NHL 23 summed up in this video
A buddy made this video. Aljo keeps asking for video of stuff. Here's a great one for you 🙂 [Video removed for immediate profanity - Admin.] EDIT: Video was removed for profanity, wow. Speechless...
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EA_Aljo
Community Manager
Community ManagerI'm talking about the 4 patches that were released already. I'm talking about the reasoning behind tuners not being released. We had a lot of feedback in previous years that tuners ruined the game. They may return. There's no hard rule against them, but we have avoided them due to the idea the game is always better during the beta. The reality of that is that it takes time for peope to adjust to the new game each year. This happens within a few weeks and then we get completes that we changed something. Even when there were no changes to gameplay or at least not the kinds of changes that were being assumed.
As far as what people assumed was rolled back goes, that would mean going through years of posts on previous forums as well as the old enthusiast forums. Mainly, people felt the gameplay had somehow changed. We would get comments about how the game felt so good during the beta, but the first tuner would ruin it. Then we'd say there weren't changes to what they were assuming was changed and we wouldn't be believed. So, the decision was made to make as few changes to gameplay as possible since year after year we were told not to change it.
The railgun issue you mentioned is one that I haven't seen much in 23. I saw a lot more in 22, but I haven't had issues with it this year. Once in a while it happens though. Hopefully, it'll be fully addressed in the future.
The lack of tuner updates are the only issue with 23 though! We have bugs such as players skating through bodies, stick lift being completely broken! Goalies are horrible unless it's a cross-crease. Offline we can adjust tuners but the games broken to the fact even setting them on a realistic setting doesn't help! This is why the community is upset! 4 patches were very moderate ones and it hasn't fixed a bunch of issues regarding this game! We can provide so many videos until enough is enough! It's a full priced game which makes it unfair to leave it at its current state! It would be more reasonable if it wasn't a costly full priced game, although in this case it isn't!
- EA_Aljo
@KIJHLPhenom14 wrote:
The lack of tuner updates are the only issue with 23 though! We have bugs such as players skating through bodies, stick lift being completely broken! Goalies are horrible unless it's a cross-crease. Offline we can adjust tuners but the games broken to the fact even setting them on a realistic setting doesn't help! This is why the community is upset! 4 patches were very moderate ones and it hasn't fixed a bunch of issues regarding this game! We can provide so many videos until enough is enough! It's a full priced game which makes it unfair to leave it at its current state! It would be more reasonable if it wasn't a costly full priced game, although in this case it isn't!
When are players skating through bodies? I know there can be some clipping, but I haven't seen where a player completely passes through another player. we would definitely need video of that.
The stick lift is very sensitive, but I wouldn't call it broken. I've adapted and most of the time my stick lifts aren't causing penalties. I'd like to see it be more forgiving, but not as easy to do as it used to be. We have gotten many requests over the years for a more simulation style game from the hardcore community here. I've always said if the game was as sim as people want it to be, they probably wouldn't like it. The stick lift is a good example as you need to have perfect positioning to make it work without taking a penalty.
I'm not saying the patches we've released have address all the issues raised by the community. It's been mentioned that we haven't done anything post launch because we don't care. I was trying to point out how that's not the case.
Stick lift penalties are happening even when you aren't even close to the player. I have literally seen videos of it being called when the players stick just catches air. As for the players going through the body there literally was video published on Twitter exposing it happening. If I find the video I will post it. Again this game was full price! It needs to be made out to be worth a full priced product which it isn't!
