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...
Forum Discussion
@jadaseian wrote:
@Sega82megaLet's be honest here, it's the same thing every year. "Maybe next year will be better, maybe they need to just fine tune the new engine, maybe maybe maybe." At this point, history has proven annual releases produce crap products. Everything from the physics, EA communication, to even these forums are an absolute joke. I win 85% of my games online and still can't get over the blatant issues with it. Ultimately, we have to speak with our wallets, and I'm hoping to stay strong and not buy 24. It's just a shame cause real life hockey is my sport, and this is the only option from a game perspective.
I feel this, I play some drop-ins (not as much because of how many issues there are with the gameplay) but when I'm on my game, I'm very hard to play against, most games are lost by 1 or 2 goals. Then there are the games lost by 4+ goals (usually due to what is shown on the video) then I just stop playing because it's just not fun when that happens. I can handle losing I have no problem with that, but when it happens like the video posted, it's really hard to want to even touch this game..
@FloundinatorQQ Totally agree. When do you everything right and still get screwed, it's no fun. I find myself battling the completely broken mechanics of this years game more than any other NHL game EVER!
- EA_Aljo
Community Manager
@Nammer604 wrote:
@FloundinatorQQ Totally agree. When do you everything right and still get screwed, it's no fun. I find myself battling the completely broken mechanics of this years game more than any other NHL game EVER!Can you go in to detail on which mechanics are broken?
- @EA_Aljo You said that you watched that video right? Everything in there and forced cross creases that go right through my stick blade, feet, body etc....
Offense has always been favored in this game but this years edition is just beyond frustrating when trying to defend. I feel really bad for full time d men because you basically took away 2 of their most effective tools to defend.
I play a lot and I also play in competitive leagues (WOHL, LG for west coast players). Myself and everyone that I know who are good players say the EXACT same thing.
This game just isn't fun and frustrating to play. We only play it because we love hockey and don't have any other alternative.
EA is lucky that they're the only one's making hockey because if they had competition and a developer that listened, gave CONSTANT feedback/communication and made changes that we asked for, A LOT of us wouldn't hesitate to jump ship.
I'm sick and tired of saying the same thing year after year. Instead of focusing on core GAMEPLAY that functions PROPERLY, they keep adding in gimmicky things that no one is asking for. You wonder why the same things are broken year after year, it's because they're never fixed properly and more stuff is added into an already broken game. The code is so jumbled and massive that of course when you "fix" something, something else ends up being broken in the process.
@Nammer604 wrote:
@EA_AljoYou said that you watched that video right? Everything in there and forced cross creases that go right through my stick blade, feet, body etc....
Offense has always been favored in this game but this years edition is just beyond frustrating when trying to defend. I feel really bad for full time d men because you basically took away 2 of their most effective tools to defend.
I play a lot and I also play in competitive leagues (WOHL, LG for west coast players). Myself and everyone that I know who are good players say the EXACT same thing.
This game just isn't fun and frustrating to play. We only play it because we love hockey and don't have any other alternative.
EA is lucky that they're the only one's making hockey because if they had competition and a developer that listened, gave CONSTANT feedback/communication and made changes that we asked for, A LOT of us wouldn't hesitate to jump ship.
I'm sick and tired of saying the same thing year after year. Instead of focusing on core GAMEPLAY that functions PROPERLY, they keep adding in gimmicky things that no one is asking for. You wonder why the same things are broken year after year, it's because they're never fixed properly and more stuff is added into an already broken game. The code is so jumbled and massive that of course when you "fix" something, something else ends up being broken in the process.This right here. They're so busy trying to make a new flashing mechanic to put on the box as a selling point that they completely neglect the broken stuff they leave in the game from last year in the two years before that. Stop trying to add crap nobody wants or asks for it and fix the things we have been asking for for years. What good is adding new stuff to the game if it is already broken when you add it, and you are adding it on top of already broken mechanics that you refuse to fix? It's no wonder this game is in the state it's in. Terrible management.
- @Kmahrle83 Exactly! You wanna market something BIG for NHL 24, EA? How about marketing that the game works PROPERLY and things WORK as they should and don't add in a single damn new feature. Let us be the judge in the beta and speak with our wallets then. I don't need no fancy college degree or 6 figure salary to come up with that idea, yet you have people who make these decisions and are so out of touch with your buyers. KEEP IT SIMPLE and fix the damn GAMEPLAY, make it work PROPERLY. How does that sound?
- @Nammer604 Well full crossplay is part of the goal for NHL 24. HUT will be getting a slight changeup. Stick Lifting will be addressed. Player traits will get tuned up/down. And 5 bugs will be fixed offline that create 10 new ones.
@EA_Aljo wrote:
@Nammer604 wrote:
@FloundinatorQQTotally agree. When do you everything right and still get screwed, it's no fun. I find myself battling the completely broken mechanics of this years game more than any other NHL game EVER!Can you go in to detail on which mechanics are broken?
most:
- Ai in general (positing, cheating game mechanics)
- strategies (nonsensical options, not even executed properly)
- puck physics
- hitting physics
- net physics
- skating physics
- stick lifting (new for 23!)
- action tracker deleting goals
- sliders - game plays different without touching a slider...been an issue since at least nhl 19
1, 2, 4, 6 - been on this list for 20 years
3 - been on the list every year but 15 when all content was removed for great puck physics for a year
5 - 2nd year in a row or 3rd?
8 - 2nd year now
9 - at least its 5th straight appearance
@Limp_KidzKit wrote:
@EA_Aljo wrote:
@Nammer604 wrote:
@FloundinatorQQTotally agree. When do you everything right and still get screwed, it's no fun. I find myself battling the completely broken mechanics of this years game more than any other NHL game EVER!Can you go in to detail on which mechanics are broken?
most:
- Ai in general (positing, cheating game mechanics)
- strategies (nonsensical options, not even executed properly)
- puck physics
- hitting physics
- net physics
- skating physics
- stick lifting (new for 23!)
- action tracker deleting goals
- sliders - game plays different without touching a slider...been an issue since at least nhl 19
1, 2, 4, 6 - been on this list for 20 years
3 - been on the list every year but 15 when all content was removed for great puck physics for a year
5 - 2nd year in a row or 3rd?
8 - 2nd year now
9 - at least its 5th straight appearance
These will not be fixed. Not until management figures out a way to monetize game fixes imo. That's how low we've gotten here.
- @Kmahrle83 yeah, It's not looking good at all. EA continues to keep their archaic method of communicating only when something has actually been worked and published. We're going to keep getting silence from them and more people are going to be angry and leave this game. They know how frustrated people are with this years game yet they don't feel the need to acknowledge any of it. Great customer service!
