@PernellKarl027I'd love to play offline but the AI gets super repetitive and worse every year. I used to love to tune the game to create realistic sliders and there was one year where you couldn't tune the pass interceptions to actually work properly and that killed all the fun I had. Want to say it was NHL 21.

And now seeing how the AI is even more passive than ever I can't imagine I'd be able to tune that out this year.
Edit: plus combine that with things such as coaching/systems issues, not being able to customize as much, the bugs I read about, etc. it sounds like it has steadily regressed each year since NHL 20.
PernellKarl027
3 years ago
@TheUnusedCrayon Man you are missing something in 23… It blows 20 out of the water… And trust me I’ve played every version of NHL since 94, lol !..I don’t know if we are allowed to link something from another site ?
But I’ve worked really hard to bring the OFFLINE experience to the next level, sliders, roster, settings… For me and guys that are jumping on the train, it’s a "gamechanger" IMO… Like I said, now with these settings, NHL23 is on another level in my book 😀
Take a look if you want… PernellKarl076 NHL23 Hardcore Sliders
Peace !
Justianhael
Seasoned Traveler
3 years ago
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
BIGRlTCHY
3 years ago
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
TheUnusedCrayon
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@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.
TheUnusedCrayon
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@BIGRlTCHY I wonder how often this happens and we just don't even notice it most of the time.

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