Offline Player Perspective
Hey everyone, recently got the game and wanted to share my thoughts as an offline-only player. Didn't see any active threads so figured I'd just start a new one to hopefully get some discussion and ...
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Very good post. As someone who recently went back to offline only because the game online is WAY WORSE, I haven't touched offline since nhl20. I'm loving be a pro because I haven't touched it since x factors were added. It feels nice having unlocks to work for.
Having said that, offline game is also a mess. Stats are rarely correct. I've seen guys with ice time in the negative hundreds for a game, the coaches challenges are broken because half the time even if you complete it, it says you didn't. I can look over these for one year but from what I've read, most of these are old issues. This game can be tuned to be serviceable offline but the lack of polish, presentation, and bugs that have built up are inexcusable. That, and the fact that it just doesn't get the love online does. This entire game is in shambles.
- @Kmahrle83 I've never played Be a Pro but yea I've seen people talk about all the issues you're describing and the bugs that have been in the mode for years. Also the dialogue and interactions look really cringe from the screenshots I've seen. The stats being bugged is definitely frustrating and takes away from the presentation (which already is lackluster). I've had games where in the pre-game it shows my goalie's stats as being like -1,000,000 games played and gaa lol. Speaking of presentation, the lack of effort is really frustrating. I noticed yesterday some fans were holding pretzels and it was just like.... *sigh* really? The fan models haven't been touched for years, look like crap, are completely unrepresentative of what an actual NHL game crowd looks like (only adults, most of which are that one asian guy model with the messy black hair lol and they'll group up like 4-5 of the same model so it's like all my fans are from families of quintuplets). Then you have the new stat overlays so I get to see my 13th leading scorer on my team become the 12th leading scorer every single time I score a goal..
