What is your honest assessment of the game?
Due to the game being so absolutely horrendous in so many areas I figure I'd break down the sliders into their own areas and see how you would rate each area. I will start: Skating: 7/10. Still som...
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@TheUnusedCrayon I agree with pretty much everything you pointed out. I also thought that 22 was in a pretty decent spot. There's always room for improvement, but the basic gameplay didn't need any radical adjustments.
I think part of the problem is that EA doesn't seem to believe in making subtle changes, only huge swings in one direction or the other. This year it's like they made some kind of Faustian bargain with a certain segment of the player base.
Complaint: It's too easy to knock someone off the puck with a nudge from behind.
EA: Ok, now it's next to impossible to separate offensive players from the puck unless they skate right into you.
Complaint: Players are skating around with their stick out and not suffering any hit to their acceleration or top speed.
EA: Fine. Now if you poke or use DSS you'll slow to a crawl. And even if you make contact with the puck the other player will keep the puck more often than not.
Complaint: Goalies are letting in too many cross-crease passes.
EA: Right. Now goalies are super good against cross crease plays but can't stop a beach ball on any other play no matter how bad the angle.
All of those issues people had in 22 could have been addressed with some small changes and tuned from there. But EA went in with a hacksaw instead of a scalpel and just created other, IMO bigger problems. And if recent history is any indication, we're stuck with the game as it is until NHL 24.
I think part of the problem is that EA doesn't seem to believe in making subtle changes, only huge swings in one direction or the other. This year it's like they made some kind of Faustian bargain with a certain segment of the player base.
Complaint: It's too easy to knock someone off the puck with a nudge from behind.
EA: Ok, now it's next to impossible to separate offensive players from the puck unless they skate right into you.
Complaint: Players are skating around with their stick out and not suffering any hit to their acceleration or top speed.
EA: Fine. Now if you poke or use DSS you'll slow to a crawl. And even if you make contact with the puck the other player will keep the puck more often than not.
Complaint: Goalies are letting in too many cross-crease passes.
EA: Right. Now goalies are super good against cross crease plays but can't stop a beach ball on any other play no matter how bad the angle.
All of those issues people had in 22 could have been addressed with some small changes and tuned from there. But EA went in with a hacksaw instead of a scalpel and just created other, IMO bigger problems. And if recent history is any indication, we're stuck with the game as it is until NHL 24.
- @PlayoffError Absolutely nailed it. I bought this game on sale because I figured I'd be able to play 6s especially with xplay.
Little did I know they made such an un-fun game I can't even find a 6s game mid day with clubs or drop-in. Unreal. I've played one game of 6s as a forward and I'm in multiple discords, have a full list of friends (many of those who don't play Chel anymore because they're smarter than I am) and I look in league chats.
