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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BIGRlTCHY
3 years ago
Definitely agree! Heck every time I make a new post here explaining new broken gameplay issues it gets moved into this thread so it can get lost in the abyss until I post again, just to be ignored by the suits at EA... Published of 2 videos that were published in this thread, just for it to be taken down... Why? Because apparently I was making false claims of it happening! Yet checked Twitter and many other community members are dealing with it. This includes some EA's own Gamechangers! I'm pretty over this game already and these forums tbh! I give up on hope for EA NHL.
Them releasing a decent quality game is a pipedream now and I do feel ripped off $120 plus tax for this unaddressed broken product! It's like they want to lose their gamechangers/influencers and customers! Reality is that is exactly what is happening! Although they make every excuse in the book and try to make it seem to be the best release ever when clearly Timbits hockey looks better than this!
If they check Twitter they will know how upset we all are!
Kmahrle83
Rising Veteran
3 years ago
@BIGRlTCHY wrote:
Definitely agree! Heck every time I make a new post here explaining new broken gameplay issues it gets moved into this thread so it can get lost in the abyss until I post again, just to be ignored by the suits at EA... Published of 2 videos that were published in this thread, just for it to be taken down... Why? Because apparently I was making false claims of it happening! Yet checked Twitter and many other community members are dealing with it. This includes some EA's own Gamechangers! I'm pretty over this game already and these forums tbh! I give up on hope for EA NHL.
Them releasing a decent quality game is a pipedream now and I do feel ripped off $120 plus tax for this unaddressed broken product! It's like they want to lose their gamechangers/influencers and customers! Reality is that is exactly what is happening! Although they make every excuse in the book and try to make it seem to be the best release ever when clearly Timbits hockey looks better than this!
If they check Twitter they will know how upset we all are!
They are very aware nobody is happy but enjoy gaslighting us. I can go to ANY review or social media site RIGHT NOW and read 100 negative comments before I get to even one that's vaguely positive. EA claims they get all this positive feedback, but I just don't see it. Do they have the blinders on that bad? No way. They're very aware but just don't care. No I'm not talking about the guys over at EA Vancouver actually sitting in the studio writing code for this game. I am talking about their extremely out of touch bosses who would rather milk this series into the ground until nobody plays it anymore then offer up even 1% of their precious profit that goes directly into their pockets to give something back to the customers that have given them that money in the first place.
I honestly feel bad for the guys here that have to deal with us because they aren't allowed to do or say many things but they are the ones on the front lines dealing with the ticked off customers. I bet you any money aljo would love to give us certain information or help us in certain ways, but would most likely get fired for doing so. There is so much shadiness behind how these guys operate now and it's their own fault tbh. I'm sorry but if I worked for a company that knowingly ripped it's customers off, and had to sit there and play damage control, I guess morally I'm just not bankrupt like these guys cus I couldn't handle it, and I'd leave. People gotta eat though, so I do get that but as a person I don't know how anyone can sit here and treat human beings this way and go home and feel good about myself every day. That's just me though
BIGRlTCHY
3 years ago
Nailed it on the head here. Even EA_Hawk expressed how exhausting this company is. He literally had to take some mental health breaks. I feel bad for Dustin too! The amount of hate that kid gets is upsetting. Sadly it's going to keep happening until the suits put effort to fixing their broken product. EA NHL series is a small team without proper staffing. I play with a former developer for EA NHL who worked on NHL 15-16. He said is was stressful then since the staff was lacking around that time. 15 lacked so much content when I look back but gameplay wasn't as horrible compared to NHL 23.

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